Event activation · AI Engineer Summit 2026 · San Francisco · AI infrastructure + agentic AI + AI/ML platform engineering▸ Event in--d·--h·--m·--s

The AI Engineer Summit activation that shipsqualified pipeline.

FORKOFF AI Engineer Summit activation is a 14-day operating cycle for AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, and AI/ML platform engineers shipping production AI systems into the practitioner-engineer buyer cluster in San Francisco. Pre-event narrative, on-site cadence at Marines Memorial, post-event compounding, audit-tracked outcomes.

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Feb 24-25, 2026Dates

San Francisco, CACity

2,500+Attendance (2025)

60+ across SFSide events

▸ The wedge

Most teams chase a Marines Memorial speaker slot and watch it drown in the agentic AI track scroll. Some host a SoMa practitioner dinner and bounce. FORKOFF runs the AI Engineer Summit week as a 14-day operating cycle.

AI Engineer Summit circuit · 2026

AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, and Latent.Space ecosystem operators on the FORKOFF AI Engineer radar.

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Anonymized post-engagement. Names surfaced are AI Engineer Summit 2025 ecosystem operators FORKOFF either ran intros into or co-attended practitioner sessions with.

Why activate at AI Engineer Summit

Four reasons AI Engineer Summit is the
highest-leverage AI infrastructure week of the year.

The Latent.Space ecosystem compounds in ways no other AI conference week does. 2.5k attendees plus practitioner-engineer concentration plus AI infrastructure founder density plus agentic AI tooling buyer concentration inside one tightly-scoped 2-day SF window.

2,500+

AI infrastructure founders + AI/ML platform engineers concentrated across Marines Memorial plus the agentic AI track plus the Latent.Space practitioner dinner web.

2 days

AI infra VCs, agentic AI tooling buyers, and foundation-model platform teams all in-market across the same 48-hour window.

60+

Side events make AI infra operators and Latent.Space-adjacent voices reachable in 30-person rooms.

30 days

AI Twitter and Latent.Space newsletter cluster compound on residual.

AI Engineer Summit intel · the SF room you are activating into

What AI Engineer Summit 2026 actually looks like.

The week breaks into a Marines Memorial main-track cluster, an agentic AI track running parallel, and a Latent.Space practitioner dinner web. Activating well means picking the right stripe of the week.

Date + venue

Feb 24-25, 2026

Main stage at Marines Memorial Club (Theatre + Crystal Ballroom). Agentic AI track at parallel SF venues. Tooling expo across the lobby + Crystal Ballroom mezzanine. Latent.Space practitioner dinners concentrated in SoMa around the InterContinental + the W + Mission Street partner venues.

Expected attendance

2,500+ in 2025: 38% AI infrastructure founders + AI/ML platform engineers, 26% agentic AI builders + tooling teams, 20% foundation-model practitioners + RAG operators, 16% AI infra VCs + press + Latent.Space-adjacent KOLs.

AI infra founders + AI/ML platform engineers38%

Agentic AI builders + tooling teams26%

Foundation-model practitioners + RAG operators20%

AI infra VCs + press + Latent.Space KOLs16%

Key tracks

Where the buyer-relevant rooms live. Pick 2 max for any single activation week.

Agentic AIFoundation ModelsRetrieval + RAGTooling + EvalLeadershipAI/ML Platform

FORKOFF receipts at AI Engineer Summit

Two prior cycles run on the FORKOFF audit ledger. Agentic AI tooling pre-launch, foundation-model devrel narrative. Both ledger entries delivered within T+30 of close.

2 prior activationsT+30 ledger closeLatent.Space-fluent comms

Operating week

From a Marines Memorial expo lane and a stack of swag
to compounded AI practitioner pipeline.

Two days at Marines Memorial plus parallel SF venues, the agentic AI track circuit, and the Latent.Space practitioner dinner web. Pre-event narrative, daily on-site cadence, post-event clip cascade. One operator carries every phase. Every phase closes with a ledger entry.

Visual ledger

Two days of operating cadence across Marines Memorial, the agentic AI track, and the Latent.Space practitioner dinner web.

AI Engineer Summit activation · 4 layers × deliverables

Every motion
across four layers.

PHASE 01[PRE-EVENT]

Narrative + intros

Founder narrative locked T-30 to T-7.

Deliverables (3)

▸T-30 to T-7
▸30-account cluster
▸AI infra intro engineering

PHASE 02[EVENT WEEK]

Cadence + side events

Daily founder posts from Marines Memorial, Mon-Wed of AI Engineer Summit week.

