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The AI Conference 2026

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he AI Conference 2026 is a premier event gathering over 5,500 builders, researchers, and leaders for three days of keynotes, hands-on workshops, and multi-track programming, focusing on the latest advancements and practical applications in artificial intelligence. The event features technical and leadership sessions, an Innovation Hub, a Startup Showdown, e…

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16Voices
23Underwriters
0Exhibitors
12On the bill · sessions
38Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at The, in alphabetical order.
Divya Mahajan
Software Engineer · Amazon Alexa
Emmanuel Ameisen
Interpretability Researcher · Anthropic
Ioannis Antonoglou
Co-founder and CTO · Reflection AI
Jaclyn Konzelmann
Product Director · Google Labs
Jon Pappas
Sr. Dir. Technical Product Management · Upwork
Julia Diament
Principal AI Architect, Office of the CTO · Microsoft
Marco Paglia
President - Product & Engineering · Musixmatch
Pallavi Kinnera
Chip Designer · Meta Reality Labs
Peter Norvig
Distinguished Education Fellow · Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute
Pratyusha Singaraju
Senior Software Engineer · Netflix
Ruiyang Wang
Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Ryan Lopopolo
Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Sarah Chieng
Head of Developer Experience · Cerebras
Shuen Mei
VP, Director of Software and Data Engineering · Harbor Capital Advisors
Vidya Meenakshi
Senior Software Engineer · Intuit
Yogiraj Awati
Engineering Manager · Instacart
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AWS
Baseten
Circle CI
Digital Ocean
Fiddler AI
Fireworks AI
FriendliAI
Friendly AI
Google Cloud
Hedera
IBM
LaunchDarkly
Neo4j
Redpanda
Rubrik
Sentry
Telnyx
Thenvoi
Tishman Speyer
Together AI
Unblocked
Unite AI
VULTR
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The Programme

Selected from 12 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    8 Ways Production Agents Fail Silently (And the Detection Patterns That Catch Them)

    Builds production‑grade agentic AI and LLM systems at Alexa scale, leading evaluation and multi‑turn workflows for Alexa+ users.

  • TBA

    Act–Verify–Refine: The Future of Adaptive Investment Agents

    Leads AI, data, and software teams building Harbor Capital Advisors’ data, cloud, and integration platforms across financial services.

  • TBA

    Beyond the Benchmark: Building for the Complexity of Real Marketplaces

    Leads AI‑powered talent search, matching, and deployment at Upwork.

  • TBA

    Cyber Offense Hits Its Moore’s Law Moment – when compute gets cheap, persistence ‎becomes the exploit.

    Brings 18+ years of AI and security expertise to Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, focused on adversarial threats and secure‑by‑design patterns.

  • TBA

    Deploying LLMs in Production to enhance grocery shopping

    Leads large-scale AI and RAG platforms powering Instacart’s grocery experience.

  • TBA

    Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer and Agents Execute

    Builds agent‑first development workflows at OpenAI, authoring the Harness Engineering framework.

  • TBA

    Lyrics: The Language Model of Music

    Leads product and engineering at Musixmatch, the global music data company.

  • TBA

    One of the Most Complex Thing Humans Build: How AI Is Finally Cracking Chip Design

    Leads AI‑driven automation for advanced‑node chip design at Meta Reality Labs.

  • TBA

    Safe PDF Processing at Scale: A Sandbox-Rasterize-OCR Architecture

    Builds infrastructure and data systems behind Anthropic’s large language models, previously at Anyscale and Google Cloud.

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 38 companies, parsed from the program.

38 companies in attendance.

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
0All threespeak · spons · exh
23Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
15Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

31% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite213%
  • VP-level16%
  • Director / Head of213%
  • Manager / Lead319%
  • Engineer · IC425%
  • Research / Science16%
  • Other roles319%

Of 16 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AWSSp
  2. 02BasetenSp
  3. 03Circle CISp
  4. 04Digital OceanSp
  5. 05Fiddler AISp
  6. 06Fireworks AISp
  7. 07FriendliAISp
  8. 08Friendly AISp
  9. 09Google CloudSp
  10. 10HederaSp
  11. 11IBMSp
  12. 12LaunchDarklySp
  13. 13Neo4jSp
  14. 14RedpandaSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
unspecified23
100% of 23
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