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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).

Time
Mainstage
Tech Leaders Stage
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
Stage 6
Stage 7
Outdoor Stage
8:00 AM Doors open - Day 1
9:30 AM
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
11:00 AM
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
1:30 PM
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
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8:00 PM
8:30 PM
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10:00 PM
10:30 PM
8:00 PM–10:30 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
The Death of the Code Review DevEx & Productivity
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
From Voice Demo to Enterprise Production Applied AI
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
Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents AI Trust & Safety
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
The Private AI Platform: Why Agentic Apps Need a Private Application Platform AI Trust & Safety
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
Ploomloom - Startup pitch: Reliable evals for LLM and agent releases using Plumloom
Production runtime for Enterprise AI agents
Can AI Agents Actually Discover and Use Your Product? Agent-Led Growth and Agent Experience.
12:15 PM–12:45 PM
There’s No Such Thing as Vibe Strategy, Vibe Security, or Vibe Scale Leadership & Strategy
12:15 PM–12:45 PM
Why Buy Software When AI Can Build It? Leadership & Strategy
12:15 PM–12:45 PM
The AI Revolution Will Be Surprisingly Boring Applied AI
12:15 PM–12:45 PM
It's Not About the Models AI Models & Infrastructure
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–1:20 PM
J.P. Morganpresents Acquired Live Interview Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase)
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
Big brains on little machines with Supermodel Labs
Valven: Intelligence for AI-Driven Software Lifecycle
1:20 PM–1:50 PM
J.P. Morganpresents Acquired Live Interview Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)
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
Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models AI Models & Infrastructure
1:30 PM–2:00 PM
One Repo, One Strategy: Scalable Full-Stack Testing in a Monorepo World Languages, Web & Mobile
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
It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing
1:30 PM–2:00 PM
From Prototype to Production: Build Better Agents with IBM Bob AI Agents
The Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story
1:50 PM–2:20 PM
J.P. Morganpresents Acquired Live Interview Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)
From transaction sequences to pricing decisions at 140M+ customer scale
2:10 PM–2:40 PM
AI Governance & Compliance: Who Is Responsible When the Bots Start Acting? Startups & Innovation
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
Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it.
In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups
2:50 PM–3:20 PM
Running AI-Written Software in Production AI Engineering
2:50 PM–3:20 PM
Ship with Context: GitLab Orbit and Google Cloud for AI-Powered Software Delivery
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
How to generate business value through performance optimizations Languages, Web & Mobile
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
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
The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises Applied AI
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
Your next customer won’t be human Applied AI
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
4:10 PM–4:40 PM
AI and Video games: The Evolution Applied AI
4:10 PM–4:40 PM
Shipping AI Features People Actually Use Applied AI
4:10 PM–4:40 PM
Closing the autonomous software development loop
4:10 PM–4:40 PM
Sandboxing the Swarm: Building Secure, Serverless AI Agents with Wasm AI Engineering
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 Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session AI Agents
4:10 PM–4:40 PM
Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization AI Models & Infrastructure
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
Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really? DevOps & Platform Engineering
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
When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility Languages, Web & Mobile
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
From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack Physical AI
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
5:30 PM–6:00 PM
Life in Games: Four Decades of Code
5:30 PM–6:00 PM
What AI Startups Are VCs Actually Funding in 2026 Startups & Innovation
5:30 PM–6:00 PM
Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era
5:30 PM–6:00 PM
From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka Security & Privacy
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
  1. 8:00 AM–9:30 AM All stages
    Doors open - Day 1
  2. 9:30 AM–9:45 AM All stages
    Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America
  3. 9:45 AM–10:15 AM All stages
    Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents Applied AI

    Mark Cavage +2

  4. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Mainstage
    The Death of the Code Review DevEx & Productivity

    Laurie Voss

  5. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Tech Leaders Stage
    The New Rules of Software Delivery AI Engineering

    Moritz Plassnig +4

  6. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 1
    The Browser Is Becoming an AI Runtime AI Engineering

    Ajit Varma +2

  7. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 2
    From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026 Architecture & Backend

    Daniel Oh

  8. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 3
    Reading the Mind of Your NGINX Fleet: A Hybrid Rule + ML Pipeline for NGINX Config Intelligence AI Engineering

    Brandon LEE

  9. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 4
    AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems DevOps & Platform Engineering

    Amjad Shaikh +1

  10. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 5
    Vector, Graph, or Key Value? Choosing Your Agent's Memory AI Agents

    Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

  11. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 6
    Practices, Not Prompts: Scale GitHub Copilot with AI-Ready Repositories DevEx & Productivity

