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World Congress North America

Main-stage livestream

September 24–25, 2026

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Thursday
Sep 24
All times Pacific
9:30 AM

Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress: North America
9:45 AM

Manufacturing trust: speed and safety in the age of agents

Mark Cavage · Michael Irwin · Hervé Bizira
10:20 AM

The Death of the Code Review

Laurie Voss
11:00 AM

Building the Agentic Software Factory

Matan Grinberg · Thomas Dohmke · Frederic Lardinois
11:40 AM

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

Darko Mesaros
12:50 PM

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

Sri Shivananda · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
1:20 PM

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

Amjad Masad · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
1:50 PM

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

Justin Boitano · Ben Gilbert · David Rosenthal
2:50 PM

Running AI-Written Software in Production

Anurag Goel · Milin Desai · Richard Rizk · Sead Ahmetović · Jared Zoneraich
3:30 PM

Our Brains in the AI Era

Cassidy Williams
4:10 PM

AI and Video games: The Evolution

Jack McCauley
4:50 PM

Building AI Products vs. Building With AI

Aparna Dhinakaran · Rukmini Reddy · Tamar Bercovici
5:30 PM

Life in Games: Four Decades of Code

John Romero
Friday
Sep 25
9:00 AM

Building AI that fits your business

Benny Chen
9:40 AM

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

Leigh-Ann Russell
10:20 AM

How LinkedIn Turns AI Breakthroughs into member and customer value

Erran Berger · Frederic Lardinois
11:00 AM

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

Tushar Jain
11:40 AM

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

Matt Biilmann
12:20 PM

A Computer Is All You Need

Justin Mahood
1:30 PM

A Hands-On Developer Guide to Inference Engineering

Ankit Patel · Philip Kiely
2:10 PM

Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built

Lena Hall
2:50 PM

Winning With AI

Neel Sundaresan · Wolfgang Platz · Rahul Deshpande · Felix Holtermann
3:30 PM

One Boundary for the Agentic Era

Mark Lechner
4:10 PM

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture

Kelsey Hightower
4:50 PM

The Future Is Calling But You're Busy Prompting

Angie Jones
5:30 PM

2026 in LLMs (so far)

Simon Willison

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Europe

Berlin, Germany

July 8-10, 2026

World Congress Europe

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San Jose, California

September 23-25, 2026

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Aaron Bawcom

Abbe Piels

Abdel Fane

Abigail Morgan

Aditya Jayaprakash

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Ahmad Rushdi

AJ Aitken

Ajeet Raina

Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth

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Bengaluru, India

November 25-26, 2026

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VP & CTO, Amazon

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David Heinemeier Hansson

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Douglas Crockford

Douglas Crockford

Creator of JSON

Angie Jones

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Scott Hanselman

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DOOM co-creator

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