Event Networking AI

6 Things to Know about AIE World's Fair 2026

Jun 21, 2026 · 17:50

Swix, co-founder of AI Engineer, outlines six key features of the 2026 World's Fair in San Francisco. The event is over 4x larger than 2025, with 50% new topics, an expanded expo floor (4 stages, 4x bigger), and a new research-industry poster session that includes printed tweets. A leadership track on Level 3 features the Token Billionaire lounge for heavy LLM users and off-the-record McKinsey sessions. AI verticals debut in agentic commerce, healthcare, finance, and GTM, with a new AI Engineer New York focused on finance. Side events include a World Cup viewing, New Engineer Orientation (NEO) with 300+ signups, and a kids event; attendees can claim $38,000 in sponsor offers.

Announcing the AI Engineer Network: Benjamin Dunphy

Oct 23, 2023 · 7:44

Benjamin Dunphy launches the AI Engineer Summit 2023 by welcoming attendees and recognizing sponsors Auto-GPT, Supabase, Fixie, Microsoft, and Cloudflare, as well as VC Alessio Finelli. He then unveils two major updates for the conference's mobile app, Network: AI-Enhanced Matching, a generative algorithm using LLMs to connect attendees based on stated problems, and the open-sourcing of both the event app and matching algorithm on GitHub, enabling any event to use them. Dunphy credits lead engineer Simon Sturmer for the mobile app, 'Sweezett's teller' for the matching algorithm, and infrastructure partners Dscope (auth) and Supabase (database and PG vector). The announcements aim to improve high-signal networking among the 500 selected engineers, founders, and sponsors at the summit.