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BeyondConf 2026 - Moving Beyond the AI Hype

A working conference for leaders, technologists, and practitioners ready to focus on what actually works in production. September 10, 2026 · Hudson's Detroit.

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Speakers

Programmed at BeyondConf, in alphabetical order.
Abhilash Rao Mesala
Almog Mor
Andy Chen
Beth Andres-Beck
Bodhisattva Das
Charles Wood
Chris Moyer
Chris O'Connor
Dave Todaro
Eric Heikkila
Erik Wesslen
Fred Estabrook
Heather Lenz
Heidi Porter
Jeff Morgan
Jim Grey
Jon Fazzaro
Katelyn Jones
Madhavi Pasumarthi
Marcelo Bursztein
Matt Van Vleet
Michael Rissover
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Agenda

Selected from 26 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    733 Pipelines, 2 Months, 1 AI Agent: Agentic Systems in the Wild

    What do you do when you have 733 production data pipelines tied to a deprecated operator and a timeline that would take a team of engineers over a year to complete manually? I buil…

    From Experience
  • TBA

    After the Chatbot: Building the Agentic Software Factory

    The next wave of AI development will not be defined by better autocomplete or another layer of chat interfaces. It will be defined by agentic systems that can plan, execute, inspec…

    Looking Forward
  • TBA

    AI and Social Impact: Expanding What We Measure and Why

    As AI transforms business operations and drives economic growth, a critical question remains unanswered: How do we ensure its benefits are shared equitably while minimizing harm? T…

    Ethics & Sustainability
  • TBA

    AI-Assisted Coding for the Cautious: A Phased Pilot Case Study

    Every software team faces pressure to ship faster without breaking things. When your company has real security concerns and skeptical leadership, "just turn on an AI coding tool" i…

    From Experience
  • TBA

    AI Politics On The Ground

    As a software engineer running for Congress, I have personally knocked on thousands of doors, talking with people from ages six to one hundred and six. Even with everything else go…

    Ethics & Sustainability
  • TBA

    Cognitive Debt and Our Duty to the Generations to Come

    People talk about AI's environmental cost: the data centers, the water, the power. But what about our humanity? This talk goes deeper than "AI makes people lazy." Drawing on res…

    Ethics & Sustainability
  • TBA

    Don’t Prompt It. Teach It: Clean Code Practices for AI Agents

    This practitioner session shares lessons from 300+ AI-assisted development sessions, 19k+ messages, 3k+ commits, and 30+ repositories. The core finding: AI agents became reliable o…

    From Experience
  • TBA

    Everyone Is Using AI. Now What? Leading AI Adoption Without Slowing Innovation

    Generative AI is spreading through organizations faster than any technology in recent memory. Employees are experimenting, executives are investing, and new use cases emerge daily.…

    From Experience
  • TBA

    From AI Pilots to $30M ROI: Scaling Enterprise AI in Production

    Enterprise AI is moving beyond pilots, but many organizations still struggle to turn experiments into systems that deliver measurable value. This session shares lessons learned fro…

    Looking Forward
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