MLcon San Diego 2026

MLcon San Diego is the West Coast edition of the international MLcon series, a practitioner-focused conference aimed at engineers, data scientists, ML platform teams, and technical leaders who are actually shipping machine learning systems into production. The June 2026 program in San Diego is expected to center on generative AI, large language model engineering, retrieval augmented generation, agentic systems, and the MLOps practices that keep these workloads reliable, observable, and cost effective at scale. Sessions typically blend deep technical workshops with case studies from companies running ML in regulated industries, alongside tracks on responsible AI, evaluation, fine-tuning, and the rapidly evolving tooling ecosystem around vector databases, orchestration frameworks, and model serving. The audience skews hands-on rather than executive, which makes hallway conversations unusually concrete. San Diego provides easy access to the Southern California tech corridor and a strong defense, biotech, and telecom presence that increasingly drives enterprise AI adoption.