# AI Engineer World's Fair 2025

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## Overview

**June 3–5, 2025 • San Francisco**  
The AI Engineer World's Fair is the largest technical conference for engineers working in AI today. Returning for its third year, this event is where the leading AI labs, founders, VPs of AI, and engineers gather to share what they're building and what's next.

- ~3,000 attendees: Founders, VPs of AI, AI Engineers
- ~150 launches and talks from top speakers
- ~100 practical workshops and expo sessions
- ~50 top DevTools and employers represented in the Expo

Organized by the team behind the AI Engineer Summit.  
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## Schedule

June 3: Workshops + exclusive Speaker Dinner
June 4: MCP, Tiny Teams, LLM RecSys, GraphRAG, Agent Reliability, Infrastructure, AI PM, Voice, AI in Fortune 500, AI Architects
June 5: Reasoning + RL, SWE-Agents, Evals, Retrieval + Search, Security, Generative Media, AI Design, Robotics/Autonomy, AI in Fortune 500 (day 2), AI Architects (Day 2)

### Tuesday, June 3 – Workshop Day + Evening Expo & Reception
- Exclusive hands-on workshops across 5 tracks, instructed by industry-leading companies, founders, and engineers.
- Topics span all levels of experience and specialties in AI Engineering.
- **Evening Welcome Reception** (4:00–7:00pm): Held in the Grand Assembly & Expo Hall. Open to all ticketholders.

### Wednesday & Thursday, June 4–5 – Conference Days
- 18 tracks of talks, panels, and demos.
- Keynotes from the biggest and most consequential labs and companies.
- High-value hallway track and facilitated networking.
- Workshops and exclusive access for "Conference + Workshop Pass" holders.

## Tracks

--- Leadership Tracks (Both Days) ---

Title: Expo Sessions and Hallway Track! (Both Days)
Description: Access to the World's Fair Expo gets you access to dedicated sessions from 30+ speakers, <b>Microsoft, AWS, Daily, MongoDB, Neo4j, and more</b>, as well as the all important Hallway Track (aka the best way to network with 3000+ AI Engineers)! Attendees can propose their own unscheduled talks that can be added to the program.

Title: AI Architects (Both Days)
Description: Whether you are CEO, CTO, VP of AI, or principal engineer of your company's "AI council", the job of the "most senior AI person" at large companies is a lonely one — except here. Learn from and make connections with peers who are all entrusted with high-stakes decisions on company strategy, infrastructure, compliance, and org design. <b>Exclusive track for our Leadership attendees.</b>

Title: AI in the Fortune 500 (Both Days)
Description: AI has it's Bitter Lesson, but AI Engineering's Sour Lesson is that every engineering problem becomes exponentially harder when deployed at scale. Many frankly never make it, despite claiming success externally. We gather the actual success stories from the largest AI transformations in the world. <b>Exclusive track for our Leadership attendees.</b>

--- Day 1 Tracks ---

Title: Tiny Teams (Day 1)
Description: AI has enabled every builder to have more impact than ever before — where we often had large companies with more VC funding than users, it's increasingly common to see profitable teams with more millions in ARR and customers than employees. Hear from these founders and the tools that enable them!

Title: MCP (Day 1)
Description: The winner of the 2023-2025 "agent open standard" wars has conquered the ecosystem — every client from Anysphere to Zed, and every lab from OpenAI to Google DeepMind. But there is much work left to do.  The world's first dedicated MCP miniconf, ft. special double presentations by the MCP team from Anthropic, discussions on the new Auth spec, and the first IRL gathering of the MCP steering committee.

Title: LLM RecSys (Day 1)
Description: LLMs are reshaping recommendation systems, one of the most valuable problems in industrial AI. Building on past techniques such as Word2Vec for retrieval and BERT for ranking, LLMs are now driving advancements through novel model architectures, metadata generation, domain-specialized LoRAs, and more. Curated by Eugene Yan. 

  Note: Accepted talks include YouTube's scalable, cost-effective encoding of video for recommendations, LinkedIn's decoder-only foundational model for multi-task ranking, and Instacart's LLM-powered search for improving discovery.

