AI Engineer NYC 2026

About AI Engineer NYC 2026

Production AI infrastructure and AI in financial services anchor AI Engineer NYC 2026, an in-person conference at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, West 53rd Street, New York, from Monday, October 12 to Wednesday, October 14, 2026. AI Engineer organizes it at an Intermediate to Advanced level, with further tracks on real-world applications, deployment strategies and AI and compliance.

Sixty sessions and 44 speakers are listed. Sessions include a Claude Managed Agents Workshop, Evaluations with Phoenix 101, and Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets: Build a Financial Analyst Harness That You Can Trust. Laurie Voss and SallyAnn DeLucia are among the speakers.

Location

West 53rd Street, New York, New York, United States

Venue: Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

Agenda

Monday, October 12

• 08:00–19:30 · Workshops + Welcome Reception
• 09:00–11:00 · Building a Wealth Management Concierge in ChatGPT Work — Stefano Fabbri
• 09:00–11:00 · Claude Managed Agents Workshop — CJ Avilla, Harrison Stall
• 09:00–11:00 · Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets: Build a Financial Analyst Harness That You Can Trust — Francesco Galletta, Felippe Felisola Caso
• 09:00–11:00 · Evaluations with Phoenix 101 — Laurie Voss
• 11:05–12:05 · AI Evaluation 101 — SallyAnn DeLucia
• 11:05–12:05 · Agent = Model + Harness: Build your own Memory-Aware AML AI Agent Harness for Financial Crime Detection — Ignacio Martinez
• 11:05–12:05 · The AI Bill Is Too Damn High – Tokenomics 101 — Eugene Cheah
• 11:05–12:05 · Evals with Harbor and Phoenix — Xander Song
• 13:15–14:15 · Hands-on Gitar: SonarQube’s AI code verification agent — Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Taylor Luttrell-Williams
• 13:15–14:15 · Beyond “Done”: Building Verification Loops for AI Agents — Nick Nisi, Zack Proser
• 13:15–14:15 · The Agentic Content System Behind 200M Views — Sarah Chieng, Cova Lee
• 13:15–14:15 · Agents that Self Improve While You Sleep — Fuad Ali
• 14:20–15:20 · Build a better prophet: backtest today’s agent against yesterday’s web — Ryan Ahern
• 14:20–15:20 · Langfuse Workshop - the AI engineering loop, end to end
• 14:20–15:20 · Event-Based Multi-Agent Financial Workflows with Only Markdown — Raymond Weitekamp, Dan Barrett, Jose Montes de Oca
• 15:30–16:30 · Building Humanlike Voice Agents for Financial Services — Lance Martin
• 15:30–16:30 · Secure, durable agents with Keycard and Temporal — Kim Maida, Mason Egger
• 15:30–16:30 · What unstructured data unlocks for Insurance AI programs — Denys Linkov

Tuesday, October 13

• 08:00–17:00 · Keynotes + Breakouts + Expo
• 09:00–09:18 · Vault: When Fifty Years of Structured Data Isn't Enough — Aaron Linsky, Sam Green
• 09:18–09:36 · Anthropic Keynote — Belinda Neal
• 09:36–09:54 · Balancing Acceleration and Safety for AI Agents — John Feminella
• 09:54–10:12 · Does Code Quality Even Matter? — Max Kanat-Alexander
• 10:12–10:30 · What does an AI engineer do? — Aparna Dhinakaran
• 10:40–10:58 · Turning AI Into Operating Margin: A Field Report from Private Equity — Adam Nahari
• 10:40–10:58 · Wells Fargo Foundation Model: Application to Fraud Detection at Scale — Freddy Lecue
• 10:40–10:58 · The Intelligence Plane: What your agents know, remember and learn — Richmond Alake
• 10:40–10:58 · Deploying AI Inside 5 Major Banks Without the 12-Month Compliance Bottleneck — Al Chen
• 11:05–11:23 · Arca’s agent runtime for long horizon financial services work — Aman Singh
• 11:05–11:23 · No Cash Left Behind: Vanguard's Ledger Modernization Journey — Gareth Yoder
• 11:05–11:23 · Can AI Reconstruct a Company? — Hassan El Mghari, Omar El Mghari
• 11:30–11:48 · Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot — Aaron Rodrigues
• 11:30–12:15 · Intent Based Auth — Allie Howe, Ian Livingstone, Michael Davis, Dick Hardt
• 11:30–11:48 · The Assembly Line Came First — Ryan Houser
• 11:30–11:48 · The best context isn't in your database. It's in the investor's head. — Anekha Sokhal
• 11:30–11:48 · Your Financial Agent Passed Every Eval. Can You Defend Its Decision? — Anirudh Veeraragavan
• 11:55–12:13 · Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret? — Aaron Linsky, Nikhil Benesch
• 11:55–12:13 · Inside the Fable War Room — Ford Prior
• 11:55–12:13 · Adopting third-party AI agents was not doing it for our bank, so we built our own — Francesco Galletta, Felippe Felisola Caso
• 11:55–12:13 · Lies, Damned Lies, and Evals: How to trust your agents when the stakes are high — Stephanie Jarmak
• 12:20–12:38 · Agents can pay. So why don’t they? — Jan Curn
• 12:20–12:38 · Your Next User Is an Agent — Isabelle Williams
• 12:20–12:38 · Buy, Then Deploy: Using M&A to Drive AI Transformation — Prathik Naidu
• 12:20–12:38 · 1,368 AI Failures: What They Teach Us About System Evals — Vishal Srivastava, Tanmay Sah
• 13:40–13:58 · From RAG to Memory: Building Agents That Remember — Wojciech Pluta
• 13:40–13:58 · The Stories We Never Had the Time to Tell — Zack Proser
• 13:40–13:58 · How frontier AI changes tolerable risk for open source security in financial services
• 13:40–13:58 · Proving Alpha: Showcasing AI's Value in Fundamental Investing — Hari Kumar
• 14:05–14:23 · Arize AI Expo Session 1 — Akshat Bubna, CTO, Modal
• 14:30–14:48 · Do Not Let Models Invent Numbers
• 14:30–14:48 · Beyond the Model Card: The Jagged Frontier of AI in Finance — Rayan Krishnan
• 14:30–14:48 · Realtime Multiplayer Agentic Development in Delta
• 14:30–14:48 · Who is making the request? Agent Auth 101 via gateways + SDKs — Kamil Potrec
• 14:30–14:48 · Why Frontier Models Fail on Billion Dollar Portfolios — Chanyeol Choi, Janie Gu, Jack Haverty, Suyeol Yun
• 14:55–15:13 · How to build an AI code review agent: from the creators of Greptile — Daksh Gupta
• 14:55–15:13 · Jack Woodruff, Kepler AI — Jack Woodruff
• 14:55–15:13 · Scaling AI with P&L on the line — Noyan Tokgozoglu
• 14:55–15:13 · State of the Agent: Reliability, Observability, and the Gap Between Them — Shy Ruparel

Wednesday, October 14

• 08:00–17:00 · Final Day + Last Chance Expo

Speakers

• Stefano Fabbri
• CJ Avilla
• Harrison Stall
• Francesco Galletta
• Felippe Felisola Caso
• Laurie Voss
• SallyAnn DeLucia
• Ignacio Martinez
• Eugene Cheah
• Xander Song
• Killian Carlsen-Phelan
• Taylor Luttrell-Williams
• Nick Nisi
• Zack Proser
• Sarah Chieng
• Cova Lee
• Fuad Ali
• Ryan Ahern
• Raymond Weitekamp
• Dan Barrett
• Lance Martin
  Anthropic
• Kim Maida
• Mason Egger
• Denys Linkov

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