AI InfrastructureFeatured Keynote
Opening Keynote: The State of AI Engineering
Mon, Oct 12 · 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM · Main Hall
Where the field actually is.
1–24 of 28 sessions
Attacks and mitigations in the wild.
A keynote on retrieval systems.
SS
Sam Speaker
AC
Alex Co
Tokens per dollar, maximized.
PracticeWorkshop
Hands-on: Fine-tuning Small Models
Mon, Oct 12 · 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM · Workshop Room B
Bring a laptop, leave with a model.
Hybrid search that actually ships.
Build an eval harness in 90 minutes.
Four teams, four stacks.
What comes after the console.
Traces, evals, and dashboards.
Offline inference patterns.
AI InfrastructurePanel
Panel: The Economics of Inference
Tue, Oct 13 · 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM · Main Hall
Margins, moats, and GPUs.
Semantic caches without the foot-guns.
Schemas beat regexes.
Three production post-mortems.
The eternal question, 2026 edition.
Vision + text, end to end.
Forms speakers do not hate.
Workshop
Hands-on: Shipping a Conference Site in a Day
Wed, Oct 14 · 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM · Workshop Room B
From repo to live program page.
Architectures on the horizon.
Schema evolution without the outage.
The wrap-up.
Accepted but not yet scheduled.
SS
Sam Speaker
What replaces the subscription wall.
NH
Noor Haddad