Collaboration & Innovation in the Time of AI
Speakers

Anurag Agarwal leads the Google Workspace engineering organization, overseeing products such as Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet that help billions of users and customers across the world to connect, create and build together. With over 18 years of experience at Google, Anurag’s expertise spans a wide range of consumer and enterprise products and technologies. His career began in the Display Ads team, where he played a pivotal role in developing publisher ad-serving products from the ground up. He then worked on the Search Ads team driving a number of large-scale infrastructure improvements and leading initiatives such as online-to-offline measurement and monetization of surfaces like Maps and Discover. Prior to his role in Workspace, he spearheaded some early stage incubation projects at Google like Google Health’s CareStudio project aimed to help clinicians get a comprehensive view of patient’s health information. Anurag spent his childhood in Delhi, India and now resides in the Bay Area with his family.

Lizzie Matusov is the co-founder and CEO of Quotient, an engineering intelligence platform that measures and improves the ROI of AI on software delivery. Quotient analyzes signals from developer workflows to quantify AI's impact and recommend research-backed changes.
Lizzie also authors Research-Driven Engineering Leadership, a newsletter that translates academic research into practical insights for engineering leaders. Before founding Quotient, she worked in engineering roles at Red Hat and Invitae. She holds an MS in Engineering Sciences and an MBA from Harvard, and lives in San Francisco.
SUMMARY
AI is transforming the way products are built, necessitating new forms of collaboration across teams and fueling a wave of product innovation. In this session with Anurag Agarwal (VPE, Google Workspace @ Google) & Lizzie Matusov (Co-founder & CEO @ Quotient) Anurag will share how he's fostering cross-functional collaboration in Google Workspace, while cultivating a culture of deep innovation in the age of AI.
