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June 29 - July 2, 2026 · Moscone West
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▼Day 1 • Mon, 6/29 (Workshop)
| Time | Expo Stage 2 | Expo Stage 3 | Track M Room 2001 | Track 1 Room 2010 | Track 2 Room 2006 | Track 3 Room 2003 | Track 4 Room 2009 | Track 5 Room 2005 | Track 6 Room 2014 | Track 7 Room 2024 | Track 8 Room 2020 | Track 9 Room 2016 |
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| 9:00am | Get Started with Models in Microsoft Foundry to Build AI Apps Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 Laurie Voss - Arize AI, Head of Developer Relations | RAG Needs a Map: Using GraphRAG to Retrieve Connected Context Nyah Macklin - Neo4j, Sr. Developer Advocate, Artificial intelligence | Cooking with Codex Charlie Guo - OpenAI, Developer Experience Engineer; Gabriel Chua - OpenAI, Developer Experience Engineer | The best SDLC is the one you build yourself: Why orchestration changes everything Shane Wolf - Atlassian; Andrei Bocan - Atlassian | AI Security Engineering 101 Javier Garza - Snyk, Developer Advocate | Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering Ignacio Martinez - Oracle, AI Developer Advocate | Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs Du'an Lightfoot - Akamai Technologies, Senior AI Engineer | Open-Source Inference Engineering for the Agentic Era Zain Hasan - Together AI, Staff AI/ML Engineer - DX; Yubo Wang - Together AI, LLM Inference; Qingyang Wu - Together AI, Staff Research Scientist; Jue Wang - Together AI, Senior Staff Researcher | Advanced workshop: Mastering AI Observability Doug Guthrie - Braintrust, Solutions Engineer | ||
| 11:05am | From zero to deployed on Azure with AI agents Gustavo Cordido - Microsoft, Cloud Advocate & AI Content Engineer | How to use Arize’s newest features Fuad Ali | AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries Zach Blumenfeld | How I learned to stop worrying and love the sandbox Matt Brockman - E2B, AI Engineer | The model swap workshop Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate; Arun Sekhar - Microsoft | Teaching Agents to Search: Building Synthetic Training Pipelines with NVIDIA Data Designer Dhruv Nathawani - Nvidia, Research Scientist | Local LLMs and workstation agents: Part 1 Ahmad Osman - r/LocalLLaMA, Head mod | How to Build Quality Gates into Agentic Coding Workflows Nnenna Ndukwe - Qodo AI, Principal Developer Advocate and Software Engineer | What is an Inference Engine, Anyway? Charles Frye - Modal, Member of Technical Staff | Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship Elizabeth Fuentes Leone - Amazon Web Services, Developer Advocate; Sandhya Subramani - Amazon Web Services, Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI | ||
| 12:10pm | Evals in AI: A Deep Dive Tejas Kumar - IBM, AI Engineer | Lifestyles of the AI-Native: Voice-coding, agent skills, hooks and scheduled tasks Nick Nisi - WorkOS, Developer Experience Engineer; Zack Proser - WorkOS, AI Engineer, Applied AI | 2 hr deep dive on LLM Inference at Scale — Part 1 of 2 Harshul Jain - Audible, Senior Software Engineer - ML/AI | Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers (Part 1) Kent Dodds - EpicProduct.engineer, Software Engineer and Educator | From Zero to Leaderboard: Building an End-to-End AI Agent Evaluation Pipeline Wolfram Ravenwolf - Weights & Biases by CoreWeave, AI Evangelist | Local LLMs and workstation agents: Part 2 Ahmad Osman - r/LocalLLaMA, Head mod | Beyond RAG: Build a Relational Context Engine from Scratch Peter Werry - Unblocked, Founding Engineer | Building AI Agents with Real-Time Web Data Yohan Raju - Bright Data, Pre-Sales Expert | Research to Reality with Google DeepMind Paige Bailey - Google DeepMind, AI Developer Relations Engineering Lead | |||
| 1:15pm | The Cheat Sheet: get evals up and running in minute with Agent Skills Ankur Duggal | Neo4J L&L | 2 hr deep dive on LLM Inference at Scale — Part 2 of 2 Harshul Jain - Audible, Senior Software Engineer - ML/AI | Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers — Part 2 Kent Dodds - EpicProduct.engineer, Software Engineer and Educator | Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn! Michael Forrester - Accenture, AI Workforce Transformation; Whitney Lee - Datadog | SonarQube + OpenAI: Wiring Your Team for Agentic Development | Build a Document Triage Agent with Reducto: Classify, Extract, and More | Turning My Obsidian Vault Into a Local AI Engineer Filip Makraduli - Superlinked, Founding Member of Technical Staff | Continuously improving agents with Langfuse Lotte Verheyden - Clickhouse; Annabell Schäfer - Clickhouse | |||
| 2:20pm | Observe, optimize and protect your hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 201 Laurie Voss - Arize AI, Head of Developer Relations | The Data Context Layer: Why Data Engineering Agents Need More Than Code and Databases Yoni Michael | Special topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents Daniel Han - Unsloth | Burn your flags: How PayPal designs interactive CLI tools for agents Mark Lummus - PayPal; Navinkumar Patil - PayPal, Staff Software Engineer | AI Security Engineering 201 Micah Silverman - Snyk, Director of Developer Relations | Context Engineering in 2026: Compaction, Memory & Cost Louis-François Bouchard - Towards AI, CTO & Co-Founder; Samridhi Vaid - Towards AI, Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Omar Solano - Towards AI, AI Engineer | Vector Isn't Enough: Hybrid Search & Retrieval for AI Engineers Jeff Vestal - Elastic, Senior Principal AI Architect | Build with Perception Agents Emile Baizel - Amazon AGI Lab; Shruti Arora - Amazon AGI Lab | Hands-on AutoResearch: Cracking OpenAI's Parameter Golf Zhengyao Jiang - Weco AI, CEO & Cofounder; Dixing Xu - Weco AI, Member of Technical Staff; Vayum Arora - Weco AI, Growth; Dhruv Srikanth - Weco AI, Founding Engineer | ||
| 4:30pm | Reliable Computer Use Agents require coding Ang Li - Simular, CEO | The Dark Arts of Skill Engineering Paul Bakaus - Renaissance Geek, Inc., Founder | Hill-climbing Skills: How to Improve Agents Without Touching the Model Shubhankar Srivastava - Browserbase, Founding Sales Engineer | Agent Auth Bereket Habtemeskel - Better Auth, CEO; Paola Estefania - Better Auth, Staff Engineer | Prime Intellect Forge Will Brown - Prime Intellect, Researcher | From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker John Craft; Dan Ndombe - Docker, Staff Developer Success Advocate | The Art and Science of Loopcraft with Pi (and friends) Joel Hooks - badass.dev / egghead.io, Co-founder; software developer and developer-education entrepreneur | The evolution of agentic surfaces Gagan Bhat - Anthropic, Software Engineer; Isabella Kai He - Anthropic, Applied AI | ||||
| 5:00pm | Human Connection in the Age of AI Joyce Zhang - Dating Coach for Tech Founders; Carole Robin, Ph.D. - Leaders in Tech, Co-Founder | |||||||||||
| 6:00pm | Expo Welcome Speech Sonar; Extend AI | |||||||||||
| 6:15pm | Runway AI Film Festival |
▼Day 2 • Tue, 6/30
