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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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26Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
33On the bill · sessions
23Companies · 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
Eden James
Technical Director · Meta
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
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
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
Ramkumar Shanker
Director, Data Science · Gannett/USA TODAY Network
Sayantan Ghosh
Senior Engineering Manager · LinkedIn
Sriharsha Makineni
Senior Business Engineer · Meta
Surya Karri
Engineering Manager · Pinterest

— and 4 more, by name unsung —

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The Programme

Selected from 33 sessions on the bill.
  • 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
  • 11:00

    Is it really the model or its a systems problem?

    Agentic AI Summit
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 23 companies, parsed from the program.

23 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
23Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

42% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite14%
  • VP-level415%
  • Director / Head of623%
  • Manager / Lead727%
  • Product14%
  • Engineer · IC415%
  • Research / Science28%
  • Other roles14%

Of 26 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Google2V
  2. 02LinkedIn2V
  3. 03Meta2V
  4. 04Cigna Healthcare1V
  5. 05Citi1V
  6. 06DeepSeek1V
  7. 07Expedia Group1V
  8. 08Experian1V
  9. 09Gannett/USA TODAY Network1V
  10. 10Google DeepMind1V
  11. 11LPL Financial1V
  12. 12Metropolis Technologies1V
  13. 13Microsoft1V
  14. 14NVIDIA1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.

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