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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 - [AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1736-ai-agents-are-only) — Bharat Patel - [Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1403-autonomous) — Tommy Tran - [Building AI that fits your business](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1915-building-ai-that) — Benny Chen - [Don’t kill my Vibes - Simple Steps to Stay Secure when Vibe Coding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1413-don-t-kill-my-vibes) — Isaac Evans - [How to Trust Code You Didn't Write](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1779-how-to-trust-code) — Jeff An, Itamar Friedman, Shubho Sengupta, Francesco Ciulla - [Red Teaming Your LLM App -- A Hands-On Threat Model You Can Reuse](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1428-red-teaming-your-llm) — Saloni Garg - [Reinventing Incident Response with AI Agents and MCP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1429-reinventing-incident) — Jayant Tyagi - [Test Before Release, Enforce at Runtime: Governance for Tool-Using AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1423-test-before-release) — Sachin Gupta - [Your Thread Pool Is Lying to You — Sizing Concurrency from Rate Limits and Latency, Not Guesswork](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1753-your-thread-pool-is) — Ratul Ghosh - [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 - [From Possibility to Production: Why AI Raises the Bar for Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1863-from-possibility-to) — Leigh-Ann Russell - [Inside the AI-Native Engineering Org](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1858-inside-the-ai-native) — Hari Lingamagunta, Siwei Shen, Amy Yuan, Gene Kim - [Loop Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1767-loop-engineering) — Li Yin - [Secure-by-Inclusion: Preventing Accessibility Barriers from Becoming Security Vulnerabilities](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1725-secure-by-inclusion) — Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova - [Still on 4.8 or lower? A Practical Guide to Moving Your "Un-Migratable" .NET Apps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1770-still-on-4-8-or) — Isaac Levin - [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 - [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 - [Why Infrastructure Forecasting Fails – Building a Self-Serve Forecasting Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1751-why-infrastructure) — Ankur Gupta - [Your registry can't stop a valid login. What happens then?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1755-your-registry-can-t) — Khushboo Verma - [Human + AI: Who Should Be in Control?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1926-human-ai-who-should) — Mirela Viersa - [Insert Coin: Build Live with J.P. Morgan Payments APIs and AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1811-insert-coin-build) — Alan Torrance - [Intro to Agentic Workflows and an AI-enabled SDLC](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1859-intro-to-agentic) — Greg Larkin - [Your Agent Shipped the Fix. Did It Work?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1925-your-agent-shipped) — Sean O'Dell, Johannes Vollert, Andrew Norris, Rob Vollum - [Agentic Code Validation and Repository Automation with Agentic Workflows](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1784-agentic-code) — Jose Palafox - [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 - [Democratizing AI: Why Open Models Are Essential for the Next Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1786-democratizing-ai-why) — Mitesh Patel, Joey Conway, Olivier Lacombe, Varun Vontimitta - [Fixing Git for Agents: Somewhere Between the Prompt and Production, We Lost the Plot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1806-fixing-git-for) — Karthik Rameshkumar - [How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1916-how-linkedin-turns) — Erran Berger, Frederic Lardinois - [Making (and Breaking) Agents by Adding 1,000 MCP Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1730-making-and-breaking) — Guillaume Lebedel - [MicroAgents: The Microservices of the Agentic Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1692-microagents-the) — Ashish Shubham [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions?page=8) [Complete agenda in one response](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions.md?all=true)