| Time | ⭐ Main Stage | Expo Stage 1 | Expo Stage 2 | Expo Stage 3 | Expo Stage 4 | Track M Room 2001 | Claws & Personal Agents Track 1 · Room 2010 | Vision & OCR Track 2 · Room 2006 | Search & Retrieval Track 3 · Room 2003 | Workshops Day 2 Track 4 · Room 2009 | Security Track 5 · Room 2005 | Voice & Realtime AI Track 6 · Room 2014 | LLM Recsys Track 7 · Room 2024 | Forward Deployed Engineering Track 8 · Room 2020 | Data Quality Track 9 · Room 2016 | AI-Native Enterprises Room 3016 | AI Architects: Show my Workflow Room 3020 | CTO Circle |
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| 9:00am | swyx keynote and snyk track intro swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:10am | The Frontier Ecosystem Pablo Castro - Microsoft, Technical Fellow and CVP | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:30am | Opening Keynote: Topic TBD Alexander Embiricos - OpenAI, Head of Enterprise Product; Romain Huet - OpenAI, Head of Developer Experience | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:50am | Thom Wolf keynote Thom Wolf - Hugging Face, CTO | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:10am | GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weights. Zixuan Li - Z.ai, Head of Z.ai | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:45am | Codex Maxxing Jason Liu - OpenAI, Developer Experience, OpenAI | Every AI company is accidentally building a bank. Dor Sasson | The Enterprise Agentic Gap: When Developer-Level AI Tools Hit Millions of Lines Dan Adler - Sourcegraph | How PayPal Enterprise Payments handles agent-initiated payments across ChatGPT and Google AI Mode Sam Parsons | Exa Expo Session | Build agents fast with GitHub Copilot (from idea to working app) Idan Gazit - GitHub, Head of GitHub Next | Security Firewall for Agents Ryan Dahl - Deno, CEO | The State of Vision Joseph Nelson - Roboflow, Cofounder, CEO | Pinecone 2.0 Edo Liberty - Pinecone, Founder and Chief Scientist | Claude Managed Agents Workshop (Part 1) Priyanka Phatak - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff; Gabriel Cemaj - Anthropic, Member of the Technical Staff | Through the AI Fog: The architectural decision the next 24 months of agentic security depends on. Manoj Nair - Snyk, CTO & Chief Innovation Officer | The New Primitives: Building AI-Native Software Kwindla Kramer - Daily, CEO | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Factory Eno Reyes - Factory, CTO & Co-Founder | State of Data Sean Cai - Independent / State of Data | Inside the AI economy: What Stripe’s data reveals Nilofer Rajpurkar - Stripe, Product Lead, Agent and Developer Experience | Governance Is the Real Bottleneck to AI ROI David Hsu - Retool, CEO | Show your workflow: Reimagining AI PDLC with Skills | |
| 11:10am | Rise of the Software Factory Tereza Tížková - Factory, Growth | Give your coding agents the power of turbogrep! Owen Halpert | Actionable Knowledge For Agents With Context Graphs Will Lyon - Neo4j | Kimchi Expo Session | Agents, codebases, and teams: what it actually takes to ship together Aditya Khandelwal | Your Agent Didn’t Fail. Your Harness Did. Vinoth Govindarajan - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff | Building LiteParse: the world's fastest PDF -> markdown parser Jerry Liu - LlamaIndex, Co-founder and CEO | The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search Jo Kristian Bergum - Hornet.dev, CEO | Claude Managed Agents workshop (Part 2) Priyanka Phatak - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff; Gabriel Cemaj - Anthropic, Member of the Technical Staff | Your LLM Stack Is a 2008 Database With Better Marketing: Why ML Security Is Dominated by Misconfiguration, Not Missing Features Lovina Dmellol - NVIDIA, Senior Software Developer | Speech-to-Speech Model Research at Google DeepMind Valeria Wu Fon - Google DeepMind, Product Manager; Tom Ouyang - Google DeepMind, Principal Engineer | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Cursor Pauline Brunet - Cursor, VP, Forward Deployed Engineering | Data curation for model training Ari Morcos - DatologyAI, Co-founder, CEO | Building the engine while flying the plane — launching the Figma MCP server Jesse Lumarie - Figma, Software Engineer | Your Agent Evolved. Your Evals Didn't. Ameya Bhatawdekar - Braintrust | |||
| 11:40am | Everything is Conductor Charlie Holtz - Conductor, CEO | Telnyx Expo Session | Agentic vs. Vector Search: An Eval-Driven Approach to Coding Agent Performance Jess Wang | Agents Don't Have Coworkers, They Have Hostages Gabriel Martinez | Would your AI agent get the job? A performance review framework for enterprise agents Andreea Pleşea; Dan Bălăceanu | Use Copilot across CLI, dev, and cloud workflows to move faster end-to-end Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | Gadgets: Personal app vibe coding that is actually safe Kenton Varda - Cloudflare, Principal Engineer | Skill issue: stop deploying vision language models, use them with Skills to build e2e vision apps on edge Merve Noyan - Hugging Face, MLE | The Search Engine for the Agentic Web Will Bryk - Exa, CEO | Claude Managed Agents workshop (Part 3) Priyanka Phatak - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff; Gabriel Cemaj - Anthropic, Member of the Technical Staff | We Gave an Agent Production Code Access and Then Tried to Sleep at Night Moritz Johner - Form3, Staff Engineer | Voice Agents Can Just Do Things Charlie Guo - OpenAI, Developer Experience Engineer | AI tools for Forward Deployed Engineering Vasuman Moza - Varick Agents, Founder & CEO | Theta Software Rayan Garg - Theta Software, Co-founder and CEO | Agentic SDLC at Uber Uday Kiran Medisetty - Uber, Distinguished Engineer; Adam Huda - Uber, Sr Engineering Leader for AI Dev Tools | The Last Human Code Review: Building Trust in AI-Generated Code Itamar Friedman - Qodo, Co-Founder & CEO | ||
| 12:05pm | What is the future of the SDLC? Thomas Dohmke - Entire, Inc., CEO/Co-Founder | Your Agent Is Lying to You About Whether It Worked Dat Ngo - Arize AI | Why building building agent quality platforms is hard. Hossein Niazmandi | Can LLMs write fast multi-GPU kernels? We built a benchmark to find out. Simran Arora - Stanford University | Self-Improving Agents That Teach the Company Back Rafal Wilinski | Tethered: Our Agents Are Us Shu Fang - Two Sigma Investments, Software Engineer | Modality Misalignment and Originality Attribution in Short-Form Video: A Multi-Agent Approach at Platform Scale Aditya Gautam - Meta, Machine Learning Lead | Nearly headless - rebuilding the web for agents Liad Yosef - MCP Apps, Co-creator | Claude Managed Agents workshop (Part 4) Priyanka Phatak - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff; Gabriel Cemaj - Anthropic, Member of the Technical Staff | TBA | Your Voice Agent is Just a Walkie-Talkie Neil Zeghidour - Gradium, Co-founder & CEO | TBA | The Messy Reality of Scale: Synthetic Data and Pre-Training at Poolside Robert McHardy - poolside, Pre-training Lead; Marah Abdin - poolside, Team Lead - Synthetic Data | Scaling Code Quality: Building uReview, Uber’s Multi-Agent Code Review Engine Will Bond - Uber, Staff Software Engineer; Ameya Ketkar - Uber Technology Inc., Software Engineer | Prototyping as Leadership: How a CTO Ships with AI Agents Hursh Agrawal - The Browser Company, Co-Founder & CTO | |||
| 12:30pm | This Year in Claude Cat Wu - Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar - Anthropic, Claude Code; Simon Willison - Datasette, Independent | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch & Learn | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm | Defying Antigravity Kevin Hou - Antigravity, Product | Every Agent, Everywhere, All at Once Vlad Luzin - Band.ai | Deepmind Expo Session 1 | Stop prompting Greg Pstrucha - Sentry | Modernize CI/CD using agent-assisted workflows that reduce manual debugging Salil Subbakrishna | Agents' next frontier: agent-to-agent and network effects Jean-Denis Greze - Town, Co-Founder & CEO | From Ingestion to Agents: How Leading AI Teams Build on Document Intelligence TBD — Reducto - Reducto | How to Connect AI to Billions of Legal Documents Simon Eskildsen - turbopuffer, CEO and co-founder; Jacob Lauritzen - Legora, CTO | Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 1 of 3) Neil Zeghidour - Gradium, Co-founder & CEO | Using LLMs to Secure Source Code Eugene Yan - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff | Tolan: Voice-First AI Companion Paula Dozsa - Tolan, iOS Engineer | TBA | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Sierra Natalie Meurer - Sierra, Head of Agent Engineering | The Base Model is Dead Varun Singh - Arcee AI, Pre-Training Lead | Spin at the Gate Until Green: The Engineering Primitives Behind Self-Driving Codebases Andrew Orobator - Reddit, Senior Software Engineer | Serving 2 Million Models Without Melting: Scaling the Hugging Face Hub Arek Borucki - Hugging Face, Machine Learning Platform & Database Engineer | ||
| 1:55pm | Self-Improving software factories: The new open source model" Zach Lloyd - Warp, Founder and CEO | Who Approved That MCP Server? Governing the Tool Layer Jim Clark | Voice Agents Are Mostly Invisible. Here's How to See Them. Fuad Ali | Greptile Expo Session | Deploying browser agents at scale Derek Meegan | Claude for long-horizon tasks Lance Martin - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff | The Best Models Still Reason Like Toddlers Andrew Dai - Elorian, Co-founder and CEO | Solving Search with RL Maximilian-David Rumpf - SID.ai, CEO; Lotte Seifert - SID AI, Founder | Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 2 of 3) Neil Zeghidour - Gradium, Co-founder & CEO | Dual-Surface Architecture: Serving Humans and Agents from the Same Tool Layer Ethan (Jung Min) Cha - The Carlyle Group, AI Development Lead | 5 Voice Agent Failure Modes You'll Hit in Week One Venky B - Plivo, Founder & CEO; Vyas A - Plivo, Head of Product | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Decagon Sunny Rekhi - Decagon, FDE CTO | Ending AI Slop Thais Castello Branco - Taste Labs, Founder & CEO | AI Evals Platform for Cross-Functional Teams at Scale Nachiket Paranjape - DoorDash, Software Engineer; Swaroop Chitlur Haridas - DoorDash | IT Admin for the AI Workforce: Why Your AI Agents Will Need Their Own IT Department Aman Raj - Decawork, Co-founder & CEO of Decawork | |||
| 2:25pm | What we learned by analyzing 1M AI-generated PRs Daksh Gupta - Greptile, co-founder/CEO | Beyond Golden Signals: Monitoring in the Age of GenAI Marina Petzel | Build agents fast with GitHub Copilot (from idea to working app) Idan Gazit - GitHub, Head of GitHub Next | Buildkite Expo 1 | Continuous Engineering: Software Development for the Age of Agents | Using AI tools to teach old apps new tricks Maria Bledsoe | Tool Execution layer for agents Karan Vaidya - Composio, Co-founder | You’re Not Thinking Big Enough: Rebuilding Food Systems from First Principles with AI Agents Cody Menefee - Firecrawl, Success Engineer | If we want them to do Knowledge Work, we need to design Knowledge Agents Benjamin Clavié - Mixedbread Inc., Member of Technical Staff | Everybody Gets a Digital Clone! (Part 3 of 3) Neil Zeghidour - Gradium, Co-founder & CEO | Agentic Security: Permissions, Provenance, and the Agent Supply Chain Steve Yegge - Gas Town, Icon | I Monitored Crime Audio. Voice Agents Scare Me More. Sumanyu Sharma - Hamming AI, Founder/CEO | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Ramp Leo Mehr - Ramp, Director of Engineering | Scaling to Long-Horizons: Algorithms, Environments, Compute Ross Taylor - General Reasoning, CEO; Chengxi Taylor - General Reasoning Inc., Co-founder & President | Productionizing LLM Gateways: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and Hard Lessons from the Trenches Kanish Manuja - Twilio Inc., Principal Software Engineer | The Era of Compound Engineering Kieran Klaassen - Every/Cora, GM of Cora / Compound Engineering | ||
| 2:50pm | Notion's Token Town Sarah Sachs - Notion, Eng Lead, AI | 6 Pillars of an Agentic Harness That Fixes Production Incidents | Video Discovery for Agentic World-Model Training | Baseten Expo Session | Self-Driving Production: AI Wrote your Code. AI Should Fix It, Too | Perceptron Mk1 — Perceptron Inc Armen Aghajanyan - Perceptron AI, Co-Founder & CEO | Your Agreements Are a Database You Can't Query. We're Fixing That Hiral Shah - Docusign, Senior Director of Product, AI Applications; Sean Sodha - NVIDIA, Senior Product Manager | Setting Yourself Up for Success — Part 1 Jason Liu - OpenAI, Developer Experience, OpenAI | It's 10pm. Do You Know Where Your Agents Are? Kim Maida - Keycard, Founding GTM Engineer | Realtime Voice Agents with Frontier Intelligence Bohan Li - EliseAi, Staff Software Engineer | Forward Deployed Engineering 101 Kevin Bai - Anthropic | Beyond the Benchmark: the New Frontier of Enterprise AI Reliability Nick Heiner - Surge AI, VP of RL Environments | From AI-Assisted to AI-Native: Building a Frontier Development Team Clare Liguori - Amazon Web Services, Senior Principal Engineer | How I automate my own job at Hugging Face using agents Niels Rogge - Hugging Face, Machine Learning Engineer | ||||
| 3:20pm | fighting slop with slop Vaibhav Gupta - Boundary, CEO | While You Were Generating: The Verification Gap Nobody Talked About | From Context to Memory: Your Agents Need a Real Memory Layer Anders Swanson | Running a 20T-Token Data Pipeline: Infrastructure Lessons from Production Bogdan Gaza | From raw documents to retrievable knowledge Leo Platzer | Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People Harald Kirschner | Everyone Gets A Software Company Benjamin Guo - Zo Computer, Cofounder; Rob Cheung - Zo Computer | Stop Chunking Like It's 2022 Yuval Belfer - AI21, Sr. Developer Advocate; Niv Granot | Setting Yourself Up for Success — Part 2 Jason Liu - OpenAI, Developer Experience, OpenAI | AI’s Jurassic Park Period Aaron Stanley - dbt Labs, CISO | "My name is... my name is...": A Linguistic Map for Building and Debugging Voice Agents Midam Kim - ServiceNow, ML Engineer | How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Kepler Vinoo Ganesh - Kepler, CEO & Co-Founder | Building Worlds for Models Nicolai Ouporov - Fleet, CEO | How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) Eyal Blum - Figma, Software Engineer | Your Fine-Tuned Model Is Tech Debt: A 50x ROI House of Cards Dan Bjornn - Lease End, Senior Data Scientist | |||
