Day 2 Keynote (Closing) & Introduction of Carlos Pereira

Speaker(s): Harrison Chase, Brace Sproul & Caroline di Vittorio (LangChain) — closing; conference host
Session: Interrupt 2026 · Day 2 (May 14) · ~10:00 AM PT
Source: in-person audio recording, transcribed locally with Whisper large-v3.

Summary

Only the closing seconds of the Day 2 keynote were captured, in which the speaker invites attendees to try a newly added free model that is open source and powered by LangChain partner Fireworks. The keynote then wraps and the host introduces the next speaker, Carlos Pereira from Cisco Customer Experience, noting a multi-year partnership.

Key Points

• A free, open-source model (powered by Fireworks) was added for attendees to try for a limited time
• Carlos Pereira of Cisco Customer Experience is introduced as the next speaker, described as a deep partner of several years

Notable Quotes

We actually added a free model in there, so for a limited time there will be a free model.

Next on the stage is Carlos Pereira from Cisco Customer Experience.

Full Transcript

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[00:00] How was that? So you guys can try out who today, I used it myself for a variety of tasks. We
actually added a free model in there, so for a limited time there will be a free model.

[00:32] And back to what we were talking about earlier, it's an open source model powered by Fireworks, one
of our fantastic partners here. So we try to live what we preach in terms of open source models and
also trying to have the best partners here. There's a fantastic ecosystem of folks out there at
Epic. So that's going to wrap it up for the keynote today. Next on the stage is Carlos Pereira from
Cisco Customer Experience. We've had a deep partnership with him for over a few years now.