AI Engineer World's Fair 2025
Tuesday, 3 June 2025 – Thursday, 5 June 2025 Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA
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ComfyUI
Tue 3 Jun, 09:00 – 09:50·Salons 2-6: Workshops
Quick introduction to ComfyUI and what's new followed by a QA session.
- Comfy Anonymous Original creator of ComfyUI
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Advanced: Reinforcement Learning, Kernels, Reasoning, Quantization & Agents
Tue 3 Jun, 09:00 – 12:00·Foothill C: Workshops
Why is Reinforcement Learning (RL) suddenly everywhere, and is it truly effective? Have LLMs hit a plateau in terms of intelligence and capabilities, or is RL the breakthrough they…
- Daniel Han CEO
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Intro to GraphRAG
Tue 3 Jun, 09:00 – 10:20·Golden Gate Ballroom C: Workshops
Learn the foundations of GraphRAG, starting with knowledge graph construction and then common retrieval patterns.
- Zach Blumenfeld Graph Data Science & AI Specialist, Neo4j
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A2A & MCP: Automating Business Processes with LLMs
Tue 3 Jun, 09:00 – 10:20·Foothill G1&2: Workshops
Ever wished your webhooks could think for themselves? Join us to discover how A2A agents can transform passive webhook endpoints into intelligent workflow processors. In this…
- Damien Murphy Founding Engineer
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Introduction to LLM serving with SGLang
Tue 3 Jun, 09:00 – 10:20·SOMA: Workshops
Do you want to learn how to serve models like DeepSeek and Qwen with SOTA speeds on launch day? SGLang is an open-source fast serving framework for LLMs and VLMs that generates…
- Philip Kiely Head of Developer Relations
- Yineng Zhang Inference lead at SGLang
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Beyond Benchmarks: Strategies for Evaluating LLMs in Production
Tue 3 Jun, 09:00 – 10:20·Nobhill A&B: Workshops
Accuracy scores and leaderboard metrics look impressive—but production-grade AI requires evals that reflect real-world performance, reliability, and user happiness. Traditional…
- Taylor Jordan Smith Senior Developer Advocate
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Useful General Intelligence
Tue 3 Jun, 09:30 – 10:30·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Workshops
We’re all hearing that AI agents will enable AGI, but they can’t yet reliably perform even basic computer tasks. It turns out that getting AI to click, type, and scroll is more…
- Danielle Perszyk Cognitive Scientist, PhD
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Forget RAG Pipelines—Build Production-Ready AI Agents in 15 Minutes
Tue 3 Jun, 09:45 – 10:45·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Workshops
Want to take advantage of your data, but don't want to reinvent RAG infrastructure? Join our workshop and see how you can deploy Agentic RAG in minutes using Contextual AI's…
- Nina Lopatina Lead Developer Advocate
- Rajiv Shah Chief Evangelist
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The AI Engineer’s Guide to Raising VC
Tue 3 Jun, 09:55 – 10:20·Salons 2-6: Workshops
A no fluff, all tactics discussion. More AI engineers should build startups, the world needs more software. But there’s a way to raise VC and it’s hard to do it if you’ve never…
- Dani Grant CEO
- Chelcie Taylor Investor
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Mastering AI Evaluation: From Playground to Production with Braintrust
Tue 3 Jun, 10:40 – 12:00·Golden Gate Ballroom C: Workshops
This hands-on workshop will guide participants through the complete AI evaluation lifecycle using Braintrust, from initial prompt testing to production monitoring. Attendees will…
- Doug Guthrie Solutions Engineer, Braintrust
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Automating Escrow with USDC and AI
Tue 3 Jun, 10:40 – 12:00·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Workshops
This workshop explores how USDC, AI, and smart contracts can streamline escrow by automating fund release based on task or process verification. By using AI to interpret off-chain…
- Corey Cooper Developer Relations Manager @ Circle
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Solving for the hardest Eval challenge: Building Metrics that actually work
Tue 3 Jun, 10:40 – 12:00·Foothill G1&2: Workshops
One of the biggest challenges in building evals you can trust is building metrics that reliably measure goodness in your application; metrics that are highly accurate, rapid fast,…
- David Karam CEO
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Ship Agents that Ship: A Hands-On Workshop for SWE Agent Builders
Tue 3 Jun, 10:40 – 12:00·Nobhill A&B: Workshops
Coding agents are transforming how software gets built, tested, and deployed, but engineering teams face a critical challenge: how to embrace this automation wave without…
- Kyle Penfound Solutions Engineer at Dagger
- Jeremy Adams Head of Ecosystem
- Microsoft Talk
Piloting agents in GitHub Copilot
Tue 3 Jun, 10:40 – 12:00·Nobhill C&D: Microsoft
The agent capabilities added to GitHub Copilot have enhanced its ability to act as a peer programmer. Copilot can now discover and generate code based on existing standards, run…
- Christopher Harrison Senior Developer Advocate
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Building Multimodal AI Agents (From Scratch)
Tue 3 Jun, 10:40 – 12:00·SOMA: Workshops
In this hands-on workshop, you will build a multimodal AI agent capable of processing mixed-media content—from analyzing charts and diagrams to extracting insights from documents…
- Apoorva Joshi Senior AI Developer Advocate, MongoDB
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Building Voice Agents with Gemini and Pipecat
Tue 3 Jun, 11:00 – 12:00·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Workshops
Voice AI Agents are being deployed today in a wide range of business contexts. For example: - handling an increasing variety of call center tasks, - collecting patient data…
- Shrestha Basu Mallick Product lead, Gemini Developer API
- Kwindla Kramer CEO
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Build multilingual Conversational AI Agents
Tue 3 Jun, 11:15 – 12:15·Salons 2-6: Workshops
In this workshop you will learn how to build multilingual Conversational AI agents that can automatically detect your user's spoken language and can seamlessly switch to their…
- Thor 雷神 Schaeff DX at ElevenLabs
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How LLMs work for Web Devs: GPT in 600 lines of Vanilla JS
Tue 3 Jun, 12:00 – 13:00·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Workshops
Don't be intimidated. Modern AI can feel like magic, but underneath the hood are principles that web developers can understand, even if you don't have a machine learning…
- Ishan Anand AI Consultant and educator
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AI Engineering with the Google Gemini 2.5 Model Family
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·SOMA: Workshops
Hands on Workshop on learning to use Gemini 2.5 Pro in combination with Agentic tooling and MCP Servers.
- Philipp Schmid AI Developer Experience
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Information Retrieval from the Ground Up
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Foothill G1&2: Workshops
Vector search is only a feature. Search engines and information retrieval have retaken their position as the foundation of RAG. This workshop takes you through decades of research,…
- Philipp Krenn Code and conference monkey
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From Mixture of Experts to Mixture of Agents … with Super Fast Inference
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Nobhill A&B: Workshops
Our hands-on workshop will walk you through how to build your own Mixture of Agents (MoA) system using the fastest, and most capable open models available: Qwen3-32B and Llama…
- Daniel Kim Head of Growth, Cerebras
- Daria Soboleva Head Research Scientist, Cerebras
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Real-World Development with GitHub Copilot and VS Code
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Salons 2-6: Workshops
Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to demonstrate how VS Code and GitHub Copilot's expanding suite of AI features can match or even surpasses the benefits of other popular AI…
- Harald Kirschner VS Code Team Member
- Christopher Harrison Senior Developer Advocate
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Model-Maxxing: RFT, DPO, SFT (Fine-tuning with OpenAI)
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Workshops
Covering all forms of fine-tuning and prompt engineering, like SFT, DPO, RFT, prompt engineering / optimization, and agent scaffolding.
- Ilan Bigio Developer Experience
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Building Agents with Amazon Nova Act and MCP
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Workshops
In this 2-hour workshop, participants will gain practical hands-on experience building sophisticated AI agents using Amazon's agent technologies. You'll learn to build agents that…
- Duan Lightfoot AWS, Sr. Cloud Networking Developer Advocate
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Graph Intelligence: Enhance Reasoning and Retrieval Using Graph Analytics
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom C: Workshops
Advanced GraphRAG techniques apply graph ML and algorithms, wrapped into tidy notebooks.
- Alison Cossette Data Science Strategist, Advocate, Educator
- Andreas Kollegger GenAI Lead
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Case Study + Deep Dive: Telemedicine Support Agents with LangGraph/MCP
Tue 3 Jun, 13:00 – 15:00·Foothill C: Workshops
We've all seen website chat bots which can look up an order or answer a basic question -- but what does it take to build autonomous agents which manage long, delicate processes…
- Dan Mason Principal, Head of AI
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AI Red-Teaming and Prompt Engineering
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·SOMA: Workshops
Learn about learnprompting.org and HackAPrompt, the first guide on prompt engineering in the world and the first competition on prompt injection respectively. I will give a…
- Sander Schulhoff CEO
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AI Pipelines and Agents in Pure TypeScript with Mastra.ai
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Salons 2-6: Workshops
This hands-on workshop introduces Mastra.ai, a TypeScript framework that streamlines the development of agentic AI systems compared to traditional approaches using LangChain and…
- Nick Nisi Software developer and panelist on the JS Party podcast
- Zack Proser Open source hacker. Dev Education at WorkOS
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Agentic Coding with Windsurf
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Workshops
Agentic coding marks a new era in software development, where AI agents take on autonomous roles in coding tasks. The Windsurf IDE embodies this shift by integrating intelligent…
- Numair Baseer Deployed Engineer, Windsurf
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Building voice agents with OpenAI
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Workshops
We'll walk through the differences between chained and speech-to-speech powered voice agents, how to approach them, best practices and transform a text-based agent into our first…
- Dominik Kundel Developer Experience
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How to build world-class AI products (featuring Sarah Sachs, AI lead @ Notion)
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Golden Gate Ballroom C: Workshops
Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn practical strategies to evaluate AI applications throughout their lifecycle—from initial testing of prompts to ongoing monitoring…
- Carlos Esteban Solutions Engineer, Braintrust
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Navigating deep context in legacy code with Augment Agent
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Foothill C: Workshops
Attendees will learn to use an AI coding agent as a fast and intuitive part of navigating and working with complex, production-grade legacy code bases. We will drop directly into…
- Forrest Brazeal Speaker and Workshop Organizer
- Matt Ball Empowering Developers with AI
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VoiceVision RAG - Integrating Visual Document Intelligence with Voice Response
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Foothill G1&2: Workshops
In this workshop we will explore the integration of Colpali, a cutting-edge Vision based Retrieval Model, with voice synthesis for next-generation RAG systems. We'll demonstrate…
- Suman Debnath Principal Developer Advocate, AI/ML, AWS
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Shipping AI That Works: An Evaluation Framework for PMs
Tue 3 Jun, 15:30 – 17:30·Nobhill A&B: Workshops
GenAI is reshaping the product landscape, creating huge opportunities (along with new expectations) for product managers. Yet while prompt engineering and model tuning get the…
- Aman Khan Director of Product
- Unassigned Keynote
Spark to System: Building the Open Agentic Web
Wed 4 Jun, 09:20 – 09:40·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
AI builders no longer ask whether to use agents—but how many and how fast. In this kickoff keynote, Microsoft’s Asha Sharma shows what happens when natural language creation meets…
- Asha Sharma CVP, Head of Product, Microsoft AI Platform
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Conviction Session
Wed 4 Jun, 09:40 – 10:00·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
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Simon Willison Keynote
Wed 4 Jun, 10:00 – 10:20·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
- Expo Sessions Talk
Realtime conversational video with Pipecat and Tavus
Wed 4 Jun, 10:40 – 10:55·Juniper: Expo Sessions
Tavus shipped the world's first realtime video avatar platform last year. Developers use Tavus' conversational video APIs to create education, social, and customer support agents.…
- Chad Bailey Senior Voice Bots Engineer, Daily
- Brian Johnson Staff Engineer, Tavus
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Architecting Agent Memory: Principles, Patterns, and Best Practices
Wed 4 Jun, 10:40 – 10:55·Willow: Expo Sessions
In the rapidly evolving landscape of agentic systems, memory management has emerged as a key pillar for building intelligent, context-aware AI Agents. Inspired by the complexity of…
- Richmond Alake Staff Developer Advocate, AI/ML at MongoDB
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AI-powered entomology: Lessons from millions of AI code reviews
Wed 4 Jun, 10:40 – 10:55·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
This talk will explore insights from millions of automated code reviews, revealing trends in bugs, vulnerabilities, and code health that Graphite’s AI code review agent have…
- Tomas Reimers Graphite CPO & Co-founder
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Vibe Coding in Production
Wed 4 Jun, 10:55 – 11:10·Juniper: Expo Sessions
What's the role of vibe coding in a production-grade applications? Join Augment Code's Matt McClernan as he speaks to engineering leaders about building with AI.
- Chris Kelly All Things Developer @ Augment Code
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What does Enterprise Ready MCP mean?
Wed 4 Jun, 10:55 – 11:10·Willow: Expo Sessions
Everyone is building MCP servers: from Slack integrations to personal data tools. They're good demos, but not ready to turn into production. So, what does it take to make MCP…
- Tobin South Secure AI Agents & MCP, WorkOS
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Mastering Engineering Flow with Windsurf
Wed 4 Jun, 10:55 – 11:10·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
As experienced engineers, especially senior and staff engineers, our focus shifts towards complex problem-solving, architectural decisions, and mentoring. While AI tools promise…
- Eashan Sinha Deployed Engineer, Windsurf
- Agent Reliability Talk
AI Automation that actually works: $100M, messy data, zero surprises
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
We will review the different kinds of automation use-cases, and the approach we used, that will drive over a $100M of expected annual impact by deploying AI for business critical…
- Tanmai Gopal CEO, Co-founder
- Product Management Keynote
[PM Keynote] Everything is ugly so go build something that isn't
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
We're in an awkward adolescent phase of AI product (design). But what if this chaotic moment is actually our greatest opportunity? Enter the rebuilding revolution. In this talk,…
- Raiza Martin CEO & Co-Founder Huxe || Previously NotebookLM
- Infrastructure Talk
What every AI engineer needs to know about GPUs
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill F: Infrastructure
Every programmer needs to know a few things about hardware, like processors, memory, and disks. Due to AI systems' extreme demand for mathematical processing power, AI engineers…
- Charles Frye Developer Advocate, Modal Labs
- Voice Keynote
[Voice Keynote] Your realtime AI is ngmi
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill E: Voice
Sean DuBois of OpenAI and Pion, and Kwindla Hultman Kramer of Daily and Pipecat, will talk about why you have to design realtime AI systems from the network layer up. Most…
- Kwindla Kramer CEO
- Sean DuBois WebRTC and Realtime API
- MCP Talk
MCP Origins & RFS
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
Learn more about the latest updates on MCP and get ideas for what startups to build.
- Theodora Chu Product Manager for MCP @ Anthropic
- GraphRAG Talk
HybridRAG: A Fusion of Graph and Vector Retrieval to Enhance Data Interpretation
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
Interpreting complex information from unstructured text data poses significant challenges to Large Language Models (LLM), with difficulties often arising from specialized…
- Mitesh Patel Developer Advocate Manager
- LLM RecSys Keynote
Recsys Keynote: Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Golden Gate Ballroom A: LLM RecSys
Recommendation systems and search have long adopted advances in language modeling, from early adoption of Word2vec for embedding-based retrieval to the transformative impact of…
- Eugene Yan Principal Applied Scientist
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
From Copilot to Colleague: Building Trustworthy Productivity Agents for High-Stakes Work
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
This keynote will explore what it takes to move from basic generative assistants to fully agentic AI—systems that don’t just suggest but plan, act, and adapt—all within the…
- Joel Hron CTO
- AI Architects Talk
Rise of the AI Architect
Wed 4 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·SOMA: AI Architects
As the amount of consumer facing AI products grows, the most forward leaning enterprises have created a new role: the AI Architect. These leaders are responsible for helping…
- Alessio Fanelli Co-Host, Latent Space
- Clay Bavor Cofounder, Sierra
- Agent Reliability Talk
12 Factor Agents - Principles of Reliable LLM Applications
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
Hi, I'm Dex. I've been hacking on AI agents for a while. I've tried every agent framework out there, from the plug-and-play crew/langchains to the "minimalist" smolagents of the…
- Dexter Horthy Founder
- MCP Talk
What we learned from shipping remote MCP support at Anthropic
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
We recently released remote MCP support for both claude.ai and the Anthropic API. This talk will cover architectural decisions we made in our implementation, remote MCP…
- John Welsh Member of technical staff, Anthropic
- Tiny Teams Talk
The New Lean Startup
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
In this session, I will be presenting a case study of Oleve's journey, revealing how we've scaled a profitable multi-product portfolio with a tiny team. I'll walk you through the…
- Sid Bendre Co-Founder
- LLM RecSys Talk
What We Learned from Using LLMs in Pinterest Search
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Golden Gate Ballroom A: LLM RecSys
Pinterest Search integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance relevance scoring by combining search queries with rich multimodal content, including visual captions,…
- Mukuntha Narayanan Machine Learning Engineer
- Han Wang Machine Learning Engineer
- GraphRAG Talk
Wisdom Discovery at Scale: Code Less KAG with n8n MultiAI Agents
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
"Wisdom Discovery at Scale: Code Less KAG with n8n MultiAI Agents"
- Chin Keong Lam AI Engineer & Co-Founder
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
Accelerating Investment Operations: How BlackRock Builds Custom Knowledge Apps at Scale.
