2026-09-24T04:54:46.171Z ai-builders-summit-2026 2026-09-15 2026-09-17 3 00:05 America/Los_Angeles https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026 2026-09-15T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-3-your-ai-pair-programmer-is-lying-to-you-verification-pattern AI Engineering talk Generated code compiles, passes review, and still breaks production. We catalogued a year of agent-written incidents and built verification layers that catch what human review misses — without slowing anyone down. Generated code compiles, passes review, and still breaks production. We catalogued a year of agent-written incidents and built verification layers that catch what human review misses — without slowing anyone down. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Dana Kowalski 2026-09-15T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-4-multi-agent-systems-are-just-distributed-systems-and-that-s- AI Engineering talk Everything your team already knows about queues, retries, idempotency and backpressure applies directly to agent orchestration. A tour of production multi-agent failures and the boring distributed-systems fixes that solved each one. Everything your team already knows about queues, retries, idempotency and backpressure applies directly to agent orchestration. A tour of production multi-agent failures and the boring distributed-systems fixes that solved each one. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Yuki Tanaka 2026-09-15T13:15:00-07:00 13:15 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-9-prompt-injection-is-a-solved-problem-if-you-do-these-five-th AI Engineering talk Provocative title, sober content: capability scoping, output mediation, and the three-layer defence we run in production. Includes live demos of attacks that still work against naive agents in 2026. Provocative title, sober content: capability scoping, output mediation, and the three-layer defence we run in production. Includes live demos of attacks that still work against naive agents in 2026. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Amara Diallo 2026-09-15T15:15:00-07:00 15:15 00:45 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-37-panel-what-breaks-when-ai-products-meet-real-users AI Engineering panel Four practitioners on the gap between the demo and the deployment: the failures that only appear at scale, the support burden nobody budgets for, and what they would build differently. Audience questions from the start. Four practitioners on the gap between the demo and the deployment: the failures that only appear at scale, the support burden nobody budgets for, and what they would build differently. Audience questions from the start. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Grace Liu Tom Achebe Kwame Mensah Aisha Rahman 2026-09-15T09:00:00-07:00 09:00 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-51-updated-taming-40-minute-ci-incremental-builds-at-monorepo-s Platform & Infra talk Our monorepo CI took 40 minutes on a good day. This talk walks through how we cut it to 6 minutes with content-addressed caching, remote execution, and a test-selection model — including the two migrations that failed first. You'll leave with a decision framework for which incremental-build investments pay off at which repo sizes, and the graphs to convince your platform team. Updated: now… Our monorepo CI took 40 minutes on a good day. This talk walks through how we cut it to 6 minutes with content-addressed caching, remote execution, and a test-selection model — including the two migrations that failed first. You'll leave with a decision framework for which incremental-build investments pay off at which repo sizes, and the graphs to convince your platform team. Updated: now includes 2026 benchmark data. This session now includes a live demo of remote build caching. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Priya Raman 2026-09-15T09:45:00-07:00 09:45 00:45 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-1-context-engineering-in-production-what-actually-survives-con AI Engineering keynote A year of shipping agent products taught us that context design outlives model choice. This talk covers the patterns that survived: compaction budgets, retrieval boundaries, and the observability you need before you can tune anything. A year of shipping agent products taught us that context design outlives model choice. This talk covers the patterns that survived: compaction budgets, retrieval boundaries, and the observability you need before you can tune anything. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Priya Raman 2026-09-15T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-5-the-edge-database-you-already-have-sqlite-patterns-for-globa Platform & Infra talk Read replicas at the edge, single-writer semantics, and what happens when you stop pretending you need a cluster. Real latency numbers from three production migrations, including the one we rolled back. Read replicas at the edge, single-writer semantics, and what happens when you stop pretending you need a cluster. Real latency numbers from three production migrations, including the one we rolled back. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Elena Vasquez 2026-09-15T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-2-taming-40-minute-ci-incremental-builds-at-monorepo-scale Platform & Infra talk Our monorepo CI hit forty minutes and engineers stopped trusting it. We rebuilt it around content-addressed caching and got to six. A decision framework for which incremental-build investments actually pay off, and which ones are cargo cult. Our monorepo CI hit forty minutes and engineers stopped trusting it. We rebuilt it around content-addressed caching and got to six. A decision framework for which incremental-build investments actually pay off, and which ones are cargo cult. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Marcus Okafor 2026-09-15T13:15:00-07:00 13:15 00:10 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-24-ten-wrong-turns-migrating-a-data-platform Platform & Infra lightning talk A fast tour of the ten decisions we would make differently, from partition keys to the migration window we scheduled during a holiday. Ten minutes, ten mistakes, no filler. A fast tour of the ten decisions we would make differently, from partition keys to the migration window we scheduled during a holiday. Ten minutes, ten mistakes, no filler. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Diego Ramirez 2026-09-15T13:35:00-07:00 13:35 00:10 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-25-reading-eval-traces-like-a-detective AI Engineering lightning talk A short, practical walkthrough of how to read a failing evaluation trace: what to look at first, which signals lie, and how to turn one bad output into a reproducible test case. A short, practical walkthrough of how to read a failing evaluation trace: what to look at first, which signals lie, and how to turn one bad output into a reproducible test case. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Elena Vasquez 2026-09-15T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 00:30 Room 2B ai-builders-summit-2026-8-streaming-structured-output-ux-patterns-beyond-the-token-fir Developer Experience talk Users do not want to watch JSON assemble itself. Patterns for progressive disclosure, optimistic rendering, and graceful repair when the model changes its mind halfway through a response. Users do not want to watch JSON assemble itself. Patterns for progressive disclosure, optimistic rendering, and graceful repair when the model changes its mind halfway through a response. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Raj Patel 2026-09-15T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Room 2B ai-builders-summit-2026-11-design-systems-for-ai-products-calm-interfaces-for-chaotic-m Developer Experience talk Non-determinism does not excuse jittery interfaces. Tokens, motion budgets and content design for products where the backend is a probability distribution and the user still needs to feel in control. Non-determinism does not excuse jittery interfaces. Tokens, motion budgets and content design for products where the backend is a probability distribution and the user still needs to feel in control. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Grace Liu 2026-09-15T13:15:00-07:00 13:15 00:30 Room 2B ai-builders-summit-2026-7-developer-platforms-people-actually-adopt-lessons-from-three Developer Experience talk We built three internal platforms nobody used before one that stuck. The difference was never features — it was migration cost, escape hatches, and letting teams keep their own deploy buttons. We built three internal platforms nobody used before one that stuck. The difference was never features — it was migration cost, escape hatches, and letting teams keep their own deploy buttons. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Sofia Lindqvist 2026-09-16T09:30:00-07:00 09:30 00:45 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-22-human-in-the-loop-for-real-clinical-ai-under-review AI Engineering keynote Every model output in our product is read by a clinician before it reaches a patient chart. This keynote covers what that constraint taught us about interface design, latency budgets, and the difference between assistance and automation. Every model output in our product is read by a clinician before it reaches a patient chart. This keynote covers what that constraint taught us about interface design, latency budgets, and the difference between assistance and automation. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Kwame Mensah 2026-09-16T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-21-on-call-for-a-model-reliability-practices-for-inference-plat Platform & Infra talk Inference platforms fail in ways your existing runbooks do not describe. We rebuilt our alerting around output quality rather than uptime, and the pager got quieter and more useful at the same time. Inference platforms fail in ways your existing runbooks do not describe. We rebuilt our alerting around output quality rather than uptime, and the pager got quieter and more useful at the same time. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Nina Berg 2026-09-16T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-26-your-legacy-systems-are-the-hard-part Platform & Infra talk Most AI integration projects stall on a mainframe export, not a model. Patterns for wrapping systems you cannot change, and how to negotiate data contracts with teams that have no incentive to help you. Most AI integration projects stall on a mainframe export, not a model. Patterns for wrapping systems you cannot change, and how to negotiate data contracts with teams that have no incentive to help you. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Ben Oyelaran 2026-09-16T13:15:00-07:00 13:15 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-29-growing-an-engineering-org-around-an-ai-product Developer Experience talk We went from twelve engineers to ninety while shipping our first AI product, and got a lot of it wrong. Hiring, team topology, and the two reorganisations we could have skipped. We went from twelve engineers to ninety while shipping our first AI product, and got a lot of it wrong. Hiring, team topology, and the two reorganisations we could have skipped. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Aisha Rahman 2026-09-16T14:15:00-07:00 14:15 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-47-cutting-our-inference-bill-in-half-without-touching-quality Platform & Infra talk Batching, caching and routing decisions that halved our spend, plus the two optimisations that looked great on a dashboard and cost us accuracy. Numbers from a fleet running around the clock. Batching, caching and routing decisions that halved our spend, plus the two optimisations that looked great on a dashboard and cost us accuracy. Numbers from a fleet running around the clock. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Felix Braun 2026-09-16T15:15:00-07:00 15:15 00:45 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-49-closing-keynote-the-boring-future-of-ai-engineering AI Engineering keynote A bet on where this goes: fewer demos, more contracts; fewer frameworks, more schemas; and the unglamorous integration work that will decide which products are still running in five years. A bet on where this goes: fewer demos, more contracts; fewer frameworks, more schemas; and the unglamorous integration work that will decide which products are still running in five years. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Ben Oyelaran 2026-09-16T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-12-postgres-to-the-edge-a-migration-post-mortem Platform & Infra talk What broke, what got faster, and the three queries that nearly made us roll the whole thing back. An honest accounting with p99 charts and the cost line nobody put in the original proposal. What broke, what got faster, and the three queries that nearly made us roll the whole thing back. An honest accounting with p99 charts and the cost line nobody put in the original proposal. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Omar Haddad 2026-09-16T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-28-scheduling-gpu-work-without-a-scheduler-team Platform & Infra talk Fair queuing, preemption and priority for a fleet you cannot afford to leave idle — implemented by two engineers with a job queue and a lot of restraint about what to build. Fair queuing, preemption and priority for a fleet you cannot afford to leave idle — implemented by two engineers with a job queue and a lot of restraint about what to build. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Theo Whitfield 2026-09-16T14:15:00-07:00 14:15 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-48-the-support-queue-is-your-best-eval-set AI Engineering talk Every complaint is a labelled failure somebody already wrote down for you. How we turn support tickets into evaluation cases weekly, and what that changed about which bugs we fix first. Every complaint is a labelled failure somebody already wrote down for you. How we turn support tickets into evaluation cases weekly, and what that changed about which bugs we fix first. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Leila Farsi 2026-09-16T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Room 2B ai-builders-summit-2026-23-undo-is-a-feature-designing-reversibility-into-ai-products Developer Experience talk Confidence in an AI product comes from being able to take it back. A design tour of undo, diffing and preview patterns, and the data model changes each one demands. Confidence in an AI product comes from being able to take it back. A design tour of undo, diffing and preview patterns, and the data model changes each one demands. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Ines Moreau 2026-09-16T13:15:00-07:00 13:15 00:30 Room 2B ai-builders-summit-2026-33-deleting-internal-tools-a-year-of-saying-no Developer Experience talk We removed nineteen internal tools in twelve months and replaced them with four. How we chose, how we migrated people who did not want to move, and the two deletions we regret. We removed nineteen internal tools in twelve months and replaced them with four. How we chose, how we migrated people who did not want to move, and the two deletions we regret. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Zoe Kimura 2026-09-16T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 02:00 Workshop Lab ai-builders-summit-2026-6-evals-are-your-only-moat-building-test-suites-for-llm-produc AI Engineering workshop Model upgrades break prompts silently. In this hands-on workshop you will build an eval pipeline from scratch: rubric design, failure taxonomies, CI wiring, and the regression report that doubles as your product spec. Bring a laptop. Model upgrades break prompts silently. In this hands-on workshop you will build an eval pipeline from scratch: rubric design, failure taxonomies, CI wiring, and the regression report that doubles as your product spec. Bring a laptop. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Tom Achebe Hana Sato 2026-09-17T09:45:00-07:00 09:45 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-14-the-accessibility-debt-of-ai-interfaces Developer Experience talk Screen readers meet streaming text. A practical audit of the AI interface patterns that have quietly become standard, which assistive technologies they break, and the fixes that make them usable for everyone. Screen readers meet streaming text. A practical audit of the AI interface patterns that have quietly become standard, which assistive technologies they break, and the fixes that make them usable for everyone. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Ines Moreau 2026-09-17T10:30:00-07:00 10:30 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-31-writing-the-safety-spec-before-the-feature AI Engineering talk How our product team writes the abuse cases, refusal behaviour and escalation path before a line of code exists, and what it costs when we skip it. Includes the template we use. How our product team writes the abuse cases, refusal behaviour and escalation path before a line of code exists, and what it costs when we skip it. Includes the template we use. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Leila Farsi 2026-09-17T11:15:00-07:00 11:15 00:30 Main Stage ai-builders-summit-2026-36-the-cost-of-a-token-finops-for-llm-products Platform & Infra talk Unit economics for products where the marginal cost is real. Attribution, caching strategy, model routing, and the dashboard that let us cut spend by sixty percent without a quality regression. Unit economics for products where the marginal cost is real. Attribution, caching strategy, model routing, and the dashboard that let us cut spend by sixty percent without a quality regression. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Omar Haddad 2026-09-17T10:15:00-07:00 10:15 02:00 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-27-workshops-that-don-t-waste-an-afternoon Developer Experience workshop A working session for anyone who runs technical workshops: pacing, environment setup that survives conference wifi, exercise design, and how to rescue a room that has fallen behind. You will leave with a rewritten outline for your own workshop. A working session for anyone who runs technical workshops: pacing, environment setup that survives conference wifi, exercise design, and how to rescue a room that has fallen behind. You will leave with a rewritten outline for your own workshop. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Clara Novak 2026-09-17T12:30:00-07:00 12:30 00:30 Room 2A ai-builders-summit-2026-30-compiling-models-to-the-edge-a-toolchain-tour Platform & Infra talk Quantisation, kernel selection and the compiler passes that decide whether your model fits the device. A tour of where the time actually goes, with benchmarks you can reproduce. Quantisation, kernel selection and the compiler passes that decide whether your model fits the device. A tour of where the time actually goes, with benchmarks you can reproduce. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Ivan Petrov 2026-09-17T14:00:00-07:00 14:00 00:30 Room 2B ai-builders-summit-2026-34-buying-ai-in-a-big-company-a-field-guide Developer Experience talk Procurement, security review, and the eighteen-month contract cycle — from the perspective of the engineer who has to make something work inside it. Practical advice for both buyers and vendors. Procurement, security review, and the eighteen-month contract cycle — from the perspective of the engineer who has to make something work inside it. Practical advice for both buyers and vendors. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Andre Lucas 2026-09-17T10:15:00-07:00 10:15 00:30 Workshop Lab ai-builders-summit-2026-13-fine-tuning-is-back-small-models-for-narrow-jobs AI Engineering talk GPU prices fell and our inference bill did not. Where task-specific small models beat frontier APIs, how to run that comparison honestly, and the four jobs where fine-tuning is still the wrong answer. GPU prices fell and our inference bill did not. Where task-specific small models beat frontier APIs, how to run that comparison honestly, and the four jobs where fine-tuning is still the wrong answer. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Hana Sato 2026-09-17T11:30:00-07:00 11:30 00:10 Workshop Lab ai-builders-summit-2026-32-keeping-3-000-demos-online-event-networks-under-load Platform & Infra lightning talk Ten minutes on what a conference network actually has to survive, why the failure is almost never bandwidth, and the three changes that made ours stop falling over. Ten minutes on what a conference network actually has to survive, why the failure is almost never bandwidth, and the three changes that made ours stop falling over. https://vibeboard.io/ai-builders-summit-2026/sessions Marco Bianchi