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AI Engineer World's Fair 2024

Jun 25–27, 2024 · San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA, United States

Conference
AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) Data science & ML
Dates
Jun 25, 2024 – Jun 27, 2024
Venue
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Place
San Francisco, CA, United States
Format
In person
Status
Past
Attendance
3,000
AI Engineer About page: 'Over 3,000 attendees gather across 18 tracks with 150+ sessions' / 'Drew 3,000+ attendees' (organizer figure). A 2026 third-party article says 2,000.
Website
ai.engineer
Recorded
73 sponsors · 193 speaker appearances
Notes
First World's Fair. June 25 workshop day + welcome reception; June 26-27 keynotes, breakout tracks, expo sessions, VP/leadership track. Speakers: full official schedule (all sessions with presenters), roles from track (keynote / workshop / leadership track / expo session / speaker). Affiliations from the schedule's company field as it stands in the archive CMS (a few company records were later renamed, e.g. 'Windsurf'). Videos from schedule recording links or matched in ai.engineer/talks. Sponsors from the archived 2024 page with tiers. Ticket prices not recovered (Tito widget not archived); tickets were in 'Super Early Bird' in May 2024 with GROUP 4-for-3 discount.

Ticket prices

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Sponsors 73

Title / headline 2

Platinum 3

Gold 12

Silver 16

Media 11

Other 29

Speakers and talks 193

SpeakerCompanyRoleTalkLinks
Alex AlbertAnthropicKeynoteWhat's new from Anthropic and what's nextVideo
Antje BarthAmazon Web ServicesKeynoteFrom Software Developer to AI EngineerVideo
Benjamin DunphySoftware 3.0 LLCKeynoteWelcome & Introduction—
Charles FryeModalKeynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMsVideo
Cheng LouMidjourneyKeynoteSecond Order EffectsVideo
Chris LattnerModularKeynoteUnlocking Developer Productivity across CPU and GPU with MAXVideo
Dr Bryan BischofHexKeynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMsVideo
Eugene YanAmazon Web ServicesKeynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMsVideo
Eugene YanAmazon Web ServicesKeynoteCopilots EverywhereVideo
Hamel HusainParlance LabsKeynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMsVideo
Harrison ChaseLangChainKeynoteLangChain Launch: Infrastructure for building reliable agentsVideo
Ishan AnandIndependentKeynoteSpreadsheets-are-all-you-need: Decoding the Decoder LLM without de codeVideo
Jamie TurnerConvexKeynoteConvex LaunchVideo
Jason LiuIndependentKeynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMsVideo
Jerry LiuLlamaIndexKeynoteThe Future of Knowledge AssistantsVideo
Justine TunneyMozillaKeynoteLlamafile: bringing AI to the masses with fast CPU inferenceVideo
Keelin McDonellGoogleKeynoteGemini and Gemma: Twin models for the real world—
Kevin Van GundyHypermodeKeynoteHypermode LaunchVideo
Nicolas SchlaepferHyperspaceKeynoteHyperspace: More Nodes Is All You NeedVideo
Paul HenryBotDojoKeynoteBotDojo Launch: Enhancing AI Assistants with Evaluations and Synthetic DataVideo
Romain HuetOpenAIKeynoteFrom Text to Vision to Voice: Exploring Multimodality with OpenAIVideo
Satya NittaEmergenceKeynoteEmergence Launch: AI Agents and the future enterpriseVideo
Shreya ShankarUC BerkeleyKeynoteWhat We Learned From A Year of Building With LLMsVideo
Simon WillisonIndependentKeynoteOpen Challenges for AI EngineeringVideo
Stephen HoodMozillaKeynoteLlamafile: bringing AI to the masses with fast CPU inferenceVideo
swyxSmol AIKeynoteAI Engineering Without BordersVideo
Tanmai GopalHasuraKeynoteHasura Launch: Realtime Data Connectivity for AIVideo
Thomas DohmkeGitHubKeynoteCopilots EverywhereVideo
Aaron DignanPlumbSpeakerPlumb Launch: How We Became PlumbersVideo
Ahmed MenshawyMastercardSpeakerNavigating Challenges and Technical Debt in LLMs DeploymentVideo
Aishwarya SrinivasanMicrosoftWorkshopRunning AI Application in Minutes: Quick Start with AI TemplatesVideo
Alex MalebrancheGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer ToolVideo
Alex MalebrancheGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer Tool (Repeat)Video
Alex VolkovWeights & BiasesSpeakerJudging LLMsVideo
Alison CossetteNeo4jExpo sessionNeo4j LLM Knowledge Graph Builder: Unstructured Data to Actionable Insights in Minutes—
Andreas KollegerNeo4jExpo sessionField Guide to Knowledge Graphs—
Andreas KollegerNeo4jWorkshopKnowledge Graphs & GraphRAG: Techniques for Building Effective GenAI ApplicationsVideo
Andreas KollegerNeo4jExpo sessionBuilding Smarter AI Applications with GraphRAG—
Ankur GoyalBraintrustSpeakerHow Zapier Builds AI Products and Features With the Help of BraintrustVideo
Aparna DhinkaranArize AISpeakerLLM Evals That Work IRLVideo
Apoorva JoshiMongoDBWorkshopThe A to Z of Building AI AgentsVideo
Apoorva JoshiMongoDBExpo sessionBuilding Your AI Stack with MongoDB, Cohere, LlamaIndex, and Together AI—
Arjun BansalLog10SpeakerWhat It Actually Takes to Deploy GenAI Applications to EnterprisesVideo
Atita AroraQdrantSpeakerNavigating RAG Optimization with an Evaluation-Driven CompassVideo
Aurimas Griciūnasneptune.aiExpo sessionObservability in LLMOps pipeline - different levels of scale—
Azul GarzaNixtlaExpo sessionBuilding Time Series Foundation Models: The Journey to Success with Nixtla and Microsoft—
Banjo ObayomiAmazon Web ServicesWorkshopBuilding with Generative AI on AWS: A Hands-On StarterVideo
Ben FlastMongoDBSpeakerRAG and the MongoDB Document ModelVideo
Ben HylakDawn AnalyticsSpeakerThe era of unbounded products: Designing for Multimodal I/OVideo
Ben PerlmutterMongoDBExpo sessionKnowledge is the New Uranium—
Ben PerlmutterMongoDBWorkshopThe A to Z of Building AI AgentsVideo
Benjamin FletcherEyeLevelSpeakerEyeLevel Launch: Your RAG is Tripping, Here's the Real Reason WhyVideo
Benjamin SteinPerpetualSpeakerPersonality-Driven Development: Exploring the Frontier of Agents with AttitudeVideo
Beyang LiuSourcegraphLeadership trackThe ROI of AI: Why You Need Eval FrameworksVideo
Cedric VidalMicrosoftWorkshopBuild, Evaluate and Deploy a RAG-based retail copilot with Azure AIVideo
Cedric VidalMicrosoftExpo sessionMulti-model, multimodal, and multi-agent innovations in Azure AIVideo
Chang SheLanceDBSpeakerThe Hierarchy of Needs for Training Dataset DevelopmentVideo
Chris MillerAmazon Web ServicesExpo sessionFull Code Generation - Tips and Tricks—
Chris RecWhyHow.AIExpo sessionBuilding AI Copilot, ERP, and Knowledge Graph startups — Insights from users building Gen AI apps—
Christina WarrenGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer ToolVideo
Christina WarrenGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer Tool (Repeat)Video
Christina WarrenGitHubExpo sessionThe future of programming with GitHub CopilotVideo
Christopher HarrisonGitHubExpo sessionThe future of programming with GitHub CopilotVideo
Damien MurphyDeepgramWorkshopBuilding & Scaling an AI Agent Swarm of low latency real time voice bots!Video
Daniel HanUnslothWorkshopLow Level Technicals of LLMsVideo
Daniel HanUnslothSpeakerFixing bugs in Gemma, Llama & Phi-3Video
Daniel WhitenackPrediction GuardLeadership trackLLM Safeguards: Security, Privacy, Compliance, Anti-HallucinationVideo
Darko MesarosAmazon Web ServicesExpo sessionTame your LLMs with Rust—
Dave BurnisonGitHubExpo sessionGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer ToolVideo
Dave BurnisonGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer Tool (Repeat)Video
