AI Engineer Summit

Schedule

Time
Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)
Continental 4 (Workshop Room 2)
Continental 6 (Workshop Room 3)
Continental 7–9 (Workshop Room 4)
Continental 5 (Breakfast & Lunch)
Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)
Registration (outside Golden Gate)
8:00
8:00am - 9:00am
Light Breakfast
8:00am - 5:30pm
Registration
8:55
8:55am - 9:00am
MC Intro
Richelle J.
Featherless AI, Chief of Staff
9:00
9:00am - 9:25am
From Shared Language to Enforceable Contracts: Ontologies as Guardrails for Agents.
Frank Coyle
UC Berkeley, Lecturer, University of California Berkeley
9:00am - 10:00am
Machine trust
CJ Avilla
Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
9:00am - 10:00am
New Ways of Working with Codex
Dominik Kundel
OpenAI, Developer Experience
Charlie Guo
OpenAI, Developer Experience Engineer
9:00am - 10:00am
Build a Coding Agent Harness From an Empty Loop
Tejas Kumar
AI Engineer at IBM and Keynote Speaker
9:30
9:30am - 9:55am
One team's path to trusting AI generated code
Ankit Jain
co-founder & CEO, Aviator Technologies
10:10
10:10am - 10:35am
The True Cost of AI Coding
Scott Tolinski
Syntax, Co-host
10:10am - 11:10am
Forget AGI. You're Surrounded by Low-Hanging Fruit.
Lucas Meijer
AgentsInTheCloud.com, Hacker
10:10am - 11:10am
Build a Multi-Agent PR Review and Repair Workflow with Omnigent
Elise Gonzales
Databricks, Staff Product Manager
Bradford Chang
Databricks, Senior Solutions Architect
10:10am - 11:10am
Stop Prompting, Start Delegating: Hand off work to a team of agents
Ross Cefalu
Factory, Member of Technical Staff
10:40
10:40am - 11:05am
One Rule, One Throwaway Skill: Agent Migrations with ast-grep
Justin Poehnelt
Helen's Foundry, CTO
11:10
11:10am - 11:40am
Networking Break
11:40
11:40am - 12:05pm
Inference Engineering for Coding Agents
Philip Kiely
Baseten, Author of Inference Engineering
11:40am - 12:40pm
Build Your Own Agent Harness with eve and Vercel
Owen Kephart
Vercel, Member of Technical Staff
11:40am - 12:40pm
Ahmad Osman, Founder & CEO, Osmantic
Ahmad Osman
Osmantic, Founder & CEO
11:40am - 12:40pm
Closing the Agentic Loop: Getting Agents to Safely Build, Verify, and Ship
Kent C. Dodds
Independent, Software Engineer & Educator
12:10
12:10pm - 12:35pm
Sydney Runkle, Product Manager, LangChain
Sydney Runkle
LangChain, Product Manager
12:40
12:40pm - 1:50pm
Lunch
1:50
1:50pm - 2:15pm
From Coding agents to Knowledge work agents
Karan Vaidya
Composio, Co-founder/CTO
1:50pm - 2:50pm
Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 1)
Philipp Schmid
Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff
Thor Schaeff
Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff
Ivan Leo
Google DeepMind, Member of Technical Staff
1:50pm - 2:50pm
A Field Guide to Agent Shapes: From Long-Horizon to Open-Ended
Yacine Mahdid
Datadom, CEO
1:50pm - 2:50pm
Keep the Harness, Own Your Inference
Francisco Javier Arceo
Baseten, Forward Deployed Engineer
2:20
2:20pm - 2:45pm
The new job of the data team is providing context to AI
George Fraser
Fivetran, CEO
3:00
3:00pm - 3:25pm
Building a Shared AI Assistant: The Platform Challenges Beyond MCP
Utkarsh Shrivastava
Netflix, Senior Engineering Manager
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Philipp Schmid, Thor Schaeff & Ivan Leo, Members of Technical Staff, Google DeepMind (Part 2)
Philipp Schmid
Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff
Thor Schaeff
Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff
Ivan Leo
Google DeepMind, Member of Technical Staff
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Hands-on Gitar: An AI Code Verification Agent for Your CI
Taylor Luttrell-Williams
Sonar, Developer Content Engineer
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Build a personal agent with Exa Search
Jakub Hojsan
Exa, Forward Deployed Engineer
3:30
3:30pm - 3:55pm
Building World-class Agentic GTM: Learnings from Monaco for Monaco
Mihail Eric
Monaco, Head of AI
4:00
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Networking Break
4:30
4:30pm - 4:55pm
Catching Reward Hacking From the Inside
Daniel Balsam
Goodfire, Co-Founder & CTO
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Our Agents Shipped 6,000 PRs to 600+ Companies in The First Month. Now They Build Features
Alex Lebedev
PostHog, AI Product Engineer
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Cognition Workshop
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Build your first Kiro Crew app: An agent that triages your backlog while you sleep
Arundeep Nagaraj
AWS, Head of Customer Success, Kiro
Dan Kiuna
AWS, Solutions Architect, Kiro
5:00
5:00pm - 5:25pm
Sandboxes are dead
Vasek Mlejnsky
E2B, CEO
5:25
5:25pm - 5:30pm
MC Outro
Richelle J.
