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AI Engineer Summit 2026

Oct 12–13, 2026Moscone West, San Francisco

Two days for the people building AI systems that have to work on Monday morning. Practitioner talks on evaluation, agents, retrieval, inference infrastructure and the product decisions in between — no keynote fluff, no vendor pitches.

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Noah Blackwood

Chief Technology Officer

Fathom Robotics

Noah is CTO at Fathom Robotics, where inference cost is a line item the board reads every month. He previously built pricing systems at a payments company.

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Monday, October 12, 2026

ProductTalk

Cost modelling for inference-heavy products

How to build a unit-economics model for an AI product before the invoice teaches you: per-request cost decomposition, the caching wins that matter, routing between model tiers, and how to talk about all of it with a finance team.

02:00 AM - 02:45 AMWorkshop Room

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

ProductPanel

Closing panel: what we got wrong about agents

Four practitioners compare notes on the agent architectures they abandoned, the assumptions that did not survive production, and what they would build differently today.

04:00 PM - 05:00 PMMain Stage

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