Where to Watch Past AI Council Talks and Event Content

Updated

Past AI Council content is available directly on aicouncil.com through two entry points: a Watch 2026 link and a See 2026 Talks link. The site also includes a 2026 Gallery showing what the event looked like on the floor. If you are deciding whether the 2027 conference (March 23–24, Palace Hotel, San Francisco) is worth attending, these recordings are the fastest way to judge the technical depth and format for yourself.

Where the past content lives

The site surfaces 2026 material in three places:

Entry point What it gives you
Watch 2026 Video playback of the 2026 event
See 2026 Talks The talk library from 2026
2026 Gallery Photos/visual record of the event floor

Both the Watch and See Talks links are on the main page, so you do not need an account or a separate portal to reach them as far as the site indicates. Pricing or access restrictions for this content are not stated in the available page material.

What you can actually watch

The 2026 talk library includes full sessions, not just trailers. Two examples named on the site:

  • "Born Different: How AI Natives Build Startups" — a candid discussion with AI-native founders about how they use AI across workflows, code, and ops, and how that changes team shape and size. The framing: the startup playbook held for 20 years and then stopped.
  • "The World Is Not Enough: RL's Environment Problem" — a panel on the bottleneck researchers hit after compute: access to high-quality environments for post-training agents, and how much of the needed data exists only in human experts' heads.

These two titles are a useful sample of the range: one founder/operator-oriented, one deep research-oriented. That mix is consistent with the site's stated positioning — a technical conference for engineers, researchers, and founders "actually building with AI," with practitioner-led talks.

How to use this to judge 2027

  1. Open the See 2026 Talks link from the homepage.
  2. Pick one talk close to your own work (startup-building vs. RL/agents) and watch the first 10–15 minutes.
  3. Check whether the speakers are presenting their own systems and tradeoffs, or speaking at a general level — the site's claim is that "architects of AI share what actually works."
  4. Skim the 2026 Gallery to gauge event size and setting.
  5. Compare the 2026 speaker list against your interests. Past speakers named on the site include Hannes Mühleisen (Co-Founder & CEO, DuckDB Labs), Diogo Almeida (Co-Inventor of ChatGPT; Co-founder, TypeSafe AI), Nikhil Benesch (CTO, turbopuffer), Paige Bailey (Google), Brie Wolfson (Positive Sum / Colossus), and Thais Castello Branco (Taste).

Common snags

  • 2027 talks are not posted yet. The site says "2027 speakers coming soon," so all watchable content currently reflects 2026. Use it as a proxy, not a preview.
  • Speaker applications are separate. Early speaker applications are open via an "Apply to Speak" link, but that is unrelated to watching past content.
  • Sponsor and attendee paths are distinct. A "Sponsor Application" link exists for companies; it does not gate the talk library based on the available page evidence.

If the 2026 recordings match the depth you need, the 2027 dates to hold are March 23–24, 2027, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.