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Agentic Infrastructure for Adaptive Customer Experience
Personalisation that spans every touchpoint
Speakers: Sami Abboud, Olivier Jeunen, Ellie Hanna
Attendees: Paul Meinshausen, Terry Lucy, Vineesha Raheja, Amaan Kulatunga
Consumers live in an attention economy—every brand is competing to “rent” a moment of a user’s time and deliver value in the most effective, efficient, and individualized way possible. Traditionally, engagement has depended on human teams manually segmenting users, defining rules, and orchestrating journeys that aim to feel personalised. But these teams are constrained by tooling—there’s a complexity ceiling that no amount of manual effort can break through. Adding to that complexity is the challenge that Data Science teams face, which is the gap between building models and seeing them used effectively in production. They spend disproportionate time on repetitive reporting, integration, and deployment tasks and not on higher-value research and experimentation. At the same time, access to clean, user-level behavioral data for feature engineering remains a persistent bottleneck.
Agentic infrastructure breaks down these challenges. It equips Marketing, Product, and Data teams with reinforcement learning agents that make real-time engagement decisions at scale. These agents continuously run thousands of parallelized experiments, learn from behavioural data, and dynamically adapt engagement variables like content, timing, and channel based on each individual’s preferences.
Many teams think of Aampe as an Agentic Experimentation System: a foundation that brings Marketing, Product, and Data teams together by enabling coordinated experimentation and tracking at the user level. CRM teams use Aampe to personalise outbound communications and uncover user preferences. Product teams use it as a user research engine, to experiment with in-app experiences.
Data teams can generate new data by feeding existing models (e.g., churn or voucher models) as priors into the agents and fine-tune their behaviour by adjusting reward weights. Agentic Infrastructure not only unifies these teams— it creates a living experimentation layer across the entire customer experience.
With Aampe, Data Scientists specifically benefit in the following ways:
- Less time wasted on repetitive reporting and production churn through programmatic multi-model competition
- Faster realization of impact from models through automated model deployment and rollback
- Ability to focus on novel methods and research by deploying governance and audit trails
- Ability to run more ambitious experiments without needing additional staff by using causal and counterfactual evaluation data
- Greater leverage over the full ML lifecycle, not just model training through routine reporting and analytics automation
To learn more, visit us at www.aampe.com.
AppLovin is the world’s leading mobile advertising platform, powering growth for developers, advertisers, and brands on a global scale. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company went public on Nasdaq in 2021, joined the NASDAQ-100 in 2024, and was added to the S&P 500 in 2025. Today, AppLovin has a market capitalization of $170 billion, making it a top 200 most valuable company in the world.
At the heart of AppLovin’s platform is its proprietary AI recommendation engine, Axon, which drives real-time ad targeting and optimization across billions of devices. Axon processes over 100 billion ad requests daily and delivers personalized recommendations to 1.4 billion daily active users, making it one of the largest and most advanced recommendation systems in the world.
AppLovin operates the largest mobile audience network, built on tens of thousands of long-tail apps across categories like gaming, entertainment, and utilities. This vast reach creates unmatched inventory for advertisers while helping developers monetize effectively. Every day, more than $50 million in ad spend is transacted on AppLovin’s platform.
In addition to its advertising technology, AppLovin offers a suite of developer tools and software solutions that help mobile app developers publish, monetize, and scale their businesses. The company also partners with leading global advertisers across industries such as gaming, retail, e-commerce, and consumer brands, enabling them to acquire high-value customers and measure campaign performance with precision.
Guided by its mission to create meaningful connections between companies and their ideal customers, AppLovin continues to shape the future of digital advertising with AI-driven technology, unrivaled scale, and proven business impact.
At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and we advance that mission every day in incredible new ways. Research across Google provides new ways of looking at old problems and helps transform how we all work and live, and we think the biggest impact comes when everyone in the world can access it. To that end, we use state-of-the-art computer science techniques to solve problems for our users, our customers and the world, making it easier for you to do things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of people you love, breaking down language barriers, or helping you get things done with your own personal digital assistant.
Huawei’s products and services reach over 170 countries, serving more than one-third of the world’s population. To support this global impact, the mission of the Huawei Ireland Research Centre (IRC) is to position Huawei as a recognized technology leader and global ICT solutions provider.
We are building an industry-recognized, multi-discipline Research Centre of experts focused on medium- to long-term challenges. The IRC works closely with Huawei customers within an open innovation ecosystem to address real-world issues, while also collaborating with leading European universities to strengthen basic research capabilities that support Huawei’s technical projects.
