All Things AI 2026 Schedule

Check-In Opens

AI for Business Professionals Workshop

Major League Hacking AI Roadshow

AI for DevOps Workshop

From Unstructured Documents to Actionable Insights: A Workshop on Docling, Granite, and Mellea

AI For Agents Workshop

The Workforce Diagnostic: Understanding AI’s Impact on People, Skills & Work

Lunch

The Context Economy: Getting more bang for your token

History Is Written in The Training Data

Next-Level AI: How Infrastructure Engineers Unlock True Enterprise Value

Who Gets the Upgrade? AI, Access, and the Next Economy

Let Your Net…Work

Break

AI for Business Professionals Workshop

Major League Hacking AI Roadshow

AI for DevOps Workshop

Letting AI Out of the Box

AI For Agents Workshop

Reclaiming the Workweek: Solving Bottlenecks with Automation

Break

Fireside Chat: The Past, Present, and Future of AI with Igor Jablokov and Mark Hinkle

Welcome Social

Check-In Opens

Opening Keynotes

When AI Meets Quantum: Expanding the Boundaries of Machine Intelligence

What Agents Can Really Do

Agent’s Don’t Ship Themselves

Who Does the Algorithm Save: Preserving Humanity with AI in Healthcare

How the Oldest Principle in Engineering Will Reshape AI

Break

Meet Your Developers Where They Are

No GPUs? No Problem! Training ML Models Without Expensive Hardware

Vibe Coding in Action: Transforming Coding Practices for the Future

Looking Ahead: Navigating AI and your career

The Economics of Enterprise Technology: Maximizing EBITDA Lift

Enterprise AI, Right-Sized: Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Deserve Serious Attention

Leadership Decisions in Nonprofit AI Adoption

Break

Building multi-MCP workflows with a Virtual MCP Server

The Leap from AI-Assisted to Agentic Driven Development

Intelligent Data Pipelines

Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: A Domain Expert’s Upskilling Journey

AI at the Speed of Trust

The Reality of AI No One Is Talking About

Designing an AI & Automation Portfolio That Puts People First: Lessons from Duke University

Break

I, Agent: Identity-First Security for the Autonomous Future

Beyond the AI Hype: Building Durable Agentic AI Applications

AI-Driven Disaster Recovery for Cloud-Native Systems

How (AI) Stuff Works – Understanding the key parts of AI simply and quickly

AI Partnerships Are Cloud Partnerships (For Now)

Agentic Productivity: Beyond the “Lines of Code” Trap

Sustainable AI

Lunch

Build production-ready, agentic AI systems in a few lines of code using the open source Strands Agents SDK

I Don’t Know, The AI Said So” Isn’t Going to Cut It. Here’s How to Build Auditable AI Agents Using Context Graphs.

The Future of AI and Durham

Human in the Loop: Comedy for AI Builders

Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run your Own Models

Community Impact Focus @ NPower

Open Source Meets AI —Navigating Increased Patent Litigation Vulnerabilities

WTF AI

Community is Infrastructure in the Age of AI

Building AI Champions: How Executive Fluency and Ground-Level Expertise Create Lasting AI Capability

Break

AI Memory Is Broken And How I Tried To Fix It

Moving from LLM Gateways to a Single Agent Origin

Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI System

Building Your AI Factory: From Strategy to Outcomes in 30 Days

Building with Mistral: Open, Powerful, and Ready to Scale

To RAG or Not to RAG?

AI That Acts: Orchestrating Agents in Modern Developer Workflows

Break

The Agentic AI Transformation is More Than A Technology Revolution – It’s a Leadership Evolution

New Talk

Coding Agents Are Here: How Non-Coders Can Build with AI

Adopting AI-Augmented Knowledge Work

Is the Future Forked?

From Prototype to Production: Secure and Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI Systems

Break

Can Agents Fly a Drone? Wiring Vision, BERT, and SLMs Live

Typed Python + LLMs: Building Safer, More Accurate AI-Driven Software

Truth Before Inference: Fixing “Stupid Data” Before Delivering Enterprise Fail

Why the Next AI Risk Is Not Intelligence — It’s Authority

Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run your Own Models

Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews

Break

AI’s Impact on the Startup Ecosystem

When Intelligence Gets Cheap: The Next Great Leadership Test

The Era of Infinite Leverage

Closing Keynotes – Day 2

Farewell Social