World Congress 2026 North America
September 23, 2026 · 15:45–17:45
Stage 12
Vibe-code an App on Multimodal AI Analytics
Aron Eidelman
Security Advocate
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 23, 2026 · 16:00–17:00
Outdoor Stage
Coffee with Developers with Noris Buriac (Forward Security)
Christian Heilmann, Noris Buriac
World Congress 2026 North America
September 23, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 2
Lawyers who ship: How GitHub CELA used AI to rewire legal work
Bria Ford
Program Manager, Digital Transformation at GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 23, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
HIDE General 2
Meet-Up: Daytona & SambaNova AI Builders
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 08:00–09:30
HIDE General
Doors open - Day 1
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 09:30–09:45
Mainstage
Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 09:45–10:15
Mainstage
Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents
Mark Cavage, Michael Irwin, Hervé Bizira
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:15–11:15
HIDE Room 1
Coffee Reception with Wednesday Women
Leslie Greenwood
Founder at Wednesday Women, bringing public awareness and private support to executive women.
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 4
AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems
Amjad Shaikh, Soumil Mandal
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Outdoor Stage
From Candidate Experience to Competitive Advantage
Brittany Pollari
Senior Talent Partner at Awin
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 2
From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026
Daniel Oh
Senior Principal Developer Advocate
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 6
Practices, Not Prompts: Scale GitHub Copilot with AI-Ready Repositories
Luis Pujols
Staff Customer Success Architect, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 3
Reading the Mind of Your NGINX Fleet: A Hybrid Rule + ML Pipeline for NGINX Config Intelligence
Brandon LEE
AI Architect Lead at F5
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 1
The Browser Is Becoming an AI Runtime
Ajit Varma, Will Bryk, Julia Love
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Mainstage
The Death of the Code Review
Laurie Voss
Head of Developer Relations
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Tech Leaders Stage
The New Rules of Software Delivery
Darko Mesaros, AJ Aitken, Moritz Plassnig, Akshay Shah
+1 more
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 5
Vector, Graph, or Key Value? Choosing Your Agent's Memory
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone
AWS - Developer Advocate/SDE, GenAI
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 7
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
Borko Djurkovic
Member of Technical Staff at Cohere
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Stage 6
Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app
Christopher Harrison
Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:05
Outdoor Stage
Alexander Varro and Alija Nuredini - Founders OS for replacing operational fragmentation
Alexander Varro, Alija Nuredini
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Stage 1
Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications
Anurag Goel
Founder & CEO of Render
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00
Stage 8
Build and deploy a personal agent on a Cloud Run instance
Shir Meir Lador
AI leader at Google
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Tech Leaders Stage
Building AI for the Physical World
Tomislav Tipurić, Alex Spinelli, Eystein Stenberg, Gerardo Pardo-Castellote
+1 more
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Mainstage
Building the Agentic Software Factory
Matan Grinberg, Thomas Dohmke, Frederic Lardinois
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00
Stage 13
Creating and Sustaining Positive Communities
Maezza Romero
Community Developer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00
Stage 14
Ducks, Sensors, and Agents
Brian McFadden
Staff Engineer, Developer Relations at Qualcomm
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00
Stage 12
Exploring MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot
Pamela Fox
Principal Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Stage 2
From Stateless to Stateful: Real-Time Voice & Messaging Agents with Twilio and AWS
Rishab Kumar
Staff Developer Evangelist @ Twilio
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Stage 4
From Voice Demo to Enterprise Production
Anahita Havewala, Anuj Gupta
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30
Stage 3
Making Science Larger, not just Faster
Yuval Dvir
Commercial Executive, SandboxAQ
