Conference overviews · 6 events reviewed 572 reviewed items · last reviewed 2026-10-02
assay · overviews
Conference overviews
We review conference recordings and published source material, then fold the findings into the concept register. Each overview states its coverage: a complete available playlist, a limited set of sessions, or a partial scan. The register tracks corroboration and disagreement; the overview records what each event contributed and what remains unreviewed.
§1The events
Newest first, by the date the event ran, not the date we reviewed it.
2026-09-22–24 · Hangzhou
4 sections · partial reviewApsara Conference 2026
A partial review of workflow-to-skill authoring, creative controls around a model, human judgment and per-call model routing. One text-based keynote section plus three captioned talks; the full conference remains unreviewed.
4 existing concepts updated · partial corpus
2026-09-22 · virtual
6 of 6 sessionsAtlassian State of AI SDLC 2026
The constraint moves beyond code generation: context, review, service ownership and outcome measurement. Six sessions, locally transcribed because publisher captions were unavailable.
36 existing concepts updated · 7 learnings
2026-09-15–17 · livestream
17 event recordings + 1 adjacent talkGrok Bot Galaxy 2026
Bot fleets, recorded demonstrations becoming skills, and visibly different review choices for support and a prototype game. Third-party recordings; two missing segments and an adjacent talk are identified.
20 existing concepts + 1 new concept · gaps declared
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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 65 concepts across 14 themes, is the durable output; the overview pages are how each event read at the time.