---
title: "Lance Martin"
category: "people"
role: "Member of Technical Staff"
company: "Anthropic"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-martin-64a33b5"
twitter: "https://x.com/RLanceMartin"
website: "https://rlancemartin.github.io"
blog: "https://rlancemartin.github.io"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Lance Martin

## Profile
Member of Technical Staff at [[anthropic|Anthropic]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-martin-64a33b5)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/RLanceMartin)
- [Website](https://rlancemartin.github.io)
- [Blog](https://rlancemartin.github.io)

## Biography
Member of technical staff at [[anthropic|Anthropic]]. Working on the Claude Platform, including Claude Managed Agents and the claude-api skill in Claude Code. Prior to [[anthropic|Anthropic]], was one of the early team at LangChain. Prior to LangChain, spent several years focused on vision for self-driving cars (Uber ATG, Ike, Nuro) and got a PhD from Stanford.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-lance-martin-claude-for-long-horizon-tasks]] — Claude for long-horizon tasks (2026-06-29, 1:55pm-2:15pm)

## 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
- [[2026-06-29-lance-martin-claude-for-long-horizon-tasks|Claude for long-horizon tasks]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg` — 2 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg`: retrieval, typically, tool, function, calling, execute, steps, guaranteed.
- Evidence links for `youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg`: [[youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg]], [[youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg-slides]], [[youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg-dense-slides]], [[youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg-reconstructed-slides]]