AI Dev Conference Recap: Over 2,600 Developers, Focus on Agents and Multimodal Apps
ORIGINAL / AI Dev | San Francisco 2026 | 2,599 AI Developers
A recap of the AI Dev conference in San Francisco hosted by DeepLearning.AI, which drew 2,599 developers—over three times the inaugural event. Topics included agentic systems, context engineering, multimodal applications, and production reliability, with speakers from Google DeepMind, LangChain, and others. This summary reflects current trends in AI engineering.
01 ABSTRACT
DeepLearning.AI reported on its AI Dev conference held in San Francisco on April 28-29, 2026, with 2,599 developer attendees, more than three times the 700 at the 2025 inaugural event. The conference featured hands-on workshops, technical sessions, and live demos covering agentic systems, context engineering, multimodal applications, production reliability, and AI coding agents. Speakers came from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Oracle, and others. The authors view the event as successful and announced a fall event in NYC.
02 KEY FINDINGS
- The event took place April 28-29, 2026, in San Francisco, hosted by Andrew Ng.
- Attendees: 2,599 developers, over three times the 700 at the 2025 first edition.
- Topics: agentic systems, context engineering, multimodal applications, production reliability, and AI coding agents.
- Speakers from Google DeepMind, LangChain, Oracle, AMD, Arm, Neo4j, Replit, LandingAI, and AI21 Labs.
- Program included hands-on workshops, technical sessions, and live demos.
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