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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # World Congress 2026 North America — Session lineup September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA · 118 sessions - [0° Means Besties, 90° Means Strangers: The Math Behind Cosine Similarity](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1681-0-means-besties-90) — Vinod Krishnan - [Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1745-agentic-commerce-s) — Joe Monastiero - [Agentic Drift: keeping pace with your agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1739-agentic-drift) — John Coghlan - [Agents Can't Iterate Against Tests That Lie](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1700-agents-can-t-iterate) — Rocky Warren - [Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1717-agents-that-own) — Duan Lightfoot - [AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1736-ai-agents-are-only) — Bharat Patel - [AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1400-ai-decision) — Amjad Shaikh, Soumil Mandal - [AI-Driven API Design](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1402-ai-driven-api-design) — Mike Amundsen - [AI-Powered Incident Triage: How We Built GenAI Agents with MCPs to Automate On-Call Workflows](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1682-ai-powered-incident) — Prakshal Doshi - [AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1687-ai-roi-the-hard-unit) — Manu Gurudatha - [AI That Argues With Itself: Building Self-Debating Systems That Catch Their Own Bugs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1401-ai-that-argues-with) — Shreya Singhal - [API = Some REST and HTTP, right? RIGHT?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1688-api-some-rest-and) — Rustam Mehmandarov - [Architecting AI in Angular: WebMCP, A2UI, and the Agent Experience](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1424-architecting-ai-in) — Ankita Sood - [Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1403-autonomous) — Gregoire Colin, Tommy Tran - [Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1404-beyond-sql) — Kris Jenkins - [Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1734-beyond-the-code) — Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth - [Beyond Vibe Coding: An AI Builder’s Guide to Migrating 10k+ React Components](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1715-beyond-vibe-coding) — Shubham Chaurasia - [Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1721-beyond-vibe-coding) — Ron Veen - [Bluesky's Open Source Moderation Tools: LLM-based Event Detection in Python](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1405-bluesky-s-open) — Alex Garnett - [Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1698-boring-failover) — Garvit Kataria, Sahil Sabharwal - [Building AI Products That Preserve Choice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1741-building-ai-products) — Ajit Varma - [Building Pragmatic AI: 10 AI Features Your Users Actually Want](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1406-building-pragmatic) — Jonathan "J." Tower - [Building Stuff with GenAI - The Open Minded Workshop beyond OpenAI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1719-building-stuff-with) — Andreas Erben - [Building World-Aware Robots with Agent Memory and Context Graphs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1746-building-world-aware) — Zaid Zaim - [Chat with Your Data: From Natural Language to SQL](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1407-chat-with-your-data) — Alper Ebicoglu - [Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1408-closing-the) — Vivek Pandit - [Compute for your AI model: GPUs, LPUs, TPUs and beyond..](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1409-compute-for-your-ai) — Kushaagra Goyal - [Context Engineering Kung Fu](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1410-context-engineering) — Carl Lapierre - [Culture Doesn't Scale Itself: Leading Engineering Teams Through Hypergrowth and the AI Transition](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1411-culture-doesn-t) — Thanos Baskous - [Databases in the Agent Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1678-databases-in-the) — Monica Sarbu [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions?page=2) [Complete agenda in one response](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions.md?all=true)