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Software
How builders are shipping, scaling, and understanding AI products in production, from multi-agent systems and MCP to tool use, evals, and context engineering.
May 15–17, 2026 • Singapore
AI Engineer Singapore
The AI conversations worth flying for, now in Singapore.
For engineers, founders, designers, and operators building with AI. Three days with the teams shaping agents, tools, interfaces, and infrastructure.
1,000+
Builders on site
3
Days
4
Conference tracks
1st
AI Engineer in Asia
About the conference
Built for
people shipping
people shipping
AI Engineer Singapore is for engineers, founders, designers, and operators who want sharper conversations about what it actually takes to build with AI.
Expect candid talks, terminal walkthroughs, product breakdowns, and hard-earned lessons from teams shaping agents, tools, interfaces, and infrastructure.
Less surface-level demo theater, more real notes from people doing the work and comparing what is changing in products, workflows, and systems right now.
From past AI Engineer flagship events
Conference tracks
From agents to
organizational design
organizational design
02
Design
How designers are moving beyond chat with real-time voice, generative UI, and multimodal workflows across video, image, voice, and music.
03
Robotics + Foundation Models
How foundation models are crossing into the physical world through VLA training, humanoids, manipulation systems, and agentic control loops.
04
Leadership Track
A special track for CTOs, VPs of AI, founders, and enterprise leaders, with dedicated programming on hiring, organizational design, and AI-native transformation.
Speakers
The people shaping
the field
the field
Founders, engineers, designers, and operators from the teams building what's next in AI.
More speakers announcing soon.
Represented on stage
From teams including
Founding teams, research labs, and product groups already represented on stage.
Sponsors
Partner
with us
with us
All booths for AI Engineer Singapore are sold out! Afterparty sponsorships and branding/F&B/networking options are still available.
Get in touch →Diamond
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Who’s attending
Engineers, designers & leaders from these teams have already registered.
Schedule
Three days in
Singapore
Singapore
Workshops and the Leadership track on Friday. Talks on Saturday and Sunday across Software, Design, and Physical AI.
Day 1
Fri 15 May
Workshops + Leadership
Hands-on workshops alongside the Leadership track for CTOs, VPs of AI, founders, and enterprise leaders.
📍 SMU Campus
Workshops listed below
Day 2
Sat 16 May
Talks
Talks across software, design, and robotics.
📍 Capitol Kempinski
Detailed timings below
Day 3
Sun 17 May
Talks
Talks across software, design, and robotics.
📍 Capitol Kempinski
Detailed timings below
- 9:00 – 10:30
- 11:00 – 12:30
- 12:30 – 13:30Lunch break
- 13:30 – 15:00
- 15:30 – 17:00
- 8:30amKickoff10m
- 8:40amBuilding a 'Second Brain': Opportunities, Risks, and Implications for AI Adoption in SingaporeSoftware20m
- 9amNanoClaw's agent factory: how autonomous NanoClaw agents triage, review, and test every pull request on NanoClawSoftware15m
- 9:18amAmplifying Every Builder with AgentsSoftware20m
- 9:41amFrom Pilot to Platform: How Singapore Is driving AI Transformation in GovernmentSoftware15m
- 9:59amBeyond "Taste": The Role of Designers When AI Builds EverythingDesign10m
- 10:12amThe Friction Worth KeepingDesign10m
- 10:25amMorning break
- 10:40amShip what’s nextSoftware20m
- 11:03amWhy Sandboxes Are Non-Negotiable for Autonomous AI AgentsSoftware10m
- 11:16amWhat We Learned From Analyzing Five Million Vibecoded PRsSoftware10m
- 11:29amAI Agents in Your Code Quality Pipeline: Shipping, Securing, and Measuring ThemSoftware10m
- 11:42amWTF Do People Use Open Models For?Software10m
- 11:55amNovember 24th 2025 — What Comes Next?Software10m
- 12:08pmMinions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agentsSoftware15m
- 12:26pmFrom Playing Solitaire to Operating ERP Software: Why Does Your Computer Need to Learn Click and Type?Software10m
- 12:39pmLunch
- 1:39pmDesigning the Next CursorDesign20m
- 2pmTBADemo Stage10m
- 2:02pmDesigning multi-modal, multiplayer AIDesign10m
- 2:10pmAgentic frontends: Building apps where AI can act, not just chatDemo Stage10m
- 2:15pmNoise Is All You Need: Engineering Sim-to-Real for Open-Source HumanoidsPhysical AI10m
- 2:20pmTBADemo Stage10m
- 2:28pmWorld Models: a look at the futurePhysical AI10m
- 2:30pmTBADemo Stage10m
- 2:40pmAgents Are the Next Billion Web UsersDemo Stage10m
- 2:41pmThe Android Moment for Robots: Building an Open OS for Embodied AIPhysical AI10m
- 2:50pmWhy prompting is the wrong way to make AI videosDemo Stage10m
- 2:54pmScaling low-latency LLM inference at GroqCloudSoftware10m
- 3:07pmMoE at Scale: From GPUs to Wafer-Scale AGISoftware10m
- 3:20pmAfternoon break
- 3:35pmGLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon TasksSoftware20m
- 3:58pmSpeech Engine: What Makes an Agent Conversational?Design10m
- 4:11pmContinual Learning for Long-Running Agents: Agents That Keep Getting BetterSoftware10m
- 4:24pmFor AI to be Emotionally IntelligentSoftware10m
- 4:37pmToward World Models: From Language to Physical IntelligencePhysical AI10m
- 4:50pmSimulation, Games, and the Future of RoboticsPhysical AI10m
- 5:03pmA different playbook: the wisdom behind eastern product buildingDesign10m
- 5:16pmVoice AI is not a model issue.Design10m
- 5:29pmBeyond Flat Design Output and Autocomplete: Solving the Complex Design Problems and Enterprise Design bottleneck with AIDesign10m
- 5:42pmSovereign AI: Localizing Frontier Models for JapanSoftware10m
- 5:55pmThe Agent Lab NationSoftware15m
Venues
Two venues,
one district
one district
Talks · 16–17 May
Capitol Kempinski Hotel
A five-star heritage hotel in the heart of Singapore's Civic District, bringing together the restored Capitol Building (1933) and Stamford House (1904).
