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AI Council 2027

AI Council is a highly technical event where top AI infrastructure architects share what actually works to build and ship AI systems. The conference is designed for engineers, technical founders, and researchers, focusing on deep dives into architectures, toolchains, and lessons from production deployments. Every talk is chosen for technical depth, and atten…

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26Speakers
21Sponsors
25Sessions
42Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at AI, in alphabetical order.

Amruta Moktali
Chief Product Officer · Skyflow
Bhargavi Reddy Dokuru
Staff Data Engineer · Netflix
Brie Wolfson
CMO & Storyteller · Positive Sum / Colossus
Curtis Galione
Solutions Engineer · Braintrust
Diogo Almeida
Co-Inventor of ChatGPT & Co-founder, TypeSafe AI · TypeSafe AI
Ethan Ding
CEO · TextQL
Felipe Huici
CEO & Co-founder · Unikraft
Glauber Costa
CEO · Turso
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-Founder & CEO, DuckDB Labs · DuckDB Labs
Jacopo Tagliabue
Founder · Bauplan
Joey Baker
Senior Engineering Manager · Render
John Dickerson
CEO · Mozilla.ai
Julien Le Dem
Principal Engineer · Datadog
Kaushik Iska
Engineering Lead · Clickhouse
Kobie Crawford
Developer Advocate · Snorkel AI
Linus Lee
Head of AI · Thrive Capital
Meryem Arik
CEO · Doubleword
Neil Movva
Co-Founder · Sail Research
Nikhil Benesch
CTO · turbopuffer
Omead Pooladzandi
Co-Founder & Co-Head of Research · PrismML
Paige Bailey
AI Developer Experience Engineer · Google
Parminder Singh
Co-Founder & CEO · Redscope AI

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Airbyte
bem
Braintrust
Chalk
ClickHouse
CockroachDB
Crux
Databricks
Datalinks
DigitalOcean
HEX
LanceDB
MotherDuck
Preset
Render
Snorkel
Snowflake
TextQL
TOPK
Turbopuffer
Unstructured

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!

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 42 companies show up, and 5 bet on three roles at once?

42 companies. five 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
5All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
21Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Braintrust·ClickHouse·Render·TextQL·turbopuffer

Speakers by seniority

69% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1350%
  • Founder / Owner415%
  • Director / Head of14%
  • Manager / Lead415%
  • Engineer · IC312%
  • Research / Science14%

Of 26 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1BraintrustSponsor1
2ClickHouseSponsor1
3RenderSponsor1
4TextQLSponsor1
5turbopufferSponsor1
6AirbyteSponsor-
7bemSponsor-
8ChalkSponsor-
9CockroachDBSponsor-
10CruxSponsor-
11DatabricksSponsor-
12DatalinksSponsor-
13DigitalOceanSponsor-
14HexSponsor-
Sponsors by tier
unspecified21
100% of 21
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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