| 3:45pm | The Software Factory Survivor's Guide Kyle Mistele - HumanLayer, CTO | How We Built the Airbyte Agent MCP Server and CLI Cam Kennedy - Airbyte | From Chatbots to Agents: How Reducto builds for Agent Experience to Enable Real Work Abhi Arya | Towards Reliable Financial Agents: How a 4B Model Outsmarted a 235B Giant Charlie Dickens | AI Enablement at Automattic: How a Remote Company Builds AI Fluency Em Shreve | Every Harness Will Become A Claw Sam Bhagwat - Mastra, Founder/CEO | Autoresearch for Dense Retrieval: Test-Time Compute with Frozen Embedding Models Han Xiao - Elastic, VP, AI | Setting Yourself Up for Success — Part 3 Jason Liu - OpenAI, Developer Experience, OpenAI | OpenAI Cyber talk Fouad Matin - OpenAI, Cyber Team Lead | The Goldilocks problem: when your Robot asks too much — or acts too soon. Amit Desai - Roku, Director, Voice & Assistant AI | Tools for data curation and post-training LLMs Mahesh Sathiamoorthy - Bespoke Labs, CEO | AI-transforming 18K engineers, 40K repos, and an agent swarm: what worked, what didn't Oscar Mullin - MercadoLibre, Sr. VP of Tech | Unlock Agent Autonomy: The Runtime for AI-Native Systems Tushar Jain - Docker, EVP of Engineering | |||||
| 4:30pm | Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail Dexter Horthy - HumanLayer, Co-Founder | |||||||||||||||||
| 4:50pm | In Code They Act, In Proof We Trust Erik Meijer - Leibniz Labs, Research Scholar | |||||||||||||||||
| 5:10pm | The Future of Cursor Lee Robinson - Cursor, ML, Model Behavior |
▼Day 3 • Wed, 7/1
| Time | ⭐ Main Stage | Expo Stage 1 | Expo Stage 2 | Expo Stage 3 | Expo Stage 4 | Track M Room 2001 | Sandbox & Platform Engineering Track 1 · Room 2010 | Robotics & World Models Track 2 · Room 2006 | Memory & Continual Learning Track 3 · Room 2003 | Workshops Day 3 Track 4 · Room 2009 | Evals Track 5 · Room 2005 | AI Designers/Design Engineers Track 6 · Room 2014 | Computer Use Track 7 · Room 2024 | Context Engineering Track 8 · Room 2020 | Posttraining & Midtraining Track 9 · Room 2016 | AI-Native Enterprises Room 3016 | AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing Room 3020 | CTO Circle |
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| 9:00am | 2026 AI Engineering Survey and Arize Track Intro Barr Yaron - Amplify Partners, Partner | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:10am | Seeing like an Agent Thariq Shihipar - Anthropic, Claude Code | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:30am | In the Land of AI Agents, the Verifiers Are King Tariq Shaukat - Sonar, Chief Executive Officer | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:50am | Perception Agents Antje Barth - Amazon AGI Lab, Member of Technical Staff | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:10am | Research to Reality with Google DeepMind Benoit Schillings - Google DeepMind, Vice President of Research | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:45am | First Steps Toward Automated AI Research Richard Socher - You.com / Recursive Superintelligence, CEO & Co-Founder | Circle Expo Session | AI Engineering & Governance 2026 Trends Wallon Walusayi - Qodo | Why AI Didn't Actually Make You Ship Faster Gabriel Spencer-Harper - Meticulous, CEO | Redesigning how software gets built TBD — Sonar - Sonar | From framework to runtime: running agents with Foundry Agent Service Tina Manghnani; Keiji Kanazawa - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager | Modal Add-On Expo Session Adam Azzam - Modal, Member of Product Staff | Building the simulation infrastructure for practical world model use Christopher Manning - Moonlake AI, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff | Continual Learning Bench Parth Asawa - UC Berkeley, CS PhD student | Build realtime multimodal agents with Gemini Live Thor 雷神 Schaeff - Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff (DevX) at Google DeepMind | Vending-Bench: Long-Horizon Agent Evals for a Simulated Vending Business Lukas Petersson - Andon Labs, Co-Founder | On Malleable Software Geoffrey Litt - Notion, Design Engineer | Computer-use models will agentify the web, not APIs Dhruv Batra - Yutori, Co-founder & Chief Scientist | Build-Time vs. Run-Time: Why Your Dev Tools Will Fail in Production Kurtis Van Gent - Google, Senior Staff Software Engineer; Prerna Kakkar - Google, Senior Software Engineer | What's next after RLHF? Diogo Almeida - TypeSafe AI, CEO | Vertical Superintelligence: Making AI Work in America's Messiest Industries Varun Shenoy - Long Lake, Cofounder; Rasmus Wissmann - Long Lake | The Z/L Continuum: Should AI Engineers Still Read Code? Alex Volkov - W&B from CoreWeave, AI Evangelist & Host of ThursdAI | Tokenomics: From AI Spend to AI Value 11:00am-12:00pm |
| 11:10am | Harnessing Agents: The Durable Runtime for Dynamic Workflows Viren Baraiya | AI-Assisted Engineering: 5 Trends We're Seeing From 500+ Organizations Justin Reock - DX, Deputy CTO | The Death of Keyword Search and the Rise of Agent-Readable Catalogs Nixon Dinh - PayPal | FDE Playbook: Build an AI Support Agent and Give It a Voice Matt Lawler - AssemblyAI, Forward Deployed Engineer Lead | TBA | Building the simulation infrastructure for practical world model use Christopher Manning - Moonlake AI, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff | Scaling up Continual Learning Ronak Malde - Trajectory, Co-Founder and CEO | Build realtime multimodal agents with Gemini Live (continued 2) Thor 雷神 Schaeff - Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff (DevX) at Google DeepMind | From Alert to PR: Building an Autonomous Agent Debugger Jason Lopatecki - Arize, CEO | The Spatial Harness: Bringing Agents to the Canvas Max Drake - tldraw, Product Engineer | Computer Use at the Edge of the Statistical Precipice Pierluca D'Oro - Programma Labs, Founder | It’s Tokens All The Way Down: How RLMs are Different Kevin Madura - AlixPartners, Director, Advanced Technology | Post-Training Optimizations: Staleness, Entropy Preservation, and More Raymond Feng - Applied Compute, Software Engineer | How to avoid disaster when vibe-coding a billing engine Andrew Garvin - Stripe, Cofounder of Metronome | Is Orchestration the Future? Vlad Luzin - Band.ai | |||
| 11:40am | Memory Harnesses for Long-Running Research Agents Stefania Druga - Sakana.ai, Research Scientist | Fault-Tolerant Training at Scale: Making Hardware Failures a Non-Event | How to generate mergeable code with a context engine Peter Werry - Unblocked, Founding Engineer | The Next Run Should Be Better Jake Broekhuizen - LangChain, Deployed Engineer | AI agents don't read your policy docs. They hit your APIs. | OpenAI, Anthropic, or agent frameworks: choose the right AI stack Arun Sekhar - Microsoft; Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox Ivan Burazin - Daytona, CEO | HOLD — Dyna Robotics / Jason Ma Jason Ma - Dyna Robotics, CTO and co-founder | Scaling Compute on Context Jack Morris - Engram, Cofounder | Build realtime multimodal agents with Gemini Live (continued 3) Thor 雷神 Schaeff - Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff (DevX) at Google DeepMind | HOLD — Evals at Uber Will Lyon - Neo4j | The Design-Code Roundtrip That Isn't Jonathan Gordon - ReWeaver AI, Founder | Bringing agents onto the world wide web Paul Klein IV - Browserbase, Founder & CEO | 500 Skills, Zero Fine-Tuning: LinkedIn's Playbook for AI Agents That Actually Know Your Codebase Ajay Prakash - Linkedin, Senior Staff Software Engineer | Arithmetic (fka Operating Intelligence) Uri Rolls - Arithmetic, CEO | Your Code Has Bugs. Lean4 Has Proofs. A Practical Guide to Formal Verification for Engineers Varun Pant - AWS, Builder, NeuroSymbolic AI | How to Kill the Code Review Ankit Jain - Aviator, Founder & CEO | |
