Workshop Day and Welcome Reception
What It Was
Official AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 programming day at Moscone West in San Francisco. This page is generated from the official schedule data.
Scheduled Sessions
- 2026 06 29 laurie voss from vibes to production evaluating and shipping ai agents that work 101 — 9:00am-11:00am · Track 1
- 2026 06 29 zach blumenfeld ai on your lakehouse context comes in shapes not queries — 9:00am-11:00am · Track 2
- 2026 06 29 charlie guo cooking with codex — 9:00am-11:00am · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 shane wolf the best sdlc is the one you build yourself why orchestration changes everything — 9:00am-11:00am · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 javier garza ai security engineer foundations certificate — 9:00am-11:00am · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 ignacio martinez total recall agent memory and harness engineering — 9:00am-11:00am · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 du an lightfoot agents that own their inference building production ai agents on dedicated gpus — 9:00am-11:00am · Track 7
- 2026 06 29 zain hasan open source inference engineering for the agentic era — 9:00am-11:00am · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 doug guthrie advanced workshop mastering ai observability — 9:00am-11:00am · Track 9
- 2026 06 29 pamela fox get started with models in microsoft foundry to build ai apps — 9:00am-10:15am · Track M
- 2026 06 29 fuad ali building self learning loops for your agent — 11:05am-12:05pm · Posttraining & Midtraining
- 2026 06 29 nyah macklin rag needs a map using graphrag to retrieve connected context — 11:05am-12:05pm · Track 2
- 2026 06 29 matt brockman how i learned to stop worrying and love the sandbox — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 pamela fox the model swap workshop — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 dhruv nathawani teaching agents to search building synthetic training pipelines with nvidia data designer — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 ahmad osman local llms and workstation agents part 1 — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 nnenna ndukwe how to build quality gates into agentic coding workflows — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 charles frye what is an inference engine anyway — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 elizabeth fuentes leone agent speedrun idea code deploy observe fix ship — 11:05am-12:05pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 gustavo cordido from zero to deployed on azure with ai agents — 11:05am-12:05pm · Track M
- 2026 06 29 tejas kumar evals in ai a deep dive — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 john craft from approval loops to autonomous agents with docker — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 harshul jain 2 hr deep dive on llm inference at scale part 1 of 2 — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 kent c dodds build the right thing product engineering for software developers part 1 — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 wolfram ravenwolf from zero to leaderboard building an end to end ai agent evaluation pipeline — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 ahmad osman local llms and workstation agents part 2 — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 peter werry beyond rag build a relational context engine from scratch — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 yohan raju building ai agents with real time web data — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Track 8
- 2026 06 29 paige bailey research to reality with google deepmind — 12:10pm-1:10pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 ankur duggal let your agent cook using skills to evaluate and improve your app — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Track 1
- 2026 06 29 harshul jain 2 hr deep dive on llm inference at scale part 2 of 2 — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 kent c dodds build the right thing product engineering for software developers part 2 — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 michael forrester build a platform unleash an agent on it and watch it burn — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 killian carlsen phelan sonarqube openai wiring your team for agentic development — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Track 6
- 2026 06 29 palak agarwal how reducto parsed the epstein files for the viral jmail project the secret complexities of document — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Track 7
- 2026 06 29 filip makraduli turning my obsidian vault into a local ai engineer — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 lotte verheyden continuously improving agents with langfuse — 1:15pm-2:15pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 laurie voss from vibes to production evaluating and shipping ai agents that work 201 — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Track 1
