# AI Engineer Europe 2026 > AI Engineer Europe is a 3-day conference bringing together the best AI engineers, researchers, and builders in Europe. Day 1 features hands-on workshops, Days 2-3 feature keynotes, talks across multiple tracks (AI Agents, Code, Open Source, Product, Infra), expo, and networking. - Website: https://ai.engineer/europe - Dates: April 8-10, 2026 - Location: London, UK - Venue: Queen Elizabeth II Centre - Tickets: https://app.ai.engineer/e/ai-engineer-europe-2026/portal - Newsletter: https://ai.engineer/newsletter - YouTube: https://youtube.com/@aidotengineer - Twitter/X: https://x.com/aiDotEngineer - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/ ## Schedule Overview ### April 10 - 9:00-9:20am: Gemma, DeepMind's Family of Open Models — Omar Sanseviero [Keynote] (keynote) - 9:20-9:40am: (session TBA) — David Soria Parra [Keynote] (keynote) - 9:40-10:00am: (session TBA) — Jacob Lauritzen [Keynote] (keynote) - 10:00-10:10am: Agentcraft 2 — Ido Salomon [Keynote] (keynote) - 10:10-10:30am: Pi - the Coding Agent behind OpenClaw — Mario Zechner [Keynote] (keynote) - 10:30-10:48am: Expo Session – Zed #2 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 10:30-10:48am: Expo Session – WorkOS #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 10:30-10:48am: Expo Session – Turbopuffer #2 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 10:50-11:08am: Expo Session – Safe Intelligence #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 10:50-11:08am: Expo Session – Trigger Dev #2 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 10:50-11:08am: Expo Session – ElevenLabs #2 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 11:15-11:40am: Scaling Reinforcement Learning: Lessons from Trillion-Token Deployments at Fortune 500s — Jullien Launay [Abbey] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: (session TBA) — David Gomes [Fleming] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: (session TBA) — Patrick Debois [Westminster] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: (session TBA) — Stephen Batifol [Moore] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: Every API Is a Tool for Agents — Matt Carey [St. James] (track_keynote) - 11:40am-12:00pm: Rewiring the State — Eoin Mulgrew [Westminster] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: Single Sign-On for MCPs — Garrett Galow [Abbey] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: The PI Coding Agent - The Magic Behind OpenClaw — Matthias Luebken [Fleming] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: Building Agent Interfaces: Lessons from Chrome DevTools MCP — Michael Hablich [St. James] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: The Embedding Infrastructure Nobody Built (So We Did) — Filip Makraduli [Abbey] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: The Year of Latency Debt — Sarah Chieng [Fleming] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: MCP UI — Liad Yosef, Ido Salomon [St. James] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: Most Enterprise Agentic Projects Are Doomed - Here's Why / Three Floors, Three Futures — Jess Grogan-Avignon, Jack Wang [Westminster] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: (session TBA) — Rayan Nait Mazi [Moore] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: Agents for Creative Optimisation at Scale: In Theory and in Practice — Angus Mclean [Moore] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: Why MCP and ChatGPT Apps Use Double Iframes (And What That Means for Your App) — Frédéric Barthelet [St. James] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: (session TBA) — Maxime Labonne [Westminster] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms — Chris Weichel [Abbey] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: (session TBA) — Lawrence Jones [Fleming] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: Scaling the Next Paradigm of Heterogeneous Intelligence — Adrian Bertagnoli [Abbey] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: MLX Genmedia — Prince Canuma [Moore] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: Beyond Components: Designing Generative UI for MCP Apps — Ruben Casas [St. James] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: CI/CD Is the New Breaking Point of Agentic Software — Hugo Santos, Madison Faulkner [Westminster] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: Factory Missions - Super Long Running Agents — Matan Grinberg, Luke