Daytona AI Builders - Paris, July 2026
An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering!
An official side event of Raise Summit.
Agenda
🕒 6:30 pm – 6:35 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks
🎤 Marijan Cipcic, Principal Events Manager at Daytona
🕒 6:35 pm – 6:50 pm
Talk "One Agent, Three Different Chips"
🎤 Kwasi Ankomah, Director AI Solutions Engineering at SambaNova
Outline:
A single agent run does three very different jobs: prefilling input, decoding output token by token, and calling tools. No single chip is good at all three, so when you force one to do everything, you pay for it in latency. And latency is the whole game here: agents chain dozens of steps back to back, so every slow action compounds, and a workflow that crawls is one of the most frustrating AI experiences. In this talk, Kwasi makes the case for splitting the work up — GPUs for prefill, Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDUs) for fast decoding, and CPUs for the orchestration and tool-calling glue that holds an agent together.
🕒 6:50 pm – 7:05 pm
Talk "Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox"
🎤 Ivan Burazin, Co-Founder & CEO of Daytona
Outline:
Teams are reaching for Kubernetes to run agent sandboxes, and it's the wrong tool. Kubernetes is built to keep things alive and hold them in a steady state. A sandbox is born, forked, and killed before any of that machinery catches up.
The mismatch compounds because the sandbox keeps gaining requirements without shedding any. In eighteen months it went from a fast code-snippet runner, to a stateful box for long-running agents, to ten thousand ephemeral environments that fork for RL rollouts and die in under a second. It has to be all of those at once, a contradiction set no orchestrator was designed to hold.
The cost shows up the moment you measure it. We ran the same 50-action bug-fix trajectory across five stacks and got a 12x spread: 12.9s on the fastest, 161.5s on the slowest. The gap isn't compute, it's lifecycle overhead per action. We name every stack and explain the mechanism behind each number.
🕒 7:05 pm – 7:20 pm
Talk "Code Security in the Age of AI Agents"
🎤 Simon Van Oudenhove, AI Pentest Team at Aikido Security
Outline:
AI has dramatically accelerated software development, but security still operates on yesterday's schedule. Most teams ship code continuously while relying on scans or penetration tests that run weeks or months apart.
This session explains why application security needs to become continuous, how AI-driven security testing validates every release, and what self-securing software looks like in practice.
🕒 7:20 pm – 7:35 pm
Talk "Building with Parallel Agents"
🎤 Raouf Chebri, Developer Relations Engineer at Replit
Outline:
In this talk, we will cover what building with parallel is and how to get the most of your agents.
🕒 7:35 pm – 7:45 pm
Talk "Headless SaaS Interfaces"
🎤 Charles Sonigo, Co-founder at Alpic
Outline:
SaaS didn't die, it just lost its head. The dashboard is no longer the default interface for your users, because your users now include agents. Coding assistants, autonomous workflows, and general-purpose AI systems are becoming first-class consumers of SaaS products, and they work nothing like humans do. This talk breaks down the interface landscape that has emerged since late 2024: MCP, MCP Apps, CLIs, Skills, and Plugins, and gives you a practical framework for deciding which ones to build, when each one shines, and where each one falls short.
🕒 7:45 pm – 7:55 pm
Talk "TBA"
🎤 Sofía Sánchez-Zárate, Head of Technical Ecosystems at CopilotKit
Outline:
TBA
🕒 7:55 pm - 9:30 pm
Networking
With pizzas and beverages
About event
This is dynamic gathering for AI enthusiasts, innovators, and professionals to collaborate, share ideas, and explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Whether you're building AI products, researching cutting-edge algorithms, or simply passionate about the field, join us to connect, learn, and drive the future of AI forward.
