Northbound AI Summit 2026
October 12 – 14, 2026 · Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
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31 speakers
Sofía Álvarez
Staff Product Engineer · RelayWorks
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Zara Amin
Document Intelligence Lead · Papertrail Health
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Jordan Bell
Compute Economist · Capacity Index
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Luca Bianchi
ML Systems Engineer · Piccolo AI
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Nia Brooks
Applied AI Lead · SchemaWorks
Maya Chen
VP, AI Platform · Northstar Systems
Samira Cole
Staff Engineer · Latticework
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Inês Duarte
Developer Infrastructure Fellow · Local Cloud Foundation
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Arthur Dubois
Editor · Practical AI Review
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Omar El-Amin
Open Models Lead · Meridian Compute
Dana Fields
Noor Haddad
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Layla Hassan
VP of Engineering · Harbor Finance
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Isaac Kim
Capacity Strategy Lead · Tessellate Cloud
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Benjamin Liu
Principal Engineer · Cacheline AI
Rohan Mehta
Founder · Stagecraft Open Source
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Adwoa Mensah
Model Operations Director · Sankofa Compute
Alex Moreau
Developer Advocate · Harborline
Priya Narayanan
Principal Security Researcher · Boundary Labs
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Tomáš Novák
Observability Architect · Tracegarden
Amina Okafor
Director of ML Efficiency · Common Thread
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Michelle Okoro
Executive Director · Speaker First
Lena Ortiz
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Elena Petrova
Research Engineering Director · Gradient Commons
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Eli Rosenberg
Evaluation Engineer · Proofpoint AI
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Kenji Sato
On-device ML Engineer · Pocket Models
Marco Silva
Yuki Tanaka
Search Infrastructure Lead · Kintsugi Data
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Malik Thompson
Database Reliability Engineer · Edge Ledger
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Grace Wu
Program Director · Systems Forum
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Fatima Zahra
Head of Platform · Atlas Commerce