Northbound AI Summit 2026

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…

AI engineering stopped being a frontier discipline and started being a job description — but the tools, the org charts, and the failure modes are still catching up. This opening keynote takes stock of where production teams actually are, dr…

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…