Agenda

Schedule

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Day 0 · Warm-Up Day

WeAreDevelopers - Warm-Up Day

9:50 AM–6:00 PM

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

San Jose McEnery Convention Center · 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA

Wednesday is your Warm-Up Day before the official Congress opening on Thursday. Get hands-on in workshops and masterclasses, join fireside chats on the outdoor stage, catch the dedicated stage program from Docker and GitHub, drop into community meetups, watch live recordings of the WeAreDevelopers podcast, and meet fellow developers in a relaxed setting before the crowds arrive. Pick up your badge on Wednesday and walk straight in when Main Stage and expo open Thursday. Registration for workshops will be available in the official event app soon (seats are limited).

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Mainstage

Tech Leaders Stage

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6

Stage 7

Outdoor Stage

Stage 9

8:00 AM Doors open - Day 1

9:30 AM

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11:00 PM

6:00 PM–8:00 PM Booth Crawl @Expo Hall

8:00 PM–11:00 PM Congress Party

9:30 AM–9:45 AM

Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America

9:45 AM–10:15 AM

Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents Applied AI

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

Keynote Ramin Hasani CEO Liquid AI AI Engineering

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

The New Rules of Software Delivery AI Engineering

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

The Browser Is Becoming an AI Runtime AI Engineering

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026 Architecture & Backend

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

Reading the Mind of Your NGINX Fleet: A Hybrid Rule + ML Pipeline for NGINX Config Intelligence AI Engineering

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems DevOps & Platform Engineering

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

Vector, Graph, or Key Value? Choosing Your Agent's Memory AI Agents

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

Practices, Not Prompts: Scale GitHub Copilot with AI-Ready Repositories DevEx & Productivity

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations AI Trust & Safety

10:20 AM–10:50 AM

From Candidate Experience to Competitive Advantage Career, Culture & Community

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

Building the Agentic Software Factory AI Agents

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

Building AI for the Physical World Physical AI

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications AI Agents

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

From Stateless to Stateful: Real-Time Voice & Messaging Agents with Twilio and AWS AI Agents

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

Making Science Larger, not just Faster Leadership & Strategy

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents AI Models & Infrastructure

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app DevEx & Productivity

11:00 AM–11:30 AM

Running Modern On-Device AI Solutions on Mobile Languages, Web & Mobile

Alexander Varro and Alija Nuredini - Founders OS for replacing operational fragmentation

Architecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery

Finding the Edges: Testing, Evaluating, and Monitoring Voice AI Agents Before Your Users Do

Loominus Studio: The AI Workbench for Labs and Factories

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures AI Agents

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

Rethinking Developer Tools for the Agent Era DevEx & Productivity

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

The Next Wave of Agents: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What Matters AI Agents

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production DevOps & Platform Engineering

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

Taming Rogue Agents: Observability-Driven Evaluation for Production Reliability Security & Privacy

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

Your Agents Need Observability Before They Need Better Models DevOps & Platform Engineering

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering AI Engineering

11:40 AM–12:10 PM

Clean Rooms Demystified: Architecture and Patterns for Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration Security & Privacy

One Environment, N Machines: Deterministic Builds for Humans and Agents

Production runtime for Enterprise AI agents

12:15 PM–12:45 PM

Why Buy Software When AI Can Build It? Leadership & Strategy

12:15 PM–12:45 PM

AI vs. AI: Defending the open source supply chain with agentic workflows Security & Privacy

PrimaLabs: The Application-Specific AI Inference Stack

Software change is outpacing the platforms built to understand it.

each::labs: Close the Imagination Gap

12:50 PM–1:15 PM

Interview: Amjad Masad (CEO & Co-Founder, Replit) with Ben & David from Acquired Leadership & Strategy

12:50 PM–1:20 PM

The AI Revolution Will Be Surprisingly Boring Applied AI

12:50 PM–1:20 PM

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases Data & Databases

12:50 PM–1:20 PM

For Physical AI, data is the problem, but data is not the solution Physical AI

12:50 PM–1:20 PM

Architecting Agentic Apps: WebMCP, A2UI, and Agent Experience Languages, Web & Mobile

Valven: Intelligence for AI-Driven Software Lifecycle

1:20 PM–1:45 PM

Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired Leadership & Strategy

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

The New Security Stack Security & Privacy

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

How AI Agents Tripled Our Test Coverage on a 1.8M-Line iOS Codebase Languages, Web & Mobile

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

Building the Production Cage for Powerful Agents AI Agents

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

Orchestrating Content Workflows at Netflix Scale DevEx & Productivity

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

AI and Video games: The Evolution Applied AI

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

The Pedagogy of AI: Agents, Agency, and a World Beyond Coding Tutorials Applied AI

