Abstracts

Applications to speak. These go through review and a decision.

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Lightning: Agents in Production Q&AAcceptedApprovedYesAbstract—A rapid-fire Q&A lightning talk on running AI agents safely and reliably in production, covering observability, guardrails, and rollback strategies.—————Ssbek-speaker2@example.comSsbek-speaker2@example.com—————
Taming 40-Minute CI: Incremental Builds at Monorepo ScaleAcceptedApprovedYesAbstract—Our monorepo CI took 40 minutes on a good day. This talk walks through how we cut it to 6 minutes with content-addressed caching, remote execution, and a test-selection model — including the two migrations that failed first. You'll leave with a decision framework for which incremental-build investments pay off at which repo sizes, and the graphs to convince your platform team. Updated: now includes 2026 benchmark data.—————AOAda OkonkwoAOAda Okonkwo——3.75 (3 of 5)——
Full Journey Demo Talk (Round 2)AcceptedApprovedYesAbstract—A clean re-run of the full submit-to-publish journey, with the Organiser assigning the abstract to a committee, a Reviewer blind-scoring it, and the Organiser deciding, notifying, scheduling and publishing based on that score.—————Ffull-journey-demo-2@example.comFfull-journey-demo-2@example.comOct 11, 2026, 12:00 AMRoom B4.50 (1 of 4)——
Reviewer-First Journey TalkAcceptedApprovedYesAbstract—A demo submission created to walk the proper submit-review-accept-schedule-publish journey, with the reviewer step included this time.—————Rreviewer-first-demo@example.comRreviewer-first-demo@example.comOct 10, 2026, 11:00 PMRoom B4.00 (1 of 4)——
Full Journey Walkthrough TalkAcceptedApprovedYesAbstract—A live demo walkthrough talk created to show the full submit-to-publish journey end to end.—————Wwalkthrough-demo@example.comWwalkthrough-demo@example.comOct 10, 2026, 10:00 PMRoom A———
E2E Journey Test TalkAcceptedApprovedYesAbstract—A test submission created to walk the full submit-to-publish journey end to end.—————Ee2e-tester@example.comEe2e-tester@example.comOct 10, 2026, 8:00 PMRoom A———
Designing for Model DeprecationAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-024Every model you build on will be deprecated. Abstraction boundaries that survive a swap, the regression suite that makes a migration a day instead of a quarter, and what not to abstract.Talk (30 min)AdvancedEnglishProductOpen SourceSecurityWCWei ChenSOSam Organiser——3.00 (1 of 4)—0.7
Scaling Human ReviewAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-022Human review is the bottleneck nobody budgets for. Queue design, reviewer fatigue, inter-rater agreement, and the tooling changes that tripled throughput without changing headcount.Workshop (120 min)BeginnerEnglishInfrastructureAgentsCostIKIdris KhanSOSam OrganiserOct 11, 2026, 6:00 PMRoom B4.25 (1 of 4)—2.9
What We Learned Serving 10B TokensAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-023Ten billion tokens through one API. Capacity planning, the failure modes that only appear under sustained load, and the three architectural decisions we would make differently.Talk (30 min)IntermediateEnglishEvaluationCostSecuritySRSofia RossiSOSam OrganiserOct 11, 2026, 6:30 PMRoom B2.50 (1 of 4)—2.6
Small Models, Big WinsAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-020A 3B model beats a frontier model on our task, at a fraction of the cost. How we found that out, how we validated it, and the distillation pipeline that keeps it current as the task drifts.Talk (30 min)IntermediateEnglishProductOpen SourceTBTomas BergSOSam OrganiserOct 10, 2026, 5:00 PMRoom A2.75 (1 of 4)—1.6
Retrieval Quality Is a Data ProblemAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-021Retrieval failures are almost never the embedding model. Chunking, metadata, document freshness and access control — a walk through the four data problems that caused most of our bad answers.Talk (30 min)AdvancedEnglishApplied AIAgentsRAGNFNaomi FischerWCWei ChenSOSam OrganiserOct 12, 2026, 5:00 PM—3.25 (1 of 4)—1
Testing Nondeterministic PipelinesAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-018You cannot assert equality on a generative pipeline. Property-based checks, golden sets, statistical gates in CI, and how we stopped flaky tests from training the team to ignore red builds.Talk (30 min)AdvancedEnglishInfrastructureCostSecurityLMLuis MoreauSOSam OrganiserOct 10, 2026, 5:00 PMRoom A2.81 (4)—1.4
The Case Against ChatbotsAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-019Chat is a lazy default. Three products where we replaced a conversational interface with something more constrained, the adoption change that followed, and the one case where chat genuinely won.Talk (30 min)BeginnerEnglishEvaluationSecurityPRPriya RamanSOSam OrganiserOct 10, 2026, 5:00 PMRoom A2.88 (4)—0.6
From Notebook to Production in a WeekAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-017A team of two took an internal prototype to production in six days. What we skipped deliberately, what that cost us later, and the checklist we now use to decide which corners are safe to cut.Talk (30 min)IntermediateEnglishApplied AIAgentsCostAOAda OkonkwoTBTomas BergSOSam OrganiserOct 11, 2026, 4:30 PMMain Hall3.13 (4)—0.6
Latency Budgets End to EndAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-016Latency is a chain, not a number. Tracing a request from browser to model and back, finding the three places we were wasting a second each, and the budget we now hold teams to.Talk (30 min)BeginnerEnglishProductAgentsRAGADAmara DialloSOSam OrganiserOct 12, 2026, 9:00 PMMain Hall2.25 (4)—2.2
Guardrails That Do Not Annoy UsersAcceptedApprovedYesAbstractAI-015Safety filters that block real users are a product bug. We describe the layered approach we use, how we measured false positives against actual traffic, and the categories where we deliberately accept more risk.Workshop (120 min)AdvancedEnglishEvaluationOpen SourceRAGYTYuki TanakaSOSam OrganiserOct 10, 2026, 4:00 PMMain Hall3.13 (4)—1.4
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