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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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Making “Works on All Machines” Work for Agent Environments AI Engineering Pre-registration required 
10:00 AM–5:00 PM Masterclass
Building Stuff with GenAI - The Open Minded Workshop beyond OpenAI Applied AI Andreas Erben
Pre-registration required 
10:00 AM–5:00 PM Masterclass
Building Pragmatic AI: 10 AI Features Your Users Actually Want Applied AI Jonathan "J." Tower
Pre-registration required 
10:00 AM–5:00 PM Masterclass
From Idea to Production with AI: Agentic Development in Practice AI Agents Daniel Ostrovsky
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10:45 AM–12:45 PM Workshop
SBX 101: Hands-on with Docker Sandboxes Applied AI Dan Ndombe
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10:45 AM–12:45 PM Workshop
Local AI Workshop for Beginners: Private ChatGPT Experience on Your Own Computer AI Engineering Jason Stine
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10:45 AM–12:45 PM Workshop
Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs AI Models & Infrastructure Khaja Omer +1
Pre-registration required 
10:45 AM–12:45 PM Workshop
Architecting Multi-Agent Teams: Mastering the Orchestration Patterns of ADK 2 AI Agents Annie Wang
11:00 AM–11:30 AM
Docker does that? Five Docker capabilities you did not know about DevEx & Productivity 12:00 PM–12:30 PM
Warm-up Welcome & Program Announcements 1:00 PM–1:30 PM
Tools, Sandboxes, and the Plumbing of Agentic Development AI Engineering 1:00 PM–1:30 PM
Parallelize Your Development with GitHub Copilot DevEx & Productivity 1:00 PM–1:30 PM
Fake or news XXL Career, Culture & Community Pre-registration required 
1:15 PM–3:15 PM Workshop
The AI-Ready Developer Environment — Local Setup, Reproducibility, and Docker DevEx & Productivity Michael Irwin
Pre-registration required 
1:15 PM–3:15 PM Workshop
DeepAgents: Build Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Work AI Agents Apoorva Jaiswal +2
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1:15 PM–3:15 PM Workshop
AI Security Engineer Foundations AI Trust & Safety Javier Garza
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1:15 PM–3:15 PM Workshop
Build a Human + AI Agent Team in tools like Slack, Teams and Discord. AI Agents Phil Conway
1:40 PM–2:10 PM
Building an AI-Native Development Workflow DevEx & Productivity 2:00 PM–2:30 PM
Supply Chain Security When Agents Write the Code Security & Privacy 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
Fireside chat with Harald Kirschner - VS Code and what's next? DevEx & Productivity 2:20 PM–2:50 PM
Build Interactive Copilot Experiences with Canvas Extensions DevEx & Productivity 3:00 PM–3:30 PM
Give the Agent Its Own Machine AI Engineering 3:00 PM–3:30 PM
How GitHub Helps Two Maintainers Serve 6,000 Learners Career, Culture & Community 3:40 PM–4:10 PM
Lean Intelligence: Lessons from GitHub Copilot Data Science Efforts DevEx & Productivity Pre-registration required 
3:45 PM–5:45 PM Workshop
Docker's Agentic Platform: Sandboxes, MCP, and the Infrastructure of Autonomous Development AI Trust & Safety Oleg Šelajev
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3:45 PM–5:45 PM Workshop
Securing the Agentic Stack: Docker Hardened Images and Supply Chain Security Security & Privacy Ajeet Raina
Pre-registration required 
3:45 PM–5:45 PM Workshop
Vibe-code an App on Multimodal AI Analytics DevEx & Productivity Aron Eidelman
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Coffee with Developers 4:20 PM–4:50 PM
Lawyers who ship: How GitHub CELA used AI to rewire legal work Applied AI - 10:00 AM–10:30 AM Stage 1Making “Works on All Machines” Work for Agent Environments AI Engineering
Michael Irwin
- 10:00 AM–5:00 PM Stage 11Masterclass Building Stuff with GenAI - The Open Minded Workshop beyond OpenAI Applied AI
Andreas Erben
- 10:00 AM–5:00 PM Stage 13Masterclass Building Pragmatic AI: 10 AI Features Your Users Actually Want Applied AI
Jonathan "J." Tower
- 10:00 AM–5:00 PM Stage 14Masterclass From Idea to Production with AI: Agentic Development in Practice AI Agents
Daniel Ostrovsky
- 10:45 AM–12:45 PM Stage 8Workshop SBX 101: Hands-on with Docker Sandboxes Applied AI
Dan Ndombe
- 10:45 AM–12:45 PM Stage 9Workshop Local AI Workshop for Beginners: Private ChatGPT Experience on Your Own Computer AI Engineering
Jason Stine
- 10:45 AM–12:45 PM Stage 10Workshop Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs AI Models & Infrastructure
Khaja Omer +1
- 10:45 AM–12:45 PM Stage 12Workshop Architecting Multi-Agent Teams: Mastering the Orchestration Patterns of ADK 2 AI Agents
Annie Wang
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 1Docker does that? Five Docker capabilities you did not know about DevEx & Productivity
Kristiyan Velkov +1
- 12:00 PM–12:30 PM Outdoor StageWarm-up Welcome & Program Announcements
Christian Heilmann
