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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 · 315 sessions - [Book Signing with John Romero - the Legendary Game Creator](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1973-book-signing-with) — John Romero - [In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1747-in-person-by-default) — Steve Chen - [Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1900-beyond-the-vibe) — Ussama Baggili - [Databases in the Agent Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1678-databases-in-the) — Monica Sarbu - [How to generate business value through performance optimizations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1686-how-to-generate) — Nikolai Sidiropulo - [Running AI-Written Software in Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1879-running-ai-written) — Anurag Goel, Milin Desai, Richard Rizk, Sead Ahmetović, Jared Zoneraich - [Ship with Context: GitLab Orbit and Google Cloud for AI-Powered Software Delivery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1923-ship-with-context) — Michael Angelo Rivera, Matt Duchesne, Rajesh Agadi - [The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1951-the-era-of-machine) — Loris Degioanni - [Travel’s AI-Powered Shift: How Expedia Group Is Building in the AI Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1893-travel-s-ai-powered) — Debashis Saha, Julia Elliott - [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 - [Why AI-Written Books Fail – and How We Made Quality Measurable](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1896-why-ai-written-books) — Hannes Steiner, Thomas Neumayer - [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 - [From Boardroom to Build Pipeline: What AI Governance Actually Looks Like in Practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1947-from-boardroom-to) — Anita Ganti - [Going beyond the code through the GitHub Copilot App: how to unlock you and your team’s superpower](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1788-going-beyond-the) — Jenny Hwang - [KV Cache Is Not About Speed: It's About Surviving Inference Costs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1668-kv-cache-is-not) — David vonThenen - [Our Brains in the AI Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1872-our-brains-in-the-ai) — Cassidy Williams - [The New Bottleneck in Software Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1821-the-new-bottleneck) — Aditya Jayaprakash - [The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1752-the-reality-of-ai) — Priyanka Vergadia - [The reviewer can't be the author: independent verification for AI-generated code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1822-the-reviewer-can-t) — Manish Kapur - [Transforming Enterprise AI with Tabular Foundation Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1892-transforming) — Leo Grinsztajn, Tom Palczewski, Yaad Oren, Ahmad Rushdi - [Your next customer won’t be human](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1439-your-next-customer) — Benjamin Smith - [Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot App](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1914-agentic-coding-with) — Gustavo Cordido - [Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1794-agent-speedrun-idea) — Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani - [Come with an Idea, Leave with an App: Build and Launch Your Website with AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1801-come-with-an-idea) — Denise Kwan - [Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1720-practical-threat) — Mudassir Syed - [Reprompting the Wheel? Why AI Won’t Save Your Content Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1816-reprompting-the) — Benni Mack, Tom Warwick - [AI and Video games: The Evolution](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1763-ai-and-video-games) — Jack McCauley - [Closing the autonomous software development loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1932-closing-the) — Justin Halsall, Scott Voigt - [Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1415-fast-cheap-and) — Legare Kerrison, Cedric Clyburn - [From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1416-from-cloud-native-to) — Sandeep Pal [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions?page=6) [Complete agenda in one response](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions.md?all=true)