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Applied AIConf 2026

~400
attendees
31
talks
2
stages
16
partners

The first edition

May 28, 2026. The Delta Campus, Berlin.

Speakers

The builders behind the systems. Their roles and talks, as presented at AAC26.

Watch the 2026 talks ↗
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Agenda

One day. Two stages. The original AAC26 programme.

Hosted by

David Asabina ↗

Freelance engineer & tech due diligence advisor for investors and founders

  1. Doors Open · Registration & Coffee

  2. Opening Remarks

  3. The Shift from AI Models to Agentic Systems

    Danila Shtan

  4. Building Dust: The Architecture Behind Deploying and Governing Fleets of AI Agents

    Stanislas Polu

  5. Beyond Benchmarks: How Evaluations Ensure Safety at Scale in LLM Applications

    Clara Matos

  6. Coffee Break

  7. Building an AI learning companion: the architecture behind millions of daily interactions

    Lucas Hild

  8. Procurement Intelligence: When AI Meets Atoms & Bits

    Nico Bentenrieder

  9. Context Engineering and Anomaly Detection for event-driven AI Agents with Apache Flink and Kafka

    Steffen Hoellinger

  10. Giving a Voice to LLMs: Scaling Real-Time Voice Interaction

    Neil Zeghidour

  11. Lunch Break

  12. Building Sandcastles for Agents: Safe Execution at Production Scale

    Simon Edwardsson

  13. Cache Money: How Prompt Caching Cut Our LLM Bills in Half

    Balázs Csomor

  14. Deploying Context Graphs into the Fortune 500: Lessons Building the Context Layer for Large Enterprise

    Henry Thompson

  15. Prompt Learning: Distilling Expensive Reasoning Into Fast Production Prompts

    Oğuz Gültepe

  16. Coffee Break

  17. Building a Universal Agent for Legal

    Jakob Emmerling

  18. Reinventing VEED for the agentic era

    Sabba Keynejad

  19. Leading through AI change

    Masashi Beheim

  20. Coffee Break

  21. AI-Empowered Engineering Through Collaborative Tooling

    Łukasz Sągol

  22. Model Routing in Production: What We Learned the Hard Way

    Bruno Show

  23. Shipping Fin to Production: What Worked, What Broke, What Changed

    Des Traynor

  24. Closing Remarks

Applied AI Week

The conference was one day. The community kept going: meetups, hack nights and conversations across Berlin.

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Friday, May 29, 2026

Made possible by

Thank you to the teams who supported the first edition.

Premium

  • Nebius

Gold

  • OpenAI
  • RunPod
  • Stripe
  • Modal
  • Dust
  • dltHub
  • Elastic

Community

  • Peec AI
  • Google DeepMind
  • ai|coustics
  • distil labs
  • AI Nation
  • Restate
  • Zero
  • Linkup

Companies attended from

Thank you to everyone who joined us from these teams.

  • Microsoft
  • Siemens
  • Langdock
  • Bloomberg
  • Choco
  • SAP
  • Tacto
  • Allianz
  • Knowunity
  • SoundCloud
  • Conduct
  • Legora
  • Miro
  • VEED.IO
  • Stellantis
  • CodeWords
  • Flink
  • Gradium
  • Fin
  • Blinkist
  • Confluent
  • Parloa
  • LlamaIndex
  • Sword Health
  • V7
  • Slack
  • Anthropic
  • Bosch
  • DKB
  • Würth
  • Vinted
  • IBM
  • Stripe
  • Delivery Hero
  • Enpal
  • Zalando
  • On
  • mobile.de
  • Intercom
  • Alpic
  • Augustus
  • Carniq
  • NetBird
  • Edgeless Systems
  • finfo
  • Flinn
  • theo
  • Hera
  • Kyan Health
  • lemon.markets
  • Light Inc.
  • Metorial
  • Mutagent
  • Otto
  • OvermindLab
  • Peec AI
  • Tavily
  • telli
  • Terramate
  • tabula
  • takara.ai
  • voyfai
  • a.gem.o
  • ellamind
  • quidkey
  • Sikia
  • Restate
  • distil labs
  • Linkup
  • AI Nation
  • ai-coustics
  • Zero
  • Arize
  • Bolt
  • Celestia
  • Codeway
  • DeepL
  • deepset
  • dltHub
  • Giant Swarm
  • HeyJobs
  • GetYourGuide
  • SumUp
  • Scalable Capital
  • JustWatch
  • Modal
  • momox
  • Monta
  • Neura Robotics
  • ProGlove
  • Runpod
  • Sonar
  • gridX

Behind the scenes

Watch on YouTube ↗

FAQ

When and where was AAC26?

The conference took place on May 28, 2026 at The Delta Campus in Berlin. This page preserves the programme and people from that edition.

Who was the conference for?

Engineers, founders and teams building or operating AI systems in production. The programme focused on practical lessons from shipping AI.

Were there two tracks?

Yes. A Main Stage and a Side Stage, with talks and technical sessions running throughout the day. The original schedule is above.

What was Applied AI Week?

The meetups, workshops and community gatherings around the conference, across Berlin from May 27 to May 29, 2026. The archived event listings are above.

Where can I watch the talks?

Find the recordings on the Applied AI Conf YouTube channel. For the next edition, visit AAC27.