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All Things AI 2026 — Event Recap

March 23March 24, 2026

Monday, March 23

Building Agents with Granite
BJ Hargrave4:00 PM5:00 PMWorkshop
Video
The Context Economy: Getting More Bang for Your Token
Craig McLuckie4:15 PM5:15 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Next-Level AI: How Infrastructure Engineers Unlock True Enterprise Value
Briana Faulk4:15 PM5:15 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Who Gets the Upgrade? AI, Access, and the Next Economy
Anjanette Miller4:15 PM5:15 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Let Your Net...Work
Sarah Finnerty4:15 PM5:15 PMDeep Thoughts
History Is Written in The Training Data
Erica Rooney4:15 PM5:15 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Fireside Chat: The Past, Present, and Future of AI
Igor Jablokov & Mark Hinkle8:45 PM9:15 PMKeynote
Video

Tuesday, March 24

Who Does the Algorithm Save: Preserving Humanity with AI in Healthcare
Yassah Reed12:45 PM2:15 PMKeynote
Video
How the Oldest Principle in Engineering Will Reshape AI
Luis Lastras12:45 PM2:15 PMKeynote
Video
Agents Don't Ship Themselves
Darko Mesaros12:45 PM2:15 PMKeynote
Video
What Agents Can Really Do
whurley12:45 PM2:15 PMKeynote
When AI Meets Quantum: Expanding the Boundaries of Machine Intelligence
whurley12:45 PM2:15 PMKeynote
Video
No GPUs? No Problem! Training ML Models Without Expensive Hardware
Suha Mokalla2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Builders
Video
Meet Your Developers Where They Are
Chris Tankersley2:30 PM3:00 PMCase Study/Demo
Looking Ahead: Navigating AI and Your Career
Taylor Desseyn2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Users
Video
The Economics of Enterprise Technology: Maximizing EBITDA Lift
James Kaplan2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Executives
Video
Enterprise AI, Right-Sized: Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Deserve Serious Attention
Don Shin2:30 PM3:00 PMAI in the Enterprise
Video
Leadership Decisions in Nonprofit AI Adoption
Julia Carpenter2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Governance, Security & Compliance
Video
Vibe Coding in Action: Transforming Coding Practices for the Future
Justin Jeffress2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Engineers
Video
Intelligent Data Pipelines
Vijayakumar Gurusamy Raju3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Engineers
Video
Building Multi-MCP Workflows with a Virtual MCP Server
Dan Barr3:15 PM3:45 PMCase Study/Demo
Video
The Leap from AI-Assisted to Agentic Driven Development
Justin Chau3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Builders
Video
Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: A Domain Expert's Upskilling Journey
Pam Didner3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Users
Video
AI at the Speed of Trust
Greg Boone3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Executives
Video
The Reality of AI No One Is Talking About
Ankit Dheendsa3:15 PM3:45 PMAI in the Enterprise
Video
Designing an AI & Automation Portfolio That Puts People First: Lessons from Duke University
Brian Moynihan3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Governance, Security & Compliance
Video
Beyond the AI Hype: Building Durable Agentic AI Applications
Achin Gupta & Divya Mahajan4:00 PM4:30 PMAI Builders
Video
Agentic Productivity: Beyond the 'Lines of Code' Trap
Ben Ilegbodu4:00 PM4:30 PMAI in the Enterprise
Video
Sustainable AI
Jennifer McFarland4:00 PM4:30 PMAI Governance, Security & Compliance
Video
I, Agent: Identity-First Security for the Autonomous Future
Aydrian Howard4:00 PM4:30 PMCase Study/Demo
AI-Driven Disaster Recovery for Cloud-Native Systems
