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QCon AI Boston 2026
Jun 1–2, 2026 · George Sherman Union, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 2, 2026
- Venue
- George Sherman Union, Boston University
- Place
- Boston, MA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- boston.qcon.ai
- Recorded
- 13 sponsors · 53 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Talks from boston.qcon.ai/schedule/boston2026 (unconference slots omitted). Rooms (Metcalf Hall, Terrace Lounge) are in BU's George Sherman Union, the venue also announced for 2027.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference (2 days) (until May 12) | $1,490 | May 12, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (2 days) (after May 12) | $1,590 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 13
Bronze 1
Speakers and talks 53
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lizzie Matusov | Quotient | Keynote | The Five Stages of AI Maturity in Engineering Organizations — Where and Why Teams Get Stuck | — |
| Martin Spier | OpenAI | Keynote | Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates | — |
| Meryem Arik | Doubleword | Keynote | A Few Predicted Talks From QConAI 2030 | — |
| Aditya Mulik | Walmart | Speaker | Batch Intelligence at Scale: Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent LLM Workflows with Built-In Resilience | — |
| Adrianna Valle | Klaviyo | Speaker | Your Newest Employee Has Sudo Access: Blueprints to Stop AI Insider Threats | — |
| Advait Patel | Broadcom | Speaker | Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship | — |
| Ajay Prakash | Speaker | Context Engineering at LinkedIn: How We Built an Organizational Context Layer for AI Agents with MCP | — | |
| Alex Porcelli | Aletyx | Speaker | Decision Models in Agentic Architectures: From Production to Agent Skills | — |
| Andrew Swerdlow | Roblox | Speaker | Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale | — |
| Anuj Tambwekar | Vijil | Speaker | The Trust Lifecycle for Safe, Secure and Reliable AI Agents | — |
| Ben Maraney | Forter | Speaker | From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in 2 Weeks | — |
| Bhumik Vinodkumar Thakkar | Apple | Speaker | Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray | — |
| Brandon Waselnuk | Unblocked | Speaker | Building the Context Engine AI Agents Need | — |
| Brendan O’Leary | Kilo Code | Speaker | What 25 Trillion Tokens Reveal About How Developers Actually Adopt AI Agents | — |
| Bruna Pereira | DoorDash | Speaker | SafeChat: Building AI-Powered Safety Systems at Scale in a Real-Time Marketplace | — |
| Cassie Shum | RelationalAI | Speaker | From Retrieval to Reasoning: Building Production-Ready Agentic AI Systems with Knowledge Graphs | — |
| Catherine Weeks | Red Hat | Speaker | AI First, Quality Always: Agentic SDLC Adoption Case Study | — |
| Daniyar Mussakulov | 3T Software Labs | Speaker | Leverage AI to Protect Your Data Assets... from AI | — |
| Deepak Mohanakumar Chandramouli | Apple | Speaker | Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray | — |
| Dio Rettori | JPMorgan Chase | Speaker | Inferencing for Enterprises | — |
| Elliot Penson | Klaviyo | Speaker | Klaviyo Customer Agent: Building Bi-Directional Conversational Commerce at Scale | — |
| Erik Peterson | CloudZero | Speaker | You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I. | — |
| Fabiane Nardon | Totvs | Speaker | Architecting the Data Layer for AI Agents: From Transactional Systems to MCP and Semantic Models | — |
| Francesca Lazzeri | Microsoft | Speaker | From Natural Language to Trusted AI: A Hybrid Architecture for Safe, Accurate, and Context-Aware AI Query Generation | — |
| Hannes Hapke | Dataiku | Speaker | Opening the Black Box: Critical Explainability for AI Agent Tool Selection with Kiji Inspector | — |
| Hugo Guerrero | Kong | Speaker | From Prompt Hacking to Architectural Determinism: Engineering Reliable GenAI Systems | — |
| Hugo Guerrero | Kong | Speaker | Solving Context Bloat: Semantic Tool Routing in Multi-Server MCP Environments | — |
| Jatin Aneja | Zoox | Speaker | From Hype to Habit: Conquering AI Adoption at Zoox | — |
| Jordan Nanos | SemiAnalysis | Speaker | From Fab To Token - The State Of The Market | — |
| Julien Godfroid | Cast AI | Speaker | Making AI Reliable in the SDLC: The Role of Deterministic Context at Scale | — |
| Khawaja Shams | Momento | Speaker | Serving LLMs at Scale: The Hidden KV Cache Advantage | — |
| Liang Zhang | Klaviyo | Speaker | Autonomous Marketing at Klaviyo: Architecting Composer and 1:1 Personalization at Scale | — |
| Mallika Rao | Zocdoc | Speaker | Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design | — |
| Manju Rajashekhar | Mad Labs | Speaker | Actors for Agents: Patterns for Production AI | — |
| Max Kozinenko | SoftServe | Speaker | Making AI Reliable in the SDLC: The Role of Deterministic Context at Scale | — |
| Neil Mansilla | Barndoor | Speaker | The MCP Megalith: Surviving the 1,000-Tool Explosion and Auth Fragmentation | — |
| Niko Matsakis | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | RIIIR: Rewrite It In *Idiomatic* Rust (with AI) | — |
| Nimisha Asthagiri | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents | — |
| Nnenna Ndukwe | Qodo | Speaker | Make Quality Executable: Verification Gates for Agentic Engineering at Scale | — |
| Pratik Rasam | Spotify | Speaker | Multi-Agent Patterns from Spotify’s AI Powered Advertising Platform | — |
| Rachel Shalom | Dell Technologies | Speaker | Finetuning Your Embedding Model for Better Search: Learning from Agentic Search at Dell | — |
| Ricardo Ferreira | CVS Health | Speaker | Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI | — |
| Robert Brennan | OpenHands | Speaker | Vibecoding your Own Multi-Agent Workstation | — |
| Siddharth Kodwani | DoorDash | Speaker | Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash | — |
| Sudeep Das | DoorDash | Speaker | From Models to Agents: Building Context-Aware Consumer AI at Scale at DoorDash | — |
| Sundara Raman Ramachandran | Speaker | Scaling LLM-Based Ranking Systems for Latency-Critical Search & Recommendation Workloads | — | |
| Susan Chang | Elastic | Speaker | Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products | — |
| Swaroop Chitlur | DoorDash | Speaker | Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash | — |
| Terran Melconian | Zillow | Speaker | Decision-Driven Evaluation for Generative AI | — |
| Venugopal Jidigam | Wavemaker | Speaker | From Demo to Production: Why Agentic AI Systems Fail—and How to Fix Them | — |
| Vinoth Govindarajan | OpenAI | Speaker | The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents | — |
| Viren Baraiya | Orkes | Speaker | Beyond Sandboxes: Architecting Durable Runtimes for AI Agents | — |
| Zhou Yu | Arklex.ai | Speaker | From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation | — |
Sources
- https://boston.qcon.ai/schedule/boston2026
- https://boston.qcon.ai/venue
- https://www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/qcon-ai-boston-2026-june-1-2-the-ai-conference-for-senior-developers-architects-and-engineers
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260606075921/https://boston.qcon.ai/sponsors/boston2026
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260511023227/https://boston.qcon.ai/pricing-table/boston2026