THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Ethan Ruhe

Ethan Ruhe

TITLE:Staff Product Manager, AI

COMPANY:Temporal

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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.

TALK

Engineering AI Applications: A Conversation with AI Leaders

ABSTRACT

This panel will bring together engineers from companies building some of the most sophisticated AI products in the world: Replit, Abridge, and Hebbia. The panelists will discuss their experience building AI applications, including their favorite tools and techniques, their top challenges and learnings, and their recommendations for other engineering teams. The discussion will be moderated by Ethan Ruhe, Temporal’s Product Lead for AI.

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Announcing New AI Capabilities

ABSTRACT

We’re introducing new capabilities designed to make building durable AI and Agentic applications simpler and more reliable in production. In this session, we’ll expand on key announcements from the keynote and walk through what we’ve shipped, how it works, and where it fits in real-world systems. See how teams can build long-running, stateful AI workflows that don’t lose progress, even when things fail.