- 1:00 PM–1:30 PM Stage 1Tools, Sandboxes, and the Plumbing of Agentic Development AI Engineering
Oleg Šelajev
- 1:00 PM–1:30 PM Stage 2Parallelize Your Development with GitHub Copilot DevEx & Productivity
Pamela Fox
- 1:00 PM–1:30 PM Outdoor StageFake or news XXL Career, Culture & Community
Christian Heilmann
- 1:15 PM–3:15 PM Stage 8Workshop The AI-Ready Developer Environment — Local Setup, Reproducibility, and Docker DevEx & Productivity
Michael Irwin
- 1:15 PM–3:15 PM Stage 9Workshop DeepAgents: Build Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Work AI Agents
Apoorva Jaiswal +2
- 1:15 PM–3:15 PM Stage 10Workshop AI Security Engineer Foundations AI Trust & Safety
Javier Garza
- 1:15 PM–3:15 PM Stage 12Workshop Build a Human + AI Agent Team in tools like Slack, Teams and Discord. AI Agents
Phil Conway
- 1:40 PM–2:10 PM Stage 2Building an AI-Native Development Workflow DevEx & Productivity
Vanessa Minik
- 2:00 PM–2:30 PM Stage 1Supply Chain Security When Agents Write the Code Security & Privacy
Ajeet Raina
- 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Outdoor StageFireside chat with Harald Kirschner - VS Code and what's next? DevEx & Productivity
Christian Heilmann +1
- 2:20 PM–2:50 PM Stage 2Build Interactive Copilot Experiences with Canvas Extensions DevEx & Productivity
James Clancey
- 3:00 PM–3:30 PM Stage 1Give the Agent Its Own Machine AI Engineering
Dan Ndombe
- 3:00 PM–3:30 PM Stage 2How GitHub Helps Two Maintainers Serve 6,000 Learners Career, Culture & Community
Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza
- 3:40 PM–4:10 PM Stage 2Lean Intelligence: Lessons from GitHub Copilot Data Science Efforts DevEx & Productivity
Rahul Pandita
- 3:45 PM–5:45 PM Stage 8Workshop Docker's Agentic Platform: Sandboxes, MCP, and the Infrastructure of Autonomous Development AI Trust & Safety
Oleg Šelajev
- 3:45 PM–5:45 PM Stage 10Workshop Securing the Agentic Stack: Docker Hardened Images and Supply Chain Security Security & Privacy
Ajeet Raina
- 3:45 PM–5:45 PM Stage 12Workshop Vibe-code an App on Multimodal AI Analytics DevEx & Productivity
Aron Eidelman
- 4:00 PM–5:00 PM Outdoor StageCoffee with Developers
Christian Heilmann
- 4:20 PM–4:50 PM Stage 2Lawyers who ship: How GitHub CELA used AI to rewire legal work Applied AI
Bria Ford
8:00 AM Doors open - Day 1 
presents Acquired Live Interview Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) presents Acquired Live Interview Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit) presents Acquired Live Interview Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)
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8:00 PM–11:00 PM Congress Party
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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
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
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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
Production runtime for Enterprise AI agents
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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
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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
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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
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
From Prototype to Production: Build Better Agents with IBM Bob AI Agents 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–2:20 PM
From transaction sequences to pricing decisions at 139M-customer scale
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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 2:10 PM–2:40 PM
One Repo, One Strategy: Scalable Full-Stack Testing in a Monorepo World Languages, Web & Mobile 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
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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
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
Closing the autonomous software development loop 4:10 PM–4:40 PM
The Death of the Code Review DevEx & Productivity 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 - 8:00 AM–9:30 AM All stagesDoors open - Day 1
- 9:30 AM–9:45 AM All stagesOfficial Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America
- 9:45 AM–10:15 AM All stagesManufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents Applied AI
Mark Cavage
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM MainstageKeynote Ramin Hasani CEO Liquid AI AI Engineering
Dr. Ramin Hasani
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Tech Leaders StageThe New Rules of Software Delivery AI Engineering
Moritz Plassnig +4
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 1The Browser Is Becoming an AI Runtime AI Engineering
Ajit Varma +1
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 2From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026 Architecture & Backend
Daniel Oh
