World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:30–16:00
HIDE Room 1
Book Signing with John Romero - the Legendary Game Creator
John Romero
Legendary Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein
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 24, 2026 · 14:40–14:50
Outdoor Stage
In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups
Steve Chen
Executive Director and Founder at Code & Coffee
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 6
Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships
Ussama Baggili
Principal, App Modernization & Development, Cloud Engineering & Data Analytics | Anthropic Alliance CTO
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 2
Databases in the Agent Era
Monica Sarbu
Founder and CEO of xata.io
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 4
How to generate business value through performance optimizations
Nikolai Sidiropulo
Software Engineer at Meta
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Mainstage
Running AI-Written Software in Production
Anurag Goel, Milin Desai, Richard Rizk, Sead Ahmetović
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World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Tech Leaders Stage
Ship with Context: GitLab Orbit and Google Cloud for AI-Powered Software Delivery
Michael Angelo Rivera, Matt Duchesne, Rajesh Agadi
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 1
The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security
Loris Degioanni
Founder & CTO of Sysdig
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 5
Travel’s AI-Powered Shift: How Expedia Group Is Building in the AI Era
Debashis Saha, Julia Elliott
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 7
When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale
Yoav Gal
Product Lead
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 3
Why AI-Written Books Fail – and How We Made Quality Measurable
Hannes Steiner, Thomas Neumayer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 7
Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming
Ron Veen
Java enthusiast and Special agent for Team Rockstars IT
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Outdoor Stage
From Boardroom to Build Pipeline: What AI Governance Actually Looks Like in Practice
Anita Ganti
Board Director & Technology Executive
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 6
Going beyond the code through the GitHub Copilot App: how to unlock you and your team’s superpower
Jenny Hwang
Director of User Research at GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 2
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++
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Mainstage
Our Brains in the AI Era
Cassidy Williams
Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 3
The New Bottleneck in Software Development
Aditya Jayaprakash
Co-Founder & CEO at Blacksmith
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 1
The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises
Priyanka Vergadia
Founder of Cloud Girl, former executive at Microsoft
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 5
The reviewer can't be the author: independent verification for AI-generated code
Manish Kapur
VP, Product and Solutions at Sonar
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Tech Leaders Stage
Transforming Enterprise AI with Tabular Foundation Models
Leo Grinsztajn, Tom Palczewski, Yaad Oren, Ahmad Rushdi
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 4
Your next customer won’t be human
Benjamin Smith
Staff Developer Advocate at Stripe
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Stage 12
Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot App
Gustavo Cordido
Cloud Advocate at GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Stage 14
Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Stage 8
Come with an Idea, Leave with an App: Build and Launch Your Website with AI
Denise Kwan
Senior Developer Advocate at Google
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Stage 13
Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers
Mudassir Syed
Lead Security Software Engineer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Stage 10
Reprompting the Wheel? Why AI Won’t Save Your Content Platform
Benni Mack, Tom Warwick
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Mainstage
AI and Video games: The Evolution
Jack McCauley
Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 1
Closing the autonomous software development loop
Justin Halsall, Scott Voigt
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 6
Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization
Legare Kerrison, Cedric Clyburn
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 4
From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere
Sandeep Pal
Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce
