AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

# AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

> The largest technical AI conference in the world, with 29 tracks, 300 speakers, 100 expo partners, 6,000+ AI Engineers, founders, and VPs of AI.

- **Website:** https://ai.engineer/worldsfair
- **Dates:** June 28 – July 2, 2026 (5 days)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Venue:** Moscone West Convention Center
- **Tickets:** <https://app.ai.engineer/e/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2026/portal>
- **Newsletter:** <https://ai.engineer/newsletter>
- **YouTube:** <https://youtube.com/@aidotengineer>
- **Twitter/X:** <https://x.com/aiDotEngineer>
- **LinkedIn:** <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/>

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## Schedule Overview

### Day 0 — Sunday, June 28: New Engineer Orientation (NEO)

| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Early Registration & Badge Pickup (avoid long lines!) |
| 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | New Engineer Orientation — meet your peer group, ask questions, plan your week |

> **Sign up for NEO:** <https://luma.com/aie-neo-irl>

### Day 1 — Monday, June 29: Workshop Day + Welcome Reception

| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM – 4:40 PM | 45+ hands-on workshops across all rooms |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Break |
| 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch & Learn |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Exhibitor Arrival |
| 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Welcome Reception in Expo |

### Day 2 — Tuesday, June 30: Keynotes + 12 Parallel Tracks + Expo

| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Opening Keynote — Coding Agents & Software Factories |
| 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 12 Parallel Tracks |
| 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Expo Hall Open |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Evening Events |

### Day 3 — Wednesday, July 1: World Cup + Multi-Track Programming

| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Day 3 Keynote — Autoresearch |
| 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 12 Parallel Tracks |
| 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Expo Hall Open |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch |

> No afterparty — side events encouraged for the World Cup quarterfinal!

### Day 4 — Thursday, July 2: Final Day + Last Chance Expo

| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Day 4 Keynote — Harness Engineering |
| 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM | 12 Parallel Tracks |
| 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Expo Hall — Last Chance |
| 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Closing Ceremony |

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## Tracks

29 tracks across 4 days, covering the full breadth of AI engineering.

### Day 1 — Workshop Day (June 29)

Full-day hands-on workshops across all tracks.

### Day 2 — Tuesday, June 30

| Track | Room | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| Coding Agents & Software Factories | Keynote | The state of the art in autonomous coding — from multi-file edits to repo-level reasoning. |
| Claws & Personal Agents | Room 1 | Personal AI companions that go beyond chat. Desktop agents, browser agents, and always-on assistants. |
| Vision & OCR | Room 2 | From document understanding to multimodal reasoning. |
| Search & Retrieval | Room 3 | Dense retrieval, hybrid search, re-ranking, and RAG at enterprise scale. |
| Workshops Day 2 | Room 4 | Hands-on workshops running alongside Day 2 tracks. |
| Graphs | Room 5 | Knowledge graphs meet LLMs. Graph RAG, ontology-driven retrieval, and structured reasoning. |
| AI PMs | Room 6 | Product management in the age of AI. |
| LLM Recsys | Room 7 | LLMs meet recommendation systems. Personalization at scale. |
| Forward Deployed Engineering | Room 8 | Engineers embedded with customers solving real-world problems. |
| Data Quality | Room 9 | Data pipelines, feature stores, synthetic data, labeling at scale. |
| AI-Native Enterprises | Leadership 1 | AI adoption patterns for large organizations. |
| AI Architects: Show my Workflow | Leadership 2 | Live workflow demos from top AI architects. |

### Day 3 — Wednesday, July 1

| Track | Room | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| Autoresearch | Keynote | AI systems that do science. Automated literature review, hypothesis generation, experiment design. |
| Sandbox & Platform Engineering | Room 1 | Secure execution environments for AI. Code sandboxes and platform engineering for agentic workloads. |
| Robotics & World Models | Room 2 | Where AI meets the physical world. Sim-to-real transfer, embodied AI. |
| Memory and Continual Learning | Room 3 | How AI systems retain knowledge and adapt over time. |
| Workshops Day 3 | Room 4 | Hands-on workshops running alongside Day 3 tracks. |
| Evals | Room 5 | Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and observability for production AI. |
| AI Designers/Design Engineers | Room 6 | AI-native design tools, generative UI, design systems. |
| Computer Use | Room 7 | AI that uses computers like humans. Screen understanding, GUI navigation, web agents. |
| Context Engineering | Room 8 | Context window management, chunking strategies, context compression. |
| Posttraining & Midtraining | Room 9 | RLHF, DPO, constitutional AI, and post-training techniques. |
| AI-Native Enterprises | Leadership 1 | AI adoption patterns for large organizations. |
| AI Architects: Tokenmaxxing | Leadership 2 | Context window optimization, prompt engineering at scale, inference cost reduction. |