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
Investment Operations teams are the backbone of asset and investment management firms. Their day-to-day work not only enables portfolio managers to respond swiftly to market events…
- Vaibhav Page Principal Engineer
- Infant Vasanth Senior Director of Engineering
- AI Architects Talk
Building Applications with AI Agents
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·SOMA: AI Architects
Generative AI has dramatically shortened the distance between ideas and implementation, enabling faster prototyping and deployment than ever before. But while language models can…
- Michael Albada Principal Applied Scientist
- Product Management Talk
Why your product needs an AI product manager, and why it should be you
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
So you've built another cool demo. Now what? You have hype, but not impact. You have kudos but no users. Ultimately you have a demo, but not a product. The unique uncertainty of…
- James Lowe Head of AI Engineering
- Infrastructure Talk
Why We Don’t Need More Data Centers
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill F: Infrastructure
AI infrastructure today is caught in an endless cycle: build more data centers, deploy more GPUs, repeat. But this approach is fundamentally flawed—expensive, inefficient, and…
- Voice Talk
Shipping an Enterprise Voice AI Agent in 100 Days
Wed 4 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill E: Voice
What does it take to go from blank page to live enterprise voice agent in 100 days? That’s the challenge we took on with Fin Voice at Intercom. Enterprise customer service…
- Peter Bar Product Lead, Voice AI
- Tiny Teams Talk
Using OSS models to build AI apps with millions of users
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
In this talk, Hassan will go over how he builds open source AI apps that get millions of users like roomGPT.io (2.9 million users), restorePhotos.io (1.1 million users),…
- Hassan El Mghari DevRel lead
- LLM RecSys Talk
360Brew LLM-based Foundation Model for Personalized Ranking and Recommendation
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Golden Gate Ballroom A: LLM RecSys
We will give a talk about our journey of building a foundation model for solving ranking and recommendation tasks across LinkedIn platform
- Hamed Firooz Principal Scientist -- LinkedIn Core AI
- Maziar Sanjabi LinkedIn AI, Principal Scientist
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
How agents will unlock the $500B promise of AI
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
AI agents are on the cusp of revolutionizing work as we know it. The number of use cases software can tackle is set to explode as AI handles tasks requiring real judgment. But to…
- Donald Hruska Engineering lead for Retool Agents
- AI Architects Talk
The Rise of Open Models in the Enterprise
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·SOMA: AI Architects
This year kicked off with the DeepSeek-R1 news cycle breaking out of our AI Engineering bubble into the mainstream tech and business world. Leaders at the highest levels of the…
- Amir Haghighat CTO
- Agent Reliability Talk
Scaling AI agents without breaking reliability
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
As AI agents move from prototypes to production, developers are running into new challenges with orchestration, failure handling, and infrastructure. This session will unpack…
- Preeti Somal SVP Engineering
- Product Management Talk
Shipping something to someone always wins
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
Learnings from building products at Stripe and applying them in an AI native word
- Kenneth Auchenberg Partner at AlleyCorp l, ex Product Lead at Stripe, Microsoft (VS Code)
- Infrastructure Talk
Large Scale AI on Apple Silicon using EXO
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill F: Infrastructure
The hardware lottery: when a research idea wins because it is better suited to current hardware and software, and not because it is universally superior. Machine learning…
- Alex Cheema Co-Founder
- Voice Talk
What we can learn from self driving in autonomous voice agents
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill E: Voice
The reliability challenges facing voice & chat AI deployment today mirror those that the autonomous vehicle industry confronted years ago. This talk explores how evaluation…
- Brooke Hopkins Founder
- GraphRAG Talk
When Vectors Break Down: Graph-Based RAG for Dense Enterprise Knowledge
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
Enterprise knowledge bases are filled with "dense mapping," thousands of documents where similar terms appear repeatedly, causing traditional vector retrieval to return the wrong…
- Sam Julien Director of Developer Relations
- MCP Talk
Full Spectrum MCP: Uncovering Hidden Servers and Clients Capabilities
Wed 4 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
The true power of Model Context Protocol emerges when clients and servers collaborate across the full spectrum of the specification. This talk presents practical examples of how VS…
- Harald Kirschner VS Code Team Member
- GraphRAG Talk
Stop Using RAG as Memory
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
RAG is great for static knowledge retrieval—but terrible at memory. Vectorstore-based systems sold as memory lack relational and temporal awareness, leading agents astray with…
- Daniel Chalef Founder, Zep AI
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
3 ingredients for building reliable enterprise agents
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
It's easy to build a prototype of an agent, but hard to put an agent in production - especially in an enterprise setting. In this section, will talk about three ingredients for…
- Harrison Chase CEO
- Agent Reliability Talk
Production software keeps breaking and it will only get worse. Here’s how Traversal is fixing it.
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
Software is eating the world. AI is eating software. AI-powered SWE means a whole lot more software is going to be written that powers mission critical systems in the coming years,…
- Anish Agarwal CEO and Co-founder
- Matthew Schoenbauer Founding Engineer
- Raj Agrawal CTO, Cofounder
- Raaz Dwivedi Chief Scientist
- Product Management Talk
Survive the AI Knife-Fight: Building Products That Win
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
If you’ve ever been blocked by vague specs, shifting goals, or chasing “vibes,” things have only gotten messier in the age of AI. Everyone is obsessing over engineers doing PM work…
- Brian Balfour Founder & CEO, Reforge
- Voice Talk
Serving Voice AI at $1/hr: Open-source, LoRAs, Latency, Load Balancing
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Foothill E: Voice
This is a talk that goes over our experience deploying Orpheus (Emotive, Realtime TTS) to production. It will cover topics: - Latency and optimizations - High fidelity voice…
- Neil Dwyer CTO
- Jack Dwyer CEO @ Gabber - End to End Backend For Realtime AI
- MCP Talk
MCP isn’t good, yet.
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
You’ve heard a lot about MCP, probably been given an AI mandate or two, and are trying to figure out what’s real and what’s make believe. This session will give practical…
- David Cramer Founder, Sentry
- Tiny Teams Talk
Gumloop's Path to be a 10 person unicorn
Wed 4 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
An overview of how Gumloop is scaling automation across companies like Instacart, Webflow and Shopify with less than 10 people.
- Max Brodeur-Urbas Founder and CEO of Gumloop
- Microsoft Talk
AI Red Teaming Agent: Accelerate your AI safety and security journey with Azure AI Foundry
Wed 4 Jun, 12:45 – 13:05·Nobhill C&D: Microsoft
In the age of autonomous AI agents, ensuring their safety and reliability is paramount. But how can we proactively uncover vulnerabilities before they impact real-world scenarios?…
- Nagkumar Arkalgud Senior Software Engineer
- Keiji Kanazawa Product @ Azure AI Foundry
- Expo Sessions Talk
How fast are LLM inference engines anyway?
Wed 4 Jun, 12:45 – 13:00·Juniper: Expo Sessions
Open weights models and open source inference servers have made massive strides in the year since we last got together at AIE World's Fair. Where once we had only pirated LLaMA…
- Charles Frye Developer Advocate, Modal Labs
- Expo Sessions Talk
How to trust an agent with software delivery
Wed 4 Jun, 12:45 – 13:00·Willow: Expo Sessions
AI-powered agents promise faster, easier software delivery, but their unpredictable behavior often makes engineers hesitant to fully trust them with critical workflows. Sam Alba,…
- Sam Alba Co-Founder of Dagger
- Expo Sessions Talk
Events are the Wrong Abstraction for Your AI Agents
Wed 4 Jun, 13:00 – 13:15·Willow: Expo Sessions
AI Agents are distributed systems. Agents need to connect and communicate with tools, data repositories, other agents, etc., all over a network. Event-Driven Architecture is a…
- Mason Egger Sr. Developer Advocate - Temporal
- Expo Sessions Talk
Effective agent design patterns in production
Wed 4 Jun, 13:00 – 13:15·Juniper: Expo Sessions
At LlamaIndex we see a lot of agents built every day, and we've got a sense of what works and what doesn't. We've distilled those learnings down into a series of patterns and best…
- Laurie Voss VP Developer Relations, LlamaIndex
- Microsoft Talk
Agentic Excellence: Mastering Evaluation of AI Agents with Azure AI Evaluation SDK
Wed 4 Jun, 13:10 – 13:30·Nobhill C&D: Microsoft
As AI agents transition from experimental assistants to critical components of enterprise workflows, reliably evaluating their performance becomes essential. But how do you…
- Cedric Vidal Principal AI Advocate
- Expo Sessions Talk
Revenue Engineering: How to Price (and Reprice) Your AI Product
Wed 4 Jun, 13:15 – 13:30·Juniper: Expo Sessions
You’ve trained the model—now it’s time to train the business. This talk dives into the engineering behind pricing systems that can evolve as fast as your AI stack. Orb CTO…
- Kshitij Grover Co-Founder & CTO, Orb Inc.
- Expo Sessions Talk
Agentic GraphRAG: AI’s Logical Edge
Wed 4 Jun, 13:30 – 13:45·Willow: Expo Sessions
AI models are getting tasked to do increasingly complex and industry specific tasks where different retrieval approaches provide distinct advantages in accuracy, explainability,…
- Stephen Chin VP of Developer Relations
- LLM RecSys Talk
One model to rule recommendations: Netflix's Big Bet
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Golden Gate Ballroom A: LLM RecSys
Discuss the foundation model strategy for personalization at Netflix based on this post https://netflixtechblog.com/foundation-model-for-personalized-recommendation-1a0bd8e02d39…
- Yesu Feng Netflix, Staff Research Scientist
- GraphRAG Talk
Practical GraphRAG - Making LLMs smarter with Knowledge Graphs
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
RAG has become one standard architecture component for GenAI applications to address hallucinations and integrate factual knowledge. While vector search over text is common,…
- Michael Hunger VP of Product Innovation
- Jesús Barrasa AI Field CTO
- Stephen Chin VP of Developer Relations
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
Building an Agentic Platform
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
Explore the technical evolution of metadata extraction at Box and how it shaped the foundation of our AI platform. We’ll walk through our transition to an agentic-first design—why…
- Ben Kus CTO
- AI Architects Talk
AI That Pays: Lessons from Revenue Cycle
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·SOMA: AI Architects
While much of the AI innovation in healthcare has centered on clinical and patient-facing applications, Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) remains an underexplored yet critical domain.…
- Nathan Wan Head of AI
- Agent Reliability Talk
How to build Enterprise-aware agents
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
While LLMs demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, their out-of-the-box reasoning is akin to hiring a brilliant but brand-new employee who doesn’t have the enterprise…
- Chau Tran Technical Lead Delete
- Product Management Talk
Shipping Products When You Don’t Know What they Can Do
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
A customer recently asked me: “Hey, can I tag your AI agent in a Google Doc comment?” The honest answer: I have no idea! We never designed our agents to handle Google Doc…
- Ben Stein CEO
- Infrastructure Keynote
[Infra Keynote] Geopolitics of AI Infrastructure
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill F: Infrastructure
As AI reshapes the global balance of power, the infrastructure behind it—chips, data centers, power, and supply chains—has become a new arena for geopolitical competition. This…
- Dylan Patel Chief Analyst
- Voice Talk
Building the Voice-First Future: Omnipresent Agents that Listen, Talk and Act
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill E: Voice
We’re entering a world where talking to machines feels as natural as talking to people. Voice is about to become the dominant interface for technology - ambient, always-on, and…
- Jordan Dearsley CEO
- Tiny Teams Talk
Tiny Teams
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
Sean reached out on X, happy to do a talk on how to build a tiny team
- Grant Lee CEO
- MCP Talk
MCP is all you need
Wed 4 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
Everyone is talking about agents, and right after that, they’re talking about agent-to-agent communications. Not surprisingly, various nascent, competing protocols are popping up…
- Samuel Colvin Founder of Pydantic
- LLM RecSys Talk
Instacart’s LLM-driven approach to Search and Discovery
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Golden Gate Ballroom A: LLM RecSys
- Tejaswi Tenneti Director of Machine Learning
- Vinesh Gudla Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Instacart
- GraphRAG Talk
Multi-Agent AI and Network Knowledge Graphs for Change Management and Network Testing
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
Traditional ticketing and testing workflows for change management and network operations often operate independently and lack critical real-world context and adaptive decision…
- Ola Mabadeje Product Leader
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
The Billable Hour is Dead; Long Live the Billable Hour?
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
If software was eating the world before, knowledge work will soon be devoured by AI. In corporate America there are thousands of hours spent on rote tasks every day by employees,…
- Kevin Madura Director, Advanced Technologies
- Mo Bhasin Director of AI Products
- AI Architects Talk
Structuring a modern AI team
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·SOMA: AI Architects
You've been given an AI mandate but don't have additional headcount, what next? Re-skilling, up-skilling and team augmentation become essential to delivering on a new mandate. In…
- Denys Linkov Head of ML
- Agent Reliability Talk
Agents vs Workflows: Why Not Both?
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
One current hot debate is should you make your top-level abstraction a ReAct type agent running in a loop? or should you make it a structured workflow graph? OpenAI is launching…
- Sam Bhagwat Co-founder
- Product Management Talk
Make your LLM app a Domain Expert: How to Build an LLM-Native Expert System
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
Vertical AI is a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. But you can't build a domain-expert application simply by grabbing the latest LLMs off-the-shelf: you need a system for…
- Christopher Lovejoy Head of Clinical AI
- Infrastructure Talk
Hacking the Inference Pareto Frontier for Cheaper and Faster Tokens Without Breaking SLAs
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill F: Infrastructure
Your model works! It aces the evals! It even passes the vibe check! All that’s required is inference, right? Oops, you’ve just stepped into a minefield: -Not low-latency enough?…
- Kyle Kranen US Engineering Manager - Deep Learning Algorithms
- Voice Talk
Why ChatGPT Keeps Interrupting You
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill E: Voice
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode isn’t interrupting just you. Interruptions, and turn-taking in general, are unsolved problems for all Voice AI agents. Nobody likes being cut short –…
- Tom Shapland, PhD Product Manager
- MCP Talk
Observable tools - the state of MCP observability
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
AI Engineers deserve observable tools! MCP getting adoption means that less and less of your agents code is running under your control, and this has DX and observability…
- Alex Volkov AI Evangelist
- Steve Manuel CEO
- Benjamin Eckel Co-Founder of Dylibso
- Tiny Teams Talk
Building Small AI Teams with Huge Impact
Wed 4 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
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- Vikas Paruchuri CEO
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
Build Dynamic Products, and Stop the AI Sideshow
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
AI across product, GTM, and strategy was a great approach in 2023, but by now, we all already know that AI is disrupting the global landscape and how business gets done. Now is the…
- Jeremy Silva Product Lead
- Eliza Cabrera Principal AI Product Manager @ Workday
- MCP Talk
The rise of the agentic economy on the shoulders of MCP
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 7-8: MCP
Thanks to MCP and all the MCP server directories, agents can now autonomously discover new tools and other agents. This lays down the foundation for the future agentic economy,…
- Jan Curn CEO
- Tiny Teams Talk
Benchmarks Are Memes: How What We Measure Shapes AI—and Us
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Yerba Buena Ballroom Salons 2-6: Tiny Teams
Benchmarks shape more than just AI models—they shape our future. The things we choose to measure become self-fulfilling prophecies, guiding AI toward specific abilities and,…
- Alex Duffy Head of AI
- LLM RecSys Talk
Teaching Gemini to Speak YouTube: Adapting LLMs for Video Recommendations to 2B+ DAU
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom A: LLM RecSys
YouTube recommendations drive the majority of video watch time for billions of daily users. Traditionally powered by large embedding models (LEMs), we're undertaking a fundamental…
- Devansh Tandon Principal Product Manager
- GraphRAG Talk
Beyond Documents: Implementing Knowledge Graphs in Legal Agents
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom B: GraphRAG
Structured Representations are pretty important in the law, where the relationships between clauses, documents, entities, and multiple parties matter. Structured Representation…
- Tom Smoker Technical Founder
- AI Architects Talk
Building Effective Voice Agents
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·SOMA: AI Architects
How to build production voice applications and learnings from working with customers along the way
- Anoop Kotha Applied AI
- Agent Reliability Talk
Vibe Coding, with Confidence
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill C: Agent Reliability
Everyone wants to do Vibe Code, even large Enterprises. But how can we ensure that the generated code is well-grounded with the dev team's code and software development standards?…
- Itamar Friedman CEO
- Product Management Talk
Building the platform for agent coordination
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill G 1&2: Product Management
Learn how we're evolving Linear into an operating system for engineering teams to ship product with agents as a first class citizen.
- Tom Moor Head of Engineering
- Infrastructure Talk
Flipping the Inference Stack: Why GPUs Bottleneck Real-Time AI at Scale
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill F: Infrastructure
AI inference today is stuck in a loop: throw more GPUs at the problem, scale horizontally, rinse and repeat. But that playbook is hitting a wall. Latency, cost, and energy grids…
- Robert Wachen Co-founder of Etched
- Voice Talk
Milliseconds to Magic: Real‑Time Workflows using the Gemini Live API and Pipecat
Wed 4 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill E: Voice
The Gemini Live API GA is now powered by Google's best cost-effective thinking model Gemini 2.5 Flash. We will do a deep dive on the capabilities that the Gemini Live API combined…
- Kwindla Kramer CEO
- Shrestha Basu Mallick Product lead, Gemini Developer API
- Expo Sessions Talk
Taming Rogue AI Agents with Observability-Driven Evaluation
Wed 4 Jun, 15:15 – 15:30·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
LLM agents often drift into failure when prompts, retrieval, external data, and policies interact in unpredictable ways. This session introduces a repeatable, metric-driven…
- Jim Bennett Principal Developer Advocate at Galileo
- Expo Sessions Talk
Vector Search Benchmark[eting]
Wed 4 Jun, 15:15 – 15:30·Willow: Expo Sessions
Every vector database out there is both faster and slower than any other competitor — if you believe all the benchmarketing out there. Let's turn the marketing into useful…
- Philipp Krenn Code and conference monkey
- Expo Sessions Talk
Data is Your Differentiator: Building Secure and Tailored AI Systems
Wed 4 Jun, 15:30 – 15:45·Juniper: Expo Sessions
As organizations seek to harness their proprietary data while maintaining security and compliance, Amazon Bedrock provides a comprehensive framework for building tailored AI…
- Mani Khanuja Principal ML Services SA
- Expo Sessions Talk
Polar Signals Expo Session
Wed 4 Jun, 15:30 – 15:45·Willow: Expo Sessions
- Matthias Loibl Director of Cloud at Polar Signals
- Unassigned Keynote
Windsurf everywhere, doing everything, all at once
Wed 4 Jun, 16:25 – 16:45·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
abstract tbd
- Kevin Hou Head of Product, Windsurf
- Unassigned Keynote
#define AI Engineer
Wed 4 Jun, 16:45 – 17:25·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
Greg Brockman's career and advice for AI Engineers
- Greg Brockman Cofounder, OpenAI
- swyx . Curator, smol.ai
- Unassigned Keynote
A year of Gemini progress + what comes next
Thu 5 Jun, 09:05 – 09:25·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
Over the last year, Google and Gemini models have shown rapid progress across all dimensions (model, product, etc). Let's highlight all the work that has happened, how we got the…
- Logan Kilpatrick Product, Google Deepmind
- Unassigned Keynote
Thinking Deeper in Gemini
Thu 5 Jun, 09:25 – 09:45·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
Progress towards general intelligence has been marked by identifying fundamental intelligence bottlenecks within existing models and developing solutions that improve the…
- Jack Rae Principal Research Scientist
- Unassigned Keynote
Why should anyone care about Evals?
Thu 5 Jun, 09:45 – 09:50·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
An introduction to the evals track
- Manu Goyal Founding Engineer, Braintrust
- Unassigned Keynote
Containing Agent Chaos
Thu 5 Jun, 09:50 – 10:10·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
AI agents promise breakthroughs but often deliver operational chaos. Building reliable, deployable systems with unpredictable LLMs feels like wrestling fog – testing outputs alone…
- Solomon Hykes CEO & Co-founder of Dagger, creator of Docker
- Unassigned Keynote
The infrastructure for the singularity
Thu 5 Jun, 10:10 – 10:30·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
We're at an inflection point where AI agents are transitioning from experimental tools to practical coworkers. This new world will demand new infrastructure for RL training,…
- Jesse Han Founder
- Expo Sessions Talk
Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK
Thu 5 Jun, 10:45 – 11:00·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
Building AI agents used to require complex orchestration, extensive scaffolding, and months of tuning. With Strands Agents, an open source SDK from AWS. You can now build, test,…
- Suman Debnath Principal Developer Advocate, AI/ML, AWS
- Expo Sessions Talk
The fastest software dev workflow in the world: AI meets stacked diffs
Thu 5 Jun, 10:45 – 11:00·Willow: Expo Sessions
Learn the secrets behind the workflows that engineers at the fastest moving companies in the world are using to build software for billions of users worldwide. This workshop will…
- Kenneth DuMez DevRel Lead, Graphite
- Expo Sessions Talk
Why Your Agent’s Brain Needs a Playbook: Practical Wins from Using Ontologies
Thu 5 Jun, 10:45 – 11:00·Juniper: Expo Sessions
You're trying to guide how your agents think and act. Code-orchestrated workflows are too rigid, but LLMs charting their own course feel too chaotic. When you need a middle ground,…
- Jesús Barrasa AI Field CTO
- Expo Sessions Talk
The State of AI-Powered Search and Retrieval
Thu 5 Jun, 11:00 – 11:15·Juniper: Expo Sessions
In this talk, we examine the state-of-the-art in AI-powered search and retrieval. We detail techniques for enhancing performance beyond base embedding models, including hybrid…
- Frank Liu Staff Product Manager, MongoDB
- Expo Sessions Talk
The Build-Operate Divide: Bridging Product Vision and AI Operational Reality
Thu 5 Jun, 11:00 – 11:15·Willow: Expo Sessions
Product leaders see AI possibilities. Operations teams see implementation chaos. That disconnect can kill promising AI features before they ever reach users. In this session,…
- Chris Hernandez Manager of AI Speech Analytics at Chime
- Expo Sessions Talk
Pipecat Cloud: Enterprise Voice Agents Built On Open Source
Thu 5 Jun, 11:00 – 11:15·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
Voice AI agents today can conduct natural, human-like conversations and perform a wide variety of tasks: customer support, lead qualification, healthcare patient intake, market…
- Mark Backman Head of Product, Daily
- Reasoning + RL Talk
Training Agentic Reasoners
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
This talk will be a technical deep dive into RL for agentic reasoning via multi-turn tool calling, similar to OpenAI's o3 and Deep Research. In particular, we'll cover: - When,…
- Will Brown Research Engineering Lead
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
From Hype to Habit: How We’re Building an AI-First SaaS Company—While Still Shipping the Roadmap
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
What does it really take to move a modern SaaS company from AI experimentation to becoming truly AI-first? At Sprout Social, we’re in the midst of that…
- Rossella Blatt Vital VP of Engineering - AI
- Deepsha Menghani Director of Engineering – AI
- AI Architects Talk
Monetizing AI: From Zero to Profit
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·SOMA: AI Architects
As AI continues to transform industries, companies are faced with the critical challenge of effectively monetizing AI-driven products in a way that captures value, ensures customer…
- Alvaro Morales CEO
- SWE Agents Talk
Devin 2.0 and the Future of SWE
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
A talk on the future of software engineering with Scott Wu of Cognition AI, the makers of Devin.
- Scott Wu CEO, Cognition AI
- Retrieval + Search Talk
Building AI Agents that actually automate Knowledge Work
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
Agents are all the rage in 2025, and every single b2b SaaS startup/incumbent promises AI agents that can "automate work" in some way. But how do you actually build this? The…
- Jerry Liu CEO
- Evals Talk
On Engineering AI Systems that Endure The Bitter Lesson
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Evals
Will discuss the principles for building AI software that underpin DSPy, highlighting the differences between conventional prompting (or finetuning/RL) versus the design and…
- Omar Khattab Databricks Research Scientist
- Security Talk
Safety and security for code-executing agents
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill C: Security
Code is the lingua franca for both software engineers and highly capable AI models. As we give agents the ability to build, test, and run code that they generate, the command line…
- Fouad Matin Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
- Design Engineering Talk
UX Design Principles for (Semi) Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
Autonomous or semi-autonomous multi-agent systems (MAS) involve exponentially complex configurations (system config, agent configs, task management and delegation, etc.). These…
- Victor Dibia Principal Research Engineer
- Generative Media Talk
The State of Generative Media Today
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill F: Generative Media
Generative AI is reshaping the creative landscape, enabling the production of images, audio, and video with unprecedented speed and sophistication. This session offers an in-depth…
- Gorkem Yurtseven CTO
- Autonomy + Robotics Talk
Robotics: why now?
Thu 5 Jun, 11:15 – 11:35·Foothill E: Autonomy + Robotics
Sharing recent progress from Physical Intelligence and why it is an exciting time to push the frontier in general purpose robotics
- Quan Vuong Co-founder, Physical Intelligence
- Jost Tobias Springenberg Research Scientist, Physical Intelligence
- SWE Agents Talk
Your Coding Agent Just Got Cloned And Your Brain Isn't Ready
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
Will the future engineer code alongside a single coding agent, or will they spend their day orchestrating many agents? Traditional development rewards synchronous focus. This…
- Rustin Banks Product Manager, AI Coding
- Reasoning + RL Talk
Measuring AGI: Interactive Reasoning Benchmarks
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
ARC Prize Foundation is building the North Star for AGI—rigorous, open benchmarks that track reasoning progress in modern AI. We'll show why static AGI evaluations are useful, but…
- Greg Kamradt President
- Retrieval + Search Talk
Scaling Enterprise-Grade RAG Systems: Lessons from the Legal Frontier
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
In domains like law, compliance, and tax, building enterprise-grade RAG means very large scale, spikey workloads, a focus on accuracy, and non-negotiable privacy. In this talk,…
- Evals Talk
Turning Fails into Features: Zapier’s Hard-Won Eval Lessons
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Evals
Every agent failure can be a roadmap to your next breakthrough. This talk reveals how Zapier's evaluation system transforms frustrating user experiences into targeted improvements,…
- Rafal Wilinski AI Agents Lead
- Vitor Balocco Staff AI Engineer
- Security Talk
The Unofficial Guide to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill C: Security
In October 2024, Apple released a new private AI technology onto millions of devices called “Private Cloud Compute”. It brings the same level of privacy and security a local device…
- Design Engineering Talk
Good design hasn’t changed with AI
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
Bad designs are still bad. AI doesn’t make it good. The novelty of AI makes the bad things tolerable, for a short time. Building great designs and experiences with AI have the same…
- John Pham Head of Design
- Generative Media Talk
Veo 3 for developers
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill F: Generative Media
This talk will briefly trace the history of video generation models before diving into Veo 3, Google DeepMind's latest state-of-the-art model that marks a significant leap by…
- Paige Bailey Engineering Lead - Developer Relations @ Google DeepMind
- Autonomy + Robotics Talk
Real-time Experiments with an AI Co-Scientist
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Foothill E: Autonomy + Robotics
The sheer volume of data and complexity of modern scientific challenges necessitate tools that go beyond mere analysis. The vision of an "AI Co-scientist" – a true collaborative…
- Stefania Druga AI Research Scientist
- AI Architects Talk
CIOs and Industry Leaders: Do You Trust Your AI’s Inferences?
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·SOMA: AI Architects
Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but with it comes a hard question: Do we trust the model’s decisions? In this 18-minute talk, I’ll explore the invisible risks behind…
- Sahil Yadav Head of AI Products (Sr. Director, Product Management)
- Hariharan Ganesan Sr. Solutions Architect
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
Machines of Buying & Selling Grace
Thu 5 Jun, 11:35 – 11:55·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
How to go beyond browser automation to truly agentic commerce, where AI can buy, sell and negotiate on behalf of users and merchants.
- Adam Behrens CEO
- Reasoning + RL Talk
Post-Training Open Models with RL for Autonomous Coding
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
The models and techniques to build fully autonomous coding agents - not just coding copilots - are already here. In this talk, former Google DeepMind staff research scientist, now…
- Misha Laskin CEO & co-founder
- Retrieval + Search Talk
Evaluating AI Search: A Practical Framework for Augmented AI Systems
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
AI search is becoming the front door to information, whether through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Search-Augmented Generation (SAG), or custom agents that synthesize…
- Julia Neagu CEO
- Deanna Emery Founding AI Researcher
- Maitar Asher Head of Engineering
- Evals Talk
Evals Are Not Unit Tests
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Evals
How to think about evaluating a non-deterministic system — and how to actually succeed at it.
- Ido Pesok AI Engineer, v0
- Security Talk
Fuzzing in the GenAI Era
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill C: Security
"Evaluation" is one of those concepts that every AI practitioner vaguely knows is important, but few practitioners truly understand. Is "eval" the dataset for measuring the quality…
- Leonard Tang Founder & CEO
- Design Engineering Talk
The Bitter Layout or: How I Learned to Love the Model Picker
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
Are conversational interfaces the future or, as many designers have suggested, a lazy solution that is bottlenecking AI-HCI? Despite well-documented usability issues, the design of…
- Maximillian Piras Product Designer
- Generative Media Talk
Magic Editor Under the Hood: Weaving Generative AI into a Billion-User App
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill F: Generative Media
Go behind the scenes of Google Photos' Magic Editor. Explore the engineering feats required to integrate complex CV and cutting-edge generative AI models into a seamless mobile…
- Kelvin Ma Software Engineer
- Autonomy + Robotics Talk
What Is a Humanoid Foundation Model? An Introduction to GR00T N1
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Foothill E: Autonomy + Robotics
Foundation models don’t just write or draw anymore—they’re starting to move. GR00T N1 is NVIDIA’s open Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model for humanoid robots. Built…
- Annika Brundyn GenAI Architect
- Aastha Jhunjhunwala Solutions Architect
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
How Intuit uses LLMs to explain taxes to millions of taxpayers
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
I will talk about how Intuit uses LLMs to explain tax situations to Turbotax users. Users want explanations of their tax situations - this drives confidence in the product. Over…
- Jaspreet Singh Senior Staff Software Engineer
- AI Architects Talk
Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (Stanford / 100k Devs Study)
Thu 5 Jun, 11:55 – 12:15·SOMA: AI Architects
Forget vendor hype: Is AI actually boosting developer productivity, or just shifting bottlenecks? Stop guessing. Our study at Stanford cuts through the noise, analyzing…
- Yegor Denisov-Blanch Developer Productivity Researcher at Stanford University
- Design Engineering Talk
AI and Game Theory: A Case Study on NYT's Connections
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
This session will examine the interplay between human intuition and artificial intelligence in puzzle-solving, using the popular New York Times Connections game as a practical case…
- Shafik Quoraishee AI Game Engineer
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
Ship it! Building Production-Ready Agents
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
Explore the practical challenges and solutions for deploying AI agents in real-world production environments. Through detailed technical analysis and practical examples, we'll…
- Mike Chambers AI/ML Specialist DA AWS
- AI Architects Talk
AX is the only Experience that Matters
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·SOMA: AI Architects
If you’re building devtools for humans, you’re building for the past. Already a quarter of Y Combinator’s latest batch used AI to write 95% or more of their code. AI agents are…
- Ivan Burazin CEO
- SWE Agents Talk
Don’t get one-shotted: Leveraging AI to test, review, merge, and deploy code
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
As AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT help engineers generate code at an unprecedented rate, the “outer loop”—reviewing, testing, merging, and deploying—becomes more vital…
- Tomas Reimers Graphite CPO & Co-founder
- Reasoning + RL Talk
OpenThinker - Unreasonably Effective Reasoning Distillation at Scale
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
Peel back the curtain on state of the art model post-training through the story of OpenThinker, a SOTA small reasoning model (outperforming DeepSeek distill), built in the open.…
- Ryan Marten Founding Engineer at Bespoke Labs
- Retrieval + Search Talk
RAG in 2025: State of the Art and the Road Forward
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
The talk will have three parts 1.Roadmap debate: RAG vs. finetuning vs. long-context 2.RAG today: benefits, challenges, and current solutions 3.RAG tomorrow: AI models do more…
- Tengyu Ma Chief AI Scientist, MongoDB
- Security Talk
Securing Agents with Open Standards
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Foothill C: Security
Shipping AI agents that are safe for production means solving some tough identity and authorization challenges that are not always obvious at the prototype stage. In practice, this…
- Bobby Tiernay Auth0, Principal Architect
- Kam Sween Auth0, Staff Engineer, AIFS
- Generative Media Talk
Small, sharp tools in the era of generative AI
Thu 5 Jun, 12:15 – 12:35·Foothill F: Generative Media
Replicate makes it easy to run thousands of AI models in the cloud without any machine learning expertise. In this session, we'll show how to make those models available to LLMs as…
- Zeke Sikelianos Founding Designer
- Expo Sessions Talk
Agents, Access, and the Future of Machine Identity
Thu 5 Jun, 12:45 – 13:00·Willow: Expo Sessions
AI agents are calling APIs, submitting forms, and sending emails—but how do you control what they’re allowed to do? As agents act on behalf of users or organizations, traditional…
- Nick Nisi Software developer and panelist on the JS Party podcast
- Microsoft Talk
Building Protected MCP Servers
Thu 5 Jun, 12:45 – 13:05·Nobhill C&D: Microsoft
Join us to see how VS Code and GitHub Copilot's expanding suite of AI features can match or even surpasses the benefits of other popular AI developer tools. We'll focus on…
- Den Delimarsky (DEVDIV) Principal Product Engineer
- Julia Kasper Program Manager
- Expo Sessions Talk
Building CISO-approved agent fleet architecture
Thu 5 Jun, 12:45 – 13:00·Juniper: Expo Sessions
Security is the biggest blocker for agent orchestration adoption in regulated industries for SWE agents. Gitpod's agent orchestration went from an originally self-hosted kubernetes…
- Lou Bichard Product Manager, Gitpod
- Expo Sessions Talk
Conquering Agent Chaos
Thu 5 Jun, 13:00 – 13:15·Willow: Expo Sessions
Agent deployments can be dicey, especially at first. This session goes over all the things that cause headache with deployments from serverless issues to networking issues - and…
- Rick Blalock Founder, Agentuity
- Expo Sessions Talk
Serving Voice AI at Scale
Thu 5 Jun, 13:15 – 13:30·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
Real-Time Voice AI applications demand the lowest possible latencies to enhance user experiences with more advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities. AWS is hosting Arjun…
- Rohit Talluri Senior Worldwide Generative AI Specialist BD - Foundation Model Training & Inference
- Arjun Desai Co-Founder, Cartesia
- Expo Sessions Talk
Prompt Engineering is Dead
Thu 5 Jun, 13:15 – 13:30·Juniper: Expo Sessions
Manual prompt crafting doesn't scale. In this session, we'll explore how to replace it with a test-driven, automated approach. You'll see how to define output evaluators, write…
- Nir Gazit CEO @ Traceloop, OpenLLMetry co-creator
- Expo Sessions Talk
Optimizing inference for voice models in production
Thu 5 Jun, 13:15 – 13:30·Willow: Expo Sessions
How do you get time to first byte (TTFB) below 150 milliseconds for voice models -- and scale it in production? As it turns out, open-source TTS models like Orpheus have an LLM…
- Philip Kiely Head of Developer Relations
- Retrieval + Search Talk
Building Alice’s Brain: How We Built an AI Sales Rep that Learns Like a Human
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
AI agents are becoming essential tools for teams of all sizes and industries - but training them to become experts in your product, business, and customerbase remains a challenge.…
- Sherwood Callaway Tech Lead, Alice
- Satwik Singh Member of Technical Staff
- SWE Agents Talk
Introducing Claude Code
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
Hear about Claude Code directly from its creator: origin story, getting your team set up, and practical tips for getting more out of Code.
- Boris Cherny Member of Technical Staff & Creator of Claude Code
- AI Architects Talk
CIAM for AI: Who Are Your Agents and What Can They Do?
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·SOMA: AI Architects
AI agents are changing the way modern SaaS products operate. Whether automating workflows, integrating with APIs, or acting on behalf of users, AI-driven assistants and autonomous…
- Michael Grinich Founder & CEO, WorkOS
- Evals Keynote
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Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Evals
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- Ankur Goyal CEO, Braintrust
- Security Talk
How to defend your sites from AI bots
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill C: Security
Constantly seeing CAPTCHAs? It used to be easy to detect the humans from the droids, but what else can we do when synthetic clients make up nearly half of all web requests.…
- David Mytton Founder
- Design Engineering Talk
AI and Human Whiteboarding Partnership
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
Covid sent everybody home and created the space of virtual whiteboards. At first the experience reused the physical constraints but soon it became better than a physical whiteboard…
- Christopher Chedeau Frenchy Front-end Engineer
- Generative Media Talk
General Intelligence is Multimodal
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill F: Generative Media
Talking about Luma AI, our mission, and how our ML infrastructure enables SOTA multimodal model development
- Keegan McCallum Head of ML infrastructure at Luma AI
- Autonomy + Robotics Talk
Teaching Cars to Think: Language Models and Autonomous Vehicles
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Foothill E: Autonomy + Robotics
This session explores Waymo's latest research on the End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving (EMMA) and advanced sensor simulation techniques. Jyh-Jing Hwang will…
- Jyh-Jing Hwang Research Scientist & TLM
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
How to Build Agents without losing control
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
Planning agents help solve complex tasks by breaking them into steps. They work across enterprise systems where data lives in many places. These agents are powerful but can be hard…
- Yogi Miraje Lead AI Engineer
- Reasoning + RL Talk
How to Train Your Agent: Building Reliable Agents with RL
Thu 5 Jun, 14:00 – 14:20·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
Have you ever launched an awesome agentic demo, only to realize no amount of prompting will make it reliable enough to deploy in production? Agent reliability is a famously…
- Kyle Corbitt CEO
- Reasoning + RL Talk
A taxonomy for next-generation reasoning models
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
Current AI models are extremely skilled, which was seen as the step change in evaluation scores across the industry in the first half of 2025, but often fail when presented with…
- Nathan Lambert Research Lead
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
POC to PROD: Hard Lessons from 200+ Enterprise GenAI Deployments
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
The transition from experimental GenAI demonstrations to robust, production-grade systems involves significant technical and organizational complexities. Humans provide a ceiling…
- Randall Hunt CTO at Caylent
- AI Architects Talk
Testing the Un-Testable: Monitoring AI Products in the Wild
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·SOMA: AI Architects
Evals are straightforward—like unit tests, they confirm your model got specific test cases right. But in the real world, your AI encounters millions of unpredictable…
- Ben Hylak Co-Founder
- Sid Bendre Co-Founder
- SWE Agents Talk
Software Development Agents: What Works and What Doesn't
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
The adoption of AI into software development has been bumpy. While autocomplete tools like Copilot have gone mainstream, autonomous agents like Devin and OpenHands have generated…
- Robert Brennan CEO
- Retrieval + Search Talk
Building a Smarter AI Agent with Neural RAG
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
RAG quality for AI agents is critical, and traditional keyword-based search engines consistently underperform in agentic or multi-step tasks, where semantic grounding and…
- Will Bryk CEO & Co-founder, building perfect search at Exa
- Evals Talk
2025 is the Year of Evals! Just like 2024, and 2023, and …
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Evals
AI is getting deployed without guardrails, without governance, without due diligence. Surely this is the year we’ll see a Fortune 500 CEO fired because of a preventable AI…
- John Dickerson CEO, Mozilla AI
- Security Talk
How to Secure Agents using OAuth
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill C: Security
We all know sharing passwords is bad (unless you want free TV), so why are we sharing API keys with AI? We shouldn't, and that’s why we need to talk about OAuth. In this talk,…
- Jared Hanson Co-Founder
- Design Engineering Talk
tldraw computer
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
Learn about tldraw's latest experiments with AI on an infinite canvas. In 2024, we created tldraw computer, a loose visual programming environment where arrows and LLMs powered…
- Steve Ruiz Founder and CEO, tldraw
- Generative Media Talk
Good demos are important
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill F: Generative Media
Creating and sharing demos is the easiest way to influence the future. It gets people to think about what's possible. A good tech demo doesn't have to be fully fleshed out. It…
- Sharif Shameem Lexica Founder
- Autonomy + Robotics Talk
General purpose robots as professional Chefs
Thu 5 Jun, 14:20 – 14:40·Foothill E: Autonomy + Robotics
How we converted a bimanual robot into a professional chef that works in novel kitchens and learn new recipes from a single demonstration.
