THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Ryan Stevens

Ryan Stevens

TITLE:Sr. Principal Software Engineer

COMPANY:ZoomInfo

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Ryan Stevens is a hands-on AI engineering leader at ZoomInfo, where he builds the runtime, platform, and evaluation systems behind production agent workflows. His work spans multi-agent orchestration, Temporal-powered async execution, streaming UX, and the engineering tradeoffs required to make agent systems scalable, observable, and reliable. Previously, Ryan co-founded two AI companies focused on travel and recruiting.

TALK

Lightning Round Talks

ABSTRACT

Lessons learned from building fast, open source infrastructure for web agents

Catherine Jue | kernel.sh
Kernel builds fast, open source infrastructure that lets AI agents access the internet. To hit our sub‑150ms browser boot times, we evolved our stack from containers to unikernels to microVMs. This talk walks through what we learned with each iteration, and what it actually takes to make serverless browsers not just fast, but reliable at scale with long-running “entity workflows” in Temporal.

From nothing to everything: one single alert to managing datacenters with AI

Ryan Stevens | ZoomInfo