Technical Talks

Schuyler Brown

Co-Founder | Guilde

John Tokash

CTO | Guilde

AI Launchpad 2025: Guilde

Schuyler Brown and John Tokash share insights from Guilde's platform that provides instant awareness of data models, load, and dependencies, exploring how to eliminate knowledge silos accidentally created by specialized DevOps and security teams. For organizations struggling with disconnected application developers and database operations, this session offers valuable perspectives on arming everyone with technical tribal knowledge to reduce bugs, latency, and incidents, especially critical as AI code generation amplifies these challenges.

Co-Founder

Schuyler Brown

Guilde

Schuyler Brown is a serial founder who loves the scrappy, early days. Before founding Guilde, he co-founded StrongDM where he served as Chief Customer Officer and Chairman of the Board. As a student of startups, Schuyler hosts Founders@Fail and authors Inc.com's "Failing Forward" column interviewing entrepreneurs about the bumps, bruises, and reality of life in the startup trenches. He holds a B.A. and M.B.A. from Columbia University.

CTO

John Tokash

Guilde

John Tokash is CTO of Guilde and specializes in AI and engineering leadership with extensive experience in developing agentic systems and generative AI tools. Currently leading an unannounced AI startup, he previously served as VP of Engineering at Flowspace where he developed AI command center capabilities. John's background includes leadership roles at Booster and co-founding Curious.com as CTO. John is currently hiring full-stack developers who share his enthusiasm for creating cutting-edge AI tools and building at the forefront of technological innovation.