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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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Sofia Marchetti

Founding Engineer

Vantage Labs

Sofia was the first engineer at Vantage Labs and now leads their agent runtime. She is unreasonably interested in what happens when a tool call fails halfway through.

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Monday, October 12, 2026

AI EngineeringTalk

Building reliable agents: a practitioner's playbook

Agents fail in ways that traditional services do not: partially, plausibly, and expensively. This talk is the playbook we wish we had — bounded tool surfaces, idempotent actions, replayable traces, checkpointing, and the escalation paths that keep a human in the loop without keeping them in the way.

10:00 AM - 11:00 AMMain Stage

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