Conferences / AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
AI Engineer New York 2026
Oct 12–14, 2026 · Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY, United States
- Conference
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Oct 12, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026
- Venue
- Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
- Place
- New York, NY, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,000Event page: '1,000+ In-person AI engineers & leaders' and '150K+ remote livestream attendees' (figures as of the event).
- Website
- ai.engineer
- Recorded
- 101 sponsors · 179 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Finance-focused flagship ('Where AI engineering meets financial services'). Oct 12 workshops; Oct 13-14 keynotes and breakouts. Engineering and Leadership tickets sold out (prices not published on page). Speakers: full official schedule with companies; video links are livestream timestamps from ai.engineer/nyc/2026/talks where matched.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 101
Title / headline 1
- Arize AI · Presenting Sponsor
Gold 30
Silver 22
Other 44
- Anthropic · Supporting Partners
- Apollo Global Management · Supporting Partners
- Arca · Supporting Partners
- Arena Investors LP / CC Aventus · Supporting Partners
- Artificial Analysis · Supporting Partners
- Axim Intelligence · Supporting Partners
- Basis · Supporting Partners
- Blitzy · Supporting Partners
- Bloomberg · Supporting Partners
- Bridgewater Associates · Supporting Partners
- Cerebras · Supporting Partners
- Coatue · Supporting Partners
- Coinbase · Supporting Partners
- Compound AI · Supporting Partners
- Coval · Supporting Partners
- CTC (Itochu Techno-Solutions) · Supporting Partners
- Entire · Supporting Partners
- Epsilab · Supporting Partners
- Featherless AI · Supporting Partners
- Fieldguide · Supporting Partners
- General Intuition · Supporting Partners
- imec · Supporting Partners
- Jellyfish · Supporting Partners
- Jump Trading · Supporting Partners
- Kaggle · Supporting Partners
- Kepler · Supporting Partners
- LaunchDarkly · Supporting Partners
- LinqAlpha · Supporting Partners
- McKinsey & Company · Supporting Partners
- Nous Research · Supporting Partners
- Omni · Supporting Partners
- OpenProse · Supporting Partners
- Parallel · Supporting Partners
- Parasail · Supporting Partners
- Primitive · Supporting Partners
- Ramp · Supporting Partners
- Revolut · Supporting Partners
- Rowspace · Supporting Partners
- Runway · Supporting Partners
- Samaya AI · Supporting Partners
- San Francisco Compute Company · Supporting Partners
- Together AI · Supporting Partners
- Towards AI · Supporting Partners
- Two Sigma · Supporting Partners
Speakers and talks 179
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Linsky | Bridgewater Associates | Keynote | Vault: Making Unstructured Data Work for Investing | Video |
| Alexander Shevchenko | Ramp | Keynote | Chasing capabilities while waiting for the frontier | Video |
| Andrey Rybka | Bloomberg | Keynote | Security in the Age of AI: Recent Attacks, Incidents & Defenses | Video |
| Aparna Dhinakaran | Arize AI | Keynote | What does an AI engineer do? | Video |
| Belinda Neal | Anthropic | Keynote | Anthropic: Accelerating frontier AI in Financial Services. | — |
| Cristóbal Valenzuela | Runway | Keynote | Everything will be Simulated | Video |
| Dillon Rolnick | Nous Research | Keynote | Hermes gives you wings: Build on open foundations. | Video |
| Evan Kormos | Coinbase | Keynote | Trusting Agents in Policy-Driven Workflows | Video |
| Frank Long | Coatue | Keynote | A Hedge Fund as a Function | Video |
| Jack McDonald | Apollo Global Management | Keynote | AI in Practice: An Inside Look at Apollo's Approach | Video |
| John Feminella | Two Sigma | Keynote | Balancing Acceleration and Safety for AI Agents | Video |
| Joseph Kim | OpenAI | Keynote | Building the Next Chapter of AI in Finance | Video |
| Keon Shahab | Anthropic | Keynote | Anthropic: Accelerating frontier AI in Financial Services. | — |
