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# Build Fast, Deploy Faster: Cross Platform AI development in 2026


- **Date:** Friday, Sep 25, 2026
- **Time:** 11:00–11:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 2
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Quality is a function of iteration. 

Expo has become the standard for cross platform application development because it accelerates the process of building, distributing, and deploying your applications. 

And we just made that iteration cycle exponentially faster. 

With the introduction of Echo, you can now use your preferred coding assistant to prompt beautiful, cutting edge apps into existence from the palm of your hand. 

In this talk I'll explain what the modern application development experience can look like and why there will be more, better apps because of it. 

## Speaker

### [Charlie Cheever](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@charlie-cheever)

CEO & Co-Founder of Expo


## Related talks at this congress

- [Intelligence in Motion: Building the Next Generation of AI-Powered Apps on Zoom's Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1780-intelligence-in)
- [From Model Selection to Smart Routing: How to Use the Right LLM for Every Task](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1433-from-model-selection) — Viktoria Semaan
- [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
- [Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1884-signal-layer-what-to) — Lena Hall

## Watch remotely

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## Links

- [Get tickets](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress-north-america/tickets)