CASE STUDY/DEMODay 2

Can Agents Fly a Drone? Wiring Vision, BERT, and SLMs Live

March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Fletcher Hall 30 min

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Real-world industrial environments don't need generative poetry. They need instant, precise, and adaptive machine intelligence. This live demo shows agents wiring vision, BERT, and SLMs to fly a drone.

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Speakers

Matt Hamann

Co-founder & CTO · Rownd

Matt Hamann is a software engineer and technologist with more than a decade of experience designing and building cloudc, mobile, and IoT solutions. After graduating from Bob Jones University with a B.S. in Information Systems Management, he received a Master’s degree in the same field from Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout his career, Matt has worked for both small businesses and Fortune 50 companies. His roles have spanned many disciplines including cloud architecture, security, and tea...

Rachel Orrino

Co-founder, Head of Design · Rownd

Rachel Orrino is Co-founder and Head of Design at Rownd, the team behind LlamaFarm, an open-source AI platform helping teams build and run AI projects locally. At Rownd, she has led design across LlamaFarm, and Rownd’s authentication platform, helping scale the product through Y Combinator (W22) and a $2.2M seed raise. Previously, she was a Design Lead at IBM, working across AI, automation, blockchain, and identity products, earning a Red Dot Award for her work on the IBM Blockchain Platform....

Robert Thelen

CEO and Cofounder · LlamaFarm

Robert Thelen is the Co-Founder of LlamaFarm, an open-source platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and govern AI applications locally. A builder at heart, Robert is focused on the “execution” phase of the AI revolution, helping engineers move beyond fragile prototypes to production-grade, privacy-focused AI systems without vendor lock-in. Robert is a Y Combinator alumnus (W22) and previously served as the Co-Founder and CEO of Rownd. Before entering the startup world, he was a Pr...

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