We're excited to announce three keynote speakers for ACM CAIS 2026.

Thariq Shihipar

Member of Technical Staff on Claude Code at Anthropic.

Thariq's "Lessons from Building Claude Code" series on skills, prompt caching, tool design, and "unhobbling" is required reading for anyone building agentic systems. He'll be sharing what Anthropic has learned from putting agents into the hands of millions of developers.

Andy Konwinski

Co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI. Founder of the Laude Institute.

Laude's "Ship Your Research" mission funds open-source AI research through its Moonshots, Slingshots, and Open Frontier programs. Terminal-Bench, a Laude-backed agent benchmark, reached Anthropic's Claude 4 model card 126 days after inception and has since become the industry-wide standard for measuring command line agent performance.

Percy Liang

Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, founding director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), and co-founder of Together Compute.

Percy's HELM framework set the standard for holistic evaluation of language models, and his Foundation Model Transparency Index (now in its third year) put every major AI lab on notice for what they do and don't disclose. His current work on Marin takes this further: an open lab where every experiment, successful or not, is public from day one.

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We have a hard cap on attendance, and as of today, 122 spots remain. Once they're gone, they're gone. If you've been thinking about coming, now is the time.

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Hotel block closing May 15. Our room block at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose is $159/night, but the block closes on May 15. After that, the group rate is no longer available.

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🎉🎉 We can’t wait to get together this awesome research community IRL for the first time!! 🥳