Name: AI Engineer Europe 2026
Start: 2026-04-08
End: 2026-04-10
Location: London

100+

Speakers

World-class lineup

100+

Sessions

Talks, Workshops & Keynotes

11

Tracks

Deep-dive technical tracks

23

Workshops

Hands-on sessions

3

Days

Full event

1,000+

Engineers

Expected attendance

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Built by engineers,
for engineer

Three days of deep technical content, hands-on workshops, and community.

1 Workshop DayApril 8

2 Keynote/Sessions DaysApril 9–10

2 Onsite Social EventsApril 8–9

2.5 Days of ExpoApril 8–10

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Schedule

Comprehensive three-day experience

Program Structure

Live Schedule Grid

Full schedule →

▶April 8 — Workshops

▶April 9 — Conference

▼April 10 — Conference

Time	⭐ Main Stage	Abbey	Fleming	Rutherford	St. James	Westminster	Moore	Shelley	Wesley	Wordsworth
9:00am	Gemma, DeepMind's Family of Open Models Omar Sanseviero
9:20am	The Future of MCP David Soria Parra
9:40am	AgentCraft: Putting the Orc in Agent Orchestration Ido Salomon
9:50am	Building pi in a World of Slop Mario Zechner
10:10am	The Friction Is Your Judgment Armin Ronacher; Cristina Poncela Cubeiro
10:30am								Does GenAI "belong" to data scientists? Phil Hetzel	Building AI Systems That Ship	Can LLMs generate Enterprise Quality Code?
10:50am								Spec-Driven Testing for Agents With A Brain the Size of A Planet	Two Roads to Durable Agents: Replay vs. Snapshot Eric Allam	How to talk to statues
11:15am		One Login to Rule Them All: Cross-App Access for MCP Garrett Galow	Replacing 12K LoC with a 200 LoC Skill David Gomes	Open Models at Google DeepMind Cassidy Hardin	Every API Is a Tool for Agents Matt Carey	Context Is the New Code Patrick Debois	Black Forest Labs: FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI Stephen Batifol
11:40am		Scaling Reinforcement Learning: Lessons from Trillion-Token Deployments at Fortune 500s Alessandro Cappelli	A Piece of PI – Embedding The OpenClaw Coding Agent In Your Product Matthias Luebken	Q&A (continuation of Open Models at Google DeepMind session) Cassidy Hardin	Building Agent Interfaces: Lessons from Chrome DevTools (MCP) for Agents Michael Hablich	Rewiring the State Eoin Mulgrew	MLX Genmedia Prince Canuma
12:00pm		The Embedding Infrastructure Nobody Built (So We Did) Filip Makraduli	Fast Models Need Slow Developers Sarah Chieng	What goes into building generative image and video models at scale 12:00-12:40pm Sander Dieleman	MCP Apps - Extending the frontier Liad Yosef; Ido Salomon	Most Enterprise Agentic Projects Are Doomed — Here’s Why Jess Grogan-Avignon; Jack Wang	What is state-of-the-art AI model? Bertrand Charpentier
12:20pm		The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms Lou Bichard	Lawrence Jones - Fighting AI with AI Lawrence Jones		Why MCP and ChatGPT Apps Use Double Iframes (And What That Means for Your App) Frédéric Barthelet	The Domain-Native AI Organization: How to Leverage Domain Expertise Chris Lovejoy	Bounded Autonomy: Between Free Will and Determinism Angus J. McLean
12:40pm		Scaling the Next Paradigm of Heterogeneous Intelligence Adrian Bertagnoli	Factory Missions - Multi-Agent Systems That Ship for Days Matan Grinberg; Luke Alvoeiro	Agentic Panel with KP Sawhney KP Sawhney; Ian Ballantyne	Beyond Components: Designing Generative UI for MCP Apps Ruben Casas	CI/CD Is Dead, Agents Need Continuous Compute and Computers Hugo Santos; Madison Faulkner	Think You Can Build a Game with AI? Think Again! The New Games Are Just Being Invented! Danielle An; David Hoe
1:05pm								Live Demo & Q&A with Together AI	Live Demo & Q&A with Arize	Live Demo & Q&A with Qodo
1:25pm								Task Fidelity Scaling Laws	Stop babysitting your agents: building a context engine for mergeable code Brandon Walsenuk	What Lies Beneath the API: when should you tune your own model?
1:45pm								Comprehend First, Code Later: The AI Skill I Rely On Daily Priscila Andre de Oliveira	Mastering AI Pricing: Flexible & Agile Monetization for your AI solutions Mayank Pant	Common Pitfalls of Skills Development (And How to Fix Them)
2:05pm								Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business?	What if the network was the sandbox?	Malleable Evals: Why Are We Still Evaluating Adaptive Systems with Static Tests? Vincent Koc
2:30pm		You Might Not Need 50 Diffusion Steps Ziv Ilan	Your Coding Agent Should Do AI System Engineering Ben Burtenshaw	Accelerating AI on Edge Chintan Parikh; Weiyi Wang	Lessons from Scaling GitHub's Remote MCP Server Sam Morrow	Software Engineering Is Becoming Plan and Review Louis Knight-Webb	2:30 Running Gemma 4 On-Device: 40 Tokens/s on iPhone with MLX 2:40 Frontier AI at Home (literally)
2:50pm		Beyond Code Coverage: Functionality Testing with Playwright Marlene Mhangami	Let’s Talk About FOMAT – Fear of Missing Agent Time Michael Richman	"Demo Slam" by Google DeepMind @ Expo Floor 3 Google DeepMind team	Your Agent Is an Infinite Canvas RL Nabors	How Building with AI Can Double the Throughput of Your Engineering Team Brian Scanlan	2:50 Your agent is blindfolded. How giving it (good) eyes multiplies performance and trust 3:00 WolfBench: Why one score is not enough & why thinking can make agents dumber
3:10pm		Don't Build Slop (4 Levels of AI Agent Maturity) Ara Khan	Cooking with Agents in VS Code Liam Hampton		Bringing MCPs to the Enterprise Karan Sampath	Agents Don't Do Standups: Building the Post-Engineer Engineering Org Mike Spitz	3:10 Your coding agent doesn't always follow your rules. An agent harness makes sure it does, in real-time, every time. 3:20 Nono.sh: Run Claude in dangerous mode
3:30pm							remobi.app: Don't change your terminal workflow for mobile. Swipe between agents, unblock when stuck. Connor Adams
3:40pm							Daily chess puzzle explanations on YouTube: Our agent analyzes and describes chess puzzles in an accessible way - arrows included! 3:40-3:50pm Stephan Steinfurt
3:45pm								Building an ACP-Compatible Agent Live	Your Agent's Biggest Lie: "I Searched the Web" Rafael Levi	Stop Making Models Bigger. Make Them Behave
4:05pm							AMA + Feedback + Brainstorm: Improving AI Engineer swyx	Build an Aura Agent in 10 Minutes — From Unstructured Content to Knowledge Graphs		Benchmarking semantic code retrieval on Claude Code
4:30pm	Fireside Chat with Gergely Orosz and Linear's Tuomas Artman Gergely Orosz; Tuomas Artman
5:10pm	Agents need more than a chat Jacob Lauritzen
5:30pm	What Do Models Still Suck At? Peter Gostev
5:50pm	Running AI Engineer with AI swyx

