Program Schedule
Built for the Future of AI Engineering
Vancouver : October 22, 2026
Programme Schedule
ATLANTA: October 1, 2026
08:00 – 08:50
Registration
08:50 – 09:00
Welcome Note
09:00 – 09:45
From Agents to an Operating System for Work
John Rauser
Senior Director of Software Engineering, Cisco Systems
09:45 – 10:30
A Year of Agentic Delivery: Achieving and Sustaining 2×+ Productivity
Felipe Martins
Senior Director AI Engineering and Transformation, IFS Copperleaf
10:30 – 11:00
Refreshment Break
11:00 – 11:45
Building passion projects for production with AI
Bob Cook
Senior Director, Software Development, Sophos
11:45 – 12:30
The Last Mile of Agentic AI: Self-Evolving Evals for Reliable Autonomous Agents
Anush Sankaran
Principal Research Scientist, Microsoft
12:30 – 13:15
Networking Lunch
13:15 – 14:00
Architecting Production-Grade Agentic AI Agents
Tajinder Singh Minhas
Solutions Architect, Photon
14:00 – 15:00
Panel Discussion
Saeed Otufat-Shamsi
Director of Engineering – AI Factory Lead, Telus
Timothy Beamish
Principal Engineer, Thinkific
15:00 – 15:15
Refreshment Break
15:15 – 17:15
From REST API to AI Agent: Building Production-Ready MCP Servers
Prateek Sharma
Staff Software Engineer, Lattice
17:15 – 17:30
Closing and Wrap-Up
