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World's Fair 2026
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for the 3rd straight year
World-Class Speakers
A lineup of industry leaders, founders, researchers, and practitioners shaping the future of AI.
AIE for Everyone
From builders to executives, startups to Fortune 500s, researchers to creatives, the AI Engineer World's Fair is where the people shaping the future of AI come together.
For Data Buyers
New for 2026Set the industry agenda for higher data quality - with top human data and RL env vendors paying close attention. Learn how teams source, evaluate, license, and manage high-quality datasets for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and enterprise AI workflows.
AIE for Everyone
From builders to executives, startups to Fortune 500s, researchers to creatives, the AI Engineer World's Fair is where the people shaping the future of AI come together.
Learn how teams build and deploy production-ready AI systems, agents, copilots, evals, RAG pipelines, and scalable infrastructure with real-world workflows and tooling from companies shipping AI today.
Discover how enterprises are adopting AI across operations, security, procurement, customer experience, and internal workflows while managing governance and organizational change.
Gain insights into enterprise AI strategy, technical leadership, systems architecture, governance, and scaling AI adoption across organizations.
Some of the most valuable conversations happen outside the sessions. Connect with engineers, founders, researchers, and AI leaders through networking, demos, and community meetups throughout the event.
Discover how AI-native startups are finding product-market fit, scaling teams, raising capital, and building durable businesses in a rapidly evolving market. Connect with founders, operators, and investors shaping the future of AI.
Explore how AI is transforming diagnostics, drug discovery, clinical workflows, and patient care while navigating regulatory requirements and data privacy challenges.
AI in trading, risk assessment, fraud detection, compliance, and financial analysis. How quantitative finance and fintech are being transformed by foundation models.
Dive into frontier research across reasoning, multimodal systems, memory, alignment, evaluation, and next-generation model architectures. Connect with researchers advancing the future of AI capabilities.
Set the industry agenda for higher data quality - with top human data and RL env vendors paying close attention. Learn how teams source, evaluate, license, and manage high-quality datasets for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and enterprise AI workflows.
Explore the future of human-AI interaction, AI UX, copilots, workflows, and designing intuitive AI-powered experiences for real users.
Own your AI stack. Learn about privacy, sovereignty, and running your own AI clusters from experts at NVIDIA, r/LocalLlama, and Exo. On-device inference, edge deployment, and self-hosted models for teams that need full control.
The Most Technical Gathering of Builders and Decision Makers
A snapshot of the professionals and organizations represented by thousands of attendees who have already registered for World's Fair 2026.
Join Thousands of AI Engineers From
The SOTA in AI Engineering
All in One Place
10 parallel engineering miniconferences + 2 leadership tracks. 400+ sessions. Divide and conquer!
Program Schedule
We've designed & curated a program to provide you with maximum value, intrigue, and fun. Switch to the detailed view for the full session-by-session grid.
Pick up your badge, meet your peer group, ask questions, and plan your week!
Sign up for NEO →45+ hands-on workshops across all rooms, plus expo reception and networking
Coding Agents keynote, 10 breakout rooms, 2 Leadership tracks, live demos, and 4 expo stages.
Autoresearch keynote, 12 parallel tracks including Robotics, Context Engineering, Design Engineering, and more. No afterparty — side events encouraged for the World Cup quarterfinal!
Harness Engineering keynote, Generative Media, Agentic Commerce, Inference, Security, and more across 12 parallel tracks. Last chance to explore 100+ expo partners.
Program Schedule: Block Structure
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026June 28 - July 2, 2026
Sunday, June 28
New Engineer Orientation — Pick up badges, meet your peer group, ask questions, plan your week
Monday, June 29
Workshop Day + Expo/Reception — Hands-on learning and networking
Tuesday, June 30
Keynotes + Breakouts — Main conference day with multiple tracks
Wednesday, July 1
World Cup + Multi-Track — No afterparty — we encourage side events! World Cup quarterfinal day
Thursday, July 2
Final Day + Last Chance Expo — Final day — no afterparty, we encourage side events!
AIEWF 2026 from Around the World now Online!
Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual
Turn 10,994 Notes Into Your Agents' Memory
Build Systems, Not Code
A Genius With Amnesia
The Log Is The Agent
Stop Writing Tone Instructions. Layer Them.
