AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

2026-06-30–2026-07-03 · America/Los_Angeles · no session live right now

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Rooms & sessions

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• Main Stage — Keynotes & Talks idle 📺 live captions · captions.txt screen
  Day 2 — Session Day 1 · 2026-06-30 · 19 talks

  9:00am-9:05am The Highest Loop — swyx

  9:05am-9:25am On AI and Knowledge — Pablo Castro

  9:25am-9:45am The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos, Romain Huet · 3 turns · 11 slides

  9:45am-10:05am GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weights. — Zixuan Li · 41 turns · 10 slides

  10:05am-10:25am Thom Wolf keynote — Thom Wolf, Olive Song · 66 turns · 1 slides

  10:25am-10:30am Security Track intro — Manoj Nair · 19 turns · 0 slides

  10:45am-11:05am Getting the most out of Codex — Jason Liu · 86 turns · 11 slides

  11:10am-11:30am Rise of the Software Factory — Tereza Tížková · 56 turns · 12 slides

  11:40am-12:00pm Orchestras, not Factories — Charlie Holtz · 67 turns · 19 slides

  12:05pm-12:25pm What we learned by analyzing 1M AI-generated PRs — Daksh Gupta · 72 turns · 0 slides

  1:30pm-1:50pm Get Out of the Model's Way — Kevin Hou · 70 turns · 3 slides

  1:55pm-2:15pm Self-Improving software factories: The new open source model" — Zach Lloyd · 72 turns · 4 slides

  2:25pm-2:45pm We're the bottleneck, but we don't have to be — Ido Salomon · 61 turns · 16 slides

  2:50pm-3:10pm Notion's Token Town — Sarah Sachs · 82 turns · 24 slides

  3:20pm-3:40pm fighting slop with slop — Vaibhav Gupta · 66 turns · 22 slides

  3:45pm-4:05pm Loop Engineering from first principles — Kyle Mistele · 79 turns · 3 slides

  4:30pm-4:50pm Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail — Dex Horthy · 67 turns · 0 slides

  4:50pm-5:10pm In Code They Act, In Proof We Trust — Erik Meijer · 31 turns · 0 slides

  5:10pm-5:30pm Recursive Model Improvement — Lee Robinson
  Day 3 — Session Day 2 · 2026-07-01 · 18 talks

  9:05am-9:25am Field Guide to Fable — Thariq Shihipar · 78 turns · 40 slides

  9:25am-9:45am In the Land of AI Agents, the Verifiers Are King — Tariq Shaukat · 59 turns · 39 slides

  9:45am-10:05am Perception Agents — Antje Barth · 62 turns · 39 slides

  10:05am-10:25am Research to Reality with Google DeepMind — Benoit Schillings · 61 turns · 38 slides

  10:25am-10:30am Evals Track Intro — Laurie Voss, Aparna Dhinakaran · 17 turns · 9 slides

  10:45am-11:05am First Steps Toward Automated AI Research — Richard Socher · 52 turns · 39 slides

  11:10am-11:30am Autoresearch for Dense Retrieval: Test-Time Compute with Frozen Embedding Models — Han Xiao · 63 turns · 41 slides

  11:40am-12:00pm Memory Harnesses for Long-Running Research Agents — Stefania Druga · 57 turns · 40 slides

  12:05pm-12:25pm « the era of (auto) research » — Elie Bakouch · 63 turns · 37 slides

  1:30pm-1:50pm Closing the Loop: An Autonomous AI Research Agent — Tim Sweeney · 81 turns · 40 slides

  1:55pm-2:15pm An AI Agent Became the #1 Contributor in OpenAI's Hiring Challenge — Zhengyao Jiang · 57 turns · 39 slides

  2:25pm-2:45pm Self-Improvement of Context, Harness, and Model Weights through Reflective Optimization — Lakshya Agrawal · 56 turns · 38 slides

  2:50pm-3:10pm Autoresearch for Kernels — Tejas Bhakta · 17 turns · 10 slides

  3:20pm-3:40pm Autoresearch in the wild — Roland Gavrilescu, Julian Bright

  3:45pm-4:05pm Autoresearch in a Multi-Agent AI Village — Erina Karati, Arunachalam Manikandan

  4:30pm-4:50pm Closing Keynote — Addy Osmani

  4:50pm-5:10pm Trends in AI — George Cameron, Micah Hill-Smith

  5:10pm-5:30pm Closing Keynote — Wei-Lin Chiang
  Day 4 — Session Day 3 · 2026-07-02 · 18 talks

  9:00am-9:20am The 2026 State of AI Engineering — Barr Yaron · 72 turns · 0 slides

  9:20am-9:40am TCP and RDMA are Killing Inference Throughput; Homa can Fix It — John Ousterhout · 70 turns · 0 slides

  9:40am-10:00am The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model — Maxime Rivest, Isaac Miller · 62 turns · 0 slides

  10:00am-10:20am How Anthropic Builds: Lessons from Labs — Mike Krieger, swyx · 80 turns · 0 slides

  10:20am-10:30am Thinner Agents on a Smarter Substrate: The Ontology-based Semantic Layer — Emil Eifrem · 39 turns · 0 slides

  10:45am-11:05am Tokens Should Have Jobs — Katelyn Lesse, Angela Jiang · 60 turns · 0 slides

  11:10am-11:30am MCPs, CLIs, and Skills: Choosing the Right Tooling Layer for Agentic Development — Nikita Kothari · 68 turns · 0 slides

  11:40am-12:00pm Auth for Agents: Unblock Autonomous AI with auth.md — Michael Grinich · 83 turns · 0 slides

  12:05pm-12:25pm Harness Engineering: Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain Agents — Mike Chambers · 82 turns · 0 slides

  1:30pm-1:50pm Loophole - Adversarial Agents To Stress Test Your Morality — Brendan Rappazzo · 44 turns · 0 slides

  1:55pm-2:15pm 🎵 Every step you take, every call you make - the reliable agent stack — Giselle van Dongen · 51 turns · 0 slides

  2:25pm-2:45pm We let an AI agent execute Bash and lived to talk about it — Sarah Sanders · 60 turns · 0 slides

  2:50pm-3:10pm No Memory, No Harness: Why the Database Is the Last Line of Defense — Kay Malcolm · 0 turns · 2 slides

  3:20pm-3:40pm How we Solved Agent Building — Andrew Qu

  3:45pm-4:05pm Agents Without Code: How Skills, YAML, and Filesystems Replaced Python — Philipp Schmid

  4:30pm-4:50pm Closing Keynote — Theo Browne — Theo Browne

  4:50pm-5:10pm Closing Keynote: Garry Tan — Garry Tan

  5:10pm-5:30pm Startup Battlefield — Howie Liu, Joshua Xu, swyx
• The Golden Age of AI Engineering idle 📺 live captions · captions.txt screen

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• Everything we knew about software has changed — Theo Browne idle 📺 live captions · captions.txt screen

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• Field Guide to Fable — Thariq Shihipar idle 📺 live captions · captions.txt screen

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• Startup Battlefield — Howie Liu, Joshua Xu, swyx idle 📺 live captions · captions.txt screen

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Program

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