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Program / Day 0

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Pre-Conference • Pickleball, Community & Kickoff

Wednesday

Sep 2, 2026

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Social Event1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Conference Wide Pickleball Social
Ace Pickleball4 minutes from The Host HotelGet Directions
Kick off CYC with pickleball at Ace Pickleball before the conference begins.
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Social Event6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Pre-Conference Party at The Truck Yard
The Truck Yard10 minutes from The Host HotelGet Directions
Join the CYC community at The Truck Yard for the pre-conference party.
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Program / Day 1

Day 1

Conference Day One • Sessions, Keynotes & Networking

Thursday

Sep 3, 2026

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Welcome & Opening Keynote
Conference Organizers
Conference Organizers · CYC
Join us for the official opening of the conference with inspiring talks and networking opportunities.
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Open Networking
11:00 am - 11:25 am
Frontend
20 Years of Frontend Lessons: Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter
Sayeed Mohammad
Principal Frontend Architect
Ascendion
Sayeed Mohammad
AI
Data Governance in the AI age
Miguel Guillén
Sr Director Technology and Data
Miguel Guillén
AI
Documentation in the Age of AI: Why Docs Are a Product
Chris Nowicki
Developer Experience Engineer
Commerce
Chris Nowicki
AI
Agentic AI Systems Don't Fail at the Model Layer - They Fail in Production
Moeez Khan
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services Agentic AI
Moeez Khan
Frontend
Secure Coding Meets Critical Infrastructure Defense in Water Systems
Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani
Information Technology Security Engineer
City of Dallas
Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani
Frontend
Leon Noel
Leon Noel
Managing Director
Resilient Coders
Leon Noel
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:25 pm
AI
Workshops
Render Workshop
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm · 90 min workshop
Ojus Save
Developer Relations
Render
Ojus Save
Cloud
Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals
Lance Finney
Senior Software Developer
INFICON
Lance Finney
Frontend
In the age of AI: if it's not Accessible, it's not Acceptable
Amanda Mayfield
Software Engineer
O'Reilly
Amanda Mayfield
Cloud
Boost Developer Productivity with Buildpacks
Joey Brown
Software Consultant
Joey Brown
Frontend
Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI
Anna Spysz
Developer Advocate
Stripe
Anna Spysz
Leadership
20 mins to Production: A Live AI-Build Challenge
Jerry Reghunadh
Senior Director
DataNimbus
Jerry Reghunadh
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Open Networking
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm
Leadership
Software Developer To CTO: AMA! (Ask Me Anything!)
Caleb Jenkins
Chief Technology Officer
DebtBlue
Caleb Jenkins
Frontend
TBH
Dennis Ivy
Developer Advocate
PostHog
Dennis Ivy
Frontend
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
Noah Harris
Managing Director
Radial Agency
Noah Harris
AI
Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting
Improving
Tim Rayburn
AI
When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications
Vishnu Ramineni
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Albertsons Companies
Vishnu Ramineni
Frontend
Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil
Nate Custer
Principal Technologist
TTC Global
Nate Custer
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Social Event6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Conference Social at The Puttery at Grandscape
The Puttery at Grandscape11 minutes from the Host HotelGet Directions
Close out Day 1 with the CYC community at The Puttery at Grandscape.
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Program / Day 2

Day 2

Conference Day Two • Advanced Sessions & Closing

Friday

Sep 4, 2026

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Keynote with Kevin J. Scott
Kevin J. Scott
Kevin J. Scott · PGA of America
Join Kevin J. Scott, Chief Technology Officer of the PGA of America, for the Day 2 keynote.
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Open Networking
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm
Frontend
The node_modules Iceberg: Mysteries Below the Waterline
Chris DeMars
Senior Developer Advocate
TuxCare
Chris DeMars
Java
AI for Java Developers
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
VMware Tanzu
Dan Vega
Cloud
Writing a Container Runtime in Go
Michael Duren
Site Reliability Engineer
Target
Michael Duren
Frontend
The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering
Bethany Ann
Software Engineer
Buildertrend
Bethany Ann
Frontend
Build your First MCP App
Nick Taylor
Developer Advocate
Pomerium
Nick Taylor
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Frontend
Modern Angular 🤝 Modern CSS
Ankita Sood
Senior Principal Engineer
Secureworks
Ankita Sood
Java
Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink
Mark Mackenzie
Principal Software Engineer
Noetic
Mark Mackenzie
AI
From Zero to AI Platform: Architecting a Multi-Cloud LLM Gateway for 200+ Developers
Amir Mustafa
Platform Tech Lead | Sr. Staff Engineer Cloud
Albertsons Companies
Amir Mustafa
Leadership
TBA
Zackary Chapple
Co-Founder & CEO
Zephyr Cloud
Zackary Chapple
AI
How to Test AI Features Before Your Users Do
Ron Dagdag
Research Engineering Manager
Thomson Reuters
Ron Dagdag
Frontend
CSS as a Game Engine: Building Playful, Stateful Web Experiences Without JS
Alvaro Montoro
Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft MVP
Self
Alvaro Montoro
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Open Networking
3:30 pm - 3:55 pm
Frontend
Utilising the JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Automated Frontend Lifecycle Management
Tim Damen
Frontend Chapter Lead & Accessibility lead
Focusring.io
Tim Damen
Java
Thinking Architecturally
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect
Thoughtworks
Nathaniel Schutta
Cloud
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Systems Engineer
Ecology Computing
Chris Corriere
Leadership
The Series Finale Problem: What Happens When Your Brand Makes a Promise You Can't Keep
Jeremy Barger
Director Of Software Engineering & Founder
ELITE Academy
Jeremy Barger
AI
Building AI Agents in TypeScript with Mastra
Raja Krishna
Senior Software Engineer
OnePay
Raja Krishna
Frontend
Workshops
Zerops AI Workshop
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm · 90 min workshop
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
Francesco Ciulla
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Closing Keynote
Danny Thompson
Danny Thompson · CYC
Join Danny Thompson for brief closing remarks to wrap up the conference.