{"name":"2026 World Cup x World's Fair Kickoff","presenter":"AI Engineer","date":"Thu Jun 11","time":"11:30 AM – 2:30 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-11T11:30:00","day":"Jun 11","description":"World Cup opening ceremony + Mexico vs. South Africa match. NOTE: This is during mid day. Light snacks and drinks but not heavy lunch.","href":"https://partiful.com/e/LdnCbmw5AJf0wGhBXXFn","cta":"RSVP on Partiful","image":"/wf26/side-event-world-cup-kickoff.jpg"}
{"name":"AAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth","presenter":"Insecure Agents","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM","location":"111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"AAuth is a new auth protocol designed for agents, built by the author of OAuth, Dick Hardt. Lightning talks and live demos on how agents can call resources without API keys, mission-bounded authority, and multi-agent delegation chains. Panel Q&A moderated by Allie Howe (Insecure Agents Podcast).","href":"https://luma.com/a2h25m60","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-aauth-night.png"}
{"name":"Agent Run","presenter":"Entire","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"9:00 AM – 10:00 AM","location":"Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T09:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"Join AI builders for a chill, easy group fun run before AI Engineer World's Fair! We'll end at a coffee shop nearby — enjoy coffee on Entire!","href":"https://luma.com/805hdkec","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-agent-run.png"}
{"name":"Agentic After Hours, SF","presenter":"Buildify","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"4:00 PM – 7:30 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T16:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"After AI Engineer World's Fair, join founders, operators, GTM leaders & AI builders for an evening of conversations around Agents, Sales & the future of revenue teams. Hosted by Buildify. Capacity is intentionally limited — register early to secure your spot.","href":"https://luma.com/3dznx3ac","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-agentic-after-hours.jpg"}
{"name":"Agents & Bagels: AIEWF'26 Breakfast Meet Up","presenter":"Scalekit, Ref, Telnyx & PromptQL","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"8:00 AM – 9:00 AM","location":"Moscone Center, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T08:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"A special edition of Agents & Bagels running alongside AI Engineer World's Fair. Scalekit, Ref, Telnyx, and PromptQL are bringing together AI engineers and founders in town for the conference — for bagels, real talk, and the kind of hallway conversations that don't happen on the main stage. Space is limited.","href":"https://luma.com/e72l3neo","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-agents-bagels.png"}
{"name":"AI Engineer Kids Day","presenter":"Neo4j","date":"Sun Jun 28","time":"12:30 PM – 4:30 PM","location":"Digital Jungle SF, 972 Mission St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-28T12:30:00","day":"Jun 28","description":"A special event for parents, teachers, and curious young minds! Hands-on AI and coding workshops for kids aged 9–15 led by Cassandra Chin and Kaitlyn Hornbuckle. Kids will build with Arduino sensors and create games with Claude + Godot. Parents are encouraged to join.","href":"https://luma.com/neo4j-0v66","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-kids-day.png","official":true,"callout":"For Parents & Teachers","volunteerHref":"http://dev.neo4j.com/AIE_Kids_Day_Volunteer"}
{"name":"AI Engineer Morning Run","presenter":"Justin Poehnelt","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"7:00 AM – 7:30 AM","location":"Moscone West, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T07:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"An easy morning group run before the AI Engineer World's Fair. Route TBD. Social run.","href":"https://luma.com/5izduybg","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-morning-run.png"}
{"name":"AI Engineer Trivia Night","presenter":"Sanity, Temporal, OpenAI & Entire.io","date":"Thu Jul 2","time":"4:30 PM – 8:30 PM","location":"Standard Deviant Brewing Pier 70, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-02T16:30:00","day":"Jul 2","description":"The anti-networking event: a night of trivia built for people actually shipping AI products. \"Vibe Coding disasters\" round, \"Hallucination fascination\" guessing game, rad tool demos, cold beer, real food, and serious prizes. Buses run from Moscone to the venue. Hosted by Sanity, Temporal, OpenAI & Entire.io.","href":"https://luma.com/k9z2sucw","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-trivia-night.jpg"}
{"name":"AI Engineer World Fair Demos & Happy Hour","presenter":"Cerebral Valley & Shack15","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"6:00 PM – 10:00 PM","location":"Shack15, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T18:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"Join CV and Shack15 for a private evening at Shack15 to end the second day of the AI Engineer World's Fair. Founders, engineers, and researchers share ideas and learnings post conference, with demos running through the night. Private 21+ event — all attendees must apply and be approved.","href":"https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-happy-hour","cta":"Register on CV","image":"/wf26/side-event-cv-happy-hour.png"}
{"name":"AI Engineer World's Fair Afterparty w/ Tailscale, Aikido Security, Docker, Inngest & Rootly AI","presenter":"Tailscale, Aikido Security, Docker, Inngest & Rootly AI","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"The expo floor is closing, your brain is full of vector databases, and it's time to trade the keyboard for some competitive throwing. Join Tailscale, Docker, Aikido Security, Inngest, and Rootly AI for an exclusive evening of high-tech digital darts, custom cocktails, and sharp networking at a premier interactive darts lounge.","href":"https://luma.com/2avil0ni","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-tailscale-afterparty.png"}
{"name":"AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon 2026","presenter":"Cerebral Valley","date":"Sat Jun 27 – Sun Jun 28","time":"9:00 AM – 5:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-27T09:00:00","day":"Jun 27","description":"The second official AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon, hosted with Cerebral Valley. Explore recursive self-improvement: build systems that learn from their own outputs and AI that becomes more capable through continuous iteration. Winners receive $10,000+ in cash prizes, partner credits, and tickets to AIE World's Fair.","href":"https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026","cta":"Register on CV","image":"/wf26/side-event-cv-hackathon.png"}
{"name":"AI Engineer World's Fair Rooftop Afterparty w/ Apify × Massive × TopK","presenter":"Apify, Massive & TopK","date":"Thu Jul 2","time":"6:30 PM – 11:00 PM","location":"European Startup Embassy, 461 Bryant St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-02T18:30:00","day":"Jul 2","description":"Post-conference afterparty at the European Startup Embassy, a short walk from Moscone West. Rooftop hangs, music, karaoke, and the World Cup quarter final at 8 PM live from Vancouver. No panels, no product demos — just AI builders, founders, operators, and friends decompressing after the busy week. Capacity is limited.","href":"https://luma.com/aie-sf-afterparty","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-apify-afterparty.png"}
{"name":"AI Happy Hour - July 4th Edition","presenter":"You.com, ERIA, AI Insiders & Founders Bay","date":"Thu Jul 2","time":"5:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-02T17:00:00","day":"Jul 2","description":"Join founders, investors, engineers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts for a special Independence Day edition of AI Happy Hour in San Francisco. Expect great conversations around startups, venture capital, foundation models, AI applications, agentic systems, enterprise AI, and the future of technology — alongside drinks, networking, and a vibrant community of builders.","href":"https://luma.com/1kf17kaw","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-ai-happy-hour-july4.jpg"}
{"name":"AI Infra After Dark","presenter":"Amplify & Vermilion Cliffs Ventures","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"Founders Garage, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"A casual happy hour for the engineers and founders building the infrastructure behind modern AI. Hosted at the Founders Garage, founded by Jeff Lawson. Bringing together people working across the stack: agents, model tooling, data systems, evals, observability, and everything required to actually run AI in production.","href":"https://luma.com/vermilion-zoog","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-ai-infra-after-dark.png"}
{"name":"AI + Infrastructure Leaders Dinner","presenter":"Cleric","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"KAIYŌ Rooftop, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Cleric is hosting a private dinner for 15-20 senior engineering and infrastructure leaders (VPs, directors, and technical founders) during AI Engineer World's Fair, who are shaping how their orgs build, ship, and run software in production. Topics include agents in production workflows, AI tooling adoption, org structure shifts, and reliability when AI is in the loop. Hosted by Cleric CEO Shahram Anver and CTO Willem Pienaar. By approval only.","href":"https://luma.com/unm1hdg2","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-cleric-dinner.png"}
{"name":"AI Leaders Dinner - SF","presenter":"Daytona, Infinum & Aikido Security","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"Evening","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T19:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"Join us for an evening of food, drinks, and real conversations, hosted by Daytona, Infinum, and Aikido Security on the sidelines of AI Engineer World's Fair. Connect with founders, CEOs, CTOs, senior engineers, and GTM leaders who are building and scaling AI in the real world.","href":"https://luma.com/ai-leaders-dinner-sf","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-ai-leaders-dinner.jpg"}
{"name":"AI4Science@AIE","presenter":"Scott Reed","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"4:00 PM","location":"Moscone Center, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T16:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"Informal get together for AIE SF attendees with interest in the AI4Science space.","href":"https://luma.com/g7k82fcj","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-ai4science.png"}
