# AI Engineer Code Summit 2026

> The application-only AI Engineer Code Summit brings together leading coding-agent builders and AI engineers in San Francisco, November 10-12, 2026.

- Website: https://ai.engineer/code/2026
- Dates: November 10-12, 2026
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square, 333 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102
- Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (all times below are Pacific)
- Apply to attend: https://ai.engineer/code/2026/apply
- Schedule: https://ai.engineer/code/2026/schedule
- Newsletter: https://ai.engineer/newsletter
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@aidotengineer
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/aiDotEngineer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/

## Developer Endpoints

Open, read-only, no API key. Schedule and speaker data refresh from the live schedule every few minutes. The affiliation feed follows the announced roster.

- llms.txt (this file): https://ai.engineer/code/2026/llms.txt
- llms-full.txt (descriptions + speaker bios): https://ai.engineer/code/2026/llms-full.txt
- Sessions JSON: https://ai.engineer/code/2026/sessions.json
- Speakers JSON: https://ai.engineer/code/2026/speakers.json
- Announced roster affiliations JSON: https://ai.engineer/code/2026/organization-affiliations.json
- iCal calendar (every session): https://ai.engineer/code/2026/calendar.ics
- MCP server: https://ai.engineer/mcp (tools: list_conferences, get_schedule with conferenceId "conference:code/2026", search, fetch)
- Data guide and schemas: https://ai.engineer/data.md

## Schedule Overview

### Tuesday, November 10

- 8:00am - 9:00am: Light Breakfast [Continental 5 (Breakfast & Lunch)] (other)
- 8:00am - 5:30pm: Registration [Registration (outside Golden Gate)] (other)
- 8:55am - 9:00am: MC Intro by Richelle J. [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 9:00am - 9:25am: From Shared Language to Enforceable Contracts: Ontologies as Guardrails for Agents. by Frank Coyle [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 9:00am - 10:00am: Machine trust by CJ Avilla [Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)] (workshop)
- 9:00am - 10:00am: New Ways of Working with Codex by Dominik Kundel, Charlie Guo [Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)] (workshop)
- 9:00am - 10:00am: Build a Coding Agent Harness From an Empty Loop by Tejas Kumar [Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)] (workshop)
- 9:30am - 9:55am: One team's path to trusting AI generated code by Ankit Jain [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 10:10am - 10:35am: The True Cost of AI Coding by Scott Tolinski [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 10:10am - 11:10am: Forget AGI. You're Surrounded by Low-Hanging Fruit. by Lucas Meijer [Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)] (workshop)
- 10:10am - 11:10am: Build a Multi-Agent PR Review and Repair Workflow with Omnigent by Elise Gonzales, Bradford Chang [Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)] (workshop)
- 10:10am - 11:10am: Stop Prompting, Start Delegating: Hand off work to a team of agents by Ross Cefalu [Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)] (workshop)
- 10:40am - 11:05am: One Rule, One Throwaway Skill: Agent Migrations with ast-grep by Justin Poehnelt [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 11:10am - 11:40am: Networking Break [Continental 5 (Breakfast & Lunch)] (other)
- 11:40am - 12:05pm: Inference Engineering for Coding Agents by Philip Kiely [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 11:40am - 12:40pm: Build Your Own Agent Harness with eve and Vercel by Owen Kephart [Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)] (workshop)
- 11:40am - 12:40pm: Ahmad Osman, Founder & CEO, Osmantic by Ahmad Osman [Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)] (workshop)
- 11:40am - 12:40pm: Closing the Agentic Loop: Getting Agents to Safely Build, Verify, and Ship by Kent C. Dodds [Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)] (workshop)
- 12:10pm - 12:35pm: Proactive Agent Engineering by Sydney Runkle [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 12:40pm - 1:50pm: Lunch [Continental 5 (Breakfast & Lunch)] (other)
- 1:50pm - 2:15pm: From Coding agents to Knowledge work agents by Karan Vaidya [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 1:50pm - 2:50pm: AFK Engineering: From Terminal to Voice-Controlled Remote Agents (Part 1) by Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff, Ivan Leo [Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)] (workshop)
- 1:50pm - 2:50pm: A Field Guide to Agent Shapes: From Long-Horizon to Open-Ended by Yacine Mahdid [Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)] (workshop)
- 1:50pm - 2:50pm: Keep the Harness, Own Your Inference by Francisco Javier Arceo [Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)] (workshop)
- 2:20pm - 2:45pm: The new job of the data team is providing context to AI by George Fraser [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 3:00pm - 3:25pm: Building a Shared AI Assistant: The Platform Challenges Beyond MCP by Utkarsh Shrivastava [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm: AFK Engineering: From Terminal to Voice-Controlled Remote Agents (Part 2) by Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff, Ivan Leo [Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)] (workshop)
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm: Hands-on Gitar: An AI Code Verification Agent for Your CI by Taylor Luttrell-Williams [Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)] (workshop)
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm: Build a personal agent with Exa Search by Jakub Hojsan [Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)] (workshop)
- 3:30pm - 3:55pm: Building World-class Agentic GTM: Learnings from Monaco for Monaco by Mihail Eric [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 4:00pm - 4:30pm: Networking Break [Continental 5 (Breakfast & Lunch)] (other)
- 4:30pm - 4:55pm: Catching Reward Hacking From the Inside by Daniel Balsam [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm: Our Agents Shipped 6,000 PRs to 600+ Companies in The First Month. Now They Build Features by Alex Lebedev [Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)] (workshop)
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm: Do it All with Devin by Giovanni D'Antonio [Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)] (workshop)
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm: Build your first Kiro Crew app: An agent that triages your backlog while you sleep by Arundeep Nagaraj, Dan Kiuna [Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)] (workshop)
- 5:00pm - 5:25pm: Sandboxes are dead by Vasek Mlejnsky [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 5:25pm - 5:30pm: MC Outro by Richelle J. [Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)] (breakout)
- 5:30pm - 8:30pm: Opening Reception [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)

### Wednesday, November 11

- 8:00am - 5:40pm: Token Billionaires Lounge [Continental 7 (Token Billionaires Lounge)] (other)
- 8:00am - 5:40pm: Registration [Registration (outside Golden Gate)] (other)
- 9:00am - 9:10am: MC Intro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 9:10am - 9:30am: What Will You Build When AI Is 10x Faster? by Natalie Serrino [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 9:30am - 9:50am: Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices by Lydia Hallie [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 9:50am - 10:10am: cloudflare is a neolab by Michelle Chen [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 10:10am - 10:30am: All Code Is Slop (Except Mine) by Lauren Tan [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 10:30am - 10:40am: MC Outro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 10:40am - 4:00pm: Expo Hall Hours [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 10:40am - 11:20am: Networking Break [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 10:55am - 11:15am: Manage Yourself Out of the Loop by Erik Thorelli [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 11:20am - 11:40am: I deleted 90% of my harness (And It Got Better) by Philipp Schmid [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 11:20am - 11:40am: Refactor or Rot: Building a self-improving codebase by Jacob Prall [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 11:45am - 12:05pm: The Rise of the Agent Workforce: Rethinking Agent Infrastructure by Ankit Mathur [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 11:45am - 12:05pm: Heal Your Agents, Don't Just Grade Them by Khasimul Asif Mohammad, Sudhir Tonse [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 12:10pm - 12:30pm: Building a Safe Software Factory by Andrew Finch [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 12:10pm - 12:30pm: How to build agents over your own data by Aamir Shakir [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 12:35pm - 12:55pm: Earning Autonomy: From Missions to Workstreams by Luke Alvoeiro [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 12:35pm - 12:55pm: The Software Factory That Needs Zero FDEs by Raz Berman Gold [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 12:55pm - 2:05pm: Lunch [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 2:05pm - 2:23pm: I love you so jevving much by Diogo Almeida [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 2:05pm - 2:25pm: Coding Agents and How to Tame Them by Ivan Leo [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 2:30pm - 2:43pm: Beyond Generation: Fast, Structured AI Decisions with Jev at Glean by Chinmay Goyal [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 2:30pm - 2:50pm: More Checks, Less Noise: Layered Security for AI-Assisted Development by Taylor Luttrell-Williams, Killian Carlsen-Phelan [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 2:48pm - 3:01pm: Your Automation Is Overthinking It by Chibi Vikram, Kevin Bernstein [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 2:55pm - 3:15pm: Ground Truth or Dare: Using Oracles to Make Postgres Reactive by James Arthur [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 3:06pm - 3:19pm: Your Judge Is Hallucinating Too by Brian Kennedy [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 3:20pm - 3:40pm: CVE remediation with Factory: from finding to merged PR by Nikhil Harithas [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 3:24pm - 3:37pm: Scott Roberts, Workday by Scott Roberts [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 3:45pm - 4:05pm: Leaving Localhost: Building an Agent-Native Dev Environment by Sajid Mehmood [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 3:45pm - 4:05pm: Afternoon Break / Keynote Reset [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 4:20pm - 4:30pm: MC Intro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 4:30pm - 4:50pm: What it takes to set intelligence free by Fabian Hedin [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 4:50pm - 5:10pm: How to build an agent that builds the culture by Zach Bruggeman [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 5:10pm - 5:30pm: Steve Yegge, Independent Advisor & Creator of Beads & Gas Town, Independent by Steve Yegge [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 5:30pm - 5:50pm: Simon Willison, Creator of Datasette, Independent by Simon Willison [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 5:50pm - 6:00pm: MC Outro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)

