---
title: "Ben Hylak"
category: "people"
role: "CTO"
company: "Raindrop"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhylak/"
twitter: "https://x.com/benhylak"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Ben Hylak

## Profile
CTO at [[raindrop|Raindrop]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhylak/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/benhylak)

## Biography
Ben Hylak is CTO at [[raindrop|Raindrop]], the monitoring platform for AI agents. He was previously a designer and engineer at Apple and did engineering at SpaceX and Google.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-ben-hylak-designing-agents-the-floor-is-the-frontier]] — Designing Agents (The Floor Is the Frontier) (2026-06-30, 2:50pm-3:10pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-ben-hylak-designing-agents-the-floor-is-the-frontier|Designing Agents (The Floor Is the Frontier)]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w` — 5 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w`: customer, project, knowledge, content, below, pricing, plans, contains.
- Evidence links for `youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w`: [[youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w]], [[youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w-slides]], [[youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w-dense-slides]], [[youtube-5nOLb27hQ5w-reconstructed-slides]]