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The Future Of FDE
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| With Colin Jarvis (Head of Forward Deployed Engg, OpenAI), Howard Zuo (Founder/CEO, Dataland), Calvin Lee (VP Special Projects, Ramp), Jason Hoch (Founder, Nominal). |
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Apr 28 (Tue) , 2026 @ 05:30 PM
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FREE |
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The role of the FDE is evolving quickly as companies navigate increasingly complex agent & software deployments. We're bringing together Colin Jarvis (Head of FDE at Open AI), Calvin Lee (VP of Special Projects at Ramp), Jason Hoch (Founder of Nominal) & Howard Zuo (Founder of Dataland) to discuss how forward deployed engineering is changing & why it is quickly becoming the most important role for leading startups today.
Agenda:
5:30pm: Doors Open
6-7pm: Panel Conversation & Q&A
7-8pm: Networking
About the Panelists:
Colin Jarvis: Colin leads OpenAI's Global Forward Deployed Engineering practice, which sits at the intersection of Product & Research. This team of engineers are embedded into companies to build AI products that solve critical business problems & push the bounds of what our models can do. He is one of the world's leading experts in the practical deployment of AI, having been responsible for OpenAI's technical deployments at Morgan Stanley, Klarna, Coca-Cola & many others.
Calvin Lee: Calvin is VP of Special Projects at Ramp. Calvin joined Ramp in May 2019, two months after the company was founded, & has run teams across the business, from FDE to marketing to post-sales. He graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science with a focus on AI. His background is in competitive math & competitive programming: he won a Silver medal at the IOI representing the U.S., & also finished top 20 on the Putnam exam.
Jason Hoch: Jason is Co-founder & first software engineer at Nominal. Previously, he spent five years across Silicon Valley startups - growing Newfront's engineering team from 5 to 30, going through YC S20 as a co-founder, & leading Vercel's Edge Data team. He started his career at Palantir, where he led an early Foundry platform team building data engineering tools for the DoD, oil & gas, & manufacturing. Jason holds an SB in Theoretical Math & CS from MIT, where he met his Nominal co-founder Cameron.
Howard Zuo: Howard is Co-Founder & CEO at Dataland. Dataland is an applied AI lab that builds highly-adaptive AI Agents which quickly converge to functioning as total human equivalents for specific roles at specific companies. Dataland is based in New York City, & has created outsized economic wins for its partners in diverse sectors across healthcare, energy, marketplaces, consumer electronics, waste management, & logistics. Prior to Dataland, Howard held roles at Palantir spanning from Forward Deployed Engineer, to Deployment Strategist, to Product Engineering Lead.
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