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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Robert McHardy

Robert McHardy

Pre-training Lead, poolside

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

Bio

Team and tech lead for pre-training at poolside, where he trains large language models for code. Recently led the pre-training of Laguna XS.2 and M.1, poolside's first two public open-weight models. Before that, Robert worked as a Senior Researcher at AssemblyAI where he trained multilingual speech models, and previously built AI for cancer and infectious-disease research at InstaDeep and BioNTech's joint lab. MSc in Machine Learning from UCL.

Sessions

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