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Dr. Shelby Heinecke leads an AI research team at Salesforce. Shelby’s team develops cutting-edge AI for product and research in emerging directions including autonomous agents, LLMs, and on-device AI. Some of her team’s most notable agentic AI works include the open source multi-agent platform, AgentLite, and the “Tiny Giant”, a competitive 1B model for function-calling. Shelby earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in machine learning theory. She also holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Northwestern and a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT. Website: www.shelbyh.ai

Jeff Boudier 2025

“Jeff Boudier builds products at Hugging Face, the #1 open platform for AI builders.
Previously Jeff was a co-founder of Stupeflix, acquired by GoPro, where he served as director of Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Development.”