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Stop relying on simulators and learn to diagnose long-session degradation, thermal cascades, and memory fragmentation on real devices. - **Speakers:** Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 23:38 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100384-why-your-ios-app-feels-broken-after-an-hour-diagnosing-long-session-performance-on-real-devices) ### Defending at Machine Speed Are autonomous attackers overwhelming your security team? Traditional detections are failing. Learn how to fight fire with fire by integrating AI into your defense strategy. - **Speakers:** Manfred Moser, Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, Brian Fox - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 28:28 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100599-defending-at-machine-speed) ### The Geometry of Incidents: What User-Impact Shapes Reveal About Platform Architecture Failure has a shape. Discover how mapping the geometry of user impact exposes hidden architectural vulnerabilities and helps you design truly resilient, fault-isolated platforms. - **Speakers:** Bala Subrahmanyam Kambala - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 17:40 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100561-the-geometry-of-incidents-what-user-impact-shapes-reveal-about-platform-architecture) ### A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering Scaling web apps once meant serving kilobytes of HTML. Today, inference engineers orchestrate terabytes of model weights and gigabytes of KV cache to deploy high-throughput generative AI. - **Speakers:** Ankit Patel, Philip Kiely - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:18 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100542-a-hands-on-developer-guide-to-inference-engineering) ### The State of Local AI in 2026 By 2026, the cloud-only AI paradigm will be obsolete. Discover how open-weight models and dynamic quantization are making powerful local inference the default for secure enterprise workflows. - **Speakers:** Kirah Sapong - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 26:39 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100510-the-state-of-local-ai-in-2026) ### Bluesky's Open Source Moderation Tools: LLM-based Event Detection in Python How does Bluesky process over 6,000 events per second without letting AI blindly delete posts? Discover their open-source Python stack for scalable, LLM-based event detection. - **Speakers:** Alex Garnett - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:55 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100492-bluesky-s-open-source-moderation-tools-llm-based-event-detection-in-python) ### The Put That Sh*t On Agent: Why AI Agents Need Contracts When an AI stylist recommends suede loafers in the rain, larger LLMs aren't the fix. Learn how data contracts and ontologies keep agentic workflows creative yet functionally accurate. - **Speakers:** William Hill - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 21:47 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100465-the-put-that-sh-t-on-agent-why-ai-agents-need-contracts) ### From Model Selection to Smart Routing: How to Use the Right LLM for Every Task Are you automating your business into bankruptcy with massive LLM bills? Defaulting to the smartest model isn't the answer. Discover how smart routing slashes costs without sacrificing performance. - **Speakers:** Viktoria Semaan - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:33 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100447-from-model-selection-to-smart-routing-how-to-use-the-right-llm-for-every-task) ### I Built My Own AI Wearable (So You Don't Have To — But You'll Want To) Curious how ambient AI wearables actually work? Dive into the end-to-end hardware and AWS cloud architecture used to build a custom, 3D-printed meeting summarizer from scratch. - **Speakers:** Mike Chambers - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:57 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100418-i-built-my-own-ai-wearable-so-you-don-t-have-to-but-you-ll-want-to) ### The Autonomous Pull Request: Let Agents Ship Without Surrendering Control AI agents can ship code ten times faster than humans, but who is actually in control? Discover how to safely automate pull requests using strict governance gates. - **Speakers:** Sam Jarvinen - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 19:17 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100400-the-autonomous-pull-request-let-agents-ship-without-surrendering-control) ### It’s Alive! Taming the MLOps Franken-Stack: Write, Run, and Serve with Michelangelo How does Uber handle 45 million predictions per second without breaking its Python workflows? Discover how the open-sourced Michelangelo platform tames the MLOps Franken-stack to unify your ML lifecycle. - **Speakers:** Eric Wang, Paul Zimmerman - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:19 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100383-it-s-alive-taming-the-mlops-franken-stack-write-run-and-serve-with-michelangelo) ### Building the AI Era Through Developer Communities: A Competitive Advantage for Engineers & Teams The traditional developer learning loop is dead. In the AI era, treating your professional network as an extension of your tech stack accelerates engineering innovation and career growth. - **Speakers:** John Komarnicki - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:15 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100557-building-the-ai-era-through-developer-communities-a-competitive-advantage-for-engineers-teams) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/world-congress-2026-north-america?page=6)