Deliverables (3)

▸Daily cadence
▸Latent.Space dinner
▸On-site clipping

PHASE 03[ON-SITE]

KOL + clips

On-site AI Twitter and Latent.Space-adjacent KOLs activated through bot-screened placements.

Deliverables (3)

▸KOL placement
▸Podcast recording
▸Real-time clips

PHASE 04[POST-EVENT]

Compound + ledger

Clip cadence compounds T+1 to T+30.

Deliverables (3)

▸T+1 to T+30
▸Qualified-pipeline ledger
▸Compounding distribution

Activation timeline

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.
Operating cadence.

Strategy 12 weeks out. Production 4 weeks out. Execution event week. Compounding 30 days post. Each phase closes with a ledger entry.

0112 weeks out
024 weeks out
03event week
04post-event

StrategyProductionExecutionCompounding

FK · AI ENGINEER SUMMIT LEDGERLIVE

Operating cycle90 days

Phases closed4 / 4

Cadence2026

StatusACTIVATING

Event-week cadence

AI Engineer Summit 2026 week-of cadence (recommended).

Sample schedule for a Standard-tier engagement. Tier-specific deliverables shown in the next section.

Day	Date	Motion	FORKOFF owns
Sun (D-1)	Feb 22, 2026	Land in SF · pre-event Tour de Latent.Space practitioner dinner setup	Venue + invite list + intro choreography
Mon	Feb 23	Pre-event practitioner dinner · ICP-account 1:1s · last-mile narrative cadence	Dinner production + intro routing
Tue	Feb 24	Opening day attendance · founder posts from Marines Memorial · agentic AI track	Daily post + on-site clip cadence
Wed	Feb 25	FORKOFF side event (AI infra roundtable / tooling panel / practitioner dinner)	Production + KOL invites + recording
Thu	Feb 26	On-site podcast recording day · 3-4 founder + practitioner interviews	Studio + production + same-week clip pipeline
Fri	Feb 27	KOL placements live · partnership-conversation closes	KOL ledger + per-post tracking
Sat	Feb 28	Founder thread recap of week · AI Twitter cluster reciprocation	Thread craft + cluster activation
Sun (D+7)	Mar 1	Departure · post-event clip cascade live	Distribution sequencing + audit ledger weekly

Proof of work · AI Engineer Summit lanes

Real outcomes fromreal AI infrastructure activations.

Three AI Engineer Summit-circuit campaigns, three lanes: agentic AI tooling pre-launch, foundation-model devrel narrative, post-event AI infra compounding.

AI Engineer Summit 2025 · Standard

Agentic AI tooling pipeline.

Pre-event narrative across 14 days locked the founder's positioning across the AI infra cluster before they landed in SF. Side-event practitioner roundtable + podcast recording fed a 14-clip post-event cadence. Audit ledger closed T+30 with qualified-pipeline math skewed Latent.Space ecosystem operators.

5xPipeline growth · 90 days post-summit

Ascending FK_RED growth chart for agentic AI tooling pipeline acceleration

Distributed mesh of foundation-model tooling nodes

AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 · Lite

Foundation-model tooling devrel.

Single-track Lite tier: 14-day pre-event narrative + 1 on-site podcast recording timed to the founder's tooling release. Audit-ledger entry shipped T+14 with qualified-intro list surfaced before the founder landed in SF.

Cascading threads as AI infrastructure narrative metaphor

NeurIPS 2024 · Full

AI/ML research-to-product proxy.

Sponsor-grade activation across the parallel NeurIPS week for an applied-AI lab. 5 podcast recordings on-site, English-language clip cycle that rode the residual attention curve for 45 days. Same playbook ports to AI Engineer Summit with practitioner-engineer ICP swap.

Fit map · AI Engineer Summit activation ICP

For founders. Run an AI Engineer Summit activation that compounds
without burning the speaker slot or expo lane on hopes alone.

