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WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026

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eAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026 is the world's largest event for developers, AI builders, and tech leaders. Hosted in San José, CA, the event brings together more than 10,000 developers and 4,000 companies. Attendees will enjoy technical keynotes, hands-on workshops, deep-dive masterclasses, a dynamic expo, and inspiring speakers covering t…

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62Voices
168Underwriters
0Exhibitors
37On the bill · sessions
215Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at WeAreDevelopers, in alphabetical order.
Abdel Fane
Founder · OpenA2A
Alexandre Daubois
CTO · Les-Tilleuls.coop
Alex Garnett
Developer Relations · Bluesky
Alla Barbalat
Lead Organizer · PyLadies San Francisco
Alper Ebicoglu
Co-founder · Volosoft
Amjad Shaikh
VP, Platform & AI · ServiceNow
Angie Jones
VP of Engineering, AI Tools & Enablement at Block · Block
Ankita Sood
Sr. Principal Engineer · Secureworks
Ashok Prakash
Staff ML Engineer · Apple
Benjamin Smith
Staff Developer Advocate · Stripe
Carl Lapierre
Tech Lead and AI Engineer · Osedea
Christine Yen
CEO & Co-founder of Honeycomb · Honeycomb
Daniela Dimitrova
VP IT & CIO of Mercedes-Benz North America · Mercedes-Benz North America
Daniel Murphy
Head of SRE · PwC
Daniel Ostrovsky
AI Architect · Payoneer
Derric Gilling
VP & GM, API Platform · WSO2
Dr. Ramin Hasani
CEO & Co-founder · Liquid AI
Eli-Shaoul Khedouri
CEO · Intuition Machines
Eric Simons
CEO & Founder · Bolt.New
Erran Berger
CTO Engineering at LinkedIn · LinkedIn
Fatih Kadir Akın
Developer Relations · WordPress
Graham Gilbert
Senior Staff Engineer · Airbnb

— and 40 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
NVIDIAPlatinum
AlgorandGold
Bright DataGold
EntireGold
Google CloudGold
SAPGold
TailscaleGold
TwilioGold
AkamaiSilver
AtosSilver
Dash0Silver
DynatraceSilver
EonSilver
FinSilver
Finanz InformatikSilver
GitLabSilver
Neo4jSilver
RenderSilver
RunpodSilver
SentrySilver
TemporalSilver
TuxcareSilver
ABP.ioBronze
AllstacksBronze
AlmediaBronze
AntithesisBronze
ApifyBronze
ApryseBronze
Axel SpringerBronze
Better StackBronze
BitriseBronze
Black AlpacaBronze
CheckmarxBronze
City of San JoseBronze
CloudHiroBronze
CloudinaryBronze
CoralogixBronze
DepotBronze
EGYMBronze
ExpoBronze
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The Programme

Selected from 37 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) now drives decisions across enterprise operations, for autonomous systems—yet much of this decision-making remains a “black box.” AI Decision Observabi…

  • TBA

    AI-Driven API Design

    Level: Beginner to Intermediate Skills: Leverage AI to extract structured API vocabulary, generate OpenAPI documentation, create human-readable docs, assess security policies, and…

  • TBA

    AI That Argues With Itself: Building Self-Debating Systems That Catch Their Own Bugs

    Modern AI systems are incredibly capable and confidently wrong. In this talk, we explore a new architectural pattern: AI systems that argue with themselves. By orchestrating multi…

  • TBA

    Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency

    Efficiently managing compute capacity is a multi-dimensional optimization problem that has outpaced human-in-the-loop systems. This presentation details the development of an agent…

  • TBA

    Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means

    Coding agents like Claude struggle to get meaningful information from databases. Even though they're good at writing correct SQL, they fall short where it matters - fetching the ri…

  • TBA

    Bluesky's Open Source Moderation Tools: LLM-based Event Detection in Python

    Bluesky is a decentralized social media application built on top of the AT Protocol. One way that Bluesky supports decentralization, and empowers users in the Atmosphere community …

  • TBA

    Building Pragmatic AI: 10 AI Features Your Users Actually Want

    At many companies right now, the directive is coming from the top: "We need AI in our product." CTOs hear it from boards. Product leaders hear it from executives. Engineering teams…

    Masterclass
  • TBA

    Chat with Your Data: From Natural Language to SQL

    This session shows how to build a .NET application that lets users generate reports simply by chatting. I’ll walk through my hands-on experience that reads your database schema, un…

  • TBA

    Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems

    AI agents are moving to production, revealing a "visibility gap" traditional monitoring can’t bridge. This talk shares lessons from shipping agentic AI in safety-critical workflows…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 215 companies show up — and 7 bet on three roles at once?

215 companies. seven 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
7All threespeak · spons · exh
156Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
52Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Datadog·Entire·Meta·Red Hat·Sentry·Snowflake·Stripe

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

50% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite2032%
  • Founder / Owner23%
  • VP-level610%
  • Director / Head of35%
  • Manager / Lead1727%
  • Engineer · IC1118%
  • Research / Science23%
  • Advisor / Investor12%

Of 62 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01DatadogSp1V
  2. 02EntireSp·G1V
  3. 03MetaSp1V
  4. 04Red HatSp1V
  5. 05SentrySp·S1V
  6. 06SnowflakeSp1V
  7. 07StripeSp1V
  8. 08ABP.ioSp·B
  9. 09AccentureSp
  10. 10AI and ML EventsSp·C
  11. 11AI MagSp·M
  12. 12AI Tools NetworkSp·C
  13. 13AkamaiSp·S
  14. 14AldiSp
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
1% of 168
gold7
4% of 168
silver14
8% of 168
bronze59
35% of 168
presenting partner2
1% of 168
media partner15
9% of 168
community partner29
17% of 168
unspecified41
24% of 168
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions