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World Congress North America
Main-stage livestream
September 24–25, 2026
Full agenda
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Mainstage Agenda
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Thursday
All times Pacific
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Thursday · 9:30 AM PDT
Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America
Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America
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Thursday · 9:45 AM PDT
Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents
Mark Cavage · Michael Irwin · Hervé Bizira
Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents
Mark Cavage · Michael Irwin · Hervé Bizira
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Thursday · 10:20 AM PDT
The Death of the Code Review
Laurie Voss
The Death of the Code Review
Laurie Voss
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Thursday · 11:00 AM PDT
Building the Agentic Software Factory
Matan Grinberg · Thomas Dohmke · Frederic Lardinois
Building the Agentic Software Factory
Matan Grinberg · Thomas Dohmke · Frederic Lardinois
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Thursday · 11:40 AM PDT
I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures
Darko Mesaros
I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures
Darko Mesaros
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Thursday · 12:50 PM PDT
Acquired Live Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired
Sri Shivananda · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
Acquired Live Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired
Sri Shivananda · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
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Thursday · 1:20 PM PDT
Acquired Live Interview: Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)
Amjad Masad · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
Acquired Live Interview: Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)
Amjad Masad · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
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Thursday · 1:50 PM PDT
Acquired Live Interview: Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)
Justin Boitano · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
Acquired Live Interview: Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)
Justin Boitano · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
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Thursday · 2:50 PM PDT
Running AI-Written Software in Production
Anurag Goel · Milin Desai · Richard Rizk · Sead Ahmetović · Jared Zoneraich
Running AI-Written Software in Production
Anurag Goel · Milin Desai · Richard Rizk · Sead Ahmetović · Jared Zoneraich
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Thursday · 3:30 PM PDT
Our Brains in the AI Era
Cassidy Williams
Our Brains in the AI Era
Cassidy Williams
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Thursday · 4:10 PM PDT
AI and Video games: The Evolution
Jack McCauley
AI and Video games: The Evolution
Jack McCauley
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Thursday · 4:50 PM PDT
Building AI Products vs. Building With AI
Aparna Dhinakaran · Rukmini Reddy · Tamar Bercovici
Building AI Products vs. Building With AI
Aparna Dhinakaran · Rukmini Reddy · Tamar Bercovici
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Thursday · 5:30 PM PDT
Life in Games: Four Decades of Code
John Romero
Life in Games: Four Decades of Code
John Romero
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Friday
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Friday · 9:00 AM PDT
Building AI that fits your business
Benny Chen
Building AI that fits your business
Benny Chen
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Friday · 9:40 AM PDT
From Possibility to Production: Why AI Raises the Bar for Engineering
Leigh-Ann Russell
From Possibility to Production: Why AI Raises the Bar for Engineering
Leigh-Ann Russell
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Friday · 10:20 AM PDT
How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value
Erran Berger · Frederic Lardinois
How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value
Erran Berger · Frederic Lardinois
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Friday · 11:00 AM PDT
Govern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness
Tushar Jain
Govern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness
Tushar Jain
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Friday · 11:40 AM PDT
You are the developer. From DX to AX with humans in mind.
Matt Biilmann
You are the developer. From DX to AX with humans in mind.
Matt Biilmann
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Friday · 12:20 PM PDT
A Computer Is All You Need
Justin Mahood
A Computer Is All You Need
Justin Mahood
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Friday · 1:30 PM PDT
A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering
Ankit Patel · Philip Kiely
A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering
Ankit Patel · Philip Kiely
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Friday · 2:10 PM PDT
Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built
Lena Hall
Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built
Lena Hall
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Friday · 2:50 PM PDT
Winning With AI
Neel Sundaresan · Wolfgang Platz · Rahul Deshpande · Felix Holtermann
Winning With AI
Neel Sundaresan · Wolfgang Platz · Rahul Deshpande · Felix Holtermann
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Friday · 3:30 PM PDT
One Boundary for the Agentic Era
Mark Lechner
One Boundary for the Agentic Era
Mark Lechner
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Friday · 4:10 PM PDT
ZTA: Zero Token Architecture
Kelsey Hightower
ZTA: Zero Token Architecture
Kelsey Hightower
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Friday · 4:50 PM PDT
The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting
Angie Jones
The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting
Angie Jones
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Friday · 5:30 PM PDT
2026 in LLMs (so far)
Simon Willison
2026 in LLMs (so far)
Simon Willison
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Automating code quality with large language models
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Understanding Dockerfile structure and cloud environment security risks
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