Johann Schleier-Smith is Technical Lead for AI at Temporal Technologies. He previously founded Crystal DBA, which developed agents to manage cloud infrastructure and was acquired by Temporal. He also co-founded if(we), a collection of social networks with over 300 million members that was acquired by The Meet Group (NASDAQ:MEET). Johann holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard University.

Ethan Ruhe is the AI Product Lead at Temporal, where he helps some of the world's most talented developers - including those at OpenAI, Scale AI, and Replit - orchestrate and scale their AI agent workflows. Prior to Temporal, Ethan was a founder and has held product roles at a number of high-growth startups. He earned his MBA with a focus in Statistics from The Wharton School and completed graduate computer science work at Georgia Tech, with a focus on machine learning.