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June 29 - July 2, 2026 · Moscone West
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▶Day 1 • Mon, 6/29 (Workshop)
▶Day 2 • Tue, 6/30
▼Day 3 • Wed, 7/1
| Time | ⭐ Main Stage | AI-Native Enterprises Room 3016 | AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing Room 3020 | CTO Circle | Track M Room 2001 | Sandbox & Platform Engineering Track 1 · Room 2010 | Robotics & World Models Track 2 · Room 2006 | Memory & Continual Learning Track 3 · Room 2002 | Workshops Day 3 Track 4 · Room 2009 | Evals Track 5 · Room 2005 | Design Engineering Track 6 · Room 2014 | Computer Use Track 7 · Room 2024 | Context Engineering Track 8 · Room 2020 | Posttraining & Midtraining Track 9 · Room 2016 | Expo Stage 1 NE | Expo Stage 2 NW | Expo Stage 3 SW | Expo Stage 4 SE |
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| 9:05am | Field Guide to Fable Thariq Shihipar - Anthropic, Claude Code | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:25am | In the Land of AI Agents, the Verifiers Are King Tariq Shaukat - Sonar, Chief Executive Officer | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:45am | Perception Agents Antje Barth - Amazon AGI Lab, Member of Technical Staff | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:05am | Research to Reality with Google DeepMind Benoit Schillings - Google DeepMind, VP of Technology | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:25am | Evals Track Intro Laurie Voss - Arize AI, Head of Developer Relations; Aparna Dhinakaran - Arize, CPO | |||||||||||||||||
| 10:45am | First Steps Toward Automated AI Research Richard Socher - You.com / Recursive Superintelligence, CEO & Co-Founder | How do you diffuse AI into the real world? Varun Shenoy - Long Lake, Cofounder | 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 Martin Harrysson - McKinsey & Company, Senior Partner; Matt Linderman - McKinsey & Company, Partner, Technology Practice; Prakhar Dixit - McKinsey, Partner | From framework to runtime: running agents with Foundry Agent Service Tina Manghnani - Microsoft, Product Manager; Keiji Kanazawa - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager | Don’t build agents, build environments 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 | Beyond Static Intelligence: Evaluating Continual Learning 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 | Understanding is the new bottleneck 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 Averi Kitsch - Google, Staff Software Engineer; Prerna Kakkar - Google, Senior Software Engineer | What's next after RLHF? Diogo Almeida - TypeSafe AI, CEO | 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 | |
| 11:10am | Autoresearch for Dense Retrieval: Test-Time Compute with Frozen Embedding Models Han Xiao - Elastic, VP, AI | How to avoid disaster when vibe-coding a billing engine Andrew Garvin - Stripe, Cofounder of Metronome | Is Orchestration the Future? Vlad Luzin - Band.ai, Founder | Letting the Interns Loose — How We Accelerated AI Adoption. Shashank Goyal - OpenRouter, Head of Provider Ecosystem | Building the simulation infrastructure for practical world model use (Part 2) 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 Signal to PR: Anatomy of a Self-Improving Agent 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 | State of Data Sean Cai - Independent / State of Data, CEO | Harnessing Agents: The Durable Runtime for Dynamic Workflows Viren Baraiya - Orkes, Co-Founder and CTO | 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 | ||
