World Congress 2026 North America
Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app
Christopher Harrison
Senior Developer Advocate, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
World Congress 2026 North America
September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA
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In this session we’ll provide an overview of the GitHub Agentic Workflows framework, which provides out of the box security and control for using Copilot agents in the CI pipeline (GitHub Actions) and to perform repository maintenance. You can use AI agents in the pipeline with human in the loop to perform every step of the SDLC - agents can farm user feedback for potential features, investigate research opportunities, make code changes, perform maintenance tasks like writing documentation and tests, and can self improve and upgrade to new models over time. Agents can also perform cross repository maintenance like notifying downstream teams of deprecations or API changes, and can be used to automate processes like CVE exceptions or new dependency approvals. At the end of this session you’ll understand the breadth of automation opportunities available, how the Agentic Workflows framework can help you implement secure autonomous agents in the pipeline, and how to get started building your Agentic SDLC.
World Congress 2026 North America
Christopher Harrison
Senior Developer Advocate, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
Sam Jarvinen
Senior Solutions Engineer, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
John Coghlan
Senior Director, Developer Advocacy at GitLab
World Congress 2026 North America
Jenny Hwang
Director of User Research, GitHub