Recursive Coding Agents
The Miranda Hypothesis: How Hamilton (the Musical) Poisoned Your Persona Evals
Agents in Production: How OpenGov Built and Scaled OG Assist
Production Evals For Agentic AI Systems
Building an Autonomous Engineering Org
Structuring the Unstructured: Advanced Document Parsing for AI Workflows
Agents Building Agents
The 100-Tool Agent Is a Trap: Scaling with Semantic Routers and JIT Context
Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows
Research to Reality: Bringing frontier ML research to production
HTML is All You Need (for Agents to Make Graphics)
Turbocharge Your Agent’s Retrieval with TurboQuant
OpenClaw in Your Hand: Building a Physical AI Terminal for Local LLM Agents
Bypassing the Multimodal Tax: Framework-Free Hybrid RAG, Raw SQL RRF, and Live UI Telemetry
When all context matters: Extended Cache Augmented Generation (ECAG)
AI System Design: From Idea to Production
Your Agent Is Wasting Tokens and You Don't Know It
We Cut 94% of Our AI Coding Tokens With a Local Code Index. Here's the Architecture.
AI-Driven Multi-Document Correlation for Enterprise Financial Compliance and Fraud Detection
Voice In, Visuals Out: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Your Agent Failed in Prod. Good Luck Reproducing It.
Using RL-based Agent to Detect and Remediate ETL Pipeline Failures
You Can't Prompt the Room: The Last Skill AI Won't Replace
Building Deterministic Infrastructure for Non-Deterministic AI Agents
The Agentic AI Engineer
The Prompt is the Platform
User Signal Die at the Retrieval Boundary
Browser Agents Don't Need Better Models. They Need Better Eyes.
3 Times Bigger Than Last Year's.
Built for the Future of AI Engineering.
100+ Expo Partners
From foundation models to domain-specific products & services, meet the best engineers working on cutting-edge technologies.
3.5 Days
of Expo Access from June 30 to July 2, 2026
4 Expo Stages
For Demo & Talks
Microsoft
Microsoft creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more
Moscone West
Moscone West is the crown jewel of San Francisco's three convention centers. Constructed in 2003, it is the city's most modern and most striking: with 27' high ceilings & floor-to-ceiling glass facades that wrap the 3-story building.
With three levels of the same dimensions connected by a single lobby and dual-escalator sets + multiple staircases and multiple elevator shafts, it is simple to understand and efficient to navigate:
Relive the World's Fair
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 took place at Moscone West from June 29 through July 2. Explore the schedule, speakers, side events, and session recordings from the event.
Watch 2026 talks on YouTubeEverything in One Building
Keynotes, breakouts, expo, labs, networking, and coffee — all under one roof at Moscone West. Three floors connected by a single lobby, so you're never more than an escalator ride away.
Level 1
Expo & RegistrationExpo hall, labs, poster sessions, registration, and food & beverage areas.
Level 2
Breakouts & Sessions9 breakout tracks, sponsored sessions, speaker Q&A, and board games lounge.
Level 3
Keynotes & LeadershipGeneral session keynotes, leadership sessions, VIP rooms, and networking.
Side Events Around SF
Browse the community events that ran around AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. The archived event data is also available as events.jsonl.
Hear from the people who built the frontier
World's Fair 2026 brought together speakers from frontier labs, AI-native companies, enterprise teams, open-source communities, and the infrastructure companies behind modern AI. Browse the program above and watch published sessions on demand.
Moments That Moved the Industry
Where passionate people came together to share ideas, create connections, and build momentum
Watch AI Engineer World's Fair 2026
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The AI Engineer World's Fair is the largest industry event for those who are Engineering the future of AI
Talks from Engineers Who Ship
No theoretical promissory hoopla. Just engineers and founders on the cutting edge of AI Engineering, sharing their knowledge.
The 3rd Annual AIE Expo
Where the top agent and model labs, and leading platforms and clouds meet to debut, hire, and compete in the largest technical AI Expo ever. THE place to meet everyone and do anything.
AI Leadership Tracks
Exclusive tracks for CTOs and VPs of AI on running scaled AI orgs and enterprise transformations. Closed-door discussions, and VIP networking with the most senior AI leaders in the industry.
In-depth Workshops
We've curated over 50+ workshops for you to choose from, servicing everyone from beginners to experienced AI engineers.
The Nerdiest Fun You Can Have!
Stimulation for your brain, inspiration for your soul, education for your business.