David SmithMicrosoftWorkshopBuild, Evaluate and Deploy a RAG-based retail copilot with Azure AIVideo
Deanna EmeryQuotientSpeakerNavigating RAG Optimization with an Evaluation-Driven CompassVideo
Derek BinghamAmazon Web ServicesSpeakerClaude plays Minecraft: Introducing a real world serverless AI to a virtual worldVideo
Devendra ChaplotMistralSpeakerDecoding Mistral AI's Large Language ModelsVideo
Dimitrios PhilliouGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer ToolVideo
Dimitrios PhilliouGitHubWorkshopGitHub Copilot - The World’s Most Widely Adopted AI Developer Tool (Repeat)Video
Dominik KundelTwilio SegmentLeadership trackCooking with fire without burning down the kitchenVideo
Dr Bryan BischofHexLeadership trackHiring & Building an AI Engineering TeamVideo
Dr. Andrew DavisHiddenLayerExpo sessionBuilding security around MLVideo
Dr. Sarah BuchnerTrunk ToolsSpeakerTrunk Tools Launch: Disrupting the $15 Trillion Construction Industry with Autonomous AgentsVideo
Dylan PatelSemiAnalysisSpeakerCompute & System Design for Next Generation Frontier ModelsVideo
Emil EifremNeo4jSpeakerGraphRAG: The Marriage of Knowledge Graphs and RAGVideo
Emil SedghRechatSpeakerHow to construct domain-specific LLM evaluation systems.Video
Eno ReyesFactorySpeakerBuilding Reliable Agentic SystemsVideo
Fabian ValleMongoDBExpo sessionIt’s Not Just Vectors: Augment LLM Capabilities with MongoDB Aggregation Framework—
Fryderyk WiatrowskiZeta GlobalSpeakerWhich Jobs Can Be Replaced TodayVideo
Gabriel PaunescuNaologicExpo sessionBuilding AI Copilot, ERP, and Knowledge Graph startups — Insights from users building Gen AI apps—
Gabriela de QueirozMicrosoftWorkshopRunning AI Application in Minutes: Quick Start with AI TemplatesVideo
Gunjan PatelPalo Alto NetworksSpeakerSelf-Evolving Code with AI: Enhancing Quality and Security in CIVideo
Hamel HusainParlance LabsSpeakerHow to construct domain-specific LLM evaluation systems.Video
Hanchi WangMicrosoftExpo sessionCreating and scaling your own custom copilots with Azure AI StudioVideo
Harald KirschnerMicrosoftWorkshopRunning AI Application in Minutes: Quick Start with AI TemplatesVideo
Heejin JeongTogether AIExpo sessionBuilding Your AI Stack with MongoDB, Cohere, LlamaIndex, and Together AI—
Henry WellerMongoDBExpo sessionVector Search is NOT All You Need—
Holt SkinnerGoogleExpo sessionAutomate the boring stuff with Gemini on Google Cloud Vertex A—
Hubert MisztelaNovartisSpeakerLLM Scientific Reasoning: How to Make AI Capable of Nobel Prize DiscoveriesVideo
Humza IqbalSnorkel AIExpo sessionInsights from Snorkel AI running Azure AI InfrastructureVideo
Ian WebsterDiscordSpeakerIterating on LLM apps at scale: Learnings from DiscordVideo
Ievgen VakulenkoCrusoeSpeakerAccelerating Mixture of Experts Training With Rail-Optimized InfiniBand Networking in Crusoe CloudVideo
Jamie NeuwirthAnthropicWorkshopBuilding with Anthropic's Claude - The Prompt Doctor is InVideo
Jason LiuIndependentSpeakerPydantic is STILL all you needVideo
Jeronim MorinaAXASpeakerOptimizing LLMs in Insurance with DSPy: Beyond Manual TuningVideo
Jerry LiuLlamaIndexLeadership trackRAG for VPs of AIVideo
Jerry LiuLlamaIndexExpo sessionBuilding Your AI Stack with MongoDB, Cohere, LlamaIndex, and Together AI—
João MouraCrewAISpeakerUsing agents to build an agent companyVideo
Jonathan VogelAmazon Web ServicesExpo session10 Tools & Tips to Upgrade Your Legacy Code with GenAI—
Justin McCartyIonic CommerceSpeakerIonic Launch: Opening the economy to AI agentsVideo
Karan GoelCartesia AISpeakerState Space Models for Realtime Multimodal IntelligenceVideo
Karthik SureshIgnitionExpo sessionBuilding AI Copilot, ERP, and Knowledge Graph startups — Insights from users building Gen AI apps—
Kathleen KenealyDeepMindSpeakerUnveiling the latest Gemma model advancementsVideo
Kevin HouWindsurfSpeakerEmbeddings are Stunting Agents: How Codeium Breaks Through the Ceiling for RetrievalVideo
Kibeom LeeSendbirdExpo sessionBuilding a generative AI chatbot for 300+ million users—
Kurtis Van GentGoogleExpo sessionAdvanced RAG use-cases: Accessing your Database with Agents—
Kwindla Hultman KramerDailySpeakerHow to build the world's fastest voice botVideo
Kyle CorbittOpenPipeSpeakerThe GenAI Maturity Curve (or: You Probably Don’t Need Fine-Tuning)Video
Lachlan AinleyMicrosoftExpo sessionInsights from Snorkel AI running Azure AI InfrastructureVideo
Lance MartinLangChainWorkshopArchitecting and Testing Controllable AgentsVideo
Leo PekelisGradientSpeakerTraining Albatross: An Expert Finance LLMVideo
Lin QiaoFireworks AISpeakerMaking Open Models 10x faster and better for Modern Application InnovationVideo
Lukas BiewaldWeights & BiasesLeadership trackProductionizing GenAI Models – Lessons from the world's best AI teamsVideo
Manuel OdendahlThe Tree CenterWorkshopLLMs for the working programmer. Become a 10x programming centaur today!Video
Mark MoyouNVIDIALeadership trackMastering LLM Inference Optimization: From Theory to Cost-Effective DeploymentVideo
Maxime LabonneLiquid TechnologySpeakerEverything you need to know about Finetuning and Merging LLMsVideo
Michael TruellCursorSpeakerCursor: Building the Human-AI Hybrid EngineerVideo
Morgante PellGritSpeakerCode Generation and Maintenance at ScaleVideo
Nathan PeckAmazon Web ServicesExpo sessionCoding with an AI Assistant at your side—
Nicolai BaldinSynthesized.ioExpo sessionUnlocking Success: Synthesized Founders Share Insights on Partnering with Microsoft for Business Growth—
Nikhil ThotaPerplexityExpo sessionBuilding production RAG systems at scale (with 10s of millions users)—
Nischal NadhamuniKlarityLeadership trackE-Values: Evaluating the Values of AIVideo
Noah ShpakCharacter.aiSpeakerThe Hierarchy of Needs for Training Dataset DevelopmentVideo
Olmo MaldonadoZapierSpeakerHow Zapier Builds AI Products and Features With the Help of BraintrustVideo
Pablo CastroMicrosoftExpo sessionRAG at scale: production-ready GenAI apps with Azure AI SearchVideo
Pamela FoxMicrosoftWorkshopRunning AI Application in Minutes: Quick Start with AI TemplatesVideo
Pankaj GuptaBasetenWorkshopFrom model weights to API endpoint with TensorRT-LLMVideo
Patrick DeboisIndependentLeadership trackAI Platform EngineeringVideo
Paul SebexenLambdaExpo sessionTrain LLMs and Foundation-Scale Models Faster with Purpose-Built and Performance Optimized Cloud Infrastructure—
Pedro TorruellaOctoAIWorkshopLLM Quality Optimization BootcampVideo
Pedro TorruellaOctoAIExpo sessionAcceleration is all you need (now): how we boosted inference performance by 10x on OctoStack—
Peter AlbertZeta GlobalSpeakerWhich Jobs Can Be Replaced TodayVideo
Peter CooperCooperPressLeadership trackAI Leadership: Intros—
Peter CooperCooperPressLeadership trackAI Leadership: Opening Discussion—
Peter CooperCooperPressLeadership trackAI Leadership: Opening Discussion 2—
Peter CooperCooperPressLeadership trackAI Leadership: Afternoon Discussion—
Peter CooperCooperPressLeadership trackAI Leadership: Final Discussions 2—
Petro Junior MilanSambaNovaWorkshopBuild enterprise generative AI apps using Llama-3 at 1,000 tokens/s on the SambaNova AI platformVideo
Phil NashDataStaxExpo sessionColBERT at scale with RAGStack—
Philip KielyBasetenWorkshopFrom model weights to API endpoint with TensorRT-LLMVideo
Philip RathleNeo4jLeadership trackUnderstanding AI Stakes to Break Production CodeVideo
Phlo YoungIndependentWorkshopAI Music Generation: From Prompt to ProductionVideo
