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August 26, 2026

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Morning headliner sessions, then split into Generative & Agentic AI.
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Agentic AI Summit

Exhibition & Networking

Generative AI Summit

Headliner stage

August 26

08:00

Exhibition & Networking

Registration & networking breakfast

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08:55

Headliner stage

Welcome to AIAI Los Angeles LA

Ethan Cole, Director, Growth, Distillery

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09:00

Headliner stage

Making AI systems hold up in production: Infrastructure, Inference, and scale

PK Patel, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

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09:30

Headliner stage

When AI systems start to drift: Why things break in practice

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10:00

Headliner stage

From prompts to systems: AI is now a systems engineering problem

Winston Howes, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI

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10:30

Exhibition & Networking

Coffee break

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11:00

Agentic AI Summit

Is it really the model or its a systems problem?

Tatiana Habruseva, Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

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11:00

Generative AI Summit

Workshop | Deploying and auto-scaling LLM inference on Kubernetes

Ayushi Agarwal, Research Engineer, Google Deepmind

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11:30

Agentic AI Summit

Taming non-determinism: A framework for evaluation and observability in autonomous agent trajectories

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12:00

Agentic AI Summit

Panel | Who’s really in control? Designing and governing autonomous agent systems

Farshad Kheiri, Head of AI & Data Science, Oaktree Capital Management

Dr. Tracey Wilen, Tech Leader; Board Member

Zhenwen S., Director, Data Science & Machine Learning, Johnson & Johnson

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12:00

Generative AI Summit

GenAI lab | Fix your genAI bottleneck: Live clinic (Latency, cost, evals, hallucinations)

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12:30

Exhibition & Networking

Lunch break

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13:30

Agentic AI Summit

Infinite generation. Finite judgment

Eden James, Technical Director, Meta

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13:30

Generative AI Summit

Workshop: Building industry-ready agents with DeepSeek's foundational models

Karl Zhao, PhD, Foundational Model Evangelist, DeepSeek

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14:00

Agentic AI Summit

Scaling and optimizing agentic workflows

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14:30

Agentic AI Summit

What 1m+ monthly members teaches you about reliability

Paul Lindner, Principal Software Engineer, Metropolis Technologies

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14:30

Generative AI Summit

GenAI lab | Inside a production stack (teardown)

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15:00

Exhibition & Networking

Coffee break

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15:30

Agentic AI Summit

When cost becomes the bottleneck in agentic AI

James Lin, Head of AI/ML, Experian

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15:30

Generative AI Summit

Simulating human emotion at scale: How swarm AI predicts what polls and sentiment tools cannot

Vanchhit Khare, Solutions Developer, M&T Bank

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16:00

Agentic AI Summit

From moneyball to machineball: What happens when AI starts making the calls

Ethan Cole, Director, Growth, Distillery

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16:30

Agentic AI Summit

Panel | Why do agent systems break in production? The gap between design and reality

Goutham Budati, VP, Data Strategy & Insights, The Farmer's Dog

Alex Schmidt, VP, Analytics & Data Science, UnitedHealth Group

Naila Khan, Senior Engineering Manager, Google

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Build. Deploy. Drive value.
LA's most significant assembly of AI builders, execs & cracked engineers.

AIAI LA presents two co-located, engineering summits: Agentic AI Summit and Generative AI Summit.

Join 300+ engineering peers and discover:

→ A clear view of what’s working now: the systems, teams, and workflows driving real performance at scale.

→ Live workshops and hackathons in the Generative AI track. Build, test, and iterate on real systems alongside other engineers.

→ Connections that accelerate progress; peers, partners, and innovators building industry-ready applied AI.

Los Angeles
August 26, 2026

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