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Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026

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Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026 ran on Mar 27, 2026 at Van Metre Hall at GMU's Arlington Campus in Arlington, United States. It is a Technology conference. ConferenceGrid lists 14 speakers, 2 sponsors and 14 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Last verified Jun 15, 2026

Frontrunners is an annual software developers conference from the Washington, DC area. The 2026 event focuses on artificial intelligence and data, bringing together developers, architects, and thought leaders for a series of technical talks and practical workshops. Attendees can expect presentations on LLMs, AI-driven development, data quality, open source A…

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14Speakers
2Sponsors
14Sessions
9Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Frontrunners, in alphabetical order.

Antoni Borys
Co-Founder and Lead Engineer · Vortex Analytica
Chrissy Ching Mott
Managing Partner · Celertek
Courtney Yatteau
Developer Advocate · Esri
Craig Wong
Cybersecurity Developer
Danielle Maxwell
Software Engineer · Rotational Labs
Frank La Vigne
Hirenkumar Dholariya
Senior Data Engineering Architect
Jeremy Curcio
Integration Engineer · Login.gov
Jofia Jose Prakash
Architect and Enterprise Strategist
Kapil Poreddy
Mark DeRosa
Vice President of Data & Analytics · MetaPhase
Neil Chaudhuri
President of Vidya, LLC · Vidya, LLC
Sandhya Subramani
Sr. Developer Advocate
Steve Drucker
SVP/Technology · flyExclusive

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

RazorX2
Rotational Labs

Agenda

Selected from 14 sessions.

  • 1:00 PM

    Decoding the Globe: A Conceptual Architecture for AI-Driven Satellite Intelligence

    At Vortex Analytica, we analyze alternative data to map geopolitical risks and generate market intelligence. One of the most fascinating - and daunting - data sources in our ecosys…

  • 10:30 AM

    AI-Powered Gamification for the Web

    AI can make gamification feel personal and responsive, without turning your app into a giant game engine. In this session, we'll build a set of small, practical features you can dr…

  • 10:30 AM

    Tiered AI Architectures: Cut Cost, Latency, and Brittleness Without Losing Quality

    Building production-grade AI agents is less about choosing the smartest model and more about designing a system that stays fast, predictable, and affordable at scale. This session …

  • 11:20 AM

    Building a Real-Time LLM Classification Pipeline for Under $0.001 Per Request

    Everyone's building with LLMs. Almost nobody's talking about what it actually takes to make them reliable, fast, and cheap enough for production, especially when the output has rea…

  • 11:20 AM

    Building with Open Source AI: A Crash Course

    Thanks to open source, in the past year, we’ve seen a fundamental change: developers and enterprises are moving away from proprietary, closed-source models. To save costs, prioriti…

  • 1:20 PM

    Codepocalypse Now: Stop Worrying and Embrace Agentic AI Development

    The "AI is coming for your job" panic is the wrong movie. Software teams just got a new kind of coworker: an agent that can read, write, refactor, test, and ship code alongside you…

  • 1:20 PM

    From Hype to Impact: How AI Is Reshaping the Way We Hire Technical Talent

    AI is no longer a future-state conversation. It is actively changing how technical teams are built, how work is structured, and how talent decisions impact the business. This sessi…

  • 2:10 PM

    Engineering Better Prompts for AI Assisted Development

    When asking AI to help refactor a method, do you get back something that runs, but would never pass review? The difference between frustrating and useful AI interactions comes down…

  • 2:10 PM

    The Promise and Peril of Model Context Protocol

    Model Context Protocol took the AI world by storm, and it has become the de facto standard for building agents. MCP offers enormous potential for automating workflows, but there ar…

Quick answers

When is Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026?
Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026 ran on Mar 27, 2026 at Van Metre Hall at GMU's Arlington Campus in Arlington, United States.
Where is Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026 held?
Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026 was held at Van Metre Hall at GMU's Arlington Campus in Arlington, United States.
Who is speaking at Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 14 speakers, including Antoni Borys (Co-Founder and Lead Engineer, Vortex Analytica), Chrissy Ching Mott (Managing Partner, Celertek) and Courtney Yatteau (Developer Advocate, Esri).
Who sponsors Frontrunners AI and Data Conference 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 2 sponsors: RazorX2 and Rotational Labs.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 9 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Nine companies. one 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
1All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
7Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Rotational Labs

Speakers by seniority

29% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner214%
  • VP-level214%
  • Engineer · IC750%
  • Other roles321%

Of 14 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Rotational LabsSponsor1
2RazorX2Sponsor-
3Celertek1
4Esri1
5flyExclusive1
6Login.gov1
7MetaPhase1
8Vidya, LLC1
9Vortex Analytica1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified2
100% of 2