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# World Congress 2026 North America — Session lineup

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

- [From Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1952-from-stateless-to) — Laura Salinas
- [Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1676-run-your-agents-in) — Michal Salanci
- [ Sandboxing the Swarm: Building Secure, Serverless AI Agents with Wasm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1927-sandboxing-the-swarm) — Thorsten Hans
- [Shipping AI Features People Actually Use](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1883-shipping-ai-features) — Ben Kus, Stefan Lederer, Wayne Liu, Floriane Gramlich
- [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
- [Building AI Products vs. Building With AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1841-building-ai-products) — Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici
- [Context Engineering Kung Fu](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1410-context-engineering) — Carl Lapierre
- [File Systems Are the New Primitive for AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1948-file-systems-are-the) — Andrew Wong
- [Fireside Chat with Gerhard Eschelbeck, Fmr. Google CISO](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1851-fireside-chat-with) — Gerhard Eschelbeck, Sead Ahmetović
- [From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1735-from-software-agents) — Michael Yuan, Vivian Hu
- [It passed auth, then production caught fire](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1703-it-passed-auth-then) — Alex Olivier
- [Merging at Scale: From Broken Builds to Green Mainline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1422-merging-at-scale) — Manjari Akella, Preetam Dwivedi
- [The MCP haters are half right](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1738-the-mcp-haters-are) — Vojta Kopal
- [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
- [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
- [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
- [From Firefighting to Force Multiplication with AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1417-from-firefighting-to) — Daniel Murphy
- [From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1740-from-guesswork-to) — Sandon Jacobs
- [Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1708-full-stack-with) — Nemanja Stošić
- [Life in Games: Four Decades of Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1908-life-in-games-four) — John Romero
- [No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1671-no-single-model-to) — Emmanuel Acheampong
- [Scaling Distributed Queues for AI workloads](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1777-scaling-distributed) — Jasmit Kaur Saluja
- [Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1432-securing-ai-agent) — Abdel Fane
- [Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1971-stack-overflow-s) — Prashanth Chandrasekar, Alexandra (Alex) Lato
- [What AI Startups Are VCs Actually Funding in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1756-what-ai-startups-are) — Mariane Bekker, Eric Bahn, Jeremiah Owyang, Suman Natarajan
- [Booth Crawl @Expo Hall](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1903-booth-crawl-expo)
- [Demos, Drinks & LEGOS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1941-demos-drinks-legos)
- [Live DOOM II Deathmatches with John Romero](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1909-live-doom-ii) — John Romero
- [Congress Party](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1907-congress-party)
- [Doors open - Day 2](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1904-doors-open-day-2)

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