| 11:40am | Memory Harnesses for Long-Running Research Agents Stefania Druga - Sakana.ai, Research Scientist | 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 | OpenAI, Anthropic, or agent frameworks: choose the right AI stack Arun Sekhar - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager for AI Developer Experience; Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox Ivan Burazin - Daytona, CEO | Commercial Grade-Robots for Real World Usage 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 | Building Closed-Loop Evals for a Multimodal Agent at Uber Scale Soumya Gupta - Uber, ML Engineer; Jai Chopra - Uber, Product Manager | 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 | Training Frontier Models to Out-Think Hackers Uri Rolls - Arithmetic, CEO; Thom Wolf - Hugging Face, Co-founder and CSO | 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 | AI agents don't read your policy docs. They hit your APIs. | ||
| 12:05pm | « the era of (auto) research » Elie Bakouch - Prime Intellect, Research Engineer | 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 | Your agent needs a sandbox, not a desert Samuel Colvin - Pydantic, Founder & CEO | 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 | From Agent Traces to Agent Simulations: The next era of agent evaluation Rustem Feyzkhanov - Snorkel AI, Senior Engineering Manager - AI Platform | 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 | Learning on the job: the future of post-training Raymond Feng - Applied Compute, Researcher | Your agent architecture has a half-life of 6 months Dan Farrelly - Inngest, CTO and Co-founder | From Stateless to Stateful: Orchestrating Real-Time Voice & Messaging Agents with Twilio and Amazon Bedrock Rishab Kumar - Twilio, Staff Developer Evangelist | Harnessing Collective Agent Intelligence for Open Science James Zou - Stanford University / Together AI, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science | Prompt, Memory, Weights: The Architecture Decisions Most AI Teams Make by Accident Anant Srivastava - Oracle, Principal Technologist - Data and AI Platforms | |||
| 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; Nicole Brichtova - Google DeepMind, Product Lead for Nano Banana, Imagen, and Veo; swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator | This Year in Claude Cat Wu - Anthropic, Head of Product, Claude Code; Thariq Shihipar - Anthropic, Claude Code; Simon Willison - Datasette, Independent | ||||||||||||||||
| 1:30pm | Closing the Loop: An Autonomous AI Research Agent Tim Sweeney - Weights & Biases by CoreWeave, Principal Engineer | The Half Life of Agent Infrastructure Ben Kus - Box, CTO | Tokenmaxxing is the New "Lines of Code" Nicholas Arcolano - Jellyfish, Head of AI & Research | From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud Pt 1 Abhishek Bhardwaj - OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff, RL & Agent Infrastructure | Unitree: Building Mass Produced Humanoids XiangMing Sun - Unitree | 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 - Google; Preetika Bhateja - Google, Product Manager; Daniel Bump - Google, Engineer | Design at the Speed of Adjectives Paul Bakaus - Renaissance Geek, Inc., Founder | From RL to IRL Gaurav Mishra - Amazon AGI Lab | How long can your skills be before your agent forgets what you told it? Laurie Voss - Arize AI, Head of Developer Relations | Reinforcement Learning without Verifiable Rewards Will Brown - Prime Intellect, Researcher | Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People Harald Kirschner - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager | Why Agents Should Have Their Own Sandbox Philipp Schmid - Google DeepMind, Staff Engineer | ||||
| 1:55pm | An AI Agent Became the #1 Contributor in OpenAI's Hiring Challenge Zhengyao Jiang - Weco AI, CEO & Cofounder | Guardians of the State: How We Built an Air-Gapped AI Fortress for Consumer Data Rachna Srivastava - DFPI, Enterprise Architect | Engineering Agency out of the Happy Path Matthew Jewkes - Standard Cybernetics, Cofounder & CTO | 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 | Training Taste Thais Castello Branco - Taste Labs, Founder & CEO | The Rise of CaaS: Context-as-a-Service for Agentic AI Omer Primor - Bright Data | WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents Prukalpa Sankar - Atlan, Founder & Co-CEO | Emulated: The data for fully autonomous software engineers and companies Joseph Wang - Emulated, CEO | Edge-Native AI: Building Ultra-Fast Agents and MCP Servers with Spin Thorsten Hans - Akamai, Senior Developer Advocate | Why your company needs a context graph, and how to build it Gil Feig - Merge, CTO and Co-Founder | Warp: Building Self-Improving Agent Software Factories Suraj Gupta - Warp, Software Engineer | Natively Multimodal from Step Zero | ||
