About this session
Discover how BLACKBOX AI moved to Vercel to build a faster, more cost-efficient, and secure foundation for agentic AI. We’ll explore what drove the migration, how the team approached the technical journey, and how Vercel’s AI infrastructure supports open-source inference, end-to-end encryption, and enterprise-scale traffic without compromising performance.
What you’ll take away
- Examine the technical tradeoffs behind BLACKBOX AI's migration.
- Connect inference, encryption, and traffic requirements to platform decisions.
- Balance cost efficiency with production performance.
Speakers

Richard Rizk
Co-Founder & CTO · Blackbox AI
Richard Rizk is co-founder and CTO of BLACKBOX AI. At Ship, he shares the technical decisions behind moving an agentic AI platform to Vercel, with a focus on performance, encryption, inference, and the realities of serving enterprise-scale traffic.

Robert Rizk
Co-Founder & CEO · Blackbox AI
Robert Rizk is co-founder and CEO of BLACKBOX AI. Alongside Richard Rizk, he shares why the team moved to Vercel and how the migration supports an agentic AI platform's requirements for speed, cost efficiency, security, and growth.