Northbound AI Summit 2026

No slides, just terminals. This is a live tour of a production agent swarm doing real work: a fleet of specialized agents coordinating on tasks with checkpoints, retries, and a shared control plane — running against live infrastructure on s…

Bring your slow queries. This is an open working session, not a talk: we put real query plans from the audience on screen and fix them together — missing indexes, accidental full scans, pagination that degrades with offset, and the D1-speci…

Open CFPs are democratic, slow, and increasingly gamed — the LLM-written submission wave hit every major conference this year. Pure curation is fast, biased, and books the same twelve speakers every circuit. Every program chair is quietly r…

Your conference emails are landing in spam and nobody is telling you. Acceptance notices, schedule changes, day-of logistics — event email is bursty, link-heavy, and sent from domains that are cold eleven months a year, which is exactly the…