AI Builder Week Workshop with Head of Platform at Gamma, Byron Jones

What does it actually look like to build with AI every day, not just talk about it? In this session, Byron Jones, Head of Platform at Gamma, shares how he uses AI agents to turn ideas into working software, drawing on his hands-on approach to product leadership. Expect practical workflows rather than theory: how agents fit into his process, where they speed things up, and where human judgment still matters.

Byron brings a rare mix of perspectives to this conversation, having led product at Optimizely and engineered systems for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Mars missions and the NuSTAR space telescope — experience that shapes how he thinks about building reliable systems, whether the goal is landing on another planet or shipping a new feature. Attendees will leave with concrete techniques for weaving AI agents into their own product-building process, and a sharper sense of what’s possible when you treat agents as collaborators rather than tools.