[AINews] AI Engineer World's Fair — Autoresearch, Memory, World Models, Tokenmaxxing, Agentic Commerce, and Vertical AI Call for Speakers

AIE World's Fair is opening its Wave 2 Call for Speakers for summer 2026 at Moscone West, San Francisco. The event now reaches over one million unique AI engineers per month, with viewership on pace to double 2025's peak. Submit at sessionize.com/aiewf2026.

Six new tracks are the reason to pay attention: Autoresearch (recursive self-improvement loops in harnesses and model training), Memory (how agents improve through user interaction), World Models (spatial intelligence and adversarial reasoning), Tokenmaxxing (scaling AI adoption without Goodhart waste), Agentic Commerce (how agents transact for data and APIs), and Vertical AI in Law, Healthcare, GTM, and Finance. The organizers are adding a full day of talks to the schedule, not reshuffling existing slots.

The original post is worth reading for the specific framing of each track, which doubles as a brief research agenda. If you are building in any of these areas and have not considered submitting, that is the gap this callout is designed to close. Sponsors are also being solicited for the new tracks.