CYC26
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Day[0]
Pre-Conference ⢠Pickleball, Community & Kickoff
Blue Room
Green Room
Orange Room
Red Room
Purple Room
Pink Room
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.
Blue Room
Green Room
Orange Room
Red Room
Purple Room
Pink Room
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.
Day 1
Conference Day One ⢠Sessions, Keynotes & Networking
Blue Room
Green Room
Orange Room
Red Room
Purple Room
Pink Room
8:00 am
9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am
10:00 am
Welcome & Opening Keynote
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
JavaScript
20 Years of Frontend Lessons: Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter
Sayeed Mohammad
Principal Frontend Architect
Ascendion
AI
Data Governance in the AI age
Miguel GuillĂŠn
Sr Director Technology and Data
JavaScript
Leon Noel
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
Agentic AI Systems Don't Fail at the Model Layer - They Fail in Production
Moeez Khan
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services Agentic AI
JavaScript
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
AI and Stocks: How to Build a Stock Trading Agent with LLMs
Stacy Haven
VP of Engineering
SAP
AI
When Vectors Arenât Enough: Unlocking AIâs 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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI
Anna Spysz
Developer Advocate
Stripe
Leadership
20 mins to Production: A Live AI-Build Challenge
Jerry Reghunadh
Senior Director
DataNimbus
AI
Render 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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
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
Cloud
Observability at 200mph: How being a coder makes you a better sim racer
Jeremy Morgan
Senior Training Architect
Neo4j
AI
The Claw: Minions of Toil
Joel Hooks
lvl 16 Half-Orc Nerd - Purveyor of Artisanal Slop working
Badass Courses
JavaScript
From Internal Innovation to Hilton.com: Building Hiltonâs First Agentic AI Travel Planner
Paul Coroneos
Principal Platform Architect
Hilton
2:30 pm
2:55 pm
JavaScript
The Playwright Cipher: Writing Tests Like a Rap Verse
Wayne Jones
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
Your Prompt Is Not a Unit Test â 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
Leadership
Launching a Product On a Shoestring Budget
Michael Brown
CEO
Synaptic Weave, Inc
AI
This Isn't The Matrix: Stop Letting Your AI Agents Run Wild
Lawrence Lockhart
Senior Developer Advocate
JavaScript
React - Server Components, Suspense, and the new mental model
David Kea
Technology Business Specialist
PNC
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
Open Networking
3:30 pm
3:55 pm
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
What about DIY AI: Building AI Micro-Tools for Your Own Workflows
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
JavaScript
Develop Your First Mobile Game Easily with GameSalad
Braydon Coyer
Senior Frontend Engineer
LogicGate
4:00 pm
4:25 pm
JavaScript
Building CLI Tools That Don't Suck
Aidan McAlister
Developer Advocate
Prisma
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
WTF, Rust for Web Development??
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
JavaScript
Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI
Nerando Johnson
Software Developer
Hygiena
4:30 pm
4:55 pm
JavaScript
Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil
Nate Custer
Principal Technologist
TTC Global
JavaScript
TBH
Dennis Ivy
Developer Advocate
PostHog
JavaScript
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
Noah Harris
Managing Director
Radial Agency
AI
Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting
Improving
AI
When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications
Vishnu Ramineni
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Albertsons Companies
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
Java
Thinking Architecturally
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect
Thoughtworks
JavaScript
Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends
Kaleb Garner
Fullstack Developer
HaloMD
AI
Skip the Middleman: Direct, Secure UI-to-Agent Communication with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Andres Moreno
Principal Software Architect
Caylent
JavaScript
Why Your Bug Rate Isnât a Code Problem: Engineering for Unstable Work Intake
Eric Bible
Software Engingeer III
Vertex IT Systems
AI
AI Memory Is Broken And How I Fixed It
Chris Sean Dabatos
Staff Developer Relations
Fly.io
JavaScript
Serverless API Gateways for High Scale Systems Performance Cost and Security
Sujeeth Reddy Pasham
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
6:30 pm
9:30 pm
Social Event6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Conference Social at Fowling Warehouse
Close out Day 1 with the CYC community at Fowling Warehouse.
