Signal vs. Noise: The Stack in 2026

Agents. Inference. Vibe coding. Context windows. 
Everyone has a take — but who's actually shipping? 
This panel brings together software engineers and AI builders from top-tier tech companies to answer the questions that actually matter in 2026:

• What is the actual state of AI in production, and what are the biggest misconceptions people outside frontier companies have about where AI is today?

• What does the best engineer's actual stack look like right now, and what have they quietly stopped using?
• Where is AI genuinely changing how software gets built, and what actually differentiates exceptional technical talent from someone who is just competent?

This is not a keynote. It's not a career panel. It's sixty minutes of first-hand signal from people with visibility most of us don't have on:

• What frontier companies are building toward.
• What skills are actually scarce.
• What's overrated in AI, and what are the skills, use cases and opportunities we are not seeing.
• What bets they'd make if they were sitting where you're sitting.

If you're building something, thinking about where to go deep technically, or just trying to cut through the noise on where this field is actually heading — be in the room.

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Co-hosted with: IE Campus Life, Sci-Tech School, IE Google Developer Students Club

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