World Congress 2026 North America

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315 sessions

September 23–25, 2026

San José, CA

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From Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session

  • Laura Salinas

    AWS

    Developer Advocate

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Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really?

  • Michal Salanci

    ESET Cybersecurity

    Sr. Systems Engineer

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Sandboxing the Swarm: Building Secure, Serverless AI Agents with Wasm

  • Thorsten Hans

    Akamai Technologies

    Sr. Developer Advocate

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Shipping AI Features People Actually Use

  • Ben Kus

    Box

    CTO

  • Stefan Lederer

    Bitmovin

    Co-founder & CEO

  • Wayne Liu

    Perfect Corp.

    Chief Growth Officer & Americas President

  • Floriane Gramlich

    FG Solutions & Chief in Tech Capital

    Management Director

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

  • Farshad Abasi

    Eureka DevSecOps and Forward Security

    Founder & CEO

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Building AI Products vs. Building With AI

  • Aparna Dhinakaran

    Arize

    Chief Product Officer & Founder

  • Rukmini Reddy

    PagerDuty

    Senior VP of Engineering

  • Tamar Bercovici

    Box

    VP of Engineering

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Context Engineering Kung Fu

  • Carl Lapierre

    Osedea

    Tech Lead & AI Engineer

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File Systems Are the New Primitive for AI Agents

  • Andrew Wong

    Box

    Sr. Developer Relations Engineer

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Fireside Chat with Gerhard Eschelbeck, Fmr. Google CISO

  • Gerhard Eschelbeck

    Former Google CISO

  • Sead Ahmetović

    WeAreDevelopers

    CEO & Co-Founder

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From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack

  • Michael Yuan

    Second State

    Founder

  • Vivian Hu

    Second State

    Product Manager

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It passed auth, then production caught fire

  • Alex Olivier

    Cerbos

    Co-founder & CPO

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Merging at Scale: From Broken Builds to Green Mainline

  • Manjari Akella

    Uber

    Software Engineer

  • Preetam Dwivedi

    Uber

    Staff Engineer

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The MCP haters are half right

  • Vojta Kopal

    Apify

    Head of Data

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When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility

  • Simon Auer

    marqably

    CEO

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

  • Him Raj Singh

    PayPal

    Manager Software Engineering

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Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices

  • Garvit Kataria

    Intuit

    Sr. Software Engineer

  • Sahil Sabharwal

    Intuit

    Sr. Staff Software Engineer

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From Firefighting to Force Multiplication with AI

  • Daniel Murphy

    PwC

    Head of SRE

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From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka

  • Sandon Jacobs

    Confluent

    Sr. Developer Advocate

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Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet?

  • Nemanja Stošić

    Kikoff

    Sr. Flutter Developer

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Life in Games: Four Decades of Code

  • John Romero

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

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No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs

  • Emmanuel Acheampong

    Crusoe AI

    Sr. Manager Developer Relations

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Scaling Distributed Queues for AI workloads

  • Jasmit Kaur Saluja

    Meta Platforms Inc

    Software Engineer

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Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale

  • Abdel Fane

    OpenA2A

    Founder & CEO

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Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era

  • Prashanth Chandrasekar

    Stack Overflow

    CEO

  • Alexandra (Alex) Lato

    Stack Overflow

    VP of Product

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What AI Startups Are VCs Actually Funding in 2026

  • Mariane Bekker

    You.com

    Head of DevRel

  • Eric Bahn

    Hustle Fund

    Co-Founder & General Partner

  • Jeremiah Owyang

    Blitzscaling Ventures

    General Partner

  • Suman Natarajan

    B Capital

    Senior Principal & Enterprise Growth Investor

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Live DOOM II Deathmatches with John Romero

  • John Romero

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