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Four problems. Five days. Real hardware. The Esper AI Hackathon isn't about building another chatbot. It's about building AI that holds up where the physical world actually runs — on the devices people touch every day. Here are some examples of what we’re talking about: 🛒 Retail — AI checkout that actually works. No "please wait for an associate." 🍔 Restaurants — Kitchens that know what to prep before the order hits. 🏥 Healthcare — Patient safety that doesn't sleep. 🚚 Logistics — Fleet ops that run themselves. Pick a problem. Build on real hardware. Demo it live. June 22–26 | Bangalore | 10 teams | $6,000 in prizes ⏳ Applications close June 14. Apply → https://lnkd.in/gPHqb8ah Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

My favorite part of startup life is celebrating together with the people who worked hard to make something meaningful happen! We hit a big company milestone this week. We responded the Esper way, on a boat! 🚢 Cheers to the milestones to come and more celebrations ahead. I get more excited every single day about what we're building at Esper and where this is going! Esper and friends: Devin Murphy, CPA, Navin Raman, Alex Shaw, Anindya Roy, Daniil Krets, Sudeep Shetty, Devashish Meena, Tyler Swan, Lydia Liu, Keith Szot, Nikhil Punathil, Dilya Baz, Colin Peterson, Ali Clawson, Sean Namyr, Edward Cho, Fabian E., Richie Cusack, Lucas King, Anne Maercklein, CFA®, Jacqueline T., Kailana Kahawaii (apologies if i missed anyone!)

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting the team from DeviceSolutions.ai at Esper HQ. Device Solutions is one of those partners that makes you realize what a great channel relationship actually looks like — they're deeply embedded in the logistics space, working with last-mile delivery operators, Amazon DSPs, and warehouse deployments that live and die by device uptime. What I enjoy the most is that the team is very technical and genuinely understands the value that Esper brings from a technical and business perspective. Their customers need devices that work — provisioned fast, locked down tight, and manageable at scale without a full IT team on-site. That's exactly where Esper comes in. Together, we're helping logistics operators: → Provision rugged Android devices at scale, out of the box → Push app updates and configs without touching individual devices → Keep fleets running with remote visibility and control → Move faster without adding headcount Grateful for partners who bring genuine customer problems — and trust us to help solve them. If you're in logistics and managing a growing device fleet, you should talk to DeviceSolutions.ai - Ted Dann Noah Loudon Sergei Agadzhanyan Zach Kimball Devin Rigg #Esper #DeviceSolutions #ChannelPartners #DeviceManagement #Logistics #MDM #AndroidManagement

Everyone is building agents, chatbots, and AI in the cloud. Cool. But how do you make AI work in the real world — on a device, at the edge, locally on a kiosk that doesn’t have time to run a round trip to a server cluster? That's the problem we're putting in front of you. Announcing the Esper AI Hackathon: five days in Bangalore, June 22–26. Ten teams. $6,000 in prizes. AWS in the room. And a single charge: build AI that runs where the physical world actually happens: retail, restaurants, healthcare, logistics. This is for engineers who want to ship something real. Edge inference, computer vision, voice on actual hardware, running locally. We’re judging on a live demo, not a slide deck. If you've got 3+ years building ML systems and you're tired of demos that only work on a laptop, this is your week. Mentors and AWS solutions architects on-site throughout. Good builds win. Great builds shape the future. Applications are open. Ten teams, screened on the strength of your idea. Apply → https://lnkd.in/gpRZd5hc Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in partnership with Magicball.

