Confirmed Lineup

Applied AI Conference 2026

📅 Saturday, July 18, 2026 · 💻 Virtual · 9:00 AM – 6:15 PM EDT

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT · UTC−4)

Day Schedule · 11 Sessions

9:00 – 9:30 AM
I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures
Darko Mesaroš
Principal Developer Advocate @ AWS
Technical30 min
9:30 – 9:45 AM
Break
9:45 – 10:15 AM
Shipping Safe AI Agents: A Production Safety Playbook from 2,500 Deployments
Lorenzo Satta Chiris
Technical30 min
10:15 – 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 – 11:15 AM
From Vibes to Verified: Building an Autonomous Eval + Fix Engine for AI Agents
Shashank Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Noveum.ai · Ex-AWS SageMaker (2nd Engineer)
Technical45 min
11:15 – 11:30 AM
Break
11:30 – 11:45 AM
AI Can Write Code. It Can't See the System.
Eshwar Yaddanapudi
Creator of Fluent-Graph · Ex-EM, ServiceNow
⚡ Lightning15 min
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Break
12:00 – 1:00 PM
🍽 Lunch
1:00 – 1:15 PM
Break
1:15 – 1:45 PM
When Agents Break: Designing Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Orchestration Beyond LangChain
Ravi Kiran Pagidi & Krishna Tirupati
Technical30 min
1:45 – 2:00 PM
Break
2:00 – 2:15 PM
Using Claude's web_search Tool to Track AI Citations: An Open-Source Python Pattern
Ignacio Lopez
Fractional Head of AI, Work-Smart.ai · Bilingual EN/ES
⚡ Lightning15 min
2:15 – 2:30 PM
Break
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Agent Memory: Building Stateful AI Agents That Remember, Adapt, and Work Across Time
Ben Labaschin
Principal AI/ML Engineer @ Workhelix · O'Reilly Author
Technical30 min
3:00 – 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 – 4:00 PM
UISurf: Toward Universal UI Automation with Cross-Environment Agents
Henry Ruiz
Research Scientist @ Texas A&M AgriLife Research · GDE in AI & Google Cloud
🔧 Demo45 min
4:00 – 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 – 4:45 PM
10x Engineering: Battle-Tested Lessons from Transforming Teams with GenAI
Dennis Nerush
Technical30 min
4:45 – 5:00 PM
Break
5:00 – 5:30 PM
From Prompts to Design-Driven Specs: Lessons in Taming AI Chaos
Steve Fox
Technical30 min
5:30 – 5:45 PM
Break
5:45 – 6:15 PM
Spec-Driven Agent Development with ADK & Antigravity
Jitendra Gupta
Enterprise Architect — Cloud & AI @ EPAM Systems
🔧 Demo30 min