World Congress 2026 North America

Lineup

315 sessions

September 23–25, 2026

San José, CA

Keeping Code Quality at AI Speed

Daksh Gupta

Greptile

Co-founder & CEO
Arthur Hicken

Parasoft

Chief Evangelist
Jack Danger

LaunchDarkly

VP of Platform Engineering
Francesco Ciulla

Zerops

Head of DevRel

Legacy as a Launchpad: How Yahoo Mail is Undergoing a Product and Engineering Transformation

Tomislav Tipurić

Nephos

CTO & CEO
Nikhil Gandhi

Yahoo Mail

SVP of Engineering

On the Public Clock: Open-Source Defense When You're Not in the Club

Nicholas Muy

Scrut Automation

VP Engineering Platform & Security

State of the Software Factory

Dexter Horthy

HumanLayer

Co-Founder

The $0.15/month Algo-Trader: Architecting High-Performance Serverless Trading Engines

Vishwak Thatikonda

SDH Systems

Lead Full Stack Engineer

We Need Art for AI Safety

Audrey Kim

Misalignment Museum

Founder & Curator

Winning With AI

Neel Sundaresan

IBM

General Manager AI Products/Productivity Tools
Wolfgang Platz

Tricentis, Katharo Ventures

Founder & CEO
Rahul Deshpande

Mastercard

EVP Global Head of Research and Development
Felix Holtermann

Handelsblatt

US Bureau Chief

Your Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development

Kate Astrid

Cogram

Sr. Product Engineer

Attacking LLM Detectors with Homoglyph-Based Attacks

Aldan Creo

UC San Diego

AI and NLP Researcher

Secure development from pull request to production with GitHub

Sam Jarvinen

GitHub

Senior Solutions Engineer

The AI Dependency Challenge: Your AI coding assistant is making dependency decisions. Who’s checking

Meredith Eisen

Sonatype

Sr. Director of Product Management
Vince Hinojosa

Sonatype

Principal Solution Architect

21 Experiments in Six Weeks: A Playbook for Improving Your AI Agent

Sofia Rest

Sentry

Software Engineer

Agents Can't Iterate Against Tests That Lie

Rocky Warren

Clipboard

Sr. Staff Software Engineer

Earning the Right to Deploy: Netflix's Approach to Deployment Safety at Scale

Viswanathan Ranganathan

Netflix

Sr. Engineer

Evals Are Infra: Building AI Systems Developers Can Actually Trust

Phoebe Wang

OpenAI

Member of Technical Staff

Moats, Margins & M&A in the AI Era

Ravi Belani

Alchemist Accelerator

Chairperson & Founder
Ashish Aggarwal

IronArc Ventures

Partner
Becky Flint

Dragonboat

Founder & CEO
Dr. Yvonne Lutsch

Lam Capital

Investment Director

Offloading IoT State: Solving the Memory Crisis on Legacy Hardware

Pravin Nagare

Roku

Sr. Software Engineer

One Boundary for the Agentic Era

Mark Lechner

Docker

Chief Information Security Officer

Point. Ask. Answer. Building Vision into AI on Constrained Hardware

Kavya Sri Chennoju

Arm

Staff AI Engineer

Small LLM in your Browser: Huge Opportunities for Web Applications

Daniel Ostrovsky

Payoneer

AI Architect

Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale

Kyle Bell

TensorWave

VP of AI

Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems

Vivek Pandit

Turing

Frontier AI Lead

public void saveMoney(AI): The Developer's Guide to Unit Economics

Hrushikesh Pokala

Equifax

Sr. Software Engineer Lead

Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means

Kris Jenkins

Host / Developer Voices

Designing APIs That Survive AI Agents at Scale

Phani Pendurthi

Mastercard

Principal Software Engineer

Food as Medicine, Code as Prescription: Engineering AI-Driven Nutritional Intervention Systems

Kapil Poreddy

Walmart Global Tech

Sr. Engineering Lead

Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox

Ivan Burazin

Daytona

Co-founder & CEO

Loop Engineering in the Wild: A Live Multi-Agent Coding Session

Vlad Luzin

BAND

CTO & Co-Founder

Speed up your CI/CD pipelines by caching build & runtime artifacts

Thijs Feryn

Varnish Software

Technical Evangelist

The Five Percent Club: The Culture and Technological Shift Behind Successful AI Deployments

Tara Hernandez

MongoDB

VP Developer Productivity