- Nikhil Abraham CEO
- SWE Agents Talk
Beyond the Prototype: Using AI to Write High-Quality Code
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
In this case study-based keynote, Josh Albrecht, CTO of Imbue, examines the critical engineering challenges in building AI coding systems that create more than just prototypes.…
- Josh Albrecht CTO and Co-founder
- Reasoning + RL Talk
Towards Verified Superintelligence
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Yerba Buena Ballroom 2-6: Reasoning + RL
I describe a new paradigm towards open-endedly self-improving intelligence by scaling verification to remove the human data and supervision bottleneck. The objective is to achieve…
- Christian Szegedy Former co-founder of xAI, discoverer of adversarial examples
- Retrieval + Search Talk
Layering every technique in RAG, one query at a time
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom A: Retrieval + Search
Start with the simplest Search - in-memory embeddings with relevance ranking. End with the most complex planet-scale Search - 70+ corpus mix of token, embeddings, and knowledge…
- David Karam CEO
- Evals Talk
How to look at your data; what to look for, how to measure
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom B: Evals
By the end of this talk, you'll understand what it takes to apply clustering techniques and data analysis to understand what is the valuable work that your AI application is doing…
- Jeff Huber CEO
- Jason Liu Principal
- Security Talk
How we hacked YC Spring 2025 batch’s AI agents
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill C: Security
We hacked 7 of the16 publicly-accessible YC X25 AI agents. This allowed us to leak user data, execute code remotely, and take over databases. All within 30 minutes each. In this…
- Rene Brandel CEO
- Design Engineering Talk
Form factors for your new AI coworkers
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill G 1&2: Design Engineering
Designing user experiences for AI means moving beyond traditional interfaces. Designers are grappling with how to create intuitive and effective interactions for these new AI…
- Craig Wattrus AI Design Engineer
- Generative Media Talk
Why you should care about AI interpretability
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Foothill F: Generative Media
The goal of mechanistic interpretability is to reverse engineer neural networks. Having direct, programmable access to the internal neurons of models unlocks new ways for…
- Mark Bissell Applied Interpretability Research
- AI Architects Talk
The Web Browser Is All You Need
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·SOMA: AI Architects
With the rise of MCP servers, A2A, and our trusty friend, OpenAPI, it turns out the web browser may be the default MCP server for the rest of the internet. In this talk, we'll…
- Paul Klein IV Founder
- AI in the Fortune 500 Talk
Building Agents (the hard parts!)
Thu 5 Jun, 14:40 – 15:00·Golden Gate Ballroom C: AI in the Fortune 500
AI workloads are rapidly shifting from AI being used for augmentation (co-pilots), to AI becoming responsible for full, end-to-end automation (agents). But building effective…
- Rita Kozlov vp developers & ai, cloudflare
- SWE Agents Talk
Ship Production Software in Minutes, Not Months
Thu 5 Jun, 15:00 – 15:20·Yerba Buena Ballroom 7&8: SWE Agents
Planning, coding, testing, monitoring—the endless cycle that spans 10+ tools that fragment our focus and slows delivery to a crawl. Vibe coding doesn't work when you've got 10TB of…
- Eno Reyes CTO
- Expo Sessions Talk
CI in the Era of AI: From Unit Tests to Stochastic Evals
Thu 5 Jun, 15:15 – 15:30·Juniper: Expo Sessions
Software engineers have long understood that high-quality code requires comprehensive automated testing. For decades, our industry has relied on deterministic tests with clear…
- Nathan Sobo CEO & Co-founder of Zed, co-creator of Atom and Electron
- Expo Sessions Talk
Cattle, not genies: building AI agents from first principles
Thu 5 Jun, 15:15 – 15:30·Willow: Expo Sessions
As magical as they may seem, AI agents should be treated like any other software system. This talk will cover the best practices in designing and building AI systems including…
- Kenneth DuMez DevRel Lead, Graphite
- Expo Sessions Talk
To the moon! Navigating deep context in legacy code with Augment Agent
Thu 5 Jun, 15:15 – 15:30·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
Shortened presentation-only version of our Apollo 11 workshop
- Forrest Brazeal Speaker and Workshop Organizer
- Matt Ball Empowering Developers with AI
- Expo Sessions Talk
The Eyes Are The (Context) Window to The Soul: How Windsurf Gets to Know You
Thu 5 Jun, 15:30 – 15:45·Nobhill A&B: Expo Sessions
Sometimes it seems like Windsurf knows you a little too well. It's one thing to generate generic code, but to predict your next intent? From matching existing code patterns and…
- Sam Fertig Deployed Engineer, Windsurf
- Expo Sessions Talk
The emerging skillset of wielding coding agents
Thu 5 Jun, 15:30 – 15:45·Willow: Expo Sessions
It's raining coding agents. But while many are saying they're feeling the AGI, others say they're not that useful for serious programming. How much is hype and how much is a skill…
- Beyang Liu Co-founder and CTO, Sourcegraph
- Unassigned Keynote
Trends Across the AI Frontier
Thu 5 Jun, 16:00 – 16:20·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
The entire AI stack is developing faster than ever - from chips to infrastructure to models. How do you sort the signal from the noise? Artificial Analysis an independent…
- Micah Hill-Smith CEO
- George Cameron CPO
- Unassigned Keynote
Evals Closing Keynote
Thu 5 Jun, 16:20 – 16:25·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
The final word on Evals
- Ankur Goyal CEO, Braintrust
- Unassigned Keynote
State of AI Engineering 2025
Thu 5 Jun, 16:25 – 16:35·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
Come hear the results of the 2025 State of AI Engineering.
- Barr Yaron Partner at Amplify Partners
- Unassigned Keynote
fun stories from building OpenRouter and where all this is going
Thu 5 Jun, 16:35 – 16:55·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
How the first LLM aggregator got started, some of the weird moments in its early growth, architecture challenges, and where we'll be taking it down the road
- Alex Atallah CEO OpenRouter, co-founder of OpenSea
- Unassigned Keynote
Prompt Engineering is Dead - Everything is a Spec
Thu 5 Jun, 16:55 – 17:15·Keynote/General Session (Yerba Buena 7&8)
[!!Subject to change!!] Large models are trained through mountains of data and learned reward functions, yet - quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - what exactly are those amorphous…
- Sean Grove Member of Technical Staff