| 2:25pm | Self-Improvement of Context, Harness, and Model Weights through Reflective Optimization Lakshya Agrawal - GEPA, Creator and maintainer of GEPA | From Tokenmaxxing to Trusted Throughput Mingsheng Hong - Ironclad, VP of AI at Ironclad | I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code. Keiji Kanazawa - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager | Power agents with Microsoft IQ Marco Casalaina - Microsoft, VP Products, Core AI and AI Futurist | 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 Suchet Bargoti - Skydio, Director of Inspection and Mapping | Bringing Continual Learning into Enterprises Samuel Denton - Applied Compute, Platform Research Lead | The Agentic Power User's Playbook: Tips and Tricks for Swarm-Style Agentic Development (continued 3) John Lindquist - egghead.io, Agentic Instructor | Ask YouTube — Open Q&A Mihnea Munteanu - YouTube, Senior Product Lead | Imagination Engineering Eve Bouffard - Y Combinator, Head of Design | Computer-Use 2.0: Agents Just Got Multi-Cursor Francesco Bonacci - Cua, Co-founder & CEO; Dillon DuPont - Cua, CTO | MCP Apps - Extending the frontier Liad Yosef - MCP Apps, Co-creator; Ido Salomon - MCP Apps, Co-Creator | LatchBio Kenny Workman - LatchBio, CTO | Power agents with Microsoft IQ Ronak Chokshi - Microsoft, Director of Product Marketing | Beyond Code Generation: API Context for Agentic Engineering Kamalakannan Nandagopal - Postman, Staff Software Engineer | Latency Is a Budget. Humanlike Is the Goal. Jesse Hall - Livekit, Staff Developer Advocate | Your Stack Has a Latency Problem You Can’t See | |
| 2:50pm | Autoresearch for Kernels Tejas Bhakta - Morph, CEO | Agents Are Where Microservices Were in 2015. We're Making All the Same Mistakes. Roberto Milev - Navan, Chief Architect; Uday Kanagala - Navan, Software Architect | Intelligent Model Routing: Frontier Performance Without Frontier Bills Tomás Hernando Kofman - Not Diamond, CEO & Co-Founder | 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 | Evals Driven-Development: Engineering a Mental Health AI Coach Ethically & Safely Akele Reed - Sondermind, Principal AI Engineer; Dave Revere - SonderMind, Staff AI Engineer; Doug Keller - SonderMind, Senior Staff AI Engineer | The Missing Layer: Design Taste in AI Agents // Stop Letting Your Agents Ship Ugly UIs Hassan El Mghari - Together AI, Director of Developer Experience | 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) | 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 | Inference performance as a competitive advantage Alex Campos - FriendliAI, Director of Sales Partnerships; Yunmo Koo - FriendliAI, Founding Engineer | Building an Agent Harness for the Business, Not the Builder Garrett Galow - WorkOS, Product Manager | The Frontier Is Coming Home Dylan Couzon - Qdrant, DevRel Engineer | Continuous Offensive Security the only approach in an agent-first world Eli Cohen - Snyk, Director of Technology Incubation | ||
