AI Engineering

QCon London 2026

Track

AI Engineering

Tuesday 17 March · 6 sessions, 50 minutes each

About the track

Engineering with AI is no longer about proving capability. It is about ensuring reliability. While LLMs offer immense potential, their non-deterministic nature creates a significant gap between a successful PoC and an enterprise-grade application. 


This track focuses on the engineering fundamentals required to bridge that gap. We move past the hype to explore the tools, techniques, and architectural patterns needed to design, build, and maintain scalable AI-native systems.


What you will learn

  • Production Patterns for AI Agents: Practical methods to move agents from promising automation to reliable enterprise tools.
  • Evaluation & Assessment Frameworks: How to measure and validate non-deterministic systems in production environments.
  • Scaling AI-Native Architecture: Blueprints for integrating AI into the full software lifecycle without compromising system stability.
  • Strategic Investment Guidance: Frameworks for technical leaders to decide when, where, and how to invest in emerging AI technologies.


Why this matters now 
Roadmaps are rapidly adding AI-assisted features, but delivery velocity is often throttled by concerns over safety and reliability. This track provides the practitioner-led patterns to de-risk your AI implementation and turn experimental models into durable, production-ready systems.
 

Sessions in this track

Tuesday 17 March. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.

10:35 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session AI/LLM Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems Lan Chu AI Tech Lead and Senior Data Scientist 11:45 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session AI Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time Jo Kelly-Fenton, Aleksandar Mitic 13:35 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session AI/ML Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence Jeff Smith CEO & Co-Founder @Neoteny AI, AI Engineer, Researcher, Author, Ex-Meta/FAIR 14:45 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session AI Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents Karthik Ramgopal Distinguished Engineer & Tech Lead of the Product Engineering Team @LinkedIn, 15+ Years of Experience in Full-Stack Software Development 15:55 Fleming (3rd Fl.) Session applied ai Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents Amit Navindgi, Jatin Aneja 17:05 Whittle (3rd Fl.) Session Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes Meryem Arik Co-Founder and CEO @Doubleword (Previously TitanML), Recognized as a Technology Leader in Forbes 30 Under 30, Recovering Physicist
76% senior dev or higher
1:11 speaker ratio
60+ practitioners

QCon London 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.

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