| 12:05pm | « the era of (auto) research » Elie Bakouch - Prime Intellect, Research Engineer | Your agent architecture has a half-life of 6 months Dan Farrelly | From Stateless to Stateful: Orchestrating Real-Time Voice & Messaging Agents with Twilio and Amazon Bedrock Rishab Kumar - Twilio | Harnessing Collective Agent Intelligence for Open Science James Zou | Prompt, Memory, Weights: The Architecture Decisions Most AI Teams Make by Accident Anant Srivastava - MongoDB | Your agent needs a sandbox, not a desert Samuel Colvin - Pydantic, Founder & CEO | Tell the Robot What You Want Sandhya Subramani - Amazon Web Services, Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI | Intelligence + Continual Learning = Expertise Yu Su - NeoCognition, Co-founder and CEO | Build realtime multimodal agents with Gemini Live (continued 4) Thor 雷神 Schaeff - Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff (DevX) at Google DeepMind | TBA | Mousepower: agents that can’t be measured, can’t be managed. Maximillian Piras - Yutori, Founding Designer | The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Teaching Agents to Use Websites Like Humans Corey Gallon - Rexmore, Managing Director | Your agents lack context: Here's how to fix "You're absolutely right!" Brandon Waselnuk - Unblocked, Developer Relations | Bugcrowd posttraining talk David Brumley - Bugcrowd | AI-Native Organisations runs on Skills: How to Extract, Structure, evaluate and Scale Them Imad Touil - QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, Distinguished Engineer | The Death of the Code Review Laurie Voss - Arize AI, Head of Developer Relations | ||
| 12:30pm | SOTA Generative Media Panel Dumitru Erhan - Google DeepMind, Senior Research Director; Co-lead of Gemini Omni; Shane Gu - Google DeepMind, Senior Staff Research Scientist; Co-lead of Omni Thinking; Logan Kilpatrick - Google DeepMind, AI Studio Lead; Nicole Brichtova - Google DeepMind, Product Lead for Nano Banana, Imagen, and Veo; swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch & Learn | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch & Learn | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Tokenomics: From AI Spend to AI Value (Working Lunch) |
| 1:30pm | Closing the Loop: An Autonomous AI Research Agent Tim Sweeney - Weighs & Biases by Coreweave, Principal Engineer; Zubin Aysola - Weights & Biases by CoreWeave, Senior Software Engineer Weave | Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People Harald Kirschner | Deepmind Expo Session 3 | Daytona Expo 1 | Design multi-agent systems that actually work Tina Manghnani | From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt 1 Abhishek Bhardwaj - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff, RL & Agent Infrastructure | TBA | Adaption Labs — Gradient-Free Continual Learning Sara Hooker - Adaption, CEO, and Co-founder | The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic Development John Lindquist - egghead.io, Agentic Instructor | Model Whisperers: How Evals and Prompts Shape Agent Behavior Chris Souza - YouTube; Preetika Bhateja - Google, Product Manager; Daniel Bump - YouTube | Design at the Speed of Adjectives Paul Bakaus - Renaissance Geek, Inc., Founder | From RL to IRL Gaurav Mishra - Amazon AGI Lab | PRIME-RL: Async & Decentralized RL Training at Scale Will Brown - Prime Intellect, Researcher | The Half Life of Agent Infrastructure Ben Kus - Box, CTO | Tokenmaxxing is the New "Lines of Code" Nicholas Arcolano - Jellyfish, Head of AI & Research | |||
| 1:55pm | An AI Agent Became the #1 Contributor in OpenAI's Hiring Challenge Zhengyao Jiang - Weco AI, CEO & Cofounder | Edge-Native AI: Building Ultra-Fast Agents and MCP Servers with Spin Thorsten Hans - Akamai | Why your company needs a context graph, and how to build it Gil Feig | Warp Expo Session | Natively Multimodal from Step Zero | From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt2 Abhishek Bhardwaj - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff, RL & Agent Infrastructure | Frontier Robotics Research Deepak Pathak - Skild AI, Co-Founder & CEO | Improving Agents is a Data Mining Problem Vivek Trivedy - LangChain, Head of Applied Research | The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic Development (continued 2) John Lindquist - egghead.io, Agentic Instructor | Evaling Video Slop Maor Bril - Character.ai, Chaos Catalyst | The Missing Layer: Design Taste in AI Agents // Stop Letting Your Agents Ship Ugly UIs Hassan El Mghari - Together AI, Director of Developer Experience | Computer-Use 2.0: Agents Just Got Multi-Cursor Francesco Bonacci - Cua, Co-founder & CEO; Dillon DuPont - Cua, CTO | Cut Through the Context Hype: 4 Layers Your Agent Is Missing Prukalpa Sankar - Atlan, Founder & Co-CEO | Emulated.so Joseph Wang - Emulated.so, CEO | Guardians of the State: How We Built an Air-Gapped AI Fortress for Consumer Data Rachna Srivastava - DFPI, Enterprise Architect | Superhuman performance is a shape, not just nines. Matthew Jewkes - Standard Cybernetics, Cofounder & CTO | ||
| 2:25pm | TBA | Beyond Code Generation: API Context for Agentic Engineering Kamalakannan Nandagopal | Latency Is a Budget. Humanlike Is the Goal. | Lightrun Expo Session | Power agents with Microsoft IQ Marco Casalaina - Microsoft | 1,000 Agent Tasks in a Sandbox: What Breaks When LLMs Write and Run Code Kevin Orellana - Amazon Web Services, Software Engineer | From Manual Drones to Autonomous Multi-Agent Missions Juraj Kabzan - Skydio | Distillation and Continual Learning for Enterprise AI Sam Denton - Applied Compute, Researcher | The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic Development (continued 3) John Lindquist - egghead.io, Agentic Instructor | Evals Driven-Development: Engineering a Mental Health AI Coach Ethically & Safely Akele Reed - Sondermind, Principal AI Engineer; Dave Revere - SonderMind; Doug Keller - SonderMind, Senior Staff AI Engineer | The Rise of CaaS: Context-as-a-Service for Agentic AI | MCP Apps - Extending the frontier Liad Yosef - MCP Apps, Co-creator; Ido Salomon - MCP Apps, Co-Creator | LatchBio Kenny Workman - LatchBio, CEO | Dealing with AI's Cost Problem without Sacrificing Innovation Sunita Verma - Ironclad, Chief Technology Officer | I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code. Keiji Kanazawa - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager | |||
