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