World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Tech Leaders Stage
Who Do We Hire Now?
Chris Daden, Ian Hughson, Becky Bucich, Jennifer Serrato
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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 · 16:10–16:40
Mainstage
ZTA: Zero Token Architecture
Kelsey Hightower
Minimalist
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:15–16:25
Outdoor Stage
Silent Execution: Defending Against Install-Time Supply Chain Attacks
Chris DeMars
Senior Developer Advocate at TuxCare
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:30–16:40
Outdoor Stage
12 Names for the Same Thing: Why Developer Experience Can't Grow Without a Common Language
Artem Mukhin
Software Engineer at Microsoft
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Outdoor Stage
Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff Technical Program Manager at Google
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 4
Engineering Moneyball: How We Benchmarked Google vs Meta
Jirka Bachel
Co-Founder & CEO
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 1
Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS!
Ian Smith
CTO of LYOS
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 6
Proactive AI That Doesn’t Annoy Users: Building Context-Aware Notification Systems
Raju Dandigam Dandigam
Engineering Manager at Navan
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Tech Leaders Stage
Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop
Edward Aryee, Ryan Ries, Yaron Schneider, Chris Hallenbeck
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World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Mainstage
The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting
Angie Jones
VP, Agentic AI Foundation
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 2
The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers
Fatih Kadir Akın
DevRel at WordPress • Automattician • GitHub Star • Public Speaker
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 5
The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You
Desmond Lamptey
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 7
You Can’t Rerun Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI
An Phan
Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer @ Hippo Harvest
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 3
Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.
Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
IEEE Award-Winning Researcher | Best Keynote Speaker | Sr. Software Engineer at Amazon | AI Systems & Agent Architect
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Mainstage
2026 in LLMs (so far)
Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette & Co-creator of Django