Who you are

›Series Seed-Series B AI infrastructure founder selling into AI/ML platform engineers, agentic AI builders, and foundation-model tooling teams
›VP of Engineering or developer-relations head for an AI infra vendor needing practitioner-engineer ecosystem reach through Latent.Space-adjacent voices
›Agentic AI tooling founder using AI Engineer Summit as the budget-anchor week for AI infra adoption decisions and practitioner partnership starts
›Founder open to spending the operating week in San Francisco (not parachuting in for one Swyx keynote)

What FORKOFF delivers

›14-day pre-event narrative engineering across 30 ICP accounts (AI infra founders + AI/ML platform engineers + agentic AI builders + AI infra VCs)
›Daily on-site cadence Mon-Wed of AI Engineer Summit week + Tour de Latent.Space practitioner dinner + AI infra roundtable production
›AI Twitter + Latent.Space-adjacent + Hacker News KOL stack activated through bot-screened placements with per-post tracking
›T+30 audit ledger close with AI-practitioner-sourced pipeline report tied back to every qualified-view receipt

Not the right fit

×Pure consumer Web3 without AI overlap. AI Engineer Summit activation needs an AI infrastructure or agentic AI product to anchor on
×Brands that just want a logo on a Marines Memorial expo banner
×Anyone expecting one Swyx keynote to convert without 14 days of pre-event narrative + 2 days on-site
×Teams unwilling to commit to a 90-day operating cycle (T-30 to T+30) around the event

Sandbox · 14 days · refund if no qualified-intro list

by application AI Engineer Summit lite pilot. Refund if we do not deliver the qualified-intro list pre-SF.

14-day pre-event narrative + 30-account AI infrastructure ICP map + qualified-intro list shipped before you land in San Francisco. If we do not deliver the intro list inside 14 days, the by application comes back.

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Operator quote

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FORKOFF runs the only AI Engineer Summit activation we have seen built around a 14-day operating cycle, not a Marines Memorial expo lane. The audit ledger told us exactly which Latent.Space-adjacent intros compounded into agentic AI tooling adoption.

Founder · AI infrastructure SaaS

AI Engineer Summit 2025 standard tier · agentic AI roundtable layer

5xQualified-intro pipeline · 90 days post-SF

LITE ACTIVATION · BY APPLICATION · 5 ENGAGEMENTS PER QUARTER

by application

Lite activation floor

by application AI Engineer Summit Lite activation. Single-track pre-event practitioner narrative or Latent.Space dinner.

Two weeks of pre-event narrative + 30-account AI infrastructure cluster activation + AI Engineer Summit-specific intro engineering. You leave with the audit ledger of qualified intros surfaced before you land in San Francisco. Lite tier scopes a single track. Selective on ICP, capped per quarter.

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Single-track entry tieraudit-ledger reportingpairs with Standard or Full upgrade

Activation vs the alternatives

How a FORKOFF AI Engineer Summit activation compares.

Receipt-by-receipt, on the same five dimensions every buyer asks about. No tier shell games, no asterisks.

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Feature	FORKOFF activationOutcome-priced	DIY booth + sponsorLogo on banner	Traditional PR firmPress retainer
Pricing model	Outcome-priced. Per-event commit. by application to by application tier band.	Booth fee plus AV plus founder hours. Often by application to by application plus before any sourced AI infra lead.	Monthly retainer regardless of event outcome. by application to by application per month.
Pre-event narrative	30-day AI infrastructure cluster activation plus 30-account practitioner intro engineering	Tweet announcing speaker slot or expo lane a week before	Press release embargoed until agentic AI keynote day
On-site cadence	Daily founder posts, Tour de Latent.Space dinner, agentic AI track adjacency, KOL placements	Founder behind a tooling-expo table, hopes the right AI infra buyer walks past	Press wrangling around the Swyx keynote, no operating cadence on-site
Post-event compounding	30-day clip cascade plus qualified-pipeline ledger sourced from Latent.Space ecosystem	Folder of phone photos and a Slack debrief written from a SFO flight home	Coverage clipping report, often disconnected from AI practitioner pipeline
Audit ledger receipt	Signed by operator, qualified-pipeline math, T+30 close	Whatever the founder remembers from the Marines Memorial expo	Vanity coverage report, no pipeline math

Activation tiers

AI Engineer Summit 2026 activation tiers.

All tiers carry the audit ledger + qualified-pipeline reporting. Tier scales scope, not philosophy.

3 tiersLite · Standard · Full

5/quarterEngagements per cycle

By applicationSelective on ICP

Lite

by application

Pre-event narrative lock + 14-day AI infrastructure cluster activation
Daily founder posts during AI Engineer Summit week (drafted by FORKOFF, founder approves)
1 podcast recording on-site (founder interview)
6 clips post-event distributed across X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts
Weekly Slack-delivered audit ledger

Recommended

Standard

By application

Everything in Lite, plus:
1 FORKOFF-produced side event (Tour de Latent.Space dinner / panel / AI infra roundtable)
3-4 podcast recordings on-site (founder + AI infra builder + agentic AI tooling guests)
12-18 clips post-event across all surfaces
Bot-screened KOL placement (1 placement matched to your ICP)
Intro engineering on 30 ICP accounts attending AI Engineer Summit
Post-event qualified-pipeline ledger T+30 days

Full

By application

Everything in Standard, plus:
Multi-stop side-event tour (3 events across the week including agentic AI track adjacency)
5+ podcast recordings on-site (founder + AI infra founders + agentic AI builders + AI Twitter voices)
24-36 clips post-event across all surfaces
3-5 bot-screened KOL placements (AI Twitter + Latent.Space-adjacent + Hacker News + AI infra newsletter writers)
Intro engineering on 60 ICP accounts (extended pre-event window)
AI infra roundtable production for agentic AI tooling buyers
Post-event qualified-pipeline ledger T+60 days
1 dedicated FORKOFF operator on-site for the full week

More events on the FORKOFF roster

Other activation weeks. Same operator. Same ledger.

NeurIPS 2026

Dec 2026 · San Diego · Standard tier by application to by application

Google Cloud Next 2026

Apr 2026 · Las Vegas · Standard tier by application

AWS re:Invent 2026

Dec 2026 · Las Vegas · Standard tier by application to by application

Dreamforce 2026

Sep 2026 · San Francisco · Standard tier by application to by application

Data Council 2026

Apr 2026 · Bay Area · Standard tier by application

FAQ · 8 questions

Frequently asked questions

AI Engineer Summit is the flagship gathering for AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, and AI/ML platform engineers, run by the Latent.Space (Swyx + Alessio) team and ai.engineer. The 2025 edition drew 2,500+ attendees across Marines Memorial Club + parallel SF venues plus 60+ side events organized by AI infra tooling vendors, agentic AI tooling teams, and Latent.Space-adjacent voices. AI Engineer Summit 2026 runs February 24 to 25 in San Francisco. The room is the highest-density gathering of AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, AI/ML platform engineers, and foundation-model tooling teams in the world.

Most teams chase a speaker slot and hope the right AI infra buyer walks past. The FORKOFF activation is a 14-day operating cycle: pre-event narrative + 30-account AI infrastructure intro engineering, on-site cadence + Tour de Latent.Space practitioner dinner + KOL placement, post-event clip cascade + qualified-pipeline ledger. Same operator, same dashboard, audit-tracked outcomes. Specifically tuned for AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, and AI/ML platform engineers shipping production AI systems into the practitioner-engineer buyer cluster. Brand-defining flagship for the FORKOFF AI Agency thesis.

Three tiers: Lite by application (single-track pre-event AI infrastructure narrative or on-site practitioner dinner or side-event slot), Standard by application (recommended, full week-of presence + agentic AI track adjacency + AI infra intro engineering), Full by application (sponsor-grade with multi-stop side events + AI infra roundtable production + Latent.Space-adjacent KOL stack). All tiers carry the audit ledger + qualified-pipeline reporting. Tier scales scope, not the underlying philosophy. Reference point: an AI Engineer Summit speaker slot or expo booth is gated on Latent.Space community signal, full sponsor lanes can run by application to by application before AV and staff costs.

Yes. Standard + Full tiers include FORKOFF-produced side events at SoMa venues (Tour de Latent.Space practitioner dinner, AI infra roundtable, agentic AI tooling panel, founder talk format). We handle venue, invite list, KOL outreach, and on-site recording. Side events are the highest-leverage on-site moment. 30 right AI infra founders in one SoMa-side room beats 2,500 random attendees at the Marines Memorial main hall. Recommended venues span the InterContinental + the W + Mission Street partner venues + the SoMa side-event circuit.

Our Full tier includes an AI infrastructure adjacency layer for agentic AI tooling adoption decisions and practitioner partnership starts. We coordinate with the founder's AI infra advisor before any pre-event narrative goes live, route 30-account intros across AI/ML platform engineers and agentic AI builders, and structure side events so foundation-model tooling teams can participate in pipeline-acceleration conversations. This is critical for AI infra founders who treat AI Engineer Summit as the budget-anchor week for tooling adoption and practitioner partnership decisions.