{"name":"AIE USA World Cup Watch Party","presenter":"Exa, Fastino Labs, LanceDB & Extend","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"4:30 PM – 8:30 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T16:30:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Come cheer on team USA! Take a break from AI Engineer World Fair to root for Team USA with a curated group of AI data stack builders and operators off the conference floor for a relaxed evening of good food, cold drinks, and soccer (football).","href":"https://luma.com/hm58nlsn","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-aie-usa-world-cup.png"}
{"name":"AIE World's Fair — Unofficial Speaker Warmup","presenter":"HumanLayer","date":"Wed Jun 24","time":"5:00 PM","location":"San Francisco (TBD)","sortDate":"2026-06-24T17:00:00","day":"Jun 24","description":"Practice your talk in front of a small, trusted audience the week before the World's Fair. Lightning talks, feedback rounds, drinks and pizza. Primarily for AIE World's Fair 2026 speakers and previous AIE speakers.","href":"https://luma.com/0h8avsa1","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-speaker-warmup.png"}
{"name":"All-Day World Cup Viewing Lounge","presenter":"Baseten, Reducto & LangChain","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"11:00 AM – 7:00 PM","location":"The Harlequin, 68 4th St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T11:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"An all-day World Cup viewing lounge for AI engineers and builders! Free flowing food, drinks, big screens, and wifi for co-working all day, right across from Moscone Center during AI Engineer World's Fair. Come in and out throughout the day as matches happen constantly. Hosted by Baseten, Reducto, and LangChain.","href":"https://luma.com/aie-worldcup","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-worldcup-lounge.png"}
{"name":"Cafe Compute: Multi-Modal Edition","presenter":"Cerebras & Google DeepMind","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"7:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-29T19:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"Cerebras and Google DeepMind present Cafe Compute, cohosted with Modern Capital. A pop-up coffeeshop with a barista bar, cozy snacks and couches. Experience Cerebras' world-fastest AI inference and try Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 multi-modal models. Free compute at cerebras.ai.","href":"https://luma.com/cafecomputesf","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-cafe-compute.png"}
{"name":"Cloudflare Run Club // SF 5K","presenter":"Cloudflare","date":"Thu Jul 2","time":"7:45 AM – 9:00 AM","location":"Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-02T07:45:00","day":"Jul 2","description":"Come move your body and meet some awesome humans to start your day! A scenic 5K loop from Yerba Buena Gardens to the Ferry Building and back. Limited-edition swag for the first 50 attendees!","href":"https://luma.com/zvmkpxhk","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-cloudflare-run-club.jpg"}
{"name":"Coffeeflare","presenter":"Cloudflare","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"7:00 AM – 10:00 AM","location":"Sightglass Coffee, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T07:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"Pre-game Day 2 of AI Engineer World's Fair with the Cloudflare crew! We're taking over Sightglass Coffee to talk all things AI, agents, and architecture. Come grab a brew, tell us what you're building, and peer into our product pipeline. Plus score some limited-edition swag while it lasts!","href":"https://luma.com/qb7rppg4","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-coffeeflare.jpg"}
{"name":"Deploy, Scale, Score: DigitalOcean + Vermilion AI Infra Social","presenter":"DigitalOcean & Vermilion Cliffs Ventures","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"6:00 PM","location":"Woodbury, 685 3rd St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T18:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"Cap off the first day of AI Engineer World Fair with some World Cup viewing and a stellar group of startups, operators, and founders. DigitalOcean and Vermilion Cliffs Ventures team up with key AI Infra startups including Aranya, Atomic, Baz, Cognee, Keycard, Lemma, and Paper Compute.","href":"https://luma.com/pvyr7md7","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-digitalocean-vermilion.png"}
{"name":"Engineers Night Out w/ Unblocked & Comet, AIE After Party","presenter":"Unblocked & Comet","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 8:00 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Join Unblocked and Comet, creators of Opik, for an Engineers Night Out — exclusively for AI Engineer World's Fair attendees. Drinks, light bites, and rooftop views. RSVP only — spots are limited.","href":"https://luma.com/comet-unblocked-AIE-rooftop","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-unblocked-comet.jpg"}
{"name":"Future Code: Rewriting the Developer Frontier","presenter":"GitHub","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"5:15 PM","location":"GitHub HQ, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T17:15:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"An evening at GitHub HQ dedicated to rewriting the developer frontier. A micro summit curated with engineers, open source maintainers, and founders rethinking the next generation of code. Speakers include Ryan Lopopolo (OpenAI), Alex Zenla (CTO of Edera), and Thomas Dohmke (founder and CEO of Entire). Spots are limited.","href":"https://luma.com/FutureCodeFrontier","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-future-code.png"}
{"name":"Game On: The AI Stack Social","presenter":"Arize AI, AWS, Band AI, CrewAI & YugabyteDB","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"5:00 PM – 8:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T17:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Skip the stuffy networking. Come hang with the builders. Join Arize, AWS, Band AI, CrewAI, and YugabyteDB for an after-conference happy hour just a 10-minute walk from Moscone. Come for arcade games, World Cup on the big screen, food, drinks, swag, and actual conversations with people building the future of AI infrastructure. Space is limited.","href":"https://luma.com/game-on-worldsfair-2026","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-game-on-ai-stack.png"}
{"name":"Harness Engineering: Building Reliable AI Systems","presenter":"Tessl (AI Native Dev)","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"A fireside conversation on Harness Engineering with Guy Podjarny (Tessl) and Steve Yegge, exploring how engineering teams can move beyond experimentation and build AI-powered systems that are reliable, trustworthy, and ready for production. Followed by audience Q&A and community networking.","href":"https://luma.com/7f31tcht","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-harness-reliable-ai.png"}
{"name":"Harness Engineering: State of the Art in Agent Harnesses","presenter":"Agentic Engineering","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"5:30 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T17:30:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"A highly technical event focused on Harness Engineering for AI agents, especially coding agents. Talks from Dat Ngo (Arize AI), Arun Kumar (RapidFire AI), Myeongsoo Kim (AWS AI Labs / Kiro), and Linghua Jin (CocoIndex) on planning loops, context management, verification mechanisms, and error recovery in agent harnesses.","href":"https://luma.com/rtd0f6ka","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-harness-engineering.png"}
{"name":"Harness the Agent. Happy Hour by Orkes @ Chotto Matte","presenter":"Orkes","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"5:30 PM – 8:00 PM","location":"Chotto Matte San Francisco, 50 O'Farrell St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T17:30:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"You spent the day talking about building agents. Now let's talk about keeping them from going off the rails. Join Orkes at Chotto Matte for drinks and real conversation about what it actually takes to ship agents in production: deterministic, durable, and built to last. Meet the team behind Netflix Conductor, now powering enterprise AI orchestration at scale across some of the world's most demanding engineering organizations. Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.","href":"https://luma.com/3ftf8emg","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-orkes-happy-hour.jpg"}
{"name":"Human Connection in the Age of AI","presenter":"Joyce Zhang & Carole Robin","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"5:00 PM – 6:00 PM","location":"Moscone West, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T17:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"A workshop on developing effective relationships, featuring a live demo of connection tools from Stanford's Touchy Feely course and Leaders in Tech programs. Practice the skills yourself and leave with tools to be more effective in your professional and personal relationships. Hosted by Joyce Zhang and Carole Robin (Distinguished Stanford GSB Teacher & Co-Founder of Leaders in Tech).","href":"https://bit.ly/connect-ai-2026","cta":"Request a Pass","image":"/wf26/side-event-human-connection.jpg"}
{"name":"Innhouse with E2B & Inngest","presenter":"E2B & Inngest","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"12:00 PM – 2:00 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T12:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Join E2B and Inngest for lunch on Wednesday, July 1st from 12–2pm, just steps away from Moscone West. Grab-and-go lunch from Señor Sisig, matcha & coffee, swag, and a rooftop DJ. Space is limited, request to join!","href":"https://luma.com/umyvwvek","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-innhouse-e2b-inngest.jpg"}
{"name":"Inside The AI Coding Stack: Models, Inference, Agents, and GPUs","presenter":"FriendliAI, NVIDIA, MiniMax & Kilo","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"An invite-only evening exploring the full AI coding stack, from hardware to agentic workflows. Talks from NVIDIA, FriendliAI, MiniMax, and Kilo on GPU trends, inference performance, reasoning models, and agentic coding workflows in production. Space limited to 80 attendees.","href":"https://luma.com/y454srtx","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-ai-coding-stack.png"}