Set within Capitol Singapore beside the Capitol Theatre and connected to City Hall MRT by underpass, it puts the conference in the middle of the city's cultural core.
Workshops & Leadership · 15 May
SMU
Singapore's city-centre university campus in the Bras Basah district — just a 5-minute walk from the Kempinski.
Workshops and leadership sessions on 15 May are hosted at SMU's modern campus, with flexible learning spaces designed for hands-on collaboration.
Stay nearby
Hotel
Room Blocks
Room Blocks
We’ve negotiated rates at two hotels right by the venue. Both are walking distance to The Capitol — book directly with the hotel, no third‐party fees.
Around the conference
Side
Events
Events
Come for AI Engineer Singapore, stay for the scene. The week around the conference is packed with meetups, hackathons, and demo nights across Singapore — here's what's on.
Full calendar on aievents.sg →Hosting something? @agrimsingh or @sherryyjiang on X and we’ll add it.
- MON, 20 APR
- TUE, 21 APR
- FRI, 24 APR
- MON, 27 APR
- THU, 30 APR
- SUN, 3 MAY
- MON, 4 MAY
- TUE, 5 MAY
- THU, 7 MAY
- SAT, 9 MAY
- MON, 11 MAY
Codex for Everyone - An Introductory Workshop
Meet OpenAI's Codex - your personal assistant for work. Together with our friends at LinkedIn, we're excited to host this hands-on workshop on Codex The…
Gabriel Chua, Shaun
Codex Hack Night (Computer Use) @ Lorong AI
Together with our friends at Lorong AI, come hang out with Gabriel and YQ to explore Computer & Browser Use in Codex. Bring something you’re working on, start…
Gabriel Chua, Lorong AI, Yong Quan Tan
- TUE, 12 MAY
Built Different: Agent Edition
About this event Join us for an evening of live demos, sharp conversations, and practical takes on what it actually takes to build and deploy AI agents in the…
AI Tinkerers SG 🇸🇬, Yong Quan Tan, Yuze +2
Agents Amplified: Multiply Your Team with Cloud Agents - Lightsprint
Lightsprint (YC P26) is building the software factory for the AI era. A single platform where PMs, designers, and engineers collaborate with cloud agents to…
Lightsprint, Heng Hong Lee
Personal Agents Demo Night
The Zo Computer (promo CLAWCONSIN for $100 in AI credits!) team is heading to Singapore to share more about personal agents and hear how the community is…
Zo Computer, Lorong AI, tiff huang +4
- WED, 13 MAY
"Real-Time Sync" w/ Convex Team in Singapore
The Convex team is landing at AI Engineer Singapore, and we're throwing a sync-up. Free boba. Free coffee. Merch you can't get anywhere else. Bring your…
Convex.dev, Wayne Sutton, Convex Events +6Codex Hack Night (Realtime Models) @ Lorong AI
Together with our friends at Lorong AI, come hang out to explore the GPT Realtime Models Bring something you’re working on, start a new idea, or pair up with…
Gabriel Chua, Lorong AI☀️ iOS Dev Scout May 2026: AI Builders — On-Device Intelligent & Real Workflows
** Registration on Luma is required ** 🗓 Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2026 🕒 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 📍 Location: Solaris, 1 Fusionopolis Walk, L5 South Tower,…
iOS Dev Scout, iOS Conf SG iOS Dev Scout, Q. Meiyi
AI Engineer Gemini Event
AI Engineer is coming to Singapore - and Google DeepMind (as a sponsor of the event) also wants to contribute to its general aura of awesomeness! Talks (e
Machine Learning Singapore
- THU, 14 MAY
Carousell Builder Demo Evening
A casual evening for builders to show what they're shipping. No slides. No pitches. Just live product, honest reactions, and good conversation with people who…
AISEA - Community Calendar, Brendan Beh, Jeanne
ClawCon Singapore
What is ClawCon? Born out of the OpenClaw community and its mission to put power in the hands of people and their sovereignty over personal AI, ClawCon is an…
ClawCon, Tommy, Michael Galpert +3
Daytona AI Builders w/ Zo Computer - Singapore, May 2026
An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering! Join us one day before AI Engineer Singapore kicks off. Event partners: 65labs & Zo Computer Agenda…
Daytona, Agrim Singh, Sherry Jiang +3
Robotics Researchers & Builders Meetup
Come hang with robotics researchers, AI engineers, and builders at a cosy bar for a night of good company and candid conversations. Trade notes, swap stories,…
SK Aravind
- FRI, 15 MAY
Kill your SaaS ft Zo Computer, MiniMax, Clouted
