Schedule
October 12–14, 2026 · New York City
150 sessions
| Time | Shannon Room | Sutton Room | McCarthy Room | Turing Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:00am - 11:00am Anthropic Workshop | 9:00am - 11:00am Building a Wealth Management Concierge in ChatGPT Work Stefano Fabbri | 9:00am - 11:00am Stop Chatting With Spreadsheets: Build a Financial Analyst Harness That You Can Trust Francesco Galletta, Felippe Felisola Caso | 9:00am - 11:00am Presenting Sponsor Room - Workshop 1 |
| 11:05 | 11:05am - 12:05pm Agent = Model + Harness: Build your own Memory-Aware AML AI Agent Harness for Financial Crime Detection Ignacio Martinez | 11:05am - 12:05pm Arize AI Workshop Session 1 | 11:05am - 12:05pm The AI Bill Is Too Damn High – Tokenomics 101 Eugene Cheah | 11:05am - 12:05pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Workshop 2 |
| 1:15 | 1:15pm - 2:15pm Beyond “Done”: Building Verification Loops for AI Agents Nick Nisi, Zack Proser | 1:15pm - 2:15pm Hands-on Gitar: the AI verification agent that reads your project's rules Killian Killian Carlsen-Phelan | 1:15pm - 2:15pm We gave our finance agent more context. It got worse. Ryan Stevens | 1:15pm - 2:15pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Workshop 3 |
| 2:20 | 2:20pm - 3:20pm ClickHouse Workshop Session 1 | 2:20pm - 3:20pm Exa Workshop Session 1 | 2:20pm - 3:20pm Event-Based Multi-Agent Financial Workflows with Only Markdown Raymond Weitekamp, Dan Barrett, Jose Montes de Oca | 2:20pm - 3:20pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Workshop 4 |
| 3:30 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm Secure, durable agents with Keycard and Temporal Rick Ross, Kim Maida, Nikolay Advolodkin, Holly Girouard, Matte Noble, Cecil Phillip, Jelmer Snoeck, Briana Hawkins, Mason Egger | 3:30pm - 4:30pm Claude Code, Financial Analyst: Turning a Coding Agent Loose on Governed Enterprise Data Natalia Connolly, Kevin Madura | 3:30pm - 4:30pm What unstructured data unlocks for Insurance AI programs Denys Linkov | 3:30pm - 4:30pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Workshop 5 |
Official AIE Events & Side EventsAll side events
| Time | Shannon Room | Simons Room | Sutton Room | McCarthy Room | Podcast Corner - Expo Floor | Turing Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:00am - 9:18am Vault: When Fifty Years of Structured Data Isn't Enough Aaron Linsky, Sam Green | |||||
| 9:18 | 9:18am - 9:36am Anthropic Keynote Belinda Neal | |||||
| 9:36 | 9:36am - 9:54am Head of AI, Coatue Frank Long, Mihovil Mandic | |||||
| 9:54 | 9:54am - 10:12am Does Code Quality Even Matter? Max Kanat-Alexander | |||||
| 10:12 | 10:12am - 10:30am Arize AI Keynote Session 1 | |||||
| 10:40 | 10:40am - 10:58am The Intelligence Plane: What your agents know, remember and learn Richmond Alake | 10:40am - 10:58am Wells Fargo Foundation Model: Application to Fraud Detection at Scale Freddy Lecue | 10:40am - 10:58am Turning AI Into Operating Margin: A Field Report from Private Equity Adam Nahari | 10:40am - 10:58am What We Learned Deploying Inside Air-Gapped VPCs for 5 Major Banks Al Chen | 10:40am - 10:58am Can Any Model Write Like Me? Building a Benchmark for Creative Writing Louis-François Bouchard | |
| 11:00 | 11:00am - 12:00pm Podcast Slot 1 - Oct 13 (11AM) | |||||
| 11:05 | 11:05am - 11:23am No Cash Left Behind: Vanguard's Ledger Modernization Journey Gareth Yoder | 11:05am - 11:23am Arca’s agent runtime for long horizon financial services work Aman Singh | 11:05am - 11:23am Memory isn’t learning: What’s everyone missing in self-evolving AI Sparsh Jain | 11:05am - 11:23am Can AI Reconstruct a Company? Hassan El Mghari, Omar El Mghari | ||
| 11:30 | 11:30am - 11:48am The Assembly Line Came First Ryan Houser | 11:30am - 12:15pm Intent Based Auth Allie Howe, Ian Livingstone, Michael Davis, Dick Hardt | 11:30am - 11:48am Exa Breakout Session 1 | 11:30am - 11:48am The best context isn't in your database. It's in the investor's head. Anekha Sokhal | 11:30am - 11:48am Your Financial Agent Passed Every Eval. Can You Defend Its Decision? Anirudh Veeraragavan | |
| 11:55 | 11:55am - 12:13pm Inside the Fable War Room Ford Prior | 11:55am - 12:13pm Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret? Aaron Linsky, Nikhil Benesch | 11:55am - 12:13pm Adopting third-party AI agents was not doing it for our bank, so we built our own Francesco Galletta, Felippe Felisola Caso | 11:55am - 12:13pm Lies, Damned Lies, and Evals: How to trust your agents when the stakes are high Stephanie Jarmak | ||
| 12:00 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm Podcast Slot 2 - Oct 13 (12PM) | |||||
| 12:20 | 12:20pm - 12:38pm Your Next User Is an Agent Isabelle Williams | 12:20pm - 12:38pm Agents can pay. So why don’t they? Jan Curn | 12:20pm - 12:38pm Buy, Then Deploy: Using M&A to Drive AI Transformation Prathik Naidu | 12:20pm - 12:38pm 1,368 AI Failures: What They Teach Us About System Evals Vishal Srivastava, Tanmay Sah | ||
| 1:00 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm Podcast Slot 3 - Oct 13 (1PM) | |||||
| 1:40 | 1:40pm - 1:58pm Publish Faster Without the AI Slop Zack Proser | 1:40pm - 1:58pm From RAG to Memory: Building Agents That Remember Wojciech Pluta | 1:40pm - 1:58pm How frontier AI changes tolerable risk for open source security in financial services | 1:40pm - 1:58pm Proving Alpha: Showcasing AI's Value in Fundamental Investing Hari Kumar | ||
| 2:00 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm Podcast Slot 4 - Oct 13 (2PM) | |||||
| 2:05 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Sonar Expo Session 1 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Pit Stops, Not Rebuilds: Deploying Modular AI Infrastructure Under Performance Pressure & Regulatory Scrutiny | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Arize AI Expo Session 1 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Gravitee Source Expo Session 1 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Can AI Understand a Distressed Credit? Harneet Kaur | |
| 2:30 | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Realtime Multiplayer Agentic Development in Delta | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Co-Founder & CEO, Vals AI Rayan Krishnan | 2:30pm - 2:48pm turbopuffer Expo Session 1 | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Who is making the request? Agent Auth 101 via gateways + SDKs Kamil Potrec | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Why Frontier Models Fail on Billion Dollar Portfolios Chanyeol Choi, Janie Gu, Jack Haverty, Suyeol Yun | |
| 2:55 | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Optiver Expo Session 1 | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Towards Autonomous Analysts in Finance Yijia Liang | 2:55pm - 3:13pm How to build an AI code review agent: from the creators of Greptile Daksh Gupta | 2:55pm - 3:13pm State of the Agent: Reliability, Observability, and the Gap Between Them | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Your Agent Just Paid for Nothing (6 Attacks on x402 Payments) Ishween Kaur | |
| 3:00 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm Podcast Slot 5 - Oct 13 (3PM) | |||||
| 3:20 | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Securing the Agentic Universe, One Layer at a Time | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Shipping like a startup, regulated like a bank David Abitbol | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Browserbase Expo Session 1 Jay Sahnan | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Runpod - Gold - New York 2026 - Expo Session 1 | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Slot 10 | |
| 3:45 | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Daytona Expo Session 1 | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Head of Data and AI - Arcsight Capital, Millennium Sid Pednekar | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Building Humanlike Voice Agents for Financial Services Jesse Hall | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Qodo Expo Session 1 | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Slot 11 | |
| 4:30 | 4:30pm - 4:48pm Balancing Acceleration and Safety for AI Agents John Feminella | |||||
| 4:50 | 4:50pm - 5:08pm Pim de Witte (General Intuition) session Pim de Witte | |||||
| 5:10 | 5:10pm - 5:28pm CEO, Nous Research Dillon Rolnick |
| Time | Shannon Room | Simons Room | Sutton Room | McCarthy Room | Podcast Corner - Expo Floor | Turing Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 9:00am - 9:18am CTO, Ramp Rahul Sengottuvelu | |||||
| 9:18 | 9:18am - 9:36am The Machine that Changed the World, vAI Tariq Shaukat | |||||
| 9:36 | 9:36am - 9:54am Pending Keynote | |||||
| 9:54 | 9:54am - 10:12am Building the Next Chapter of AI in Finance Joseph Kim | |||||
| 10:12 | 10:12am - 10:30am Security in the Age of AI: Recent Attacks, Incidents & Defenses Andrey Rybka | |||||
| 10:40 | 10:40am - 10:58am Two Ways to Rob an AI-Native Bank Maty Bohacek | 10:40am - 10:58am From Earnings Calls to Investment Decisions: Learnings from Building Finance Agents Sai Krishna Rallabandi | 10:40am - 10:58am Developer Docs as Knowledge Infrastructure for Fintech Hahnbee Lee, Lincoln Murr | 10:40am - 10:58am The Hidden Costs of a Faster Model Morgan Suo | 10:40am - 10:58am George Cameron, Co-Founder & CPO, Artificial Analysis | |
| 11:00 | 11:00am - 12:00pm Podcast Slot 1 - Oct 14 (11AM) | |||||
| 11:05 | 11:05am - 11:23am Building a self-improving software factory Zach Lloyd | 11:05am - 11:23am AI in Practice: The Investor and Operator View Michael Manapat, Rob Bittencourt, Jack McDonald | 11:05am - 11:23am From Human Review to Self-Healing Agents: How Upstart Evaluates Voice AI at Regulated-Lending Scale Shiv Indap, Brooke Hopkins | 11:05am - 11:23am Your Coding Agent Has a Context Problem Tom Moor | 11:05am - 11:23am Benchmarking the Full Stack: From Silicon to Harness. Steven Latré | |
| 11:30 | 11:30am - 11:48am Trusting Agents in Policy-Driven Workflows Evan Kormos | 11:30am - 11:48am How Compute Markets Work Evan Conrad | 11:30am - 11:48am Sonar Breakout Session 1 | 11:30am - 11:48am Can AI run Goldman Sachs? Joanne Wang, Matthew Olsen, Fengjiao Peng | 11:30am - 11:48am Your Reranker Improved Retrieval. Did It Improve the Answer? Manimala Kumar | |
| 11:55 | 11:55am - 12:13pm The Harness is Dead. Long Live the Harness Jediah Katz | 11:55am - 12:13pm Building the Financial Account for Agents Lincoln Murr | 11:55am - 12:13pm It's Not the Model, It's You Nicholas Arcolano | 11:55am - 12:13pm The Agentic Content System Behind 200M Views Sarah Chieng, Cova Lee | 11:55am - 12:13pm When AI Fails: Designing Evaluation Systems for High Stakes Applications Ramakrishnan Lokanathan | |
| 12:00 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm Podcast Slot 2 - Oct 14 (12PM) | |||||
| 12:20 | 12:20pm - 12:38pm Arize AI Breakout Session 1 | 12:20pm - 12:38pm CEO & Founder, Rogo Gabe Stengel | 12:20pm - 12:38pm Agents Can Rewrite Compilers. Why Can't They Pick Stocks? Ashwin Paranjape | 12:20pm - 12:38pm A/B Testing AI Products Is Weird: What Changes When the Product Is Probabilistic Supriya Subudhi | ||
| 1:00 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm Podcast Slot 3 - Oct 14 (1PM) | |||||
| 1:40 | 1:40pm - 1:58pm Arize AI Expo Session 2 | 1:40pm - 1:58pm Sonar Expo Session 2 | 1:40pm - 1:58pm Warp Expo Session 1 | |||
| 2:00 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm Podcast Slot 4 - Oct 14 (2PM) | |||||
| 2:05 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Modal Expo Session 1 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Jack Woodruff, Kepler AI | 2:05pm - 2:23pm SRE & Platform Engineering: AI's Trust Layer for Wall Street | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Comet Expo Session 1 | 2:05pm - 2:23pm Your LLM Should Never Call Your APIs Emil Chetty | |
| 2:30 | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Your Agent Wants Your Data: Securing MCP Database Access from the Ground Up Jeff Smith | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Vinoo Ganesh, Kepler AI | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Are You Smarter Than a Fruit Fly? Nick Nisi | 2:30pm - 2:48pm How Raj Bakhru Led Datasight’s AI and Data Transformation at scale with Reducto | 2:30pm - 2:48pm Your agent needs a skill to improve its skills Ben Holmes | |
| 2:55 | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Building Managed Agents Jack Wotherspoon | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Coding an Autonomous Wall Street Coworker: Custom Skills, Connectors, and Event Hooks Philipp Schmid | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Permission to Act: Giving Agents Authority in Regulated Industries Sagar Batchu | 2:55pm - 3:13pm ClickHouse Expo Session 1 | 2:55pm - 3:13pm Hill-Climbing “Back-Office” Agents: Cost, Reliability, and Feedback Loops Milind Sunil Shah | |
| 3:00 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm Podcast Slot 5 - Oct 14 (3PM) | |||||
| 3:20 | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Graph Engineering 101: Predictability, Governance, Portability Zachary Blumenfeld | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Your Company Has No Model of Itself: Bootstrapping a World Model from Slack, Decks and Meetings Joao Wenzel | 3:20pm - 3:38pm PLANETSCALE Expo Session 1 | 3:20pm - 3:38pm Building an Evidence Layer for Financial Agents Aamir Shakir | 3:20pm - 3:38pm A Roadmap for Evaluating Highly-Subjective Tasks Cameron Wolfe 3:20pm - 3:38pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Slot 21 | |
| 3:45 | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Tabular Foundation Models in Finance Sauraj Gambhir | 3:45pm - 4:03pm From Headlines to Holdings Stephen Chin, Amey Mahajan | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Cisco Expo Session 1 | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Factory Expo Session 1 | 3:45pm - 4:03pm Presenting Sponsor Room - Slot 22 | |
| 4:30 | 4:30pm - 4:48pm Akshat Bubna, CTO, Modal Akshat Bubna | |||||
| 4:50 | 4:50pm - 5:08pm Process Supervision for Agents That Do Long-Horizon Work Mitchell Troyanovsky | |||||
| 5:10 | 5:10pm - 5:28pm Everything will be Simulated Cristóbal Valenzuela |