| 2:50pm | Autoresearch for Kernels Tejas Bhakta - Morph, CEO | Inference performance as a competitive advantage Alex Campos; Yunmo Koo | Building an Agent Harness for the Business, Not the Builder Garrett Galow | The Frontier Is Coming Home Dylan Couzon - Qdrant | Continuous Offensive Security the only approach in an agent-first world Eli Cohen - Snyk, Director of Technology Incubation | The Next Trillion Users of the Internet Still Don't Have an Identity Adi Singh - AgentMail, Co-founder | Why Large? Tiny LMs & Agents on Edge/Robotics Cormac Brick - Google, Principal Engineer, Google AI Edge | Designing Agents (The Floor Is the Frontier) Ben Hylak - Raindrop, CTO | Don't Write Skills, Train Models Brian Douglas - Paper Compute Company, CoFounder; John McBride - Paper Compute Co., Co-Founder, CTO | TBA | How Web Data Infrastructure Powers the Next Generation of AI Patricija Žemaitytė - Oxylabs, Product Manager | MCP Apps: Give the Model Data, Give the User a UI Dustin Mihalik - Indeed, Technical Fellow | Agents at Scale: Inside MiniMax's Model and the Infrastructure Behind It Olive Song - MiniMax, RL Lead; Dan Fu - Together AI, VP of Kernels | Agents Are Where Microservices Were in 2015. We're Making All the Same Mistakes. Roberto Milev - Navan, Chief Architect; Uday Kanagala - Navan | Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills Tomás Hernando Kofman - Not Diamond, CEO & Co-Founder | |||
| 3:20pm | Autoresearch in the wild Roland Gavrilescu - Introspection, Co-Founder, CEO; Julian Bright - Introspection | The Self-Improving OSS Agent Stack | Runpod Expo Session | The Infinite Context Window Is a Myth: Context Engineering for AI Agents Morgan Willis - Amazon Web Services (AWS); Clare Liguori - Amazon Web Services, Senior Principal Engineer | Vibe Code Safely: Introducing Gadgets | Deploy agents to users in M365, Teams, and apps Ashu Joshi | Sandboxes Aren't Optional: Runtime Isolation Patterns for Coding Agents at Scale Robert Brennan - OpenHands, CEO | From Self-Driving Monorepo to Self-Driving Cars Amit Navindgi - Zoox, Senior Staff Software Engineer | Lessons from Studying Every Memory System Shlok Khemani - -, Independent Researcher | Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3) Brian Douglas - Paper Compute Company, CoFounder | Will AI predict people like we predict the weather? (alternate title “A field guide to synthetic personas for market research”) Ishan Anand - InsightSciences.ai, Chief AI Officer (CAIO) | Generative UI... in Python? Jeremiah Lowin - Prefect, Founder & CEO | MCP Tasks (async)/ Why the heck aren't any agents supporting MCP tasks/async? Cornelia Davis - Temporal, Principal Technologist | Benchmarks: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Ali Khial - G2i, Head of AI/ML | Agentic Sites: Building Hyper Personalized Websites Carlos Sanchez - Adobe, Principal Scientist | Inference is the New Training Loop: Architecting High-Reliability Agents and Continuous AI Systems David Corbitt - CoreWeave, Head of Product, Serverless Training | ||
| 3:45pm | Autoresearch in a Multi-Agent AI Village Erina Karati - University of Minnesota, AI Engineer; Arunachalam Manikandan - University of Minnesota, AI Engineer, Co-Founder | Modular: Taming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion Abdul Dakkak | Codex, Behind the Harness Dominik Kundel - OpenAI, Developer Experience Lead | Stop Renting Intelligence: The Train-to-Deploy Loop for Specialized AI Jetashree Ravi - Fireworks AI | Ray Actors, Vision Tokens, and the GIL: Engineering an SFT Data Pipeline That Keeps GPUs Busy Tarun Sunkaraneni - Amazon AGI | Building ambitious software Jonathan Kelley - Dioxus Labs, Founder | I gave an AI a body Cyrus Clarke - MIT Media Lab, Researcher | LLM Knowledge Bases: a practical guide Ben Holmes - Warp, Dev Rel Lead | Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 3/3) Brian Douglas - Paper Compute Company, CoFounder | Don't Summarize. Sample. — How YouTube Re-Built Search for the LLM Era Mihnea Munteanu - YouTube, Senior Product Lead | Designing for AIE Vincent Wendy - AI Engineer, Senior Creative Designer | The Universal Remote Control for AI Alex Hancock - Block, Software Engineer | The Chief AI Officer: A framework for the emerging Swiss Army Knife of roles Rania Khalaf - WSO2, Chief AI Officer | The state of AI in software development: Insights across 400+ organizations Justin Reock - DX, Deputy CTO | ||||
| 5:10pm | Tokenmaxxing Tomasz Tunguz - Theory Ventures, General Partner |
▼Day 4 • Thu, 7/2
| Time | ⭐ Main Stage | Expo Stage 1 | Expo Stage 2 | Expo Stage 3 | Expo Stage 4 | Track M Room 2001 | Generative Media Track 1 · Room 2010 | Agentic Commerce Track 2 · Room 2006 | AI in Finance Track 3 · Room 2003 | Local AI Track 4 · Room 2009 | Graphs Track 5 · Room 2005 | AI in GTM Track 6 · Room 2014 | AI in Healthcare Track 7 · Room 2024 | Agentic Engineering Track 8 · Room 2020 | Inference Track 9 · Room 2016 | AI-Native Enterprises Room 3016 | AI Architects: AI Factories Room 3020 | CTO Circle |
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| 9:00am | Emil Eifrem keynote and Graphs track intro Emil Eifrem - Neo4j, Co-Founder and CEO | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:10am | How Tag changed Labs Mike Krieger - Anthropic, Head of Labs | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:30am | Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual Matt Pocock - Total TypeScript / AI Hero, Educator, content creator and engineer | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:50am | TCP and RDMA are Killing Inference Throughput; Homa can Fix It John Ousterhout - Stanford University, Professor Emeritus | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:10am | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model Maxime Rivest - DSPy, Core Contributor; Isaac Miller - cmpnd, Lead Maintainer of DSPy; Co-Founder | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:45am | Token Should Have Jobs Katelyn Lesse - Anthropic, Head of Engineering, Claude Platform; Angela Jiang - Anthropic, Head of Product, Claude Platform | AI Engineering & Governance 2026 Trends Wallon Walusayi - Qodo | Your Agent Can't Tell If It's Right Willem Pienaar | No, That's Not a Software Factory Ryan Cooke - WorkOS | Elastic Expo Session | Diagnosing agent failures in production Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | TBA | Designing Multimodal Collaborative Agents for Next-Gen Commerce Nidhi Kaushik Vyas - Google DeepMind, Product | ALPHALAB: Autonomous Multi-Agent Research Across Optimization Domains with Frontier LLMs Brendan Rappazzo - Morgan Stanley, Machine Learning Scientist | TBA | CrabRAG: Why Automated Assistants Need Graph Memory, Not More Tokens Stephen Chin - Neo4j, VP of Developer Relations | GTM Engineering: The Technical Bits Everett Berry - Clay, Head of GTM Engineering | From Ambient Documentation to Clinical Intelligence Chaitanya Asawa - Abridge, Head of Engineering for Clinical Decision Support | DeepSWE: expert code datasets Serena Ge - Datacurve, CEO | Operating Distributed Inference Systems at Scale Nishant Gupta - Meta, Software Engineer, Tech Lead; Naman Ahuja - Meta, Senior Software Engineer | Building safe payment infrastructure for machine-to-machine commerce Jennifer Lee - Stripe, Product Lead, Machine Payments & Agentic Commerce | Rebuilding the Agent Stack for the Cloud Era Zach Lloyd - Warp, Founder and CEO | The Agentic Product Development Organization |