Alvoeiro [Fleming] (talk) - 1:05-1:23pm: Expo Session – Together AI #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 1:05-1:23pm: Expo Session – Arize #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 1:05-1:23pm: Expo Session – Qodo #2 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 1:25-1:43pm: Expo Session – Snorkel #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 1:25-1:43pm: Expo Session – Unblocked #2 — Brandon Walsenuk [Wesley] (expo_session) - 1:25-1:43pm: Expo Session – Modal #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 1:45-2:03pm: Expo Session – Sentry #2 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 1:45-2:03pm: Expo Session – Stripe #2 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 1:45-2:03pm: Expo Session – Tessl IO #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 2:05-2:23pm: Expo Session – WorkOS #3 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 2:05-2:23pm: Expo Session – Tailscale #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 2:05-2:23pm: Expo Session – Comet #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 2:30-2:50pm: Lessons from Scaling GitHub's Remote MCP Server — Sam Morrow [St. James] (talk) - 2:30-2:50pm: Your Coding Agent Should Do AI System Engineering — Ben Burtenshaw [Fleming] (talk) - 2:30-2:50pm: Software Engineering Is Becoming Plan and Review — Louis Knight-Webb [Westminster] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright — Marlene Mhangami [Abbey] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: Let's Talk About FOMAT (Fear of Missing Agent Time) — Michael Richman [Fleming] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: Your Agent Is an Infinite Canvas — Rachel-Lee Nabors [St. James] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: How Building with AI Can Double the Throughput of Your Engineering Team — Brian Scanlan [Westminster] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Stop Rolling Your Own Model Router — Ara Khan [Abbey] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Cooking with Agents in VS Code — Liam Hampton [Fleming] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Bringing MCPs to the Enterprise — Karan Sampath [St. James] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Agents Don't Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org — Mike Spitz [Westminster] (talk) - 3:45-4:03pm: Expo Session – Braintrust #2 — Phil Hetzel [Shelley] (expo_session) - 3:45-4:03pm: Expo Session – Snorkel #2 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 3:45-4:03pm: Expo Session – Turbopuffer #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 4:05-4:23pm: Expo Session – Neo4j #2 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 4:05-4:23pm: Expo Session – AMA: AIE Europe with swyx — swyx [Wesley] (expo_session) - 4:05-4:23pm: Expo Session – Sonar #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 4:30-4:50pm: Fireside Chat with swyx and Tuomas Artman — swyx, Tuomas Artman [Keynote] (keynote) - 4:50-5:10pm: (session TBA) — Armin Ronacher, Cristina Poncela Cubeiro [Keynote] (keynote) - 5:10-5:30pm: What Do Models Still Suck At? — Peter Gostev [Keynote] (keynote) - 5:40-6:00pm: (session TBA) — Kalbir Sohi [Keynote] (keynote) ### April 8 - 9:00-10:20am: Building with Claude Code, Cowork, and the API Platform — Ash Prabaker, Andrew Wilson [St. James] (workshop) - 9:00-10:20am: Skill Issue: How We Used AI to Make Agents Actually Good at Supabase — Pedro Rodrigues [Abbey] (workshop) - 9:00-10:20am: Codex and Subagents — Vaibhav Srivastav [Westminster] (workshop) - 9:00-10:20am: Rebranding Retrieval: From RAG over Agentic Retrieval to Agent Memory — Leonie Monigatti [Wordsworth] (workshop) - 9:00-10:20am: Mind the Gap (In your Agent Observability) — Amy Boyd, Nitya Narasimhan [Moore] (workshop) - 10:40am-12:00pm: (session TBA) — Misha Kaletsky, Jonas Templestein [Shelley] (workshop) - 10:40am-12:00pm: TLMs: Tiny LLMs and Agents on Edge Devices with LiteRT-LM — Cormac Brick [Moore] (workshop) - 10:40am-12:00pm: (session TBA) — Eric Zakariasson [St. James] (workshop) - 10:40am-12:00pm: (session TBA) — Nick Nisi, Zack Proser [Abbey] (workshop) - 10:40am-12:00pm: Playground in Prod - Optimising Agents in Production Environments — Samuel Colvin [Westminster] (workshop) - 10:40am-12:00pm: Building Your Own Secure AI Workflows: Human-in-the-Loop Automation with n8n — Liam McGarrigle [Wordsworth] (workshop) - 1:00-3:00pm: (session TBA) — Michael Arnaldi [Shelley] (workshop) - 