AI Engineer Summit Online

An ENTIRE new online track! >30 talks, 9 hours of extra content, and a fully free, async first, talk schedule for those who can't join our IRL workshops!

We announced the AI Engineer Summit in NYC a couple months ago, and sold out this week. However, you can see the main talks live/on demand on YouTube today!

Feb 20 & 21: AIE Livestreams

You can get notifications for Day 2 (the Agent Engineering track) as well. To catch talks live, you can see the talk schedule here, with highlights through the day from @aiDotEngineer on X/Twitter and LinkedIn (but mostly just follow the YouTube). We have been blessed to assemble the best of Leadership & Agents to start the year off:

For Day 3 though, we have curated over a dozen incredible workshops from industry leaders (example) that for logistical/cost reasons cannot be livestreamed:

Special shoutout to returning speaker Jason Liu (with Ivan Leo) who is doing a special edition of their premium RAG workshop with us for free:

AI product sense can be learned.

https://improvingrag.com provides a foundational framework to help you go beyond the basics to improve performance, quality, and user experience. If you are looking for more resources on how to systematically improve your application, check out https://maven.com/applied-llms/rag-playbook!

However, in-person workshops are not going to be streamed. We love making ways for the global AIE audience to take part, AND conveniently, we had so many great talk CFPs (>16:1 applicant:accepted ratio) that we felt it was a crying shame to turn so many away.

Solution: make our first ever online track.

Feb 20: Have You Tried RLing AI?

We are big fans of HYTRADBOI, a fully online/semi-async database conference. We think this formula works both logistically (for organizers) and informationally (for viewers - I watch videos at 2x, but others). So we decided to try this out - and asked speakers to submit specially recorded talks¹ for this!

Without further ado, here is your online track speakers (check back this page live for updated links to every talk as it is released, and join the #aie-summit channel on the LS Discord to talk live with us!):

• 9am ET: Keynotes

  • Sebastian Siemiatkowski (Klarna): Update on Klarna’s AI Transformation

  • Chip Huyen (AI Engineering O’Reilly): Agents

  • Erik Bernhardsson (Modal): The AI developer experience doesn't have to suck – why and how we built Modal

• 10am ET: Lessons Learned

  • Shaan Desai (Cohere): Building enterprise LLM agents that work

  • Patrick Dougherty (Rasgo): How to Build AI Agents that Actually Work

  • Juan Peredo (Bolbeck): Lessons from building GenAI based applications

  • Almog Baku (Stealth): The LLM Triangle: Engineering Principles for Robust AI Applications

• 11am ET: The Future of Work

  • Patrick Debois (Jedi): How agents will take over the organisation - Reverse Conway's law and GenAI

  • Hailong Zhang (Gru.ai): How Coding Agents change Software Development Forever

  • Rizel Scarlett (Block): Your AI Agent Isn't an Engineer: The Art of Thoughtful Anthropomorphism

  • Andy Triedman (Theory Ventures): Where AI is superhuman: The right jobs to automate with LLMs

• 12pm ET: Ok Show Me Code

  • Kam Lasater (Manufactured): Lets Build An Agent from Scratch

  • Andrew Sheves (Decis): Your LLM Ran Out of Knowledge: Now What?

  • Adam Terlson (Best Buy): Building Multi-agent Systems with Finite State Machines

  • Ofer Mendelevitch (Vectara): 7 Pitfalls of DIY RAG in Production

  • Roy Derks (IBM): Tool Calling Is Not Just Plumbing for AI Agents

• 1pm ET: Building Better Agents

  • Manish Sanwal (Newscorp): Stop Guessing: Build Robust AI with Layered CoT

  • Dan Cleary (PromptHub): The Model Isn’t Wrong—You’re Just Bad at Prompting

  • Anita Kirkovska (Vellum): AI Agents, Meet Test Driven Development

  • Steven Moon (Aech): Privacy First Enterprise AI: Building AI Agents that Never Leave Your Security Boundary

  • Zhou(Jo) Yu (Columbia/Arklex): How to Improve Your Agents: Academic Lit Review

• 2pm ET: Evals and Ops

  • Ari Heljakka (Root Signals): Agent Evals: Finally, With The Map

  • Mohak Sharma (HoneyHive): Your Evals Are Meaningless (And Here’s How to Fix Them)

  • Christopher Lovejoy (Anterior): Mission-Critical Evals at Scale (Learnings from 100k medical decisions)

  • Nir Gazit (Traceloop): OpenLLMetry is all you need

• 3pm ET: Stuff That Doesn’t Fit Above But Are Cool Anyway

  • Eddie Siegel (Fractional): Getting AI voice agents into production: the good, the bad, and the ugly

  • Muhtasham Oblokulov (Munich Re): This video was edited with AI agent. But how?

  • Arjun Chintapalli (Rtrvr.ai): The Browser is Dead: Long Live AI Web Agents

  • Arthur Objartel (Evil Martians): Don't just slap on a chatbot: building AI that works before you ask

  • Kshitij Grover (Orb): The Price of Intelligence - AI Agent Pricing in 2025

  • Eugene Cheah (Featherless, RWKV & the $2 H100s piece): Death To Transformers: The alternative landscape

Again, we will update this page with links to talks as they go live, so come back on Saturday to join us. Put notifications on for the AIE Youtube², and join the #aie-summit channel on the LS Discord to experience the conference live in Latent Space!

Congrats to all selected speakers and please do share your takes online!

1. As a former speaker myself, I knew this was a big ask, because online speaking doesn’t have the same perks (flight, accom, special status at the conf)

2. yes this is a separate team and org from your friendly neighborhood AI Engineering podcast youtube which you should please also subscribe to!