### Thursday, November 12

- 8:00am - 5:40pm: Token Billionaires Lounge [Continental 7 (Token Billionaires Lounge)] (other)
- 8:00am - 5:40pm: Registration [Registration (outside Golden Gate)] (other)
- 9:00am - 9:10am: MC Intro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 9:10am - 9:30am: Jason Liu, Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI by Jason Liu [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 9:30am - 9:50am: Armin Ronacher, CTO, Earendil by Armin Ronacher [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 9:50am - 10:10am: Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering by Zach Lloyd [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 10:10am - 10:30am: Let's Open Source the World by Brandon Thomas [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 10:30am - 10:40am: MC Outro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 10:40am - 4:00pm: Expo Hall Hours [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 10:40am - 11:20am: Networking Break [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 11:20am - 11:40am: Walden Yan, Chief Product Officer, Cognition by Walden Yan [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 11:20am - 11:40am: Emitted, not authored: The context layer under your software factory by Brandon Waselnuk [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 11:45am - 12:05pm: What Your AI Doesn't Know: The latest trends in agent searches by Jeffrey Pinner [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 11:45am - 12:05pm: Talk But Verify: human-in-the-loop for agents that actually matter by Michael Liendo [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 12:10pm - 12:30pm: Ship more as a team of one with Kiro Crew by Doug Clauson [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 12:10pm - 12:30pm: Let the Agent Cook: From APIs to Answers by Arsalan Bashir [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 12:35pm - 12:55pm: Exploring Claude’s frontier by Lance Martin [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 12:35pm - 12:55pm: Code review without reviewing code by Daniel Tao [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 12:55pm - 2:05pm: Lunch [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 2:05pm - 2:50pm: Jarred Sumner, Founder of Bun, Anthropic / Bun by Jarred Sumner [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 2:05pm - 2:25pm: Scaling Your Agent Workforce: Lessons from Inside Cognition by Theodor Marcu [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 2:30pm - 2:50pm: The first Grounded Decision Model by Devin Gupta [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 2:55pm - 3:15pm: Ishaan Dey, Software Engineer, Google DeepMind (Antigravity) by Ishaan Dey [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 2:55pm - 3:15pm: Your agent pays twice for every search: how we cut token spend by 90+% with better accuracy by Louis Walsh [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 3:20pm - 3:40pm: Brownfield Factories by Justin McCarthy [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 3:20pm - 3:40pm: Agents That Don't Clock Out by Erik Hanchett [Continental 1–3 (Expo Sessions)] (breakout)
- 3:45pm - 4:05pm: Afternoon Break / Keynote Reset [Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)] (other)
- 4:20pm - 4:30pm: MC Intro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 4:30pm - 4:50pm: Post-Training Gemini 4 for Real Engineering Work by Melvin Johnson [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 4:50pm - 5:10pm: Quinn Slack, CEO, Amp by Quinn Slack [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 5:10pm - 5:30pm: 12-Factor-Factories: Design Patterns for Agentic Coding by Dexter Horthy [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 5:30pm - 5:50pm: Thariq Shihipar, Independent by Thariq Shihipar [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)
- 5:50pm - 6:00pm: MC Outro by Corey Quinn [Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)] (talk)

## Side Events

- **Opening Reception** (official AIE event, attendees only): TUE, NOV 10 · 5:30 – 8:30 PM PT · Expo Hall, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
  Kick off Code Summit with fellow attendees in the expo hall, directly following the final workshops. All badge holders are admitted.
  RSVP: https://luma.com/a3r6yqzo
- **allthings/aie**: WED, NOV 11 · 7 – 10 PM PT
  Free, approval-only community night after the talks: lightning hot takes, open mic, music, and performances. No sponsored talks, no pitches.
  RSVP: https://luma.com/allthings-aie
- **Official After Party** (official AIE event, attendees only): THU, NOV 12 · 6:30 – 9:30 PM PT · Financial District, San Francisco
  Close out Code Summit with the people building the AI coding stack. Hosted by Neon, Vercel, and Factory. Bring your badge or ticket to get in.
  RSVP: https://luma.com/after-summit
- **AIE x MLH Hackathon** (official AIE event, free): FRI, NOV 13 · 9 AM – 9 PM PT
  Code Summit wraps up, but the ideas don't have to. Major League Hacking hosts a full-day hackathon for Summit attendees to take what they learned and build something with it.
  RSVP: https://luma.com/AIECodeSummitHackathon
- **AI Engineer Kids Day** (official AIE event, free): SAT, NOV 14 · 12:30 – 3:30 PM PT · SoMa, San Francisco
  Our first Code Summit Kids Day: a hands-on afternoon for curious young builders to explore AI and code with Cassandra Chin, speaker, developer, and book author.
  RSVP: https://luma.com/kdtg113c

## Quick Start

  curl https://ai.engineer/code/2026/llms-full.txt
  curl https://ai.engineer/code/2026/sessions.json | jq '.sessions[] | {time, title, speakers}'
  curl https://ai.engineer/code/2026/speakers.json | jq '.speakers[] | {name, role, company}'
  curl -O https://ai.engineer/code/2026/calendar.ics