Featherless AI, Chief of Staff
5:30
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Opening Reception
Time
Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)
Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)
Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)
Continental 7 (Token Billionaires Lounge)
Registration (outside Golden Gate)
8:00
8:00am - 5:40pm
Token Billionaires Lounge
8:00am - 5:40pm
Registration
9:00
9:00am - 9:10am
MC Intro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
9:10
9:10am - 9:30am
What Will You Build When AI Is 10x Faster?
Natalie Serrino
Gimlet Labs, Co-Founder
9:30
9:30am - 9:50am
Rethinking Claude Code Best Practices
Lydia Hallie
Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
9:50
9:50am - 10:10am
cloudflare is a neolab
Michelle Chen
Cloudflare, Group Product Manager
10:10
10:10am - 10:30am
All Code Is Slop (Except Mine)
Lauren Tan
SpaceXSI (xAI), Principal Engineer, SpaceXSI
10:30
10:30am - 10:40am
MC Outro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
10:40
10:40am - 4:00pm
Expo Hall Hours
10:40am - 11:20am
Networking Break
10:55
10:55am - 11:15am
Manage Yourself Out of the Loop
Erik Thorelli
CodeRabbit, Head of Developer Experience
11:20
11:20am - 11:40am
I deleted 90% of my harness (And It Got Better)
Philipp Schmid
Google DeepMind, Member of the Technical Staff
11:20am - 11:40am
Refactor or Rot: Building a self-improving codebase
Jacob Prall
Render, Lead DX Engineer
11:45
11:45am - 12:05pm
The Rise of the Agent Workforce: Rethinking Agent Infrastructure
Ankit Mathur
Databricks, Member of Technical Staff
11:45am - 12:05pm
Heal Your Agents, Don't Just Grade Them
Khasimul Asif Mohammad
Splunk, Principal Product Manager
Sudhir Tonse
Splunk, Director of Engineering
12:10
12:10pm - 12:30pm
Building a Safe Software Factory
Andrew Finch
Sonar, Staff Software Engineer
12:10pm - 12:30pm
How to build agents over your own data
Aamir Shakir
Mixedbread, CEO
12:35
12:35pm - 12:55pm
Earning Autonomy: From Missions to Workstreams
Luke Alvoeiro
Factory, Senior Software Engineer
12:35pm - 12:55pm
The Software Factory That Needs Zero FDEs
Raz Berman Gold
Overcut, Co-Founder & CTO
12:55
12:55pm - 2:05pm
Lunch
2:05
2:05pm - 2:23pm
Diogo Almeida, Co-founder, TypeSafe AI
Diogo Almeida
TypeSafe AI, Co-founder
2:05pm - 2:25pm
Coding Agents and How to Tame Them
Ivan Leo
Google DeepMind, Member of Technical Staff
2:30
2:30pm - 2:43pm
Beyond Generation: Fast, Structured AI Decisions with Jev at Glean
Chinmay Goyal
Glean, Software Engineer
2:30pm - 2:50pm
More Checks, Less Noise: Layered Security for AI-Assisted Development
Taylor Luttrell-Williams
Sonar, Developer Content Engineer
Killian Carlsen-Phelan
Sonar, Developer Content Engineer
2:48
2:48pm - 3:01pm
J Stack
Chibi Vikram
UiPath, Engineer
Kevin Bernstein
UiPath, Solution Architect
2:55
2:55pm - 3:15pm
Ground Truth or Dare: Using Oracles to Make Postgres Reactive
James Arthur
Databricks, Staff
3:06
3:06pm - 3:19pm
Your Judge Is Hallucinating Too
Brian Kennedy
ZoomInfo, Principal Engineer
3:20
3:20pm - 3:40pm
CVE remediation with Factory: from finding to merged PR
Nikhil Harithas
Factory, Head of Deployed Engineering
3:24
3:24pm - 3:37pm
Scott Roberts, Workday
Scott Roberts
Workday
3:45
3:45pm - 4:05pm
Leaving Localhost: Building an Agent-Native Dev Environment
Sajid Mehmood
Niteshift, CEO & Co-founder
3:45pm - 4:05pm
Afternoon Break / Keynote Reset
4:20
4:20pm - 4:30pm
MC Intro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
4:30
4:30pm - 4:50pm
What it takes to set intelligence free
Fabian Hedin
Lovable, CTO
4:50
4:50pm - 5:10pm
How to build an agent that builds the culture
Zach Bruggeman
Ramp, Principal Software Engineer
5:10
