Where Does Research End and Production Begin?
Hosted by MacPaw
Thursday, October 1, 2026
4:00 PM–5:15 PM ET
About
How do you build a product that needs technology that does not exist yet?
Join MacPaw AI&Research and Liquid AI for a conversation about what happens between a research result and a product someone actually uses.
We'll get into the questions both teams run into every week:
🔹 How do you run research so the results actually reach production?
🔹 Where do you start when nobody has benchmarked what you need to measure?
🔹 What tooling lets you absorb the next research result without rebuilding the system?
Examples will draw from three months of MacPaw and Liquid AI building an on-device AI stack for Apple Silicon together: Liquid Foundation Models, the Elix AI runtime, and the Mnemos memory layer.
Speakers:
⚪ Mariya Hirna, AI & Research Manager at MacPaw
⚪ Maksym Kotliar, Staff Research Engineer at MacPaw
⚪ Alay Shah, Member of Technical Staff at Liquid AI
🎯 Moderated by [TBD]
After the panel, stay for Maksym Kotliar's talk on composable pipelines, then a mixer with snacks, coffee and soft drinks. A chance to keep the conversation going with the speakers and other builders in the room.
Agenda for the day:
🚪 4:00 – 4:30 PM: Doors open
🎤 4:30 – 5:15 PM: Panel — Where Does Research End and Production Begin?
🎤 5:30 – 6:15 PM: Talk — It's 1952 Again: The Missing Compiler for AI Pipelines
💬 6:15 – 8:30 PM: Mixer and networking
Speakers
- Speakers:
- ⚪ Alay Shah, Member of Technical Staff at Liquid AI
- ⚪ Mariya Hirna, AI & Research Manager at MacPaw
- ⚪ Maksym Kotliar, Staff Research Engineer at MacPaw
Host
MacPaw