Zo Computer (use code CLAWCONSIN for $100 in AI credits) and MiniMax teams are visiting Singapore. We want to show you how you can use MiniMax on Zo to host…
tiff huang, RenLeanna, Adriel Yong
the table x AIE
🔥 Thank you everyone for the overwhelming response to the event! 🔥 All seats for this round have officially been filled, and unfortunately we couldn’t fit…
the table by project6, Xander Minzenmay, Canaan Poh +4
The Local Food Data Audit: Bites, Bytes, and AI Ingredients
Some foods are universally loved. Others — like durian — divide opinions. Datasets can feel the same way: subjective, culturally contextual, and surprisingly…
Provena
Hermes Night
Hermes Agent Community Meet-up Singapore’s inaugural Hermes Agent community meetup. An evening for builders, tinkerers, and operator-brains working on personal…
Clawbsters
- SAT, 16 MAY
Next Night
Join us for an evening with the Next.js team and the community! Meet Jimmy Lai, Head of Next.js, alongside Vercel team members for an inside look at what's new…
Vercel Community, Marc Baiza, Vercel Events +3
AI Engineer Singapore: AI Builders Happy Hour
Taking a break from the AIE expo floor? Join Arize AI for a relaxed happy hour just steps from the conference. Whether you're building with agents, scaling AI…
Arize AI
Build or Die: Building Companies Early
Build or Die: Building Companies Early Supported by OpenAI 16th May, Singapore during AI Engineer Week. Most people wait. Wait to graduate. Wait to feel ready.…
Jonathan, Thomas Jeng, Alyssa Ng-Misialek +1
Build with Cursor Singapore
Build with Cursor in Singapore 🇸🇬 A short evening of conversations, a casual fireside chat, and hands-on building with folks from the Cursor team: from…
Cursor Singapore, Brian Chew, Agrim Singh +1Featherless | AIE After Party | The Mars Bar
After a long day of navigating the great time at AIE, it’s time to let your own "wetware" decompress. Featherless.ai invites you to shed the conference bloat…
Featherless ai, Queenie
Official AI Engineer SG After Party
What is a conference without a party? After Saturday during AI Engineer Singapore, the Capitol Theatre, home for the conference talks, will transform into a…
Sherry Jiang, Rachael De Foe, Agrim Singh +7
- SUN, 17 MAY
Ralphthon @SG supported by OpenAI
Ralphthon @SG 🔗 Hackathon links (bookmark these) • Discord (announcements): https://discord.gg/G43WcRWV?utm_source=luma • Hacking Guide:…
Team Attention, Goobong Jeong, Hashed +6
GrowthX Meetup in Singapore
GrowthX is India’s largest AI community. We run 50+ events every month across India and have partnered with some of the most ambitious AI companies in the…
GrowthX
Future Internet Demos with Zo Computer & AI Tinkerers
Today, the average person spends over 40% of their waking hours on the Internet. fragmented across 30+ apps. Some say the early Internet was open but today,…
Zo Computer, tiff huang, Yong Quan Tan +1
Magic Patterns Meetup - Singapore
Magic Patterns will be at the AI Engineer conference in Singapore! Come meet the conference speaker and our engineer, Alex Lee, for coffee after the…
Alex Danilowicz, Sherry Jiang, Alex Lee
- MON, 18 MAY
- WED, 20 MAY
Developer API
Query the schedule
programmatically
programmatically
Public, unauthenticated REST endpoints for the full conference schedule, sessions, and speakers. Build itinerary tools, calendar integrations, or feed it to your AI agent.
BASE
https://aie.65labs.org/api/v1| GET | /event | Event metadata |
| GET | /schedule | Full normalized schedule |
| GET | /sessions | Filterable sessions |
| GET | /speakers | Speaker profiles |
| GET | /schedule.ics | iCalendar feed |
| GET | /openapi.json | OpenAPI spec |
# All talk sessions
$ curl 'https://aie.65labs.org/api/v1/sessions?format=talk'# Speakers by name
$ curl 'https://aie.65labs.org/api/v1/speakers?format=talk&order=name'# Search for robotics
$ curl 'https://aie.65labs.org/api/v1/sessions?q=robotics'Workshops
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workshop
workshop
Conference passes are sold out — but we've opened up additional single-day workshop slots. Grab yours below and join us on 15 May at SMU.
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65labs is a Singapore-based collective producing technical AI events, hackathons, and builder programs across Asia. The team has helped run early Cursor, Gemini, and OpenAI Codex hackathons in the region.
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