PAST EVENT · ALL THINGS AI 2026
All Things AI 2026 — Past Event Talks
An archive of talks from our 2026 conference in Durham, NC. Browse slides, watch recordings, and revisit speakers from McKinsey, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, Meta, AWS, and more.
64 sessions
Day 1
Monday, March 23 — Workshops & Training
Full-day and half-day workshops, plus the Deep Thoughts lightning talks and evening keynote.
Building Agents with Granite
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Building Agents with Granite
BJ Hargrave · IBM
March 18, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
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The Context Economy: Getting More Bang for Your Token
Craig McLuckie · Stacklok
March 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Fletcher Hall
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History Is Written in The Training Data
Erica Rooney · HER Collective
March 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Fletcher Hall
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Next-Level AI: How Infrastructure Engineers Unlock True Enterprise Value
Briana Faulk · Dell Technologies
March 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Fletcher Hall
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Who Gets the Upgrade? AI, Access, and the Next Economy
Anjanette Miller · Independent
March 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Fletcher Hall
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Let Your Net...Work
Sarah Finnerty · Spherion
March 23, 2026 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Fletcher Hall
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Fireside Chat: The Past, Present, and Future of AI
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Fireside Chat: The Past, Present, and Future of AI
Igor Jablokov · PryonMark Hinkle · The AIE Network
March 23, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM Fletcher Hall
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Day 2
Tuesday, March 24 — Conference Day
Morning keynotes, 30-minute sessions across 6 tracks, Deep Thoughts, and closing keynotes.
When AI Meets Quantum: Expanding the Boundaries of Machine Intelligence
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When AI Meets Quantum: Expanding the Boundaries of Machine Intelligence
whurley · Strangeworks
March 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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What Agents Can Really Do
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What Agents Can Really Do
whurley · Strangeworks
March 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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Agents Don't Ship Themselves
Darko Mesaros · AWS
March 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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Who Does the Algorithm Save: Preserving Humanity with AI in Healthcare
Yassah Reed · Intercom
March 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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How the Oldest Principle in Engineering Will Reshape AI
Luis Lastras · IBM
March 24, 2026 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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Meet Your Developers Where They Are
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Meet Your Developers Where They Are
Chris Tankersley · Vonage
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Fletcher Hall
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AI Builders Session Slides Recording
No GPUs? No Problem! Training ML Models Without Expensive Hardware
Suha Mokalla · Attention Arc
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Junior Ballrooms B & C
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Vibe Coding in Action: Transforming Coding Practices for the Future
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Vibe Coding in Action: Transforming Coding Practices for the Future
Justin Jeffress · Meta
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Grand Ballroom 3
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Looking Ahead: Navigating AI and Your Career
Taylor Desseyn · Torc.dev
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Grand Ballroom 1
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The Economics of Enterprise Technology: Maximizing EBITDA Lift
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The Economics of Enterprise Technology: Maximizing EBITDA Lift
James Kaplan · McKinsey
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Grand Ballroom 2
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Enterprise AI, Right-Sized: Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Deserve Serious Attention
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Enterprise AI, Right-Sized: Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Deserve Serious Attention
Don Shin · CrossComm
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Junior Ballroom A
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Leadership Decisions in Nonprofit AI Adoption
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Leadership Decisions in Nonprofit AI Adoption
Julia Carpenter · Independent
March 24, 2026 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Junior Ballroom D
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Building Multi-MCP Workflows with a Virtual MCP Server
Dan Barr · Stacklok
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Fletcher Hall
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The Leap from AI-Assisted to Agentic Driven Development
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The Leap from AI-Assisted to Agentic Driven Development
Justin Chau · Intuit
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Junior Ballrooms B & C
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Intelligent Data Pipelines
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Intelligent Data Pipelines
Vijayakumar Gurusamy Raju · Independent
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Grand Ballroom 3
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Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: A Domain Expert's Upskilling Journey
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Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: A Domain Expert's Upskilling Journey
Pam Didner · Author & Speaker
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Grand Ballroom 1
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AI at the Speed of Trust
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AI at the Speed of Trust
Greg Boone · Walk West
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Grand Ballroom 2
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The Reality of AI No One Is Talking About
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The Reality of AI No One Is Talking About
Ankit Dheendsa · Morphos AI
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Junior Ballroom A
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Designing an AI & Automation Portfolio That Puts People First: Lessons from Duke University
Brian Moynihan · Duke University
March 24, 2026 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Junior Ballroom D
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I, Agent: Identity-First Security for the Autonomous Future
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I, Agent: Identity-First Security for the Autonomous Future
Aydrian Howard · Auth0
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Fletcher Hall
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Beyond the AI Hype: Building Durable Agentic AI Applications
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Beyond the AI Hype: Building Durable Agentic AI Applications
Achin Gupta · NetskopeDivya Mahajan · Amazon
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Junior Ballrooms B & C
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AI-Driven Disaster Recovery for Cloud-Native Systems
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AI-Driven Disaster Recovery for Cloud-Native Systems
Akshay Pratinav · IntuitSahil Sabharwal · Intuit
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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How (AI) Stuff Works – Understanding the Key Parts of AI Simply and Quickly
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How (AI) Stuff Works – Understanding the Key Parts of AI Simply and Quickly
Brent Laster · Tech Skills Transformations
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Grand Ballroom 1
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AI Partnerships Are Cloud Partnerships (For Now)
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AI Partnerships Are Cloud Partnerships (For Now)
David Winter · Orion Innovation
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Grand Ballroom 2
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Agentic Productivity: Beyond the 'Lines of Code' Trap
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Agentic Productivity: Beyond the 'Lines of Code' Trap
Ben Ilegbodu · Netflix
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Junior Ballroom A
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Sustainable AI
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Sustainable AI
Jennifer McFarland · Marit Digital
March 24, 2026 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Junior Ballroom D
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The Future of AI and Durham
Mayor Leonardo Williams · City of Durham
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Human in the Loop: Comedy for AI Builders
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Human in the Loop: Comedy for AI Builders
Evan Wimpey · Predictable Jokes
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models
Taylor Smith · Red Hat
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Community Impact Focus @ NPower
Sarah Chick · NPower
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Open Source Meets AI — Navigating Increased Patent Litigation Vulnerabilities
Keith Bergelt · Open Invention Network
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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WTF AI
Chisa Pennix-Brown · Give It To The People
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Community is Infrastructure in the Age of AI
Dena Guvetis · American Underground
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Building AI Champions: How Executive Fluency and Ground-Level Expertise Create Lasting AI Capability
Boz Vitanova · Vitanova Consulting
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:25 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Build Production-Ready, Agentic AI Systems Using the Open Source Strands Agents SDK
Jonathan Vogel · AWSSaurabh (Rob) Dahal · AWS
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Grand Ballroom 1
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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.
Nyah Macklin · Neo4j
March 24, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM Grand Ballroom 2
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AI Memory Is Broken And How I Tried To Fix It
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AI Memory Is Broken And How I Tried To Fix It
Chris Dabatos · PingCAP
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Fletcher Hall
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Moving from LLM Gateways to a Single Agent Origin
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Moving from LLM Gateways to a Single Agent Origin
Adrian Cole · Tetrate
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Junior Ballrooms B & C
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Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI
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Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI
Mary Grygleski · AI Collective
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Building Your AI Factory: From Strategy to Outcomes in 30 Days
Marc Sirkin · Marc Sirkin Consulting
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Grand Ballroom 1
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Building with Mistral: Open, Powerful, and Ready to Scale
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Building with Mistral: Open, Powerful, and Ready to Scale
Aaron Delp · Mistral AI
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Grand Ballroom 2
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To RAG or Not to RAG?
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To RAG or Not to RAG?
Owen Chen · Fidelity Investments
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Junior Ballroom A
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AI That Acts: Orchestrating Agents in Modern Developer Workflows
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AI That Acts: Orchestrating Agents in Modern Developer Workflows
Tanvi Tyagi · GitHub
March 24, 2026 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Junior Ballroom D
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The Agentic AI Transformation is More Than A Technology Revolution – It's a Leadership Evolution
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The Agentic AI Transformation is More Than A Technology Revolution – It's a Leadership Evolution
Victoria Vojnovich · Independent Researcher
March 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Fletcher Hall
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Coding Agents Are Here: How Non-Coders Can Build with AI
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Coding Agents Are Here: How Non-Coders Can Build with AI
Craig Jellick · Obot AI
March 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom 3
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Adopting AI-Augmented Knowledge Work
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Adopting AI-Augmented Knowledge Work
Clayton Chancey · Govincorp
March 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom 1
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Is the Future Forked?
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Is the Future Forked?
Micaela Eller · Ernst & Young
March 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Grand Ballroom 2
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From Prototype to Production: Secure and Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI Systems
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From Prototype to Production: Secure and Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI Systems
Anya Derbakova · AWS
March 24, 2026 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM Junior Ballroom D
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Can Agents Fly a Drone? Wiring Vision, BERT, and SLMs Live
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Can Agents Fly a Drone? Wiring Vision, BERT, and SLMs Live
Matt Hamann · RowndRachel Orrino · RowndRobert Thelen · LlamaFarm
March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Fletcher Hall
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Typed Python + LLMs: Building Safer, More Accurate AI-Driven Software
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Typed Python + LLMs: Building Safer, More Accurate AI-Driven Software
Abby Mitchell · Meta
March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Junior Ballrooms B & C
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Truth Before Inference: Fixing 'Stupid Data' Before Delivering Enterprise Fail
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Truth Before Inference: Fixing 'Stupid Data' Before Delivering Enterprise Fail
Joe Onisick · UnicornIQ
March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Grand Ballroom 1
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Why the Next AI Risk Is Not Intelligence — It's Authority
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Why the Next AI Risk Is Not Intelligence — It's Authority
John Willis · AI CIO
March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Grand Ballroom 2
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Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models
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Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models
Taylor Smith
March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Junior Ballroom A
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Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews
Calvin Hendryx-Parker · Six Feet Up
March 24, 2026 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Junior Ballroom D
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AI's Impact on the Startup Ecosystem
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AI's Impact on the Startup Ecosystem
Chris Heivly · MapQuest
March 24, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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When Intelligence Gets Cheap: The Next Great Leadership Test
Ben Heller · Microsoft
March 24, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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The Era of Infinite Leverage
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The Era of Infinite Leverage
Erkang Zheng · Ariso
March 24, 2026 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM Grand Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
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All Things AI 2026 — Durham, NC
The second annual All Things AI conference brought together speakers from organizations like McKinsey, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, Meta, AWS, Fidelity Investments, and more, over two days of workshops, keynotes, and sessions across AI Builders, AI Engineers, AI Users, AI Executives, AI in the Enterprise, and AI Governance tracks. This published archive has 64 session pages featuring 68 speakers.