1:30 PM–2:00 PM

Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models AI Models & Infrastructure

The Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story

1:50 PM–2:15 PM

Interview: Justin Boitano (VP Enterprise AI, NVIDIA) with Ben & David from Acquired Leadership & Strategy

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Anatomy of an AI Request: Where Latency and Cost Are Really Born AI Engineering

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Know Your Enemies: Live Exploit of a PHP Engine Security Breach Security & Privacy

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Real-Time Data Platforms at Trillion-Event Scale Data & Databases

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Agentic Drift: keeping pace with your agents AI Agents

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach Applied AI

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Compute for your AI model: GPUs, LPUs, TPUs and beyond.. AI Models & Infrastructure

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

Designing High-Performance AI APIs: Lessons from Serving Millions of Real-Time Requests Architecture & Backend

The Teams Shipping Agents Fastest Are Winning with Infrastructure

2:10 PM–2:40 PM

One Repo, One Strategy: Scalable Full-Stack Testing in a Monorepo World Languages, Web & Mobile

2:20 PM–2:45 PM

Interview: Special Guest (announced soon) with Ben & David from Acquired Leadership & Strategy

SecurePrompt: Building a Pre-Flight Security Layer for Agentic AI

Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it.

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

Running AI-Written Software in Production AI Engineering

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security Security & Privacy

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

Databases in the Agent Era Data & Databases

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

Why AI-Written Books Fail – and How We Made Quality Measurable AI Engineering

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

When Logging Becomes The Outage: Escaping the ECS Logging Trap DevOps & Platform Engineering

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

Travel’s AI-Powered Shift: How Expedia Group Is Building in the AI Era Applied AI

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale AI Trust & Safety

2:50 PM–3:20 PM

How to generate business value through performance optimizations Languages, Web & Mobile

In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups

AI That Argues With Itself: Building Self-Debating Systems That Catch Their Own Bugs

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

Our Brains in the AI Era Career, Culture & Community

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

Transforming Enterprise AI with Tabular Foundation Models AI Engineering

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

KV Cache Is Not About Speed: It's About Surviving Inference Costs AI Models & Infrastructure

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

The New Bottleneck in Software Development Architecture & Backend

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

Why Infrastructure Forecasting Fails – Building a Self-Serve Forecasting Platform DevOps & Platform Engineering

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

The reviewer can't be the author: independent verification for AI-generated code AI Trust & Safety

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

Going beyond the code through the GitHub Copilot App: how to unlock you and your team’s superpower DevEx & Productivity

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming DevEx & Productivity

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

From Boardroom to Build Pipeline: What AI Governance Actually Looks Like in Practice Leadership & Strategy

3:30 PM–4:00 PM

Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really? DevOps & Platform Engineering

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

The future of workforce, at high speed Applied AI

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

Shipping AI Features People Actually Use Applied AI

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

Sandboxing the Swarm: Building Secure, Serverless AI Agents with Wasm AI Engineering

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

The Death of the Code Review DevEx & Productivity

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents AI Trust & Safety

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere DevOps & Platform Engineering

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack Physical AI

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises Applied AI

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

Your Threat Model Is Lying to You: Why Modeling the Design Isn’t Enough in 2026 Security & Privacy

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility Languages, Web & Mobile

4:10 PM–4:40 PM

Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization AI Models & Infrastructure

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

Building AI Products vs. Building With AI Applied AI

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

Fireside Chat with Gerhard Eschelbeck, Fmr. Google CISO AI Trust & Safety

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating People, AI and Sovereignty Leadership & Strategy

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

It passed auth, then production caught fire Security & Privacy

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

Merging at Scale: From Broken Builds to Green Mainline Architecture & Backend

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

Context Engineering Kung Fu AI Engineering

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale AI Trust & Safety

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

File Systems Are the New Primitive for AI Agents AI Agents

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

The MCP haters are half right AI Engineering

4:50 PM–5:20 PM

From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka Security & Privacy

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

Keynote by John Romero, the Legendary Game Creator

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

What AI Startups Are VCs Actually Funding in 2026 Startups & Innovation

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

Fireside Chat with Prashanth Chandrasekar and Alexandra Lato DevEx & Productivity

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

0° Means Besties, 90° Means Strangers: The Math Behind Cosine Similarity AI Engineering

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

Scaling Distributed Queues for AI workloads Architecture & Backend

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices DevOps & Platform Engineering

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale AI Trust & Safety

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs AI Agents

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet? Languages, Web & Mobile

5:30 PM–6:00 PM

From Firefighting to Force Multiplication with AI AI Engineering

6:30 PM–7:30 PM

Live DOOM II Deathmatches with John Romero