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Building the FDE Bench: How Top Teams Hire, Ramp and Retain
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Building the FDE Bench: How Top Teams Hire, Ramp and Retain

Thursday 12 November 2026, 17:00Venue time (Los Angeles)
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Building the FDE Bench: How Top Teams Hire, Ramp and RetainForward Deployed Engineers sit at the heart of how AI companies win and grow with their customers, and the people building these teams have a lot to learn from each other.

Join us for an evening with FDE leaders, founders and talent leaders from across the Bay Area. We’ll talk about what makes a great FDE, how teams find and hire them, and what helps them grow, then stay on to connect with others building in this space.

Meet your panelists

Santosh Iyer, Operating Advisor and EVP, Insight Partners

Yashih Wu, Head of Forward Deployed Engineering and Startup Programs, Datadog

Niles Lawrence, Agent Product Manager, Sierra

Amit Sawant, Leads Forward Deployed Engineering, Rippling

Moderated by Chuck Isgar, Founder of Anchor Deployed

Hosted by Rocketlane.

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