- 2026 06 29 yoni michael the data context layer why data engineering agents need more than code and databases — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Track 2
- 2026 06 29 daniel han special topics in kernels rl reward hacking in agents — 2:20pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 mark lummus burn your flags how paypal designs interactive cli tools for agents — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 micah silverman ai security engineer foundations certificate — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 louis fran ois bouchard context engineering in 2026 compaction memory and cost — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Track 6
- 2026 06 29 jeff vestal vector isn t enough hybrid search and retrieval for ai engineers — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Track 7
- 2026 06 29 emile baizel build with perception agents — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 zhengyao jiang hands on autoresearch cracking openai s parameter golf — 2:20pm-4:20pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 pamela fox observe optimize and protect your hosted agents in microsoft foundry — 2:20pm-3:35pm · Track M
- 2026 06 29 ang li the autonomous computer full stack infrastructure for computer use agents — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 paul bakaus the dark arts of skill engineering — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Track 2
- 2026 06 29 shubhankar srivastava hill climbing skills how to improve agents without touching the model — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 bereket habtemeskel agent auth — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 will brown the prime intellect stack — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 nick nisi lifestyles of the ai native voice coding agent skills hooks and scheduled tasks — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 joel hooks the art and science of loopcraft with pi and friends — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 gagan bhat evolution of agentic surfaces — 4:30pm-5:30pm · Workshops Day 1
- 2026 06 29 joyce zhang human connection in the age of ai — 5:00pm-6:00pm · Expo Stage 2
- 2026 06 29 sonar expo welcome speech — 6:00pm-6:15pm · Expo Stage 3
- 2026 06 29 session runway ai film festival — 6:15pm-7:15pm · Expo Stage 3
- 2026 06 29 swyx the highest loop — 9:00am-9:05am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 pablo castro on ai and knowledge — 9:05am-9:25am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 alexander embiricos the golden age of ai engineering — 9:25am-9:45am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 zixuan li glm 5 2 frontier intelligence open weights — 9:45am-10:05am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 thom wolf thom wolf keynote — 10:05am-10:25am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 manoj nair security track intro — 10:25am-10:30am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 jason liu getting the most out of codex — 10:45am-11:05am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 ryan dahl security firewall for agents — 10:45am-11:05am · Claws & Personal Agents
- 2026 06 29 joseph nelson the state of vision — 10:45am-11:05am · Vision & OCR
- 2026 06 29 edo liberty pinecone 2 0 — 10:45am-11:05am · Search & Retrieval
- 2026 06 29 priyanka phatak claude managed agents workshop part 1 — 10:45am-11:05am · Workshops Day 2
- 2026 06 29 manoj nair through the ai fog the architectural decision the next 24 months of agentic security depends on — 10:45am-11:05am · Security
- 2026 06 29 kwindla kramer the new primitives building ai native software — 10:45am-11:05am · Voice & Realtime AI
- 2026 06 29 devansh tandon tokens in engagement out training llm recommenders — 10:45am-11:05am · LLM Recsys
- 2026 06 29 eno reyes how forward deployed engineering is done at factory — 10:45am-11:05am · Forward Deployed Engineering
- 2026 06 29 ari morcos data quality is the compute multiplier — 10:45am-11:05am · Data Quality
- 2026 06 29 idan gazit build agents fast with github copilot from idea to working app — 10:45am-11:05am · Track M
- 2026 06 29 nilofer rajpurkar inside the ai economy what stripe s data reveals — 10:45am-11:05am · Agentic Commerce
- 2026 06 29 david hsu governance is the real bottleneck to ai roi — 10:45am-11:05am · Claws & Personal Agents
- 2026 06 29 dor sasson every ai company is accidentally building a bank — 10:45am-11:05am · Expo Stage NE
- 2026 06 29 dan adler the enterprise agentic gap when developer level ai tools hit millions of lines — 10:45am-11:05am · Expo Stage 2 NW
- 2026 06 29 sam parsons how paypal enterprise payments handles agent initiated payments across chatgpt and google ai mode — 10:45am-11:05am · Expo Stage 3 SW
