Beyond RAG: See a relational context engine reduce token burn
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:10am-11:30am
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 1 NE
- Speaker(s): Brandon Waselnuk
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
In this expo talk we'll give you a free context engine simulator, open source tools, and demo how a
context engine works. See how modern engineering workflows with agentic loops and goals produce
better quality code and reduce token burn. RAG, while useful, leaves context gaps for humans and
agents. A context engine fills those gaps by including real-time, relational, personalized, and
permission aware techniques to get high-signal context to humans and agents at runtime.
Related YouTube Video
Stop babysitting your agents... — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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