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.

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Mike Phipps

Mike Phipps

Lead AI Engineer, Gates Foundation

Speaking in 1 session at AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 — unofficial import demo

Bio

Mike is the lead AI engineer in business operations at the Gates Foundation, where he built and deployed SIP (Strategic Intelligence Platform), the foundation's enterprise-wide knowledge graph. Built on Neo4j and served to Claude through MCP, SIP unifies siloed structured records and unstructured documents into one semantic layer that agents can query directly. Before AI engineering, he earned his PhD at CERN in experimental high-energy nuclear physics, working with some of the largest datasets in science. His work now centers on AI-first data modeling, driven by the conviction that for most enterprise teams the durable moat comes from properly modeling and expressing their data assets and domain knowledge — not the commoditizing layers above.

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