Conferences / AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
AI Engineer Code Summit 2026
Nov 10–12, 2026 · Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, United States Announced
- Conference
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Nov 10, 2026 – Nov 12, 2026
- Venue
- Hilton San Francisco Union Square
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Announced
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- ai.engineer
- Recorded
- 54 sponsors · 93 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Application-only coding-agents summit (in two days at research time). Nov 10 workshops, Nov 11-12 talks + expo; MLH hackathon after. Speakers: published schedule as of 2026-11-08.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop add-on | $299 | — | + fees; workshops Nov 10 | ai.engineer |
| Conference (final & at-door, if application approved) | $1,499 | — | + fees; talks + expo Nov 11-12 | ai.engineer |
Sponsors 54
Title / headline 4
Other 24
- AgentsInTheCloud.com · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Amp · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Aviator · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Baseten · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Composio · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- dbt Labs · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Diffusion · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- E2B · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Firecrawl · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Fivetran · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Gimlet Labs · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Glean · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Gmail · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Goodfire · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Higher Order Co · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- HumanLayer · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Lovable · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Monaco · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Ramp · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Reflection AI · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- UiPath · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- Vercel · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- X · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
- ZoomInfo · SUPPORTING PARTNERS
Speakers and talks 93
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aamir Shakir | Mixedbread | Speaker | How to build agents over your own data | — |
| Ahmad Osman | Osmantic | Workshop | Ahmad Osman, Founder & CEO, Osmantic | — |
| Alex Lebedev | PostHog | Workshop | Our Agents Shipped 6,000 PRs to 600+ Companies in The First Month. Now They Build Features | — |
| Andrew Finch | Sonar | Speaker | Building a Safe Software Factory | — |
| Ankit Jain | — | Speaker | One team's path to trusting AI generated code | — |
| Ankit Mathur | Databricks | Speaker | The Rise of the Agent Workforce: Rethinking Agent Infrastructure | — |
| Armin Ronacher | Earendil | Speaker | Armin Ronacher, CTO, Earendil | — |
| Arsalan Bashir | Sentry | Speaker | Let the Agent Cook: From APIs to Answers | — |
| Arundeep Nagaraj | Amazon Web Services | Workshop | Build your first Kiro Crew app: An agent that triages your backlog while you sleep | — |
| Bradford Chang | Databricks | Workshop | Build a Multi-Agent PR Review and Repair Workflow with Omnigent | — |
| Brandon Thomas | ArtCraft | Speaker | Brandon Thomas, CEO, Artcraft | — |
| Brandon Waselnuk | Unblocked | Speaker | Emitted, not authored: The context layer under your software factory | — |
| Brian Kennedy | ZoomInfo | Speaker | Your Judge Is Hallucinating Too | — |
| Charlie Guo | OpenAI | Workshop | New Ways of Working with Codex | — |
| Chibi Vikram | UiPath | Speaker | J Stack | — |
| Chinmay Goyal | Glean | Speaker | Beyond Generation: Fast, Structured AI Decisions with Jev at Glean | — |
| CJ Avilla | Anthropic | Workshop | Machine trust | — |
| Corey Quinn | The Duckbill Group | Speaker | MC Outro | — |
| Corey Quinn | The Duckbill Group | Speaker | MC Intro | — |
| Dan Kiuna | Amazon Web Services | Workshop | Build your first Kiro Crew app: An agent that triages your backlog while you sleep | — |
| Daniel Balsam | Goodfire | Speaker | Catching Reward Hacking From the Inside | — |
| Daniel Tao | Atlassian | Speaker | Code review without reviewing code | — |
| Devin Gupta | Parallel | Speaker | The first Grounded Decision Model | — |
| Dexter Horthy | Factory | Speaker | 12-Factor-Factories: Design Patterns for Agentic Coding | — |
| Diogo Almeida | TypeSafe AI | Speaker | Diogo Almeida, Co-founder, TypeSafe AI | — |
| Dominik Kundel | OpenAI | Workshop | New Ways of Working with Codex | — |
| Doug Clauson | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Ship more as a team of one with Kiro Crew | — |
| Elise Gonzales | Databricks | Workshop | Build a Multi-Agent PR Review and Repair Workflow with Omnigent | — |
| Erik Hanchett | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Agents That Don't Clock Out | — |
| Erik Thorelli | CodeRabbit | Speaker | Manage Yourself Out of the Loop | — |
| Fabian Hedin | Lovable | Speaker | What it takes to set intelligence free | — |
| Francisco Javier Arceo | Baseten | Workshop | Keep the Harness, Own Your Inference | — |
| Frank Coyle | UC Berkeley | Speaker | From Shared Language to Enforceable Contracts: Ontologies as Guardrails for Agents. | — |