1:00-3:00pm: (session TBA) — Alex Cheema [Moore] (workshop) - 1:00-3:00pm: (session TBA) — Peter Werry [Wordsworth] (workshop) - 1:00-3:00pm: Shipping complex AI applications with Braintrust — Giran Moodley [Westminster] (workshop) - 1:00-3:00pm: Building LLMs for Production — Louis-François Bouchard, Paul Iusztin, Samridhi Vaid [St. James] (workshop) - 1:00-3:00pm: Ralph Loops: Build Dumb AI Loops That Ship — Chris Parsons [Abbey] (workshop) - 3:30-5:30pm: (session TBA) — Matt Pocock [St. James] (workshop) - 3:30-5:30pm: You Might Not Need 50 Diffusion Steps — Ziv Ilan [Wordsworth] (workshop) - 3:30-5:30pm: Running LLMs Locally: A Practical Benchmarking Walkthrough on a GPU Workstation — Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh [Moore] (workshop) - 3:30-5:30pm: (session TBA) — Luke Harries [Abbey] (workshop) - 3:30-5:30pm: Build Your First Demand-Driven Context Base: Let AI Agents Tell You What They Need — Raj Navakoti [Shelley] (workshop) - 3:30-5:30pm: The Headless AI Engineering Loop — Laurie Voss [Westminster] (workshop) ### April 9 - 9:00-9:10am: (session TBA) — Malte Ubl [Keynote] (keynote) - 9:10-9:30am: (session TBA) — Raia Hadsell [Keynote] (keynote) - 9:30-9:50am: Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer and Agents Execute — Ryan Lopopolo [Keynote] (keynote) - 9:50-10:10am: OpenClaw update — Peter Steinberger [Keynote] (keynote) - 10:10-10:30am: (session TBA) — Kitze [Keynote] (keynote) - 10:30-10:48am: Expo Session – Encord #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 10:30-10:48am: Expo Session – Arize #2 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 10:30-10:48am: Expo Session – Unblocked #1 — Brandon Walsenuk [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 10:50-11:08am: Expo Session – Bright Data #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 10:50-11:08am: Snapshot the Machine, Not the State: Firecracker MicroVMs for Durable AI Agents — Eric Allam [Wesley] (expo_session) - 10:50-11:08am: Expo Session – Neo4j #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 11:15-11:40am: OpenClaw AMA — Peter Steinberger, Gergely Orosz [Fleming] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: Harness Engineering AMA — Ryan Lopopolo [Westminster] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: Beyond Transcription: Building Voice AI That Actually Understands Conversations — Hervé Bredin [Abbey] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: Why building eval platforms is hard — Phil Hetzel [Moore] (track_keynote) - 11:15-11:40am: (session TBA) — Maggie Appleton [St. James] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: (session TBA) — Nuno Campos [St. James] (track_keynote) - 11:40am-12:00pm: (session TBA) — Samuel Humeau [Abbey] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: LLM Fails and How to Stop 'Em — Danilo Campos [Moore] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: (session TBA) — Vincent Koc [Fleming] (talk) - 11:40am-12:00pm: Agents on the Canvas in tldraw — Steve Ruiz [Westminster] (talk) - 12:00-12:10pm: What the Best Agents Share — Mardu Swanepoel [Westminster] (lightning) - 12:00-12:20pm: (session TBA) — Angelos Perivolaropoulos [Abbey] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: (session TBA) — Radek Sienkiewicz [Fleming] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: AI Benchmarks for Vertical Industries — Chris Lovejoy [Moore] (talk) - 12:00-12:20pm: Hierarchical Memory: Context Management in Agents — Sally-Ann Delucia [St. James] (talk) - 12:10-12:20pm: Why (Senior) Engineers Struggle to Build AI Agents — Philipp Schmid [Westminster] (lightning) - 12:20-12:40pm: Skills Issue: How Agent Skills Get Written, Evaluated and Improved Out in the Wild — Marc Klingen [Moore] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: Large-Scale Personalization at Spotify in the Era of LLMs — Shivam Verma [St. James] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: From Moves to Mastery: Building a Chess Coaching Agent — Anant Dole, Asbjørn Steinskog [Westminster] (talk) - 12:20-12:40pm: Proving Agents Correct: Memory Architecture and Formal Verification for Clawdbot — Vignesh Natarajan [Fleming] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: Building the Justice AI Unit: Shipping Production AI Inside Government — Dan James [Westminster] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: What Does Multi-Modal and Coding Have to Do with Legal? — Alva Liu [Abbey] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: The Benchmarks Agents Will Be Chasing Next — Vincent Chen [Moore] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: Engineering AI Under Sovereignty Constraints — Bilge Yücel [St. James] (talk) - 12:40-1:00pm: (session TBA) — Nick Taylor [Fleming] (talk) - 1:00-2:00pm: Leadership Lunch — Igor Karpovich [Keynote] (keynote) - 1:05-1:23pm: Expo Session – ElevenLabs #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 1:05-1:23pm: Expo Session – Zed #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 1:05-1:23pm: Expo Session – Braintrust #1 — Phil Hetzel [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 1:25-1:43pm: Expo Session – Bright Data #2 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 1:25-1:43pm: Expo Session – WorkOS #2 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 1:25-1:43pm: Expo Session – Tessl IO #2 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 1:45-2:03pm: Expo Session – Safe Intelligence #2 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 1:45-2:03pm: Expo Session – Together AI #2 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 1:45-2:03pm: Expo Session – Runpod #2 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 2:05-2:23pm: Expo Session – Modal #2 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 2:05-2:23pm: Expo Session – Cloudflare #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 2:05-2:23pm: Expo Session – Microsoft #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 2:30-2:50pm: Connecting the Dots with Context Graphs — Stephen Chin [St. James] (talk) - 2:30-2:50pm: Open-Source Agents Ecosystem — Merve Noyan [Westminster] (talk) - 2:30-2:50pm: What We Learned From a Zillion Agent Tasks — Ara Khan [Moore] (talk) - 2:30-2:50pm: (session TBA) — Neil Zeghidour [Abbey] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: (session TBA) [Fleming] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: Why Your AI UX Is Broken (and It's Not the Model's Fault) — Mike Christensen [Westminster] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: Your Product Is the Backlog: Engineering the Pipeline from Product Signals to Pull Requests — Joshua Snyder [Moore] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: Context Graphs for Explainable, Decision-Aware AI Agents — Andreas Kollegger, Zaid Zaim [St. James] (talk) - 2:50-3:10pm: (session TBA) — Mehedi Hassan [Abbey] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Viktor — AI Coworker That Lives in Slack — Fryderyk Wiatrowski [Fleming] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: SWE-rebench: Lessons from Evaluating Coding Agents on Real Software Engineering Tasks — Ibragim Badertdinov [Moore] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Combine Skills and MCP to Close the Context Gap — Pedro Rodrigues [St. James] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: Self-Evolving AI Agents: Lessons from Winning an International Agent Competition — Alexey Ostrikov [Westminster] (talk) - 3:10-3:30pm: How to build a personal computer use agent and where the limits are — Tejas Kumar [Abbey] (talk) - 3:45-4:03pm: Expo Session – Braintrust #3 — Phil Hetzel [Shelley] (expo_session) - 3:45-4:03pm: Expo Session – Microsoft #2 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 3:45-4:03pm: Expo Session – Sentry #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 4:05-4:23pm: Expo Session – Qodo #1 [Shelley] (expo_session) - 4:05-4:23pm: Expo Session – Runpod #1 [Wesley] (expo_session) - 4:05-4:23pm: Expo Session – Stripe #1 [Wordsworth] (expo_session) - 4:30-5:00pm: Software Engineering + AI = ? — Gergely Orosz, swyx [Keynote] (keynote) - 5:00-5:20pm: Think You Can Build a Game with AI? Think Again! The New Games Are Just Being Invented! — Danielle An [Keynote] (keynote) - 5:20-5:40pm: (session TBA) — Matt Pocock [Keynote] (keynote) - 5:40-6:00pm: (session TBA) — Sunil Pai [Keynote] (keynote) ## Side Events Community events around AI Engineer Europe. Tag @swyx or @aidotengineer to list yours! - **Cafe Compute London** — presented by Cerebras Tue Apr 7 · 7:00–9:00 PM BST · London Late-night AI co-working, because great ideas don't keep office hours. Cafe Compute brings the vibes — coffee, compute, and community — to London around AI Engineer Europe. In collaboration with OpenAI. RSVP: https://luma.com/cclondon26 - **GitHub Social Club London** — presented by GitHub Tue Apr 7 · TBD · London A low-key gathering for developers, maintainers, builders, and founders