Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn Chief AI Officer on AI Platforms

Deepak Agarwal is Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn, where he leads company‑wide AI strategy, long‑horizon innovation, and the Core AI teams that power intelligence, personalization, and agents across a platform serving hundreds of millions of members. Previously, as Chief AI Officer and VP of Consumer and Trust Engineering at Pinterest, he scaled his organization from about 200 to roughly 1,000 engineers, unifying AI Foundations, Consumer Engineering, Trust & Safety, and AI Product to deliver AI‑first personalized discovery, commerce, and creator products that generated billions of predictions per day. Earlier in his career at Yahoo! and AT&T Labs, he became a leading expert in large‑scale recommender systems, publishing extensively (including a book) and eventually being elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; today he also serves as a Distinguished Fellow and Venture Partner at Fellows Fund, advising and investing in AI startups.Topics - From Pinterest to LinkedIn: Building AI-First Consumer Platforms at ScaleScaling from 200 to 1,000+ Engineers: Org Design for AI PlatformsArchitecting Durable AI Stacks for Hundreds of Millions of Users#AILeadership #AIAgents #TrustAndSafety #PlatformEngineering #ConsumerTech