| Max Kanat-Alexander | Capital One | Keynote | Does Code Quality Even Matter? | Video |
| Michael Manapat | Rowspace | Keynote | AI in Practice: An Inside Look at Apollo's Approach | Video |
| Mitchell Troyanovsky | Basis | Keynote | Process Supervision for Agents That Do Long-Horizon Work | Video |
| Pim de Witte | General Intuition | Keynote | Frontier Models for Acting in Space and Time | Video |
| Sam Green | Bridgewater Associates | Keynote | Vault: Making Unstructured Data Work for Investing | Video |
| Tariq Shaukat | Sonar | Keynote | The Machine that Changed the World, vAI | Video |
| Aamir Shakir | Mixedbread | Speaker | Building an Evidence Layer for Financial Agents | — |
| Aaron Linsky | Bridgewater Associates | Speaker | Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret? | — |
| Adam Nahari | Apollo Global Management | Speaker | Turning AI Into Operating Margin: A Field Report from Private Equity | — |
| Addy Osmani | Anthropic | Speaker | Who verifies the software factory? | — |
| Adit Abraham | Reducto | Speaker | How Raj Led Datasite’s AI and Data Transformation at Scale with Reducto | — |
| Affaan Mustafa | Jump Trading | Speaker | The Dark Pools of Compute | Video |
| Akshat Bubna | Modal | Speaker | Great Agents Start with Great Infrastructure | Video |
| Al Chen | Cisco | Speaker | Deploying AI Inside 5 Major Banks Without the 12-Month Compliance Bottleneck | — |
| Alejandro Soumah Fernandez | Jump Trading | Speaker | The Dark Pools of Compute | Video |
| Alex Lieberman | Tenex | Speaker | Closing Remarks | Video |
| Alex Lieberman | Tenex | Speaker | Welcome Back - Featured Keynotes | Video |
| Alex Lieberman | Tenex | Speaker | Welcome Remarks | Video |
| Allie Howe | Keycard | Speaker | Intent Based Auth | Video |
| Aman Singh | Arca | Speaker | Inside Arca’s long-horizon agents that run the business | Video |
| Amol Kapoor | Nori Agentic | Speaker | The Automated Security Master: keeping your master database clean with agents | Video |
| Andrew Norrish | Sourcegraph | Speaker | AI's Trust Layer for Wall Street: SRE & Platform Engineering | — |
| Anekha Sokhal | Moshi | Speaker | The best context isn't in your database. It's in the investor's head. | — |
| Anirudh Veeraragavan | Fieldguide | Speaker | Your Financial Agent Passed Every Eval. Can You Defend Its Decision? | — |
| Annabell Schäfer | Langfuse | Workshop | Langfuse Workshop - Evals and Observability in regulated Industries | — |
| Arik Bird | Browserbase | Speaker | How to build financial agents that work across the web | — |
| Ashwin Paranjape | Samaya AI | Speaker | Agents Can Rewrite Compilers. Why Can't They Pick Stocks? | — |
| Ben Dicken | PlanetScale | Speaker | PlanetScale Q&A + Merch Drop | — |
| Ben Holmes | Warp | Speaker | Your agent needs a skill to improve its skills | — |
| Brooke Hopkins | Coval | Speaker | From Human Review to Self-Healing Agents: How Upstart Evaluates Voice AI at Regulated-Lending Scale | — |
| Cameron Wolfe | Netflix | Speaker | A Roadmap for Evaluating Highly-Subjective Tasks | — |
| Carmen Li | Compute Exchange | Speaker | CEO, Compute Exchange | Video |
| Chanyeol Choi | LinqAlpha | Speaker | Why Frontier Models Fail on Billion Dollar Portfolios | — |
| Chris Vela | Runpod | Speaker | From Model to Metrics: Serving and Benchmarking Any LLM Live with vLLM and Runpod | — |
| CJ Avilla | Anthropic | Workshop | Orchestrating Claude Managed Agents | — |
| Clifford Ressel | Nori Agentic | Speaker | The Automated Security Master: keeping your master database clean with agents | Video |
| Cole Gannaway | Qodo | Speaker | AI in Production: Maintaining Quality and Trust as Output Scales | — |
| Cova Lee | OpenAI | Workshop | The Agentic Content System Behind 200M Views | — |
| Daksh Gupta | Greptile | Speaker | How to build an AI code review agent: from the creators of Greptile | — |
| Dan Barrett | OpenProse | Workshop | Event-Based Multi-Agent Financial Workflows with Only Markdown | — |
| David Abitbol | Revolut | Speaker | Shipping like a startup, regulated like a bank | Video |
