October 12 – 14, 2026 · Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
1–2 of 2 sessions
Our inference bill was on track to pass our payroll. This talk is the story of cutting tokens-per-dollar by 7x without a visible quality drop, in the order the savings actually arrived: response caching, prompt-prefix reuse, routing easy qu…
Amina Okafor
Director of ML Efficiency · Common Thread
The interesting documents were never plain text. Invoices, engineering drawings, medical forms, dashboards — the high-value pipelines are the ones that read pixels and text together, and they fail in ways pure-text systems never prepared us…
Zara Amin
Document Intelligence Lead · Papertrail Health