QCon AI New York 2026 | December 15-16

Take your AI from impressive demo to governed infrastructure Production is where you find out if the system holds up, and whether you can see what the agent did. Most teams have shipped something. Fewer can answer what the agent called, what it decided, what it cost, and what happens on a failed run three steps in. QCon AI New York 2026 is a two-day conference from C4Media, the team behind InfoQ and QCon. It runs December 15-16, 2026, at The Westin Jersey City Newport, one PATH stop from Lower Manhattan, and is built for senior software engineers, software architects, and engineering leaders who own how AI systems run once they are live. What the program covers: Agent runtime design, including state ownership, recovery, replay paths, and approval boundaries for long-running agents. Context engineering. Evals and observability. MCP and tool access. Zero-trust agent security. Inference cost and latency. First sessions are announced in August, the preliminary schedule in October, and the complete program by early November. How sessions are chosen: A Program Committee of working senior engineers picks the program session by session. Two questions decide every talk. Has the speaker run this in production, and will they share what didn't work as honestly as what worked. The committee filters product pitches out before any session is accepted, and sponsored talks are separated from the editorial program. QCon AI New York 2026 Program committee: Hien Luu, Conference Chair, AI/ML Leader, Advisor, Speaker, and Author Faye Zhang, Staff Engineer @Google Gemini Enterprise Wes Reisz, Technical Principal @Thoughtworks “Operating an autonomous AI system at scale is one of the hardest engineering problems we have right now. QCon AI New York looks entirely at the runtime reality. You get direct access to how teams handle traces, zero-trust boundaries, inference costs, and the organizational workflows that keep these systems from breaking”. Hien Luu, QCon AI New York 2026 Conference Chair Who attends: 76% are senior developers or higher, with one speaker for every eleven attendees. Past QCon attendees have included senior engineers from Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Google, Meta, eBay, JPMorgan, and NASA. Groups of 10 or more qualify for a discount now. Groups of three or more and the QCon alumni discount, open on September 9th.

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