Illustrated, timestamped summaries of the AI Engineer 2026 mainstage keynotes — the World's Fair in San Francisco and the Singapore edition.
Each day's mainstage livestream runs 8–10 hours. These pages distill them into per-talk summaries — who spoke, what they argued, the punchy quotes, key slides, and clickable timestamps that jump straight into the source video. Speaker names and talk titles are taken from each conference's own running order and on-screen title cards, and every stream is split by talk (not arbitrary time-chunks), so every entry maps to a real session.
Moscone West · June 30 – July 2, 2026
Software engineering as “factory engineering”: agents that triage, spec, implement, verify and ship in a loop — and the counter-melody of “slop” when they run unreviewed.
Agents that do research and recursively self-improve. The verifiable loop, reward-hacking, and why humans move to taste, judgment, and accountability.
Everything wrapped around the model that makes an agent safe in production: sandboxes, credential proxies, “prompts are not security,” adversarial red-teaming — plus the $100K Startup Battlefield.
Capitol Theatre · May 16 – 17, 2026
Agents in production with an APAC, sovereign flavour — opening with a government minister who built his own containerised AI, and closing on the “Agent Lab Nation.” Sandboxing recurs as the precondition for autonomy.
Harness engineering: what you wrap around the model so it's reliable and safe — deterministic boundaries, OS-level guardrails, V8 isolates — plus a big embodied-AI/robotics block and a design thread.