Northbound AI Summit 2026

Speakers meet your conference twice: once through the CFP form, once on stage. Most events lose great talks at the first meeting, and the data shows it — every additional required question measurably cuts submissions, and the cuts are not e…

A conference program is a database with an audience, so treat it like one. In this workshop we ship a complete conference site in a day: program data in, a fast public site out — sessions catalog, speaker directory, schedule grid, and calen…

The transformer has been the answer for eight years, which historically is when architectures stop being the answer. This talk surveys the challengers honestly: state-space models, hybrid attention schemes, and the sparse and recurrent revi…

SQLite at the edge changes what a migration even is: no maintenance window, no replica to fail over to, and a write path you share with live traffic. We have run 40+ schema migrations on D1 databases serving production requests, and this ta…

Three days, five tracks, and several hundred hallway arguments deserve a synthesis. The closing panel brings program voices and audience favorites back on stage to separate what we actually learned this week from what merely sounded good in…