World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Tech Leaders Stage
Keeping Code Quality at AI Speed
Daksh Gupta, Arthur Hicken, Jack Danger, Francesco Ciulla
World Congress 2026 North America
Preliminary lineup
September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA · 315 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 1
Legacy as a Launchpad: How Yahoo Mail is Undergoing a Product and Engineering Transformation
Tomislav Tipurić, Nikhil Gandhi
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Outdoor Stage
On the Public Clock: Open-Source Defense When You're Not in the Club
Nicholas Muy
VP Engineering Platform and Security at Scrut.io
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 2
State of the Software Factory
Dexter Horthy
Co-Founder of HumanLayer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 7
The $0.15/month Algo-Trader: Architecting High-Performance Serverless Trading Engines
Vishwak Thatikonda
Lead Full Stack Engineer at SDH Systems
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 3
We Need Art for AI Safety
Audrey Kim
Founder & curator of the Misalignment Museum
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Mainstage
Winning With AI
Neel Sundaresan, Wolfgang Platz, Rahul Deshpande, Felix Holtermann
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 6
Your Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development
Kate Astrid
Senior Product Engineer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:00–17:00
Stage 13
Attacking LLM Detectors with Homoglyph-Based Attacks
Aldan Creo
MS @ UC San Diego
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:00–17:00
Stage 12
Secure development from pull request to production with GitHub
Sam Jarvinen
Senior Solutions Engineer, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:00–17:00
Stage 10
The AI Dependency Challenge: Your AI coding assistant is making dependency decisions. Who’s checking
Meredith Eisen, Vince Hinojosa
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 5
21 Experiments in Six Weeks: A Playbook for Improving Your AI Agent
Sofia Rest
Software Engineer at Sentry
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 1
Agents Can't Iterate Against Tests That Lie
Rocky Warren
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Clipboard
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 3
Earning the Right to Deploy: Netflix's Approach to Deployment Safety at Scale
Viswanathan Ranganathan
Senior Engineer at Netflix
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 4
Evals Are Infra: Building AI Systems Developers Can Actually Trust
Phoebe Wang
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Tech Leaders Stage
Moats, Margins & M&A in the AI Era
Ravi Belani, Ashish Aggarwal, Becky Flint, Dr. Yvonne Lutsch
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–15:40
Outdoor Stage
Offloading IoT State: Solving the Memory Crisis on Legacy Hardware
Pravin Nagare
Senior Software Engineer, Roku
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Mainstage
One Boundary for the Agentic Era
Mark Lechner
Chief Information Security Officer of Docker
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 2
Point. Ask. Answer. Building Vision into AI on Constrained Hardware
Kavya Sri Chennoju
Staff AI Engineer at Arm
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 6
Small LLM in your Browser: Huge Opportunities for Web Applications
Daniel Ostrovsky
UI/UX Architect at Payoneer | AI Architect | Full Cycle Development Expert | Public Speaker | Open Source Contributor |
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 7
Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale
Kyle Bell
VP of AI at TensorWave
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 15:45–15:55
Outdoor Stage
Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems
Vivek Pandit
Frontier AI Lead at Turing
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:00–16:10
Outdoor Stage
public void saveMoney(AI): The Developer's Guide to Unit Economics
Hrushikesh Pokala
Senior Software Engineer Lead at Equifax
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 2
Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means
Kris Jenkins
Host / Developer Voices
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 6
Designing APIs That Survive AI Agents at Scale
Phani Pendurthi
Mastercard, Principal Software Engineer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 5
Food as Medicine, Code as Prescription: Engineering AI-Driven Nutritional Intervention Systems
Kapil Poreddy
AI-Powered Engineering Leader | Architect of Scalable, Cloud-Native Platforms | Driving Digital Transformation & Business Impact Across Retail, Healthcare & Telecom
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 1
Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox
Ivan Burazin
Ivan Burazin CEO and Co-Founder at Daytona
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 7
Loop Engineering in the Wild: A Live Multi-Agent Coding Session
Vlad Luzin
CTO & Cofounder of BAND
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 4
Speed up your CI/CD pipelines by caching build & runtime artifacts
Thijs Feryn
Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 3
The Five Percent Club: The Culture and Technological Shift Behind Successful AI Deployments
Tara Hernandez
Tara Hernandez, VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB
