Akele Reed
Bio
Principal AI Engineer at SonderMind, Akele Reed leads the team behind the company's conversational AI mental health feature and has served as a primary architect of its guardrails and evaluations framework. Her work sits at the intersection of AI capability and responsibility, designing systems that earn trust through rigorous safety pipelines, human expert feedback loops, and continuous oversight in one of the highest-stakes domains in healthcare. Akele is passionate about making AI trustworthy not just in theory, but in production and building the infrastructure and culture that allow engineers and clinicians alike to confidently rely on AI-powered tools. She brings over nine years of experience in applied AI and model training, including her previous role at 23andMe, and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Away from the screens, she enjoys hiking, beekeeping, and baking.
Session (1)
Akele Reed is a Principal AI Engineer at SonderMind who leads the team behind the company's conversational AI mental health feature and serves as primary architect of its guardrails and evaluation frameworks, working at the intersection of AI capability and clinical responsibility. Attendees interested in ethical AI deployment in high-stakes healthcare contexts — particularly evals-driven development, agentic oversight patterns (Supervisor/Executor/Evaluator), and safety guardrails for mental health applications — would benefit from her session on engineering a mental health AI coach ethically and safely.
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