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# Building AI Products That Preserve Choice


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Trust in technology is declining at the very moment AI systems are becoming more embedded in daily life. Restoring that trust requires more than transparency reports or policy frameworks. It requires product decisions that give people real agency.

In this keynote, Ajit Varma shares what it takes to build products that give agency back to users — technically, commercially, and structurally. From modular AI architecture to maintaining engine independence in a Chromium-dominated ecosystem, he will unpack what's behind “the internet on your own terms.”


## Speaker

### [Ajit Varma](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ajit-varma)

Head of Firefox at Mozilla


## Related talks at this congress

- [Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1734-beyond-the-code) — Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
- [Proactive AI That Doesn’t Annoy Users: Building Context-Aware Notification Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1672-proactive-ai-that) — Raju Dandigam Dandigam
- [Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1693-who-tests-the-ai) — Him Raj Singh
- [The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1744-the-broken-rung-how) — Tomislav Tipurić

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## Links

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