Rob Wachen
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026Etched2 talks
Events2
Conferences1
Talks2
Years active2025–2026
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
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles as Etched | |
| Jun 3, 2025 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Flipping the Inference Stack: Why GPUs Bottleneck Real-Time AI at Scale as Etched Current AI inference systems rely on brute-force scaling—adding more GPUs for each user—creating unsustainable compute demands and spiraling costs. Real-time…Show lessCurrent AI inference systems rely on brute-force scaling—adding more GPUs for each user—creating unsustainable compute demands and spiraling costs. Real-time use cases are bottlenecked by their latency and costs per user. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| swyx | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Alex Atallah | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Cheema | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Volkov | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Barr Yaron | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ben Hylak | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ben Kus | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Charles Frye | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Christopher Lovejoy | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Daniel Chalef | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Daniel Han | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Daniel Kim | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Denys Linkov | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Devansh Tandon | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dominik Kundel | 2 | — | 2026 |
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.