2025 Schedule
Preliminary Schedule. The schedule is subject to change.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
Badge Pick-Up in the Lobby - Light Continental Breakfast Located in the Presidents Gallery
Break - Snacks and Coffee Available in the Presidents Gallery
Graph RAG: Building Smarter Retrieval Workflows with Knowledge Graphs
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has unlocked new capabilities for large language models (LLMs) by providing them with external context.
From Generic to Genius: A Pragmatic Guide to Finetuning Embedding Models for RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful pattern for building LLM-powered applications that can leverage private or domain-specific data.
Library Reading Room
Break
The AI Gateway: Scaling Centralized Inference Across Decentralized Teams
As enterprises adopt AI, one tension has become clear: inference needs to be centralized for efficiency, governance, and reliability, while use cases and model development are necessarily decentralized across teams.
Real Experience Building Agentic Systems
Details coming soon.
Lunch - Buffets Located on the 3rd Floor - Lunch Seating Located on the 3rd & 2nd Floors
Leadership in AI-Assisted Engineering
To realize meaningful returns on AI investments, leadership must take accountability and ownership of establishing best practices, enabling engineers, measuring impact, and ensuring proper guardrails are in place.
Real-time Experiments with an AI Co-Scientist
The sheer volume of data and complexity of modern scientific challenges necessitate tools that go beyond mere analysis.
Break
Panel: Scaling AI in Engineering - Driving Alignment, Adoption and Impact
AI is already reshaping software development—but most companies are stuck in pilot mode, unsure how to move from experiments to meaningful transformation. This panel will share practical experiences in adopting and scaling AI across the software development lifecycle.
Using AI to Accelerate Traditional ML Pipelines at Duolingo
Details coming soon.
Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters
We are used to the concepts of fault injection and chaos engineering in normal clusters and web api services. Techniques like node shutdowns, cpu exhaustion, memory leaks, etc. are all easy things to automate in Kubernetes with open source or proprietary tools.
Break - Snacks and Coffee Available in the Presidents Gallery
An Innovative Hybrid Rag Solution for Boosting the Performance of an AI Assistant in Finance
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key technique in various generative AI applications, such as chatbots or AI assistants, for retrieving information from a massive corpus and generating comprehensive answers.
Break
Building Evals for AI Adoption: From Principles to Practice
As organizations adopt AI at scale, evaluation becomes the backbone of trust, safety, and product readiness. Yet building effective evals is deceptively hard: there is no single metric or benchmark that captures the complexity of user-facing AI systems.
Fine Tuning the Enterprise: Reinforcement Learning in Practice
In this talk, we’ll discuss the Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT) platform, allowing you to train OpenAI models to reason better on your specific tasks to arrive at better answers.
Reception - Dry Snacks & Drinks - Located in the Presidents Gallery
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
Badge Pick-Up in the Lobby - Light Continental Breakfast Located in the Presidents Gallery
Conference Introduction and Keynote:
Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI Content Are Taking Over the Internet
Break - Snacks and Coffee Available in the Presidents Gallery
From Agents to Tools: Designing Platforms with Dual‑Mode
Modern AI platforms are beginning to crystallize into two distinct yet deeply‑intertwined strata:
AI Works, Pull Requests Don’t: How AI Is Breaking the SDLC and What To Do About It
This talk will use CircleCI’s adoption of AI agents as a lens for both individual and organizational changes that AI brings. We will first discuss the realities of using AI as an individual engineer, where things work well today, and where tools are lacking.
Break
AI Native Engineering
Meta is making a big, public bet on AI - and not just in our products. Teams across the company are building new tools to leverage best-in-class models to enhance productivity, quality and understanding.
Autonomous Data Products for the Autonomous Era: Rethinking Data Architecture for GenAI
As enterprises scale their deployment of Generative AI (Gen AI), a central constraint has come into focus: while large language models and the infrastructure to support them are the focus of intensive investment fueling a remarkable stream of innovation, data management approaches and infra
Lunch - Buffets Located on the 3rd Floor - Lunch Seating Located on the 3rd & 2nd Floors
Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is now a fundamental pillar of enterprise AI, moving beyond initial adoption to production-grade applications.
Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks instead of Years
Recently we've been working on migrating our enterprise reporting application to a modern open-source metrics store. Historically, large-scale legacy migrations have been some of the most challenging projects in software.
Break
Platform Teams Enabling AI - MCP/Multi-Agentic Tools Across Linkedin
Discover how LinkedIn is operationalizing AI tools at scale to drive measurable productivity gains across its engineering organization.
Rules for Understanding Language Models
After millions of years of evolution, humans understand each other pretty well. But now, confronted with machines that talk, we cannot assume they will act like humans, or act for the same reasons as humans.
Break - Snacks and Coffee Available in the Presidents Gallery
AI Tooling with MCP Servers
AI agents are moving from toy demos to serious developer tools, and the real power is when you can have them taken action. At Google Cloud, we’ve been building this future through the gcloud MCP, a bridge between AI agents and Cloud APIs.
QCon AI Closing Reception - Dry Snacks & Drinks - Located in the Presidents Gallery
