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Discover how malware like Glassworm exploits standard package managers and learn to harden your pipelines against install-time attacks. - **Speakers:** Chris DeMars - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 11:36 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100558-silent-execution-defending-against-install-time-supply-chain-attacks) ### Who Do We Hire Now? Who do you hire when AI writes the foundational code? The traditional tech talent pipeline is completely broken. Discover why leaders now prioritize complex reasoning over static technical credentials. - **Speakers:** Chris Daden, Ian Hughson, Becky Bucich, Jennifer Serrato, Kate Smeaton - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:26 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100601-who-do-we-hire-now) ### Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox Stop using Kubernetes for ephemeral AI sandboxes. Pods are scheduled, not summoned. Purpose-built environments spin up in milliseconds, executing tasks 36% faster and cutting GPU costs by 15x. - **Speakers:** Ivan Burazin - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 12:27 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100555-kubernetes-is-not-your-sandbox) ### ZTA: Zero Token Architecture Continuous AI agents burn tokens and break zero trust security. Stop the endless inference loops. Embrace Zero Token Architecture to turn unpredictable AI into reliable, deterministic code. - **Speakers:** Kelsey Hightower - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:36 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100533-zta-zero-token-architecture) ### Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means Stop letting AI guess your database relationships. Learn to encode business logic into structured YAML, ensuring autonomous agents generate accurate, standardized queries. - **Speakers:** Kris Jenkins - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 32:25 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100490-beyond-sql-generation-how-to-teach-agents-what-your-database-actually-means) ### The Five Percent Club: The Culture and Technological Shift Behind Successful AI Deployments Tara Hernandez argues 95% of enterprise AI initiatives fail when treated as mere productivity hacks. Master the cultural shift required to join the 5% club of successful deployments. - **Speakers:** Tara Hernandez - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 20:20 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100464-the-five-percent-club-the-culture-and-technological-shift-behind-successful-ai-deployments) ### Speed up your CI/CD pipelines by caching build & runtime artifacts Are artifact downloads draining your pipeline speed? Stop wasting up to 40% of your build time. Learn how hyper-local caching slashes wait times and secures your supply chain. - **Speakers:** Thijs Feryn - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:11 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100450-speed-up-your-ci-cd-pipelines-by-caching-build-runtime-artifacts) ### Designing APIs That Survive AI Agents at Scale AI agents hallucinate parameters, ignore changelogs, and trigger massive retry storms. Is your API architecture resilient enough to survive this non-deterministic, machine-speed traffic? - **Speakers:** Phani Pendurthi - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:39 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100403-designing-apis-that-survive-ai-agents-at-scale) ### Loop Engineering in the Wild: A Live Multi-Agent Coding Session AI development is evolving into distributed, non-deterministic microservices. Watch a live session where specialized coding agents dynamically argue, align, and complete complex software tickets with zero human intervention. - **Speakers:** Vlad Luzin - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:51 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100380-loop-engineering-in-the-wild-a-live-multi-agent-coding-session) ### public void saveMoney(AI): The Developer's Guide to Unit Economics Are AI coding assistants secretly destroying your cloud budget? Learn how to shift FinOps left and block financially defective code directly at the pull request. - **Speakers:** Hrushikesh Pokala - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 10:15 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100565-public-void-savemoney-ai-the-developer-s-guide-to-unit-economics) ### Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems How do you deploy AI agents when a single hardware bug costs millions? Stop treating models as black boxes and start instrumenting the messy middle of agentic workflows. - **Speakers:** Vivek Pandit - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 11:10 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100567-closing-the-visibility-gap-lessons-from-safety-critical-agentic-systems) ### Moats, Margins & M&A in the AI Era Superficial AI wrappers are dead. In the post-SaaS era, true defensibility requires sacrificing short-term margins to build proprietary data flywheels and capture complete workflow ownership. - **Speakers:** Ravi Belani, Ashish Aggarwal, Becky Flint, Dr. Yvonne Lutsch - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 26, 2026 - **Duration:** 27:58 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100594-moats-margins-m-a-in-the-ai-era) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/world-congress-2026-north-america?page=3)