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San Jose.

World Congress North America

Main-stage livestream

September 24–25, 2026

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Presenting Partner Docker

Mainstage Agenda

  1. Thursday

    All times Pacific

  2. Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America

  3. Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents

    Mark Cavage · Michael Irwin · Hervé Bizira

  4. The Death of the Code Review

    Laurie Voss

  5. Building the Agentic Software Factory

    Matan Grinberg · Thomas Dohmke · Frederic Lardinois

  6. I Don't Trust AI Agents (And Neither Should You): Building Production-Ready Architectures

    Darko Mesaros

  7. Acquired Live Interview: Sri Shivananda (CIO, JPMorganChase) with Ben & David from Acquired

    Sri Shivananda · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal

  8. Acquired Live Interview: Amjad Masad (Co-founder & CEO, Replit)

    Amjad Masad · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal

  9. Acquired Live Interview: Justin Boitano (VP, Enterprise AI Products, NVIDIA)

    Justin Boitano · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal

  10. Running AI-Written Software in Production

    Anurag Goel · Milin Desai · Richard Rizk · Sead Ahmetović · Jared Zoneraich

  11. Our Brains in the AI Era

    Cassidy Williams

  12. AI and Video games: The Evolution

    Jack McCauley

  13. Building AI Products vs. Building With AI

    Aparna Dhinakaran · Rukmini Reddy · Tamar Bercovici

  14. Life in Games: Four Decades of Code

    John Romero

  15. Friday

  16. Building AI that fits your business

    Benny Chen

  17. From Possibility to Production: Why AI Raises the Bar for Engineering

    Leigh-Ann Russell

  18. How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value

    Erran Berger · Frederic Lardinois

  19. Govern the Runtime, Not the Agent: One Control Plane for Every Model, Every Harness

    Tushar Jain

  20. You are the developer. From DX to AX with humans in mind.

    Matt Biilmann

  21. A Computer Is All You Need

    Justin Mahood

  22. A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering

    Ankit Patel · Philip Kiely

  23. Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built

    Lena Hall

  24. Winning With AI

    Neel Sundaresan · Wolfgang Platz · Rahul Deshpande · Felix Holtermann

  25. One Boundary for the Agentic Era

    Mark Lechner

  26. ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

    Kelsey Hightower

  27. The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting

    Angie Jones

  28. 2026 in LLMs (so far)

    Simon Willison

  • 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
  • IT Revolution
  • Tanzu division at Broadcom Inc.
  • Cypress.io
  • Coinbase
  • Monte Carlo
  • Greptile
  • Criteria
  • Sonatype
  • NorthernTech
  • SAP Business AI
  • Bitmovin
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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 Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford
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Angie Jones
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Scott Hanselman
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John Romero
DOOM co-creator
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