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August 26, 2026
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Agentic AI Summit
Exhibition & Networking
Generative AI Summit
Headliner stage
August 26
August 26
August 26
08:00
Exhibition & Networking
Registration & networking breakfast
08:55
Agentic AI Summit
Welcome to AIAI Summit LA
Ethan Cole, Director, Growth, Distillery
09:00
Agentic AI Summit
From prompts to systems: AI is now a systems engineering problem
09:30
Agentic AI Summit
When AI systems start to drift: Why things break in practice
10:00
Agentic AI Summit
Making AI systems hold up in production: Infrastructure, Inference, and scale
PK Patel, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
10:30
Exhibition & Networking
Coffee break
11:00
Agentic AI Summit
Is it really the model or systems problem?
Winston Howes, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
11:00
Generative AI Summit
Workshop | Deploying and auto-scaling LLM inference on Kubernetes
11:30
Agentic AI Summit
Taming non-determinism: A framework for evaluation and observability in autonomous agent trajectories
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
12:30
Exhibition & Networking
Lunch break
13:30
Agentic AI Summit
Infinite generation. Finite judgment
Eden James, Technical Director, Meta
13:30
Generative AI Summit
Workshop: Building industry-ready agents with DeepSeek's foundational models
Karl Zhao, PhD, Foundational Model Evangelist, DeepSeek
14:00
Agentic AI Summit
What 1m+ monthly members teaches you about reliability
Paul Lindner, Principal Software Engineer, Metropolis Technologies
14:30
Agentic AI Summit
Scaling and optimizing agentic workflows
15:00
Exhibition & Networking
Coffee break
15:30
Agentic AI Summit
When cost becomes the bottleneck in agentic AI
James Lin, Head of AI/ML, Experian
16:00
Agentic AI Summit
From moneyball to machineball: What happens when AI starts making the calls
Ethan Cole, Director, Growth, Distillery
16:30
Agentic AI Summit
Panel | Why do agent systems break in production? The gap between design and reality
17:00
Agentic AI Summit
Closing remarks
Ethan Cole, Director, Growth, Distillery
17:00
Exhibition & Networking
Happy hour

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

AIAI LA presents two co-located, engineering-first 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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