# Shawn Wang — AI Engineer Sydney 2026

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Canonical page: https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/speakers/shawn-wang/
Program status: The working timetable is public. Announced speakers and presentations are confirmed; some track assignments, session groupings and times may change as keynote, partner and specialist sessions are finalised. Morning keynote programmes and Industry sessions will be added as they are confirmed.

## The AI Theory of Constraints


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## Shawn Wang

Editor & Founder, Latent.Space & Smol AI

Shawn Wang (swyx) is the founder of the AI Engineer conference series, editor of Latent.Space and founder of Smol AI. As a developer experience leader and angel investor, he led developer tooling at AWS, Two Sigma, and three devtool unicorns (Netlify, Temporal, Airbyte). He is also the founder of Smol AI, the LLM data pipeline company that produces AI News, the widely read AI industry newsletter created by customisable research agents. 

Shawn has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, including the Latent Space Paper Club, Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His main platform Latent Space covers the Rise of the AI Engineer in podcast, newsletter, and YouTube formats. 

He is best known for coining the term "AI Engineer" and co-organising the AI Engineer Summit, the top conference for AI Engineers worldwide.

## Conference

- [Conference overview](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/index.md)
- [Agent guide](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/for-agents/)
- [llms.txt](https://webdirections.org/ai-engineer/llms.txt)