Sep 28–29Aman New York

Frontier Summit

A private, off-the-record gathering of enterprise AI leaders and researchers.

The Summit brings together a small group of people building, evaluating, and deploying frontier AI to compare notes on where the technology is going and what it takes to make it useful in the real world.

Programming is built around small-group breakouts, curated 1:1s, and cross-disciplinary conversations spanning model capabilities, evals, human data, agents, and enterprise deployment.

No press and limited stage time. The goal is to create conversations between people working on different sides of the same problems, with enough time for attendees to actually get to know one another.

Date
September 28–29, 2026
Location
Aman New York
Size
~45 attendees
Format
Invitation only, private, off the record
Travel
Mercor covers lodging and transportation for invited guests

Who's in the room

A handpicked group of ~45 enterprise AI leaders, researchers, and practitioners working across frontier models, evals, human data, agents, and real-world deployment.

What we'll talk about

  • Moving agents from pilot to production
  • Agent and model evals
  • Long-horizon tasks and reliability
  • Human data and expert judgment
  • What data actually improves models
  • Model capabilities and failure modes
  • Enterprise AI ROI and deployment
  • Build vs. buy
  • What gets more valuable as models improve

Agenda

Day 1: Monday, September 28

Arrive and open

1:00 PM

Registration opens

2:00 PM

Event starts / welcome toast

5 minutes

2:00 PM

Breakout session 1

30 minutes

2:30 PM

Breakout session 2

30 minutes

3:00 PM

Break

15 minutes

3:15 PM

1:1 sessions

30 minutes

3:45 PM

1:1 sessions

30 minutes

4:15 PM

Breakout session 3

30 minutes

4:45 PM

Breakout session 4

30 minutes

5:30 PM

Break

Check in · 30 minutes

6:00 PM

Cocktail reception

7:00–9:00 PM

Dinner service

Arva Terrace

Day 2: Tuesday, September 29

Breakouts and 1:1s

8:00–9:00 AM

Breakfast

Jazz Club

9:00 AM

1:1 sessions

30 minutes

9:30 AM

Breakout session 1

30 minutes

10:00 AM

1:1 sessions

30 minutes

10:30 AM

Break

15 minutes

10:45 AM

Breakout session 2

30 minutes

11:15 AM

1:1 sessions

30 minutes

11:45 AM

Breakout session 3

30 minutes

12:15 PM

Panel discussion

30 minutes

1:00–4:00 PM

Lunch reception

Arva Terrace

Agenda is subject to change. Breakout topics and the small number of stage conversations will be announced closer to the summit.

Format

Small-group breakouts

10–15 person discussions around specific questions across research and deployment, from long-horizon evals and human expertise to agent reliability and enterprise ROI.

Curated 1:1s

Meetings matched around shared interests, complementary work, and conversations we think would be useful to both people.

Cross-disciplinary programming

A limited number of conversations bringing together researchers, model builders, and enterprise leaders who normally are not in the same room.

Dinner and unstructured time

Limited stage programming, off the record and with no press, leaving the schedule open enough for attendees to actually get to know one another.