AJ Balance
Employers on the program
- 2024–2026Grindr LLC2 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
- Snowflake Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | Snowflake Summit 26 | Snowflake Summit | speaker | The Infrastructure Behind Grindr’s AI Transformation as Grindr Grindr serves 15 million monthly active users across matching, insights, recommendations and safety — all powered by AI. Getting there required one key…Show lessGrindr serves 15 million monthly active users across matching, insights, recommendations and safety — all powered by AI. Getting there required one key infrastructure decision: computing features at inference time, not in advance. In this session, Grindr's CPO, AJ Balance, and Chalk's CEO, Marc Freed-Finnegan, break down the Snowflake and Chalk stack that’s powering Grindr’s AI (aka gAI pronounced “gay-eye”) and what it means to ship real AI products at consumer scale for a global community of tens of millions. | |
| Dec 2, 2024 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Grindr’s AI-first approach with AWS: Enable inclusive user connection as Grindr LLC Learn how Grindr partnered with AWS to become an AI-first company and launch AI-powered features such as their “AI Wingman” copilot chatbot, Roam for meeting…Show lessLearn how Grindr partnered with AWS to become an AI-first company and launch AI-powered features such as their “AI Wingman” copilot chatbot, Roam for meeting users prior to travel, Personalized Dating Profile Recommendations for users, and more features that enabled Grindr to become the Digital Gayborhood in Your… | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anupriti Warade | 2 | — | 2026 |
| David Lee | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Glenn Walker | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Kajal Wood | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Karthik Gopalakrishnan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Paras Mehra | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Parvez Naqvi | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Rajeev Srinivasan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Rajiv Gupta | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Srikumar Kanthadai | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Temesgen Meheret | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Tim Long | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Tyler Jones | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Marc Freed-Finnegan | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Ashe McGovern | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.