NOV 19
5:00pm· Expo Hall· Service
The Stigg VIP Welcome Reception
Stigg (Stigg)
NOV 20
9:00am· AI Engineering
Opening & Welcome
Alex Lieberman (Tenex)
9:05am· AI Engineering
Evolving Claude APIs for Agents
Katelyn Lesse (Anthropic)
9:25am· AI Engineering
Autonomy Is All You Need
Michele Catasta (Replit)
9:45am· AI Engineering
Your Support Team Should Ship Code
Lisa Orr (Zapier)
10:05am· AI Engineering
2026: The Year the IDE Died
Steve Yegge (Sourcegraph/Amp) · Gene Kim (IT Revolution)
10:30am· Expo Hall· Service
Morning Expo
11:00am· AI Engineering
Future-Proof Coding Agents: Building Reliable Systems That Outlast Model Cycles
Bill Chen (OpenAI) · Brian Fioca (OpenAI)
11:20am· AI Engineering
Moving away from Agile: What's Next?
Martin Harrysson (McKinsey) · Natasha Maniar (McKinsey)
11:40am· AI Engineering
How to Quantify AI ROI in Software Engineering (Stanford Study / 120k Devs)
Yegor Denisov-Blanch (Stanford)
12:00pm· AI Engineering
The State of AI Code Quality: Hype vs. Reality
Itamar Friedman (Qodo)
12:20pm· AI Engineering
Minimax M2
Olive Song (MiniMax)
12:45pm· Lunch Area· Service
Lunch Expo
1:45pm· AI Engineering
Proactive Agents (full talk title tba Thursday)
Kath Korevec (Google Labs)
2:05pm· AI Engineering
Small Bets, Big Impact: Building GenBI at a Fortune 100
Asaf Bord (Northwestern Mutual)
2:25pm· AI Engineering
What We Learned Deploying AI within Bloomberg’s Engineering Organization
Lei Zhang (Bloomberg)
2:45pm· AI Engineering
From Arc to Dia: Lessons learned in building AI Browser
Samir Mody (The Browser Company)
3:05pm· AI Engineering
Developer Experience in the Age of AI Coding Agents
Max Kanat-Alexander (Capital One)
3:30pm· Expo Hall· Service
Afternoon Expo (open to all)
4:00pm· AI Engineering
AI Consulting in Practice
NLW (Super.ai)
4:20pm· AI Engineering
Paying Engineers like Salespeople: How Tenex Rebuilt the Incentive Stack for Modern Engineering
Arman Hezarkhani (Tenex)
4:40pm· AI Engineering
Leadership in AI-Assisted Engineering
Justin Reock (DX)
5:00pm· AI Engineering
How to build an AI-native company (even if your company is 50 years old)
Dan Shipper (Every)
5:20pm· AI Engineering
Closing Remarks
swyx (AI Engineer) · Ben (AI Engineer)
5:30pm· AI Engineering
The Graphite Afterparty
Graphite (Graphite)
NOV 21
9:00am· AI Engineering
Day 2 Opening
Jed Borovik (Google DeepMind)
9:06am· AI Engineering
Opening Remarks
swyx (AI Engineer)
9:11am· AI Engineering
Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead
Barry Zhang (Anthropic) · Mahesh Murag (Anthropic)
9:31am· AI Engineering
No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases
Dex Horthy (HumanLayer)
9:51am· AI Engineering
Building a fast frontier model with RL
Lee Robinson (Cursor)
10:11am· AI Engineering
From Code Snippets to Codebases: Then, Now, and What’s Next for Coding Evals
Naman Jain (Cursor)
10:30am· Expo Hall· Service
Morning Expo
11:00am· AI Engineering
(Offsite) Le Rivage
Gene Kim (IT Revolution)
11:00am· AI Engineering
Code World Model: Building World Models for Computation
Jacob Kahn (Meta)
11:20am· AI Engineering
Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Rhythm Garg (Applied Compute) · Linden Li (Applied Compute)
11:40am· AI Engineering
RL Environments at Scale
Will Brown (Prime Intellect)
12:00pm· AI Engineering
Agent Reinforcement Fine Tuning
Will Hang (OpenAI) · Cathy Zhou (OpenAI)
12:20pm· AI Engineering
From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering
Kitze (Independent)
12:45pm· Lunch Area· Service
