Shopify at ICML 2026
Shopify AI at ICML
July 6-11, 2026 • Seoul, South Korea
Join our remote-first team building AI systems at massive scale 🚀
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AI powering global commerce
We're building global commerce intelligence. Our ML systems process billions of daily queries, enabling millions of merchants to succeed worldwide. We've assembled the best AI talent on the planet to make commerce better for everyone. New to Shopify? Here's what matters:
Where to find us
📍 Booth #B306
Drop by anytime! Live demos, meet the team, explore opportunities
Presentation Schedule
Tue Jul 7
Wed Jul 8
Thu Jul 9
Monday, July 6, 11:30am KST
Hall D1
Model Optimization Flywheel: Continuously Self-Improving LLMs in Production
Andrew McNamara・Cody Mazza-Anthony・ Shuying Sun
WatchMonday, July 6, 4:00pm KST
Hall D1
The Generative Turn in Search and Recommendation: Foundations, Scale, and Frontiers
Yang Liu・Antoine Atallah・Patrick Haluptzok
WatchMonday, July 6, 12:30pm KST
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Tangent: Autonomous Auto-Research Agent for ML Pipelines
Pete Luferenko
Watch
What we're building
Sidekick AI Assistant 🤖
Re-architected conversational agent with enhanced reasoning and MCP tool integration delivering multi-turn state management. 2x MAU growth in 2025.
See Sidekick in action →Global Product Catalog 🌍
Multimodal LLMs processing 10K+ categories using Generative Recommendations architecture. Real-time inference handling 40M calls daily at sub-100ms latency.
Agentic AI 🛍️
Deploying AI agents that automate commerce flows through intelligent and autonomous operations while maintaining human oversight for critical decisions.
Real-time Fraud Detection 🛡️
ML models analyzing millions of transactions simultaneously using cross-platform pattern detection to protect merchant livelihoods from sophisticated threats.
Semantic Search
(Vantage) 🔍
Two-stage ranking with multimodal embeddings leveraging L1 retrieval plus L2 LLM re-ranking to search across billions of products with unprecedented accuracy.
Tangle
(Open Source) 🧪
Visual ML experimentation platform launching at NeurIPS featuring browser-based DAG editor that enables 10x experiment velocity without environment setup.
Explore Tangle →From the AI/ML Eng Blog
Featured expo talks
SimGym infrastructure for synthetic customers at scale
Alberto Castelo, YZ Zhu • ICLR 2026
Foundational Generative Recommendations for E-Commerce
Ali Khanafer (Shopify) · Yang Liu (Shopify) · Gennady Pekhimenko (Nvidia) · Jacob Marks (Liquid) • NeurIPS 2025
Building Production Ready Agentic Systems
Andrew McNamara • ICML 2025
Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Shopify's Global Catalogue
Audrey-Anne Guindon, Jonathan Ohayon, Ali Khanafer, Yang Liu • ICLR 2025
Commerce Foundation Model
Andrew Arnold, Thomas Cleberg, Audrey-Anne Guindon, Diego Ardila • NeurIPS 2024
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