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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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ProductTalk

Cost modelling for inference-heavy products

When
Monday, October 1202:00 AM - 02:45 AM PDT
Where
Workshop RoomSeats 80
Format
Talk
Track
Product
Level
Intermediate
Language
English
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About this session

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.

Speaker

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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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