QCon AI New York 2026 / speakers
Meet the speakers at QCon AI New York 2026
The senior engineers, software architects, and tech leaders pushing the boundaries of AI software development, from innovator and early adopter companies. The program committee invites each speaker for the systems they’ve run in production.
Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Speakers
Speakers and keynote speakers
Nancy Wang
CTO @1Password, Founded and Scaled AWS Data Protection, Previously @Rubrik and @Google
Bruna Pereira
Software Engineer @DoorDash, 10+ Years in Software Engineering
Victor Dibia
Principal Research Software Engineer @Microsoft Research, Core Contributor to AutoGen, Author of "Multi-Agent Systems with AutoGen" Book, Previously @Cloudera, @IBMResearch
Min Chen
Principal Staff Engineer @LinkedIn, Caltech CS PhD With Over 20-Year Extensive Software Development Experience
Soham Ray
Research Engineer @Sierra, Previously Research Engineer at ASAPP and Conducted NLP Research at Cornell
Nathen Harvey
Lead of DORA and Product Manager @Google Cloud
Joey Wang
Software Engineer @Harvey
Diego Iruretagoyena
Software Engineer @Microsoft AI
Clémence Burnichon
Senior Director of Engineering @Datadog, 15+ Years in the Data and AI Industry
Mehrnoosh Sameki
Principal PM Manager @Microsoft, Co-Founded Error Analysis, Fairlearn, and Responsible AI Toolbox
Nina Thigpen, PhD
Director of Women’s Health @Google, Previously Founded the Women's Health Science Team @Oura
Shuangfeng Li
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Google AI Edge, 20 Years of Experience in Google's Core Engineering & Research Groups
Tejas Chopra
CEO and Co-Founder @Headroom Labs, IEEE Senior Member, and BCS Fellow, Previously @Netflix
Simon Maple
Java Champion and Head of Developer Relations @Tessl, Focused on Developer Tooling, Application Security, and AI-Native, Spec-Driven Software Development
Raghav Saboo
RecSys and Search Lead @DoorDash,
Rajat Shah
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix
Liz Fong-Jones
Technical Fellow @honeycomb.io, Developer Advocate, Labor and Ethics Organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Over Two Decades of Experience
Committee
Program committee
Hien Luu
AI/ML Leader, Advisor, Speaker, and Author
Faye Zhang
Staff Engineer @Google Gemini Enterprise - Building Autonomous Agents, Speaker, Expert in AI/ML, Previously Led Growth AI Initiatives @Pinterest
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @Thoughtworks, 16-Time QCon Chair, & Creator of The InfoQ Podcast
Selection
How speakers are selected for QCon AI New York 2026
The QCon AI New York 2026 Program Committee, working senior engineers themselves, select speakers for relevance to production AI and invites them directly.
Every session has to clear two questions:
- Has the speaker run this in production?
- Will they share what didn’t work as honestly as what did?
Two days with the engineers running this in production
You’ll come back with patterns ready to adopt, costly mistakes you can now avoid, and a way to de-risk what your team builds next. Current pricing ends September 8th, $1,535, after which it goes to $1,620.