If you’ve seen the news lately, the tech bros will have you believe that AI is both here to take your job and also your soul. On the other side, people are saying that we are in an AI-bubble, it’s all hype, and we don’t need to worry about it at all. Which is it? The truth is…it’s a little of BOTH. Dona will demystify what the latest buzzwords in AI (what is OpenClaw all about) and show you a roadmap for how you can AND SHOULD be using AI in your day-to-day life. You’ll learn how to set up an experiment framework for yourself, identify the workflows AI is actually good for, how to run the...
AI Con USA 2026 - Keynotes
Keynotes are included in all passes! These industry visionaries will take the stage for in-depth discussions on trending topics.
Wednesday, June 10
Will the Real Autonomous Agent Please Stand Up: What’s Real, What’s Not, and What You Actually SHOULD Be Investing in in the AI-Verse
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 8:30am to 9:30am
Architecting the Digital Work System: The Shift to Multi-Agent Enterprise Workflows
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 9:35am to 10:20am
The era of single-turn AI prompting is over, giving way to the sophisticated "digital assembly line." This session guides technical leaders, CTOs, and AI product managers through the critical leap from isolated AI tools to coordinated, multi-agent constellations capable of autonomously executing complex enterprise workflows. Marshall will dissect the four levels of agentic evolution, focusing on today's epicenter of innovation: cross-system orchestration. Because the risk of cumulative failure multiplies with every automated handoff, he will unpack the architectural strategies required to...
Why Your Agentic PR Never Gets Approved—Going from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 3:50pm to 4:35pm
You can write 100% of your code with AI, and only be 15% more productive. Want to know why? Solving the problem of moving faster as an engineer is about way more than code. You design, you problem solve, you discuss and communicate, you test, you shepherd the PR through review, you deploy, and you observe. So why are you being told you should be 10x faster now that AI can write code? David will discuss practical solutions for safely accelerating your entire workflow with AI. He will look at how to collaborate with PM, how to use AI planning, how to ensure validations are solid and builds...
Show Me the ROI: What Enterprise AI Actually Delivers in Year 4 - Panel
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - 4:40pm to 5:40pm
The hype cycle is over. The pilot graveyard is full. MIT research suggests that 95% of Generative AI implementations have little to no measurable impact on P&L. So what separates the 5% that actually deliver? In this no-fluff panel, practitioners from the front lines of enterprise AI — spanning automotive, cloud platforms, and the messy middle of real-world deployment — will have a candid conversation about what's working, what consistently stalls, and what it actually takes to move from experimentation to results.
The panel will discuss:
The use cases that outperform the hype...Thursday, June 11
Building Agentic Engineering Teams
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 8:30am to 9:30am
Agentic engineering has quietly inverted the fundamental bottleneck of software development. For decades, the hard part was building, so we optimized teams for execution speed, hired specialists to cover capability gaps, and treated wasted work as a cost to be managed through careful planning and consensus. Now an engineer with the right tools can scaffold major features in hours, often faster than they can get a meeting on the calendar to discuss it. This talk is a field guide for leading teams through that inversion. It reexamines the hiring calculus, what makes an early career engineer...
The Next Era of Biological Discovery
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 9:35am to 10:20am
We are entering a defining chapter for bioscience—one where AI is no longer an accessory, but a core engine of discovery. At the Allen Institute, AI is being woven throughout the scientific process empowering research teams to analyze complex biological systems at scale. Their teams are collaborating to develop frontier AI applications like advanced computer vision to interpret high-resolution imaging data, multimodal models that integrate complex molecular, cellular, and physiological signals, as well as intelligent systems to assist researchers as they navigate and synthesize vast...
Proven, Not Promised: Real-World Insights from Nelnet’s AI Transformation
Thursday, June 11, 2026 - 3:30pm to 4:15pm
Engineering leaders are under constant pressure to deliver faster, improve quality, and reduce costs despite fixed resources. At Nelnet, this challenge was compounded by ongoing acquisitions, a complex application landscape, and competing team priorities. Brittany Wilson will discuss how they evaluated the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on the software development lifecycle without disrupting critical delivery work and how Nelnet adopted a measured pilot approach. Over 12 weeks, a side-by-side experiment compared a GenAI-enabled team with a business-as-usual team working on similar...