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About the track
Discover how teams are building evaluation systems, feedback loops, and safety mechanisms to make AI-powered systems reliable and trustworthy.
Sessions in this track
Monday 16 November. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Ballroom A Session Building Secure Runtime Sandboxes for Code-Generating Agents Details coming soon. 11:45 Ballroom A Session How Airbnb Guardrailed Its AI Customer Support Agent When Airbnb launched its AI customer support assistant, the feature made the news — the guardrails built to make it safe to ship did not. Yet an AI agent that talks to millions of customers, remembers a conversation across turns, and can trigger account actions is a… 13:35 Ballroom A Session Why AI Cost Guardrails Are the Next Major Reliability Crisis Details coming soon. 14:45 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Guardrails & Safety Nets 15:55 Ballroom A Session Practical Concerns Running Agents in Production Amanda Walker Sr. Director, Engineering - Privacy, Safety and Security @Google Details coming soon. 17:05 Ballroom A Session Automated Interventions When Agents Drift Off-Course Details coming soon.
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$2,835, Conference (3 days). Current pricing ends September 8th. All pass options.
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.