Lunch Expo
1:45pm· AI Engineering
Research to Reality with Google DeepMind
Kat Kampf (Google) · Ammaar Reshi (Google)
2:05pm· AI Engineering
Making Codebases "Agent-Ready"
Eno Reyes (Factory AI)
2:25pm· AI Engineering
Amp Code: Next-Generation AI Coding
Beyang Liu (Amp Code / Sourcegraph)
2:45pm· AI Engineering
Using AI-Generated Kernels to Instantly Speed Up PyTorch
Natalie Serrino (Gimlet Labs)
3:05pm· AI Engineering
The Infinite Software Crisis
Jake Nations (Netflix)
3:30pm· Expo Hall· Service
Afternoon Expo
4:00pm· AI Engineering
AGI: The Path Forward
Eiso Kant (Poolside)
4:20pm· AI Engineering
Continual System-Prompt Learning for Code Agents
Aparna Dhinakaran (Arize)
4:40pm· AI Engineering
Hard-Won Lessons from Building Effective AI Coding Agents
Nik Pash (Cline)
5:00pm· AI Engineering
Benchmarks vs economics: the AI capability measurement gap
Joel Becker (METR)
5:20pm· AI Engineering
Defying Gravity
Kevin Hou (Google DeepMind)
7:00pm· Offsite· AI Engineering
[Official offsite afterparty] Cafe Compute NYC
NOV 22
9:00am· Datadog 46th floor Flatiron (60)· AI Engineering
Composable MCP Architectures: Handling What the Protocol Can’t
Christopher Miller (Workato) · Zayne Turner (Workato)
9:30am· Datadog 47th floor Puss in Boots/Cafe· AI Engineering
UPrompt to Production with Google AI Studio
Paige Bailey (Google DeepMind)
10:00am· Datadog 46th floor Cafe· AI Engineering
Claude Code SDK
Thariq Shihipar (Anthropic)
12:00pm· Lunch Area· Service
Lunch Break
12:30pm· Datadog 47th floor Puss in Boots/Cafe· AI Engineering
Building Durable, Production-Ready Agents with OpenAI SDK and Temporal
Cornelia Davis (Temporal)
12:30pm· Datadog 46th floor Cafe· AI Engineering
Build a Real-Time AI Sales Agent
Sarah Chieng (Cerebras)
12:30pm· AWS JFK27 B1.296· AI Engineering
Building Intelligent Research Agents with Manus
Ivan Leo (Manus)
12:30pm· AWS JFK27 B1.300· AI Engineering
Build a Prompt Learning Loop
SallyAnn DeLucia (Arize)
12:30pm· AWS JFK27 B1.100· AI Engineering
Building durable Agents with Workflow DevKit & AI SDK
Peter Wielander (Vercel)
2:15pm· Break Hall· AI Engineering
Afternoon Break
2:30pm· Datadog 47th floor Cafe· AI Engineering
gemini fix --quality: A Story of CLI Bugs and Patches
Anjali Sridhar (Google)
2:30pm· Datadog 47th floor Puss in Boots· AI Engineering
Sharpening your AI toolbox for Spec-Driven Dev
Al Harris (Amazon Kiro)
2:30pm· AWS JFK27 B1.300· AI Engineering
Automating Large-Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents
Robert Brennan (AllHands)
2:30pm· AWS JFK27 B1.296· AI Engineering
Advanced AI Agent Patterns
Ashpreet Bedi (Agno AI)
2:30pm· Datadog 46th floor Cafe· AI Engineering
Okta Identity for AI Agents
Patrick Riley (Auth0) · Carlos Galan (Auth0)
2:30pm· AWS JFK27 B1.100· AI Engineering
Memory in LLMs: Weights and Activations
Jack Morris (Cornell)
3:50pm· Break Hall· AI Engineering
Afternoon Break
4:10pm· AWS JFK27 B1.300· AI Engineering
Context Engineering for Intelligent AI Code Reviews
Erik Thorelli (Coderabbit)
4:10pm· Datadog 47th floor Puss in Boots/Cafe· AI Engineering
DSPy is (really) All You Need
Kevin Madura (AlixPartners)
4:10pm· AWS JFK27 B1.296· AI Engineering
Your MCP Server is Bad and You Should Feel Bad
Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect)
4:10pm· AWS JFK27 B1.100· AI Engineering
Long Tasks and Experienced Open Source Dev Productivity
Joel Becker (METR)
4:10pm· Datadog 46th floor Cafe· AI Engineering
How Claude Code Works
Jared Zoneraich (PromptLayer)