| Day 1 β Workshop Day | ||||||||||||
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| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | Track 4 | Track 5 | Track 6 | Track 7 | Track 8 | Track 9 | Track M | Expo Stage 2 NW | Expo Stage 3 SW |
| 9:00am | sponsor From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 Laurie Voss 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor AI on Your Lakehouse: Context Comes in Shapes, Not Queries Zach Blumenfeld 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor Cooking with Codex Charlie Guo, Gabriel Chua 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor The best SDLC is the one you build yourself: Why orchestration changes everything Shane Wolf, Andrei Bocan 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor AI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate Javier Garza 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering Ignacio Martinez 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs Du'an Lightfoot 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor Open-Source Inference Engineering for the Agentic Era Zain Hasan, Yubo Wang, Qingyang Wu, Jue Wang 9:00am-11:00am | session Advanced workshop: Mastering AI Observability Doug Guthrie 9:00am-11:00am | sponsor Get Started with Models in Microsoft Foundry to Build AI Apps Pamela Fox 9:00am-10:15am | ||
| 11:05am | sponsor Building self-learning loops for your agent Fuad Ali 11:05am-12:05pm | sponsor RAG Needs a Map: Using GraphRAG to Retrieve Connected Context Nyah Macklin 11:05am-12:05pm | workshop How I learned to stop worrying and love the sandbox Matt Brockman 11:05am-12:05pm | workshop The model swap workshop Pamela Fox, Arun Sekhar 11:05am-12:05pm | workshop Teaching Agents to Search: Building Synthetic Training Pipelines with NVIDIA Data Designer Dhruv Nathawani 11:05am-12:05pm | workshop Local LLMs and workstation agents: Part 1 Ahmad Osman 11:05am-12:05pm | workshop How to Build Quality Gates into Agentic Coding Workflows Nnenna Ndukwe 11:05am-12:05pm | workshop What is an Inference Engine, Anyway? Charles Frye 11:05am-12:05pm | session Agent Speedrun: Idea β Code β Deploy β Observe, Fix β Ship Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani 11:05am-12:05pm | sponsor From zero to deployed on Azure with AI agents Gustavo Cordido 11:05am-12:05pm | ||
| 12:10pm | workshop Evals in AI: A Deep Dive Tejas Kumar 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop From approval loops to autonomous agents with Docker John Craft, Dan Ndombe 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop 2 hr deep dive on LLM Inference at Scale β Part 1 of 2 Harshul Jain, Tanmay Sah 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers (Part 1) Kent C. Dodds 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop From Zero to Leaderboard: Building an End-to-End AI Agent Evaluation Pipeline Wolfram Ravenwolf 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop Local LLMs and workstation agents: Part 2 Ahmad Osman 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop Beyond RAG: Build a Relational Context Engine from Scratch Peter Werry 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop Building AI Agents with Real-Time Web Data Yohan Raju 12:10pm-1:10pm | workshop Research to Reality with Google DeepMind Paige Bailey 12:10pm-1:10pm | |||
| 1:15pm | sponsor Let your agent cook: using skills to evaluate and improve your app Ankur Duggal 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor 2 hr deep dive on LLM Inference at Scale β Part 2 of 2 Harshul Jain, Tanmay Sah 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers β Part 2 Kent C. Dodds 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn! Michael Forrester, Whitney Lee 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor SonarQube + OpenAI: Wiring Your Team for Agentic Development Killian Carlsen-Phelan 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor How Reducto parsed the Epstein Files for the Viral JMail Project: The Secret Complexities of Document Palak Agarwal 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor Turning My Obsidian Vault Into a Local AI Engineer Filip Makraduli 1:15pm-2:15pm | sponsor Continuously improving agents with Langfuse Lotte Verheyden, Annabell SchΓ€fer 1:15pm-2:15pm | ||||
| 2:20pm | sponsor From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 201 Laurie Voss 2:20pm-4:20pm | sponsor The Data Context Layer: Why Data Engineering Agents Need More Than Code and Databases Yoni Michael 2:20pm-4:20pm | session Special topics in Kernels, RL, Reward Hacking in Agents Daniel Han 2:20pm-5:30pm | sponsor Burn your flags: How PayPal designs interactive CLI tools for agents Mark Lummus, Navinkumar Patil 2:20pm-4:20pm | sponsor AI Security Engineer Foundations + Certificate Micah Silverman 2:20pm-4:20pm | sponsor Context Engineering in 2026: Compaction, Memory & Cost Louis-François Bouchard, Samridhi Vaid, Omar Solano 2:20pm-4:20pm | sponsor Vector Isn't Enough: Hybrid Search & Retrieval for AI Engineers Jeff Vestal 2:20pm-4:20pm | session Build with Perception Agents Emile Baizel, Shruti Arora 2:20pm-4:20pm | session Hands-on AutoResearch: Cracking OpenAI's Parameter Golf Zhengyao Jiang, Dixing Xu, Vayum Arora, Dhruv Srikanth 2:20pm-4:20pm | sponsor Observe, optimize and protect your hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry Pamela Fox 2:20pm-3:35pm | ||
| 4:30pm | session The Autonomous Computer: Full-stack Infrastructure for Computer Use Agents Ang Li 4:30pm-5:30pm | session The Dark Arts of Skill Engineering Paul Bakaus 4:30pm-5:30pm | workshop Hill-climbing Skills: How to Improve Agents Without Touching the Model Shubhankar Srivastava 4:30pm-5:30pm | workshop Agent Auth Bereket Habtemeskel, Paola Estefania 4:30pm-5:30pm | workshop Prime Intellect Forge Will Brown 4:30pm-5:30pm | workshop Lifestyles of the AI-Native: Voice-coding, agent skills, hooks and scheduled tasks Nick Nisi, Zack Proser 4:30pm-5:30pm | workshop The Art and Science of Loopcraft with Pi (and friends) Joel Hooks 4:30pm-5:30pm | workshop Evolution of agentic surfaces Gagan Bhat, Isabella Kai He 4:30pm-5:30pm | ||||
| 5:00pm | workshop Human Connection in the Age of AI Joyce Zhang, Carole Robin, Ph.D. 5:00pm-6:00pm | |||||||||||
| 6:00pm | session Expo Welcome Speech Sonar, Extend AI 6:00pm-6:15pm | |||||||||||
| 6:15pm | session Runway AI Film Festival 6:15pm-7:15pm | |||||||||||