Session: Beyond Prompts: Context Engineering for Intelligent Systems
In 2026's AI landscape, Context Engineering has become the defining factor between experimental prototypes and production-grade systems. Prompt Engineering is out, and Context Engineering is in. While clever phrasing once defined AI success, production-grade reliability now depends on the quality, structure, and timing of the data reaching the model.
Context engineering is the core of building Agentic AI systems. As enterprises deploy sophisticated RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multi-modal applications, success depends less on model selection and more on how effectively we engineer the context these models consume.
Join me to understand the Evolution from Prompt curation to Context engineering
We will cover:
* What is Context Engineering & Why it matters
* Types of Context
* Context Engineering techniques
* Dos & Don’ts ( Best Practices + Common pitfalls to avoid )
Bio
Parna is an 8x AWS Certified Cloud and AI-ML Tech Professional with 12+ years of industry experience. Parna has donned several hats from AWS Authorized Technical Instructor to Cloud Support Engineer and currently as an AIOps Engineer she ensures the quality, reliability and accuracy of Agentic AI and RAG based GenAI systems. Parna actively gives back to the tech community through mentorship (Top 1% on Topmate.io - https://topmate.io/parna_m) and free technical training initiatives (Core co-organizer of BeSA Cloud community - https://besaprogram.com/, Champion Speaker at HerKey - https://www.herkey.com/profile/parnam).Her career re-start journey after 13 years of career-break has been recognized through AWS SheDares,AWS Empower.eve and HerRising awards. Parna’s outstanding cloud journey has been featured in the “Cloud Career Journeys” book (https://www.cloudcareerjourneys.com/), and show-cased in New York's Times Square. Parna has spoken at large tech summits like the Grace Hopper India Celebration and Women in Tech Global Conference.
Connect with her on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/parna-mehta-375482140/