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Background Agents Virtual Summit 2026

The Background Agents Virtual Summit is the world's first event dedicated solely to background agents and the future of the SDLC. With talks from companies like Stripe, Harvey, Uber, Monzo, AWS, and Cloudflare, the event will explore how autonomous agents are transforming software delivery and engineering operations at scale.

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7Speakers
6Sponsors
1On the bill · sessions
7Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Background, in alphabetical order.
Alistair Gray
Stripe
Joey Wang
Harvey
Nikhil Ramakrishnan
Uber
Rajesh Bhatia
Cloudflare
Shardul Vaidya
AWS
Suhail Patel
Monzo
Zacharias Malguitou
Software Factory, software-factory.dev
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AWS
Cloudflare
Harvey
Monzo
Stripe
Uber
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Agenda

Selected from 1 sessions on the bill.
  • Day 2 · Recorded 7 May 2026

    A software factory in public: what happens when agents run the SDLC

    Most agent demos stop at the pull request. Zacharias Malguitou asks the harder question: what if agents ran the whole software delivery loop, from planning and implementation throu…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 7 companies show up — and 6 bet on three roles at once?

Seven companies. six are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
6All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
1Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

AWS·Cloudflare·Harvey·Monzo·Stripe·Uber

Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles7100%

Of 7 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AWSSp1V
  2. 02CloudflareSp1V
  3. 03HarveySp1V
  4. 04MonzoSp1V
  5. 05StripeSp1V
  6. 06UberSp1V
  7. 07Software Factory, software-factory.dev1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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