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Program / Day 0
Day[0]
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
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
Join the CYC community at The Truck Yard for the pre-conference party.
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Social Event1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Conference Wide Pickleball Social
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
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
Room 2A
Room 2B
Room 2C
Room 2D
Room 2E
Room 1D
8:00 am
9:00 am
Morning Connect
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
AI
Data Governance in the AI age
Miguel Guillén
Sr Director Technology and Data
Frontend
Never Click Apply. Get Hired.
Leon Noel
Managing Director
Resilient Coders
AI
Documentation in the Age of AI: Why Docs Are a Product
Chris Nowicki
Developer Experience Engineer
Commerce
AI
The Three Ways AI Agents Fail. Here's How to Fix Yours.
Moeez Khan
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services Agentic AI
Frontend
Secure Coding Meets Critical Infrastructure Defense in Water Systems
Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani
Information Technology Security Engineer
City of Dallas
11:30 am
11:55 am
AI
Stop Writing the Analysis Script: Let the Data Decide What to Look At
Stacy Haven
VP of Engineering
SAP
AI
When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking AI’s Hidden Connections with Graphs
Nyah Macklin
Senior Developer Advocate, Artificial Intelligence
Neo4j
Cloud
Chaos to Control: Automating the Identity Life Cycle in the Cloud
Noah Jenkins
Software Developer
The Middleby Corporation
Frontend
Ship It First, Fix It Later: How a Medical Crisis Led to a Global Tool
Roxy Rodriguez-Becker
software engineer, developer advocate
Torc
AI
Are MCP Servers Dead?
Chris Griffing
Developer Advocate
GitKraken
AI
Gating Cognition: How Modern AI Architectures Minimize Runtime Reasoning
Hunter Long
Generative AI Engineer
AAA
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
1:25 pm
Cloud
Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals
Lance Finney
Senior Software Developer
INFICON
Frontend
In the age of AI: if it's not Accessible, it's not Acceptable
Amanda Mayfield
Software Engineer
O'Reilly
Cloud
Boost Developer Productivity with Buildpacks
Joey Brown
Software Consultant
Leadership
Herding Engineers: What I learned from Horse Trainers In Northern Texas
Alexander Crettenand
Vice President of Software Engineering
ADT
Leadership
20 mins to Production: A Live AI-Build Challenge
Jerry Reghunadh
Senior Director
DataNimbus
AI
Workshops
Close the Tab: Build Jobs That Keep Running
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm · 90 min workshop
Ojus Save
Developer Relations
Render
1:30 pm
1:55 pm
AI
Trust, But Verify: Human-in-the-Loop for Agents That Actually Matter
Michael Liendo
Staff Developer Advocate
Auth0
Frontend
Weights vs. Words in Fine-Tuning & Enhancing Agentic AI Workflows
Reece Iriye
Software Engineer - AI Labs
Capital One
AI
Gotta Feed the Beast - Data Engineering at Scale
Claire Bourdon
Sr. Data Engineer
Neogenomics Laboratories
Frontend
From Side Project to Startup: Lessons Learned from Hundreds of Builders
Danyal Mahmud
Principal Consultant
Improving
AI
Advanced RAG Systems: Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Production
Pranav Puranik
AI Engineer
ARM
2:00 pm
2:25 pm
Java
From Guesswork to Governance: Bringing API Discipline to Data Streaming
Sandon Jacobs
Senior Developer Advocate
Confluent
AI
Give Your SDK Superpowers: Building AI Tools for Your Developers with Skills and MCP
Brian Munz
Developer Advocate
Prismatic
AI
The Claw: Minions of Toil
Joel Hooks
lvl 16 Half-Orc Nerd - Purveyor of Artisanal Slop working
Badass Courses
Frontend
From Internal Innovation to Hilton.com: Building Hilton’s First Agentic AI Travel Planner
Paul Coroneos
Principal Platform Architect
Hilton
2:30 pm
2:55 pm
Frontend
The Playwright Cipher: Writing Tests Like a Rap Verse
Wayne Jones
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
Your Prompt Is Not a Unit Test — instrumenting LLM apps in production
Kyle Taylor
Senior Solutions Engineer
Datadog
Cloud
Make Your Serverless Functions Do More with Durable Executions
Erik Hanchett
Developer Advocate
AWS
Frontend
Build your First MCP App
Nick Taylor
Developer Advocate
Pomerium
Frontend
The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering
Bethany Ann
Software Engineer
Buildertrend
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
Open Networking
3:30 pm
3:55 pm
Frontend
Your Browser Has Trust Issues: Why Local Devices Break Modern Web Apps
Chris Edgington
CEO
EdgeCraft Studio
Cloud
Zero to Production: A Simple Technical Framework for Low-Cost Scalable Infrastructure
Whittington W
Staff Software Engineer
Grubhub
AI
Deploy Your Own VideoGen Model
Patrick Hulce
ML Architect
Netflix
Frontend
Give Your Agent a Second Brain (and a UI to Match)
Bree Hall
Senior Developer Content Lead
Sanity
AI
Open Source Voice AI: From ChatGPT's Infrastructure to Your App
Jesse Hall
@codeSTACKr & Staff Developer Advocate
LiveKit
4:00 pm
4:25 pm
AI
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
Borko Djurkovic
Member of Technical Staff
Cohere
Frontend
rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This)
Rishab Kumar
Staff Developer Evangelist
Twilio
AI
Stop Prompting, Start Looping: Principles of Loop Engineering
Derrick Bozkurt
SRE Manager
RingCentral
Frontend
WTF, Rust for Web Development??
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
Frontend
Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI
Nerando Johnson
Software Developer
Hygiena
4:30 pm
4:55 pm
Frontend
Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil
Nate Custer
Principal Technologist
TTC Global
Frontend
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
Noah Harris
Managing Director
Radial Agency
Frontend
Learn to Code Is at a 5-Year High, and AI Is the Reason
Dennis Ivy
Developer Advocate
PostHog
AI
Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting
Improving
AI
Skip the Middleman: Direct, Secure UI-to-Agent Communication with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Andres Moreno
Principal Software Architect
Caylent
5:00 pm
5:25 pm
Frontend
Revolutionize Your Backend: Mastering Server Actions with Next.js and React
Avindra Fernando
Principal Architect | Fractional CTO
Taprobane Consulting
Frontend
Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends
Kaleb Garner
Fullstack Developer
HaloMD
Leadership
Software Developer To CTO: AMA! (Ask Me Anything!)
Caleb Jenkins
Chief Technology Officer
DebtBlue
Frontend
Why Your Bug Rate Isn’t a Code Problem: Engineering for Unstable Work Intake
Eric Bible
Software Engineer III
Vertex IT Systems
AI
AI Memory Is Broken And How I Fixed It
Chris Sean Dabatos
Staff Developer Relations
Fly.io
6:30 pm
9:30 pm
Social Event6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Conference Social at The Puttery at Grandscape
Close out Day 1 with the CYC community at The Puttery at Grandscape.
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Morning Connect
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
AI
Data Governance in the AI age
Miguel Guillén
Sr Director Technology and Data
AI
Documentation in the Age of AI: Why Docs Are a Product
Chris Nowicki
Developer Experience Engineer
Commerce
AI
The Three Ways AI Agents Fail. Here's How to Fix Yours.
Moeez Khan
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services Agentic AI
Frontend
Secure Coding Meets Critical Infrastructure Defense in Water Systems
Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani
Information Technology Security Engineer
City of Dallas
Frontend
Never Click Apply. Get Hired.
Leon Noel
Managing Director
Resilient Coders
11:30 am - 11:55 am
AI
Stop Writing the Analysis Script: Let the Data Decide What to Look At
Stacy Haven
VP of Engineering
SAP
AI
When Vectors Aren’t Enough: Unlocking AI’s Hidden Connections with Graphs
Nyah Macklin
Senior Developer Advocate, Artificial Intelligence
Neo4j
Cloud
Chaos to Control: Automating the Identity Life Cycle in the Cloud
Noah Jenkins
Software Developer
The Middleby Corporation
Frontend
Ship It First, Fix It Later: How a Medical Crisis Led to a Global Tool
Roxy Rodriguez-Becker
software engineer, developer advocate
Torc
AI
Are MCP Servers Dead?
Chris Griffing
Developer Advocate
GitKraken
AI
Gating Cognition: How Modern AI Architectures Minimize Runtime Reasoning
Hunter Long
Generative AI Engineer
AAA
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:25 pm
AI
Workshops
Close the Tab: Build Jobs That Keep Running
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm · 90 min workshop
Ojus Save
Developer Relations
Render
Cloud
Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals
Lance Finney
Senior Software Developer
INFICON
Frontend
In the age of AI: if it's not Accessible, it's not Acceptable
Amanda Mayfield
Software Engineer
O'Reilly
Cloud
Boost Developer Productivity with Buildpacks
Joey Brown
Software Consultant
Leadership
Herding Engineers: What I learned from Horse Trainers In Northern Texas
Alexander Crettenand
Vice President of Software Engineering
ADT
Leadership
20 mins to Production: A Live AI-Build Challenge
Jerry Reghunadh
Senior Director
DataNimbus
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm
AI
Trust, But Verify: Human-in-the-Loop for Agents That Actually Matter
Michael Liendo
Staff Developer Advocate
Auth0
Frontend
Weights vs. Words in Fine-Tuning & Enhancing Agentic AI Workflows
Reece Iriye
Software Engineer - AI Labs
Capital One
AI
Gotta Feed the Beast - Data Engineering at Scale
Claire Bourdon
Sr. Data Engineer
Neogenomics Laboratories
Frontend
From Side Project to Startup: Lessons Learned from Hundreds of Builders
Danyal Mahmud
Principal Consultant
Improving
AI
Advanced RAG Systems: Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Production
Pranav Puranik
AI Engineer
ARM
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm
Java
From Guesswork to Governance: Bringing API Discipline to Data Streaming
Sandon Jacobs
Senior Developer Advocate
Confluent
AI
Give Your SDK Superpowers: Building AI Tools for Your Developers with Skills and MCP
Brian Munz
Developer Advocate
Prismatic
Frontend
From Internal Innovation to Hilton.com: Building Hilton’s First Agentic AI Travel Planner
Paul Coroneos
Principal Platform Architect
Hilton
AI
The Claw: Minions of Toil
Joel Hooks
lvl 16 Half-Orc Nerd - Purveyor of Artisanal Slop working
Badass Courses
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Frontend
Build your First MCP App
Nick Taylor
Developer Advocate
Pomerium
Frontend
The Playwright Cipher: Writing Tests Like a Rap Verse
Wayne Jones
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
Your Prompt Is Not a Unit Test — instrumenting LLM apps in production
Kyle Taylor
Senior Solutions Engineer
Datadog
Cloud
Make Your Serverless Functions Do More with Durable Executions
Erik Hanchett
Developer Advocate
AWS
Frontend
The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering
Bethany Ann
Software Engineer
Buildertrend
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Open Networking
3:30 pm - 3:55 pm
Cloud
Zero to Production: A Simple Technical Framework for Low-Cost Scalable Infrastructure
Whittington W
Staff Software Engineer
Grubhub
Frontend
Your Browser Has Trust Issues: Why Local Devices Break Modern Web Apps
Chris Edgington
CEO
EdgeCraft Studio
AI
Deploy Your Own VideoGen Model
Patrick Hulce
ML Architect
Netflix
Frontend
Give Your Agent a Second Brain (and a UI to Match)
Bree Hall
Senior Developer Content Lead
Sanity
AI
Open Source Voice AI: From ChatGPT's Infrastructure to Your App
Jesse Hall
@codeSTACKr & Staff Developer Advocate
LiveKit
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
Frontend
rm -rf: Horror Stories From Unsandboxed AI Agents (and How Docker Fixes This)
Rishab Kumar
Staff Developer Evangelist
Twilio
AI
Stop Prompting, Start Looping: Principles of Loop Engineering
Derrick Bozkurt
SRE Manager
RingCentral
Frontend
WTF, Rust for Web Development??
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
Frontend
Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI
Nerando Johnson
Software Developer
Hygiena
AI
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
Borko Djurkovic
Member of Technical Staff
Cohere
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm
Frontend
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
Noah Harris
Managing Director
Radial Agency
Frontend
Learn to Code Is at a 5-Year High, and AI Is the Reason
Dennis Ivy
Developer Advocate
PostHog
AI
Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting
Improving
AI
Skip the Middleman: Direct, Secure UI-to-Agent Communication with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Andres Moreno
Principal Software Architect
Caylent
Frontend
Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil
Nate Custer
Principal Technologist
TTC Global
5:00 pm - 5:25 pm
Frontend
Revolutionize Your Backend: Mastering Server Actions with Next.js and React
Avindra Fernando
Principal Architect | Fractional CTO
Taprobane Consulting
Frontend
Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends
Kaleb Garner
Fullstack Developer
HaloMD
Leadership
Software Developer To CTO: AMA! (Ask Me Anything!)
