Speaker Kit and Organiser Information
Current biographies, a headshot, the talk index, a prior recording, and what to confirm before a booking. Updated 2026-10-07.
Biographies
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Introduction for a host (one sentence)
Dipankar Sarkar is the founder of Neul Labs, an applied AI systems engineer based in St Andrews, Scotland, and the author of AI for Everyday Automation.
Short biography (about 60 words)
Dipankar Sarkar is the founder and principal consultant at Neul Labs, a fractional AI CTO, and a hands-on AI architect. Across 18+ years, he has built production software, distributed systems, AI platforms, robotics, and ML products used at more than 100M-user scale. His recent work focuses on governed AI agents, evaluation, durable orchestration, local inference, and turning AI research into dependable systems.
Conference biography (about 150 words)
Dipankar Sarkar is the founder and principal consultant at Neul Labs, a fractional AI CTO, and a hands-on applied AI engineer with 18+ years of experience taking ambitious systems from research and architecture into production. His recent work focuses on governed tool-using agents, durable orchestration, evaluation, local inference, and AI-generated GPU-kernel correctness. Earlier, he architected regulated banking AI at Aveni and was part of its team in the first FCA Supercharged Sandbox cohort, built RobotGPT at Orangewood Labs, and worked on NLP, recommendation, computer vision, and trust-and-safety systems serving more than 100M users at Hike. He has founded six companies. He is the author of AI for Everyday Automation (Packt, 2026) and Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook (Packt, 2011), publishes the open GenAI and Agentic AI Playbooks, and holds an M.S. in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) from Arizona State University and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi. He is based in St Andrews, Scotland.
Headshot
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Quick facts
Quick facts
- Name
- Dipankar Sarkar
- Current role
- Founder and principal consultant, Neul Labs
- Location
- St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Books
- AI for Everyday Automation (Packt, 2026); Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook (Packt, 2011)
- Open teaching
- GenAI and Agentic AI Playbooks at whatgenerativeai.com
- Education
- M.S. Computer Science (Cybersecurity), Arizona State University; B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi
- Social
- X @dipankarsarkar · LinkedIn /in/dipankarsarkar · Substack @sarkardipankar
- Contact
- contact@dipankar.org
Talks and workshops
- An AI Agent Walks into Production — State, side effects, recovery, and the stop button
- The Agent That Couldn’t Wire Money — Enforcing least privilege, approvals, and replay across tools
- Your GPU Kernel Passed the Vibe Check. It Is Still Wrong. — Testing generated CUDA and Triton with operator-aware oracles
- Before the Pull Request — What coordination logs reveal about multi-agent coding
- From Prompt to Robot Program — Making physical AI operable from cloud plan to edge execution
- Run the Model Where the Data Lives — A polyglot path from cloud API to embedded local inference
- Seven AI Workflows That Give the Week Back — From occasional prompts to connected, reviewable work
- From Generative AI to Agentic AI — What changes when a model can plan, call tools, and retain state
- Build a Governed Agent, Not a Hopeful Demo — Workshop, 90–120 minutes or half day
- Production Agent Reliability Lab — Workshop, Two hours, half day, or full day
- Multi-Agent Coordination Before the Pull Request — Workshop, 90–120 minutes
- Build Your Automated Week — Workshop, 90 minutes, half day, or full day
Previous recorded appearance
Democratizing Quick Commerce with KiranaPro — Network Capital ↗A founder conversation on first-principles problem solving, Indian digital public infrastructure, and building KiranaPro.
Scope, fees, and rights →Booking requirements
Booking requirements
- →A confirmed audience description: size, roles, and technical depth.
- →Session length, format, and whether there is moderated or open Q&A.
- →For remote sessions: the platform, a technical check before the event, and the time zone.
- →For in-person sessions: travel and accommodation arrangements agreed in advance. Dipankar is based in St Andrews, Scotland.
- →For workshops: participant laptops, network access, and any lab environment, agreed before the session.
- →Recording, publication, and reuse terms in writing, including whether slides are shared.
Common questions
Organiser questions
Which biography should we use?+
Use the one-sentence introduction for a host, the short biography for programme listings, and the conference biography for speaker pages. Please do not add titles or affiliations that are not in these texts.
Can we edit the biography?+
Shortening is fine. If a change alters a role, result, number, or affiliation, send it for a quick check first.
Is there a recording of a previous appearance?+
Yes: a recorded founder conversation with Network Capital, Democratizing Quick Commerce with KiranaPro.
Where are fees and rights explained?+
The scope, fees, and rights page explains what changes preparation and fees, travel, recording, reuse, and cancellation. Fees are quoted per brief.
Next step
Send the event brief
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Talk, panel, or event workshop: what to include
- →Event name, organiser, and website
- →Audience: size, roles, and technical depth
- →Preferred topic or the problem the audience faces
- →Format and length (keynote, talk, panel, podcast, workshop)
- →Date, time zone, and location or remote
- →Fee, travel, and accommodation arrangements
- →Recording, publication, and reuse terms
- →AV and lab environment, if a workshop