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AI Council 2026

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AI Council 2026 ran May 12–14, 2026 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, United States. It is a Technology conference that expected about 1,500 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 44 speakers, 24 sponsors and 25 sessions. The next edition, AI Council 2027, is Mar 23–24, 2027 in San Francisco.

Lineup updated Oct 11, 2026 · dates verified May 5, 2026

AI 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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44Speakers
24Sponsors
25Sessions
57Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at AI, in alphabetical order.

Alex Mashrabov
Co-founder & CEO · Higgsfield
Amruta Moktali
Chief Product Officer · Skyflow
Bhargavi Reddy Dokuru
Staff Data Engineer · Netflix
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
Curtis Galione
Solutions Engineer · Braintrust
Diogo Almeida
Co-Inventor of ChatGPT & Co-founder · TypeSafe AI
Dwarak Rajagopal
VP, Head of AI Engineering & Research · Snowflake
Eno Reyes
CTO · Factory
Ethan Ding
CEO · TextQL
Felipe Huici
CEO & Co-founder · Unikraft
Glauber Costa
CEO · Turso
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-Founder & CEO · DuckDB Labs
Heather Ceylan
CISO · Box
Jacopo Tagliabue
Founder · Bauplan
Jared Hanson
Co-Founder · Keycard
Joey Baker
Senior Engineering Manager · Render
John Dickerson
CEO · Mozilla.ai
Julien Le Dem
Principal Engineer · Datadog

Sponsors

The companies 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

Agenda

Selected from 25 sessions.

  • 10:15 am

    Context Engineering at the Frontier

  • 10:15 am

    Stop Making Models Bigger. Make Them Behave

  • 10:15 am

    Super-Secret Next Big Thing for DuckDB

  • 10:15 am

    What comes after Deep Learning?

  • 11:00 am

    Build Reliable Voice Agents With Durable Execution

  • 11:00 am

    Forgiveness, Not Permission: Running Agents On Production Data

  • 11:00 am

    From Postgres to ClickHouse and Back: Building a Unified OLTP + OLAP Database for AI Workloads

  • 11:00 am

    Great Infra for Background Agents

  • 11:45 am

    Agents will need trillions of databases. Let's give it to them!

Quick answers

When is AI Council 2026?
AI Council 2026 ran May 12–14, 2026 at San Francisco Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, United States. The next edition, AI Council 2027, is Mar 23–24, 2027 in San Francisco.
Where is AI Council 2026 held?
AI Council 2026 was held at San Francisco Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, United States.
Who is speaking at AI Council 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 44 speakers, including Alex Mashrabov (Co-founder & CEO, Higgsfield), Amruta Moktali (Chief Product Officer, Skyflow) and Bhargavi Reddy Dokuru (Staff Data Engineer, Netflix).
Who sponsors AI Council 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 24 sponsors, including Snowflake, TextQL, Hex, Airbyte and Braintrust.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 57 companies show up, and 9 bet on three roles at once?

57 companies. nine 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.

Who's in the room
9All threespeak · spons · exh
15Sponsoringsponsor only
33Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

ClickHouse·Braintrust·Databricks·Datadog·Render·Skyflow·Snowflake·TextQL·turbopuffer

Speakers by seniority

80% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite2352%
  • Founder / Owner716%
  • VP-level25%
  • Director / Head of37%
  • Manager / Lead511%
  • Engineer · IC25%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles12%

Of 44 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1ClickHouseSponsor · Silver2
2BraintrustSponsor · Silver1
3DatabricksSponsor · Silver1
4DatadogSponsor · Bronze1
5RenderSponsor · Silver1
6SkyflowSponsor · Silver1
7SnowflakeSponsor · Platinum1
8TextQLSponsor · Platinum1
9turbopufferSponsor · Silver1
10AirbyteSponsor · Silver-
11BEM.AISponsor · Bronze-
12ChalkSponsor · Bronze-
13CockroachDBSponsor · Silver-
14DatalinksSponsor · Silver-
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
8% of 24
gold1
4% of 24
silver11
46% of 24
bronze10
42% of 24
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.

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