AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

Three days of talks and workshops for engineers building with LLMs. San Francisco, October 12-14, 2026.

6 sessions

Time	Golden Gate Ballroom	Mission Hall	Workshop Bay
9 AM	Opening Keynote: What Changed This Year Marcus Bell (Curator, AI Engineer) AI Engineering

10 AM	Your RAG Pipeline Is Lying To You Sarah Chen RAG & Retrieval		Hybrid Search in Ninety Minutes Sarah Chen (Staff Engineer, Vectorworks) Elena Novak (Developer Advocate, Vectorworks) RAG & Retrieval Hands on workshop. Build a hybrid dense and sparse retrieval pipeline from an empty repo and measure why it beats either one alone.

11 AM		The Inference Bill: A Postmortem Rafael Torres LLM Infra

12 PM

1 PM

2 PM	Sandboxing Agents Without Losing Your Mind Daniel Okafor Agents & Tool Use