Generation AI

Speakers

The people publishing the results, not the people summarising them.

Every speaker presents work they shipped or measured themselves. First wave announced — the full roster lands in October.

Training

Dr. Yuki Tanaka

Research Lead, Post-training · Frontier Labs

RL from execution feedback at 10B tokens/day

Open Weights

Amara Osei

Head of Open Weights · Mistral-scale collective

What the new open-weight frontier actually closed

Inference

Lars Møller

Principal Engineer, Inference · Tensor Runtime Co.

Speculative decoding and the cost curve of long-horizon agents

Agent Experience

Priya Raghunathan

Agent Experience Lead · Harness Systems

Agent experience: designing the surface humans actually supervise

Loop Engineering

Tomás Iglesias

Founder · Loopwork

Loop engineering: control flow for non-deterministic workers

Evals

Dr. Nadia Fahmy

Evaluation Scientist · Benchmark Institute

Contamination-resistant evals for agentic tasks

MCP

Sam Whitfield

Protocol Maintainer · MCP Working Group

MCP at scale: servers, sandboxes and capability negotiation

Harness

Chen Wei

Staff Engineer, Harness · Autonomy Systems

Harness engineering: sandboxes, retries and the cost of a bad tool

Benchmarks

Dr. Ines Duval

Benchmarks Lead · European AI Institute

Reading benchmark deltas without fooling yourself