World Congress 2026 North America

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315 sessions

September 23–25, 2026

San José, CA

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Who Do We Hire Now?

  • Chris Daden

    Criteria

    CTO & Head of AI

  • Ian Hughson

    TCS

    Global Managing Partner AI Adoption

  • Becky Bucich

    Waymo

    Chief People Officer

  • Jennifer Serrato

    Workday

    CTO Platform

  • Kate Smeaton

    LaunchSquad

    Program Manager, AI Transformation

Open session

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

  • Kelsey Hightower

    Minimalist

Open session

Silent Execution: Defending Against Install-Time Supply Chain Attacks

  • Chris DeMars

    TuxCare

    Senior Developer Advocate

Open session

12 Names for the Same Thing: Why Developer Experience Can't Grow Without a Common Language

  • Artem Mukhin

    Microsoft

    Software Engineer

Open session

Beyond the Code: Human-AI Synergies in Product Development

  • Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth

    Google

    Staff Technical Program Manager

Open session

Engineering Moneyball: How We Benchmarked Google vs Meta

  • Jirka Bachel

    Navigara

    Co-Founder & CEO

Open session

Proactive AI That Doesn’t Annoy Users: Building Context-Aware Notification Systems

  • Raju Dandigam Dandigam

    Navan

    Staff Software Engineer

Open session

Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop

  • Edward Aryee

    Laminar

    Co-Founder & CTO

  • Ryan Ries

    Mission Cloud

    Chief AI & Data Scientist

  • Yaron Schneider

    Diagrid

    CTO & Co-Founder

  • Chris Hallenbeck

    Boomi

    SVP and General Manager of AI & Platform

  • Floriane Gramlich

    FG Solutions & Chief in Tech Capital

    Management Director

Open session

The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting

  • Angie Jones

    Agentic AI Foundation

    VP Developer Experience

Open session

The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers

  • Fatih Kadir Akın

    WordPress/Automattic

    Developer Relations

Open session

The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You

  • Desmond Lamptey

    Capital One

    Lead Software Engineer

Open session

You Can’t Rerun Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI

  • An Phan

    Hippo Harvest

    Sr. Data Infrastructure Engineer

Open session

Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.

  • Tejas Pravinbhai Patel

    Amazon

    Sr. Software Development Engineer

Open session

2026 in LLMs (so far)

  • Simon Willison

    Datasette /Django

    Creator & Co-creator