Jul 09, 2026

Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel discusses his journey from Priceline's early struggles to leading a global travel giant. He details Booking's strategic adoption of AI for agentic travel planning and customer service, exemplified by Priceline's 'Penny,' and its significant capital investment in technology. Fogel emphasizes continuous innovation over "moats" and shares insights on AI's impact on job displacement, advocating for proactive employee upskilling to navigate the rapidly changing technological landscape.

Jul 08, 2026

The 100,000 Sandbox Problem — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

Modal CTO Akshat Bubna discusses the company's shift from developer to agent experience, highlighting why traditional cloud infrastructure fails for bursty AI workloads. He details Modal's primitives like elastic inference with GPU snapshotting and speculative decoding, agent sandboxes for RL rollouts, multi-node training with RDMA, and a "supercloud" strategy across 17 providers. The conversation also covers the importance of observability, hard guardrails for production agents, and AI's role in making infrastructure exciting again.

Jul 08, 2026

The next generation of ChatGPT Voice

An in-depth look into GPT Live, the next generation of full-duplex voice models in ChatGPT, designed for natural, continuous interaction. It highlights breakthroughs in concurrent processing, intelligent delegation to advanced models like GPT 5.5, real-time semantic translation, and proactive language coaching, aiming to transform AI interactions into fluid, intelligent conversations akin to human dialogue.

Jul 08, 2026

What do we build now? — Theo Browne, @t3dotgg

Theo Browne's keynote from AIEWF2026 urges software engineers to fundamentally change product development in response to rapidly evolving AI models (Sonnet 3.5 to Mythos). He advocates for rejecting legacy mental models and tools (skeuomorphism), embracing a new "Markdown tier" for projects, and thinking "wider" instead of just "deeper" by building extensible platforms that can challenge industry giants. The core message is to be more ambitious, as AI has drastically lowered the barrier to entry for complex, broad-reaching solutions.

Jul 08, 2026

Automate Workflows w/ Autonomous Tools Real-Time AI Agents | Aytekin Tank | Founder & CEO | Jotform

Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of Jotform, discusses how AI is revolutionizing software development and customer support, highlighting "vibe coding" and Jotform's 80% AI-handled support with zero layoffs. He also shares his "Theory of Constraints" playbook for scaling businesses and explores the potential of ChatGPT apps, all within Jotform's 20-year bootstrapped journey.

Jul 08, 2026

Building an ACP-Compatible Agent Live — Bennet Fenner, Zed

This session explores building an AI coding agent that integrates with the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), Zed's open-source JSON RPC-based standard for agent-client communication. It covers essential architectural elements, including protocol design, session lifecycle management, real-time streaming of model output via session updates, and sophisticated handling of tool calls, such as proxied file system operations and self-modifying code for new capabilities like a terminal tool.