Thursday, October 22, 2026
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
AI Engineering Summit | Austin | 2026
About this event
A one-day, single-track summit for engineers running AI in production — agentic development, deployment, responsible AI and data infrastructure — with an explicit no-vendor-pitch policy.
Built for people shipping AI, not selling it
The Austin edition of the AI Engineering Summit is a single-track, one-day event for around 150 practitioners. The organizers state a no-vendor-pitch policy: sessions are led by engineers describing systems they actually run, not product demos.
Content spans six announced areas:
- Agentic development — designing and operating agent systems
- AI to production — the path from prototype to reliable deployment
- Responsible AI — evaluation, safety, and governance in practice
- AI architecture — system design patterns
- AI-first leadership — running teams around these tools
- AI data infrastructure — the pipelines and storage underneath
The single-track format means the whole room moves together, and the schedule includes a shared lunch, all-day speaker access, and a closing networking reception.
Practical details
- When: Thursday, October 22, 2026, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Where: AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 University Avenue, on the UT Austin campus
- Cost: Early bird $399 through September 21; $499 from September 22. Groups of three or more from $360 per seat.
The call for speakers has already closed, so the published programme is what will run.
Organized by
A conference organizer running single-track, practitioner-led technology summits across the United States, including the AI Engineering Summit series for engineers running AI systems in production. Its events operate an explicit no-vendor-pitch policy.