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Generative AI Summit Los Angeles 2026

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he Generative AI Summit Los Angeles is an engineering-focused event for AI builders and executives. It provides workshops, live builds, and keynotes on applied and agentic AI, featuring deep dives into infrastructure, evaluation, and scaling production systems. Attendees gain practical knowledge, peer connections, and exposure to real-world AI engineering p…

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33Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
41On the bill · sessions
28Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Generative, in alphabetical order.
Alex Schmidt
VP, Analytics & Data Science · UnitedHealth Group
Ayushi Agarwal
Research Engineer · Google Deepmind
Bhavana Sajja
Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Expedia Group
Dr. Tracey Wilen
Tech Leader; Board Member
Eden James
Technical Director · Meta
Ethan Cole
Director, Growth · Distillery
Farshad Kheiri
Head of AI & Data Science · Oaktree Capital Management
Gayathri Venkat
Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture · Cigna Healthcare
Goutham Budati
VP, Data Strategy & Insights · The Farmer's Dog
James Lin
Head of AI/ML · Experian
Karl Zhao
PhD, Foundational Model Evangelist · DeepSeek
Karl Zhao, PhD
Foundational Model Evangelist · DeepSeek
Matt Wursta
Founder & CEO, Wursta · Wursta
Naila Khan
Senior Engineering Manager · Google
Nikhil Pinnaparaju
Machine Learning Engineer · Stability AI
Paul Lindner
Principal Software Engineer · Metropolis Technologies
PK Patel
Senior Solutions Architect · NVIDIA
Prasanna Palanikumar
Senior Product Lead, Generative AI, ADP · ADP
Prathap Raghavan
Director of Product Management · Santander
Pratik Gautam
VP, Lead AI Product Manager · Citi
Preetham Sunilkumar
VP, Software Development Manager · LPL Financial
Rama Samantapudi
Principal Data Scientist · Walmart

— and 11 more, by name unsung —

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The Programme

Selected from 41 sessions on the bill.
  • 08:00

    Registration & networking breakfast

    Exhibition & Networking
  • 08:55

    Welcome to AIAI Los Angeles

    Headliner stage
  • 08:55

    Welcome to Generative AI Summit Austin

    Main Stage
  • 09:00

    Beyond proof of concept: Designing genAI platforms that scale, adapt, and endure

    Main Stage
  • 09:00

    Making AI systems hold up in production: Infrastructure, Inference, and scale

    Headliner stage
  • 09:30

    Moving beyond pretraining: When and how to fine-tune language models

    Main Stage
  • 09:30

    When AI systems start to drift: Why things break in practice

    Headliner stage
  • 10:00

    From prompts to systems: AI is now a systems engineering problem

    Headliner stage
  • 10:00

    Human-in-the-loop for generative AI: Building reliable systems

    Main Stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 28 companies, parsed from the program.

28 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
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
28Companies Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

39% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite13%
  • VP-level412%
  • Director / Head of824%
  • Manager / Lead824%
  • Product26%
  • Engineer · IC515%
  • Research / Science26%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles26%

Of 33 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01DeepSeek2V
  2. 02Google2V
  3. 03LinkedIn2V
  4. 04Meta2V
  5. 05ADP1V
  6. 06Cigna Healthcare1V
  7. 07Citi1V
  8. 08Distillery1V
  9. 09Expedia Group1V
  10. 10Experian1V
  11. 11Gannett/USA TODAY Network1V
  12. 12Google DeepMind1V
  13. 13Johnson & Johnson1V
  14. 14LPL Financial1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.

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