Caleb Jenkins
Chief Technology Officer
DebtBlue
Frontend
Why Your Bug Rate Isn’t a Code Problem: Engineering for Unstable Work Intake
Eric Bible
Software Engineer III
Vertex IT Systems
AI
AI Memory Is Broken And How I Fixed It
Chris Sean Dabatos
Staff Developer Relations
Fly.io
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Social Event6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Conference Social at The Puttery at Grandscape
Close out Day 1 with the CYC community at The Puttery at Grandscape.
02
Program / Day 2
Day 2
Conference Day Two • Advanced Sessions & Closing
Friday
Sep 4, 2026
Room 2A
Room 2B
Room 2C
Room 2D
Room 2E
Room 1D
8:00 am
9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am
10:00 am
Keynote with Kevin J. Scott
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
11:00 am
11:25 am
AI
Counting exercise repetition using live camera video
Alexey Inkin
Google Developer Expert & Consultant
Self
Java
OOPs!... I Did it Again: When Good Objects Go Toxic
Trey Clark
Software Engineer
University of North Texas
AI
The Evolution of Divot: How Agents Earn Their Autonomy
Michael Gyarmathy
Principal Software Engineer
PGA of America
Frontend
Build Failed Startups—Not Side Projects
Ramiro Beltran
Senior Software Engineer
HEB
AI
AI Governance in Financial Services: What Every Developer Should Know
Belle Duran
Data Risk & Compliance Analyst
Texas Capital
Cloud
Unlocking CI Performance in the Age of Agentic Development
Scott McAllister
Community Evangelist
F5
11:30 am
11:55 am
AI
Building Rapid Web Applications with Laravel + Filament
Aaron Krauss
Techlahoma Organizer & Technical Lead
Clevyr
Java
5 Mistakes Developers Make When Building Java APIs (and How to Fix Them)
Yodit Weldegeorgise
Java Software Engineer
Unknown Company
Cloud
Fixing Potholes And Broken Roads: Devs Can Troubleshoot the Network With Ops Too!
Marino Wijay
Solutions Engineer
Isovalent
Cloud
From Requirements to Reality: How Solutions Architects Think, Build & Decide
Raviteja Sankuratri
Software Engineer
QuartetAI
AI
AI-Driven Supply Chain Security: Using AI-BOM to Detect Hidden Vulnerabilities
Anitha Dakamarri
Lead Security Engineer
DFIN
AI
When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications
Vishnu Ramineni
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Albertsons Companies
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
1:25 pm
Frontend
What Happens When the Music Starts? The Architecture of Browser Audio
Kerline Moncy
Software Engineer
Java
Beyond The Happy Path: Building a BDD Testing Strategy Across Microservices
Briana Valmont
Senior Engineer
Citi
Cloud
Building Stelvio: An Open Source Journey to Deploy Python to AWS
Bas Steins
Software Developer
Miltenyi Biotec
AI
From Dashboards to Data Products: A Shift in Thinking
Srikanth Maru
Sr Manager, Data Engineering
Cricut Inc
Workshops
Teach Your To-Do List to Listen
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm · 90 min workshop
Corey Weathers
Sr Engineer Manager - DevRel
Deepgram
1:30 pm
1:55 pm
AI
Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents
David Parry
Principal Architect
Qodo
Java
From APIs to Agents: Enterprise AI using Java, Ollama & MCP
Prathap Raghavan
Director of Product management
Santander Consumer USA
Cloud
Cloud-Based Identity and Access Management for Secure Federal Systems
Naveen Parameshwarappa
Architect
Deloitte Digital
Cloud
Engineering Real-Time Data Synchronization Across Multi-Cloud Systems
Eunice Kamau
Technical Lead
HCLTech
AI
Agents are not Apps: Stop building interfaces, Start building coworkers
Boston Cartwright
Head of Agentic AI
Patch Retention
2:00 pm
2:25 pm
Frontend
The node_modules Iceberg: Mysteries Below the Waterline
Chris DeMars
Senior Developer Advocate
TuxCare
Java
AI for Java Developers
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
VMware Tanzu
Cloud
Writing a Container Runtime in Go
Michael Duren
Site Reliability Engineer
Target
Frontend
Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI
Anna Spysz
Developer Advocate
Stripe
Frontend