    Luis Pujols

  12. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 7
    Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations AI Trust & Safety

    Borko Djurkovic

  13. 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Outdoor Stage
    From Candidate Experience to Competitive Advantage Career, Culture & Community

    Brittany Pollari

  14. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Mainstage
    Building the Agentic Software Factory AI Agents

    Thomas Dohmke +1

  15. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Tech Leaders Stage
    Building AI for the Physical World Physical AI

    Alex Spinelli +4

  16. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 1
    Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications AI Agents

    Anurag Goel

  17. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 2
    From Stateless to Stateful: Real-Time Voice & Messaging Agents with Twilio and AWS AI Agents

    Rishab Kumar

  18. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 3
    Making Science Larger, not just Faster Leadership & Strategy

    Yuval Dvir

  19. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 4
    From Voice Demo to Enterprise Production Applied AI

    Anahita Havewala +1

  20. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 5
    The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents AI Models & Infrastructure

    Chris Waterson

  21. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 6
    Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app DevEx & Productivity

    Christopher Harrison

  22. 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 7
    Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents AI Trust & Safety

    Ashok Prakash

  23. 11:00 AM–11:05 AM Outdoor Stage
    Alexander Varro and Alija Nuredini - Founders OS for replacing operational fragmentation Startups & Innovation

    Alexander Varro +1

  24. 11:10 AM–11:15 AM Outdoor Stage
    Architecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery Startups & Innovation

    Ranjan Parthasarathy

  25. 11:20 AM–11:25 AM Outdoor Stage
    Finding the Edges: Testing, Evaluating, and Monitoring Voice AI Agents Before Your Users Do Startups & Innovation

    Matt Wyman

  26. 11:30 AM–11:35 AM Outdoor Stage
    Loominus Studio: The AI Workbench for Labs and Factories Startups & Innovation

    Filippos Tourlomousis

  27. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Mainstage
    I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures AI Agents

    Darko Mesaros

  28. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    Rethinking Developer Tools for the Agent Era DevEx & Productivity

    Han Wang +3

  29. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 1
    The Next Wave of Agents: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What Matters AI Agents

    Mitesh Patel +3

  30. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 2
    The Private AI Platform: Why Agentic Apps Need a Private Application Platform AI Trust & Safety

    Oren Penso

  31. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 3
    Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production DevOps & Platform Engineering

    Jeroen van Erp

  32. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 4
    Taming Rogue Agents: Observability-Driven Evaluation for Production Reliability Security & Privacy

    Anjana Umapathy +2

  33. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 5
    Your Agents Need Observability Before They Need Better Models DevOps & Platform Engineering

    Julia Furst Morgado

  34. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 6
    AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering AI Engineering

    Manu Gurudatha

  35. 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 7
    Clean Rooms Demystified: Architecture and Patterns for Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration Security & Privacy

    Anurag Malik

  36. 11:40 AM–11:45 AM Outdoor Stage
    One Environment, N Machines: Deterministic Builds for Humans and Agents Startups & Innovation

    Justin Castilla

  37. 11:50 AM–11:55 AM Outdoor Stage
    Ploomloom - Startup pitch: Reliable evals for LLM and agent releases using Plumloom Startups & Innovation
  38. 12:00 PM–12:05 PM Outdoor Stage
    Production runtime for Enterprise AI agents Startups & Innovation

    Aditya Rohit

  39. 12:10 PM–12:15 PM Outdoor Stage
    Can AI Agents Actually Discover and Use Your Product? Agent-Led Growth and Agent Experience.

    Jun Liang Lee

  40. 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    There’s No Such Thing as Vibe Strategy, Vibe Security, or Vibe Scale Leadership & Strategy

    Ussama Baggili +3

  41. 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 1
    Why Buy Software When AI Can Build It? Leadership & Strategy

    Lee Edwards +3

  42. 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 2
    The AI Revolution Will Be Surprisingly Boring Applied AI

    Shruthi Shetty

  43. 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 4
    It's Not About the Models AI Models & Infrastructure

    Bob Wambach

  44. 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 6
    AI vs. AI: Defending the open source supply chain with agentic workflows Security & Privacy

    Manfred Moser

  45. 12:20 PM–12:25 PM Outdoor Stage
    PrimaLabs: The Application-Specific AI Inference Stack Startups & Innovation

    Prasanna Balaprakash

  46. 12:30 PM–12:35 PM Outdoor Stage
    Software change is outpacing the platforms built to understand it. Startups & Innovation

