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Letting the Interns Loose — How We Accelerated AI Adoption.

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Shashank Goyal's session sits in the Sandbox & Platform Engineering track and is connected to the conference's broader Software Factories theme: how engineering organizations turn AI from individual experimentation into repeatable development infrastructure. The title frames interns as a practical adoption lever, suggesting a talk about giving newer engineers enough autonomy, tooling, and guardrails to accelerate AI use across real workflows rather than limiting AI adoption to a small expert group.

The speaker context makes the platform angle especially relevant. Goyal is Head of Provider Ecosystem and a Founding Engineer at OpenRouter, where his work centers on infrastructure for accessing and routing across AI model providers. In this conference setting, the talk likely belongs less to abstract AI strategy and more to the mechanics of adoption: sandbox environments, provider access, internal enablement, and the organizational patterns that let teams experiment quickly while still keeping quality, cost, and reliability under control.

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Letting the Interns Loose — How We Accelerated AI Adoption. ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:10am-11:30am - Track/room: Sandbox & Platform Engineering · Track 1 - Speaker(s): Shashank Goyal - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Sandbox & Platform Engineering - Room: Track 1 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description No official description published in the schedule data. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet. ## Evidence Graph This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

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