ANDREW NG · THE BATCH · AUGUST 14, 2026
THE PROGRAM
Sessions mapped to skills
Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI studied 10,000+ job postings to define the AI engineer’s toolkit. Two days of sessions builds on this framework.
AI Engineering Skills Map
A framework by
PILLAR 01
Building and deploying AI applications
PILLAR 02
Software engineering fundamentals
PILLAR 03
Using coding agents
PILLAR 04
Shaping the build
1.3
Choosing between workflows and autonomous agents, then equipping them with tools, memory and guardrails.
// SESSIONS COVERING THIS SKILL
From inference to indexing: frontier-level web agents at 1/100th the cost
Idan Raman
· Anchor Browser
Talk
Guardrails for client-facing agents in a regulated firm
Sankara Ramakrishnan
· BlackRock
Talk
agent.speak(): upgrade your chatbot to a voice agent in minutes
Ashwyn Sharma
· Vocal Bridge
Workshop
Agent Harnesses: Part 1
Joel Niklaus
· Hugging Face
Advanced Workshop
Software factory architecture: the engineering skill after coding agents
Santosh Kumar Radha
· AgentField
Workshop
Build a company brain for your coding agents
Veljko Kovac
· cognee
Workshop
Agent memory engineering: towards continual learning in token space
Richmond Alake
· Oracle
Keynote
Turning new model capabilities into reliable production systems
Salil Sethi
· OpenAI
Talk
Agent Harnesses: Part 2
Joel Niklaus
· Hugging Face
Advanced Workshop
More sessions for this skill are still being mapped.
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Who’s taught at AI Dev
Three sold-out editions, 6,000+ developers, 100+ sessions. Everyone below came to teach something they had shipped, not to pitch.
Justin Uberti
Technical Lead, Realtime AI, OpenAI
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face
Malte Ubl
CTO, Vercel
Harrison Chase
Co-founder & CEO, LangChain
Michele Catasta
President, Replit
Fabian Hedin
CTO, Lovable
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA
Paige Bailey
Developer Relations Lead, Google DeepMind
Percy Liang
Associate Professor of CS, Stanford
ALSO AT PAST EVENTS
Nicholas Thompson, CEO, The Atlantic · Jeff Huber, CEO, Chroma · João Moura, CEO, CrewAI · Anush Elangovan, Corporate VP of AI Software, AMD · Bill Jia, VP of Engineering, Google · Michael Kearns, Amazon Scholar and Professor, UPenn · Tushar Jain, EVP Engineering, Docker · Chaya Nayak, Director of Product, Generative AI, Meta · Krishna Sridhar, VP Engineering, Qualcomm · Sharon Zhou, VP of AI, AMD · Ismael Faro, VP Quantum+AI, IBM Research · Miriam Vogel, President and CEO, EqualAI · and experts from Anthropic, Databricks, Datadog, Snowflake, Oracle and BlackRock.
STORIES
Overheard at AI Dev
It’s very clear this is a dev conference for real engineers.
Justin Uberti
Technical Lead, Realtime AI, OpenAI
The vibes are electric. Everyone talks about vibe coding. This is where they get the vibes from.
Matt Palmer
Head of Developer Relations, Replit
The concentration of super high quality, interested-in-AI people stands out.
Sharon Zhou
VP of AI, AMD
This conference is targeted exactly at devs — there’s booths and breakout sessions.
Mike Chambers
Gen AI Developer Advocate, AWS
SOCIAL PROOF
A taste of the room
Cut from past AI Dev events in NYC and San Francisco.
AI Dev 26 x SF: Andrew Ng: The Future of Software Engineering
19:21
AI Dev 26 x SF | Brandon Middleton: Vibe Coding Master Class
32:32
AI DEV 2026 SF RECAP
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