Description
AI Engineer World's Fair is a recurring conference series held in San Francisco, built around the practical work of building AI systems rather than research talks alone. Its most recent edition ran from June 29 to July 2, 2026, including a Day 0 orientation for first-time attendees on June 28. That edition has since wrapped: session recordings are being released on the event's YouTube channel, and sponsorship opportunities for a 2027 edition are open, though no dates have been published yet.
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The event is organized by Software 3.0 Inc, which also runs sister events including AI Engineer Europe and AI Engineer New York. The 2026 edition described itself as the largest technical AI expo yet, with over 100 expo partners across four expo stages, more than 50 hands-on workshops, and a speaker roster of several hundred people drawn from companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon and Coinbase. The organizers say the event reaches about 1.5 million unique engineers a month through its YouTube channel.
Programming runs across a structured multi-day format: a workshop and welcome-reception day, a keynote and breakout day with roughly a dozen parallel tracks plus dedicated leadership programming for CTOs and VPs of AI, a third day combining more parallel tracks with a side World Cup viewing event, and a final day of programming and last-chance expo access. Track topics span areas such as agentic and harness engineering, evals, robotics and world models, security, context engineering, voice and realtime AI, and AI applied to specific industries including healthcare, finance and go-to-market work. The event also runs separate content tracks aimed at different audiences: AI engineers, enterprise teams, CTOs and architects, founders, and specific industry groups such as healthcare and finance leaders new for 2026.
AI Engineer World's Fair is aimed at people who build and ship AI systems day to day, from individual engineers to enterprise technical leadership, plus founders and investors attending hallway tracks and networking around the main program. Attendees can register for the live event, and anyone who misses it can watch published talks afterward on YouTube. Companies interested in reaching this audience can apply to sponsor a future edition through the site's sponsorship pages.
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Highlights
Multi-day program combining keynotes, breakout tracks, hands-on workshops and an expo floor
A dozen or more parallel tracks per day covering topics like agentic engineering, evals, robotics, security and AI in specific industries
50+ hands-on workshops for engineers at different experience levels
A large expo hall where AI labs, model providers and platform companies demo products and hire
Dedicated leadership tracks and closed-door sessions for CTOs and VPs of AI
Speaker lineup drawn from major AI labs and companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and NVIDIA
Segmented programming for different audiences: AI engineers, enterprise teams, founders, healthcare and finance specialists
New Engineer Orientation for first-time attendees before the main program starts
Published talks released on YouTube after the event for those who didn't attend
Sister events in other cities, including AI Engineer Europe and AI Engineer New York
Who Should Attend
- Networking with AI builders
- Enterprise AI strategy
- Vendor evaluation
- Hands-on skill building
