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World Congress North America · Livestream Pass

Watch the world's largest developer event live

Join the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America remotely for live technical sessions, practical ideas, and expert perspectives from San José for just $19.90.

September 23–25, 2026San José, CA

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  • $19.90
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September 23–25, 2026 · San José

Meet speakers from the world's leading tech companies

Docker
Entire
Replit
BNY
Circle
Netlify
NVIDIA
Liquid AI
Sentry
Agentic AI Foundation
Factory
PwC
Bolt.New
Render
Daytona
Google Cloud Run
Mastercard
Acquired
Capital One Garage
IBM
Stack Overflow
Sauce Labs
Workday
You.com
Fireworks
Box
Arm
Qodo
TorqueAGI
Tanzu division at Broadcom Inc.
Cypress.io
Coinbase
Monte Carlo
Greptile
Criteria
Sonatype
NorthernTech
SAP Business AI
Bitmovin
Merge

Program

A glimpse of the program

Explore sessions from the World Congress North America programme.

Thu, Sep 24 · 10:20 AM–10:50 AM

The New Rules of Software Delivery

Moritz Plassnig, AJ Aitken, Prince Kohli, Akshay Shah, Darko Mesaros

CEO at CloudBees · Senior VP Infrastructure and Platform Engineering at Datavant · President & CEO at Sauce Labs · Field CTO at Antithesis · Distinguished Developer Advocate at AWS

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Streaming access to the full Congress program on September 24 and 25, 2026 Included
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Topics in focus

What You Will Learn.

AI is no longer a side topic. It is changing how teams design, code, test, ship, secure, operate, and lead software. The conference program covers the full modern software lifecycle - from everyday engineering craft to agentic systems, platforms, security, quality, and engineering leadership.

  1. Build
  2. Ship
  3. Run
  4. Secure
  5. Test
  6. Lead
  1. 01

    Building with AI as a craft

    • Backend engineers
    • Frontend engineers
    • ML engineers
    • Full-stack builders

    What we cover

    • Coding agents in your IDE: what to delegate, what to keep.
    • Architecture decisions that compound when AI writes code alongside you.
    • Prompt design and context engineering as real engineering disciplines.
    • Retrieval, latency, and shipping software that survives users.
    • Evals and feedback loops you can actually trust against real traffic.
    • Refactoring legacy code with agents — what works, what blows up.
  2. 02

    Agentic systems in production

    • ML engineers
    • Backend engineers
    • Platform engineers
    • AI engineers
    • Tech leads

    What we cover

    • Multi-agent architectures, MCP, and tool orchestration patterns that hold up.
    • Agent memory, long-running agents, and what breaks after six months in front of users.
    • Guardrails, fallbacks, and the boring plumbing that keeps agents from going sideways.
    • Cost, latency, and throughput trade-offs once agents are on the critical path.
    • Honest post-mortems from teams who shipped agentic systems.
  3. 03

    Modern languages and runtimes

    • Backend engineers
    • Systems engineers
    • Full-stack builders
    • Tech leads

    What we cover

    • Rust, Go, modern Java, Kotlin, and TypeScript at scale.
    • WebAssembly moving from edge experiment to mainstream runtime.
    • Architectural calls that compound when AI agents start writing code too.
    • Interop, FFI, and polyglot stacks when no single language wins anymore.
    • Performance tuning, memory models, and concurrency in real production code.
  4. 04

    Platforms, pipelines and developer experience

    • Platform engineers
    • DevOps
    • SRE
    • Frontend engineers
    • Engineering managers
    • Tech leads

    What we cover

    • Internal developer platforms treated as products, with golden paths that people actually use.
    • CI/CD that does not flake, and release flows when AI agents open PRs alongside humans.
    • Self-service infra and paved roads that scale across dozens of teams.
    • Build times, caching, and the small wins that change how engineers feel about your platform.
    • Developer experience as a measurable outcome, not a vibe.
  5. 05

    Cloud, scale and reliability

    • Backend engineers
    • Cloud engineers
    • SRE
    • DevOps
    • Frontend engineers
    • Platform engineers

    What we cover

    • Capacity planning, multi-region deployment, and observability that answers questions.
    • GPU-heavy workloads next to classic services, and nondeterministic latency on call.
    • SLOs and agent telemetry when half your critical path is a model you do not own.
    • Incident response and on-call in a stack that mixes deterministic and probabilistic systems.
    • Cost, capacity, and the reliability trade-offs of running models in production.
  6. 06

    Data, analytics and the AI training stack

    • Data engineers
    • ML engineers
    • Analytics engineers
    • Backend engineers
    • Platform teams

    What we cover

    • Pipelines, lakehouses, and streaming systems that hold up under real load.
    • Vector databases sitting next to OLAP, and training-data quality as model quality.
    • Data contracts, lineage, and freshness when AI features depend on the same plumbing as dashboards.
    • Training data, evaluation sets, and the feedback loop between product and pipeline.
    • Analytics engineering between raw events and product decisions.
  7. 07

    Security and trust

    • Security engineers
    • Backend engineers
    • Platform engineers
    • CISOs
    • Tech leads

    What we cover

    • Supply-chain security, dependency hygiene, and identity wired into builder workflows.
    • Prompt injection, agent boundaries, and sensitive-data exfiltration in AI features.
    • Authn, authz, and secrets management when agents act on behalf of users.
    • Compliance, audit, and the new evidence you need for AI-powered features.
    • Threat modeling for a dual-use world where defenders and attackers share tools.
  8. 08

    Quality and testing in a non-deterministic world

    • QA engineers
    • SDETs
    • Backend engineers
    • Frontend engineers
    • ML engineers

    What we cover

    • Testing for distributed systems: contract tests, deterministic CI, observability-driven QA.
    • Evals, guardrails, and regression suites for LLM-powered features and agents.
    • Synthetic data and replay traffic for testing nondeterministic systems.
    • Shift-left vs shift-right when half the failures only show up in production.
    • Metrics that actually correlate with users trusting your AI feature.
  9. 09

    Engineering leadership in a shifting stack

    • CTOs
    • VPEs
    • Engineering managers
    • Tech leads
    • Staff+ engineers

    What we cover

    • Team design, hiring, and training in a world where AI touches most engineering work but only a slice is genuinely delegated.
    • Build vs buy, platform choices, and governance for tools that change every quarter.
    • Budget, headcount, and ROI conversations when half the tooling is changing under you.
    • Leading through ambiguity when neither vendors nor benchmarks have caught up yet.
    • Architectural decisions that compound across the next two years.

Highlighted Speakers

Tune in to industry leaders and creators of the tools you use every day.

Mark Cavage

Mark Cavage

President & COO at Docker

Thomas Dohmke

Thomas Dohmke

CEO & Co-founder at Entire

Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower

Global Developer Voice

Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad

CEO & Co-Founder at Replit

Milin Desai

Milin Desai

CEO at Sentry

Mathias Biilmann Christensen

Mathias Biilmann Christensen

Co-founder & CEO at Netlify

Eric Simons

Eric Simons

Founder & CEO at Bolt.New

Dr. Ramin Hasani

Dr. Ramin Hasani

Co-founder & CEO at Liquid AI

Frequently Asked Questions

Which sessions are included in the livestream?
The pass covers selected streamed sessions. The final stage and session list is supplied with the offer and access instructions.
Will there be replays available?
Recordings will be available shortly after the event, so you can catch up on included sessions you missed.
What time does the broadcast run?
The timetable follows Pacific Time. Check your access instructions for the final broadcast schedule.
How do access delivery and device requirements work?
You can watch on any desktop or mobile device with internet access and a modern web browser.

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