AI Engineer Summit 2026
Two days of hands-on sessions with the teams shipping production AI — RAG, agents, evals, and the infra that holds it all together.
Hosted by AI Engineer
1,200
Builders attending
40+
Talks & workshops
60%
Hands-on time
2
Days, single track
Overview
About this event
What you'll take away
Walk in curious. Walk out with a playbook.
- Production-tested RAG patterns you can ship Monday morning
- Multi-agent architectures that hold up under real workloads
- Eval rigs that catch silent regressions before deploy
- Cost & latency budgets the top teams actually run
- Tool-use design that survives long-running agent loops
Who should attend
Built for these humans
Program
Tracks
Color-coded so you know what room to be in. Talks rotate across all tracks; pick what fits your team.
Track
Production RAG
Hybrid search, embeddings, rerankers, chunking that survives long-context models.
Track
Agents & Tool Use
Supervisor patterns, fault-tolerant routing, tool boundaries, agent-IDE integration.
Track
Evals & Quality
Golden datasets, LLM-as-judge calibration, regression-proof CI, multi-turn eval design.
Track
Cost & Infra
Token budgets, caching, model routing, observability, and the platform decisions that compound.
Speakers
Engineers shipping the work, not theorizing about it
Every speaker is hands-on with a system in production. No theory tracks, no vendor pitches.
Alex Chen
Staff Engineer
Anthropic
Maya Patel
VP Engineering
Vercel
Jordan Kim
Founder
EvalLab
Sam Okonkwo
Principal AI Engineer
Stripe
Riya Sharma
Tech Lead, AI Platform
Notion
Ben Rodriguez
Research Engineer
Anthropic
Priya Iyer
Director, AI Platform
Datadog
Marcus Lee
CTO
Linear
Schedule
Agenda
Times shown in America/Los Angeles. Subject to small changes — the published recording will reflect what actually shipped.
Day 1 — Fri, May 22
- 09:00
Registration & coffee
Break - 09:30
Opening keynote: The state of AI engineering, 2026
KeynoteMaya Patel - 10:30
Production RAG patterns at 10M queries/month
TalkProduction RAGSam Okonkwo - 11:15
Designing multi-agent systems that don't collapse
TalkAgents & Tool UseAlex Chen - 12:00
Lunch + hallway track
Break - 13:30
Workshop: building eval CI that catches regressions
WorkshopEvals & QualityJordan Kim - 15:30
Cost engineering for LLM apps
TalkCost & InfraPriya Iyer - 16:30
Demo gallery — 12 production AI systems in 60 minutes
Demos - 19:00
Welcome reception @ Yerba Buena rooftop
Social
Day 2 — Sat, May 23
- 09:00
Coffee & networking
Break - 09:30
Keynote: Scaling AI engineering teams
KeynoteMarcus Lee - 10:30
Embeddings & hybrid search in 2026
TalkProduction RAGRiya Sharma - 11:15
Open-source vs frontier models: a decision framework
TalkCost & InfraBen Rodriguez - 12:00
Lunch
Break - 13:30
Workshop: building agentic IDEs
WorkshopAgents & Tool UseAlex Chen - 15:30
Panel: AI safety in practice
Panel - 16:30
Closing keynote
KeynoteMaya Patel - 17:30
Closing reception
Social
Venue
Yerba Buena Center
Easy to reach by transit; the surrounding neighborhood has plenty of cafés and hotels for visitors. Detailed wayfinding ships with your registration confirmation.
- Address
- 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Ticket
- $799 · 1,200 seats total
In-person
Yerba Buena Center
San Francisco, CA
Sponsors & partners
Anthropic
Lead Partner
Vercel
Platform
Datadog
Observability
LangChain
Tooling
Stripe
Community
Linear
Community
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Fri, May 22 – Sat, May 23, 2026 · Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA · $799