Conference overviews · 3 events reviewed 545 talks · last reviewed 2026-09-14
assay · overviews
Conference overviews
When a conference matters to this field, we review the whole playlist, every talk, worked from the complete transcript, one written analysis each, and distill what the event converged on, with an honest account of how Assay implements each finding: what is shipped, what is designed, and what is missing. What the reviews accumulate lives in the concept register, the per-concept frontier tracker each new event folds into.
§1The events
Newest first, by the date the event ran, not the date we reviewed it.
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Aug 2026 · Berkeley
160 talksAgentic AI Summit 2026
The research frontier and the enterprise floor in one building: continual learning at the harness layer, trajectory-level evals, and authority earned in gradients, folded into the concept register.
folded into the register · 8 learnings
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Jun–Jul 2026 · San Francisco
344 talksAI Engineer World’s Fair 2026
The largest applied-agentics event of the year, and the field’s turn from demos to incident reports: verification as doctrine, the harness as the durable asset, context engines, skills as governed software, and reward hacking as an engineering subject, folded into the concept register.
folded into the register · 10 learnings
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Jun 2026 · London
41 talksAI Native DevCon London 2026
The practitioner convergence: spec-first work units, human-gated merges, markdown memory, skills as the knowledge unit, distilled into eight concepts, each answered by Assay's implementation.
8 concepts · register seeded
§2The rolling register
Conference reports go stale the day the next event happens; a register does not. Each review ends by folding its findings into the concept register: new evidence lands on concepts already tracked, corroboration accumulates as weight, and genuinely new ideas mint new entries. The register, currently 64 concepts across 14 themes, is the durable output; the overview pages are how each event read at the time.