OCT 16 – 18, 2026

AI.Engineer Sandbox — NYC

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Friday Oct 16

9:00–9:45 AM PDT · Main Stage

Opening keynote: the year agents grew up

Where the last twelve months actually landed, and what shipped.

10:00–10:30 AM PDT · Main Stage

Caching at the edge without losing your mind

What a CDN can and cannot do for an inference path.

10:30–11:00 AM PDT · Main Stage

Evals that survive contact with users

Offline scores lie. Here is what we replaced them with.

11:00–11:45 AM PDT · Workshop A

⚠ Demo conflict A — Platform deep dive

Double-booked into Workshop A on purpose, so the Conflicts tab has something to resolve.

11:30 AM–12:15 PM PDT · Workshop A

⚠ Demo conflict A — Vector search at scale

The other half of the room clash.

1:00–1:30 PM PDT · Workshop B

Retrieval is not a database problem

Before: after.

2:00–2:45 PM PDT · Studio

⚠ Demo conflict B — Agent evals live

Same speaker as the Guardrails workshop, at the same time, on purpose.

2:15–3:00 PM PDT · Atrium

⚠ Demo conflict B — Guardrails that do not annoy anyone

The other half of the speaker clash.

Saturday Oct 17

9:30–10:00 AM PDT · Main Stage

Cost controls for long-running agents

Budgets, caps and the alert that actually pages someone.

10:15–10:45 AM PDT · Workshop A

Observability for prompt pipelines

Traces that survive a prompt rewrite.

11:00–11:30 AM PDT · Workshop B

Scaling human review

What we learned staffing a review queue that never emptied.

4:00–4:45 PM PDT · Main Stage

Closing panel: what we would build next

Two speakers, one room, no conflicts.