World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 5
From Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session
Laura Salinas
AWS Developer Advocate
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 · 16:10–16:40
Outdoor Stage
Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really?
Michal Salanci
Senior Systems Engineer at ESET Cybersecurity
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 3
Sandboxing the Swarm: Building Secure, Serverless AI Agents with Wasm
Thorsten Hans
Sr. Developer Advocate @ Akamai Technologies
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Tech Leaders Stage
Shipping AI Features People Actually Use
Ben Kus, Stefan Lederer, Wayne Liu, Floriane Gramlich
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 7
Your Threat Model Is Lying to You: Why Modeling the Design Isn’t Enough in 2026
Farshad Abasi
CEO/Founder, Eureka DevSecOps + Forward Security
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Mainstage
Building AI Products vs. Building With AI
Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 5
Context Engineering Kung Fu
Carl Lapierre
Tech Lead and AI Engineer at Osedea
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 7
File Systems Are the New Primitive for AI Agents
Andrew Wong
Sr. Developer Relations Engineer at Box
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Tech Leaders Stage
Fireside Chat with Gerhard Eschelbeck, Fmr. Google CISO
Gerhard Eschelbeck, Sead Ahmetović
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 4
From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack
Michael Yuan, Vivian Hu
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 2
It passed auth, then production caught fire
Alex Olivier
Co-founder & CPO @ Cerbos | OpenID AuthZEN Co-chair
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 3
Merging at Scale: From Broken Builds to Green Mainline
Manjari Akella, Preetam Dwivedi
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Outdoor Stage
The MCP haters are half right
Vojta Kopal
Head of Data at Apify
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 1
When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility
Simon Auer
Organizer of flutter vienna meetup and CEO of marqably
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 16:50–17:20
Stage 6
Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale
Him Raj Singh
Manager, Software Engineer at PayPal
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 4
Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices
Garvit Kataria, Sahil Sabharwal
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Outdoor Stage
From Firefighting to Force Multiplication with AI
Daniel Murphy
SRE Champion, Public Speaker, Technologist
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 2
From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka
Sandon Jacobs
Senior Developer Advocate at IBM
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 7
Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet?
Nemanja Stošić
Senior Flutter Developer
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Mainstage
Life in Games: Four Decades of Code
John Romero
Legendary Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 6
No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs
Emmanuel Acheampong
Senior Manager Developer Relations at Crusoe AI
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 3
Scaling Distributed Queues for AI workloads
Jasmit Kaur Saluja
Staff Software Engineer at Meta Platforms Inc
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 5
Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale
Abdel Fane
Founder of OpenA2A
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 1
Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era
Prashanth Chandrasekar, Alexandra (Alex) Lato
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Tech Leaders Stage
What AI Startups Are VCs Actually Funding in 2026
Mariane Bekker, Eric Bahn, Jeremiah Owyang, Suman Natarajan
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 18:00–20:00
HIDE Room 1
Booth Crawl @Expo Hall
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 18:30–20:00
Stage 8
Demos, Drinks & LEGOS
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 18:30–19:30
Stage 3
Live DOOM II Deathmatches with John Romero
John Romero
Legendary Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein
World Congress 2026 North America
September 24, 2026 · 20:00–22:30
HIDE General
Congress Party
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 08:00–09:00
HIDE General
Doors open - Day 2
Speaker TBA