World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 7
AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine
Bharat Patel
Lead Software Engineer at Intuit
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 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 2
Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency
Tommy Tran
Software Engineer at Meta
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Mainstage
Building AI that fits your business
Benny Chen
Co-Founder of Fireworks
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 4
Don’t kill my Vibes - Simple Steps to Stay Secure when Vibe Coding
Isaac Evans
Founder & CEO of Semgrep
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Tech Leaders Stage
How to Trust Code You Didn't Write
Jeff An, Itamar Friedman, Shubho Sengupta, Francesco Ciulla
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 6
Red Teaming Your LLM App -- A Hands-On Threat Model You Can Reuse
Saloni Garg
Senior ML Engineer at Adobe
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 5
Reinventing Incident Response with AI Agents and MCP
Jayant Tyagi
Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 1
Test Before Release, Enforce at Runtime: Governance for Tool-Using AI Agents
Sachin Gupta
Technical Leader at eBay
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 3
Your Thread Pool Is Lying to You — Sizing Concurrency from Rate Limits and Latency, Not Guesswork
Ratul Ghosh
Intuit, Tech lead and architect for GenOS platform
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 6
Chat with Your Data: From Natural Language to SQL
Alper Ebicoglu
Co-founder of Volosoft
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Mainstage
From Possibility to Production: Why AI Raises the Bar for Engineering
Leigh-Ann Russell
CIO & Global Head of Engineering at BNY
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Tech Leaders Stage
Inside the AI-Native Engineering Org
Hari Lingamagunta, Siwei Shen, Amy Yuan, Gene Kim
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 7
Loop Engineering
Li Yin
CEO
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 5
Secure-by-Inclusion: Preventing Accessibility Barriers from Becoming Security Vulnerabilities
Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova
Norwegian Directorate of Labour and Welfare (NAV), Senior Advisor in Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 3
Still on 4.8 or lower? A Practical Guide to Moving Your "Un-Migratable" .NET Apps
Isaac Levin
Developer Advocate
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Outdoor Stage
The path to Staff Engineer and beyond - staying on the IC train
Graham Gilbert
Senior Staff Engineer at Airbnb
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 1
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
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 2
Why Infrastructure Forecasting Fails – Building a Self-Serve Forecasting Platform
Ankur Gupta
LinkedIn, Senior Staff Technical Program Manager
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 4
Your registry can't stop a valid login. What happens then?
Khushboo Verma
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:00–12:00
Stage 14
Human + AI: Who Should Be in Control?
Mirela Viersa
Customer Innovation Principal at SAP
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:00–12:00
Stage 10
Insert Coin: Build Live with J.P. Morgan Payments APIs and AI
Alan Torrance
Senior Executive Director of Engineering, JPMorganChase
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:00–12:00
Stage 12
Intro to Agentic Workflows and an AI-enabled SDLC
Greg Larkin
Senior Service Delivery Engineer, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:00–12:00
Stage 8
Your Agent Shipped the Fix. Did It Work?
Sean O'Dell, Johannes Vollert, Andrew Norris, Rob Vollum
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 6
Agentic Code Validation and Repository Automation with Agentic Workflows
Jose Palafox
Field Copilot Specialist, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 2
API = Some REST and HTTP, right? RIGHT?!
Rustam Mehmandarov
Passionate computer scientist
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Tech Leaders Stage
Democratizing AI: Why Open Models Are Essential for the Next Era
Mitesh Patel, Joey Conway, Olivier Lacombe, Varun Vontimitta
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 1
Fixing Git for Agents: Somewhere Between the Prompt and Production, We Lost the Plot
Karthik Rameshkumar
Field CTO at Entire
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Mainstage
How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value
Erran Berger, Frederic Lardinois
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Stage 3
Making (and Breaking) Agents by Adding 1,000 MCP Tools
Guillaume Lebedel
CTO & Co-Founder of StackOne
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 10:20–10:50
Outdoor Stage
MicroAgents: The Microservices of the Agentic Era
Ashish Shubham
Runs the show bussiness at ThoughtSpot