- 2026 06 29 jakub hojsan agentic search for coding agents — 10:45am-11:05am · Expo Stage 4 SE
- 2026 06 29 tereza t kov rise of the software factory — 11:10am-11:30am · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 vinoth govindarajan your agent didn t fail your harness did — 11:10am-11:30am · Claws & Personal Agents
- 2026 06 29 jerry liu building the document context layer for ai agents — 11:10am-11:30am · Vision & OCR
- 2026 06 29 jo kristian bergum the unreasonable effectiveness of bm25 for agentic search — 11:10am-11:30am · Search & Retrieval
- 2026 06 29 priyanka phatak claude managed agents workshop part 2 — 11:10am-11:30am · Workshops Day 2
- 2026 06 29 lovina dmello your llm stack is a 2008 database with better marketing why ml security is dominated by misconfiguration not missing features — 11:10am-11:30am · Security
- 2026 06 29 valeria wu fon speech to speech model research at google deepmind — 11:10am-11:30am · Voice & Realtime AI
- 2026 06 29 jacqueline wood spotify llm recsys — 11:10am-11:30am · LLM Recsys
- 2026 06 29 pauline brunet how forward deployed engineering is done at cursor — 11:10am-11:30am · Forward Deployed Engineering
- 2026 06 29 robert mchardy the messy reality of scale synthetic data and pre training at poolside — 11:10am-11:30am · Data Quality
- 2026 06 29 jesse lumarie building the engine while flying the plane launching the figma mcp server — 11:10am-11:30am · AI-Native Enterprises
- 2026 06 29 ameya bhatawdekar your agent evolved your evals didn t — 11:10am-11:30am · AI Architects: Show my Workflow
- 2026 06 29 owen halpert give your coding agents the power of turbogrep — 11:10am-11:30am · Expo Stage 1 NE
- 2026 06 29 will lyon actionable knowledge for agents with context graphs — 11:10am-11:30am · Expo Stage 2
- 2026 06 29 session frontier models for the hard parts open weights for the rest — 11:10am-11:30am · Expo Stage 3 SW
- 2026 06 29 aditya khandelwal agents codebases and teams what it actually takes to ship together — 11:10am-11:30am · Expo Stage 4 SE
- 2026 06 29 charlie holtz orchestras not factories — 11:40am-12:00pm · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 benjamin guo everyone gets a software company — 11:40am-12:00pm · Claws & Personal Agents
- 2026 06 29 merve noyan skill issue stop deploying vision language models use them with skills to build e2e vision apps on edge — 11:40am-12:00pm · Vision & OCR
- 2026 06 29 will bryk the search engine for the agentic web — 11:40am-12:00pm · Search & Retrieval
- 2026 06 29 priyanka phatak claude managed agents workshop part 3 — 11:40am-12:00pm · Workshops Day 2
- 2026 06 29 moritz johner we gave an agent production code access and then tried to sleep at night — 11:40am-12:00pm · Security
- 2026 06 29 charlie guo voice agents can just do things — 11:40am-12:00pm · Voice & Realtime AI
- 2026 06 29 raghav saboo llm recsys at doordash — 11:40am-12:00pm · LLM Recsys
- 2026 06 29 vasuman moza ai tools for forward deployed engineering — 11:40am-12:00pm · Forward Deployed Engineering
- 2026 06 29 rayan garg rethinking environments for long horizon work — 11:40am-12:00pm · Data Quality
- 2026 06 29 pamela fox use copilot across cli dev and cloud workflows to move faster end to end — 11:40am-12:00pm · Track M
- 2026 06 29 uday kiran medisetty agentic sdlc at uber building blocks for uber s software factory — 11:40am-12:00pm · AI-Native Enterprises
- 2026 06 29 itamar friedman the last human code review building trust in ai generated code — 11:40am-12:00pm · AI Architects: Show my Workflow
- 2026 06 29 jess wang agentic vs vector search an eval driven approach to coding agent performance — 11:40am-12:00pm · Expo Stage 2 NW
- 2026 06 29 gabriel martinez agents don t have coworkers they have hostages — 11:40am-12:00pm · Expo Stage 3 SW
- 2026 06 29 andreea ple ea would your ai agent get the job a performance review framework for enterprise agents — 11:40am-12:00pm · Expo Stage 4 SE
- 2026 06 29 daksh gupta what we learned by analyzing 1m ai generated prs — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Software Factories
- 2026 06 29 shu fang tethered our agents are us — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Claws & Personal Agents
- 2026 06 29 aditya gautam modality misalignment and originality attribution in short form video a multi agent approach at platform scale — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Vision & OCR
- 2026 06 29 liad yosef rebuilding the web for agents — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Search & Retrieval
- 2026 06 29 priyanka phatak claude managed agents workshop part 4 — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Workshops Day 2
- 2026 06 29 ezra tanzer agentic development security — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Security
- 2026 06 29 neil zeghidour your voice agent is just a walkie talkie — 12:05pm-12:25pm · Claws & Personal Agents