| George Fraser | Fivetran | Speaker | The new job of the data team is providing context to AI | — |
| Ishaan Dey | Speaker | Ishaan Dey, Software Engineer, Google DeepMind (Antigravity) | — | |
| Ivan Leo | Workshop | Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 2) | — | |
| Ivan Leo | Speaker | Coding Agents and How to Tame Them | — | |
| Ivan Leo | Workshop | Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 1) | — | |
| Jacob Prall | Render | Speaker | Refactor or Rot: Building a self-improving codebase | — |
| Jakub Hojsan | Exa | Workshop | Build a personal agent with Exa Search | — |
| James Arthur | Databricks | Speaker | Ground Truth or Dare: Using Oracles to Make Postgres Reactive | — |
| Jarred Sumner | Anthropic | Speaker | Jarred Sumner, Founder of Bun, Anthropic / Bun | — |
| Jason Liu | OpenAI | Speaker | Jason Liu, Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI | — |
| Jeffrey Pinner | Exa | Speaker | What Your AI Doesn't Know: The latest trends in agent searches | — |
| Justin McCarthy | Diffusion | Speaker | Brownfield Factories | — |
| Justin Poehnelt | Helen's Foundry | Speaker | One Rule, One Throwaway Skill: Agent Migrations with ast-grep | — |
| Karan Vaidya | Composio | Speaker | From Coding agents to Knowledge work agents | — |
| Kent C. Dodds | Independent | Workshop | Closing the Agentic Loop: Getting Agents to Safely Build, Verify, and Ship | — |
| Kevin Bernstein | UiPath | Speaker | J Stack | — |
| Khasimul Asif Mohammad | Splunk | Speaker | Heal Your Agents, Don't Just Grade Them | — |
| Killian Carlsen-Phelan | Sonar | Speaker | More Checks, Less Noise: Layered Security for AI-Assisted Development | — |
| Lance Martin | Anthropic | Speaker | Exploring Claude’s frontier | — |
| Lauren Tan | SpaceXSI (xAI) | Speaker | All Code Is Slop (Except Mine) | — |
| Louis Walsh | Exa | Speaker | Your agent pays twice for every search: how we cut token spend by 90+% with better accuracy | — |
| Lucas Meijer | AgentsInTheCloud.com | Workshop | Forget AGI. You're Surrounded by Low-Hanging Fruit. | — |
| Luke Alvoeiro | Factory | Speaker | Earning Autonomy: From Missions to Workstreams | — |
| Lydia Hallie | Anthropic | Speaker | Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices | — |
| Melvin Johnson | Speaker | Post-Training Gemini 4 for Real Engineering Work | — | |
| Michael Liendo | Auth0 | Speaker | Talk But Verify: human-in-the-loop for agents that actually matter | — |
| Michelle Chen | Cloudflare | Speaker | cloudflare is a neolab | — |
| Mihail Eric | Monaco | Speaker | Building World-class Agentic GTM: Learnings from Monaco for Monaco | — |
| Natalie Serrino | Gimlet Labs | Speaker | What Will You Build When AI Is 10x Faster? | — |
| Nikhil Harithas | Factory | Speaker | CVE remediation with Factory: from finding to merged PR | — |
| Owen Kephart | Vercel | Workshop | Build Your Own Agent Harness with eve and Vercel | — |
| Philip Kiely | Baseten | Speaker | Inference Engineering for Coding Agents | — |
| Philipp Schmid | Workshop | Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 2) | — | |
| Philipp Schmid | Speaker | I deleted 90% of my harness (And It Got Better) | — | |
| Philipp Schmid | Workshop | Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 1) | — | |
| Quinn Slack | Amp | Speaker | Quinn Slack, CEO, Amp | — |
| Raz Berman Gold | Overcut | Speaker | The Software Factory That Needs Zero FDEs | — |
| Richelle J. | Featherless AI | Speaker | MC Intro | — |
| Richelle J. | Featherless AI | Speaker | MC Outro | — |
| Ross Cefalu | Factory | Workshop | Stop Prompting, Start Delegating: Hand off work to a team of agents | — |
| Sajid Mehmood | Niteshift | Speaker | Leaving Localhost: Building an Agent-Native Dev Environment | — |
| Scott Roberts | — | Speaker | Scott Roberts, Workday | — |
| Scott Tolinski | Syntax | Speaker | The True Cost of AI Coding | — |
| Simon Willison | — | Speaker | Simon Willison, Creator of Datasette, Independent | — |
| Steve Yegge | Independent | Speaker | Steve Yegge, Independent Advisor & Creator of Beads & Gas Town, Independent | — |
| Sudhir Tonse | Splunk | Speaker | Heal Your Agents, Don't Just Grade Them | — |
| Sydney Runkle | LangChain | Speaker | Sydney Runkle, Product Manager, LangChain | — |
| Taylor Luttrell-Williams | Sonar | Workshop | Hands-on Gitar: An AI Code Verification Agent for Your CI | — |
| Taylor Luttrell-Williams | Sonar | Speaker | More Checks, Less Noise: Layered Security for AI-Assisted Development | — |
| Tejas Kumar | — | Workshop | Build a Coding Agent Harness From an Empty Loop | — |
| Thariq Shihipar | — | Speaker | Thariq Shihipar, Independent | — |
| Theodor Marcu | Cognition | Speaker | Scaling Your Agent Workforce: Lessons from Inside Cognition | — |
| Thor Schaeff | Workshop | Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 1) | — | |
| Thor Schaeff | Workshop | Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 2) | — | |
| Utkarsh Shrivastava | Netflix | Speaker | Building a Shared AI Assistant: The Platform Challenges Beyond MCP | — |
| Vasek Mlejnsky | E2B | Speaker | Sandboxes are dead | — |
| Walden Yan | Cognition | Speaker | Walden Yan, Chief Product Officer, Cognition | — |
| Yacine Mahdid | Datadom | Workshop | A Field Guide to Agent Shapes: From Long-Horizon to Open-Ended | — |
| Zach Bruggeman | Ramp | Speaker | How to build an agent that builds the culture | — |
| Zach Lloyd | Warp | Speaker | Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering | — |