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# Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 17:30–18:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

For nearly eighteen years, Stack Overflow’s public platform has delivered trusted technical knowledge to developers. But the world has fundamentally changed since then, including how technologists build products and find the answers they need while doing it. It’s never been more difficult to know if you can rely on the knowledge you’re presented with, especially as agents act with increasing speed and autonomy. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and VP of Product Alex Lato will trace Stack Overflow’s evolution through the years, from its legacy as a beloved public platform, to building enterprise knowledge solutions and strategic AI partnerships, and finally unveil its next era: becoming the trusted knowledge layer that gives humans and agents authoritative and actionable context wherever work happens.

## Speakers

### [Prashanth Chandrasekar](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@prashanth-chandrasekar)

CEO of Stack Overflow
### [Alexandra (Alex) Lato](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@alexandra-alex-lato)

VP of Product at Stack Overflow


## Related talks at this congress

- [Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1430-responsible-ai) — Ashok Prakash
- [Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1870-manufacturing-trust) — Mark Cavage, Michael Irwin, Hervé Bizira
- [Closing the autonomous software development loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1932-closing-the) — Justin Halsall, Scott Voigt
- [When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1713-when-agents-became) — Yoav Gal

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