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 3Reading the Mind of Your NGINX Fleet: A Hybrid Rule + ML Pipeline for NGINX Config Intelligence AI Engineering
Brandon LEE
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 4AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems DevOps & Platform Engineering
Amjad Shaikh +1
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 5Vector, Graph, or Key Value? Choosing Your Agent's Memory AI Agents
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 6Practices, Not Prompts: Scale GitHub Copilot with AI-Ready Repositories DevEx & Productivity
Luis Pujols
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 7Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations AI Trust & Safety
Borko Djurkovic
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Outdoor StageFrom Candidate Experience to Competitive Advantage Career, Culture & Community
Brittany Pollari
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM MainstageBuilding the Agentic Software Factory AI Agents
Thomas Dohmke +1
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Tech Leaders StageBuilding AI for the Physical World Physical AI
Alex Spinelli +4
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 1Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications AI Agents
Anurag Goel
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 2From Stateless to Stateful: Real-Time Voice & Messaging Agents with Twilio and AWS AI Agents
Rishab Kumar
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 3Making Science Larger, not just Faster Leadership & Strategy
Yuval Dvir
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 4From Voice Demo to Enterprise Production Applied AI
Anahita Havewala +1
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 5The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents AI Models & Infrastructure
Chris Waterson
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 6Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app DevEx & Productivity
Christopher Harrison
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 7Responsible AI Architecture with Zero Trust Agents AI Trust & Safety
Ashok Prakash
- 11:00 AM–11:05 AM Outdoor StageAlexander Varro and Alija Nuredini - Founders OS for replacing operational fragmentation Startups & Innovation
Alexander Varro +1
- 11:10 AM–11:15 AM Outdoor StageArchitecting the 100X SDLC: Building Production Trust into AI-Assisted Delivery Startups & Innovation
Ranjan Parthasarathy
- 11:20 AM–11:25 AM Outdoor StageFinding the Edges: Testing, Evaluating, and Monitoring Voice AI Agents Before Your Users Do Startups & Innovation
Matt Wyman
- 11:30 AM–11:35 AM Outdoor StageLoominus Studio: The AI Workbench for Labs and Factories Startups & Innovation
Filippos Tourlomousis
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM MainstageI Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures AI Agents
Darko Mesaros
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Tech Leaders StageRethinking Developer Tools for the Agent Era DevEx & Productivity
Han Wang +2
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 1The Next Wave of Agents: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What Matters AI Agents
Mitesh Patel +3
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 2The Private AI Platform: Why Agentic Apps Need a Private Application Platform AI Trust & Safety
Oren Penso
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 3Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production DevOps & Platform Engineering
Jeroen van Erp
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 4Taming Rogue Agents: Observability-Driven Evaluation for Production Reliability Security & Privacy
Anjana Umapathy +2
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 5Your Agents Need Observability Before They Need Better Models DevOps & Platform Engineering
Julia Furst Morgado
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 6AI ROI: The Hard Unit Economics of AI-Native Engineering AI Engineering
Manu Gurudatha
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 7Clean Rooms Demystified: Architecture and Patterns for Privacy-Safe Data Collaboration Security & Privacy
Anurag Malik
- 11:40 AM–11:45 AM Outdoor StageOne Environment, N Machines: Deterministic Builds for Humans and Agents Startups & Innovation
Morgan Helton +1
- 12:00 PM–12:05 PM Outdoor StageProduction runtime for Enterprise AI agents Startups & Innovation
Aditya Rohit
- 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Tech Leaders StageThere’s No Such Thing as Vibe Strategy, Vibe Security, or Vibe Scale Leadership & Strategy
Ussama Baggili +3
- 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 1Why Buy Software When AI Can Build It? Leadership & Strategy
Lee Edwards +2
- 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 2The AI Revolution Will Be Surprisingly Boring Applied AI
Shruthi Shetty
- 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 4It's Not About the Models AI Models & Infrastructure
Bob Wambach
- 12:15 PM–12:45 PM Stage 6AI vs. AI: Defending the open source supply chain with agentic workflows Security & Privacy
Manfred Moser
- 12:20 PM–12:25 PM Outdoor StagePrimaLabs: The Application-Specific AI Inference Stack Startups & Innovation
Prasanna Balaprakash
- 12:30 PM–12:35 PM Outdoor StageSoftware change is outpacing the platforms built to understand it. Startups & Innovation
Lee Faus
- 12:40 PM–12:45 PM Outdoor Stageeach::labs: Close the Imagination Gap Startups & Innovation
Eftal Yurtseven
- 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Mainstage
with Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal
- 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Stage 3Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases Data & Databases
Wei Hu
- 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Stage 5For Physical AI, data is the problem, but data is not the solution Physical AI
Ashutosh Saxena
- 12:50 PM–1:20 PM Stage 7Architecting Agentic Apps: WebMCP, A2UI, and Agent Experience Languages, Web & Mobile
Ankita Sood
- 12:50 PM–12:55 PM Outdoor StageBig brains on little machines with Supermodel Labs Startups & Innovation
Kirah Sapong +1
- 1:00 PM–1:05 PM Outdoor StageValven: Intelligence for AI-Driven Software Lifecycle Startups & Innovation
Serdar Bicer
- 1:20 PM–1:50 PM Mainstage
with Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Tech Leaders StageThe New Security Stack Security & Privacy
Sagi Rodin +4
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 1How AI Agents Tripled Our Test Coverage on a 1.8M-Line iOS Codebase Languages, Web & Mobile
Kush Agrawal
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 2Building the Production Cage for Powerful Agents AI Agents
Mike Chambers
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 4AI and Video games: The Evolution Applied AI
Jack McCauley
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 5The Pedagogy of AI: Agents, Agency, and a World Beyond Coding Tutorials Applied AI
Andrew MacLean +1
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 7From Prototype to Production: Build Better Agents with IBM Bob AI Agents
Sunil Murthy
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Stage 9Understanding LLM Architectures: Inside the Design of Modern Models AI Models & Infrastructure
Jofia Jose Prakash
- 1:40 PM–1:50 PM Outdoor StageThe Autonomous Performance Agent: A Netflix Production Story AI Agents
Rajat Shah
- 1:50 PM–2:20 PM Mainstage
with Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal
- 1:55 PM–2:05 PM Outdoor StageFrom transaction sequences to pricing decisions at 139M-customer scale Applied AI
Rohan Ramanath
- 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Tech Leaders StageAI Governance & Compliance: Who Is Responsible When the Bots Start Acting? Startups & Innovation
Kumesh Aroomoogan +2
- 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 1Anatomy of an AI Request: Where Latency and Cost Are Really Born AI Engineering
Dan Fu
- 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 2Know Your Enemies: Live Exploit of a PHP Engine Security Breach Security & Privacy
Alexandre Daubois
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John Coghlan
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Loris Degioanni
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Tom Palczewski +2
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Priyanka Vergadia
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David vonThenen
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Aditya Jayaprakash
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Benjamin Smith
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Manish Kapur
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Jenny Hwang
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Ron Veen
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Anita Ganti
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Daniela Dimitrova
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Ben Kus +2
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 1Closing the autonomous software development loop
Justin Halsall +1
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Laurie Voss
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Thorsten Hans
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 4From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere DevOps & Platform Engineering
Sandeep Pal
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 5From Stateless to Self-Improving: Building Agent Workflows That Get Better Every Session AI Agents
Laura Salinas
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Legare Kerrison +1
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Farshad Abasi
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Michal Salanci
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Tamar Bercovici +2
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- 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 1When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility Languages, Web & Mobile
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Alex Olivier
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Preetam Dwivedi +1
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Michael Yuan +1
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Carl Lapierre
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Him Raj Singh
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Andrew Wong
- 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Outdoor StageThe MCP haters are half right AI Engineering
Vojta Kopal
- 5:30 PM–6:00 PM MainstageLife in Games: Four Decades of Code
John Romero
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Mariane Bekker +3
- 5:30 PM–6:00 PM Stage 1Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era
Alexandra (Alex) Lato +1
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Sandon Jacobs
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Jasmit Kaur Saluja
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Emmanuel Acheampong
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Sachin Gupta
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Tommy Tran
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- 9:40 AM–10:10 AM Stage 1What's new, what's next: the latest models and developer tools from Google DeepMind AI Models & Infrastructure
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Ankur Gupta
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Isaac Levin
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Khushboo Verma
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Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova
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Alper Ebicoglu
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Li Yin
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Graham Gilbert
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Erran Berger
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Tech Leaders StageDemocratizing AI: Why Open Models Are Essential for the Next Era AI Models & Infrastructure
Mitesh Patel +3
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 1Fixing Git for Agents: Somewhere Between the Prompt and Production, We Lost the Plot AI Engineering
Karthik Rameshkumar
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 2API = Some REST and HTTP, right? RIGHT?! Architecture & Backend
Rustam Mehmandarov
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 3Making (and Breaking) Agents by Adding 1,000 MCP Tools AI Agents
Guillaume Lebedel
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 4rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This) AI Trust & Safety
Rishab Kumar
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 5Physical AI: 5 Things You Can Build That Aren't Another Chatbot Physical AI
Vini Senger
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Stage 6Agentic Code Validation and Repository Automation with Agentic Workflows DevEx & Productivity
Jose Palafox
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Anna Chernyshova
- 10:20 AM–10:50 AM Outdoor StageMicroAgents: The Microservices of the Agentic Era AI Agents
Ashish Shubham
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM MainstageGovern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness AI Agents
Tushar Jain
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Tech Leaders StageBuilding Enterprise Software for AI Agents AI Agents
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- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 1The Agentic Engineering Loop Applied AI
Kevin Lin
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 2Build Fast, Deploy Faster: Cross Platform AI development in 2026 AI Engineering
Charlie Cheever
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Frederic Branczyk
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 4Managing Abuse in the Era of AI Agents AI Trust & Safety
Eli-Shaoul Khedouri
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 5Managing GPUs by Just Asking, Infrastructure in the Age of MCP AI Models & Infrastructure
Jessica Garson Beauchemin
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 6Loop Engineering: Designing and Observing the Loops That Run Your Agents With Opik AI Engineering
Abigail Morgan
- 11:00 AM–11:30 AM Stage 7Beyond Vibe Coding: An AI Builder’s Guide to Migrating 10k+ React Components Languages, Web & Mobile
Shubham Chaurasia
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Karl Groves
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM MainstageYou are the developer. From DX to AX with humans in mind. DevEx & Productivity
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- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Tech Leaders StageThe AI Proving Ground Applied AI
Li Fan +3
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 1Context Engineering: How machines remember and forget Applied AI
Emre Okcular
