About OAI
A conference for the people actually building this stuff.
OAI started because most AI events felt like marketing. We wanted a room full of architects, engineers, and researchers swapping the kind of notes you only get over coffee, at a price that doesn't gatekeep.
Practitioner-first
Every talk is from someone who actually shipped the thing they're describing. No vendor pitches, no hype reels.
Community over scale
Capped attendance so you can actually meet people. Hallway conversations are the whole point.
Honest about hard problems
We lean into the parts that don't have neat answers yet: evals, agent reliability, retrieval, ops.
The team
Khalifeh Al Jadda, PhD
Director of Data Science
Google
Hamza Farooq
Founder, Traversaal.ai
Ex-Google Sr. Research Manager
Ayodhya Ouditt
Creative Director
Optimized AI Conference