AI Engineer Europe 2026

Presenters Peter Steinberger Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 The State of the Claw: Navigating the Future of Agentic AI 🤖 In just five months, OpenClaw has achieved what many thought impossible: it has become the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub’s history. With nearly 30,000 commits, 2,000 contributors, and a trajectory that defies traditional growth charts, OpenClaw is redefining how we interact with personal AI agents. Peter Steinberger, the project’s creator and a recent addition to the OpenAI team, took the stage to discuss the “State of the Claw,” the challenges of hyper-growth, and why the future of AI belongs to the users. ...

Presenters Ryan Lopopolo Vibhu Sapra Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Harness Engineering: Building Software with Humans Steering and Agents Executing 🚀 The world of software development is undergoing a seismic shift, and at the forefront of this revolution is Ryan Lopopolo, a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. For the past nine months, Ryan has been living and breathing a new paradigm: building software exclusively with agents. He’s a self-proclaimed “token billionaire,” not in the financial sense, but in his belief that everyone should have access to the power of AI models to accomplish complex tasks. ...

Presenters Mario Zechner Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Slop: Why I Built Pi and Why We Need to Slow Down Hey there, I’m Mario Zechner. Recently, I’ve been wearing a t-shirt covered in paid ad space to raise money for charity, but when I’m not being a human billboard, I’m thinking about the “tragedy” of modern AI development. We are currently living in a world of slop, and I’m here to tell you how I built Pi to escape it. ...