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 · 12:50–12:55

Outdoor Stage

Big brains on little machines with Supermodel Labs

Kirah Sapong, Daniel Dafoe

Kirah Sapong
Daniel Dafoe
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:50–13:20

Stage 3

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases

Wei Hu

Senior Vice President of Research and Development

Wei Hu
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 12:50–13:20

Stage 5

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

Ashutosh Saxena

CEO at TorqueAGI

Ashutosh Saxena
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:00–13:05

Outdoor Stage

Valven: Intelligence for AI-Driven Software Lifecycle

Serdar Bicer

CTO of VALVEN

Serdar Bicer
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:20–13:50

Mainstage

Acquired Live Interview: Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)

Amjad Masad, Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal

Amjad Masad
Ben Gilbert
David Rosenthal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Stage 13

Build an agentic commerce solution

Allison Farris

Developer Advocate, Stripe

Allison Farris
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 2

Building the Production Cage for Powerful Agents

Mike Chambers

AWS -Specialist Developer Advocate, Machine Learning

Mike Chambers
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 7

From Prototype to Production: Build Better Agents with IBM Bob

Sunil Murthy

AI Field CTO at IBM

Sunil Murthy
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Stage 14

From Signal to Action: Empowering Your AI SRE with OpenTelemetry Data

Julia Furst Morgado, Raphael Manke

Julia Furst Morgado
Raphael Manke
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Stage 12

GitHub Actions

Austen Stone

Senior Field Actions Specialist, GitHub

Austen Stone
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Stage 10

Hands-On CI Optimization Workshop

Abbe Piels

Member of Technical Staff at Blacksmith

Abbe Piels
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 1

How AI Agents Tripled Our Test Coverage on a 1.8M-Line iOS Codebase

Kush Agrawal

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Kush Agrawal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 6

It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing

Sean O'Dell, Jeff Blankenburg

Sean O'Dell
Jeff Blankenburg
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 4

One Repo, One Strategy: Scalable Full-Stack Testing in a Monorepo World

Bartosz Leczycki, Paweł Matynia

Bartosz Leczycki
Paweł Matynia
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–15:30

Stage 8

The Developer's Guide to an Agentic Git Forge

Lizzie Siegle, Evis Drenova

Lizzie Siegle
Evis Drenova
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Tech Leaders Stage

The New Security Stack

Javier Garza, Sagi Rodin, Andrea Muttoni, James Everingham

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Javier Garza
Sagi Rodin
Andrea Muttoni
James Everingham
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 5

The Pedagogy of AI: Agents, Agency, and a World Beyond Coding Tutorials

Alex Goldman, Andrew MacLean

Alex Goldman
Andrew MacLean
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 3

Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models

Jofia Jose Prakash

Director - AI & Governance at Humanity + AI, Inc

Jofia Jose Prakash
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:40–13:50

Outdoor Stage

The Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story

Rajat Shah

Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform, Netflix

Rajat Shah
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:50–14:20

Mainstage

Acquired Live Interview: Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)

Justin Boitano, Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal

Justin Boitano
Ben Gilbert
David Rosenthal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 13:55–14:05

Outdoor Stage

From transaction sequences to pricing decisions at 140M+ customer scale

Hiroto Udagawa

Machine Learning Senior Manager at Nu

Hiroto Udagawa
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 4

Agentic Drift: keeping pace with your agents

Colleen Lake

Colleen Lake
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Tech Leaders Stage

AI Governance & Compliance: Who Is Responsible When the Bots Start Acting?

Kumesh Aroomoogan, Paul Anthony Claxton, Eric Osiakwan

Kumesh Aroomoogan
Paul Anthony Claxton
Eric Osiakwan
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 1

Anatomy of an AI Request: Where Latency and Cost Are Really Born

Dan Fu

VP of Kernels at Together AI

Dan Fu
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 6

Compute for your AI model: GPUs, LPUs, TPUs and beyond..

Kushaagra Goyal

Tech Lead at Rubrik, ex-CTO at Gan.AI, ex-Databricks

Kushaagra Goyal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 7

Designing High-Performance AI APIs: Lessons from Serving Millions of Real-Time Requests

Wayne Liu

Chief Growth Officer and Americas President of Perfect Corp.

Wayne Liu
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 5

Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach

Nitin Eusebius

AWS - Principal Solutions Architect

Nitin Eusebius
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 2

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
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 3

Real-Time Data Platforms at Trillion-Event Scale

Diptamay Sanyal

Principal Engineer | Data, AI & Cybersecurity Platforms

Diptamay Sanyal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:25–14:35

Outdoor Stage

Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it.

Joe Monastiero

Founder & CEO at visualAI

Joe Monastiero