World Congress 2026 North America

Preliminary lineup

September 23–25, 2026 · San José, CA · 315 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 7

Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents

Ashok Prakash

Staff ML Engineer at Apple

Ashok Prakash
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00

Stage 9

RoboCoders: Judgment Day: AI-Assisted Engineering Applied - The Battle of Agents

Baruch Sadogursky, Viktor Gamov

Baruch Sadogursky
Viktor Gamov
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–13:00

Stage 10

The AI-Native Engineer: From Business Problem to Prototype

Srishti Agrawal, Sidharth Arora

Srishti Agrawal
Sidharth Arora
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 5

The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents

Chris Waterson

CTO of Guild.ai

Chris Waterson
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:10–11:15

Outdoor Stage

Architecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery

Ranjan Parthasarathy

Founder, CPTO/CEO at AXIOMSTUDIO.AI

Ranjan Parthasarathy
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:20–11:25

Outdoor Stage

Finding the Edges: Testing, Evaluating, and Monitoring Voice AI Agents Before Your Users Do

Matt Wyman

CEO of Okareo

Matt Wyman
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:30–11:35

Outdoor Stage

Loominus Studio: The AI Workbench for Labs and Factories

Filippos Tourlomousis

Founder of Biological Lattice Industries (BLI)

Filippos Tourlomousis
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 6

AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering

Manu Gurudatha

Manu Gurudatha, VP of Engineering at PagerDuty

Manu Gurudatha
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 7

Clean Rooms Demystified: Architecture and Patterns for Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration

Anurag Malik

Data Tech Lead @ Intuit

Anurag Malik
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Mainstage

I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures

Darko Mesaros

Distinguished Developer Advocate at AWS

Darko Mesaros
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–11:45

Outdoor Stage

One Environment, N Machines: Deterministic Builds for Humans and Agents

Justin Castilla

Developer Advocacy at Flox

Justin Castilla
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Tech Leaders Stage

Rethinking Developer Tools for the Agent Era

Han Wang, Sam Bhagwat, Ben Haefele, Ignacio Riesgo

Han Wang
Sam Bhagwat
Ben Haefele
Ignacio Riesgo
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 3

Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production

Jeroen van Erp

Technology Advocate @ SUSE

Jeroen van Erp
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 4

Taming Rogue Agents: Observability-Driven Evaluation for Production Reliability

Anagha Rumade, Anjana Umapathy, Apoorva Jaiswal

Anagha Rumade
Anjana Umapathy
Apoorva Jaiswal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 1

The Next Wave of Agents: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What Matters

Mitesh Patel, Jay Rodge, Chi Wang, Joe Moura

Mitesh Patel
Jay Rodge
Chi Wang
Joe Moura
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 2

The Private AI Platform: Why Agentic Apps Need a Private Application Platform

Oren Penso

Global field CTO, Tanzu division, Broadcom

Oren Penso
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 5

Your Agents Need Observability Before They Need Better Models

Julia Furst Morgado

Principal Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0

Julia Furst Morgado
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:50–11:55

Outdoor Stage

Ploomloom - Startup pitch: Reliable evals for LLM and agent releases using Plumloom

Speaker TBA

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:00–12:05

Outdoor Stage

Production runtime for Enterprise AI agents

Aditya Rohit

Swytchcode, Aditya, Founder and CEO

Aditya Rohit
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:10–12:15

Outdoor Stage

Can AI Agents Actually Discover and Use Your Product? Agent-Led Growth and Agent Experience.

Jun Liang Lee

CEO at Lightsage

Jun Liang Lee
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:15–12:45

Stage 6

AI vs. AI: Defending the open source supply chain with agentic workflows

Manfred Moser

Senior Principal DevRel Engineer at Chainguard

Manfred Moser
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:15–12:45

Stage 4

It's Not About the Models

Bob Wambach

VP, Market and Customer Insights at Dynatrace

Bob Wambach
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:15–12:45

Stage 2

The AI Revolution Will Be Surprisingly Boring

Shruthi Shetty

Global VP, Head of Business AI RIG & AI/ML Services, SAP America

Shruthi Shetty
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:15–12:45

Tech Leaders Stage

There’s No Such Thing as Vibe Strategy, Vibe Security, or Vibe Scale

Ussama Baggili, Matt Hobbs, Meghna Shah, Andrew Carlson

Ussama Baggili
Matt Hobbs
Meghna Shah
Andrew Carlson
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:15–12:45

Stage 1

Why Buy Software When AI Can Build It?

Lee Edwards, Mang-Git Ng, Richard Robinson, Floriane Gramlich

Lee Edwards
Mang-Git Ng
Richard Robinson
Floriane Gramlich
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:20–12:25

Outdoor Stage

PrimaLabs: The Application-Specific AI Inference Stack

Prasanna Balaprakash

CEO, PrimaLabs

Prasanna Balaprakash
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:30–12:35

Outdoor Stage

Software change is outpacing the platforms built to understand it.

Lee Faus

Git was built for humans. I'm building what comes next.

Lee Faus
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:40–12:45

Outdoor Stage

each::labs: Close the Imagination Gap

Eftal Yurtseven

Co-Founder & CEO at each::labs

Eftal Yurtseven
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:50–13:20

Mainstage

Acquired Live Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired

Sri Shivananda, Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal

Sri Shivananda
Ben Gilbert
David Rosenthal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:50–13:20

Stage 7

Architecting Agentic Apps: WebMCP, A2UI, and Agent Experience

Ankita Sood

Sr. Principal Engineer @ Secureworks | Angular GDE

Ankita Sood