| Denys Linkov | Wisedocs | Workshop | What unstructured data unlocks for Insurance AI programs | — |
| Dick Hardt | AAuth | Speaker | Intent Based Auth | Video |
| Doneyli De Jesus | Langfuse | Workshop | Langfuse Workshop - Evals and Observability in regulated Industries | — |
| Doneyli De Jesus | Langfuse | Speaker | Building Deployment Gates for AI Agents in Financial Services | — |
| Emil Chetty | Wise | Speaker | Stop turning your Humans Into APIs for your Agents | — |
| Eugene Cheah | Featherless AI | Workshop | The AI Bill Is Too Damn High – Tokenomics 101 | — |
| Evan Conrad | San Francisco Compute Company | Speaker | How Compute Markets Work | Video |
| Felippe Felisola Caso | Monzo | Speaker | Compound value from building Monzo’s in-house agent using LLMs* | — |
| Felippe Felisola Caso | Monzo | Workshop | Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets: Build a Financial Analyst Harness That You Can Trust | — |
| Ford Prior | GEICO | Speaker | Inside the Fable War Room | — |
| Francesco Galletta | Monzo | Workshop | Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets: Build a Financial Analyst Harness That You Can Trust | — |
| Francesco Galletta | Monzo | Speaker | Compound value from building Monzo’s in-house agent using LLMs* | — |
| Freddy Lecue | Wells Fargo | Speaker | Wells Fargo Foundation Model: Application to Fraud Detection at Scale | Video |
| Fuad Ali | Arize AI | Speaker | 2 years of shipping a production agent: what we rebuilt and what we kept | — |
| Fuad Ali | Arize AI | Workshop | Agents that Self Improve While You Sleep | — |
| Gareth Yoder | Vanguard | Speaker | No Cash Left Behind: Vanguard's Ledger Modernization Journey | — |
| George Cameron | Artificial Analysis | Speaker | Artificial Analysis - Optimizing the Cost of Intelligence | — |
| Hahnbee Lee | Mintlify | Speaker | Developer Docs as Knowledge Infrastructure for Fintech | — |
| Hari Kumar | Contour Asset Management | Speaker | Proving Alpha: Showcasing AI's Value in Fundamental Investing | — |
| Harneet Kaur | Axim Intelligence | Speaker | Can AI Understand a Distressed Credit? | — |
| Harrison Stall | Anthropic | Workshop | Orchestrating Claude Managed Agents | — |
| Hassan El Mghari | Together AI | Speaker | Can AI Reconstruct a Company? | — |
| Ian Livingstone | Keycard | Speaker | Intent Based Auth | Video |
| Isabelle Williams | WorkOS | Speaker | Your Next User Is an Agent | — |
| Ishween Kaur | SoFi | Speaker | Your Agent Just Paid for Nothing (6 Attacks on x402 Payments) | — |
| Jack Haverty | LinqAlpha | Speaker | Why Frontier Models Fail on Billion Dollar Portfolios | — |
| Jack Woodruff | Kepler | Speaker | AI and the Future of Fundamental Investing | Video |
| Jack Wotherspoon | Speaker | Build your own team of managed agents | — | |
| Jan Curn | Apify | Speaker | Agents can pay. So why don’t they? | — |
| Janie Gu | Speaker | Why Frontier Models Fail on Billion Dollar Portfolios | — | |
| Jason Mancuso | Modal | Speaker | Scaling Agentic RL Across the Globe | — |
| Jay Sahnan | Browserbase | Speaker | How to build financial agents that work across the web | — |
| Jediah Katz | SpaceX Super Intelligence | Speaker | The Model Ate the Coding Harness. Now What? | — |
| Jeff Smith | Oracle | Speaker | Your Agent Wants Your Data: Securing MCP Database Access from the Ground Up | — |
| Jemima Abu | CAIS | Speaker | Stop Wasting Tokens on Products People Can’t Use | — |
| Jesse Hall | LiveKit | Speaker | Building Humanlike Voice Agents for Financial Services | — |
| Joao Wenzel | Citadel | Speaker | Your Company Has No Model of Itself: Bootstrapping a World Model from Slack, Decks and Meetings | Video |
| John Stecher | Blackstone | Speaker | Built to Scale: Future-Proofing Your Technology Roadmap | Video |
| Jonathan Osborne | NatWest Group | Speaker | From Agent Prototype to Production in Regulated Banking | — |
| Jose Montes de Oca | OpenProse | Workshop | Event-Based Multi-Agent Financial Workflows with Only Markdown | — |
| Kamil Potrec | Keycard | Speaker | Who is making the request? Agent Auth 101 via gateways + SDKs | — |
| Kevin Madura | AlixPartners | Speaker | Claude Code, Financial Analyst: Turning a Coding Agent Loose on Governed Enterprise Data | — |
| Killian Carlsen-Phelan | Sonar | Speaker | Sonar Vortex saves you time and tokens | — |
| Killian Carlsen-Phelan | Sonar | Workshop | Hands-on Gitar: SonarQube’s AI code verification agent | — |
| Kim Maida | Keycard | Workshop | Secure, durable agents with Keycard and Temporal | — |
| Ksenia Se | Turing Post | Speaker | Welcome Remarks | Video |
| Ksenia Se | Turing Post | Speaker | Welcome Back - Featured Keynotes | Video |
| Ksenia Se | Turing Post | Speaker | Closing Remarks | Video |
| Lance Martin | Anthropic | Workshop | Unhobbling the Frontier | — |
| Laurie Voss | Arize AI | Speaker | The Rise of the Product Engineer | — |
| Laurie Voss | Arize AI | Workshop | Evaluations with Phoenix 101 | — |
| Lia McBride | AI Engineer | Speaker | AIE Welcome from GM, Lia McBride | — |
| Lincoln Murr | Coinbase | Speaker | Building the Financial Account for Agents | — |
| Lincoln Murr | Coinbase | Speaker | Developer Docs as Knowledge Infrastructure for Fintech | — |
| Louis-François Bouchard | Towards AI | Speaker | Can Any Model Write Like Me? Building a Benchmark for Creative Writing | — |
| Manish Kapur | Sonar | Speaker | Who verifies the software factory? | — |
| Martin Harrysson | McKinsey & Company | Speaker | Building Agentic PDLC Systems that Scale | — |
| Mason Egger | Temporal | Workshop | Secure, durable agents with Keycard and Temporal | — |
| Matt Ragone | Range | Speaker | We Let Our Financial Planners Write the Agents | Video |
| Maty Bohacek | Stanford University | Speaker | The Human Verification Bottleneck: What agents do when a human is the only thing in the way | — |
| Michael Davis | JPMC | Speaker | Intent Based Auth | Video |
| Mikyo King | Arize AI | Speaker | Code Mode: your agent should write code | — |
| Milind Sunil Shah | Brainbase Labs | Speaker | Hill-Climbing “Back-Office” Agents: Cost, Reliability, and Feedback Loops | — |
| Mislav Ivanda | Daytona | Speaker | Give the Model a Computer: The One Thing Every AI Agent Framework Agrees On | — |
| Morgan Suo | MiniMax | Speaker | The Hidden Costs of a Faster Model | — |
| Nacho Martinez | Oracle | Workshop | Agent = Model + Harness: Build your own Memory-Aware AML AI Agent Harness for Financial Crime Detection | — |
| Natalia Connolly | AlixPartners | Speaker | Claude Code, Financial Analyst: Turning a Coding Agent Loose on Governed Enterprise Data | — |
| Nathanael Weill | Air Canada | Speaker | Write the Answer First: Generating Eval Datasets for Agents With No Benchmark | — |
| Neeraj Deshmukh | Blitzy | Speaker | The Map Beneath Modern Finance | — |
| Nicholas Arcolano | Jellyfish | Speaker | It's Not the Model, It's You | — |
| Nick Nisi | WorkOS | Speaker | Are You Smarter Than a Fruit Fly? | — |
| Nick Nisi | WorkOS | Workshop | Beyond “Done”: Building Verification Loops for AI Agents | — |
| Nikhil Benesch | turbopuffer | Speaker | Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret? | — |
| Nikhil Harithas | Factory | Speaker | Decoupling Agents from Infrastructure | — |
| Noyan Tokgozoglu | Optiver | Speaker | Scaling AI with P&L on the line | — |
| Oliver Kennon | SemiAnalysis | Speaker | Not All GPU's Are Deployed The Same | Video |
| Oliver Steffmann | OpenAI | Workshop | Building a Wealth Management Concierge in ChatGPT Work | — |
| Omar El Mghari | PMSOX LLC | Speaker | Can AI Reconstruct a Company? | — |
| Patrick Smyth | Chainguard | Speaker | How frontier AI changes tolerable risk for open source security in financial services | — |
| Philipp Schmid | Speaker | Coding an Autonomous Wall Street Coworker: Custom Skills, Connectors, and Event Hooks | Video | |
| Prakhar Dixit | McKinsey & Company | Speaker | Building Agentic PDLC Systems that Scale | — |
| Prathik Naidu | Long Lake | Speaker | Buy, Then Deploy: Using M&A to Drive AI Transformation | — |
| Pratyusha Duvvuri | — | Speaker | From AI Usage to Enterprise Decisions: Tokenomics Across the Organization | — |
