Hands-On AI Agent Builds Bypass Engineering Bottlenecks
Non-technical leaders build functional AI agents in 30-45 minutes using Replit during 10+ vibe coding classes tailored by role: GTM leaders create sales/marketing tools (Wed 2PM), PMMs build without dev wait (Thu 11:30AM), CS heads replicate QBee (Wed 5PM)—an AI VP managing 100+ sponsors via hyper-personalized emails based on tier/deliverables, slashing human hours 70% and fixing a TikTok sponsor's on-time completion from 0/13 to 11/13 tasks in one day. Designers convert Figma to apps (Wed 11:30AM), founders ship MVPs (Thu 1PM), RevOps craft pipelines (Thu 9AM). Entry-level Vibe Coding 101 (Tue 3PM) requires no prior Replit/Lovable/Vercel experience; bring a laptop, leave with a working agent. A Vibe Lab offers 1:1 Replit engineer support for company-specific problems. Amelia Lerutte live-builds an AI VP of Marketing (Tue 4:15PM)—like SaaStr's 10K agent (14,230 lines, plans daily activities, executes campaigns, analyzes 5+ years data, runs standups, Salesforce-integrated, $95/mo)—debugging failures in real-time, outperforming polished YouTube demos.
Production Metrics from AI Operators and CEOs
Deploy '26 (Tue full day) features shipped agents: Tom Occhino (Vercel CPO) on infra-scale realities; Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (Artisan) on autonomous B2B DBRs; Sarah McConnell (Qualified) 3x'ing inbound via AI SDRs; Scott Metcalf (People.ai) cuts oversight from 30% to <5% of IC time; Shalin Jain (HappyFox) uncovers $1M expansions from support data. Keynotes deliver ARR proof: Anton Osika (Lovable) $0-$200M in <1yr via no-code apps; Grant Lee (Gamma) $100M profitable sans sales team; Adam Alfano (Salesforce) 29K Agentforce deals/$500M+ SMB AI ARR; Alex Mashrabov (Higgsfield) $0-$300M producing 4.5M videos/day without foundation models; Zachary Lipton (Abridge) $200M-$5.3B deploying to 150+ health systems. Amjad Masad (Replit) + Jason Lemkin dissect working agents vs. vaporware; Sherif Mansour (Atlassian) shares plumbing lessons for 3.5M users; Stephanie Cohen (Cloudflare) defends against AI scrapers (OpenAI 1,700:1 pages/referral).
Elite B2B/AI Networking Compresses Learning
12,500+ attendees (143% YoY): 68% VP+, 36% CEOs/founders, 25% AI-first, 3,000+ 1:1 matches via app. Invite-only summits: CRO/CEO (Tue, $40M+ ARR avg $100M revenue last year) probes real win rates/quota shifts/AI adoption; CMO (Tue, 150+ heads) with Snowflake's Denise Persson (scaled $3M-$3B via AI Council). Hallway track—coffee/lunch/40-acre campus/parties—yields dinner insights equaling 3 months research, especially on agent rollouts. Skipping costs a quarter of slow learning as peers compress via 3 days.