Day 1Hands on

Workshop Day + Expo/Reception

Day 2Multi-track

Keynotes + Tracks:

Claws & Personal Agents, Context Engineering, Harness Engineering, Evals & Observability, Voice & Vision

Day 3Multi-track

Keynotes + Tracks:

Coding Agents, MCP, AI Architects, Generative Media, GPUs & LLM Infra

Features

Technical talks from industry experts

Hands-on workshops and practical sessions

Networking opportunities throughout

100+ speakers confirmed and growing

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Or vibecode your own schedule app using our open data endpoints.

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AIE for AI Engineers

Open endpoints for building apps, agents, and tools on conference data

TXT/europe/llms{-full}.txt JSON/europe/{sessions|speakers}{-embeddings}.json MCP/europe/2026/mcp 📅 iCal/europe/2026/calendar.ics EMB/europe/{speakers|sessions}-embeddings.json AIskills.sh/aidotengineer/skills

The Model Context Protocol server lets Antigravity, Codex, Claude, Cursor, and other agents query conference data with tool calls.

Tools: get_conference_info · list_speakers · list_sessions · get_schedule

MCP config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aie-europe": {
      "url": "https://ai.engineer/europe/2026/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Example: call a tool via curl

curl -X POST https://ai.engineer/europe/2026/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1,
    "method": "tools/call",
    "params": {
      "name": "list_speakers",
      "arguments": { "search": "Google" }
    }
  }'

All endpoints are free and open — share what you build with us on @aiDotEngineer

Side Events

Community events around AI Engineer Europe

Come for AI Engineer Europe, stay for the London AI scene! Many people organize side events around our conferences, and we help promote them for free. With the world's top AI Engineers flying in to London, there are lots of meetings and side events in the surrounding days. Tag @swyx or @aidotengineer to let us know yours is happening.