Ben Maraney
Principal Engineer @Forter, Previously @BigPanda and @Klarna
I’ve been a Principal Engineer at Forter for the last 6 years. I lead our first LLM powered project in 2023, as well as our AI training for non-engineers. Previous focuses included ML and making data preparation easier for our data scientists, making data engineering accessible to our analysts and making data retention a topic that actually mattered to management. My talk will focus on my direct experience organizing our agentic sprint across our 250 engineer R&D team.
Session
From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in 2 Weeks
Most organizations approach "AI democratization" by giving coding assistants to engineers and simplistic chatbots to business users. Yet, building sophisticated, high-value AI agents remains a bottleneck restricted to a few specialists.
