AI Engineer Summit 2026

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.

Rafael helps enterprise teams take AI prototypes into production, which mostly means helping them delete things.

Hana works on calibration and abstention — teaching models to recognise the edge of their own competence. She publishes regularly and reviews for three conferences.

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.

Ava leads the evaluation platform at Lumen AI, where she is responsible for making sure model changes ship without quietly regressing customer-facing quality. She spent six years in search relevance before moving to LLM systems.

Daniel builds clinical decision-support systems at Meridian Health, in a regulatory environment where 'we will fix it in the next deploy' is not an option.

Elena has shipped AI features to two million users and has the support tickets to prove it. She is interested in the gap between demo behaviour and daily behaviour.

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.