Are you an RSPA member? It's your last chance to vote for Esper in the Vendor Awards of Excellence — Software category. Why vote for Esper? We offer RSPA members advanced device management infrastructure that makes it easy to manage dedicated edge devices at scale. We offer: ✔️ Seamless provisioning that helps today's organizations scale up fast ✔️ Powerful remote management tools that make troubleshooting fast and easy ✔️ And scalable app management for easy rollouts and content updates. Voting closes June 5th! Cast your vote 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTnQpVJW #RetailNOW2026 #RSPA #DeviceManagement #RetailTech RSPA - Retail Solutions Providers Association

Today, we’re announcing Esper Airwave, a fully managed platform that gives Android OEMs building on AOSP the complete toolkit they need to deploy secure, reliable OTA at scale. Here's what it handles from day 1: - Patches in hours, not months: Upload a full build or delta, set your rollout strategy, and we deliver globally with real-time per-device status. - Staged rollouts with a safety net: Phase from 1% upward; if failure rates exceed your threshold, the rollout halts automatically. A/B partition devices roll back at the OS level before rebooting into a broken state. - Zero infrastructure to own: No servers, no CDN to build, no signing pipeline to maintain. - MDM-agnostic: Keep your existing device management, or run none at all. It works with any AOSP build and requires no MDM enrollment. The delivery layer stops being your problem so you can get back to your roadmap. We're standing up test cohorts now — Learn more on the blog and reach out if you want to run it against your own firmware: https://hubs.la/Q04jGWmY0 #Android #AOSP #OTA #DeviceManagement #AndroidOEM #EmbeddedAndroid #FirmwareUpdates #Esper

Today, we’re announcing Esper Airwave, a fully managed platform that gives Android OEMs building on AOSP the complete toolkit they need to deploy secure, reliable OTA at scale. Here's what it handles from day 1: - Patches in hours, not months: Upload a full build or delta, set your rollout strategy, and we deliver globally with real-time per-device status. - Staged rollouts with a safety net: Phase from 1% upward; if failure rates exceed your threshold, the rollout halts automatically. A/B partition devices roll back at the OS level before rebooting into a broken state. - Zero infrastructure to own: No servers, no CDN to build, no signing pipeline to maintain. - MDM-agnostic: Keep your existing device management, or run none at all. It works with any AOSP build and requires no MDM enrollment. The delivery layer stops being your problem so you can get back to your roadmap. We're standing up test cohorts now — Learn more on the blog and reach out if you want to run it against your own firmware: https://hubs.la/Q04jGWmY0 #Android #AOSP #OTA #DeviceManagement #AndroidOEM #EmbeddedAndroid #FirmwareUpdates #Esper

Great having John Dittig from MicroTouch at Esper’s HQ yesterday for one of our Fireside Chats. We covered a ton — partnership, channel, collaboration, and what it actually looks like to show up for your teams and customers. Esper is glad to build alongside MicroTouch as a priority partner and to have John and his tight-knit team on our side. We’re cooking up something special, keep an eye out for this one! Lydia Liu Daniil Krets #MakeItMicroTouch #Esper #MDM

Esper is competing in the RSPA Vendor Awards of Excellence — Software category — and you have one week left to vote! If you're an RSPA member, you know that Esper offers advanced device management infrastructure that makes it easy to keep dedicated edge devices performing at their peak with features like: ✔️ Seamless provisioning that helps today's organizations scale up fast ✔️ Powerful remote management tools that make troubleshooting fast and easy ✔️ And scalable app management for easy rollouts and content updates. Already love us? Great! Cast your vote 👉 https://hubs.la/Q04j4M2Z0 #RetailNOW2026 #RSPA #DeviceManagement #RetailTech

For the retail industry, deploying production AI isn't a model problem — it's a lifecycle and orchestration problem. Esper COO and Co-Founder Shiv Sundar offered a retail AI roadmap at Intel's APJ Edge Solution Summit in Taipei this week, where he walked today’s edge solution leaders through the solution. Key takeaways from his session: 💡 Fragmented, multi-OS fleets are why retail AI stalls at pilot, not the model 💡 Blueprints + deployment pipelines give ops teams DevOps-grade control over AI deployments at scale 💡 Esper + Intel-validated silicon = end-to-end trust from secure boot to AI inference And it’s not hypothetical, it’s a strategy that has been tested in the real world. One retailer reduced provisioning time by 380% and migrated thousands of POS devices overnight with no staging facility. Preview the full Esper x Intel Android Edge Operations solution: https://hubs.la/Q04j36Q30