Shawn 'swyx' Wang's AI Engineer World's Fair will kick off in San Francisco on June 29, 2026
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Shawn 'swyx' Wang's AI Engineer World's Fair opens June 29 at Moscone West in San Francisco for four days of 29 tracks, 300-plus speakers, and more than 6,000 attendees focused on practical AI engineering, beginning with Day 1 workshops on running local LLMs and workstation agents.
Local inference draws hardware spotlight
Track 6 sessions led by Ahmad Osman cover model selection, hardware limits, inference servers, and privacy upsides, with NVIDIA speakers profiling vLLM on Blackwell GPUs and a State of the Union talk on why local AI matters now.
Sponsors and side sessions fill the venue
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Databricks logos line the expo while Y Combinator sessions and talks on agents and evals run alongside the workshops, reflecting the event's growth and shifting emphasis away from earlier RAG topics.
Users are enthusiastic about the AI Engineer World's Fair workshops on local LLMs with NVIDIA and sessions on agents plus evals because they highlight practical gains in privacy, cost savings, and real-world utility.
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