For AI practitioners

AI at MITechCon 2026

If you build AI systems or help decide how to use them, explore the engineering, governance, and product questions other teams are working through.

12 AI sessions on this year’s program11 speakers in these recommendations

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Thu · 9:00 AMKeynote · Ballroom

Build vs. Buy in the AI Era

Jason Bressler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Designing Conversational BI: How Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie Unlocks Self-Service Insights

Mou Rakshit

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room C

Your AI Agent Just Ran DELETE Without WHERE. Now What?

Jonathan Stewart

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Fri · 3:45 PMConference Session · Beginner · Room A

Case Study: Designing AI-Augmented Enterprise Investigation Systems

Santosh Vasudevan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

RAG for Data Engineers: What It Is, Where It Fits, and Why Your Metadata Is the Missing Piece

Varun Joshi Nitesh Khapekar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Building an AI-Ready Finance Lakehouse with dbt, Governed Metrics, and Databricks

Mou Rakshit

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room B

AI and Digital Transformation in Sepsis Management for Smarter Healthcare Delivery

Swapna Chimanchodkar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room D

AI Influence on Reliable Machine Vision

Michael Koper

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Fri · 1:15 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Applying Machine Learning and Network Analytics for Modern Financial Crime Detection

Shivam Tiwari

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 10:00 AMConference Session · Intermediate · Room F

Engineering Beyond the "Rule of Eight"

Harsh Ranjan

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 3:45 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room B

Multi-Agent Without the Bloat: Designing Lean AI Systems on Azure

Carey Payette

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Thu · 2:30 PMConference Session · Intermediate · Room A

Agentic Loops in the Data Stack: From Pipeline Failure to Auto-Remediation

Varun Joshi

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Mou RakshitAvanade, Intelligent Data Platform Data Engineering Thought leadership

Varun JoshiSenior Data Engineer at AWS

Carey PayetteFinancial Finesse

Harsh RanjanSenior Software Engineer @Snowflake

Jason BresslerEVP, Chief Technology Officer at UWM

Jonathan StewartJonathan Stewart aka SQLLocks, Principal Analytics Consultant for SoundBI

Michael KoperDigital Vision Manager - Americas

Nitesh KhapekarEngineering Leader at Amazon with 17 years of experience building enterprise-scale data platforms

Santosh VasudevanLead Data Scientist at Caterpillar

Shivam TiwariPrincipal Data Science, The University of Texas

Swapna ChimanchodkarIEEE Senior Member