Announcing AI Engineer Summit NYC: All in on Agent Engineering + Leadership

Announcing the theme of the second ever AI Engineer Summit (Feb 19-22 in NYC!), and releasing talks from the World's Fair AI Engineering Leadership track. Apply now!

We’ll keep this short and sweet:

• Our first invite-only AI Engineer Summit was sold out, 10:1 applicant ratio

• Our multitrack AI Engineer World’s Fair sold out 3k seats, got >1m views

  

  still amazed at how we got all the top names in AI eng in one room

• The invite-only Summit is back! and

  • focused on Agents: everyone you meet is/has put agents in production.

  • moving to NYC: we think the NYC AI community has been overlooked and underserved for far too long and want to showcase the best of NYC tech. What better place to build agents that never sleep in the city that never does?

  • No vendor/framework pitches: focused on new LLMs, end use cases, hard won advice, war stories, demos, and high profile launches of agents (working definitions here, we will reject all "agents" that are just chatbots).

We have great talks from the big labs, agent startups, and hard-won lessons lined up (follow @aiDotEngineer/drop email in our footer to be notified), but want more. Apply here for an invite to attend and here to speak/sponsor.

Ben did a fantastic job on the landing page! Keynotes and talk schedule to be announced.

Feb 19: Welcome Reception

Mingling, with a special presentation by Suno :)

Feb 20: AI Leadership in the Age of Agents

We were mildly surprised that the AI Leadership track was one of the most well reviewed tracks of the World’s Fair (we had never run a Leadership-oriented event prior to this). We have just released the full playlist of 2024 talks, for free. If you are running a larger AI team in bigger enterprises, this track covers the all the important concerns building AI at scale, from custom models to evals to safeguards to hiring, bringing you real life experience across industries from finance (Mastercard) to education (Khan Academy) to tech (NVIDIA, Twilio, Neo4j, SourceGraph).

It seems that demand for both content and connections for technical AI leaders at larger companies is incredibly high, so we are proud to bring back the AI Leadership track at Summit as well! Apply here with your info and we will prioritize.

By request, some sessions (eg OpenAI’s) were not recorded, but we have released public talks here. We also allocate significant “hallway track” time.

update: confirmed list here

Feb 21: AI Engineering → Agent Engineering

AI Engineer events will always have technical AI Engineers as our core audience. Day 1 will be for practical, long form workshops from the leaders in the field, stretching your skills and getting you hands-on-keyboard with the experts on hand.

Day 2 will be the day we focus the conference entirely on Agents. Many are saying “2025 will be the year of Agents”, but significant gaps remain between expectation and reality, and we will gather the world’s best agent builders to share the state of the art, commiserate over how much further we have to go, and to make concrete plans and connections to fix those gaps.

Our request for talks include these agent-oriented interest areas:

• Memory

• Personality

• Agent Evals

• Voice Agents

• LLMs for Agents

• Proactive Agents

• Coding/CodeGen

• Planning & Reasoning

• Multi-Agent Architectures

• Guardrails/Safety/Privacy for Agents

• Computer Use/Model Context Protocol Agents

• AI/UX for Agents aka Human-Agent Interaction design

• AI Agents in Finance (we will have 50% banking/hedge fund/RIA audience)

• Agent Architecture aka How To Make A SOTA Agent (demonstrate why it is SOTA)

update: confirmed list here

Feb 22: Workshops

Workshop list here!

All Days, IRL only

And of course, the most important but un-marketable part, the “hallway track”.

Curating this necessarily involves some gatekeeping on the definition of an agent, but we will hold a high bar here and desk-reject all "agents" that are just chatbots.

Join us in New York, Feb 19-22. See you soon!

Sponsorships Available!

Join us as an intimate partner at our highest signal, most exclusive event. Email Ben at sponsors@ai.engineer to learn about our premier turnkey exhibits in addition to non-exhibiting sponsor opportunities.

Volunteers wanted!

Note: for those who cannot afford tickets/want to see how we run things behind the scenes, we do have limited capacity for volunteers. Sign up to help us out here!