June 29 – July 2, 2026 · San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo Unofficial demo. This programme was imported from the AI Engineer World's Fair's own public schedule feed to show vibeboard at real conference scale. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the organisers.
Sessions Speakers Agenda Itinerary Gallery Monday, June 29 · 58 sessions
Expo Stage 2 NW
Expo Stage 3 SW
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
Track 7
Track 8
Track 9
Track M
9am
10am
11am
12pm
1pm
2pm
3pm
4pm
5pm
6pm
7pm
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Human Connection in the Age of AI
Joyce Zhang, Carole Robin, Ph.D.
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101
Laurie Voss
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
Building self-learning loops for your agent
Fuad Ali
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
Tejas Kumar
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Let your agent cook: using skills to evaluate and improve your app
Ankur Duggal
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 201
Laurie Voss
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Autonomous Computer: Full-stack Infrastructure for Computer Use Agents
Ang Li
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries
Zach Blumenfeld
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
RAG Needs a Map: Using GraphRAG to Retrieve Connected Context
Nyah Macklin
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker
John Craft, Dan Ndombe
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
The Data Context Layer: Why Data Engineering Agents Need More Than Code and Databases
Yoni Michael, Brandon Callender
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Dark Arts of Skill Engineering
Paul Bakaus
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Charlie Guo, Gabriel Chua
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
How I learned to stop worrying and love the sandbox
Matt Brockman
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
2 hr deep dive on LLM Inference at Scale — Part 1 of 2
Harshul Jain, Tanmay Sah
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
2 hr deep dive on LLM Inference at Scale — Part 2 of 2
Harshul Jain, Tanmay Sah
2:20 PM – 5:30 PM
Special topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents
Daniel Han
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
The best SDLC is the one you build yourself: Why orchestration changes everything
Shane Wolf, Andrei Bocan
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
Pamela Fox, Arun Sekhar
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers (Part 1)
Kent C. Dodds
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers — Part 2
Kent C. Dodds
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
Burn your flags: How PayPal designs interactive CLI tools for agents
Mark Lummus, Navinkumar Patil
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Hill-climbing Skills: How to Improve Agents Without Touching the Model
Shubhankar Srivastava
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
AI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate
Javier Garza
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
Teaching Agents to Search: Building Synthetic Training Pipelines with NVIDIA Data Designer
Dhruv Nathawani
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
From Zero to Leaderboard: Building an End-to-End AI Agent Evaluation Pipeline
Wolfram Ravenwolf
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn!
Michael Forrester, Whitney Lee
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
AI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate
Micah Silverman
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Bereket Habtemeskel, Paola Estefania
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering
Ignacio Martinez
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
Local LLMs and workstation agents: Part 1
Ahmad Osman
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
Local LLMs and workstation agents: Part 2
Ahmad Osman
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
SonarQube + OpenAI: Wiring Your Team for Agentic Development
Killian Carlsen-Phelan
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
Context Engineering in 2026: Compaction, Memory & Cost
Louis-François Bouchard, Samridhi Vaid, Omar Solano
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Prime Intellect Stack
Will Brown
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs
Du'an Lightfoot
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
How to Build Quality Gates into Agentic Coding Workflows
Nnenna Ndukwe
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
Beyond RAG: Build a Relational Context Engine from Scratch
Peter Werry
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
How Reducto parsed the Epstein Files for the Viral JMail Project: The Secret Complexities of Document
Palak Agarwal
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
Vector Isn't Enough: Hybrid Search & Retrieval for AI Engineers
Jeff Vestal
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Lifestyles of the AI-Native: Voice-coding, agent skills, hooks and scheduled tasks
Nick Nisi, Zack Proser
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Open-Source Inference Engineering for the Agentic Era
Zain Hasan, Yubo Wang, Qingyang Wu, Jue Wang
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
What is an Inference Engine, Anyway?
Charles Frye
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
Building AI Agents with Real-Time Web Data
Yohan Raju
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Turning My Obsidian Vault Into a Local AI Engineer
Filip Makraduli
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
Build with Perception Agents
Emile Baizel, Shruti Arora
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Art and Science of Loopcraft with Pi (and friends)
Joel Hooks
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Advanced workshop: Mastering AI Observability
Doug Guthrie
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM
Research to Reality with Google DeepMind
Paige Bailey
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Continuously improving agents with Langfuse
Lotte Verheyden, Annabell Schäfer
2:20 PM – 4:20 PM
Hands-on AutoResearch: Cracking OpenAI's Parameter Golf
Zhengyao Jiang, Dixing Xu, Vayum Arora, Dhruv Srikanth
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Evolution of agentic surfaces
Gagan Bhat, Isabella Kai He
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Get Started with Models in Microsoft Foundry to Build AI Apps
Pamela Fox
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
From zero to deployed on Azure with AI agents
Gustavo Cordido
2:20 PM – 3:35 PM
Observe, optimize and protect your hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry
Pamela Fox