We’ve just sold out of AIE tickets today, T-1 to the conference, same as last year.
It’s been a crazy ramp up, with a steeper Gini than before, which we did not want or expect. But now a lot of folks are feeling the fomo or can’t attend in person.
We got you:
AI Engineer World’s Fair Online!
AIE Summit’s Online track was so well received, we did it again. Of the ~1000 talks submitted we picked out ~40 for YouTube, anchored by an awesome keynote for one of the current top open models in the world: Junyang Lin of Alibaba Qwen!
Talks from the online track playlist (we know its currently broken, we’ll fix) will be dripping out over the course of the next few days, but give our speakers a warm round of applause for taking the time to share their knowledge with the rest of the world for free!
AIEWF Livestreams
As we have doubled the size of the conference, we are also doubling the number of livestreams - swing by the AIE YouTube and turn notifications on for the livestreams! This will be the big one with some heavyweights like Sarah Guo, Simon Willison and Greg Brockman talking live on Wednesday:
If you’re watching live around the world, feel free to organize your own local watch parties and submit it to the LS calendar here so others can find you.
Apart from hanging out on the YouTube stream chat, you can also join the new X AI Engineering community and livetweet comments and questions.
AIE Preview Chats
On Latent Space we’ve also had a number of preview pods with AIE speakers:
For Reasoning + RL track: Claude 4 + RL chat with Will Brown
For SWE Agents: the Factory AI episode
For Robotics: our CloudChef pod
For Gemini + Voice: our Google I/O pod, released today
For Reliable Agents: our chat with Solomon Hykes releasing tomorrow
You can preview this to ramp up on some of the hot topics for AIE.
AIEWF 2025 IRL Attendee Pro Tips
Last but not least are the lucky 3,000 AI Engineers who are joining us in person this week :) We are very busy running the actual show itself so this is by no means a complete or authoritative list of pro tips but here goes (and we’ll update if we think of more):
PICK UP YOUR ATTENDEE BADGE EARLY. We cannot stress this enough. There are NO LINES at the registration booth right now and there will be >1000 people rushing through on Wednesday morning. Don’t be them. Registration is open all day Tuesday and you can meet and chat with lots of AI Engineers then.
Join ONE OF: AIE Slack OR the official conference app (CrowdComms, you should have received an email, just tell registration if no) OR follow @aiDotEngineer. We’ll try to make sure any urgent updates reach you through one of these channels.
Prepare yourself, do chain of thought on: (specific tech, jobs, funding etc)
What you’re looking for
What you can help with
Submit an attendee talk! The official Crowdcomms Conference app has a section for you to submit for a never-before-announced attendee talk Secret Hallway Track! Highest voted talks each night get scheduled for the next day.
Make a Calendly or SavvyCal so you can do followup meetings easily (IRL or on Zoom). Bonus: have a QR code, and updated LinkedIn/About page
Dress up: this is a professional, but also fun event. Last year we had a surgeon and a judge! Others have been ducks. Alongisde of the new Best Speaker trophies and the AIE Hackathon trophy, WE ARE AWARDING A TROPHY FOR BEST DRESSED ATTENDEE THIS YEAR. Interpret that how you will.
Make memes and Tweet it out tagging @aidotengineer or posting in the AIE slack (AI related, doesn’t have to be conference related). Trophy for Best Meme too!
Take plenty of photos and videos. Attendees will have access to the shared Google Photos album where you can send those in for featuring on our social media.
Hack on your own AIE app! Our llms-full.txt and JSON data are easily available and you can do whatever you want with it. Make it open source and tag @swyx on it to get it shared!
Join the AIE Side Events: https://www.ai.engineer/#events
You can join the LS Luma to get all these directly on your calendar:
Ok that’s it for now. See you at the Marriott Marquis!
(seriously: help us hit the bell on YouTube please)
