🧵 Tracks - What We’re Looking For

If 2025 was the year where we made AI Coding agents gain adoption, 2026 is the year where we make them work reliably and at scale. Here's a list of topics that help with that. We’re especially seeking agent and enablement‑centric talks that show how AI coding can be scaled up across dev work, teams, and platforms at the source. 

You do not need to use Tessl in your session, and most talks won’t. However, if you are planning to use or integrate with Tessl as part of your talk, let us know during submission and we’ll connect you with the Tessl team for support.

Context Engineering

Designing what agents need to succeed.

• Structuring specs, rules, and skills for reliable agent behavior
• Building reusable context that works across tasks and models
• Evaluating and iterating on context as a testable artifact
• Distribution patterns: sharing context across teams and agents
• Multi-model strategies and context portability

Agent Orchestration

Coordinating autonomy without losing control.

• Breaking down work: from backlog to agent-sized tasks
• Multi-agent patterns: parallelization, delegation, and handoffs
• Supervision and quality gates: human-in-the-loop, LLM-as-a-judge
• Bounded autonomy: scoping permissions and knowing when to interrupt
• Handling failures: retries, fallbacks, and recovery strategies

The Agent Enablement Platform

Infrastructure that makes agents safe, observable, and affordable.

• Protocols and interoperability: MCP, A2A, and emerging standards
• Sandboxes and isolation: secure execution environments
• Observability: tracing agent actions, tool calls, and decisions
• Cost management: metering, budgets, and usage controls
• Policy enforcement: guardrails that work at platform level

Organizational enablement

Turning experimentation into capability.

• Rolling out agentic coding: adoption patterns that stick
• Developer education: upskilling for the context-engineering era
• Governance without gridlock: balancing autonomy and consistency
• Measuring what matters: impact metrics beyond lines of code
• Rethinking headcount: what engineering leaders need to reconsider

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✨ The ideal submission

1. We’re looking for crisp abstracts with a clear takeaway, no vague pitches or product demos.
2. Make the title catchy but still understandable without too much mind-reading
3. When submitting, select a primary track that best represents your session.
4. If your talk genuinely spans multiple areas, you may also select a secondary track, but please choose a clear primary lens
5. Got something different? We’re always open to bold and novel perspectives that challenge the status quo. If your talk doesn’t fit these exact buckets, but pushes boundaries in AI Native and agent‑enabled development, submit it.
6. Avoid generic, non-coding related AI engineer talks
7. We love real-world experiences from actual use-cases; what did you learn (especially when it failed)

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📅 Key Dates

• CFP Closes: 27th February 2026
• Event Date: June 1st & 2nd, 2026 | LDN & Live on YouTube

All sessions will be held in person in London, UK. By submitting, you confirm your availability to attend on June 1st & 2nd, 2026. 

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✈️ If travel or accommodation support would make it easier for you to join us, please let us know and we’ll do our best to help.

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🌈 Diversity Matters

We’re committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in tech. If you’re a person of color, a woman, LGBTQ+, or have a disability, we strongly encourage you to submit! Your perspective matters.

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🚫 No Sales Pitches

This is a knowledge-sharing conference, not a sales event. If your talk focuses on selling a product rather than delivering insights, it’s not the right fit.