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

Monday, October 12

  1. 9:00 AM
    • Marcus Bell (Curator, AI Engineer)

    A survey of what actually shipped in AI engineering over the last twelve months, and what it means for the year ahead.

    Golden Gate BallroomAI Engineering
  2. 10:00 AM
    • Sarah Chen (Staff Engineer, Vectorworks)
    • Elena Novak (Developer Advocate, Vectorworks)

    Hands on workshop. Build a hybrid dense and sparse retrieval pipeline from an empty repo and measure why it beats either one alone.

    Workshop BayRAG & Retrieval
  3. 11:00 AM
    • Rafael Torres (ML Platform Lead, Northbeam)

    We cut inference spend by 71 percent over two quarters. Most of it was not model selection.

    Mission HallLLM Infra
  4. 2:00 PM
    • Daniel Okafor (Principal Engineer, Runloop)

    Every agent framework hand-waves the execution boundary. Here is what actually holds up when the model decides to run rm -rf.

    Golden Gate BallroomAgents & Tool Use
  5. 2:00 PM
    • Maja Lindqvist (Founder, EvalKit)

    Your prompt changed and something broke three weeks later. A practical eval harness you can add to CI this afternoon.

    Golden Gate BallroomEvals & Observability

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