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 2Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era Languages, Web & Mobile
Eric Deandrea
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 3Culture Doesn't Scale Itself: Leading Engineering Teams Through Hypergrowth and the AI Transition Leadership & Strategy
Thanos Baskous
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Scott Likens
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Joseph Katsioloudes
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Stage 6Codifying Trade-offs: Security, Cost, and Compliance as Agent Guardrails AI Trust & Safety
Suzanne Daniels
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Brian Whippo
- 11:40 AM–12:10 PM Outdoor StageGitHub’s Team X-Ray: Your Repository Knows More About Your Team Than Your Team Does Applied AI
Andrea Griffiths
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Steren Giannini
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Barr Moses +4
- 12:20 PM–12:50 PM Stage 2What Is a Software Factory and How to Build One in 20 Minutes AI Engineering
Victor Savkin
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Sachin Malhotra
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Piotr Bejda
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David Morris
- 12:55 PM–1:25 PM Stage 1From Simulation to Reality: Overcoming the Data Scarcity Crisis in Physical AI Physical AI
Mitesh Patel
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Ishan Shah
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John Komarnicki
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Lena Hall
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Tomislav Tipurić
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Fabiano Amorim
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Josh Bentley
- 2:10 PM–2:40 PM Stage 7Why Your iOS App Feels Broken After an Hour: Diagnosing Long-Session Performance on Real Devices Languages, Web & Mobile
Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala
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- 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 1Legacy as a Launchpad: How Yahoo Mail is Undergoing a Product and Engineering Transformation Applied AI
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Dexter Horthy
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Audrey Kim
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Brendan Ittelson
- 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Stage 5Agents Have a Perception Problem AI Agents
Ivan Sekyonda
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Suren Konathala
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Vishwak Thatikonda
- 2:50 PM–3:20 PM Outdoor StageYour Brain Is Lying to You: Cognitive Biases in Development Career, Culture & Community
Kate Astrid
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Nicholas Muy
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Mark Lechner
- 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 1Agents Can't Iterate Against Tests That Lie AI Agents
Rocky Warren
- 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 2Point. Ask. Answer. Building Vision into AI Live on Stage. Applied AI
Kavya Sri Chennoju
- 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 3Earning the Right to Deploy: Netflix's Approach to Deployment Safety at Scale Architecture & Backend
Viswanathan Ranganathan
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Phoebe Wang
- 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 521 Experiments in Six Weeks: A Playbook for Improving Your AI Agent AI Agents
Sofia Rest
- 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 6Small LLM in your Browser: Huge Opportunities for Web Applications AI Engineering
Daniel Ostrovsky
- 3:30 PM–4:00 PM Stage 7Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale AI Models & Infrastructure
Kyle Bell
- 3:30 PM–3:40 PM Outdoor StageOffloading IoT State: Solving the Memory Crisis on Legacy Hardware Physical AI
Pravin Nagare
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Vivek Pandit
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Hrushikesh Pokala
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Kelsey Hightower
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Chris Daden +4
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 1The Five Percent Club: The Culture and Technological Shift Behind Successful AI Deployments AI Engineering
Tara Hernandez
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 2Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means Data & Databases
Kris Jenkins
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 3Building World-Aware Robots with Agent Memory and Context Graphs Physical AI
Zaid Zaim
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 4Speed up your CI/CD pipelines by caching build & runtime artifacts DevOps & Platform Engineering
Thijs Feryn
- 4:10 PM–4:40 PM Stage 5Food as Medicine, Code as Prescription: Engineering AI-Driven Nutritional Intervention Systems Applied AI
Kapil Poreddy
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Phani Pendurthi
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Vlad Luzin
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Chris DeMars
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Artem Mukhin
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Angie Jones
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Ian Smith
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Fatih Kadir Akın
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Tejas Pravinbhai Patel
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Jirka Bachel
- 4:50 PM–5:20 PM Stage 5The Things Your AI Isn't Telling You AI Trust & Safety
Desmond Lamptey
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Raju Dandigam Dandigam
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An Phan
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- 3:45 PM–5:45 PM Stage 8Workshop Docker's Agentic Platform: Sandboxes, MCP, and the Infrastructure of Autonomous Development AI Trust & Safety
Oleg Šelajev
- 3:45 PM–5:45 PM Stage 10Workshop Securing the Agentic Stack: Docker Hardened Images and Supply Chain Security Security & Privacy
Ajeet Raina
- 3:45 PM–5:45 PM Stage 12Workshop Vibe-code an App on Multimodal AI Analytics DevEx & Productivity
Aron Eidelman
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Build and deploy a personal agent on a Cloud Run instance AI Models & Infrastructure Shir Meir Lador
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11:00 AM–1:00 PM Workshop
RoboCoders: Judgment Day: AI-Assisted Engineering Applied - The Battle of Agents DevEx & Productivity Baruch Sadogursky +1
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11:00 AM–1:00 PM Workshop
The AI-Native Engineer: From Business Problem to Prototype Applied AI Srishti Agrawal
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11:00 AM–1:00 PM Workshop
Exploring MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot Applied AI Pamela Fox
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11:00 AM–1:00 PM Workshop
Creating and Sustaining Positive Communities Career, Culture & Community Maezza Romero
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11:00 AM–1:00 PM Workshop
Ducks, Sensors, and Agents Physical AI Brian McFadden
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1:30 PM–3:30 PM Workshop
The Developer's Guide to an Agentic Git Forge DevEx & Productivity Lizzie Siegle +1
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1:30 PM–3:30 PM Workshop
Hands-On CI Optimization Workshop DevOps & Platform Engineering Abbe Piels
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1:30 PM–3:30 PM Workshop
GitHub Actions DevOps & Platform Engineering Austen Stone
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1:30 PM–3:30 PM Workshop
Build an agentic commerce solution Ben Smith
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1:30 PM–3:30 PM Workshop
From Signal to Action: Empowering Your AI SRE with OpenTelemetry Data DevOps & Platform Engineering Raphael Manke +1
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4:00 PM–6:00 PM Workshop
Come with an Idea, Leave with an App: Build and Launch Your Website with AI AI Engineering Denise Kwan
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4:00 PM–6:00 PM Workshop
Reprompting the Wheel? Why AI Won’t Save Your Content Platform AI Engineering Benni Mack
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4:00 PM–6:00 PM Workshop
Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot App Gustavo Cordido
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4:00 PM–6:00 PM Workshop
Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers Security & Privacy Mudassir Syed
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4:00 PM–6:00 PM Workshop
Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship AI Agents Elizabeth Fuentes Leone +1
- 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Stage 8Workshop Build and deploy a personal agent on a Cloud Run instance AI Models & Infrastructure
Shir Meir Lador
- 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Stage 9Workshop RoboCoders: Judgment Day: AI-Assisted Engineering Applied - The Battle of Agents DevEx & Productivity
Baruch Sadogursky +1
- 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Stage 10Workshop The AI-Native Engineer: From Business Problem to Prototype Applied AI
Srishti Agrawal
- 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Stage 12Workshop Exploring MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot Applied AI
Pamela Fox
- 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Stage 13Workshop Creating and Sustaining Positive Communities Career, Culture & Community
Maezza Romero
- 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Stage 14Workshop Ducks, Sensors, and Agents Physical AI
Brian McFadden
