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

Small LLM in your Browser: Huge Opportunities for Web Applications

Daniel Ostrovsky

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

Daniel Ostrovsky
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Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production

Jeroen van Erp

Technical Advocate @ SUSE

Jeroen van Erp
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Testing AI Workflows Locally with Testcontainers

Anna Chernyshova

Sr Solutions Engineer @ Docker

Anna Chernyshova
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Testing React Backends Like a Pro: Mocking Databases with SQLite

David Morris

Solution Architect

David Morris
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The $0.15/month Algo-Trader: Architecting High-Performance Serverless Trading Engines

Vishwak Thatikonda

Lead Full Stack Engineer at SDH Systems

Vishwak Thatikonda
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The Agentic Engineering Loop

Kevin Lin

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Kevin Lin
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The Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story

Rajat Shah

Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform, Netflix

Rajat Shah
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The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up

Tomislav Tipurić

Chief Technology Officer, Nephos

Tomislav Tipurić
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The Geometry of Incidents: What User-Impact Shapes Reveal About Platform Architecture

Bala Subrahmanyam Kambala

Staff Platform Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Bala Subrahmanyam Kambala
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The MCP haters are half right

Vojta Kopal

Head of Data at Apify

Vojta Kopal
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The path to Staff Engineer and beyond - staying on the IC train

Graham Gilbert

Senior Staff Engineer at Airbnb

Graham Gilbert
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The Productivity Illusion: What AI Really Changed for Developers

Fatih Kadir Akın

DevRel at WordPress • Automattician • GitHub Star • Public Speaker

Fatih Kadir Akın
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There's no dark factory without better software verifiers

Dexter Horthy

Co-Founder, HumanLayer

Dexter Horthy
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The spectrum of agentic coding: From vibe coding to high-quality software engineering

YK Sugi

Developer Experience Manager at Eventual

YK Sugi
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The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You

Desmond Lamptey

Lead Software Engineer @ Capital One

Desmond Lamptey
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Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale

Kyle Bell

VP of AI @ TensorWave

Kyle Bell
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Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models

Jofia Jose Prakash

Enterprise AI Architect at American Chemical Society

Jofia Jose Prakash
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Vibe Coding Accessibility

Karl Groves

Focused on actively fixing accessibility

Karl Groves
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What's new, what's next: the latest models and developer tools from Google DeepMind

Paige Bailey

Member of the Technical Staff at Google DeepMind

Paige Bailey
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When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale

Yoav Gal, Dor Cohen

Yoav Gal
Dor Cohen
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When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility

Simon Auer

Organizer of flutter vienna meetup and CEO of marqably

Simon Auer
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When Logging Becomes The Outage: Escaping the ECS Logging Trap

Rahul Tanniru

Senior Vice President Of Software Engineering, Jp Morgan Chase

Rahul Tanniru
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Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale

Him Raj Singh

PayPal, Manager, Software Engineer

Him Raj Singh
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You Can’t Re-Run Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI

An Phan

Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer @ Hippo Harvest

An Phan
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Your Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development

Kate Astrid

Senior Product Engineer

Kate Astrid
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Your Evals Passed. Your Agent Just Emptied a Database.

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel

IEEE Award-Winning Researcher | Best Keynote Speaker | Sr. Software Engineer at Amazon | AI Systems & Agent Architect

Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
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Your next customer won’t be human

Benjamin Smith

Staff Developer Advocate at Stripe

Benjamin Smith
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Your Threat Model Is Lying to You: Why Modeling the Design Isn’t Enough in 2026

Farshad Abasi

CEO/Founder, Eureka DevSecOps + Forward Security

Farshad Abasi
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Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations

Borko Djurkovic

Member of Technical Staff at Cohere

Borko Djurkovic