World Congress 2026 North America

Preliminary lineup

September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA · 119 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.

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World Congress 2026 North America

Databases in the Agent Era

Monica Sarbu

Founder and CEO of xata.io

Monica Sarbu
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DeepAgents: Build Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Work

Anagha Rumade, Anjana Umapathy, Apoorva Jaiswal

Anagha Rumade
Anjana Umapathy
Apoorva Jaiswal
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Designing APIs That Survive AI Agents at Scale

Phani Pendurthi

Mastercard, Principal Software Engineer

Phani Pendurthi
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Developer Liability in the AI Agent Era: Building Responsibly

Alla Barbalat

Freelancer Trade Show Spokesmodel and Tech Event Host

Alla Barbalat
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Don’t kill my Vibes - Simple Steps to Stay Secure when Vibe Coding

Isaac Evans

Co-founder & CEO of Semgrep

Isaac Evans
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Engineering the Pivot: How Creative Strategy Solves the Hard Problems of AI Accuracy and Scale

Shruti Tiwari

AI/ML product manager, Dell

Shruti Tiwari
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Evals Are Infra: Building AI Systems Developers Can Actually Trust

Phoebe Wang

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Phoebe Wang
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Fast by Design: A Masterclass in High-Performance Web Engineering

Aaron Grogg

Senior web developer, committed to improving the user experience by improving web performance

Aaron Grogg
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Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization

Legare Kerrison, Cedric Clyburn

Legare Kerrison
Cedric Clyburn
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Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases

Wei Hu

Senior Vice President of Research and Development

Wei Hu
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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

Kapil Poreddy
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For Physical AI, data is the problem, but data is not the solution

Ashutosh Saxena

CEO at TorqueAGI

Ashutosh Saxena
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From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere

Sandeep Pal

Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce

Sandeep Pal
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From Firefighting to Force Multiplication with AI

Daniel Murphy

SRE Champion, Public Speaker, Technologist

Daniel Murphy
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From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka

Sandon Jacobs

Senior Developer Advocate at IBM

Sandon Jacobs
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From Idea to Production with AI: Agentic Development in Practice

Daniel Ostrovsky

UI/UX Architect at Payoneer | AI Architect | Full Cycle Development Expert | Public Speaker | Open Source Contributor |

Daniel Ostrovsky
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From Legacy to Longevity – How a 17-Year-Old System stayed Modern

Alexander Arians

Empowering Engineers to drive innovation

Alexander Arians
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From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack

Michael Yuan, Vivian Hu

Michael Yuan
Vivian Hu
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From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate

Daniel Oh
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Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet?

Nemanja Stošić

Senior Flutter Developer

Nemanja Stošić
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GitHub’s Team X-Ray: Your Repository Knows More About Your Team Than Your Team Does

Andrea Griffiths

Senior Developer Advocate

Andrea Griffiths
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Give the Agent a Budget, Not a Token

Sachin Malhotra

MTS @Anthropic

Sachin Malhotra
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Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications

Tejas Chopra

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Tejas Chopra
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Honey, look! I vibe-coded an OS!

Ian Smith

CTO, LYOS

Ian Smith
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How to generate business value through performance optimizations

Nikolai Sidiropulo

Software Engineer at Meta

Nikolai Sidiropulo
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In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups

Steve Chen

Executive Director and Founder at Code & Coffee

Steve Chen
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It passed auth, then production caught fire

Alex Olivier

Co-founder & CPO @ Cerbos | OpenID AuthZEN Co-chair

Alex Olivier
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It’s Alive! Taming the MLOps Franken-Stack: Write, Run, and Serve with Michelangelo

Eric Wang, Paul Zimmerman

Eric Wang
Paul Zimmerman
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Know Your Enemies: Live Exploit of a PHP Engine Security Breach

Alexandre Daubois

CTO of Les-Tilleuls.coop / Symfony Core Team / PHP & FrankenPHP Core Maintainer

Alexandre Daubois
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KV Cache Is Not About Speed: It's About Surviving Inference Costs

David vonThenen

AI/ML Leader | Keynote Speaker | OSS Engineer & Developer Advocate | Agentic AI, Deep Learning, Production AI | Python, Go, C++

David vonThenen