Conference overviews · 2 events reviewed 201 talks · last reviewed 2026-09-01
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
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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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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.