before AI Engineer Europe. Less about talks and pitches, more about good conversations and sharing your projects. RSVP: https://x.com/kevincrosby1/status/2037267053854548011 - **Claude Code Special: Meet Agentic Engineering Power Users** — presented by AI for Engineers London Wed Apr 8 · 5:30–9:00 PM BST · London A special edition of AI For Engineers Meetup — bringing together software engineers who live and breathe Claude Code to share their secret sauce and AI-powered workflows across the SDLC. 6 talks and demos, networking, drinks, and a mystery segment revealed on the night. RSVP: https://guild.host/events/claude-code-special-g0zhvw - **ClawCon London** — presented by ClawCon Wed Apr 8 · 6:00–9:00 PM BST · London A festival of personal AI — an open, social-first gathering with demos of personal AI tools and workflows, Q&A, and lots of unstructured time to meet humans who love crustaceans. Free to attend, intentionally inclusive. RSVP: https://luma.com/clawconlondon?tk=8M1FU4 - **The Future of AI Engineering** — presented by Databricks & General Catalyst Tue Apr 8 · 6:00–8:00 PM GMT · London An invite-only evening for founders, AI engineers, and enterprise leaders exploring the practical realities of building modern AI systems. Panel discussion featuring speakers from Databricks, Replit, General Catalyst, Tsuga & Sword. RSVP: https://luma.com/jlbr68mf - **Agents After Hours: Securing What You Ship** — presented by Sondera Thu Apr 9 · 7:30–10:30 PM BST · London (near conference venue) Lightning talks and conversation about what it takes to ship agents that hold up in production. Focused on the security and governance side of agent development — drinks and food provided. RSVP: https://luma.com/8ajrmvt1 ## AIE for AI Engineers Open endpoints for building apps, agents, and tools on conference data. ### Endpoints - llms.txt (this file): https://ai.engineer/europe/llms.txt - llms-full.txt (all sessions + speakers): https://ai.engineer/europe/llms-full.txt - Sessions JSON: https://ai.engineer/europe/sessions.json - Speakers JSON: https://ai.engineer/europe/speakers.json - MCP Server: https://ai.engineer/europe/mcp - iCal Calendar: https://ai.engineer/europe/calendar.ics - Speaker Embeddings: https://ai.engineer/europe/speakers-embeddings.json - Session Embeddings: https://ai.engineer/europe/sessions-embeddings.json - Schedule Page: https://ai.engineer/europe/schedule ### MCP Server The Model Context Protocol server lets AI agents (Antigravity, Codex, Claude, Cursor, etc.) query conference data with tool calls. Tools: get_conference_info, list_speakers, list_sessions, get_schedule Config (add to your MCP client): ```json { "mcpServers": { "aie-europe": { "url": "https://ai.engineer/europe/mcp" } } } ``` ### Embeddings Pre-computed Gemini Embedding 2 vectors for all speakers and sessions. 128-dim via Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) truncation from 3072. Useful for semantic search, clustering, and recommendations. - Speaker embeddings: https://ai.engineer/europe/speakers-embeddings.json - Session embeddings: https://ai.engineer/europe/sessions-embeddings.json ### Agent Skills Install the AI Engineer agent skill to give your coding agent full knowledge of the conference API: npx skills add aidotengineer/skills Works with 40+ agents including Antigravity, Devin, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Codex. Source: https://github.com/aiDotEngineer/skills ### CLI Tool Access conference data from your terminal (npm: @aidotengineer/aie): npx @aidotengineer/aie --list # list all conferences npx @aidotengineer/aie europe # Europe info (alias: eu) npx @aidotengineer/aie eu speakers # speakers (page 1, 20/page) npx @aidotengineer/aie eu sessions --day help # list all days npx @aidotengineer/aie eu search "agents" # search sessions + speakers npx @aidotengineer/aie eu speakers --json # raw JSON output ### Quick Start (curl) curl https://ai.engineer/europe/llms.txt curl https://ai.engineer/europe/llms-full.txt curl https://ai.engineer/europe/sessions.json | jq . curl https://ai.engineer/europe/speakers.json | jq . curl -O https://ai.engineer/europe/calendar.ics curl -H "Accept: text/plain" https://ai.engineer/europe ## Links - Website: https://ai.engineer/europe - Tickets: https://app.ai.engineer/e/ai-engineer-europe-2026/portal - YouTube: https://youtube.com/@aidotengineer - Twitter/X: https://x.com/aiDotEngineer - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/ - Newsletter: https://ai.engineer/newsletter