Vaish Sagar
Bio
I'm an AI engineer, full-stack developer, and two-time founder with a Master's in Computer Science specializing in NLP from Arizona State University. Recognized by the U.S. government with an O-1A for extraordinary abilities in AI, I have five years of experience spanning enterprise data engineering at Oracle, consumer product development, and applied AI research. I've built and shipped two startup platforms from scratch, was a Sequoia Capital Arc Accelerator finalist, and was featured on Fox9 News for consumer tech innovation. What sets my work apart is where it lives: at the intersection of AI and music. I've built AI tools inside DAW environments, applied music theory principles to reduce artifacts in AI-generated audio, and trained a GPT-style transformer from scratch to study musical structures in song lyrics. As a guitarist and vocalist, I bring a musician's ear to my technical work. My current project, "What Does B-Major Sound Like in a Parallel Universe?", is a reflection of that curiosity, of exploring what music could be.
Presenting Sessions
- Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis
- Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
- Building a Tech Community
- Building a Hope Practice: A Science-Based Workshop for Uncertain Times
- "They'll take anyone - even English majors!": Putting the Language in Large Language Models
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
- Whose Utopia? Restructuring the Digital Environment in an Age of Human - AI Relationships
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
- The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Early Stage Funding in Minnesota
- Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Owning your engineering career progression and some advice from Tom Hanks
- Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
- Crafternoon
- How To Sell Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi, For Fun and Bitcoin!
- Growing a Social Media Community: What’s Working Right Now
- Questions to ask during a transition... and who can help.
- Cannabis! Building a cultivation, R&D, manufacturing and dispensary business in the Twin Cities.
- You can do it all, just not all at once: Practical prioritization for leaders and builders
- Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
- From Uncle Sam to Civic Tech: Rebuilding Civic Engagement for Gen Z Using Design Thinking
- Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
- Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Defeating the Loneliness Epidemic!
- Dual AI Architecture: On-Device Apple Intelligence Meets Claude's Cloud
- Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
- What the Heck is a Qubit?
- Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis