AI Con USA 2026 - Data Scientist

Customize your AI Con USA 2026 experience with sessions for data scientists.

Tuesday, June 9

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AI Deep Dive: Exploring AWS Using Real-World Scenarios

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Deepen your AI and machine learning expertise using AWS in an Immersive, hands-on workshop. You’ll use real-world AI challenges while leveraging AWS services like Amazon SageMaker, Bedrock, and Lambda to build and optimize AI-driven solutions. As the session unfolds, new constraints and data anomalies will emerge, mirroring the complexities of real-world AI/ML implementation. Gain insight into how AI solutions perform under evolving conditions, learning to adapt, optimize, and troubleshoot unexpected challenges. Learn the importance of collaboration, strategic thinking, problem-solving,...

Wednesday, June 10

Rahul Gupta
SandboxAQ
W5

Beyond Generative AI: How Large Quantitative Models Are Transforming Scientific Discovery

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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 11:50am to 12:35pm

Scientific discovery faces a major bottleneck: while generative AI has transformed information processing, it has not yet unlocked comparable acceleration in understanding the physical world. Traditional computational chemistry and materials modeling remain too slow, expensive, and limited to power large-scale innovation. SandboxAQ tackled this challenge by developing Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) — a new class of AI models that merge machine learning, physics-based simulation, and quantum-inspired algorithms to model molecular and material interactions at unprecedented speed and...

Bhanu Prakash Reddy Rella
Meta Platforms
W12

Energy-Efficient AI: Building Sustainable Data Pipelines for the Future

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 2:25pm to 3:10pm

Artificial Intelligence is driving innovation across industries, but its growing energy demands pose critical challenges around cost, scalability, and sustainability. In this talk, Bhanu will share practical strategies for designing energy-efficient AI systems, focusing on: dynamic batching & KV caching for reducing inference overhead, sparse neural networks & structured pruning for lightweight models, carbon-aware scheduling to align compute with renewable energy, federated learning & edge deployments to reduce data transfer energy, and a sustainability maturity model for...

Thursday, June 11

Joshua Powers
Dev Technology
T5

Context Engineering for Agentic Workflows

Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 11:40am to 12:25pm

The success of agentic applications using LLMs depends largely on the ability to properly manage the context - the collection of prompts, tools, history, memory, and RAG-indexed content. When you take all of these elements into account, you are able to get the most out of the LLM while avoiding hallucination, conversational drift, and relevance issues. Topics to be covered include: dynamic LLM selection, automated prompt development, context compression, tool decoration, RAG optimization, and LLM-as-a-judge quality assessment of LLM responses. Each of these smaller parts together build...

Jeremiah Marble
3rd Rodeo AI
T8

From Prompt to Production: Building AI Systems That Actually Work

Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 1:25pm to 2:10pm

AI can now generate code, tests, documentation, and even entire applications in minutes. Yet many organizations are discovering that faster code generation has not translated into faster delivery, higher quality, or greater business impact. Instead, teams are often facing more code churn, more technical debt, and more production incidents. The challenge is no longer getting AI to write code. The challenge is building systems that consistently deliver value to end users. Drawing on real-world experience building AI products, agent-based systems, evaluation frameworks, and production...

Anusha Dwivedula
Morningstar
T12

Evals Are a Team Sport: Building Scalable Evaluation Pipelines for Trustworthy AI

Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 2:40pm to 3:25pm

Modern AI systems fail not only because of flawed models but because evaluation is often treated as a one-time task rather than an ongoing discipline. This session addresses the challenge of scaling evaluation across teams and pipelines to ensure model reliability, fairness, and performance. Drawing from real-world experience in large-scale financial analytics, Anusha Dwivedula will examine how product and data teams can collaborate to design a continuous evaluation framework that integrates precision, recall, and drift metrics with observability, lineage, and quality controls. She will...