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# World Congress 2026 North America — Session lineup

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

- [Physical AI: 5 Things You Can Build That Aren't Another Chatbot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1815-physical-ai-5-things) — Vini Senger
- [rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1718-rm-rf-horror-stories) — Rishab Kumar
- [Testing AI Workflows Locally with Testcontainers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1679-testing-ai-workflows) — Anna Chernyshova
- [Beyond Vibe Coding: An AI Builder’s Guide to Migrating 10k+ React Components](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1715-beyond-vibe-coding) — Shubham Chaurasia
- [Build Fast, Deploy Faster: Cross Platform AI development in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1838-build-fast-deploy) — Charlie Cheever
- [Building Enterprise Software for AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1843-building-enterprise) — Nitin Eusebius, Gil Feig, Sachin Kaura, James Watters, Matt Burns
- [Govern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1855-govern-the-runtime) — Tushar Jain
- [Loop Engineering: Designing and Observing the Loops That Run Your Agents With Opik](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1868-loop-engineering) — Abigail Morgan
- [Managing Abuse in the Era of AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1869-managing-abuse-in) — Eli-Shaoul Khedouri
- [Managing GPUs by Just Asking, Infrastructure in the Age of MCP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1812-managing-gpus-by) — Jessica Garson Beauchemin
- [Performance Engineering in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1789-performance) — Frederic Branczyk
- [The Agentic Engineering Loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1704-the-agentic) — Kevin Lin
- [Vibe Coding Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1438-vibe-coding) — Karl Groves
- [Codifying Trade-offs: Security, Cost, and Compliance as Agent Guardrails](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1946-codifying-trade-offs) — Suzanne Daniels
- [Context Engineering: How machines remember and forget](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1765-context-engineering) — Emre Okcular
- [Culture Doesn't Scale Itself: Leading Engineering Teams Through Hypergrowth and the AI Transition](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1411-culture-doesn-t) — Thanos Baskous
- [GitHub’s Team X-Ray: Your Repository Knows More About Your Team Than Your Team Does](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1691-github-s-team-x-ray) — Andrea Griffiths
- [Quantum Close-Up: What Engineers Need to Know Before Q-Day](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1782-quantum-close-up) — Scott Likens
- [Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1724-reinventing-testing) — Eric Deandrea
- [Review Was Already the Bottleneck. Then Agents Broke It Completely.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1817-review-was-already) — Joseph Katsioloudes
- [The AI Proving Ground](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1887-the-ai-proving) — Bharat Melag, Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte, David Hefter, Li Fan, Floriane Gramlich
- [x402: Building Pay-Per-Request APIs for AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1758-x402-building-pay) — Brian Whippo
- [You are the developer. From DX to AX with humans in mind.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1934-you-are-the) — Matt Biilmann
- [A Computer Is All You Need](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1829-a-computer-is-all) — Justin Mahood
- [Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1695-give-the-agent-a) — Sachin Malhotra
- [How AI Search Changes the Data Game](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1856-how-ai-search) — Tomislav Tipurić, Jared Jordan, Saurabh Sharma, Vikas Mathur
- [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
- [What Is a Software Factory and How to Build One in 20 Minutes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1759-what-is-a-software) — Victor Savkin
- [Why CI Deserves Its Own Infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1824-why-ci-deserves-its) — Piotr Bejda
- [Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot CLI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1834-agentic-coding-with) — Christopher Harrison

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