AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

Michael Forrester is a student, explorer, and educator working at the boundary between humanity and technology. Over 25+ years he's moved from CTO to individual contributor across operations, AI, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, including time at AWS, ThoughtWorks, Red Hat, and Honeywell. Today he helps organizations adopt generative AI in ways that are sustainable, secure, and cost-effective, building on training programs that have reached over a million engineers across AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-driven operations. He speaks regularly at KubeCon and CNCF events and co-hosts podcasts on how AI is reshaping the engineering discipline. His work spans Claude Code and MCP integrations, AI safety frameworks for platform engineers, and courses ranging from AWS certifications to K8sGPT. His read on the 2020s: engineering is evolving, not disappearing. Systems thinking, design thinking, and architecture matter more than ever, even as the tools change. Tools don't transform organizations. People do.

Sessions

• Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn!Monday, June 29 · 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM · Track 5Workshops Day 1