| 3:20pm | Autoresearch in the wild Roland Gavrilescu - Introspection, Co-Founder, CEO; Julian Bright - Introspection, Co-Founder | 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 | Deploy agents to users in M365, Teams, and apps Ashu Joshi - Microsoft, Director, Business Strategy | 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, Independent Researcher | Don't Write Skills, Train Models (cont. 2/3) Brian Douglas - Paper Compute Company, CoFounder | Don't Ship Skills Without Evals Philipp Schmid - Google DeepMind, Staff Engineer | Generative UI... in Python? Jeremiah Lowin - Prefect, Founder & CEO | How Web Data Infrastructure Powers the Next Generation of AI Patricija Žemaitytė - Oxylabs, Product Manager | 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 | The Self-Improving OSS Agent Stack | AI Applications in a flash! No Dev Ops. Just code. Dean Quiñanola - Runpod, Staff Software Engineer, App Eng Manager | The Infinite Context Window Is a Myth: Context Engineering for AI Agents Elizabeth Fuentes Leone - Amazon Web Services, Developer Advocate | Vibe Code Safely: Introducing Gadgets | |
| 3:45pm | Autoresearch in a Multi-Agent AI Village Erina Karati - Supercell, Former Microsoft; Arunachalam Manikandan - University of Minnesota, AI Engineer, Co-Founder | 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 | 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 | Everything Is a Rollout Alex Shaw - Laude Institute, Member of Technical Staff; Ryan Marten - Laude Institute, Member of Technical Staff | One Designer + Al. Hundreds of Deliverables. Vincent Wendy - AI Engineer, Senior Creative Designer | The Universal Remote Control for AI Alex Hancock - Block, Software Engineer | Modular: Taming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion Abdul Dakkak - Modular, Chief Scientist | Building on the Codex Harness Dominik Kundel - OpenAI, Developer Experience Lead | Stop Renting Intelligence: The Train-to-Deploy Loop for Specialized AI Jetashree Ravi - Fireworks AI, Tech Lead Manager | Ray Actors, Vision Tokens, and the GIL: Engineering an SFT Data Pipeline That Keeps GPUs Busy Tarun Sunkaraneni - Amazon AGI, Browser Use | ||||
| 4:30pm | Closing Keynote Addy Osmani - Independent, Director of Engineering | |||||||||||||||||
| 4:50pm | Trends in AI George Cameron - Artificial Analysis, Co-Founder; Micah Hill-Smith - Artificial Analysis, CEO | |||||||||||||||||
| 5:10pm | Closing Keynote Wei-Lin Chiang - Arena, Co-founder & CTO |
8:00 AM – 9:00 AMAgents & Bagels: AIEWF'26 Breakfast Meet Up · Scalekit, Ref, Telnyx & PromptQL↗12:00 PM – 2:00 PMInnhouse with E2B & Inngest · E2B & Inngest↗12:00 PM – 3:00 PMKeycard Workshop @ AI Engineer World's Fair · Keycard↗4:00 PM – 7:30 PMAgentic After Hours, SF · Buildify↗4:30 PM – 8:30 PMAIE USA World Cup Watch Party · Exa, Fastino Labs, LanceDB & Extend↗4:30 PM – 8:00 PMReflection World Cup Watch Party · Reflection↗5:00 PM – 8:00 PMGame On: The AI Stack Social · Arize AI, AWS, Band AI, CrewAI & YugabyteDB↗5:00 PM – 8:30 PMWhat open agents can actually do: a happy hour with Together AI & NVIDIA · Together AI & NVIDIA↗5:00 PM – 7:00 PMWhen DevEx Meets AI: An Off-the-Record Gathering · Hangar DX powered by Aviator↗5:00 PMWorld Cup x AI Engineer — A Night by G2i · G2i↗5:00 PM – 8:00 PMBuild with TypeSafe: Private Hack Night · TypeSafe AI↗5:00 PM – 8:00 PMWorld Cup Viewing Party · Yohei Nakajima↗5:30 PM – 8:00 PMHarness the Agent. Happy Hour by Orkes @ Chotto Matte · Orkes↗5:30 PMTeaching AI the "Why" Behind Decisions: A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity · Neo4j↗6:00 PMAAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth · Insecure Agents↗6:00 PM – 9:00 PMAI Engineer World's Fair Afterparty w/ Tailscale, Aikido Security, Docker, Inngest & Rootly AI · Tailscale, Aikido Security, Docker, Inngest & Rootly AI↗6:00 PM – 9:00 PMAI Infra After Dark · Amplify & Vermilion Cliffs Ventures↗6:00 PM – 9:00 PMAI + Infrastructure Leaders Dinner · Cleric↗6:00 PM – 8:00 PMEngineers Night Out w/ Unblocked & Comet, AIE After Party · Unblocked & Comet↗6:00 PM – 9:00 PMHarness Engineering: Building Reliable AI Systems · Tessl (AI Native Dev)↗+ 7 more side events that day →
▼Day 4 • Thu, 7/2
| Time | ⭐ Main Stage | AI-Native Enterprises Room 3016 | AI Architects: AI Factories Room 3020 | CTO Circle | Startup Battlefield Room 3001 | Track M Room 2001 | Generative Media Track 1 · Room 2010 | Agentic Commerce Track 2 · Room 2006 | AI in Finance Track 3 · Room 2002 | 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 | Expo Stage 1 NE | Expo Stage 2 NW | Expo Stage 3 SW | Expo Stage 4 SE |
