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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

The Golden Age of Email: Owning the Inbox in the Age of AI

Dana Lawson , Nikhil Gandhi

How do you safely inject proactive AI into a 30-year-old legacy codebase? Discover how Yahoo transforms petabytes of unstructured emails into intelligent knowledge graphs without compromising user privacy.

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Reimagining Yahoo products to organize the modern worldwide web

How updating decades of legacy platforms helps users navigate increasing online digital chaos.

#2 about 2 min

The escalating problem of email overload and chaotic inboxes

Why the rising volume of digital newsletters renders the traditional goal of inbox zero practically impossible.

#3 about 3 min

Transitioning from reactive search to proactive personalized email experiences

How anticipating contextual user needs like travel details eliminates the pain of manual email hunting.

#4 about 3 min

Transforming unstructured email data into customized user knowledge graphs

How deploying background AI agents replaces manual labeling with automated contextual understanding of user information.

#5 about 2 min

Centralizing multiple external email providers into one intelligent client

Why enabling users to integrate existing external addresses preserves valuable historical context for AI models.

#6 about 2 min

Extracting actionable tasks automatically with the new planner feature

How identifying unstructured invitations and updates prevents users from missing important personal commitments.

#7 about 4 min

Restructuring engineering teams into pods for end-to-end feature ownership

How assigning full accountability to cross-functional groups accelerates deployment and bridges gaps between design and development.

#8 about 3 min

Executing massive cloud network migrations while maintaining live systems

How a bi-focal development strategy balances shipping new innovations with transferring legacy infrastructure to modern clouds.

#9 about 2 min

Safeguarding user privacy by completely excluding sensitive personal information

Why intentionally preventing AI access to medical or financial records builds essential trust in new capabilities.

#10 about 3 min

Automating subscription cleanup tasks using intelligent background processing agents

How identifying rarely opened newsletters allows users to declutter their active priorities with a single click.

#11 about 5 min

Hiring passionate software engineers to tackle unprecedented scaling challenges

Why working on massive legacy migrations offers unique opportunities to master cloud infrastructure and caching techniques.

#12 about 2 min

Sequencing the regional release of new intelligent inbox capabilities

How testing smart productivity features in localized markets ensures robust performance before implementing worldwide deployments.

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