
From Jive’s social-business era to Puppet’s grown-up rebrand and Lucid’s viral dog diagrams, Nathan Rawlins has spent two decades giving serious software a pulse. Now he is drawing the map between AI promise and the untidy way work actually happens.
Akash Talyan is a Product Designer at Zip (ziphq.com), a San Francisco-based AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion. He leads design for the agent experience team, building the human-AI interfaces that power enterprise procurement automation. With a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech and a career spanning Coinbase, Verily Life Sciences, and Lucid Software, Akash brings rare depth to the challenge of making agentic AI workflows feel intuitive to real enterprise users.