| Raj Bakhru | Datasite | Speaker | How Raj Led Datasite’s AI and Data Transformation at Scale with Reducto | — |
| Ramakrishnan Lokanathan | eSlams.com | Speaker | When AI Fails: Designing Evaluation Systems for High Stakes Applications | — |
| Rayan Krishnan | Vals AI | Speaker | Beyond the Model Card: The Jagged Frontier of AI in Finance | Video |
| Raymond Weitekamp | OpenProse | Workshop | Event-Based Multi-Agent Financial Workflows with Only Markdown | — |
| Richard Feldman | Zed | Speaker | From Sharing Code to Sharing Agents | — |
| Richmond Alake | Oracle | Speaker | The Intelligence Plane: What your agents know, remember and learn | — |
| Ryan Ahern | Exa | Workshop | Build a better prophet: backtest today’s agent against yesterday’s web | — |
| Ryan Ahern | Exa | Speaker | Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot | — |
| Ryan Carson | Untangle | Speaker | Your job is now "agent manager" | — |
| Ryan Stevens | Ramp | Speaker | Building Better Agents Through End-to-End Evals | — |
| Sagar Batchu | Speakeasy | Speaker | Permission to Act: Giving Agents Authority in Regulated Industries | — |
| SallyAnn DeLucia | Arize AI | Workshop | AI Evaluation 101 | — |
| Sarah Chieng | Cerebras | Workshop | The Agentic Content System Behind 200M Views | — |
| Sauraj Gambhir | Prior Labs | Speaker | Tabular Foundation Models in Finance | — |
| Scott Worland | Norm.ai | Speaker | Built to Scale: Future-Proofing Your Technology Roadmap | Video |
| Shiv Indap | Upstart | Speaker | From Human Review to Self-Healing Agents: How Upstart Evaluates Voice AI at Regulated-Lending Scale | — |
| Shy Ruparel | Temporal | Speaker | State of the Agent: Reliability, Observability, and the Gap Between Them | — |
| Sid Pednekar | — | Speaker | Everyone Has AI. Who Has the Advantage? | Video |
| Sofia Jakovcevic | Arize AI | Speaker | Your agent fix just broke something else | — |
| Stefano Fabbri | OpenAI | Workshop | Building a Wealth Management Concierge in ChatGPT Work | — |
| Stephanie Jarmak | Omni | Speaker | Lies, Damned Lies, and Evals: How to trust your agents when the stakes are high | — |
| Stephen Chin | Neo4j | Speaker | The Map Beneath Modern Finance | — |
| Steven Latré | imec | Speaker | Benchmarking the Full Stack: From Silicon to Harness. | — |
| Supriya Subudhi | Bumble | Speaker | A/B Testing AI Products Is Weird: What Changes When the Product Is Probabilistic | — |
| Suyeol Yun | LinqAlpha | Speaker | Why Frontier Models Fail on Billion Dollar Portfolios | — |
| Tanmay Sah | — | Speaker | 1,368 AI Failures: What They Teach Us About System Evals | — |
| Taylor Luttrell-Williams | Sonar | Workshop | Hands-on Gitar: SonarQube’s AI code verification agent | — |
| Taylor Luttrell-Williams | Sonar | Speaker | Hunt before you're hunted: SonarQube Hunter Agent in action | — |
| Tim Tyler | Gravitee | Speaker | Why Are We Still Governing AI Like Software? | — |
| Tom Moor | Linear | Speaker | Your Coding Agent Has a Context Problem | — |
| Vinoo Ganesh | Kepler | Speaker | AI and the Future of Fundamental Investing | Video |
| Vinoo Ganesh | Kepler | Speaker | Why Wall Street Still Doesn’t Trust AI | Video |
| Vinoo Ganesh | Kepler | Speaker | Do Not Let Models Invent Numbers | — |
| Vishal Srivastava | New York Life Insurance Company | Speaker | 1,368 AI Failures: What They Teach Us About System Evals | — |
| Will Brown | Prime Intellect | Speaker | Self-Improving Organizations | Video |
| Wojciech Pluta | Oracle | Speaker | From RAG to Memory: Building Agents That Remember | — |
| Xander Song | Arize AI | Workshop | Harbor Intro: Shipping agents on evidence, not vibes | — |
| Yijia Liang | Compound AI | Speaker | Towards Autonomous Analysts in Finance | Video |
| Zach Lloyd | Warp | Speaker | Building a self-improving software factory | — |
| Zachary Blumenfeld | Neo4j | Speaker | Graph Engineering 101: Predictability, Governance, Portability | — |
| Zack Proser | WorkOS | Workshop | Beyond “Done”: Building Verification Loops for AI Agents | — |
| Zack Proser | WorkOS | Speaker | Factories of Loving Grace | — |