Northbound AI Summit 2026

October 12 – 14, 2026 · Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

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Amina Okafor

Amina Okafor

Director of ML Efficiency · Common Thread

Amina owns model efficiency at Common Thread, where she reduced inference cost while expanding the company model portfolio. Her team measures every optimization against held-out quality and publishes an internal tokens-per-dollar index.

Sessions (1)

Serving LLMs on a Budget

Monday, October 12, 2026 · 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT · Workshop Room B