AI Engineer Shanghai 2026: November 5-6
2026-11-05 · 09:30:00 · Shanghai
Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao
AI Engineer Shanghai 2026 features prepared talks, demos, community and investor conversations, with 10-minute Rapid Fire sessions on the main stage. The event covers open models, agents, and infrastructure with sessions led by prominent AI engineers and founders. All times are in Shanghai time (UTC+8).
Organizer: AI Engineer
At a glance
- Sectors
- Ai ml
Agenda
- 09:35 · Welcome
- 09:45 · Opening with swyx — Video About AI Engineer and Latent Space co-founder swyx opens the conference with a ten-minute video message to the Shanghai audience.
- 10:10 · From Models to Working Enterprise Agents — Topic subject to speaker confirmation Abstract How models, data, tools and execution boundaries come together in a useful enterprise workflow, and what changes when an agent moves from a demo into ongoing use.
- 10:25 · Building Agents: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow — Abstract The way agents get built has changed fast. Yesterday: chains and RAG, debugged by eyeballing prompts...
- 10:45 · When we can do anything, do we still know what we want? — Abstract AI is narrowing the distance between imagination and reality...
- 10:50 · Break
- 11:10 · Post-Training at the Frontier: Teaching Open Models to Search and Browse the Web — Abstract In this session, You.com’s engineering team will share how we post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning...
- 11:20 · Full-Stack Inference Engineering: Latency, Throughput and Cost — Abstract Open-source model inference is becoming a compelling option for enterprises...
- 11:30 · Optimizing Organization-Wide LLM Inference Cost: Seat License, Pay-per-Token, or Provisioned, and Beyond — Abstract Enterprises buy LLM inference through three structurally different pricing models...
- 11:45 · Measure the frontier of AI for real world use — Abstract In this session we will discuss the AI eval products and services Arena provides...
- 13:00 · Lunch · On your own
- 13:40 · Community in the AI era — What makes an AI community worth returning to? Four community founders discuss quality, member contributions, and how conversations turn into projects and lasting collaboration.
- 13:45 · Break
- 14:05 · From Model Intelligence to Agent Harness: Enabling Long-Horizon Agents — Abstract As agents take on longer and more complex tasks, sustaining performance becomes a central engineering challenge.
- 14:25 · Dark Factory to Lobsterville: Intent Engineering for Persistent Multiplayer Agents — Abstract Early 2026 we built the Dark Factory to ship OpenClaw the larget open source agent platform in China and the world...
- 14:30 · Break
- 14:50 · On-Device AI: Bringing Intelligence Closer to Everyone — Abstract How can useful AI run directly on phones, PCs and other personal devices rather than depending on the cloud?
Speakers, judges and hosts
- Yuzheng Sun — PhD, Superlinear Academy (Host)
- AJWaytoAGI — Founder (Panelist)
- Kai Qu — Founder & CEO, 42 Chapters (Panelist)
- KojiCrossing — Founder (Panelist)
- 高宁Linkloud — Co-founder, Linkloud (Panelist)
- Ryo — Creator (Speaker)
- swyx — Co-founder, Latent Space (Speaker)