AI Engineering Summit Chicago
📍 Courtyard by Marriott Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mile | 🗓 October 20, 2026 | From code to intelligence.
About this conference
The AI Engineering Summit is a one-day, single-track summit built for the engineers actually shipping AI in production. One room, 150+ practitioners and leaders, zero vendor pitches. It's a full day of practitioner-led sessions across six tracks, shared lunch, all-day speaker access, and a networking reception — designed as much for the conversations between sessions as for the sessions themselves.
Who it's for
Developers shipping AI-powered products
Engineers building intelligent systems
Leaders deciding how their org adopts AI
Architects designing for scale and reliability
Compliance & governance professionals making AI trustworthy
If AI touches your work — you need to be in the room.
Topics that will be covered
Agentic Development — multi-agent systems, tool calling, long-horizon autonomous workflows
AI to Production — LLMOps, evals, cost & latency, deployment and monitoring at scale
Responsible AI — red teaming, eval frameworks, safety and governance
AI Architecture — RAG patterns, LLM gateways, inference, AI-native system design
AI-First Leadership — AI in the SDLC, team design, hiring around AI
AI Data Infrastructure — vector DBs, embeddings, and data pipelines for intelligent systems
Why attend
Learn from practitioners — real stories from engineers who've shipped AI in production. No fluff.
Stay ahead of AI trends — agentic systems, LLMOps, MCP, and what becomes production standard next.
Build your network — connect with hundreds of AI and software engineering professionals in one room.
Bring ideas back to your team — leave with tools, patterns, and conversations ready to action on Monday.
Registration
Seats are limited and this is a single-track, single-room event. To complete your registration, purchase your ticket on the official event website:
👉 testingmind.com/event/aiengineeringsummi