World Congress 2026 North America

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315 sessions

September 23–25, 2026

San José, CA

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Book Signing with John Romero - the Legendary Game Creator

  • John Romero

    Legendary Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein

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

  • Steve Chen

    Code & Coffee

    Executive Director and Founder

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Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships

  • Ussama Baggili

    PwC US

    Principal, App Modernization & Development, Cloud Engineering & Data Analytics | Anthropic Alliance CTO

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Databases in the Agent Era

  • Monica Sarbu

    xata.io

    Founder & CEO

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How to generate business value through performance optimizations

  • Nikolai Sidiropulo

    Meta

    Software Engineer

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Running AI-Written Software in Production

  • Anurag Goel

    Render

    Founder & CEO

  • Milin Desai

    Sentry

    CEO

  • Richard Rizk

    BLACKBOX AI

    Co-Founder & CTO

  • Sead Ahmetović

    WeAreDevelopers

    CEO & Co-Founder

  • Jared Zoneraich

    Cognition

    Senior member of Technical Staff

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Ship with Context: GitLab Orbit and Google Cloud for AI-Powered Software Delivery

  • Michael Angelo Rivera

    GitLab

    GitLab Orbit Lead at GitLAb

  • Matt Duchesne

    GitLab

    AVP, Sales

  • Rajesh Agadi

    Google Cloud

    Principal Architect

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The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security

  • Loris Degioanni

    Sysdig

    Founder & CTO

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Travel’s AI-Powered Shift: How Expedia Group Is Building in the AI Era

  • Debashis Saha

    Expedia Group

    Senior Vice President, Technology

  • Julia Elliott

    Expedia Group

    Vice President, Technology and Chief of Staff

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

  • Yoav Gal

    Product Lead

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Why AI-Written Books Fail – and How We Made Quality Measurable

  • Hannes Steiner

    Story.one

    Founder & CEO

  • Thomas Neumayer

    ExtensityAI

    CEO

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Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming

  • Ron Veen

    Team Rockstars IT

    Sr. Developer

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From Boardroom to Build Pipeline: What AI Governance Actually Looks Like in Practice

  • Anita Ganti

    Kavia AI

    Board member, Corporate Director & Technology Executive

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Going beyond the code through the GitHub Copilot App: how to unlock you and your team’s superpower

  • Jenny Hwang

    GitHub

    Director of User Research

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

  • David vonThenen

    NetApp

    Sr. AI/ML Engineer

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Our Brains in the AI Era

  • Cassidy Williams

    GitHub

    Senior Director of Developer Advocacy

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The New Bottleneck in Software Development

  • Aditya Jayaprakash

    Blacksmith

    Co-Founder & CEO

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The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises

  • Priyanka Vergadia

    Cloud Girl

    Founder

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The reviewer can't be the author: independent verification for AI-generated code

  • Manish Kapur

    Sonar

    VP, Product & Solutions

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Transforming Enterprise AI with Tabular Foundation Models

  • Leo Grinsztajn

    Prior Labs

    Founding Research Scientist

  • Tom Palczewski

    SAP

    Tech Lead, Expert AI Scientist - Generative AI

  • Yaad Oren

    SAP Labs US & SAP Research & Innovation

    Managing Director & Global Head

  • Ahmad Rushdi

    Stanford University

    Director of Industry Programs & Research Scientist

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Your next customer won’t be human

  • Benjamin Smith

    Stripe

    Staff Developer Advocate

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Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot App

  • Gustavo Cordido

    GitHub

    Cloud Advocate

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Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship

  • Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

    AWS

    Developer Advocate/SDE, GenAI

  • Sandhya Subramani

    AWS

    Senior Developer Advocate

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Come with an Idea, Leave with an App: Build and Launch Your Website with AI

  • Denise Kwan

    Google

    Senior Developer Advocate

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Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers

  • Mudassir Syed

    Autodesk

    Security Software Engineer

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Reprompting the Wheel? Why AI Won’t Save Your Content Platform

  • Benni Mack

    TYPO3

    TYPO3 CMS Project Lead

  • Tom Warwick

    TYPO3

    Developer Relations

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AI and Video games: The Evolution

  • Jack McCauley

    Oculus

    Co-Founder

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Closing the autonomous software development loop

  • Justin Halsall

    rrweb

    CEO

  • Scott Voigt

    Fullstory

    CEO & Co-founder

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

  • Legare Kerrison

    Red Hat

    AI Developer Advocate

  • Cedric Clyburn

    Red Hat

    Sr. Developer Advocate

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

  • Sandeep Pal

    Salesforce

    Principal Member of Technical Staff