Phoebe KlettNormal ComputingSpeakerGoing beyond RAG: Extended Mind TransformersVideo
Prakul AgarwalMongoDBExpo sessionBuilding AI Copilot, ERP, and Knowledge Graph startups — Insights from users building Gen AI apps—
Quinn SlackSourcegraphSpeakerThe AI emperor has no DAUs: why most devs still don't use code AIVideo
Rahul PanditaGitHubSpeakerGitHub Next ExplorationsVideo
Ray ThaiFireworks AIExpo sessionOpen-source function calling models with Fireworks AI—
Raza HabibHumanloopLeadership trackReal ROI: Lessons from Enterprises that Have already succeeded with LLMs at ScaleVideo
Rémi LouftxtSpeakerNo more bad outputs with structured generationVideo
Rick LamersGroqExpo sessionTool Calling with Open Source LLMs—
Rob CheungSubstrate AISpeakerSubstrate Launch: the API for modular AIVideo
Rukma SenGoogleExpo sessionLevel Up Your Automation Game: Agentic Workflows on Vertex AIVideo
Ryan Fox-TylerHypermodeWorkshopGit push, get an AI API.Video
Sandra KublikCohereSpeakerBuilding SOTA Open Weights Tool Use: The Command R FamilyVideo
Santosh RadhaAgnostiq (Covalent)SpeakerCovalent Launch: The GPU Cheatcode: Fine-tune 20 Llama Models in 5 MinutesVideo
Sarah KhalifeGitHubExpo sessionGitHub's AI-Powered Security PlatformVideo
Scott StephensonDeepgramSpeakerGiving a Voice to AI AgentsVideo
Scott WuCognitionSpeakerThe Making of DevinVideo
Sharmila ChokalingamMicrosoftExpo sessionAccelerate your AI journey with Azure AI model catalogVideo
Shawn JanseparKhan AcademyLeadership trackScaling AI in Education: A Khanmigo case studyVideo
Sheila GulatiTola CapitalLeadership trackE-Values: Evaluating the Values of AIVideo
Shelby HeineckeSalesforceSpeakerA Practical Guide to Efficient AIVideo
Shreyas SreenivasExaExpo sessionWeb scale vector search at Exa—
Shyamal AnadkatOpenAILeadership trackOpenAI for VPs of AI—
Stefania DrugaGoogleSpeakerThe Multimodal Future of EducationVideo
Sualeh AsifCursorSpeakerCursor: Building the Human-AI Hybrid EngineerVideo
Sumit AgarwalArioSpeakerThe Adversarial Path to the Personal AssistantVideo
Sunny MadraGroqSpeakerBreaking AI’s 1 Gigahertz BarrierVideo
Tamer AbuelsaadEmergenceExpo sessionDeep Dive into Agent-E: A SOTA Open Source Automation Agent—
Taranveer SinghCheggExpo sessionHow Chegg is Building Effective Agentic Applications Using Galileo—
Thierry MoreauOctoAIWorkshopLLM Quality Optimization BootcampVideo
Tirumarai SelvanHasuraExpo sessionThe future of RAG is agentic—
Toki SherbakovOpenAILeadership trackOpenAI for VPs of AI—
Tom RedmanConvexWorkshopBuilding an AI assistant that makes phone callsVideo
Trey DoigEcho AnalyticsSpeakerWhat It Actually Takes to Deploy GenAI Applications to EnterprisesVideo
Varun Badrinath KrishnaSambaNovaWorkshopBuild enterprise generative AI apps using Llama-3 at 1,000 tokens/s on the SambaNova AI platformVideo
Vasek MlejnskyE2BWorkshopHow to add secure code interpreting in your AI appVideo
Vibhor KumarTinderSpeakerAI Frontiers in Trust and Safety: Combatting Multifaceted Harm on Tinder at ScaleVideo
Vikhyat KorrapatiM87 LabsSpeakerMoondream: how does a tiny vision model slap so hard?Video
Vinicius SengerAmazon Web ServicesExpo session10 Tools & Tips to Upgrade Your Legacy Code with GenAI—
Vivek MuppallaCohereExpo sessionBuilding Your AI Stack with MongoDB, Cohere, LlamaIndex, and Together AI—
Vivek MuppallaCohereLeadership trackCohere for VPs of AIVideo
Yash ShethGalileoExpo sessionHow Chegg is Building Effective Agentic Applications Using Galileo—
Yasir Al-IbrahemGitHubExpo sessionRecent Major Releases in GitHub CopilotVideo
YK SugiSourcegraphExpo sessionContext is king - the evolution of a modern AI coding assistant—
Zack WittenAnthropicWorkshopBuilding with Anthropic's Claude - The Prompt Doctor is InVideo

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