Akshay Pratinav & Sahil Sabharwal4:00 PM4:30 PMAI Engineers
Video
How (AI) Stuff Works – Understanding the Key Parts of AI Simply and Quickly
Brent Laster4:00 PM4:30 PMAI Users
Video
AI Partnerships Are Cloud Partnerships (For Now)
David Winter4:00 PM4:30 PMAI Executives
Build Production-Ready, Agentic AI Systems Using the Open Source Strands Agents SDK
Jonathan Vogel & Saurabh (Rob) Dahal5:00 PM6:15 PMAI Users
Video
Human in the Loop: Comedy for AI Builders
Evan Wimpey5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Community Impact Focus @ NPower
Sarah Chick5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Community is Infrastructure in the Age of AI
Dena Guvetis5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Building AI Champions: How Executive Fluency and Ground-Level Expertise Create Lasting AI Capability
Boz Vitanova5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
I Don't Know, The AI Said So Isn't Going to Cut It. Here's How to Build Auditable AI Agents Using Context Graphs.
Nyah Macklin5:00 PM6:15 PMAI Executives
Video
The Future of AI and Durham
Mayor Leonardo Williams5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models
Taylor Smith5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
Open Source Meets AI — Navigating Increased Patent Litigation Vulnerabilities
Keith Bergelt5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
WTF AI
Chisa Pennix-Brown5:00 PM6:25 PMDeep Thoughts
Video
AI That Acts: Orchestrating Agents in Modern Developer Workflows
Tanvi Tyagi6:30 PM7:00 PMAI Governance, Security & Compliance
Video
To RAG or Not to RAG?
Owen Chen6:30 PM7:00 PMAI in the Enterprise
Video
Building with Mistral: Open, Powerful, and Ready to Scale
Aaron Delp6:30 PM7:00 PMAI Executives
Building Your AI Factory: From Strategy to Outcomes in 30 Days
Marc Sirkin6:30 PM7:00 PMAI Users
Video
AI Memory Is Broken And How I Tried To Fix It
Chris Dabatos6:30 PM7:00 PMCase Study/Demo
Video
Moving from LLM Gateways to a Single Agent Origin
Adrian Cole6:30 PM7:00 PMAI Builders
Video
Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI
Mary Grygleski6:30 PM7:00 PMAI Engineers
Video
The Agentic AI Transformation is More Than A Technology Revolution – It's a Leadership Evolution
Victoria Vojnovich7:15 PM7:45 PMCase Study/Demo
Video
From Prototype to Production: Secure and Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI Systems
Anya Derbakova7:15 PM7:45 PMAI Governance, Security & Compliance
Video
Coding Agents Are Here: How Non-Coders Can Build with AI
Craig Jellick7:15 PM7:45 PMAI Engineers
Video
Is the Future Forked?
Micaela Eller7:15 PM7:45 PMAI Executives
Video
Adopting AI-Augmented Knowledge Work
Clayton Chancey7:15 PM7:45 PMAI Users
Video
Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run Your Own Models
Taylor Smith8:00 PM8:30 PMAI in the Enterprise
Video
Truth Before Inference: Fixing 'Stupid Data' Before Delivering Enterprise Fail
Joe Onisick8:00 PM8:30 PMAI Users
Video
Why the Next AI Risk Is Not Intelligence — It's Authority
John Willis8:00 PM8:30 PMAI Executives
Video
Can Agents Fly a Drone? Wiring Vision, BERT, and SLMs Live
Matt Hamann & Rachel Orrino & Robert Thelen8:00 PM8:30 PMCase Study/Demo
Video
Typed Python + LLMs: Building Safer, More Accurate AI-Driven Software
Abby Mitchell8:00 PM8:30 PMAI Builders
Video
Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews
Calvin Hendryx-Parker8:00 PM8:30 PMAI Governance, Security & Compliance
Video
The Era of Infinite Leverage
Erkang Zheng8:45 PM9:30 PMClosing Keynote
Video
When Intelligence Gets Cheap: The Next Great Leadership Test
Ben Heller8:45 PM9:30 PMClosing Keynote
Video
AI's Impact on the Startup Ecosystem
Chris Heivly8:45 PM9:30 PMClosing Keynote
Video