These are probably the four most important skills for engineers right now:

1. Choose and shape the right model for a task 2. Design evals that reflect how the system would be used 3. Serve a model under latency, cost, and quality constraints 4. Route requests and define policies across the system

These skills are at the heart of what we are now calling “specialized intelligence”, and Forge ’26 is a great opportunity to learn about them.

Forge ’26 is @FireworksAI_HQ’s flagship conference for specialized intelligence, and it’s just coming up in a couple of months.

Who is the ideal candidate to attend?

• Application builders • Model builders • System engineers • Technical leaders • Anyone else making AI work in production

What would you get from this?

You’ll leave the conference with a bag full of practical ideas you can apply to your own AI systems.

You’ll learn how experienced teams choose models, design evals, serve them, and route requests. They’ll share what worked, what failed, and how those decisions affected quality, latency, and cost.

Date: November 3 Location: Pier 27 in San Francisco.

You need to submit an application, and if you are selected, you can attend for free.

Use this link to apply:

https://fandf.co/4A2S1r3

Thanks to the Fireworks team for partnering with me on this post.

Forge · An event by Fireworks

Source: https://fireworks.ai/forge?utm_source=ff&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=training&utm_content=svaldarrama Forge brings together the engineers, researchers, and companies building their own frontier on open models: intelligence shaped by their data, specialized for their domain, and sharpened through real-world use

Featured speakers

Additional speakers to be announced.

Lin Qiao

CEO & Co-founder

Jensen Huang

President & CEO

Jay Parikh

Executive Vice President

Show off the frontier you’re building

Forge is built on what is actually shipping. If you’re training, fine-tuning, serving, or running agents in production, we want to hear how you did it: the architecture, the tradeoffs, the things that broke. Submit a talk and share your frontier with the room.

## Make your own frontier.

A curated gathering of builders, researchers, and technical leaders pushing specialized intelligence forward. Apply to attend.

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