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Fireside Chat with Chris Taylor, VP & Fellow at Google

Hosted by Aish & Arvind and Christopher Taylor

258 students

In this video

What you'll learn

Spot the next phase of AI adoption

Explore how AI moves from experimentation to everyday use inside organizations.

Understand what makes AI systems useful

Examine the role of context, data, tools, memory, and evaluation beyond the model.

Assess where agents create real value

Learn when agents and multi-agent systems solve meaningful problems and where complexity grows.

Why this topic matters

AI is moving from standalone models to systems that can reason, use tools, and take action. This fireside chat offers a leadership perspective on the opportunities, tradeoffs, and organizational shifts shaping what comes next.

You'll learn from

Aish & Arvind

AI Engineers | Building & Teaching @ The Gen Academy

Aishwarya Srinivasan is the Co-founder of The Gen Academy and a globally recognized AI educator with a community of 1.2M+ professionals. Previously, she led AI Developer Relations at Fireworks AI and built AI products and ecosystems at Google, Microsoft, and IBM. She holds a Master’s in Data Science from Columbia University.

Arvind Narayanamurthy is the Co-founder of The Gen Academy, former AI Solutions Architect at Ema, and Founder of Eikos Health. He has built and deployed enterprise AI systems across Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, combining deep technical expertise with a practical approach to production AI. He holds a Master’s from Carnegie Mellon University.

Christopher Taylor

VP, Engineering Fellow at Google

Christopher Taylor is VP, Engineering Fellow at Google. He has spent more than 21 years at Google, including nearly 18 years as a Distinguished Software Engineer and Area Tech Lead for Databases. His perspective spans major technology shifts in AI, cloud, data, and distributed systems. In this fireside chat, he will explore what it will take for AI and agents to move from experimentation into everyday use.

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