| 11:10am | MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development Nikita Kothari - Salesforce, Senior Member of Technical Staff | Beyond RAG: See a relational context engine reduce token burn Brandon Waselnuk - Unblocked, Developer Relations | Keycard AI Expo 1 | The Lethal Trifecta Is Already on Your Developers' Laptops Michael Patterson - Coder | Your AI Agent Has No Nervous System | Tracing and debugging agents across systems with OpenTelemetry Chang Liu | HTML Is All Agents Need James Russo - HeyGen, Software Engineer | Why Your AI Agent Needs a Wallet: Agentic commerce on Arc with USDC and Nanopayments Harshal Bhangale - Circle, Staff Software Engineer | AI Doesn't Understand Money (Yet) Udi Menkes - Intuit, Principal Product Manager | TBA | Active Graph Agent Runtime (BabyAGI 4) Yohei Nakajima - Untapped Capital, Managing Partner | The Death of Developer Advocates Stephanie Jarmak - Sourcegraph, Agent Advocate; Graham McBain - Sourcegraph, Senior Developer Advocate | Guardrails First: Engineering Member-Facing Health AI Rashi Agrawal - Hinge Health, Head of Agentic AI | Anthropic's CCA Exam as a Field-Guide for Agentic Engineering Frank Coyle - UCAL Berkeley, Lecturer, UCALBerkeley / Founder AI/Edge | Routing LLM Inference in Production: From Engine Signals to Policy Qianru Lao - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff; Lu Zhang - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff | Tribal Dungeons of Global Shipping CX: AI Agents at 100K Cases a Day Dmitry Buykin - Maersk, Applied AI Lead, Staff Software Engineer | FinOps for AI Agents: Who Spent All the Tokens? Tisha Chawla - Microsoft, Software Engineer; Susheem Koul - Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer | |
| 11:40am | Auth for Agents: Unblock Autonomous AI with auth.md Michael Grinich - WorkOS, Founder & CEO | The Art of Building Verifiers for Computer Use Agents Miguel González Fernández - Browserbase; Corby Rosset - Microsoft Research | Seeing the Plumbing: Profiling vLLM Speculative Decoding on NVIDIA Blackwell Sheilah Kirui - NVIDIA | Voice is the universal interface Kwindla Kramer - Daily, CEO; Neil Zeghidour - Gradium, Co-founder & CEO | [Unblocked Expo Session 3] | Benchmarking VS Code with VSC-Bench: How to measure agent performance Ross Wollman | Building an Agentic Video Editor for Mass Consumer Ekaterina Deyneka - Reelful, Founder & CEO | When AI Agents Pay and Sellers Monetize: Building x402 Apps for Agentic Commerce on AWS Anil Nadiminti - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sr Solutions Architect | Let's integrate AI Agents in Event-Sourced Systems Divakar Kumar - FlyersSoft, Technical Architect | TBA | Your Moat Is Your Data Model Mike Phipps - Gates Foundation, Lead AI Engineer | AI in GTM at Notion Flora Liu - Notion, Software engineer | Shipping AI to a Million Patients Without an A/B Test Jared Joselowitz - Ufonia, AI Research Engineer | Guide, Verify, Solve: The Engineering Discipline Agentic Development Demands Manish Kapur - Sonar; Anirban Chatterjee | Are LLM Performance Benchmarks Reliable? Ashok Chandrasekar - Google, Staff Software Engineer; Jason Kramberger - Google, Software Engineer | All the Things We Have to Do to Satisfy Your Insatiable Need for Tokens Daniel Kim - Cerebras, Head of Growth; Michelle Nguyen - Gimlet Labs, Cofounder, Engineering Lead | What If Your Chip Design Team Moved Like a Single Body? Khaled Alashmouny - AIDAChip, Founder & CEO | |
| 12:05pm | Harness Engineering: Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain Agents Mike Chambers - Amazon Web Services (AWS) | The Missing Layer in Agentic AI Giedrius Steimantas - Oxylabs | Replicated Expo Session | PLANETSCALE Expo 1 | Agents That Forge Their Own Tools: Self-Modifying AI in the Wild Sandhya Subramani - Amazon Web Services, Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI | x402 isn’t good (yet) Jan Curn - Apify, Founder & CEO | How Kepler Built Verifiable AI for Financial Services Vinoo Ganesh - Kepler, CEO & Co-Founder | TBA | From Systems of Record to Systems of Context Omri Bruchim - Monday, Engineering Group Manager | Ramp: AI in GTM Arman Vaziri - Ramp, Senior Staff Software Engineer | 200 Million Patient Interactions Later: What the Generic Voice Stack Misses Vivek Muppalla - Hippocratic AI, VP AI Engineering | Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Code bases Denys Linkov - Wisedocs, Head of ML | Vertical Mobility: Building an AI Inference Platform That Scales from MVP to Trillion-Parameter Workloads Rita Zhang - Coreweave; Sitanshu Gupta - Coreweave | Stop Model Shopping: Why Ownership Beats Choice in the Agent Stack George Hu - Fireworks, President | Preferences > Benchmarks: Model Routing for How Teams Actually Build: Model Routing for How Teams Actually Build Archana Kamath; Tyler Gillam | |||
| 12:30pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch & Learn | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch & Learn | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm | Loophole - Adversarial Agents To Stress Test Your Morality Brendan Rappazzo - Morgan Stanley, Machine Learning Scientist | YOLO Mode, Safely: microVM Sandboxes for Any Agent Eric Jia - Docker | Your Model is Private. Your System Isn't. Joshua Mo - Venice AI | Video Discovery for Agentic World-Model Training | Evaluating and optimizing AI agents: from observability to continuous improvement Chang Liu | While my guitar gently speaks Todd Fisher - Philo Ventures, Head of Engineering Launching 0-1 startups | Agent Spending Without Controls: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for AI Pa… Rodrigo Coelho - Edge & Node, CEO; Pranav Maheshwari - Edge And Node, Director of Integrations | TBA | AI : Learned Execution Graphs for Real-Time Anomaly Detection & Drift Classification in APIs Ritvik Pandya - JP Morgan Chase, Engineering Manager | The Vibe GTM Iceberg Alex Bauer - Upside, Co-founder | Al is becoming the World's largest Relationship Therapist. We Can't Afford to Get it Wrong. Clay Cockrell - CoupleWork AI, Co-Founder; Tony Fabrikant - CoupleWork AI, Co-founder | Building on the Codex Harness Dominik Kundel - OpenAI, Developer Experience Lead | What's New in Inference Engineering Philip Kiely - Baseten, Developer Relations | From Zero to AI-Native: Scaling AI Across the Org Josh Leavitt - Coinbase, Sr. Director of AI & Data | Coding Agents Don't Scale Themselves. Neither Do Your Teams.The Rise of Agent Enablement. Patrick Debois - Tessl, Member Technical Staff | |||
