The AI Builders Summit

Sat Aug 8·5:00 PM UTC

The bar for agentic AI moved fast in 2026. Models got more capable, but the gap between a slick demo and a system that survives real users and real workloads is as wide as ever. In this kickoff, Aish and Kiriti open the AI Builders Summit by mapping where agentic AI actually stands in the second half of 2026: what's changed, what still breaks, and the patterns that separate systems that ship

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Mon Aug 10·5:00 PM UTC

Coding agents can do far more than autocomplete, but most people still drive Cursor like a faster text editor. This session is about building real agentic workflows inside Cursor: setting it up to plan, edit across a whole codebase, run and check its own work, and stay on task through longer jobs. You'll see how teams put these workflows to work on real production code, not just toy examples.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Zoë Barnswell

Building @ Cursor | Wharton MBA

Tue Aug 11·8:30 PM UTC

We’ll hear from LinkedIn’s CTO of Engineering on how to build innovative AI products at enterprise scale, the initiatives helping builders and teams work more efficiently, what distinguishes top performers in the AI era, and the skills people should invest in now.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Erran Berger

Chief Technology Officer, Engineering @ LinkedIn |

Mon Aug 17·5:00 PM UTC

Codex isn't just for engineers shipping production code. It's one of the most capable agents you can point at real work, whatever kind of work you do. Kiriti builds Codex at OpenAI, and in this session he shows how to set up agentic workflows with it: handing off a real task, letting it plan and do the work, having it check itself, and knowing when to trust what comes back.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Fri Aug 21·4:00 PM UTC

Open-source AI in Production w/ Nvidia

Most AI projects run beautifully on a laptop and buckle the moment they meet real workloads. This session is about what changes when you move from a local prototype to infrastructure that can actually carry serious load: choosing the right GPUs and models, working with open models like NVIDIA's Nemotron, and standing up systems that stay reliable in production.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Chris Alexiuk

Senior Product Research Engineer Nvidia

Mon Aug 24·5:00 PM UTC

Building a Production Voice Agent End-to-End w/ Deepgram

Voice is fast becoming a primary interface for AI, but most voice demos fall apart the moment real users show up: latency creeps in, people talk over the agent, accents and background noise break the transcript. This session walks through building a voice agent end-to-end, from speech-to-text to response to speech, with the architecture and trade-offs that actually hold up at enterprise scale.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Ed Charbeneau

Developer Relations Lead

Mon Aug 31·4:00 PM UTC

Why Agents Die Between Demo and Production w/ Lyzr

Most agents look finished at the demo and then stall. The gap is rarely the model: it is reliability on real inputs, permissions, audit trails, cost, and the operational load of running agents that people depend on. Siva has taken agents into production at Fortune 500 companies across finance, retail, and government, and will walk through where they break and what closes the gap.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Siva Surendira

Founder & CEO, Lyzr AI

Wed Sep 2·5:00 PM UTC

From Meeting to Content: Live MCP + Skills Build w/ Grain

Meeting recordings are one of the richest, most underused data sources companies have. Every week your best thinking is spoken out loud on calls, then buried in an archive nobody reopens. Meanwhile teams start every blog, post, and video from a blank page. AI closes that gap: mined well, one good call already contains your next week of authentic, expert content.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Ben DeMordaunt

COO at Grain

Wed Sep 9·5:00 PM UTC

The Anatomy of a Self-Improving Agent w/ Arize AI

As agents get more capable, the bottleneck shifts from building them to improving them. Observability and evals surface what an agent is doing, but a human still reads the dashboards and combs the traces to fix what broke. Aparna walks through how observability is moving from human-driven investigation to agent-driven execution, and the loop that turns a production break into a verified fix.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Aparna Dhinakaran

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI

Fri Sep 11·4:00 PM UTC

Accelerating Voice Agents from Demo to Production w/ Vapi

Getting a voice agent to sound impressive in a demo takes an afternoon. Handling thousands of real calls, callers who interrupt, unscripted edge cases, and tools that fail mid-conversation is where most teams get stuck. Nikhil and Dhruva close that gap: the components that matter, how to test before production, and what it takes to run voice reliably in regulated environments.

You'll learn from

Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Nikhil Gupta & Dhruva Reddy

Vapi