2-day agenda

FutureStack 2026 — Full Conference Agenda

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Conference: FutureStack 2026 Dates: October 15-16, 2026 Venue: Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX Expected Attendance: 800 Theme: AI Infrastructure Format: Single-track main stage + breakout workshops

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Day 1 — Thursday, October 15

Main Stage (Ballroom A)

Time	Session	Speaker	Company	Format	Duration
8:00 - 9:00	Registration & Breakfast	—	—	—	60 min
9:00 - 9:15	Opening Remarks	Conference Chair	FutureStack	Welcome	15 min
9:15 - 10:00	Keynote: The Future of Foundation Models	Dr. Amara Osei	DeepMind	Keynote	45 min
10:00 - 10:30	Real-Time ML Pipelines at Scale	Raj Krishnan	Databricks	Talk	30 min
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break	—	—	—	20 min
10:50 - 11:20	Orchestrating Multi-Model Inference in Production	Marcus Chen	Anyscale	Talk	30 min
11:20 - 11:50	Building Reliable AI Payment Systems	Elena Vasquez	Stripe	Talk	30 min
12:00 - 1:15	Lunch (Exhibit Hall B)	—	—	—	75 min
1:15 - 1:45	Scaling Vector Search to a Billion Embeddings	Priya Nair	Pinecone	Talk	30 min

Afternoon Workshops (Parallel Tracks)

Time	Room	Session	Speaker	Company	Format	Duration
2:00 - 3:30	Workshop Room 1	GPU Infrastructure for Training: Hands-On Lab	Wei Zhang	NVIDIA	Workshop	90 min
2:00 - 3:30	Workshop Room 2	Building Feature Stores from Scratch	Jordan Reeves	Tecton	Workshop	90 min
3:30 - 3:50	—	Afternoon Break	—	—	—	20 min

Evening

Time	Location	Session	Format
4:00 - 4:30	Ballroom A	Lightning Talks (5 x 5-min community presentations)	Lightning
4:30 - 6:30	Terrace & Exhibit Hall B	Networking Reception (sponsored by Databricks)	Social

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Day 2 — Friday, October 16

Main Stage (Ballroom A)

Time	Session	Speaker	Company	Format	Duration
8:30 - 9:00	Breakfast & Coffee	—	—	—	30 min
9:00 - 9:30	Cost-Efficient Training on Spot Instances	Tomoko Hayashi	AWS	Talk	30 min
9:30 - 10:00	Observability for LLM Applications	Derek Okonkwo	Datadog	Talk	30 min
10:00 - 10:20	Coffee Break	—	—	—	20 min
10:20 - 10:50	Data Pipelines for Continuous Model Improvement	Laura Mendez	dbt Labs	Talk	30 min
10:50 - 11:20	Edge Inference: Running Models on 10 Watts	Felix Gruber	Qualcomm	Talk	30 min
11:30 - 12:15	Panel: Responsible AI Deployment — From Principles to Production	Samira Al-Rashid (Moderator), Dr. Amara Osei, Elena Vasquez, Derek Okonkwo	Multiple	Panel	45 min
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch (Exhibit Hall B)	—	—	—	75 min

Afternoon Workshops (Parallel Tracks)

Time	Room	Session	Speaker	Company	Format	Duration
1:30 - 3:00	Workshop Room 1	Deploying LLMs with Kubernetes and Ray	Carlos Rivera	Anyscale	Workshop	90 min
1:30 - 3:00	Workshop Room 2	Prompt Engineering & Eval Frameworks	Nina Patel	Anthropic	Workshop	90 min
3:00 - 3:20	—	Afternoon Break	—	—	—	20 min

Closing (Ballroom A)

Time	Session	Speaker	Company	Format	Duration
3:30 - 4:15	Closing Keynote: What Comes After the GPU — The Next Decade of AI Compute	Dr. Lisa Feldman	Intel	Keynote	45 min
4:15 - 4:30	Closing Remarks & Community Awards	Conference Chair	FutureStack	Wrap-up	15 min

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Room Assignments Summary

Room	Capacity	Usage
Ballroom A	800	Main stage — all keynotes, talks, and panels
Workshop Room 1	120	Hands-on workshops (power + monitors provided)
Workshop Room 2	120	Hands-on workshops (power + monitors provided)
Exhibit Hall B	400	Lunch, sponsor booths, networking reception
Terrace	250	Evening reception overflow

AV & Production Notes

• Main stage: dual screens, confidence monitor, lapel + handheld mics, livestream capture
• Workshop rooms: projector, whiteboard, power strips at every table, Wi-Fi boosted
• All sessions recorded; speakers must sign release forms by Oct 1
• Panel requires 5 chairs + table on stage, 5 lapel mics