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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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AI EngineeringKeynote

Opening keynote: the year AI engineering grew up

When
Monday, October 1209:00 AM - 09:45 AM PDT
Where
Main StageSeats 300
Format
Keynote
Track
AI Engineering
Level
Beginner
Language
English
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About this session

A look at what changed in the last twelve months — from demos to systems, from prompts to products — and what the discipline needs to figure out next.

Speaker

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Priya Raghavan

Head of Platform

Cobalt Systems

Priya runs the platform organisation at Cobalt Systems, covering everything from developer experience to the inference fleet. She has been a programme chair three times and still enjoys it.