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Vancouver : October 22, 2026

Call for Paper Open

Got something real to say about AI engineering? We want to hear from you.

The AI Engineering Summit brings together the people actually building, shipping, and governing AI-powered software.
We’re looking for speakers who’ve been in the trenches — not polished vendor pitches, but honest, experience-driven talks that practitioners can take back to work on Monday.

Call for paper ends on: Aug 15, 2026

Keynote Speaker

John Rauser

Senior Director of Software Engineering, Cisco Systems

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Featured Speakers

Felipe Martins

IFS Copperleaf

Bob Cook

Senior Director, Software Development, Sophos

Anush Sankaran

Principal Research Scientist, Microsoft

Tajinder Singh Minhas

Solutions Architect, Photon

Tutorial Speaker

Prateek Sharma

Staff Software Engineer, Lattice

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Panel Discussion Speaker

Saeed Otufat-Shamsi

Director of Engineering – AI Factory Lead, Telus

Saeed is an Executive Leader and AI Infrastructure pioneer with over 20 years experiences, where he served as head of Engineering and AI Factory, architecting and delivering one of the most consequential technology initiatives in Canadian history: Canada’s first and most advanced sovereign AI Factory.

From a blank page, he conceived, designed, and operationalized a full-stack AI Factory capable of supporting every type of AI workload: training, post-training, and inferencing, at hyperscaler-grade scale. Drawing on the NVIDIA five-layer AI Factory framework, he led the end-to-end architecture across Power, Infrastructure, Platform, Models, and Agentic Applications, and personally selected every OEM and technology partner across the stack.

Beyond infrastructure, he built a world-class AI ecosystem of strategic partnerships, with leading AI Labs and model providers including Cohere, Mistral, Moonshot, Google, and Anthropic; enterprise agentic platform providers including Palantir, Amdocs, ServiceNow, and Dataiku; confidential computing and AI Studio partners; positioning the TELUS AI Factory as Canada’s sovereign, one-stop AI platform for enterprises, AI-native startups, researchers, and government workloads.

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Timothy Beamish

Principal Engineer, Thinkific

Timothy is a Principal Engineer, Web Architect, and Generative AI technologist focused on the future of software development. His work spans online learning, medical research, high-performance web applications, and distributed systems, with a growing focus on agentic engineering. He designs harnesses that integrate AI throughout the software journey, from intent to production, exploring how AI can fundamentally change how software is conceived, built, and maintained.

Dr. Emily Carter

Chief AI Scientist, OpenAI

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Elon Park

CTO, DeepMind

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