Claude can code. Experts still matter: Building BioKEA's biodiversity stack

A scientist-founder built BioKEA's full biodiversity discovery stack with Claude as primary coding partner: sample-to-publication pipeline, analysis dashboards, citizen science games, internal tools. The patterns that worked — and why taste and domain judgment become the real leverage when generation is cheap.
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Details

City
San Francisco
Date
May 7, 2026
Time
02:50PM – 03:20PM
Speakers
Sean Jungbluth
CEO/CTO/Founder (PhD),
 
BioKEA

Agenda

Demos and office hours run all day. Drop by between sessions. All times in Pacific Time (PT).
08:00AM – 09:00AM
Check in and breakfast
09:00AM – 09:45AM
Keynote
Claude Code
·
Boris Cherny
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Do agents dream of data models?
Founder stage
·
Caitlin Colgrove
Claude and Sol the trophy tomato
Builder stage
·
Martin DeVido
10:00AM – 10:45AM
How we Claude Code
(Workshop)
Workshops
·
Thariq Shihipar
11:00AM – 11:45AM
Ship your first Managed Agent
(Workshop)
Workshops
·
Gagan Bhat
11:30AM – 12:00PM
Evals for subjective, stateful agents
Builder stage
·
Yikai Zhu
Ajay Arasanipalai
12:30PM – 02:00PM
Lunch
afternoon sessions
12:00PM – 12:45PM
Agents that remember
(Workshop)
Workshops
·
Tina Vachovsky
01:00PM – 01:45PM
Eval-driven agent development
(Workshop)
Workshops
·
Felix Becker
02:00PM – 02:45PM
Compose multi-agent systems with Skills and MCP
(Workshop)
Workshops
·
Tanveer Mittal
02:50PM – 03:20PM
03:00PM – 03:45PM
03:35PM – 04:05PM
Evening
06:00PM – 08:00PM
Closing reception