Day 1 – April 22, 2026
Breakouts
BRK2-152 • Applied AI, Gemini • Technical
Fireside chat: Rewrite the startup playbook for AI hypergrowth
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Lagoon B
schedule
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Making software creation simple for the 99% of the world who can’t code is one of the hardest engineering challenges of our time. Lovable set out to solve it — scaling to $200M ARR and a $6.6B valuation in its first year. But behind that simplicity lies massive technical and operational complexity. In this fireside chat, Fabian Hedin (Co-Founder & CTO at Lovable) joins Darren Mowry (VP, Global Startups and Private Equity at Google) to unpack what it really takes to build an AI-native company from the ground up — from infrastructure and architecture to hiring, velocity, and hyper-growth execution.
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