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Snorkel at Databricks Data + AI Summit

Join Snorkel and thousands of your peers for 800+ sessions, keynotes and training at the world’s largest data, analytics and AI conference.

San Francisco, CA

June 15-18, 2026

Booth 643

Featured session

The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents

Wednesday, June 17 from 4:30-4:50pm

Expo Theater 5

Our ability to measure AI has been outpaced by our ability to develop it, and this eval gap is one of the most important problems in AI. We need more enduring benchmarks to close this gap, and consequently advance entire new vectors of capabilities for the field. In this talk, I'll share our learnings evaluating agents, drawing from experience working with nearly all global frontier labs and leading academics. We'll discuss the science (i.e., mechanics that make benchmarks rigorous and effective) and art (i.e., intangibles driving ambitious and enduring benchmarks) of building great benchmarks. I'll close by sharing some of the learnings from Open Benchmarks Grants— a $3M initiative in partnership with Hugging Face, Together AI, Prime Intellect, Factory, and others.

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Speaker

Charlie Dickens

Senior Applied Research Scientist

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Meet our team on-site

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Charles Dickens

Senior Applied Research Scientist
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Harini Subramanyan

Senior Applied AI Engineer
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Janice Lam

Senior Technical Delivery Manager
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Friea Berg

VP of Strategy
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Rohit Deshpande

AI Solutions Engineer
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Michael Ramirez

Principal Product Marketing Manager, Solutions
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Incynthia Truong

Community Manager
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Babylonia Karaman

Staff Executive Operations, GTM

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