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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Congratulations, you failed"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["ajuna-kyaruzi"]
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+
+Innovation isn't about getting it right. It's about getting it less wrong, over
+and over, until something works.
+
+Ajuna Kyaruzi will share about the failures that shaped her career journey. The
+ones she hid from, the ones she learned from, and why the shame of falling
+behind was always more dangerous than the failure itself. You'll leave with
+skills that turn "fail fast" from a platitude into a practice: empathy,
+community, and perseverance.
+
+You're building and learning quickly in this new world of agentic workflows.
+Some of it won't work. That's okay, it's better that you tried.
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-Talk_date = ""
-Talk_start_time = ""
-Talk_end_time = ""
-Title = "Building and using communities to further your AI career"
-Type = "talk"
-Speakers = ["danny-castro"]
-+++
-
-In this session I will discuss how communities such as AI tinkerers or various
-meetup groups will help lead to your career growing as it is easy to be
-isolated. Working in a silo is a thing but that won't make you a better
-developer and it won't make you a better AI professional compared to those who
-have feedback loops, can bounce ideas off people. So I intend to show them how
-to get of their shell and become a part of these communities.
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+Title = "Ajuna Kyaruzi"
+Twitter = "ajunaky"
+linkedin = "https://linkedin.com/in/ajuna"
+Website = "https://ajunaky.github.io/"
+image = "ajuna-kyaruzi.png"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "ajuna-kyaruzi"
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+
+Ajuna Kyaruzi works in Developer Relations at Datadog and cares about using
+software to help people sustainably run large-scale systems, focusing on
+Incident Managements and SLOs. She loves community building and volunteers with
+multiple mentorship programs aimed at helping early career folks break into
+tech, and ensuring they have successful careers. Previously she worked at
+Google as a Software Engineer on Google Maps and as a Site Reliability Engineer
+on Google Cloud.
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-Title = "Danny Castro"
-linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/castrodanny"
-image = "danny-castro.png"
-type = "speaker"
-linktitle = "danny-castro"
-
-+++
-
-I have worked helping companies implement and maintain gen AI chat solutions.
-Working with major american sports league, working with clients not just im
-North America bit also in Latin America. Providing companies with AI solutions
-which will help customers self service, provide better brand experience and get
-better ROI for solutions. Also have helped major retailers provide a customer
-focused self service model using conversational design principles.
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     date: 2026-04-22
   - title: "hajira-sultana"
     date: 2026-04-22
-  - title: "danny-castro"
+  - title: "ajuna-kyaruzi"
     date: 2026-04-22
   - title: "vadim-uchitel"
     date: 2026-04-22