Title: Agent Reliability (Day 1)
Description: Less capability, more reliability please! Armed with all the frontier models, the best agent frameworks, and yes, even good evals, your agent just isn't that reliable, and that's frustrating. What next? Here are all the SOTA techniques Agent Engineers are using in 2025.

Title: AI Infrastructure (Day 1)
Description: AI Engineers who are really serious about their AI software should care about their hardware. From GPUs to Networking, from shared orchestration infrastructure to LLM Gateways, the industry is converging on a standard stack of infrastructure that will 100x every AI Engineer.

Title: Product Management (Day 1)
Description: AI Engineers are increasingly PM-ing their product, and PMs are increasingly vibe-coding prototypes without engineers. The problem everyone has in common is defining how to repeatably make great AI Products and Agents that create their category, like ChatGPT, NotebookLM and Deep Research. For the first time, we meet to raise the bar on AI PMing.

Title: Voice (Day 1)
Description: Before humanity invented writing, we had been speaking for over 100,000 years. We also speak and listen at 3x faster WPM than we write. Voice is our past as much as it is our future - and Voice AI experiences are one of the most demanding AI engineering conditions. Learn from the best in the field.

Title: GraphRAG (Day 1)
Description: Enough repetitive "long context vs RAG" debates. Real AI Engineers are getting busy building knowledge graphs for building Agent Memory and scalable, reliable RAG for the enterprise. An expansion of our most popular talk on "The Marriage of Knowledge Graphs and RAG" from 2024. An industry-first dedicated GraphRAG track, hosted by Steven Chin.

--- Day 2 Tracks ---

Title: Retrieval + Search (Day 2)
Description: We killed the lazy "RAG track" everyone does,  to refocus the industry on the core problems of augmenting LLM knowledge: top-k embedding and retrieval from internal data, and agentic search from external web and docs, across all modalities. A complement to the RecSys track.

Title: Design Engineering (Day 2)
Description: LLMs are 10x better than they were a year ago, but design thinking around the UX of AI has barely budged from ChatGPT and Canvas. We have gathered the top designers and design-engineers in AI to showcase their work.

Title: SWE Agents (Day 2)
Description: The final form of the AI Engineer is the autonomous, non-human SWE Agent who can both code alongside you in the IDE (Inner Loop) and convert PRDs to PRs (Outer Loop). How good are the SOTA SWE Agents today — good enough that companies will stop hiring AI Engineers, or good enough that engineers skilled at managing SWE Agents becomes the hottest job?

Title: Evals (Day 2)
Description: Everybody says evals are important. You agree. But yet: You don't have evals. You don't have ENOUGH evals. Your evals keep breaking (because nondeterministic LLMs, duh). Your evals don't capture what users do. How to fix, cheaply and quickly?

Title: Security (Day 2)
Description: As we grant agents increasingly more read and write access to our personal lives and company resources, the problem of security goes from an enterprise sales checklist item to our #0 priority. What are the SOTA approaches to authn & authz for AI?

Title: Generative Media (Day 2)
Description: ImageGen, VideoGen, and MusicGen are all on an absolute tear, with increasing coherence over time and iterations, and stunning viral demos from Ghibli memes to personalized Valentines songs. How can AI engineers harness the state of the art in AI Art?

Title: Reasoning + RL (Day 2)
Description: Reasoning models have taken over the frontier of AI in 2025, and inference-time is the next great scaling law. Per METR, long-horizon agent capabilities are doubling every 7 months. How do we generalize reasoning models beyond straightforward Math and Coding verifiers and finetune/align them?

Title: Autonomy + Robotics (Day 2)
Description: The ultimate prize in AI is going outside: automating manual labor over knowledge work. Multimodal LLMs are increasingly being deployed in the real world, in everything from cars to kitchens to humanoid robots. We explore the state of physical general intelligence.



