AI Engineer Sandbox Event

Oct 7 – 9, 2026New York

All times PDT

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4 of 4 sessions on Wed, Oct 7

9:30 AM

Fine-Tuning Open Models on a Startup BudgetWed, Oct 7 · 9:30 – 11:30 AMRoom 2BOpen ModelsTalk (30 min)

We replaced a frontier-model dependency with a fine-tuned 8B open model and cut inference cost 14x. A practical walkthrough of dataset curation, LoRA vs full fine-tuning, evaluation, and the serving setup — every number included.

DODaniel OkaforMachine Learning Engineer, Harbor AIMCMaya ChenStaff Engineer, Vector Labs

10:00 AM

Shipping Reliable Agents: A Production Postmortem WorkshopWed, Oct 7 · 10:00 – 11:30 AMAIA Overflow RoomAgents in ProductionWorkshop (120 min)

A hands-on workshop built from real agent incident reviews. Bring a laptop: we will reproduce four production failure modes — runaway loops, silent tool errors, stale context, and compounding hallucinations — and fix each one with guardrails you can take home.

MCMaya ChenStaff Engineer, Vector LabsJWJonas WeberHead of AI Platform, Fjord Analytics

11:00 AM

Sponsor Keynote: Building on Skyforge CloudWed, Oct 7 · 11:00 AM – 12:45 PMOverflow RoomKeynote (45 min)

Skyforge Cloud's DevRel lead shows what teams are shipping on Skyforge's inference platform, with a live build of an agentic workflow from zero to deployed in twenty minutes.

RPRavi PatelDevRel Lead, Skyforge Cloud

1:00 PM

Evals That Actually Catch RegressionsWed, Oct 7 · 1:00 – 3:00 PMOverflow RoomAI EngineeringTalk (30 min)

Everyone says they run evals; almost nobody catches regressions before users do. This talk walks through the evaluation harness we built after three silent quality incidents: golden sets that stay fresh, LLM-judges you can actually trust, and the CI wiring that blocks a bad prompt from shipping.

MCMaya ChenStaff Engineer, Vector Labs