The Only AI Conference
Engineers Must Attend

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.

An easy morning group run before the AI Engineer World's Fair. Route TBD. Social run.

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!

Informal get together for AIE SF attendees with interest in the AI4Science space.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.