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| 8:30am | Battlefield setup 8:30am-10:30am | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00am | The 2026 State of AI Engineering Barr Yaron - Amplify Partners, Partner | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9:20am | TCP and RDMA are Killing Inference Throughput; Homa can Fix It John Ousterhout - Stanford University, Professor Emeritus | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9:40am | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model Maxime Rivest - DSPy, Core Contributor; Isaac Miller - cmpnd, Lead Maintainer of DSPy; Co-Founder | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10:00am | How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs Mike Krieger - Anthropic, Head of Labs; swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10:20am | Thinner Agents on a Smarter Substrate: The Ontology-based Semantic Layer Emil Eifrem - Neo4j, CEO | ||||||||||||||||||
| 10:45am | Tokens Should Have Jobs Katelyn Lesse - Anthropic, Head of Engineering, Claude Platform; Angela Jiang - Anthropic, Head of Product, Claude Platform | Building safe payment infrastructure for machine-to-machine commerce Jennifer Lee - Stripe, Product Lead, Machine Payments & Agentic Commerce | The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform Safia Abdalla - Warp, Software Engineer | The Agentic Product Development Organization Martin Harrysson - McKinsey & Company, Senior Partner; Matt Linderman - McKinsey & Company, Partner, Technology Practice; Prakhar Dixit - McKinsey, Partner | $100,000 AIE Startup Battlefield — presented by Hyperagent 10:45am-1:00pm Howie Liu - Airtable, CEO | Diagnosing agent failures in production Pamela Fox - Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate | Training Krea 2 - What matters in generative model training. Sangwu Lee - Krea.ai, AI Lead | 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 | State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now Nader Khalil - NVIDIA, Director of Developer Technology; Joseph Nelson - Roboflow, Cofounder, CEO; Alex Cheema - EXO Labs, CEO; Ahmad Osman - Osmantic, Founder & CEO; Matthew Berman - Forward Future, Founder | 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 | AI Engineering & Governance 2026 Trends Wallon Walusayi - Qodo | Your Agent Can't Tell If It's Right Willem Pienaar - Cleric, Co-founder and CTO | No, That's Not a Software Factory Ryan Cooke - WorkOS | Vector Isn't Enough: Hybrid Search & Retrieval for AI Engineers |
| 11:10am | MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development Nikita Kothari - Salesforce, Senior Member of Technical Staff | Tribal Dungeons of Global Shipping: AI Agents at Global Scale 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 | Tracing and debugging agents across systems with OpenTelemetry Chang Liu - Microsoft, Senior Product Manager | 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 | Why Off-the-Shelf AI Doesn't Understand Money Udi Menkes - Intuit, Principal Product Manager | State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now Nader Khalil - NVIDIA, Director of Developer Technology; Joseph Nelson - Roboflow, Cofounder, CEO; Alex Cheema - EXO Labs, CEO; Ahmad Osman - Osmantic, Founder & CEO; Matthew Berman - Forward Future, Founder | Active Graph Agent Runtime (BabyAGI 4) Yohei Nakajima - Untapped Capital, Managing Partner | Reverse-Engineering the AI Buyer Aliisa Rosenthal - Acrew Capital, General Partner | 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 | Beyond RAG: See a relational context engine reduce token burn Brandon Waselnuk - Unblocked, Developer Relations | ARIA, how we built autoresearch with autoresearch Zubin Aysola - Weights & Biases by CoreWeave, Senior Software Engineer Weave | The Lethal Trifecta Is Already on Your Developers' Laptops Michael Patterson - Coder | Your AI Agent Has No Nervous System Matt Gibiec - Dynatrace, Regional Director, Solutions Engineering | ||
