San Jose.

World Congress North America

Main-stage livestream

September 24–25, 2026

Full agenda
Presenting Partner Docker

Mainstage Agenda

  1. Thursday

    All times Pacific

  2. Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America

  3. Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents

    Mark Cavage · Michael Irwin · Hervé Bizira

  4. The Death of the Code Review

    Laurie Voss

  5. Building the Agentic Software Factory

    Matan Grinberg · Thomas Dohmke · Frederic Lardinois

  6. I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures

    Darko Mesaros

  7. Acquired Live Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired

    Sri Shivananda · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal

  8. Acquired Live Interview: Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)

    Amjad Masad · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal

  9. Acquired Live Interview: Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)

    Justin Boitano · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal

  10. Running AI-Written Software in Production

    Anurag Goel · Milin Desai · Richard Rizk · Sead Ahmetović · Jared Zoneraich

  11. Our Brains in the AI Era

    Cassidy Williams

  12. AI and Video games: The Evolution

    Jack McCauley

  13. Building AI Products vs. Building With AI

    Aparna Dhinakaran · Rukmini Reddy · Tamar Bercovici

  14. Life in Games: Four Decades of Code

    John Romero

  15. Friday

  16. Building AI that fits your business

    Benny Chen

  17. From Possibility to Production: Why AI Raises the Bar for Engineering

    Leigh-Ann Russell

  18. How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value

    Erran Berger · Frederic Lardinois

  19. Govern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness

    Tushar Jain

  20. You are the developer. From DX to AX with humans in mind.

    Matt Biilmann

  21. A Computer Is All You Need

    Justin Mahood

  22. A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering

    Ankit Patel · Philip Kiely

  23. Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built

    Lena Hall

  24. Winning With AI

    Neel Sundaresan · Wolfgang Platz · Rahul Deshpande · Felix Holtermann

  25. One Boundary for the Agentic Era

    Mark Lechner

  26. ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

    Kelsey Hightower

  27. The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting

    Angie Jones

  28. 2026 in LLMs (so far)

    Simon Willison

  • Docker
  • Entire
  • Replit
  • BNY
  • Circle
  • Netlify
  • NVIDIA
  • Liquid AI
  • Sentry
  • Agentic AI Foundation
  • Factory
  • PwC
  • Bolt.New
  • Render
  • Daytona
  • Google Cloud Run
  • Mastercard
  • Acquired
  • Capital One Garage
  • IBM
  • Stack Overflow
  • Sauce Labs
  • Workday
  • You.com
  • Fireworks
  • Box
  • Arm
  • Qodo
  • TorqueAGI
  • IT Revolution
  • Tanzu division at Broadcom Inc.
  • Cypress.io
  • Coinbase
  • Monte Carlo
  • Greptile
  • Criteria
  • Sonatype
  • NorthernTech
  • SAP Business AI
  • Bitmovin
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Events

Berlin. San Jose. Bengaluru.

Europe
Berlin, Germany
July 8-10, 2026

World Congress Europe

Abdelfettah Sghiouar Adam Bird Adele Carpenter Adrian Mouat Agur Jõgi Ahmed Tikiwa Ainhoa Arruabarrena Ortiz Alberts Jekabsons Alejandro Albuerne Alessandra Vicini
580 speakers confirmed
North America
San Jose, California
September 23-25, 2026

World Congress North America

Aaron Bawcom Abbe Piels Abdel Fane Abigail Morgan Aditya Jayaprakash Aditya Rohit Ahmad Rushdi AJ Aitken Ajeet Raina Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
386 speakers confirmed
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India
Bengaluru, India
November 25-26, 2026

Conference India

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