    Lee Faus

  47. 12:40 PM–12:45 PM Outdoor Stage
    each::labs: Close the Imagination Gap Startups & Innovation

    Eftal Yurtseven

  48. 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Mainstage
    J.P. Morganpresents Acquired Live Interview Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase)

    with Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

  49. 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Stage 3
    Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases Data & Databases

    Wei Hu

  50. 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Stage 5
    For Physical AI, data is the problem, but data is not the solution Physical AI

    Ashutosh Saxena

  51. 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Stage 7
    Architecting Agentic Apps: WebMCP, A2UI, and Agent Experience Languages, Web & Mobile

    Ankita Sood

  52. 12:50 PM–12:55 PM Outdoor Stage
    Big brains on little machines with Supermodel Labs Startups & Innovation

    Kirah Sapong +1

  53. 1:00 PM–1:05 PM Outdoor Stage
    Valven: Intelligence for AI-Driven Software Lifecycle Startups & Innovation

    Serdar Bicer

  54. 1:20 PM–1:50 PM Mainstage
    J.P. Morganpresents Acquired Live Interview Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)

    with Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

  55. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    The New Security Stack Security & Privacy

    Sagi Rodin +4

  56. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 1
    How AI Agents Tripled Our Test Coverage on a 1.8M-Line iOS Codebase Languages, Web & Mobile

    Kush Agrawal

  57. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 2
    Building the Production Cage for Powerful Agents AI Agents

    Mike Chambers

  58. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 3
    Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models AI Models & Infrastructure

    Jofia Jose Prakash

  59. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 4
    One Repo, One Strategy: Scalable Full-Stack Testing in a Monorepo World Languages, Web & Mobile

    Bartosz Leczycki +1

  60. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 5
    The Pedagogy of AI: Agents, Agency, and a World Beyond Coding Tutorials Applied AI

    Andrew MacLean +1

  61. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 6
    It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing

    Sean O'Dell +1

  62. 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 7
    From Prototype to Production: Build Better Agents with IBM Bob AI Agents

    Sunil Murthy

  63. 1:40 PM–1:50 PM Outdoor Stage
    The Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story AI Agents

    Rajat Shah

  64. 1:50 PM–2:20 PM Mainstage
    J.P. Morganpresents Acquired Live Interview Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)

    with Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

  65. 1:55 PM–2:05 PM Outdoor Stage
    From transaction sequences to pricing decisions at 140M+ customer scale Applied AI

    Hiroto Udagawa

  66. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    AI Governance & Compliance: Who Is Responsible When the Bots Start Acting? Startups & Innovation

    Kumesh Aroomoogan +2

  67. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 1
    Anatomy of an AI Request: Where Latency and Cost Are Really Born AI Engineering

    Dan Fu

  68. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 2
    Know Your Enemies: Live Exploit of a PHP Engine Security Breach Security & Privacy

    Alexandre Daubois

  69. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 3
    Real-Time Data Platforms at Trillion-Event Scale Data & Databases

    Diptamay Sanyal

  70. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 4
    Agentic Drift: keeping pace with your agents AI Agents

    Colleen Lake

  71. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 5
    Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach Applied AI

    Nitin Eusebius

  72. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 6
    Compute for your AI model: GPUs, LPUs, TPUs and beyond.. AI Models & Infrastructure

    Kushaagra Goyal

  73. 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 7
    Designing High-Performance AI APIs: Lessons from Serving Millions of Real-Time Requests Architecture & Backend

    Wayne Liu

  74. 2:25 PM–2:35 PM Outdoor Stage
    Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it. Applied AI

    Joe Monastiero

  75. 2:40 PM–2:50 PM Outdoor Stage
    In-Person by Default: Principles & Practices for Building Developer Meetups Career, Culture & Community

    Steve Chen

  76. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Mainstage
    Running AI-Written Software in Production AI Engineering

    Milin Desai +4

  77. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    Ship with Context: GitLab Orbit and Google Cloud for AI-Powered Software Delivery

    Michael Angelo Rivera +2

  78. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 1
    The Era of Machine-Driven Defense is Here: Headless Security Security & Privacy

    Loris Degioanni

  79. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 2
    Databases in the Agent Era Data & Databases

    Monica Sarbu

  80. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 3
    Why AI-Written Books Fail – and How We Made Quality Measurable AI Engineering

    Hannes Steiner +1

  81. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 4
    How to generate business value through performance optimizations Languages, Web & Mobile

    Nikolai Sidiropulo

  82. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 5
    Travel’s AI-Powered Shift: How Expedia Group Is Building in the AI Era Applied AI

    Debashis Saha +1

  83. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 6
    Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships

    Ussama Baggili

  84. 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 7
    When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale AI Trust & Safety

    Yoav Gal

  85. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Mainstage
    Our Brains in the AI Era Career, Culture & Community

    Cassidy Williams

  86. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    Transforming Enterprise AI with Tabular Foundation Models AI Engineering

    Tom Palczewski +3

  87. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 1
    The Reality of AI Adoption in Enterprises Applied AI

    Priyanka Vergadia

  88. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 2
    KV Cache Is Not About Speed: It's About Surviving Inference Costs AI Models & Infrastructure

    David vonThenen

  89. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 3
    The New Bottleneck in Software Development Architecture & Backend

    Aditya Jayaprakash

  90. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 4
    Your next customer won’t be human Applied AI

    Benjamin Smith

  91. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 5
    The reviewer can't be the author: independent verification for AI-generated code AI Trust & Safety

    Manish Kapur

  92. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 6
    Going beyond the code through the GitHub Copilot App: how to unlock you and your team’s superpower DevEx & Productivity

    Jenny Hwang

  93. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 7
    Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming DevEx & Productivity

    Ron Veen

  94. 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Outdoor Stage
    From Boardroom to Build Pipeline: What AI Governance Actually Looks Like in Practice Leadership & Strategy

    Anita Ganti

  95. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Mainstage
    AI and Video games: The Evolution Applied AI

    Jack McCauley

  96. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    Shipping AI Features People Actually Use Applied AI

    Ben Kus +3

  97. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 1
    Closing the autonomous software development loop

    Justin Halsall +1

  98. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 3
    Sandboxing the Swarm: Building Secure, Serverless AI Agents with Wasm AI Engineering

    Thorsten Hans

  99. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 4
    From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere DevOps & Platform Engineering

    Sandeep Pal

  100. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 5
    From Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session AI Agents

    Laura Salinas

  101. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 6
    Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization AI Models & Infrastructure

    Legare Kerrison +1

  102. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 7
    Your Threat Model Is Lying to You: Why Modeling the Design Isn’t Enough in 2026 Security & Privacy

    Farshad Abasi

  103. 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Outdoor Stage
    Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really? DevOps & Platform Engineering

    Michal Salanci

  104. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Mainstage
    Building AI Products vs. Building With AI Applied AI

    Tamar Bercovici +2

  105. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    Fireside Chat with Gerhard Eschelbeck, Fmr. Google CISO AI Trust & Safety

    Gerhard Eschelbeck +1

  106. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 1
    When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility Languages, Web & Mobile

    Simon Auer

  107. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 2
    It passed auth, then production caught fire Security & Privacy

    Alex Olivier

  108. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 3
    Merging at Scale: From Broken Builds to Green Mainline Architecture & Backend

    Preetam Dwivedi +1

  109. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 4
    From Software Agents to Physical Devices: Inside the Agentic Hardware Stack Physical AI

    Michael Yuan +1

  110. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 5
    Context Engineering Kung Fu AI Engineering

    Carl Lapierre

  111. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 6
    Who Tests the AI? Building Trustworthy AI Systems at Enterprise Scale AI Trust & Safety

    Him Raj Singh

  112. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 7
    File Systems Are the New Primitive for AI Agents AI Agents

    Andrew Wong

  113. 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Outdoor Stage
    The MCP haters are half right AI Engineering

    Vojta Kopal

  114. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Mainstage
    Life in Games: Four Decades of Code

    John Romero

  115. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Tech Leaders Stage
    What AI Startups Are VCs Actually Funding in 2026 Startups & Innovation

    Mariane Bekker +3

  116. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 1
    Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era

    Alexandra (Alex) Lato +1

  117. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 2
    From Guesswork to Governance: Data Contracts Bring API Discipline to Apache Kafka Security & Privacy

    Sandon Jacobs

  118. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 3
    Scaling Distributed Queues for AI workloads Architecture & Backend

    Jasmit Kaur Saluja

  119. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 4
    Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices DevOps & Platform Engineering

    Garvit Kataria +1

  120. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 5
    Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale AI Trust & Safety

    Abdel Fane

  121. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 6
    No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs AI Agents

    Emmanuel Acheampong

  122. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 7
    Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet? Languages, Web & Mobile

    Nemanja Stošić

  123. 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Outdoor Stage
    From Firefighting to Force Multiplication with AI AI Engineering

    Daniel Murphy

  124. 6:30 PM–7:30 PM Stage 3
    Live DOOM II Deathmatches with John Romero

    John Romero

  125. 8:00 PM–10:30 PM All stages
    Congress Party