### Day 4 — Thursday, July 2

| Track | Room | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| Harness Engineering | Keynote | Structured output, guardrails, retry logic, fallback chains for trustworthy AI. |
| Generative Media | Room 1 | AI-generated images, video, audio, and 3D. Diffusion models and creative tools. |
| Agentic Commerce | Room 2 | AI agents that buy, sell, and negotiate. AI-native commerce. |
| AI in Finance | Room 3 | AI in trading, risk assessment, fraud detection, and financial analysis. |
| Workshops Day 4 | Room 4 | Hands-on workshops running alongside Day 4 tracks. |
| Security | Room 5 | Adversarial attacks, prompt injection, model security. |
| AI in GTM | Room 6 | AI for go-to-market teams. AI SDRs, content generation, lead scoring. |
| AI in Healthcare | Room 7 | AI in diagnostics, drug discovery, clinical workflows. |
| SemiAnalysis | Room 8 | Deep technical analysis of AI hardware, chips, and compute infrastructure. |
| Inference | Room 9 | Making models fast and cheap. Quantization, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization. |
| AI-Native Enterprises | Leadership 1 | AI adoption patterns for large organizations. |
| AI Architects: AI Factories | Leadership 2 | Multi-agent orchestration, tool-use frameworks, system design for reliability. |

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## Venue

**Moscone West Convention Center**, San Francisco, CA

Three levels of programming:

| Floor | What |
|-------|------|
| 1st Floor | Registration, Expo, Food, Evening Socials |
| 2nd Floor | Breakout Rooms |
| 3rd Floor | Keynotes + VIP Rooms |

## Hotels

Discounted room blocks close June 6, 2026. Book early — World Cup in the US means rooms sell out fast.

| Hotel | Status |
|-------|--------|
| [San Francisco Marriott Marquis](https://book.passkey.com/e/51164469) | Available |
| Parc 55 San Francisco | **SOLD OUT** |
| [InterContinental San Francisco](https://www.ihg.com/hotels/us/en/find-hotels/select-roomrate?fromRedirect=true&qSrt=sAV&qIta=99801505&icdv=99801505&qSlH=sfohb&qCiD=27&qCiMy=052026&qCoD=04&qCoMy=062026&qGrpCd=ae3&qAAR=6CBARC&qRtP=6CBARC&setPMCookies=true&qSHBrC=IC&qDest=888%20Howard%20Street,%20San%20Francisco,%20CA,%20US&showApp=true&adjustMonth=false&srb_u=1&qRmFltr=) | Available |

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## Tickets

Full refunds available up to one month before the event.

| Tier | Price | Access |
|------|-------|--------|
| Leadership | $2,399 | Keynote + leadership tracks + expo + workshops |
| Engineering + Workshops | $1,999 | All engineering tracks + workshops + expo |
| Engineering | $1,499 | All engineering tracks + expo |
| Expo Explorer | $299 | Expo hall access only |

**Group discounts** (applied automatically):

| Quantity | Discount |
|----------|----------|
| 5+ tickets | 10% off |
| 10+ tickets | 15% off |
| 15+ tickets | 20% off |
| 30+ tickets | Email info@ai.engineer |

**Purchase:** <https://app.ai.engineer/e/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2026/portal>

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## Highlights

- Startup Battlefield on July 2nd
- 100+ expo partners throughout
- 10 engineering tracks per day + 2 Leadership Tracks on main days
- World Cup Quarterfinal VIP Suite (July 1, Levi's Stadium — invite only, sponsorships available)
- No afterparties July 1 & 2 — side events encouraged

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## Links

- **Website:** https://ai.engineer/worldsfair
- **Tickets:** <https://app.ai.engineer/e/ai-engineer-worlds-fair-2026/portal>
- **YouTube:** <https://youtube.com/@aidotengineer>
- **Twitter/X:** <https://x.com/aiDotEngineer>
- **LinkedIn:** <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/>
- **Newsletter:** <https://ai.engineer/newsletter>
- **NEO Sign-up:** <https://luma.com/aie-neo-irl>