Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Samuel Colvin shares insights from unified AI observability through Pydantic Logfire, exploring how to monitor both AI-powered components and traditional software systems in a single platform. This workshop offers valuable perspectives on leveraging OpenTelemetry for comprehensive application monitoring and using PydanticAI for structured agent workflows, crucial for developers building maintainable AI applications without observability silos.
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Samuel Colvin, Founder, Pydantic -
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Samuel Colvin shares insights from unified AI observability through Pydantic Logfire, exploring how to monitor both AI-powered components and traditional software systems in a single platform. This workshop offers valuable perspectives on leveraging OpenTelemetry for comprehensive application monitoring and using PydanticAI for structured agent workflows, crucial for developers building maintainable AI applications without observability silos.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Samuel Colvin, Founder, Pydantic -
ποΈ GET YOUR TICKET TO AI COUNCIL 2026 ποΈ
Meet the world's top AI infrastructure minds where architects of AI share what works. Three days of high-quality technical talks and meaningful interactions.
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![Trillion is the New Billion: Managing Really Large Multimodal Datasets for AI | LanceDB
[2026 - DAY 2 - AI ENGINEERING] Most AI problems are really data problems. AI workloads bring with them ever larger amounts of data from multiple modalities (e.g., text, images, audio, video, sensor data). If you were indexing say, the internet, you need to solve a number of new data infra challenges:
1. Storing large blobs and avoiding copying them over and over during processing
2. Dealing with much larger table sizes: trillion rows with a capital T
3. Supporting workloads like Search, Curation, and Training directly from your dataset instead of having to move data to/from point-solution systems
4. Dealing with *really* distributed pipelines: what happens when your storage, CPUs, and GPUs are with different clouds / vendors?
In this talk we will dive into detail on why its challenging to manage trillion scale wide tables with multimodal data. Well see why existing data infra doesnt support new these data types, workloads, or scale. And well do a quick under the hood peek at how Lance format and LanceDB solves these problems at a foundational level. Zooming out, well cover how LanceDB fits into the existing data stack alongside Iceberg. Finally, well talk through our roadmap and show you the big improvements were working on in 2026.
Whether youre looking to do large scale search or building the next frontier model, this will help you scale easier, get to production faster, and save on infra cost.
SPEAKER:
Lei Xu - Co-founder & CTO, LanceDB
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![How Product and Research Build Together at the Frontier | Hex
[2026 - DAY 1 - WORKSHOP] What do you build when underlying model capabilities keep changing every few weeks? How do you balance long-horizon bets with the pressure to deliver value now? What even is product management in 2026? In this practical, AMA-style conversation, Hexβs AI research and core product leads will share what theyβve learned building agentic products together at the frontier: how product and research challenge each other, make decisions under uncertainty, what has worked (and what hasnβt), and how they turn fast-moving capabilities into complex products that people actually use.
SPEAKERS:
Izzy Miller - AI Research Lead, Hex
Olivia Koshy - Core Product Lead, Hex
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![OramaCore: A Search Database with LLMs Built In
[2025 - Day 3 - Lightning Talks] Issac J Roth shares insights from building OramaCore, a database with multiple LLMs and a JavaScript engine running in the same GPU-powered process, exploring why this architecture creates the ultimate platform for agentic AI applications. For developers creating SaaS Copilots and answer engines, this fast-paced talk offers valuable perspectives on the construction, algorithms, and performance optimizations behind this newly open-sourced database designed specifically for AI workloads.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Issac J Roth, Co-Founder & CEO, Orama -
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