Engineering with AI is no longer about proving capability. It is about ensuring reliability. While LLMs offer immense potential, their non-deterministic nature creates a significant gap between a successful PoC and an enterprise-grade application.
This track focuses on the engineering fundamentals required to bridge that gap. We move past the hype to explore the tools, techniques, and architectural patterns needed to design, build, and maintain scalable AI-native systems.
What you will learn
- Production Patterns for AI Agents: Practical methods to move agents from promising automation to reliable enterprise tools.
- Evaluation & Assessment Frameworks: How to measure and validate non-deterministic systems in production environments.
- Scaling AI-Native Architecture: Blueprints for integrating AI into the full software lifecycle without compromising system stability.
- Strategic Investment Guidance: Frameworks for technical leaders to decide when, where, and how to invest in emerging AI technologies.
Why this matters now
Roadmaps are rapidly adding AI-assisted features, but delivery velocity is often throttled by concerns over safety and reliability. This track provides the practitioner-led patterns to de-risk your AI implementation and turn experimental models into durable, production-ready systems.
From this track
Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents
AI agents are rapidly changing how users interact with software, yet most agentic systems today operate with little to no intelligent memory, relying instead on brittle context-window heuristics or short-term state.
Karthik Ramgopal
Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development
Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence
Coding models are helping software developers move even faster than ever before, but weirdly, they’re not keeping up with our fast progress. The models that power code generation are often based on months to years old snapshots of open source code.
Jeff Smith
CEO & Co-Founder @ 2nd Set AI, AI Engineer, Researcher, Author, Ex-Meta/FAIR
Beyond the Demo: RAG is Easy, Production RAG is Not
Everyone is building RAG systems now. But few are building reliable retrieval systems.
Lan Chu
AI Tech Lead and Senior Data Scientist