Dustin Dannenhauer speaker card

Speaker · SF Tech Week · Oct 6–8, 2026

Dustin Dannenhauer

Founder @ Delegance AI · Alinery

Bio

Dustin Dannenhauer has been building AI agents since 2011. He earned a PhD in computer science on self-monitoring agents and goal reasoning, and later worked on DARPA-funded research generating open-world novelty to test how agents adapt. He’s founder of Delegance AI and a core developer of Alinery, an open-source tool for spinning up steerable teams of agents for coding and knowledge work.