{"name":"Keycard Workshop @ AI Engineer World's Fair","presenter":"Keycard","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"12:00 PM – 3:00 PM","location":"111 Minna Gallery and Event Space, 111 Minna St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T12:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Your agents are reaching for real tools and real data. The risk isn't the capable agent, it's the standing secret it holds. Join Keycard for a hands-on workshop where you'll build a custom support-escalation MCP server in TypeScript and lock it down end to end. Lunch provided. Bring a laptop with Node/npm and your local coding agent.","href":"https://luma.com/a9cu3jjx","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-keycard-workshop.png"}
{"name":"Model Independence Day","presenter":"Factory Events","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"6:00 PM – 10:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-29T18:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"Celebrate being independent of model choice! Join Factory at The Melody for food, drinks, lightning talks from model-agnostic builders (Factory, Merge, Fireworks, E2B & more), networking, and a party.","href":"https://luma.com/factoryai-ljuc","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-model-independence-day.png"}
{"name":"No Half-Baked Agents: Breakfast with Inngest & Nebius","presenter":"Inngest & Nebius","date":"Thu Jul 2","time":"8:00 AM – 9:30 AM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-02T08:00:00","day":"Jul 2","description":"The last day of AI Engineer World's Fair calls for a proper breakfast. Breakfast tacos, coffee & matcha, good music, and the people building the GPU infrastructure and reliability layer your agents depend on — just steps from the show. No agenda, just food and good company before the final day!","href":"https://luma.com/3hhkw292","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-inngest-nebius-breakfast.jpg"}
{"name":"Private Leadership Dinner — Human Data & AI","presenter":"G2i.ai & AI Circle","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"5:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-30T17:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"An evening of fine dining, connection, and conversation with leaders driving innovation in Human Data and AI during AI Engineer in San Francisco. This invite-only dinner brings together executives, researchers, and founders from the world's top AI labs and companies. Hosted by G2i.ai and AI Circle. By approval only.","href":"https://luma.com/b33n09v9","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-leadership-dinner.png"}
{"name":"Qodo: AIE Opening Night VIP Event","presenter":"Qodo","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"7:00 PM – 9:30 PM","location":"Grand Hall, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T19:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"AI Engineer World's Fair kicks off Monday, June 29, and Qodo is making it a night to remember. 7:00–9:00 PM — Exclusive evening reception at the Grand Hall with AI engineering leaders and practitioners. Capacity is limited to 100 guests; attendance is reserved for approved invite requests. 9:00 PM — Qodo hosts a private drone show just outside the Ferry Building, lighting up the SF sky.","href":"https://luma.com/kyrrt7oh","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-qodo-vip.jpg","official":true}
{"name":"Retrieval for Agents: Building Retrieval Infrastructure for the New and Powerful User","presenter":"Hornet.dev","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"5:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-29T17:00:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"A Hornet evening at AI Engineer World's Fair. Jo Kristian Bergum, Hornet's CEO, will talk about what the next generation of retrieval systems for agents look like: workload shape, retrieval tool abstractions, relevance across turns, and the unreasonable effectiveness of primitives for agentic retrieval. Special guests on stage, Q&A, drinks, food, and technical conversations. Space is limited.","href":"https://luma.com/ypnd3grq","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-retrieval-for-agents.png"}
{"name":"SG in SF (an aie crossover episode)","presenter":"Pebblebed VC & 65Labs","date":"Sun Jun 28","time":"6:00 PM – 9:30 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-28T18:00:00","day":"Jun 28","description":"SG builders are in SF for AI Engineer World's Fair — so naturally, it's a crossover episode! Join the team behind AI Engineer Singapore and 65Labs for behind-the-scenes stories, a look at Singapore's builder community, and the most random conversations you'll have all week. Come for the food and drinks, stay for the vibes.","href":"https://luma.com/ktiwmnvb","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-sg-in-sf.png"}
{"name":"Snyk Community Jam: San Francisco","presenter":"Snyk","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"5:00 PM","location":"260 California St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T17:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"AI is changing the game. Is your security strategy keeping up? As AI expands across the development lifecycle, so do new risks and unknowns. Join us in San Francisco for an in-person gathering focused on practical AI security insights, real-world challenges, and the community shaping what comes next.","href":"https://go.snyk.io/sf-community-jam.html","cta":"Register","image":"/wf26/side-event-snyk.png"}
{"name":"{SoMa} AI Conspiracy Dinner by Superlinked","presenter":"Riley Johnson & Daniel Svonava","date":"Mon Jun 29","time":"5:30 PM – 8:00 PM","location":"Marlowe, San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-29T17:30:00","day":"Jun 29","description":"Claude tokens are busting budgets. Come conspire with us to get them under your control. Superlinked is building the token offload layer for AI agents. Invite-only dinner at a private patio @ Marlowe near Moscone Center.","href":"https://luma.com/mjzx355q","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-soma-ai-conspiracy-dinner.png"}
{"name":"Sonar's Sunset Cruise at AI Engineer World's Fair","presenter":"Sonar","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"7:00 PM – 9:30 PM","location":"San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T19:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"Sonar is hosting a sunset cruise during AI Engineer World's Fair. Board at 7:15 PM for drinks, views, and good times on the water. You don't have to attend the conference to register. Seats are limited.","href":"https://events.sonarsource.com/sonar-at-ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2026/#SunsetCruise","cta":"Register","image":"/wf26/side-event-sonar-sunset-cruise.jpg"}
{"name":"Stripe x Metronome Startup Night","presenter":"Stripe & Metronome","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom St. #100","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Calling all founders: join the Stripe and Metronome after-party at AI Engineer World's Fair. We're taking over SPIN SF, minutes from Moscone West — off-the-clock networking with AI leaders and builders, food, drinks, and connections over ping-pong, plus the World Cup on view. Space is limited. RSVP to request a spot.","href":"https://luma.com/uehktron?utm_source=AIEWF_agenda","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-stripe-metronome.jpg","official":true}
{"name":"Teaching AI the \"Why\" Behind Decisions: A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity","presenter":"Neo4j","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"5:30 PM","location":"DG717, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T17:30:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"AI Agents backed by context graphs could be the next big opportunity. The value lies in capturing rich decision traces—the “why” behind every action. By embedding these nuances into AI agents, organizations unlock smarter, more trustworthy decision-making at scale.","href":"https://luma.com/neo4j-3f49","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-neo4j.png"}
{"name":"The Agent Open","presenter":"Braintrust","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"3:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-30T15:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"The first ever Agent Open! An afternoon of pickleball, food, drinks, AI conversations, and a tournament bracket. Doors open at 3PM for co-working and warmups, with a Future of AI panel, party, and championship rounds. Co-hosted by LlamaIndex, Braintrust, turbopuffer, Cursor, Parallel Web Systems, Modal, and Browserbase.","href":"https://luma.com/the-agent-open","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-agent-open.png"}
{"name":"The AI Builders Mixer","presenter":"Hetz Ventures, Valley Capital Partners, Flox & Willow","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"5:30 PM","location":"Joujou, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-06-30T17:30:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"Join Hetz Ventures, Valley Capital Partners, Flox, Willow, and friends for an intimate evening of cocktails and conversation during AI Engineer World's Fair week. Connecting founders, engineering leaders, data executives, operators, and investors building and backing the next generation of AI systems. Attendance is limited and subject to approval.","href":"https://luma.com/4q2wst23","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-ai-builders-mixer.jpg"}
{"name":"The Low Latency Lounge @ AI Engineer World Fair","presenter":"Deepgram, Together AI & Runware","date":"Tue Jun 30","time":"7:00 PM – 10:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-30T19:00:00","day":"Jun 30","description":"The expo hall closes and the Low Latency Lounge begins. Join Deepgram, Together AI & Runware for an evening built for the engineers and builders shipping the fastest AI on the planet. Open bar, light bites, and trade notes with the people behind the models you actually use — plus a special surprise in store. No conference badge required, but registration approval is needed.","href":"https://luma.com/low-latency-lounge","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-low-latency-lounge.png"}
