Fireside Chat with Avinav Pashine (Product Lead @ Meta)
Avinav Pashine explores how wearable devices give AI access to physical context, and the product tradeoffs involved in making multimodal systems useful, proactive and trustworthy.
Avinav Pashine
Product Lead, AI Wearables · Meta
7Sep
3:00 PM UTC · 60 min
What you’ll explore
1
Extend context beyond screens
Consider movement, surroundings and sensor information as inputs to AI.
2
Design contextual assistance
Explore proactive and reactive behaviors in wearable experiences.
3
Reason about real-world products
Connect computer vision and language models with privacy and deployment tradeoffs.
About this session
Avinav Pashine explores how wearable devices give AI access to physical context, and the product tradeoffs involved in making multimodal systems useful, proactive and trustworthy.
Guest speaker
Avinav Pashine
Product Lead, AI Wearables · Meta
Avinav builds wearable experiences combining computer vision and language models, with more than a decade of experience developing new products.
Hosted by Aishwarya Srinivasan and Arvind Narayanamurthy.
Aishwarya Srinivasan
AI Advisor / AI Educator
Aishwarya Srinivasan is the Co-Founder of The Gen Academy and a Developer Relations Lead at Nebius. Her experience spans Fireworks AI, Microsoft for Startups, Google Cloud and IBM, where she worked with developers and businesses on practical AI and machine-learning solutions. She holds a postgraduate degree in Data Science from Columbia University and teaches AI engineering, applied machine learning, generative AI and LLMOps.
Founder @ The Gen Academy | AI Solutions Architect | Ex - Adobe, Microsoft, IBM
Arvind brings a cross-company perspective on AI at scale, built across Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, where he led data science teams and developed production-grade machine-learning solutions. He has built and deployed enterprise AI systems and focuses on translating AI concepts into practical, production-ready solutions. He holds a Master's from Carnegie Mellon University.