React - Server Components, Suspense, and the new mental model
David Kea
Technology Business Specialist
PNC
2:30 pm
2:55 pm
Frontend
Architecting AI in Angular: WebMCP, A2UI, and the Agent Experience
Ankita Sood
Senior Principal Engineer
Secureworks
Java
Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink
Mark Mackenzie
Principal Software Engineer
Noetic
Leadership
If You’re Not Shipping, You’re Not a Leader
Zackary Chapple
Co-Founder & CEO
Zephyr Cloud
Frontend
CSS as a Game Engine: Building Playful, Stateful Web Experiences Without JS
Alvaro Montoro
Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft MVP
Self
Cloud
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Systems Engineer
Ecology Computing
Frontend
Serverless API Gateways for High Scale Systems Performance Cost and Security
Sujeeth Reddy Pasham
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
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
Java
Thinking Architecturally
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect
Thoughtworks
AI
How to Test AI Features Before Your Users Do
Ron Dagdag
Research Engineering Manager
Thomson Reuters
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
AI
Building AI Agents in TypeScript with Mastra
Raja Krishna
Senior Software Engineer
OnePay
Frontend
Workshops
From Prompt to Prod: Build and Deploy with ZCP
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm · 90 min workshop
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
4:00 pm
4:25 pm
Frontend
Prickly by Nature: TanStack in the Wild
Sara Baqla
Software Engineer
Artemis Bytes
Frontend
Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS
Linda Thompson
Software Engineer
This Dot Labs
AI
The Devil Was Never in the Details: Code, AI, and the Rise of the Deep Generalist
Tim Banks
Solutions Architect
Caylent
Frontend
The Death & Resurrection of the IDE: Why Agents Need Semantic Understanding
Jason Torres
Developer Advocate
JetBrains
AI
Claude Skills: Automate the Boring Stuff
Jacob Orshalick
Principal Consultant
Focus DEV Solutions
4:30 pm
4:55 pm
AI
Building Intelligent Integration Flows: From Natural Language to Execution with Ballerina
Anupama Pathirage
Director of Engineering
WSO2
Leadership
7 Leadership lessons for the engineer that AI can't replace
Nachiket Desai
VP of Applications Engineering and Data
Smile Doctors
Frontend
How to Use Scaffolding to Make Your Coding Agents Less Dumb
Quincy Larson
Founder
FreeCodeCamp
Frontend
Remote Agents, or: How I Fixed Our Page's Performance Without Really Doing Anything
Eric Karschner
Software Engineer
Datadog
AI
The Put That Sh*t On Agent: Building Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Talk to Each Other*
William Hill
Forward Deployed Engineer
RenderATL
5:00 pm
5:15 pm
Closing Keynote
Join Danny Thompson for brief closing remarks to wrap up the conference.
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Keynote with Kevin J. Scott
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
11:00 am - 11:25 am
AI
Counting exercise repetition using live camera video
Alexey Inkin
Google Developer Expert & Consultant
Self
Java
OOPs!... I Did it Again: When Good Objects Go Toxic
Trey Clark
Software Engineer
University of North Texas
Frontend
Build Failed Startups—Not Side Projects
Ramiro Beltran
Senior Software Engineer
HEB
AI
AI Governance in Financial Services: What Every Developer Should Know
Belle Duran
Data Risk & Compliance Analyst
Texas Capital
Cloud
Unlocking CI Performance in the Age of Agentic Development
Scott McAllister
Community Evangelist
F5
AI
The Evolution of Divot: How Agents Earn Their Autonomy
Michael Gyarmathy
Principal Software Engineer
PGA of America
11:30 am - 11:55 am
AI
Building Rapid Web Applications with Laravel + Filament
Aaron Krauss
Techlahoma Organizer & Technical Lead
Clevyr
Java
5 Mistakes Developers Make When Building Java APIs (and How to Fix Them)
Yodit Weldegeorgise
Java Software Engineer
Unknown Company
Cloud
Fixing Potholes And Broken Roads: Devs Can Troubleshoot the Network With Ops Too!
Marino Wijay
Solutions Engineer
Isovalent
Cloud
From Requirements to Reality: How Solutions Architects Think, Build & Decide
Raviteja Sankuratri
Software Engineer
QuartetAI
AI
AI-Driven Supply Chain Security: Using AI-BOM to Detect Hidden Vulnerabilities
Anitha Dakamarri
Lead Security Engineer
DFIN
AI
When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications
Vishnu Ramineni
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Albertsons Companies
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:25 pm
Frontend
What Happens When the Music Starts? The Architecture of Browser Audio
Kerline Moncy
Software Engineer
Java
Beyond The Happy Path: Building a BDD Testing Strategy Across Microservices
Briana Valmont
Senior Engineer
Citi
Cloud
Building Stelvio: An Open Source Journey to Deploy Python to AWS
Bas Steins
Software Developer
Miltenyi Biotec
AI
From Dashboards to Data Products: A Shift in Thinking
Srikanth Maru
Sr Manager, Data Engineering
Cricut Inc
Workshops
Teach Your To-Do List to Listen
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm · 90 min workshop
Corey Weathers
Sr Engineer Manager - DevRel
Deepgram
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm
Java
From APIs to Agents: Enterprise AI using Java, Ollama & MCP
Prathap Raghavan
Director of Product management
Santander Consumer USA
Cloud
Cloud-Based Identity and Access Management for Secure Federal Systems
Naveen Parameshwarappa
Architect
Deloitte Digital
Cloud
Engineering Real-Time Data Synchronization Across Multi-Cloud Systems
Eunice Kamau
Technical Lead
HCLTech
AI
Agents are not Apps: Stop building interfaces, Start building coworkers
Boston Cartwright
Head of Agentic AI
Patch Retention
AI
Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents
David Parry
Principal Architect
Qodo
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm
Frontend
The node_modules Iceberg: Mysteries Below the Waterline
Chris DeMars
Senior Developer Advocate
TuxCare
Java
AI for Java Developers
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
VMware Tanzu
Cloud
Writing a Container Runtime in Go
Michael Duren
Site Reliability Engineer
Target
Frontend
Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI
Anna Spysz
Developer Advocate
Stripe
Frontend
React - Server Components, Suspense, and the new mental model
David Kea
Technology Business Specialist
PNC
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
Frontend
Serverless API Gateways for High Scale Systems Performance Cost and Security
Sujeeth Reddy Pasham
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Frontend
Architecting AI in Angular: WebMCP, A2UI, and the Agent Experience
Ankita Sood
Senior Principal Engineer
Secureworks
Java
Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink
Mark Mackenzie
Principal Software Engineer
Noetic
Leadership
If You’re Not Shipping, You’re Not a Leader
Zackary Chapple
Co-Founder & CEO
Zephyr Cloud
Cloud
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Systems Engineer
Ecology Computing
Frontend
CSS as a Game Engine: Building Playful, Stateful Web Experiences Without JS
Alvaro Montoro
Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft MVP
Self
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
Java
Thinking Architecturally
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect
Thoughtworks
AI
How to Test AI Features Before Your Users Do
Ron Dagdag
Research Engineering Manager
Thomson Reuters
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
AI
Building AI Agents in TypeScript with Mastra
Raja Krishna
Senior Software Engineer
OnePay
Frontend
Workshops
From Prompt to Prod: Build and Deploy with ZCP
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm · 90 min workshop
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
Frontend
Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS
Linda Thompson
Software Engineer
This Dot Labs
Frontend
Prickly by Nature: TanStack in the Wild
Sara Baqla
Software Engineer
Artemis Bytes
Frontend
The Death & Resurrection of the IDE: Why Agents Need Semantic Understanding
Jason Torres
Developer Advocate
JetBrains
AI
Claude Skills: Automate the Boring Stuff
Jacob Orshalick
Principal Consultant
Focus DEV Solutions
AI
The Devil Was Never in the Details: Code, AI, and the Rise of the Deep Generalist
Tim Banks
Solutions Architect
Caylent
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm
Frontend
Remote Agents, or: How I Fixed Our Page's Performance Without Really Doing Anything
Eric Karschner
Software Engineer
Datadog
Frontend
How to Use Scaffolding to Make Your Coding Agents Less Dumb
Quincy Larson
Founder
FreeCodeCamp
Leadership
7 Leadership lessons for the engineer that AI can't replace
Nachiket Desai
VP of Applications Engineering and Data
Smile Doctors
AI
Building Intelligent Integration Flows: From Natural Language to Execution with Ballerina
Anupama Pathirage
Director of Engineering
WSO2
AI
The Put That Sh*t On Agent: Building Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Talk to Each Other*
William Hill
Forward Deployed Engineer
RenderATL
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Closing Keynote
Join Danny Thompson for brief closing remarks to wrap up the conference.