| 11:40am | Auth for Agents: Unblock Autonomous AI with auth.md Michael Grinich - WorkOS, Founder & CEO | All the Things We Have to Do to Satisfy Your Insatiable Need for Tokens Daniel Kim - Cerebras, Head of Growth; Michelle Nguyen - Gimlet Labs, Co-Founder | What If Your Chip Design Team Moved Like a Single Body? Khaled Alashmouny - AIDAChip, Founder & CEO; Abduallah Mohamed - AIDAChip, VP of AI/ML | 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 | Demo: GLM 5.2 on DGX Station — Frontier Intelligence Under Your Desk Ahmad Osman - Osmantic, Founder & CEO | 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 Anirban Chatterjee - Sonar, Director, Product and Solutions Marketing | Are LLM Performance Benchmarks Reliable? Ashok Chandrasekar - Google, Staff Software Engineer; Jason Kramberger - Google, Software Engineer | The Art of Building Verifiers for Computer Use Agents Miguel González Fernández - Browserbase, Tech Lead; Corby Rosset - Microsoft Research, Senior Researcher | 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 | The Next Run Should Be Better Jake Broekhuizen - LangChain, Labs Lead | ||
| 12:05pm | Harness Engineering: Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain Agents Mike Chambers - Amazon Web Services (AWS), Senior Developer Advocate for Generative AI | Stop Model Shopping: Why Ownership Beats Choice in the Agent Stack Pranay Bhatia - Fireworks AI, AI engineer and product leader | Preferences > Benchmarks: Model Routing for How Teams Actually Build Archana Kamath - Digital Ocean, VP of Engineering; Tyler Gillam - Digital Ocean, Senior Software Engineer II - Agentic AI | Design multi-agent systems that actually work Tina Manghnani - Microsoft, Product Manager | The Next Game Engine Won't Have a Manual Arturo Nunez - Nereu, Founder | x402 isn’t good (yet) Jan Curn - Apify, Founder & CEO | How Kepler Built Verifiable AI for Financial Services Vinoo Ganesh - Kepler, CEO & Co-Founder | Local AI Demos | From Systems of Record to Systems of Context Omri Bruchim - Monday, Engineering Group Manager | The Building Blocks of GTM Orchestration 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 | The Missing Layer in Agentic AI Giedrius Steimantas - Oxylabs, Director of Scraping Engineering | While You Were Generating: The Verification Gap Nobody Talked About Ali Adl-Tabatabai - Gitar.ai, Founder and CEO | Move fast and (don’t) break things Ben Dicken | Agents That Forge Their Own Tools: Self-Modifying AI in the Wild Sandhya Subramani - Amazon Web Services, Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI | ||
| 12:30pm | The Great Loops Debate Dex Horthy - HumanLayer, Co-Founder; Ian Livingstone - Keycard, Co-Founder and CEO; Allie Howe - Keycard / Insecure Agents, Security engineer; host of Insecure Agents | Latent Space Live: the Inference Inflection from First Principles swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator; Rob Wachen - Etched, Co-founder and President | |||||||||||||||||
| 1:30pm | Loophole - Adversarial Agents To Stress Test Your Morality Brendan Rappazzo - Morgan Stanley, Machine Learning Scientist | 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 | Evaluating and optimizing AI agents: from observability to continuous improvement Chang Liu - Microsoft, Senior Product Manager | 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 | Build for the Memo, Not the Demo — Notes from 200 Investment Committees Shawn Chan - China Resources Holdings, Vice President | Local Models: Trust, Control, Optimization Carter Abdallah - NVIDIA, Senior Developer Tech; Vincent Weisser - Prime Intellect, Co-founder & CEO; Lucas Atkins - Arcee AI, CTO; Chris Alexiuk - NVIDIA, Sr. Product Research Engineer | AI : Learned Execution Graphs for Real-Time Anomaly Detection & Drift