The IRC consists of five labs. Within the Consumer Business Group (CBG) Lab, Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) designs and delivers innovative cloud-based experiences, provided free of charge to Huawei device users worldwide. The HMS ecosystem is now the third largest globally, with over 96,000 apps integrated via HMS Core. The Cloud Reliability (SRE) Lab is dedicated to bringing world-class reliability to Huawei Cloud by addressing cross-functional challenges that span hardware, software, networking, monitoring, and operations. The Smart Network Innovation (SNI) Lab advances ADN L4+ network self-optimization and self-healing, driving continuous breakthroughs in telecom foundation models, performance simulation, and data governance. The Intelligent Operations and Management (IOM) Lab pioneers R&D in advanced software architectures and systems that transform networks from operator-driven to fully autonomous. The Advanced Assured Language Engineering (ADA) Lab is committed to developing memory-safe, concurrent system products.
Netflix Research drives innovation across content creation, streaming technology, personalization, and user experience. Our work spans foundational research, product innovation, and open collaboration with the academic community, powered by a global community of researchers, scientists, engineers, and collaborators embedded within our product, engineering, and other business organizations. Our research is always closely aligned with real-world problems and has a direct path to implementation, ultimately improving the experience for our 270 million+ members worldwide. Our research spans a wide range of areas, including Personalization & Recommendation (powering personalized rows, search, and content suggestions that drive user engagement and satisfaction), Content Understanding (video, audio, and text analysis), Streaming Optimization (video encoding, bandwidth adaptation), Studio Production Technology (VFX, animation, asset generation), Causal Inference & Experimentation (A/B testing, causal impact) and more.
Recommendation and Search algorithms are at the heart of Netflix’s services. They are pivotal in providing our members around the world with personalized entertainment suggestions that align with their preferences at any given moment. We are continually improving our algorithms while looking for new areas we can personalize, and conduct research with the goal of providing the best member experience possible. Our work on recommender systems, contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, foundational models, and causal inference is continually evolving and foundational in shaping the future of recommender systems as a leader in this space.
Visit our https://research.netflix.com site for more information.
Sky is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies, and a part of Comcast Corporation, which also owns NBCUniversal (NBCU). We create award-winning original content, produce the biggest live sporting events. We’re famous for innovation.
Sky Czech Republic is based in Prague. Where our teams consist of video-streaming enthusiasts and experts. We specialise in backend (Java) and frontend development (TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift), machine learning, media engineering, data analytics, SRE, and QA. Collaborating closely with our colleagues in the UK, Portugal and the US we strive to make the best video-streaming technology happen: constantly pushing the boundaries of home video entertainment.
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Since its launch in 2008, Spotify has revolutionised music listening. Our move into podcasting brought innovation and a new generation of listeners to the medium. In 2022, we took the next leap, entering the fast-growing audiobook market—continuing to shape the future of audio.
Today, more listeners than ever can discover, manage and enjoy over 100 million
tracks, nearly 7 million podcast titles, and 350,000 audiobooks a la carte on Spotify. We are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with more than 696 million users, including 276 million subscribers in more than 180 markets.
Innovation has always been at the heart of Spotify. From personalized playlists to AI-powered features, we’re always finding new ways to help listeners connect more deeply with artists and creators they love. By combining human expertise with transformative technology, we’re turning everyday listening into meaningful experiences – and sparking billions of discoveries along the way.
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Xiaohongshu Co. was founded in 2013. On the Xiaohongshu app, users document their daily lives through images and text, videos, live-streaming, and other formats, connecting and forming communities based on shared interests. This foundation has fostered a positive interaction between content and commerce on the platform, giving rise to a unique “seeding ecosystem”. Garnering over 350 million monthly active users as of the end of 2024, Xiaohongshu has become a cross-generational community for lifestyle & interest exploration and go-to destination for consumer decision-making, with the ability to drive trends and headlines.
Founded in Berlin in 2008, Zalando is Europe’s leading online multi-brand fashion destination. We are building a pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce, along two growth vectors: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B). In B2C, we provide an inspiring, high-quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to more than 52 million active customers across 25 markets. In B2B, we leverage our logistics infrastructure, software, and service capabilities to support brands and retailers in managing and scaling their entire e-commerce business, both on and off the Zalando platform. On 11 July 2025, Zalando successfully closed its strategic combination with Hamburg-based ABOUT YOU, allowing both companies to serve customers and partners across Europe even better. ABOUT YOU’s operations add scale and complementary capabilities, fully aligning with Zalando’s ecosystem strategy.