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Richard Rizk

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.

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Faster. Cheaper. Secure. Going all-in on Vercel's Agentic Infrastructure

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.

  • Main Stage · In-person + Online
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Included presentations
  • Opening KeynoteOctober 15 · 10:00 AM–11:00 AM · Main Stage
  • Faster. Cheaper. Secure. Going all-in on Vercel's Agentic InfrastructureOctober 15 · 11:15 AM–11:35 AM · Main Stage
  • Build an Agent with Eve: The Open Agent FrameworkOctober 15 · 11:15 AM–11:55 AM · Breakouts
  • Building World-Class GTM Into an AgentOctober 15 · 11:15 AM–11:35 AM · Startup Studio
  • Building High-Performance Agents with Claude Managed Agents on VercelOctober 15 · 11:35 AM–11:55 AM · Main Stage
  • Becoming Voice-Pilled: Why Voice Is the Next Interface for AgentsOctober 15 · 11:40 AM–12:05 PM · Startup Studio
  • Can an agent use your website? How Ora finds out with eve.October 15 · 11:55 AM–12:15 PM · Main Stage
  • Agents That Never Log Off: How Hyperagent Runs Autonomous, Long-Running Work on the Vercel Agent StackOctober 15 · 12:00 PM–12:40 PM · Breakouts
  • Grok on Vercel: Powering over 300,000 appsOctober 15 · 12:45 PM–1:25 PM · Breakouts
  • Fireside chat: Meta Superintelligence Labs + VercelOctober 15 · 1:15 PM–1:35 PM · Main Stage
  • The Software Shift in RoboticsOctober 15 · 1:15 PM–1:35 PM · Startup Studio
  • Ship the Whole Stack: Vercel Backends and ServicesOctober 15 · 1:30 PM–2:10 PM · Breakouts
  • Superintelligence at Work: How Vercel Built v in SlackOctober 15 · 1:35 PM–1:55 PM · Main Stage
  • Your AI Coding Bill Isn’t the ProblemOctober 15 · 1:40 PM–2:00 PM · Startup Studio
  • 10 Trillion Tokens, One Decision: The Router Behind Brazil’s Largest AI PlatformOctober 15 · 1:55 PM–2:15 PM · Main Stage
  • Building in an AI-First World: The Agentic Shift on AWS + VercelOctober 15 · 2:15 PM–2:35 PM · Main Stage
  • Embed Gen UI Agents in Your App with Codex and VercelOctober 15 · 2:15 PM–2:55 PM · Breakouts
  • Evolving Generative Interfaces at SAP with VercelOctober 15 · 2:45 PM–3:05 PM · Main Stage
  • Inside Notion's Agentic Platform, Built on VercelOctober 15 · 3:00 PM–3:40 PM · Breakouts
  • Context Engineering at Internet Scale: Build Powerful Agents in Any DomainOctober 15 · 3:00 PM–3:20 PM · Startup Studio
  • Control without the sprawl: how Mercor unlocked hundreds of builders with VercelOctober 15 · 3:05 PM–3:20 PM · Main Stage
  • Building the Future of Data Infra on the Back of Open SourceOctober 15 · 3:20 PM–3:40 PM · Main Stage
  • Fast AI Panel: Vercel, Jev by Typesafe AI, and CerebrasOctober 15 · 3:40 PM–4:05 PM · Main Stage
  • The Third Customer: A fireside with Tobi Lütke and Guillermo RauchOctober 15 · 4:05 PM–4:45 PM · Main Stage
  • Vercel AwardsOctober 15 · 4:45 PM–5:00 PM · Main Stage

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