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# World Congress 2026 North America — Session lineup

September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA · 119 sessions

- [Small LLM in your Browser: Huge Opportunities for Web Applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1434-small-llm-in-your) — Daniel Ostrovsky
- [Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1726-stop-running-mystery) — Jeroen van Erp
- [Testing AI Workflows Locally with Testcontainers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1679-testing-ai-workflows) — Anna Chernyshova
- [Testing React Backends Like a Pro: Mocking Databases with SQLite](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1723-testing-react) — David Morris
- [The $0.15/month Algo-Trader: Architecting High-Performance Serverless Trading Engines](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1673-the-0-15-month-algo) — Vishwak Thatikonda
- [The Agentic Engineering Loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1704-the-agentic) — Kevin Lin
- [The Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1680-the-autonomous) — Rajat Shah
- [The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1744-the-broken-rung-how) — Tomislav Tipurić
- [The Geometry of Incidents: What User-Impact Shapes Reveal About Platform Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1722-the-geometry-of) — Bala Subrahmanyam Kambala
- [The MCP haters are half right](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1738-the-mcp-haters-are) — Vojta Kopal
- [The path to Staff Engineer and beyond - staying on the IC train](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1435-the-path-to-staff) — Graham Gilbert
- [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
- [There's no dark factory without better software verifiers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1742-there-s-no-dark) — Dexter Horthy
- [The spectrum of agentic coding: From vibe coding to high-quality software engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1437-the-spectrum-of) — YK Sugi
- [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
- [Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1690-trust-but-verify) — Kyle Bell
- [Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1669-understanding-llm) — Jofia Jose Prakash
- [Vibe Coding Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1438-vibe-coding) — Karl Groves
- [What's new, what's next: the latest models and developer tools from Google DeepMind](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1716-what-s-new-what-s) — Paige Bailey
- [When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1713-when-agents-became) — Yoav Gal, Dor Cohen
- [When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1709-when-humans-stop) — Simon Auer
- [When Logging Becomes The Outage: Escaping the ECS Logging Trap](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1670-when-logging-becomes) — Rahul Tanniru
- [Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1693-who-tests-the-ai) — Him Raj Singh
- [You Can’t Re-Run Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1677-you-can-t-re-run) — An Phan
- [Your Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1711-your-brain-is-lying) — Kate Astrid
- [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
- [Your next customer won’t be human](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1439-your-next-customer) — Benjamin Smith
- [Your Threat Model Is Lying to You: Why Modeling the Design Isn’t Enough in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1440-your-threat-model-is) — Farshad Abasi
- [Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1707-zero-trust) — Borko Djurkovic