STARWEST 2026 - AI Adoption

As Generative AI moves from prototypes to production, one truth is emerging across every major tech organization — scaling AI responsibly isn’t just a data, science or engineering challenge but also an orchestration challenge. Behind every AI system that ships reliably, there’s a hidden architecture of alignment: between model builders, applied scientists, data engineers, security, compliance, and product teams. In that architecture, Technical Program Management (TPM) is becoming the connective tissue — the execution layer of modern AI. In this talk, Raj Karan shares lessons from leading...