Classification in APIs Ritvik Pandya - JP Morgan Chase, Engineering Manager | How Juries and Librarians Can Solve GTM's AI Trust Problem 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 | Codex, Behind the Harness Dominik Kundel - OpenAI, Developer Experience Lead | What's New in Inference Engineering Philip Kiely - Baseten, Developer Relations | Trust, But Verify: Human-in-the-Loop for Agents That Actually Matter Michael Liendo - Auth0, Staff Developer Advocate | YOLO Mode, Safely: microVM Sandboxes for Any Agent Rowan Christmas - Docker, Staff Product Manager | Your Model is Private. Your System Isn't. Joshua Mo - Venice AI, Lead DevRel Engineer | Video Discovery for Agentic World-Model Training Rafael Levi - Bright Data, DevRel | ||
| 1:55pm | 🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - the reliable agent stack Giselle van Dongen - Restate, Developer Advocate | Which AI startups actually land enterprise contracts? Lessons from evaluating 100+ AI startups at Millennium Management Brian Lewis - Millennium, AI Product Lead | Agent Frameworks Considered Harmful Rémi Louf - .txt, CEO | Blast Radius Zero: One‑Command OpenClaw Sandboxes in the Cloud Arun Sekhar - Microsoft, Principal Product Manager for AI Developer Experience | 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 | Local Models: Trust, Control, Optimization Carter Abdallah - NVIDIA, Senior Developer Tech; Vincent Weisser - Prime Intellect, Co-founder & CEO; Lucas Atkins - Arcee AI, CTO; Chris Alexiuk - NVIDIA, Sr. Product Research Engineer | 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 | Large clusters for small models Daniel Svonava - Superlinked, CEO and co-founder | MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does Jan Curn - Apify, Founder & CEO | Everyone talks about document search, but what about results? George He - LlamaIndex, Head of Platform Engineering | ||||
| 2:25pm | We let an AI agent execute Bash and lived to talk about it Sarah Sanders - PostHog, Context Engineer | Your Hero Agent Needs a Party Kunal Lanjewar - Riot Games, Staff Engineer | Operate agents safely at scale with enterprise governance Ashu Joshi - Microsoft, Director, Business Strategy | 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 | Compression at the Edge Chris Alexiuk - NVIDIA, Sr. Product Research Engineer; Daniel Han - Unsloth, Co-founder; Asma Beevi - NVIDIA, Senior Engineer; Merve Noyan - Hugging Face, MLE; Parth Sareen - Ollama | Video Has No Memory. Here's How We Built One. James Le - TwelveLabs, Head of Developer Experience | Knowledge Systems: The New GTM Stack Jeffrey Wang - Exa, Co-founder | 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 | Optimizing Open Models for Production Grade Inference Sujee Maniyam - Nebius, Developer Advocate; Dylan Bristot - Token Factory, Product Marketing | Improving AIE: Q&A and Feedback Session swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator | The Human Is an Async API Melanie Warrick - Temporal Technologies, Developer Relations Engineering | ||||
| 2:50pm | No Memory, No Harness: Why the Database Is the Last Line of Defense Kay Malcolm - Oracle, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle AI Database | AI Agents Are Just Distributed Systems Now Salman Munaf - TikTok, Lead Site Reliability Engineer | Inside 847 Production Clinical AI Notes Sebastian Fox - Composo, CEO | Infra behind Krea 2 - How to train and serve at scale Gabriel Jorge Menezes - Krea.ai, Core Infrastructure Engineer | Your Agent Just Authorized What?! Jay Mok - PayPal | Simulation-Maxxing: How Nubank ships agents 20× faster with simulations Shreya Rajpal - Snowglobe, CEO; Aman Gupta - Nubank, Principal Machine Learning Engineer | Compression at the Edge Chris Alexiuk - NVIDIA, Sr. Product Research Engineer; Daniel Han - Unsloth, Co-founder; Asma Beevi - NVIDIA, Senior Engineer; Merve Noyan - Hugging Face, MLE; Parth Sareen - Ollama | 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; Ashish Kamra - Red Hat, Senior Manager, Software Engineering | Harness Engineering: The New Core Skill for Agentic Developers Dru Knox - Tessl, Head of Product | Small Claws Are Beautiful: Edge Agents with NanoClaw, Raspberry Pi, and Graph Memory Jeremy Adams - Neo4j, Tech Translator | The Software Factory | ||||
