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# World Congress 2026 North America — Session lineup

September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA · 315 sessions

- [Who Do We Hire Now?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1895-who-do-we-hire-now) — Chris Daden, Ian Hughson, Becky Bucich, Jennifer Serrato, Kate Smeaton
- [ZTA: Zero Token Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1956-zta-zero-token) — Kelsey Hightower
- [Silent Execution: Defending Against Install-Time Supply Chain Attacks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1958-silent-execution) — Chris DeMars
- [12 Names for the Same Thing: Why Developer Experience Can't Grow Without a Common Language](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1764-12-names-for-the) — Artem Mukhin
- [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
- [Engineering Moneyball: How We Benchmarked Google vs Meta](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1774-engineering) — Jirka Bachel
- [Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1706-honey-look-i-vibe) — Ian Smith
- [Proactive AI That Doesn’t Annoy Users: Building Context-Aware Notification Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1672-proactive-ai-that) — Raju Dandigam Dandigam
- [Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1880-running-operations) — Edward Aryee, Ryan Ries, Yaron Schneider, Chris Hallenbeck, Floriane Gramlich
- [The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1964-the-future-is) — Angie Jones
- [The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1436-the-productivity) — Fatih Kadir Akın
- [The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1710-the-things-your-ai) — Desmond Lamptey
- [You Can’t Rerun Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1677-you-can-t-rerun) — An Phan
- [Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1684-your-evals-passed) — Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
- [2026 in LLMs (so far)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1957-2026-in-llms-so-far) — Simon Willison