## Expo

Open across all 3 days. Featuring 30+ booths and demo areas showcasing the most relevant and forward-thinking AI infrastructure and developer tools. Meet the engineers and founders behind:

Microsoft, AWS, MongoDB, Neo4j, Hasura, Galileo, Sourcegraph, LlamaIndex, Temporal, Baseten, Elastic, Orb, Gitpod, Freeplay, Dagger, Traceloop, Pydantic, Arize, Arcjet, Zed, Modal, Agentuity, Weights & Biases, Fly.io, Sierra, Vellum, GenSx, Redis, Langbase, Twilio, Descope, SuperAnnotate, Unstructured, Baz, VESSL AI, Riza, Tambo, Sentry, Xpander, Thomson Reuters, ElevenLabs, Pomerium, Daytona, Polar Signals, Vercel, Ampersand, Together AI, Distributional, and many more.

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## AI Architects Track

Invite-only track for AI executives (VPs, CTOs, Heads of AI at enterprises with >1000 employees).

- Closed-door briefings and roundtables
- Topics include technical org design, model building, FMOps, evals, inference optimization, build/buy decisions
- Exclusive access to premium lunches and networking in the View Lounge

## Side Events (2024 Examples)

A full week of satellite events hosted by our partners:
- Hackathons (e.g., AI21, GenLab x AIEWF)
- Deep Tech Week launch parties
- RAG++ pre-party, AI DevTools nights
- Rooftop happy hours and after-parties
- Demo Days, quality conferences, founders dinners

If you are organizing an event around June 1–8, email **sponsorships@ai.engineer** to be added to the official calendar.

## Venue & Hotel

**Marriott Marquis, San Francisco**  
780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

- Yerba Buena Ballroom: Keynotes, expo, and large sessions
- Golden Gate Ballroom: Dedicated space for workshops
- View Lounge: Reserved for AI Architects and Leadership Track networking

**Discounted rates:**
- Marriott Marquis: $399/night (May 29–Jun 7)
- Beacon Grand (10-min walk): $289/night with group code `0601AEWF`

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## Sponsors

### Community Partners
- Data Council, Hall C, Ai LA, Open Web Foundation, SF Python, SF Node, SF Java, Weaviate, Prompt Engineering, R meetup, Hypergrowth, Vector DAO, GenAI Collective, Cambrian ML, Ai Tinkerers, CodingNomads, Ai Product Builders, Ai Salon, Ai Makers SF, OpenSourceGrill, Ai Breakfast Club, Ai Stack, Nexus Events, Seattle Ai Society, RVC, Ai Happy Hour, SF Ai, FourthBrain, Ai Comic Books, Ai Engineer Foundation

### Presenting Sponsor

Microsoft

### Innovation Partner

AWS

### Track Sponsors

Neo4j, Braintrust, Hasura

### Platinum Sponsors

Graphite, Daily, Windsurf, MongoDB, AugmentCode, WorkOS

### Gold Sponsors

Neo4j, Hasura, Galileo, Sourcegraph, LlamaIndex, Temporal, Baseten, Elastic, Orb, Gitpod, Freeplay, Dagger, Traceloop, Pydantic, Arize, Arcjet, Zed, Modal, Agentuity

### Silver Sponsors

Weights & Biases, Fly.io, Sierra, Vellum, GenSx, Redis, Langbase, Twilio, Descope, SuperAnnotate, Unstructured, Baz, VESSL AI, Riza, Tambo, Sentry, Xpander, Thomson Reuters, ElevenLabs, Pomerium, Daytona, Polar Signals, Vercel, Ampersand, Together AI, Distributional

### Supporters

Circle

## Testimonials

> "The most insightful and exciting conference I ever attended. High signal, deeply technical, and community-focused."  
> — Yanick J. S.

> "By far the best AI conference I've ever attended."  
> — Dedy Kredo

> "Reminded me of the early Twitter dev scene—a spark for a decade of innovation."  
> — Eric Ryan

> "Months of effort distilled into powerful 20-minute talks."  
> — Yubrew

> "You could feel the buzz and optimism everywhere."  
> — Eric Ness

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