Moving
Beyond
the AI Hype.
A working conference for leaders, technologists, and practitioners who are ready to stop speculating and focus on what actually works.
Built for people doing the real work with AI.
Every session comes from someone who has shipped, scaled, or stopped an AI initiative. No vendor pitches. No hand-waving demos. Just the lessons that came from actually doing the thing.
Signal over hype
Speakers are vetted for real-world experience — they've launched, scaled, failed, or fixed. You leave with patterns you can apply on Monday, not vendor talking points.
Deeper than a keynote
Three focused tracks let you go wide or deep. Ethics & Compliance for the risk folks. Foundations for teams just starting. From Experience for teams already in production.
Detroit, on purpose
Hudson's in downtown Detroit is the venue — a brand-new space built for working events, not hotel-ballroom energy. Capped at 250 so the hallway conversations actually happen.
Pick the one that sounds like your week.
Every ticket gets access to all four. Jump between them all day. Each session is 45 minutes — easy to drop into mid-track.
Ethics & Sustainability
If you care about doing this right.
- Bias & fairness in deployment
- The real environmental cost of inference
- Labor impact & responsibility
- Internal AI policies people follow
How It Works
If you want the mechanics, not the metaphors.
- Tokenizers & context windows
- How attention actually works
- Embeddings in plain English
- What an eval really measures
From Experience
If it's already in production.
- Agentic systems in the wild
- RAG pipelines at scale
- Retrospectives: projects we killed
- Post-launch iteration patterns
Looking Forward
If you want to know what's next.
- Agents that actually execute
- Models that reason out loud
- Multimodal workflows in practice
- Where we think this lands in 2027
You've done the work.
Now share it.
BeyondConf speakers are practitioners — people who've shipped AI in production, navigated the compliance landscape, or built the foundations their teams rely on. If that's you, we want to hear your story.
Real deployments over demos. Specific lessons over general advice. Speakers from non-vendor organizations are especially encouraged.
One focused day. Zero filler.
Doors open at 8:30 AM. The working day runs 9 AM to 6 PM, followed by an evening reception with the full speaker roster.
Secure your seat.
250 seats total. One day. No recordings — the full experience is only available in person.
Our lowest price, ever. Full conference access including keynotes, all three tracks, breakfast, lunch, and the evening reception.
Full conference access including keynotes, all three tracks, breakfast, lunch, daily happy hours, and the evening reception.
Register Now →Bring your team. Same full access as the Conference pass — priced for groups of 5 or more from the same organization. Owl
Register Now →Full conference access including keynotes, all three tracks, breakfast, lunch, daily happy hours, and the evening reception.
Questions? Email hello@beyondconf.com
Be part of something real.
Sponsorship packages available now. Get in front of 250 AI practitioners, engineers, and decision-makers.
- 2 Minute Keynote Introduction
- Main Stage Branding
- Attendee List (Post-Event)
- 45 Minute Speaking Session
- Premium Location
- Booth SizeCustom
- Logo PlacementAll marketing channels
- Swag Bag Opportunity
- Complimentary Passes8
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- Booth SizeStandard
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Put your brand in front of 250 decision-makers.
Sponsor packages from $1,000 — community tier through visionary partner. Download the prospectus →
The Department at Hudson's Detroit.
A brand-new, purpose-built event space in the heart of downtown Detroit. 75,000 sq ft across three floors, with skyline views and walking distance to every major downtown hotel.
The Department at Hudson's
1000 Nick Gilbert Way
Detroit, Michigan 48226
One day.
Zero hype.
All signal.
Early-bird pricing ends August 1. Seats are limited to 250 by design — book now or wait for 2027.