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AI Council 2026

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I Council 2026 is a leading technical conference where top AI infrastructure minds, engineers, researchers, founders, and builders gather to share practical insights about architecting, deploying, and scaling production AI systems. Since 2015, the event has remained vendor-neutral and community led, focusing on deep-dive technical talks, Architectures, hand…

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25Voices
24Underwriters
0Exhibitors
0On the bill · sessions
45Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at AI, in alphabetical order.
Alex Mashrabov
Co-founder & CEO · Higgsfield
Brie Wolfson
CMO & Storyteller · Positive Sum / Colossus
Bryan Bischof
Head of AI · Theory Ventures
Calvin French-Owen
Ex-Co-founder & CTO · Segment
Charles Zedlewski
CPO · Together AI
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & COO · Open Router
Diogo Almeida
Co-Inventor of ChatGPT & Co-founder · TypeSafe AI
Dwarak Rajagopal
VP, Head of AI Engineering & Research · Snowflake
Eno Reyes
CTO · Factory
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-Founder & CEO · DuckDB Labs
Heather Ceylan
CISO · Box
Jared Hanson
Co-Founder · Keycard
Leonhard Spiegelberg
Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Linus Lee
Head of AI · Thrive Capital
Lucas Atkins
CTO · Arcee AI
Nic Ouporov
Co-founder & CEO · Fleet
Nikhil Benesch
CTO · turbopuffer
Nikita Shamgunov
Vice President · Databricks
Raffi Krikorian
CTO · Mozilla
Sarah Catanzaro
General Partner · Amplify Partners
Silas Alberti
Founding Team · Cognition
Thais Castello Branco
Founder & CEO · Taste

— and 3 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
SnowflakePlatinum
TextQLPlatinum
HexGold
AirbyteSilver
BraintrustSilver
ClickhouseSilver
CockroachDBSilver
DatabricksSilver
DatalinksSilver
Digital OceanSilver
RenderSilver
SkyflowSilver
SnorkelSilver
TurbopufferSilver
Bem.aiBronze
ChalkBronze
DatadogBronze
DEShawBronze
DremioBronze
LanceDBBronze
MotherduckBronze
PresetBronze
TopKBronze
UnstructuredBronze
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 45 companies show up — and 4 bet on three roles at once?

45 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
4All threespeak · spons · exh
20Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
21Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Clickhouse·Databricks·Snowflake·turbopuffer

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

92% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1456%
  • Founder / Owner416%
  • VP-level28%
  • Director / Head of312%
  • Manager / Lead14%
  • Other roles14%

Of 25 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01ClickhouseSp·S1V
  2. 02DatabricksSp·S1V
  3. 03SnowflakeSp·P1V
  4. 04turbopufferSp·S1V
  5. 05AirbyteSp·S
  6. 06Bem.aiSp·B
  7. 07BraintrustSp·S
  8. 08ChalkSp·B
  9. 09CockroachDBSp·S
  10. 10DatadogSp·B
  11. 11DatalinksSp·S
  12. 12DEShawSp·B
  13. 13Digital OceanSp·S
  14. 14DremioSp·B
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum2
8% of 24
gold1
4% of 24
silver11
46% of 24
bronze10
42% of 24
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters