This AI Fights Health Insurance Denials • Holden Karau & Julian Wood

Presenters Holden Karau Julian Wood Source GOTO podcast Spark, AI, and Fighting the Insurance Maze: A Tech Revolution in Progress! 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts and change-makers! We’re diving deep into the fascinating world where big data meets artificial intelligence, all inspired by a fantastic talk at GoUnscripted, GoTo Chicago. Prepare to have your mind blown as we explore how Apache Spark is evolving, how Generative AI is tackling real-world problems like insurance claim denials, and the exciting, yet challenging, landscape of open-source sustainability. 💡 ...

January 23, 2026 · 7 min

Inside the Voyage AI Platform

Presenters Angel Lim Andrew Gaut Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀 Scaling AI Inference: A Deep Dive into the Boyi Inference Platform 🤖 The demand for real-time AI is exploding. But serving those models – especially complex embedding and re-ranking models – at scale while maintaining lightning-fast response times is a monumental challenge. Angel Lim and Andrew Gaut, engineers from the Boyi inference and research teams (formerly at Voyage, now part of a larger organization), recently shared their insights into how they built the Boyi inference platform to tackle this head-on. Let’s explore the key strategies and technologies they’re using to deliver high-performance AI in production. ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min

From Stateless LLMs to Stateful Agents: Building Production-Grade Memory with MongoDB and Voyage AI

Presenters Mickey Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀 Level Up Your AI: Building Agentic Applications That Actually Deliver Value 💡 The buzz around AI agents is huge, but let’s be honest, a lot of AI pilot projects fall flat. A recent MIT study revealed a sobering statistic: only 5% of AI pilots actually deliver significant value. Why? According to Mickey, a Staff Developer Advocate, the culprit is often a lack of statefulness, personalization, learning, and memory – the very things that make applications truly useful. ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min

Agentic Innovation: Meet the Hackathon Finalists

Presenters Jim Scharf MongoDB Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀 Agentic Orchestration Takes Center Stage: MongoDB’s Record-Breaking Hackathon! 💡 The future of AI isn’t just about individual agents; it’s about collaboration. That’s the core message coming out of MongoDB’s recent Agentic Orchestration and Collaboration Hackathon, a wildly successful event that brought together some of the brightest minds in AI and data. Held at Shack 15 in San Francisco, the hackathon saw a staggering 350 attendees out of 800 applicants, culminating in a record-breaking 109 submissions – a testament to the growing excitement around this field. Let’s dive into what made this event so special and the innovative solutions that emerged! ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min

How AI Agents are Changing the Way Revenue Teams Work

Presenters Shriram Shridharan Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀💡 Revolutionizing Revenue: How AI Agents are About to 10x Your Customer-Facing Teams 🤖✨ Shriram Shridharan, co-founder and CTO of Rocks, recently delivered a compelling presentation outlining a future where AI agents dramatically reshape how revenue teams operate. The vision? To achieve a 10x productivity boost for account executives, customer success managers, SDRs, and BDRs – mirroring the transformative impact coding agents have had on engineering. Rocks’ mission is ambitious: to “secure and grow the world’s revenue” through an AI-native operating system. Let’s dive into the details! ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min