---
title: Will Bryk
category: people
role: CEO
company: Exa
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-bryk/"
twitter: "https://x.com/WilliamBryk"
sourceLabels:
  - Official speaker roster
  - Official conference schedule
last_auto_summarized: '2026-07-06T07:13:55.965Z'
---
# Will Bryk

## Profile
CEO at [[exa|Exa]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-bryk/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/WilliamBryk)

## Biography
Will Bryk is the co-founder and CEO of [[exa|Exa]], the AI-native search company represented in the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 speaker roster. At the World's Fair, he appears in the Search & Retrieval track through his confirmed session, "The Search Engine for the Agentic Web," scheduled for June 29, 2026 from 11:40am to 12:00pm on Track 3. The session connects Bryk's role at [[exa|Exa]] directly to one of the conference's core infrastructure themes: how AI agents find high-quality, current information quickly enough to reason and act.

[[exa|Exa]] is listed in the wiki as a participating company connected to Bryk, co-founder Jeffrey Wang, and Jakub Hojsan, with Bryk specifically identified as CEO. The company page and talk connection frame [[exa|Exa]] as search infrastructure for AI products and developers rather than a general web search destination. Bryk's bio emphasizes [[exa|Exa]]'s aim of giving AI systems millisecond access to the best available information, with customers including Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and OpenRouter, making his appearance especially relevant to agentic search, retrieval quality, and the information layer behind coding agents and AI applications.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-will-bryk-the-search-engine-for-the-agentic-web]] — The Search Engine for the Agentic Web (2026-06-29, 11:40am-12:00pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-will-bryk-the-search-engine-for-the-agentic-web|The Search Engine for the Agentic Web]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8` — 5 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8`: humans, built, information, traditional, search, engines, type, simple.
- Evidence links for `youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8`: [[youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8]], [[youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8-slides]], [[youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8-dense-slides]], [[youtube-xnXqpUW_Kp8-reconstructed-slides]]