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Meet the top AI infrastructure minds where architects of AI share what actually works. Announcing 2027 soon!
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A decade of infrastructure expertise.
We've been the home for high-scale builders since 2015. Originally founded as Data Council, we've spent over ten years bringing together the engineers who design the systems the world relies on. Today, we're applying that same rigorous, builder-first mindset to the AI stack.
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High-impact sessions
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Look back at insights from this year's talks. Deep dives into the architectures and tools that defined the year.
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The World Is Not Enough: RL’s Environment Problem
The new bottleneck isn't compute—it's high-quality environments for post-training agents. This panel explores what it takes to build them at scale, from infrastructure reliability to long-horizon reasoning.
Beyond the API: Modern Inference for Modern Workloads
Why fine-tuning is quietly resurging as "RL," how teams are compressing inference costs with smaller specialized models, and who owns the model routing problem.
AI: Too Good to Be True, Too Bad to Be Useful
Why do some AI applications deliver and others totally bunk? A look at LLM history, mystery, and optimization—and where the f**k all the automation actually went.
After the Lakehouse: Building Data Infra for the AI Era
AI has rewritten the requirements for data infra—latency, compute separation, vector workloads, real-time inference. Three engineers debate what's changing under the hood and what's next.
The End of the Internet As We Know It
Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian says the internet's security detente is over. He and Pete Soderling dig into AI as co-author, open source economics, and if open models can rival frontier labs.
2026 speakers
The minds behind the breakthroughs
Learn from the engineers at OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Anthropic who are moving the industry forward.
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AIC provides an intimate setting for interacting with other folks in the industry, whereas other conferences you may not know anyone you meet in the hallways.AIC provides an intimate setting for interacting with other folks in the industry, whereas other conferences you may not know anyone you meet in the hallways.
Ryan Boyd, Co-Founder, MotherDuckRyan Boyd, Co-Founder, MotherDuck
AIC provides an intimate setting for interacting with other folks in the industry, whereas other conferences you may not know anyone you meet in the hallways.
Ryan Boyd, Co-Founder, MotherDuck
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