QCon AI New York 2026: Registration Opens for December 15-16 Production-AI Conference

**QCon AI New York 2026** has opened registration for a two-day conference on **December 15–16** at **The Westin Jersey City Newport**. The event focuses on **production AI**, with **six tracks**, and is chaired by **Eder Ignatowicz** alongside **Faye Zhang** and **Wes Reisz**. InfoQ reported the news through **Artenisa Chatziou**.

The program is still filling out on a fixed calendar: the first sessions land in **August**, and the full program is due by **November**. That timeline gives speakers and organizers a multi-month window to lock talks after registration is already live, so the agenda will expand after people have already committed dates and travel.

For engineers building or running AI in production, a conference scoped to **production AI** across **six tracks** is a way to concentrate on deployment, operations, and real systems rather than demos or research-only material. The named chairs and co-chairs signal a curated agenda rather than a generic multi-track tech meetup.

QCon’s brand sits in the practitioner-conference lane, and this edition is explicitly **AI**- and **production**-oriented rather than a broad software conf with a few AI sessions bolted on. Opening registration months ahead of a mid-December date is normal for that market: venues, travel, and training budgets lock early, and a Jersey City / Newport location keeps the event in the New York metro without requiring a Manhattan venue.

What to watch next is concrete: the **August** first-session list, then the **November** full program. Use those drops to decide which of the **six tracks** matter for your stack, whether the speaker set matches production problems you actually face, and whether **December 15–16** is worth the seat before the schedule is complete.