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[2025 - Day 1 - AI Engineering] Shreya Rajpal shares insights from implementing risk management frameworks for generative AI applications, exploring comprehensive approaches to reliability and risk assessment across different AI architectures. This talk offers valuable perspectives on systematic risk management for RAG-augmented chatbots and autonomous agents, crucial for teams deploying generative AI in real-world environments while reducing potential failure modes and negative outcomes.
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Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder & CEO, Guardrails -
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[2025 - Day 1 - AI Engineering] Shreya Rajpal shares insights from implementing risk management frameworks for generative AI applications, exploring comprehensive approaches to reliability and risk assessment across different AI architectures. This talk offers valuable perspectives on systematic risk management for RAG-augmented chatbots and autonomous agents, crucial for teams deploying generative AI in real-world environments while reducing potential failure modes and negative outcomes.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder & CEO, Guardrails -
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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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![RAGs to Riches: Engineering the Future of LLM Systems
[2025 - Day 1 - Keynote] Denis Yarats, Sharon Zhou, Michele Catasta, and Dr. Joseph Gonzalez share insights from their pioneering work in LLM system design, exploring the cutting edge from retrieval-augmented generation to agentic search. For teams building AI applications or architecting scalable systems, this panel offers valuable perspectives on creating reliable AI tools that deliver real-world value while addressing the technical challenges of grounding LLMs and reducing hallucinations.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Denis Yarats, Co-Founder & CTO, Perplexity AI
Sharon Zhou, PhD, Founder & CEO, Lamini
Michele Catasta, President, Replit
Dr. Joseph Gonzalez, Professor, Head of AI, UC Berkeley, RunLLM (Moderator) -
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![Beyond the AI Pilot: A Framework for Building Systems That Actually Deliver | InterSystems
[2026 - DAY 3 - APPLIED AI] Most enterprise AI initiatives do not fail because models are weak. They fail for two more basic reasons: 1) AI is not given a reliable way to read business context or take action across systems, and 2) organizations do not translate ambitious AI visions into clearly defined outcomes, projects, and next steps.
In other words, the problem is often both architectural and operational.
This session introduces a practical framework for making enterprise AI actually work. On the technical side, I will outline two core ideas: a Read Contract, which gives AI governed and auditable access to live business context, and a Write Contract, which defines how AI can safely and reliably execute actions across enterprise systems. On the execution side, I will show why AI initiatives also need a more disciplined planning model - one that breaks the vision down into concrete outcomes, projects, and tasks rather than leaving teams stuck with broad aspirations and disconnected pilots. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for diagnosing why AI efforts stall, designing stronger foundations for production use, and turning AI strategy into executable enterprise delivery.
SPEAKER:
Kanishk Mittal - Principal Technology Architect, InterSystems
Link to worksheet: https://kanishkmittal.com/talks/ai-council-2026-worksheet.pdf
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![Powering AI Workflows with Tabular Graphs
[2025 - Day 1 - Workshops] Rui Lopes shares insights from DataLinks semantic layer for AI systems, exploring entity-linking technology through intuitive data integration and API flexibility demonstrations. For developers seeking automated entity resolution and graph-based insights, this workshop offers valuable perspectives on simplifying complex data visualization, enabling natural language search over data, and implementing AutoRAG capabilities in applications.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Rui Lopes, Head of AI, Datalinks -
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![Building Agentic RAG Systems with ClickHouse
[2026 - DAY 2 - WORKSHOP] This training walks step by step through a hands-on project using the Agentic Data Stack, all running in a single Docker Compose. Youβll explore how ClickHouse, MCP, LibreChat, and Langfuse work together in a ready-to-run setup for building agentic AI systems. Weβll focus on the end-to-end workflow with data ingestion and retrieval in ClickHouse to agent interaction and observability, using a practical, production-inspired project you can run locally. You donβt need to be a ClickHouse expert to follow along. Familiarity with RAG or agent-based systems is helpful, but the stack is designed to be approachable and easy to get started with.
Prerequisites: Attendees will need a ClickHouse cloud account or the Open source version on their laptops, either works, API key from Anthropic, and Docker.
SPEAKER:
Dustin Healy - Software Engineer, ClickHouse
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![Towards Reliable Financial Agents: How a 4B Model Outsmarted a 235B Giant | Snorkel AI
[2026 - DAY 1 - WORKSHOP] Large generalist models have excellent reasoning but this does not necessarily imply specialized knowledge and tool calling capabilities. They can still hallucinate column names, ignore constraints, and generate SQL that returns nonsensical results. The problem isnβt intelligenceβitβs reliability and specialization.
In this talk weβll show how a 4B model was fine-tuned to outperform a 235B model on real financial analysis tasks. The key was not adding more reasoning ability, but enforcing tool discipline. Using synthetic data generation and reinforcement learning with the open-source rLLM framework, the model learned to explore schemas, validate outputs, and retry failures instead of hallucinating confident nonsense.
One key result: tool-use fundamentals generalize. Training on simple tool interactions transferred to much harder, multi-step financial tasks. If youβre building LLM systems that interact with databases, APIs, or internal tools, this talk focuses on the behaviors that actually matter β and how to teach them without frontier-scale compute.
SPEAKER:
Charles Dickens - Senior Research Scientist, Snorkel AI
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![From Spans to Trajectories: Observability for Long-Running Agents | HoneyHive
[2026 - DAY 2 - AI ENGINEERING] Agents have evolved. Weve moved from orchestration frameworks β where agents operate through definite steps and turns you defined upfront β to harnesses, where the LLM uses skills and tools to chart its own trajectory. Modern agents run for hours or days, producing hundreds to thousands of steps in a single session. This calls for a fundamentally different methodology for monitoring and evaluating them in production.
This talk shares what weve learned building observability infrastructure for agent harnesses at HoneyHive. Well start with why the harness β not the model β has become the hardest engineering problem in production AI, and why traditional APM breaks down when traces are 10,000 spans deep and failures happen four tool calls deep. Well walk through a live trajectory view to see what long-running agent traces actually look like at scale, and the specific challenges they create: context rot, semantic failure modes, and the needle-in-a-haystack problem of finding the moment that mattered.
Then well dig into skills as the new unit of behavior and the dual role of clustering in agent development: unsupervised clustering for discovering emergent patterns and identifying where guardrails are needed, and supervised classifiers for production evaluation at scale. Well close on what comes next β swarm observability for multi-agent systems.
SPEAKER:
Sunny Bakhda - Founding Engineer, HoneyHive
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![RLVR in Practice: From Synthetic Data to GRPO | NVIDIA
[2026 - DAY 3 - MODEL SYSTEMS] Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is increasingly common in post-training pipelines, but the practical details are often glossed over. How do you design reward functions that programmatically verify model outputs? What makes synthetic training data effective? How do you build a custom RL environment that doesnt silently break your training?
SPEAKER: Chris Alexiuk - Product Research Engineer, NVIDIA
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