World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:30–14:30
Stage 10
Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Sandhya Subramani
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 · 12:30–14:30
Stage 8
Build a Voice AI Agent with Twilio Agent Connect and Gemini Flash
Rishab Kumar
Staff Developer Evangelist @ Twilio
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:30–14:30
Stage 13
Docker sandboxes: protect your secrets, tokens, and personal data from AI agent mistakes
Kristiyan Velkov
Developer Relations Engineer at Zerops.io
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:30–14:30
Stage 14
Iron Designer Challenge with John Romero
John Romero
Legendary Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:55–13:25
Outdoor Stage
Building the AI Era Through Developer Communities: A Competitive Advantage for Engineers & Teams
John Komarnicki
National Executive Advisor at Code & Coffee | Engineering & AI Community Leader
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:55–13:25
Stage 1
From Simulation to Reality: Overcoming the Data Challenge in Physical AI
Mitesh Patel
NVIDIA Corporation, Developer Advocate -- Manager
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:55–13:25
Stage 5
Not managing your content platform is surrendering your data to someone else.
Daniel Fau, Tom Warwick
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 12:55–13:25
Stage 3
Replay-Safe Architecture: Building Event-Driven Systems That Can Recover With Confidence
Ishan Shah
PayPal, Software Engineer | Distributed Systems, AI, and Platform Engineering
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Mainstage
A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering
Ankit Patel, Philip Kiely
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 2
Bluesky's Open Source Moderation Tools: LLM-based Event Detection in Python
Alex Garnett
Developer Relations, Bluesky
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Tech Leaders Stage
Defending at Machine Speed
Manfred Moser, Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, Brian Fox
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 4
From Model Selection to Smart Routing: How to Use the Right LLM for Every Task
Viktoria Semaan
Principal Technical Evangelist at Databricks
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 5
I Built My Own AI Wearable (So You Don't Have To — But You'll Want To)
Mike Chambers
AWS -Specialist Developer Advocate, Machine Learning
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 7
It’s Alive! Taming the MLOps Franken-Stack: Write, Run, and Serve with Michelangelo
Eric Wang, Paul Zimmerman
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 3
Lessons from 20 Years of Bootstrapping an Open Source Business to $50M+
Peter Farkas
CEO of Percona
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 6
The Autonomous Pull Request: Let Agents Ship Without Surrendering Control
Sam Jarvinen
Senior Solutions Engineer, GitHub
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Outdoor Stage
The Geometry of Incidents: What User-Impact Shapes Reveal About Platform Architecture
Bala Subrahmanyam Kambala
Staff Platform Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 1
The State of Local AI in 2026
Kirah Sapong
Co-founder & CTO of Aquaduck AI
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 5
AI Builds Confidence, Community Builds Credibility
Josh Bentley
Head of Community, SAP
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 3
Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. All of them. How I became sysadmin on Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba.
Fabiano Amorim
Chief Technology Advisor at PowerTuning
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 4
Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications
Devanshi Vyas
co-founder & CTO of Headroom
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Mainstage
Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built
Lena Hall
Data + AI Engineer, Pragmatic AI Adoption Expert and Architect
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 2
Store Your AI Agent's Memory and Context in a Knowledge Graph
Guy Korland
CEO of FalkorDB
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 1
The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up
Tomislav Tipurić
Chief Technology Officer, Nephos
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Tech Leaders Stage
The Unit Economics of AI
Ed Huang, Jeremy Murray, John Malcolm, Aaron Bawcom
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World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 6
Where Judgment Went — and How to Put It Back
Shruti Tiwari
AI/ML product manager, Dell
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Outdoor Stage
Who Did the Work?
Beth Rudden
Runs Bast AI. Still writes the code.
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40
Stage 7
Why Your iOS App Feels Broken After an Hour: Diagnosing Long-Session Performance on Real Devices
Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala
Staff Performance Engineer at ServiceNow
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 5
Agents Have a Perception Problem
Ivan Sekyonda
Developer Relations Engineer at Edge Impulse
World Congress 2026 North America
September 25, 2026 · 14:50–15:20
Stage 4
Intelligence in Motion: Building the Next Generation of AI-Powered Apps on Zoom's Developer Platform
Brendan Ittelson
Chief Ecosystem Officer of Zoom