Yes. FORKOFF has working relationships with Latent.Space-adjacent voices, AI infra newsletter writers, and AI Twitter operators across the practitioner-engineer ecosystem. Standard tier includes 1 ecosystem KOL placement; Full tier extends to 3-5 placements across AI Twitter, Latent.Space-adjacent voices, Hacker News operators, and AI infra newsletter writers. AI Engineer Summit is the one event week where AI/ML platform engineers are reachable in the same room as agentic AI tooling buyers, and our intro engineering is built around that crossover.

Every podcast recorded on-site feeds the clipping pipeline at clips.forkoff.xyz. One 60-minute recording produces 8-12 cross-platform clips (X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts), distributed over the 30 days following AI Engineer Summit. Each clip is tracked in the qualified-view ledger and reported in the T+30 audit close. The post-event cadence is what compounds the week's investment. For AI Engineer Summit specifically, the AI Twitter cluster (AI infra operators + agentic AI builders + Latent.Space-adjacent analysts) keeps the residual attention curve elevated.

Yes. AI Engineer Summit is one of 12 plus events on the FORKOFF event roster. NeurIPS, Google Cloud Next, AWS re:Invent, Dreamforce, RSA Conference, Data Council, HubSpot Inbound, Microsoft Ignite, Token2049 Singapore, Korea Blockchain Week. Each event has its own activation page with cadence + tier pricing tuned to the event format and ICP. AI infrastructure, applied-AI, and B2B SaaS ICPs map cleanly across events; see /for/ai-startups and /for/ai-founders for ICP-side detail.

Related FORKOFF surfaces

Where AI Engineer Summit activations compound in your stack.

AI startups

Beyond AI Engineer Summit week. AI-side ICP playbook for AI infrastructure and agentic AI tooling teams.

AI agents

Agentic AI ICP playbook for AI/ML platform engineers shipping production agent runtimes and tool-use platforms.

Founder funnel

Pre-event narrative + intro engineering across 30 ICP accounts attending AI Engineer Summit.

Founder podcast

On-site podcast recording day during AI Engineer Summit week. Studio + crew booked at SoMa partner venue.

KOL marketing

Bot-screened AI Twitter + Latent.Space-adjacent + Hacker News KOL placements during AI Engineer Summit week.

Markets · San Francisco

Beyond AI Engineer Summit week. SF tech-conference GTM playbook + on-ground partner network.

The brand line

Stop sponsoring AI Engineer Summit.
Run an activation.

Lite activation by application single-track. Standard tier by application end-to-end. Full tier by application sponsor-grade with AI infra roundtable production. Audit ledger on qualified pipeline across every tier.

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Pricing the qualified view

Day

Date

Motion

FORKOFF owns

Sun (D-1)

Feb 22, 2026

Land in SF · pre-event Tour de Latent.Space practitioner dinner setup

Venue + invite list + intro choreography

Mon

Feb 23

Pre-event practitioner dinner · ICP-account 1:1s · last-mile narrative cadence

Dinner production + intro routing

Tue

Feb 24

Opening day attendance · founder posts from Marines Memorial · agentic AI track

Daily post + on-site clip cadence

Wed

Feb 25

FORKOFF side event (AI infra roundtable / tooling panel / practitioner dinner)

Production + KOL invites + recording

Thu

Feb 26

On-site podcast recording day · 3-4 founder + practitioner interviews

Studio + production + same-week clip pipeline

Fri

Feb 27

KOL placements live · partnership-conversation closes

KOL ledger + per-post tracking

Sat

Feb 28

Founder thread recap of week · AI Twitter cluster reciprocation

Thread craft + cluster activation

Sun (D+7)

Mar 1

Departure · post-event clip cascade live

Distribution sequencing + audit ledger weekly

by application AI Engineer Summit Lite activation. Single-track pre-event practitioner narrative or Latent.Space dinner.

Single-track entry tieraudit-ledger reportingpairs with Standard or Full upgrade

Feature

FORKOFF activationOutcome-priced

DIY booth + sponsorLogo on banner

Traditional PR firmPress retainer

Pricing model

Outcome-priced. Per-event commit. by application to by application tier band.

Booth fee plus AV plus founder hours. Often by application to by application plus before any sourced AI infra lead.

Monthly retainer regardless of event outcome. by application to by application per month.

Pre-event narrative

30-day AI infrastructure cluster activation plus 30-account practitioner intro engineering

Tweet announcing speaker slot or expo lane a week before

Press release embargoed until agentic AI keynote day

On-site cadence

Daily founder posts, Tour de Latent.Space dinner, agentic AI track adjacency, KOL placements

Founder behind a tooling-expo table, hopes the right AI infra buyer walks past

Press wrangling around the Swyx keynote, no operating cadence on-site

Post-event compounding

30-day clip cascade plus qualified-pipeline ledger sourced from Latent.Space ecosystem

Folder of phone photos and a Slack debrief written from a SFO flight home

Coverage clipping report, often disconnected from AI practitioner pipeline

Audit ledger receipt

Signed by operator, qualified-pipeline math, T+30 close

Whatever the founder remembers from the Marines Memorial expo

Vanity coverage report, no pipeline math

Frequently asked questions

The AI Engineer Summit activation that shipsqualified pipeline.

AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, and Latent.Space ecosystem operators on the FORKOFF AI Engineer radar.

Four reasons AI Engineer Summit is thehighest-leverage AI infrastructure week of the year.

2,500+

2 days

60+

30 days

What AI Engineer Summit 2026 actually looks like.

From a Marines Memorial expo lane and a stack of swagto compounded AI practitioner pipeline.

Every motionacross four layers.

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.Operating cadence.

StrategyProductionExecutionCompounding

Strategy + booking

Production

Execution

Compounding

AI Engineer Summit 2026 week-of cadence (recommended).

Real outcomes fromreal AI infrastructure activations.

Agentic AI tooling pipeline.

Foundation-model tooling devrel.

AI/ML research-to-product proxy.

For founders. Run an AI Engineer Summit activation that compoundswithout burning the speaker slot or expo lane on hopes alone.

by application AI Engineer Summit lite pilot. Refund if we do not deliver the qualified-intro list pre-SF.

by application AI Engineer Summit Lite activation. Single-track pre-event practitioner narrative or Latent.Space dinner.

How a FORKOFF AI Engineer Summit activation compares.

AI Engineer Summit 2026 activation tiers.

Lite

Standard

Full

Other activation weeks. Same operator. Same ledger.

NeurIPS 2026

Google Cloud Next 2026

AWS re:Invent 2026

Dreamforce 2026

Data Council 2026

Frequently asked questions

Where AI Engineer Summit activations compound in your stack.

AI startups

AI agents

Founder funnel

Founder podcast

KOL marketing

Markets · San Francisco

Stop sponsoring AI Engineer Summit.Run an activation.

Receipts, deep dives, and playbooks.

Crypto Conference Sponsorship ROI: 2026 First-Party Cohort Data

Are Crypto Conferences Worth It? An Operator's Math on the Net-Negative-ROI Debate (2026)

How to Host a Side Event at a Crypto Conference: The 30-Day Playbook

The AI Engineer Summit activation that shipsqualified pipeline.

AI infrastructure founders, agentic AI builders, and Latent.Space ecosystem operators on the FORKOFF AI Engineer radar.

Four reasons AI Engineer Summit is thehighest-leverage AI infrastructure week of the year.

2,500+

2 days

60+

30 days

What AI Engineer Summit 2026 actually looks like.

From a Marines Memorial expo lane and a stack of swagto compounded AI practitioner pipeline.

Every motionacross four layers.

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.Operating cadence.

StrategyProductionExecutionCompounding

Strategy + booking

Production

Execution

Compounding

AI Engineer Summit 2026 week-of cadence (recommended).

Real outcomes fromreal AI infrastructure activations.

Agentic AI tooling pipeline.

Foundation-model tooling devrel.

AI/ML research-to-product proxy.

For founders. Run an AI Engineer Summit activation that compoundswithout burning the speaker slot or expo lane on hopes alone.

by application AI Engineer Summit lite pilot. Refund if we do not deliver the qualified-intro list pre-SF.

by application AI Engineer Summit Lite activation. Single-track pre-event practitioner narrative or Latent.Space dinner.

Four reasons AI Engineer Summit is the
highest-leverage AI infrastructure week of the year.

From a Marines Memorial expo lane and a stack of swag
to compounded AI practitioner pipeline.

Every motion
across four layers.

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.
Operating cadence.

For founders. Run an AI Engineer Summit activation that compounds
without burning the speaker slot or expo lane on hopes alone.

Stop sponsoring AI Engineer Summit.
Run an activation.

Four reasons AI Engineer Summit is the
highest-leverage AI infrastructure week of the year.

From a Marines Memorial expo lane and a stack of swag
to compounded AI practitioner pipeline.

Every motion
across four layers.

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.
Operating cadence.

For founders. Run an AI Engineer Summit activation that compounds
without burning the speaker slot or expo lane on hopes alone.

Stop sponsoring AI Engineer Summit.
Run an activation.