Of the Field
MLcon San Diego 2026 - Hybrid Edition
T
he Event for Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineering
40Voices
10Underwriters
0Exhibitors
9On the bill · sessions
41Companies · in total
The Voices
Programmed at MLcon, in alphabetical order.Adrian Boguszewski
Intel
Amit Bendor
Artlist
Ayelet Arditi
Sisense
Brett Smith
Burak Aytan
TURKCELL
Carsten Breithaupt
Lufthansa
Christian Liebel
Thinktecture AG
Christoph Börner
Botium GmbH
Cory O'Daniel
Massdriver
Debjyoti Paul
Dr. Majid Baa Wafaa
RecomAI
Dr. Tobias Brambach
Point 8 GmbH
Garima Bajpai
Canada DevOps Community of Practice
Hauke Brammer
DeepUp GmbH
Jeff Blankenburg
Amazon Alexa
Jens Beyer
LAVRIO.solutions GmbH
Jeroen Boeye
Faktion
Joe Karlsson
Developer Advocate · CloudQuery
John Davies
Incept5
Jon Bratseth
Yahoo
Joris Boeye
ZF Wind Power
Karthik Bharadwaj
H2O AI
— and 18 more, by name unsung —
Underwritten By
The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.ABN AMROGold
Dash0Gold
Harness Inc.Silver
jozuSilver
Sopra SteriaSilver
PancompanyBronze
ThisworkzBronze
unleashBronze
devmioConference Organizer
Kubernetes PodcastCommunity Partner
The Programme
Selected from 9 sessions on the bill.- 10:15 - 11:00AI Strategy & Governance
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Managing AI Risk in Practice
The conversation around AI compliance has matured — it’s no longer about checklists, it’s about control.In this joint session, Komplyzen and Modulos.ai explore how organizations ca…
- 10:15 - 11:00Generative AI & Agents
Breaking down an LLM for its parts
AI has been around for many years, we’ve been using text to speech and speech to text for over a decade, Siri, Alexa etc., cameras could follow faces a decade ago. However, the maj…
- 10:15 - 11:00Generative AI & Agents
Teaching Machines to See and Read: The Science and Applications of Multimodal AI
Multimodality represents one of AI's most fascinating and business-actionable frontiers, yet its potential remains largely untapped. In this session, we'll explore multimodal archi…
- 11:30 - 12:15Generative AI & Agents
AI Agents Unplugged: No Frameworks, Just Code
This talk provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building AI agents using only Python and an LLM API. Starting from a basic API call, we'll progressively add capabilities: pro…
- 11:30 - 12:15AI Strategy & Governance
Building a Native LLM Product: Hard Lessons, Unexpected Challenges, and Real Opportunities
What does it really take to build a product powered by large language models? In this talk, we’ll share an honest, behind-the-scenes look at launching an LLM-native application. We…
- 11:30 - 12:15AI Developer Tools
ConvNeXt - The Image Processing Powerhouse
Vision transformers have been all the rage for computer vision, as they have pushed the performance of computer vision systems to new heights thanks to the pretraining and scaling …
- 14:30 - 15:15ML & Deep Learning
Building AI That Learns and Adapts: A Case Study in MRI Diagnostics
Explore how AI and continual learning can revolutionize MRI diagnostics, using our real-world case study in detecting Focal Cortical Dysplasias (FCD)—a crucial factor in epilepsy t…
- 14:30 - 15:15AI Strategy & Governance
Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) since early 2023 has fundamentally shifted IT's environmental footprint. Major tech companies now have electricity consumption eq…
- 14:30 - 15:15AI Developer Tools
The HeatWave ML Cloud Service: Easy and fast machine learning for your MySQL data
MySQL HeatWave is a cloud-based database service that integrates transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning into a single MySQL database. The service includes an in-me…
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer
An audience of 41 companies, parsed from the program.
“41 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.
0All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
31Speakingspeaker only
- Engineer · IC25%
- Other roles3895%
Of 40 on the bill · classified by free-text title
- 01ABN AMROSp·G
- 02Dash0Sp·G
- 03devmioSp·C
- 04HarnessSp·S
- 05JozuSp·S
- 06Kubernetes PodcastSp·C
- 07PancompanySp·B
- 08Sopra SteriaSp·S
- 09ThisworkzSp·B
- 10UnleashSp·B
- 11LAVRIO.solutions GmbH2V
- 12Adobe1V
- 13Amazon Alexa1V
- 14Artlist1V
gold2
20% of 10
silver3
30% of 10
bronze3
30% of 10
community partner1
10% of 10
conference organizer1
10% of 10
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.
- Chainguard×4 peers
- Coder×4 peers
- harness×4 peers
- Octopus Deploy×4 peers
- AI & ML Events×3 peers
- AI Press Room×3 peers
- Antithesis×3 peers
- Capitalbay News×3 peers
- cloudsmith×3 peers
- datadog×3 peers
- DevIT×3 peers
- DevITJobs.uk×3 peers
- ML Conference Munich 2026June 22, 2026 · Munich+ 10 shared
- ML Conference New York 2026September 28, 2026 · New York+ 10 shared
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026June 18, 2026 · Mumbai+ 3 shared
- PlatformCon 2026June 22, 2026 · Virtual+ 3 shared
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North AmericaNovember 9, 2026 · Salt Lake City+ 3 shared
- DevOpsCon Munich 2026November 30, 2026 · Munich+ 3 shared