AI.Engineer Sandbox Event

October 12 – 14, 2026

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

9:00 AM

Featured Keynote

Keynote: The Post-Cloud Developer

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM · Main Hall

What comes after the console.

9:30 AM

Workshop

Hands-on: Observability for LLM Apps

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM · Workshop Room B

Traces, evals, and dashboards.

10:00 AM

InnovationTalk

Local-first AI Apps

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM · Room 305

Offline inference patterns.

11:00 AM

AI InfrastructurePanel

Panel: The Economics of Inference

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM · Main Hall

Margins, moats, and GPUs.

11:30 AM

Talk

Caching Strategies for LLM APIs

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM · Room A

Semantic caches without the foot-guns.

1:00 PM

Talk

Structured Output at Scale

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM · Workshop Room B

Schemas beat regexes.

2:00 PM

PracticeTalk

Agents that Ship: Case Studies

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM · Main Hall

Three production post-mortems.

3:00 PM

Panel

Panel: Build vs Buy for AI Platforms

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM · Room 305

The eternal question, 2026 edition.

4:00 PM

Talk

Multimodal Pipelines in Practice

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM · Room B

Vision + text, end to end.