// applied ai conf · 02
The programme.
Six topic clusters, six engineering lenses, two stages. The rules are simple: no product pitches, no parallel session during keynotes, and no repeating the same lens twice on the same stage.
// shape of the day
- 09:10
Opening keynote
Main stage only.
- 09:45 – 12:25
Morning programme
Six talks per stage, 20 min each, 5 min changeover.
- 12:30
Lunch
60 minutes. Expo hall.
- 13:30
Afternoon programme
Main stage talks + side stage deep dives.
- 15:10
Coffee
20 minutes.
- 15:30
Final block
Talks, then the two closing panels.
- 17:30
Closing remarks
And drinks.
// six engineering lenses
Every session gets a primary area (cluster) and an engineering lens. Within the same area, the same lens won't repeat on the same stage — so you never see two failure postmortems back to back.
01 · Decision framework
Why we chose X over Y.
02 · Failure postmortem
What broke and how we fixed it.
03 · Metrics-driven
What we measured, what moved.
04 · Reference architecture
A pattern you can copy.
05 · Hard constraints
Latency, cost, privacy, scale.
06 · Tooling workflow
Pipeline end to end.
// the two panels
PANEL 1
"What broke in production, and what we changed."
War stories from across themes. Speakers share real failures, debugging journeys, and the changes they made.
PANEL 2
"The 2026 production stack."
Eval + infra + architecture + constraints. What the production-grade AI stack actually looks like today.