- 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Stage 8Workshop The Developer's Guide to an Agentic Git Forge DevEx & Productivity
Lizzie Siegle +1
- 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Stage 10Workshop Hands-On CI Optimization Workshop DevOps & Platform Engineering
Abbe Piels
- 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Stage 12Workshop GitHub Actions DevOps & Platform Engineering
Austen Stone
- 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Stage 13Workshop Build an agentic commerce solution
Ben Smith
- 1:30 PM–3:30 PM Stage 14Workshop From Signal to Action: Empowering Your AI SRE with OpenTelemetry Data DevOps & Platform Engineering
Raphael Manke +1
- 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Stage 8Workshop Come with an Idea, Leave with an App: Build and Launch Your Website with AI AI Engineering
Denise Kwan
- 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Stage 10Workshop Reprompting the Wheel? Why AI Won’t Save Your Content Platform AI Engineering
Benni Mack
- 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Stage 12Workshop Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot App
Gustavo Cordido
- 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Stage 13Workshop Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers Security & Privacy
Mudassir Syed
- 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Stage 14Workshop Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship AI Agents
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone +1
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Insert Coin: Build Live with J.P. Morgan Payments APIs and AI Applied AI Alan Torrance
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10:00 AM–12:00 PM Workshop
Intro to Agentic Workflows and an AI-enabled SDLC DevEx & Productivity Greg Larkin
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10:00 AM–12:00 PM Workshop
Human + AI: Who Should Be in Control? AI Trust & Safety Mirela Viersa
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12:30 PM–2:30 PM Workshop
Build a Voice AI Agent with Twilio Agent Connect and Gemini Flash AI Agents Rishab Kumar
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12:30 PM–2:30 PM Workshop
Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship AI Agents Elizabeth Fuentes Leone +1
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12:30 PM–2:30 PM Workshop
Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot CLI DevEx & Productivity Christopher Harrison
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12:30 PM–2:30 PM Workshop
Docker sandboxes: protect your secrets, tokens, and personal data from AI agent mistakes Security & Privacy Kristiyan Velkov
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12:30 PM–2:30 PM Workshop
Iron Designer Challenge with John Romero John Romero
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3:00 PM–5:00 PM Workshop
The AI Dependency Challenge: Your AI coding assistant is making dependency decisions. Who’s checking DevEx & Productivity Meredith Eisen +1
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3:00 PM–5:00 PM Workshop
Secure development from pull request to production with GitHub DevOps & Platform Engineering Sam Jarvinen
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3:00 PM–5:00 PM Workshop
Attacking LLM Detectors with Homoglyph-Based Attacks AI Trust & Safety Aldan Creo
- 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Stage 10Workshop Insert Coin: Build Live with J.P. Morgan Payments APIs and AI Applied AI
Alan Torrance
- 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Stage 12Workshop Intro to Agentic Workflows and an AI-enabled SDLC DevEx & Productivity
Greg Larkin
- 10:00 AM–12:00 PM Stage 14Workshop Human + AI: Who Should Be in Control? AI Trust & Safety
Mirela Viersa
- 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Stage 8Workshop Build a Voice AI Agent with Twilio Agent Connect and Gemini Flash AI Agents
Rishab Kumar
- 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Stage 10Workshop Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship AI Agents
Elizabeth Fuentes Leone +1
- 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Stage 12Workshop Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot CLI DevEx & Productivity
Christopher Harrison
- 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Stage 13Workshop Docker sandboxes: protect your secrets, tokens, and personal data from AI agent mistakes Security & Privacy
Kristiyan Velkov
- 12:30 PM–2:30 PM Stage 14Workshop Iron Designer Challenge with John Romero
John Romero
- 3:00 PM–5:00 PM Stage 10Workshop The AI Dependency Challenge: Your AI coding assistant is making dependency decisions. Who’s checking DevEx & Productivity
Meredith Eisen +1
- 3:00 PM–5:00 PM Stage 12Workshop Secure development from pull request to production with GitHub DevOps & Platform Engineering
Sam Jarvinen
- 3:00 PM–5:00 PM Stage 13Workshop Attacking LLM Detectors with Homoglyph-Based Attacks AI Trust & Safety
Aldan Creo