Moving beyond the hype towards real AI outcomes.
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Event Details
8th Light welcomes you to an elevated private dining experience at Charlotte in Seattle on September 30, 2026, where Pacific Northwest cuisine takes a contemporary twist. Situated on the 16th floor of the Lotte Hotel, the restaurant & lounge offers sweeping views of Elliott Bay. Imaginative dishes are crafted with fresh and local ingredients, paired perfectly with their carefully curated, seasonally-changing cocktails.
- Recommended arrival — 6:00p
- Opening remarks and expert panel — 6:15p
- Dinner, drinks and discussion — 6:45p
- Event conclusion — 9:00p
Valet parking at the Hotel Lotte is covered by 8th Light. Uber vouchers available upon request.
Meet Your Thought Leaders
Travis Frisinger serves as Head of Agentic AI at 8th Light, where he leads engineering and strategy for building production-grade AI systems. He focuses on designing adaptive architectures that help organizations integrate AI into real-world workflows, improving decision-making, reliability, and operational clarity.
Travis brings a deep background in distributed systems and large-scale software delivery, with experience across logistics, telecommunications, and data-intensive platforms. His work spans LLMOps, context-aware retrieval, and agentic workflow design, with a strong emphasis on moving teams beyond experimentation toward secure, maintainable systems in production.
At 8th Light, Travis partners closely with engineers, product leaders, and executives to align technical direction with business priorities. He is known for developing frameworks and platforms that reduce complexity, improve developer effectiveness, and bring coherence to fast-evolving systems.
Travis also contributes to 8th Light’s thought leadership around AI adoption, writing and speaking on topics such as context engineering, the AI Decision Loop, and human–AI collaboration. His work focuses on making AI systems understandable, observable, and usable in real production environments.
Rani Zilpelwar is an Engagement Manager at 8th Light with more than a decade of building software and guiding the teams that ship quality solutions. She spent several years as an Engineering Manager for a global ticketing platform, leading teams through high-concurrency global on-sales and large-scale modernization.
Today she leads delivery for a cross-platform SDK team, where she built a review gate that catches faulty assumptions during the requirements phase, when they are cheapest to fix. A former QA manager, she writes about the practices that make AI-assisted engineering trustworthy: adversarial verification across independent passes, prompts framed to verify rather than confirm, and test cases as the ground truth AI output is measured against. Rani is a Beacon Award recipient.
Mitchell Murphy is a Lead Crafter at 8th Light with more than 15 years of experience building production software and AI systems. He specializes in generative AI, LLMOps, model evaluation, secure data workflows, and AI-assisted tools that help organizations turn emerging technology into practical capabilities.
Mitchell works with clients and multidisciplinary teams to translate ambiguous ideas into secure, observable, and maintainable systems. His work focuses on AI architecture, responsible data interaction, and the quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs required to move AI initiatives successfully into production.