| 3:20pm | How we Solved Agent Building Andrew Qu - Vercel, Chief of Software | The Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built Lena Hall - Akamai, Senior Director Developers and AI | Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token Sachin Malhotra - Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff | The Next Medium: Why Real-Time Interactive Video Changes Everything for Developers Ahmed Ahres - Reactor, Head of Product & GTM | The End of the Static Screen: Architecting Intent-Driven UX with Agentic Orchestration Gus Iwanaga - commercetools, General Manager (Product, UX, Eng) | Skills are new features: Building Skill-Centric Harness for Agentic Products Yogendra Miraje - FactSet, Principal AI Engineer | Model Routing Nader Khalil - NVIDIA, Director of Developer Technology; Walden Yan - Cognition, Co-founder & CPO; Tanay Varshney - NVIDIA, Principal Engineer; Alex Atallah - OpenRouter, Co-founder & CEO | Citation Needed: Provenance for LLM-Built Knowledge Graphs Daniel Chalef - Zep AI, Founder and CEO | Building GTM AI Agents: Lessons from Deploying to 6,000 Users Sait Izmit - Snowflake, Principal Product Manager | 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., Founder | 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 | Agent Memory Is a Solved Problem. Agent Learning Is Not. Karthik Ranganathan - Yugabyte, Co-founder and Co-CEO; Heather Downing - Yugabyte, Developer Advocate | Improving AIE: Q&A and Feedback Session (repeat) swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator | An Interaction Is All You Need Ivan Leo - Google DeepMind, Developer Experience Engineer | An AI Future Without the Lock-In Remy Guercio - Tailscale, Strategic Projects | |||
| 3:45pm | Agents Without Code: How Skills, YAML, and Filesystems Replaced Python Philipp Schmid - Google DeepMind, Staff Engineer | Tell the Robot What You Want Sandhya Subramani - Amazon Web Services, Senior Developer Advocate, GenAI | 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 | Model Routing Nader Khalil - NVIDIA, Director of Developer Technology; Walden Yan - Cognition, Co-founder & CPO; Tanay Varshney - NVIDIA, Principal Engineer; Alex Atallah - OpenRouter, Co-founder & CEO | Why We Killed Our Multi-Agent Pipeline: Lessons From Pharma Commercial Intelligence Subbiah Sethuraman - ZS Associates, Partner; Abhilash Asokan - ZS | The Death of Developer Advocates Stephanie Jarmak - Sourcegraph, Agent Advocate | 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 | Taking Reinforcement Learning Cross Datacenter Nan Jiang - Modal, MTS | Dashboards are Dead Sarah Simionescu - Composio | |||||||
| 4:30pm | Closing Keynote — Theo Browne Theo Browne - T3 Tools & YouTuber, Founder/YouTuber | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4:50pm | Closing Keynote: Garry Tan Garry Tan - Y Combinator, President & CEO | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5:10pm | Startup Battlefield Howie Liu - Airtable, CEO; Joshua Xu - HeyGen, CEO; swyx - Latent Space / AI Engineer, Curator |
7:45 AM – 9:00 AMCloudflare Run Club // SF 5K · Cloudflare↗8:00 AM – 9:30 AMNo Half-Baked Agents: Breakfast with Inngest & Nebius · Inngest & Nebius↗4:30 PM – 8:30 PMAI Engineer Trivia Night · Sanity, Temporal, OpenAI & Entire.io↗5:00 PM – 9:00 PMAI Happy Hour - July 4th Edition · You.com, ERIA, AI Insiders & Founders Bay↗6:30 PM – 11:00 PMAI Engineer World's Fair Rooftop Afterparty w/ Apify × Massive × TopK · Apify, Massive & TopK↗6:30 PM – 9:00 PMPaper Compute × Cline hosting the After Party Dinner Party · Paper Compute & Cline↗8:30 PM – 11:30 PMAIEWF After Party with Datacurve · Datacurve↗