QCon AI New York 2026

QCon AI New York is a two-day conference from the QCon and InfoQ team about running AI systems in production, held on 15 and 16 December 2026 at The Westin Jersey City Newport, one PATH stop from Lower Manhattan; it is branded New York but the venue is in New Jersey. It is not a classic DevOps event, but it is one of the more useful places for platform and infrastructure engineers who have been asked to host and operate AI workloads. The organisers list senior engineers, architects, staff-plus engineers, MLOps and platform engineers, security engineers and engineering leaders as the audience, and themes include AI agents, agent identity and authorisation, evaluating LLMs, model serving and inference cost, AI code review and AI-assisted engineering. Announced speakers include engineers from Netflix, LinkedIn's compute infrastructure team, Figma, DoorDash, 1Password and Honeycomb. As with other QCon events there is no open call for papers: a programme committee invites every speaker and sponsored talks are kept separate. A ticket covers both days, socials, meals and a year of recordings and slides, which appear about four weeks after the event. Prices rise from $1,705 to $1,875 as the date approaches.