{"name":"Tokenmaxxing Arcade Night & Happy Hour to Celebrate AI Engineer World's Fair","presenter":"Span","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 9:00 PM","location":"Thriller Social Club, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"The only token spend with immediate ROI. Come waste tokens the old-fashioned way and decompress after a full day of talking AI at work or the AI Engineer World's Fair. No panels, no demos. Just games, drinks, food and some human-in-the-loop competition. Only a 10-minute walk from the Moscone Center!","href":"https://luma.com/yr8o9i74","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-tokenmaxxing-arcade.jpg"}
{"name":"Vercel x Merge x Factory: AI Engineer After Dark","presenter":"Vercel","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:30 PM – 9:30 PM","location":"SF MOMA, 151 3rd St, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:30:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"The official AI Engineer after-party. Meet the builders and founders shaping AI engineering while unwinding with the community. DJ spinning all night, drinks and bites on the house, art, and lightning talks from Vercel and partners (Runlayer, MiniMax, Neon, Browserbase, Factory & Fireworks).","href":"https://luma.com/vercel-vtf0","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-vercel-after-dark.jpg","official":true}
{"name":"Warp and Sequoia: AI Engineer After Hours | Crafting Software Factories","presenter":"Warp and Sequoia","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"6:00 PM – 11:00 PM","location":"Novela, 662 Mission St., San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T18:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Join Warp and Sequoia for an exclusive evening of exciting conversation, handcrafted cocktails, and exceptional company. A fireside chat with Zach Lloyd from Warp and Paige Bailey from Google Deepmind on Crafting Software Factories will be followed by networking, food, handcrafted cocktails, and entertainment.","href":"https://luma.com/warp-5xsy","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-warp-sequoia.jpg"}
{"name":"What open agents can actually do: a happy hour with Together AI & NVIDIA","presenter":"Together AI & NVIDIA","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"5:00 PM – 8:30 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T17:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"What happens when AI agents stop working in isolation and start working together? A fireside chat between James Zou (Head of Frontier Agents, Together AI) and Venkat Srinivasan (Research Scientist, NVIDIA) on collective agent intelligence, open models for agentic systems, and what open infrastructure makes it all possible. Live Q&A, food, drinks, networking, and the World Cup on the big screen.","href":"https://luma.com/AIEWF-OpenAgentsMeetup","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-together-ai-nvidia.jpg"}
{"name":"When DevEx Meets AI: An Off-the-Record Gathering","presenter":"Hangar DX powered by Aviator","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"5:00 PM – 7:00 PM","location":"San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-07-01T17:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"An evening of delicious food and insightful conversations with senior engineering leaders who are rethinking developer productivity in the age of AI, on the sidelines of AI Engineer World's Fair. Hosted by The Hangar, a curated community of engineering leaders focused on developer experience and solving productivity challenges at scale.","href":"https://luma.com/egja1aw9","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-devex-meets-ai.png"}
{"name":"Women in Frontier AI - SF Park Edition","presenter":"Rajlaxmi (RJ)","date":"Sun Jun 28","time":"3:00 PM","location":"Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA","sortDate":"2026-06-28T15:00:00","day":"Jun 28","description":"An open-invite meetup at Dolores Park for women working at the frontier of AI. Come hang out, make new friends, and enjoy the park!","href":"https://partiful.com/e/sdKLS9kJ1rEfNQyUwXsp","cta":"RSVP on Partiful","image":"/wf26/side-event-women-frontier-ai.png"}
{"name":"World Cup x AI Engineer — A Night by G2i","presenter":"G2i","date":"Wed Jul 1","time":"5:00 PM","location":"Splash Sports Bar, San Francisco","sortDate":"2026-07-01T17:00:00","day":"Jul 1","description":"Join us after AI Engineer's second day for a small VIP dinner + World Cup watch party. A curated group of leaders across AI, human data, infrastructure, evals, and frontier labs for a relaxed night of conversations, drinks, food, and soccer. Hosted by G2i.co, G2i.ai & Orc.ai. Limited spots available.","href":"https://luma.com/uzkl1lpv","cta":"RSVP on Luma","image":"/wf26/side-event-g2i.png"}
{"name": "Agents that compound", "presenter": "Optiver", "date": "Tue Jun 30", "time": "7:30 PM – 10:30 PM", "location": "SoMa, San Francisco, CA", "sortDate": "2026-06-30T19:30:00", "day": "Jun 30", "description": "Most teams can get a single agent working — scaling beyond that is harder. Join Matt Nassr, Head of Global Data Engineering and AI Transformation at Optiver, and senior engineers from Optiver's global team for a discussion on building shared foundations for agentic software development, from context and evaluation to execution and governance. In-person; space is limited and attendance is confirmed following review of registrations.", "href": "https://www.gem.com/form?formID=a64fb3c8-49de-415a-85b8-7e9389ddd4ec", "cta": "Register on Gem", "image": "/wf26/side-event-optiver.png", "official": true, "order": 5}