Sudeepto Roy

Vice President, Engineering
QUALCOMM

The Great AI Inversion,
Cheap Models to Scarce Judgement

Thursday, April 9, 2026
6:00pm – 8:00pm

6:00pm: Wine & Light Refreshments
6:30pm: DMFTalk

TOWN HALL
Del Mar Civic Center
1050 Camino Del Mar

The Great AI Inversion” is here: intelligence is a commodity and human judgment is the new scarcity. As this shift reorders software, logistics, finance, and more, join Del Mar resident and tech expert, Sudeepto Roy, to explore the transition from “Big Brains” toward deliberate reasoning, agentic action, and the quest for a better world model. We will analyze the 2026 landscape, from the “Thermodynamics Wall” of insatiable power demand to the critical pivot toward Edge AI and the distributed digital nervous system. As AI tunes out entry-level roles and hollows the professional middle, the only durable moat is human accountability that no autonomous agent can replicate. This talk frames our evolution from digital abstractions into a future bounded by physical constraints and human responsibility.

Sudeepto Roy

Sudeepto, as a Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm, is passionate about leveraging connectivity, computing, and AI to enhance lives and industry, through a tech career spanning corporations, startups, universities, and governments.

In Del Mar, Sudeepto is committed to community service, advocating for education, sustainability, equity, and gun violence prevention. He serves on the board of the Del Mar Foundation and volunteers at non-profit schools.

He holds computer engineering degrees from MS University and Old Dominion University, with advanced studies in IPR, management, and AI from UCSD, Caltech, and MIT.

Views expressed are those of the speaker alone and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer or other affiliations.