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Steve Yegge, Independent Advisor & Creator of Beads & Gas Town, Independent
Steve Yegge
Independent, Independent Advisor & Creator of Beads & Gas Town
5:30
5:30pm - 5:50pm
Simon Willison, Creator of Datasette, Independent
Simon Willison
Independent
5:50
5:50pm - 6:00pm
MC Outro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
Time
Continental 4–6 (Mainstage)
Continental 1–3 (Workshop Room 1)
Golden Gate (Expo Hall, Lunch & Reception)
Continental 7 (Token Billionaires Lounge)
Registration (outside Golden Gate)
8:00
8:00am - 5:40pm
Token Billionaires Lounge
8:00am - 5:40pm
Registration
9:00
9:00am - 9:10am
MC Intro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
9:10
9:10am - 9:30am
Jason Liu, Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI
Jason Liu
OpenAI, Developer Experience
9:30
9:30am - 9:50am
Armin Ronacher, CTO, Earendil
Armin Ronacher
Earendil, CTO
9:50
9:50am - 10:10am
Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering
Zach Lloyd
Warp, Founder & CEO
10:10
10:10am - 10:30am
Brandon Thomas, CEO, Artcraft
Brandon Thomas
ArtCraft, CEO
10:30
10:30am - 10:40am
MC Outro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
10:40
10:40am - 4:00pm
Expo Hall Hours
10:40am - 11:20am
Networking Break
11:20
11:20am - 11:40am
Walden Yan, Chief Product Officer, Cognition
Walden Yan
Cognition, Chief Product Officer
11:20am - 11:40am
Emitted, not authored: The context layer under your software factory
Brandon Waselnuk
Unblocked, DevRel
11:45
11:45am - 12:05pm
What Your AI Doesn't Know: The latest trends in agent searches
Jeffrey Pinner
Exa, CTO
11:45am - 12:05pm
Talk But Verify: human-in-the-loop for agents that actually matter
Michael Liendo
Auth0, Staff Developer Advocate
12:10
12:10pm - 12:30pm
Ship more as a team of one with Kiro Crew
Doug Clauson
AWS, Principal PMT, Kiro
12:10pm - 12:30pm
Let the Agent Cook: From APIs to Answers
Arsalan Bashir
Sentry, Staff Software Engineer
12:35
12:35pm - 12:55pm
Exploring Claude’s frontier
Lance Martin
Anthropic, Member of Technical Staff
12:35pm - 12:55pm
Code review without reviewing code
Daniel Tao
Atlassian, Lead Principal Engineer, Dev Infra
12:55
12:55pm - 2:05pm
Lunch
2:05
2:05pm - 2:50pm
Jarred Sumner, Founder of Bun, Anthropic / Bun
Jarred Sumner
Anthropic, Founder of Bun
2:05pm - 2:25pm
Scaling Your Agent Workforce: Lessons from Inside Cognition
Theodor Marcu
Cognition, Head of Product Growth
2:30
2:30pm - 2:50pm
The first Grounded Decision Model
Devin Gupta
Parallel, Member of Technical Staff
2:55
2:55pm - 3:15pm
Ishaan Dey, Software Engineer, Google DeepMind (Antigravity)
Ishaan Dey
Google DeepMind, Software Engineer
2:55pm - 3:15pm
Your agent pays twice for every search: how we cut token spend by 90+% with better accuracy
Louis Walsh
Exa, Forward Deployed Engineer
3:20
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Brownfield Factories
Justin McCarthy
Diffusion, CEO
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Agents That Don't Clock Out
Erik Hanchett
AWS, Senior Developer Advocate, Kiro
3:45
3:45pm - 4:05pm
Afternoon Break / Keynote Reset
4:20
4:20pm - 4:30pm
MC Intro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist
4:30
4:30pm - 4:50pm
Post-Training Gemini 4 for Real Engineering Work
Melvin Johnson
Google DeepMind, VP Gemini Post-Training Lead
4:50
4:50pm - 5:10pm
Quinn Slack, CEO, Amp
Quinn Slack
Amp, CEO
5:10
5:10pm - 5:30pm
12-Factor-Factories: Design Patterns for Agentic Coding
Dexter Horthy
Factory, Member of Technical Staff
5:30
5:30pm - 5:50pm
Thariq Shihipar, Independent
Thariq Shihipar
Independent
5:50
5:50pm - 6:00pm
MC Outro
Corey Quinn
The Duckbill Group, Chief Cloud Economist