| 1:55pm | 🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - the reliable agent stack Giselle van Dongen - Restate, Developer Advocate | Dash0 Add-On Expo Session | MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does Jan Curn - Apify, Founder & CEO | From Agent Prototype to Production: Evaluation-Led Development in Microsoft Foundry Sharmila Chockalingam | LlamaIndex Expo Session | Blast Radius Zero: One‑Command OpenClaw Sandboxes in the Cloud Arun Sekhar - Microsoft | Voice agents with Realtime Video Lina Colucci - LemonSlice, CEO | Teaching agents to pay Anna Spysz - Stripe, Developer Relations Engineer | We Vetted 2,000 AI Skills Before They Reached Developers Lucas Palma - Nubank, Information Security Manager | TBA | Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies Frank Coyle - UCAL Berkeley, Lecturer, UCALBerkeley / Founder AI/Edge | How We Got LLMs to Recommend Our Open Source Library (Without Paying or Plug-ins) Christopher Burns - Inth, Founder | Healthcare’s Agent Bytecode: X12 as the Harness for AI Agents Vasant Kearney - Onlay, CEO and Founder | Multiplayer agentic engineering: enabling your whole team and your best agents to work together Arjun Singh - Superconductor, Co-founder and CEO | Gavin Uberti — transformer-only ASICs for inference Gavin Uberti - Etched, Co-Founder & CEO | Which AI startups actually land enterprise contracts? Lessons from evaluating 100+ AI startups at Millennium Management Brian Lewis - Millennium, AI Product Lead | Why your LLM is slow and expensive: lessons learned from running models in production Zach Bratun-Glennon - Gradient, General Partner | |
| 2:25pm | We let an AI agent execute Bash and lived to talk about it Sarah Sanders - PostHog, Context Engineer | Nebius Expo Session | How Reducto parsed the Epstein Files for the Viral JMail Project: The Secret Complexities of Documents | [Braintrust Expo Session 3] | The Human Is an Async API Melanie Warrick - Temporal Technologies | Operate agents safely at scale with enterprise governance Ashu Joshi | Generative Video at the Speed of Light Keegan McCallum - uRun, Founder | The Agentic Commerce Stack Ahnaf Prio - Best Buy, Senior Engineering Manager | Your Finance Agent's Bottleneck Is You Ramana Siddanth Emani - Auditoria AI, Data Scientist | TBA | Video Has No Memory. Here's How We Built One. James Le - TwelveLabs, Head of Developer Experience | Lessons From Building The World's Largest Knowledge Graph Drew Bredvick - Vercel | Trading Desks to Clinical Trials: Parallels in Applied Vertical AI Ayush Bhardwaj - Allos AI, Tech Lead | Always-on agents run production without the on-call tax Justin Smith - Resolve AI, Founding Product Engineer | The Frontier AI Inference Cloud for Agents Byung-Gon (Gon) Chun - FriendliAI, Founder & CEO | Your Hero Agent Needs a Party Kunal Lanjewar - Riot Games, Staff Engineer | Scaling AI systems: where theory meets constraint Zach Bratun-Glennon - Gradient, General Partner; Stephen Balaban - Lambda, Co-founder / CTO | |
| 2:50pm | No Memory, No Harness: Why the Database Is the Last Line of Defense Kay Malcolm - Oracle | Harness Engineering: The New Core Skill for Agentic Developers Dru Knox - Tessl | Designing Evals That Earn User Trust Felipe Blanes - Amazon | Small Claws Are Beautiful: Edge Agents with NanoClaw, Raspberry Pi, and Graph Memory Jeremy Adams - Neo4j | The Software Factory | The Next Medium: Why Real-Time Interactive Video Changes Everything for Developers Ahmed Ahres - Reactor, Head of Product & GTM | Your Agent Just Authorized What?! Jay Mok - PayPal | Simulationmaxxing for 20x Faster Agent Dev Shreya Rajpal | TBA | On-Device Agentic AI for the New York Times Games Shafik Quoraishee - The New York Times, Staff Engineer; Joanne Song - The New York Times Games | How AI Agents Let GTM Teams Scale Justin Joyce - Cloudflare, Principal Sales Operations and Strategy Manager | How to build an AI-Native Health Company Dan Feng - Maven Clinic, Senior Director of Engineering | Realtime multiplayer, automation, and you! Idan Gazit - GitHub, Head of GitHub Next | KV Cache-Aware Routing and P/D Disaggregation on Kubernetes: The Parts Public Benchmarks Don't Show Yuchen Fama - Red Hat, Senior Principal Product Manager; Michey Mehta - Red Hat; Ashish Kamra - Red Hat, Senior Manager, Software Engineering | AI Agents Are Just Distributed Systems Now Salman Munaf - TikTok, Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Inside 847 Production Clinical AI Notes Sebastian Fox - Composo, CEO | ||
| 3:20pm | We Solved Agent Building - The Evolution of Building A Successful Data Science Agent Andrew Qu - Vercel, Chief of Software | Agent Memory Is a Solved Problem. Agent Learning Is Not. Karthik Ranganathan - Yugabyte; Heather Downing - Yugabyte | Deepmind Expo Session 2 | An AI Future Without the Lock-In Remy Guercio - Tailscale | Beyond Prompts: Building a Multi-Agent Creative Computer That Orchestrates 5+ AI Models in Real-Time Brennan Erbz - Flik, CEO & Co-Founder | The End of the Static Screen: Architecting Intent-Driven UX with Agentic Orchestration Gus Iwanaga - commercetools, General Manager (Product, UX, Eng) | It's a Skill Issue : Best practices in building skills that work Yogi Miraje - FactSet, Principal AI Engineer | TBA | Citation Needed: Provenance for LLM-Built Knowledge Graphs Daniel Chalef - Zep AI, Founder and CEO | Fin.ai in GTM Bil Erdenekhuyag - Intercom | Don't be data poor Anuj Iravane - Anterior, Head of AI | Velocity Sickness: What Happens When Your Whole Team Gets 10x Faster Matt Dailey - Ref. | Two Bugs That Hid in Plain Sight: A vLLM Debugging Detective Story Asaf Gardin - AI21, Senior Software Engineer/Inference Engineer; Yuval Belfer - AI21, Sr. Developer Advocate | Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token Sachin Malhotra - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff | ||||
| 3:45pm | Agents Without Code: How Skills, YAML, and Filesystems Replaced Python Philipp Schmid - Google DeepMind, Member of Technical Staff | Modal Add-On Expo Session Adam Azzam - Modal, Member of Product Staff | Composio Expo Session | The Next Game Engine Won't Have a Manual Arturo Nunez - Nereu, Founder | Beyond the Lethal Trifecta: Agentic Commerce on the Open Internet at Machine Speed David Levine - Kiduna Club, Founder & CEO | Wearing the Agent: Engineering a Family-and-Friends Personal Agent, from Group Chats to Glasses Sai Krishna Rallabandi - Fidelity Investments, Director, Data Science | TBA | Quill: Event-Driven AI That Keeps Documentation Alive at Enterprise Scale Arjun Harbhajanka - Bloomberg LP, Software Engineer | Reverse-Engineering the AI Buyer Aliisa Rosenthal - Acrew Capital, General Partner | Why Your Enterprise Tech Stack Isn't Ready for AI Agents - And What to Build Instead Christopher Lovejoy - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff; Saul Howard - Anterior, VP Engineering | Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. Saoud Rizwan - Cline, Founder & CEO | Weight Folding, CUDA Streams, and the Bug That Made My Model Speak Backwards Filip Makraduli - Superlinked, Founding Member of Technical Staff | The Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built Lena Hall - Akamai | Agent Frameworks Considered Harmful Rémi Louf - .txt, CEO | ||||
| 4:30pm | Closing Keynote — Theo Browne Theo Browne - t3.gg | |||||||||||||||||
| 4:50pm | Closing Keynote: Garry Tan Garry Tan - Y Combinator, President & CEO | |||||||||||||||||
| 5:10pm | Startup Battlefield Howie Liu - Airtable, CEO |