Blue Room
Green Room
Orange Room
Red Room
Purple Room
Pink Room
8:00 am
9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am
10:00 am
Welcome & Opening Keynote
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
JavaScript
20 Years of Frontend Lessons: Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter
Sayeed Mohammad
Principal Frontend Architect
Ascendion
AI
Data Governance in the AI age
Miguel GuillĂŠn
Sr Director Technology and Data
JavaScript
Leon Noel
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
Agentic AI Systems Don't Fail at the Model Layer - They Fail in Production
Moeez Khan
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services Agentic AI
JavaScript
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
AI and Stocks: How to Build a Stock Trading Agent with LLMs
Stacy Haven
VP of Engineering
SAP
AI
When Vectors Arenât Enough: Unlocking AIâs 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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI
Anna Spysz
Developer Advocate
Stripe
Leadership
20 mins to Production: A Live AI-Build Challenge
Jerry Reghunadh
Senior Director
DataNimbus
AI
Render 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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
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
Cloud
Observability at 200mph: How being a coder makes you a better sim racer
Jeremy Morgan
Senior Training Architect
Neo4j
AI
The Claw: Minions of Toil
Joel Hooks
lvl 16 Half-Orc Nerd - Purveyor of Artisanal Slop working
Badass Courses
JavaScript
From Internal Innovation to Hilton.com: Building Hiltonâs First Agentic AI Travel Planner
Paul Coroneos
Principal Platform Architect
Hilton
2:30 pm
2:55 pm
JavaScript
The Playwright Cipher: Writing Tests Like a Rap Verse
Wayne Jones
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
Your Prompt Is Not a Unit Test â 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
Leadership
Launching a Product On a Shoestring Budget
Michael Brown
CEO
Synaptic Weave, Inc
AI
This Isn't The Matrix: Stop Letting Your AI Agents Run Wild
Lawrence Lockhart
Senior Developer Advocate
JavaScript
React - Server Components, Suspense, and the new mental model
David Kea
Technology Business Specialist
PNC
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
Open Networking
3:30 pm
3:55 pm
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
What about DIY AI: Building AI Micro-Tools for Your Own Workflows
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
JavaScript
Develop Your First Mobile Game Easily with GameSalad
Braydon Coyer
Senior Frontend Engineer
LogicGate
4:00 pm
4:25 pm
JavaScript
Building CLI Tools That Don't Suck
Aidan McAlister
Developer Advocate
Prisma
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
WTF, Rust for Web Development??
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
JavaScript
Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI
Nerando Johnson
Software Developer
Hygiena
4:30 pm
4:55 pm
JavaScript
Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil
Nate Custer
Principal Technologist
TTC Global
JavaScript
TBH
Dennis Ivy
Developer Advocate
PostHog
JavaScript
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
Noah Harris
Managing Director
Radial Agency
AI
Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting
Improving
AI
When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications
Vishnu Ramineni
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Albertsons Companies
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
Java
Thinking Architecturally
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect
Thoughtworks
JavaScript
Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends
Kaleb Garner
Fullstack Developer
HaloMD
AI
Skip the Middleman: Direct, Secure UI-to-Agent Communication with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Andres Moreno
Principal Software Architect
Caylent
JavaScript
Why Your Bug Rate Isnât a Code Problem: Engineering for Unstable Work Intake
Eric Bible
Software Engingeer III
Vertex IT Systems
AI
AI Memory Is Broken And How I Fixed It
Chris Sean Dabatos
Staff Developer Relations
Fly.io
JavaScript
Serverless API Gateways for High Scale Systems Performance Cost and Security
Sujeeth Reddy Pasham
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
6:30 pm
9:30 pm
Social Event6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Conference Social at Fowling Warehouse
Close out Day 1 with the CYC community at Fowling Warehouse.
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Welcome & Opening Keynote
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
JavaScript
20 Years of Frontend Lessons: Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter
Sayeed Mohammad
Principal Frontend Architect
Ascendion
AI
Data Governance in the AI age
Miguel GuillĂŠn
Sr Director Technology and Data
AI
Documentation in the Age of AI: Why Docs Are a Product
Chris Nowicki
Developer Experience Engineer
Commerce
AI
Agentic AI Systems Don't Fail at the Model Layer - They Fail in Production
Moeez Khan
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services Agentic AI
JavaScript
Secure Coding Meets Critical Infrastructure Defense in Water Systems
Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani
Information Technology Security Engineer
City of Dallas
JavaScript
Leon Noel
Leon Noel
Managing Director
Resilient Coders
11:30 am - 11:55 am
AI
AI and Stocks: How to Build a Stock Trading Agent with LLMs
Stacy Haven
VP of Engineering
SAP
AI
When Vectors Arenât Enough: Unlocking AIâs 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
JavaScript
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
Render Workshop
Ojus Save
Developer Relations
Render
Cloud
Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals
Lance Finney
Senior Software Developer
INFICON
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
Good vibes, smooth payments: Tailoring Stripe to any UI
Anna Spysz
Developer Advocate
Stripe
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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
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
Cloud
Observability at 200mph: How being a coder makes you a better sim racer
Jeremy Morgan
Senior Training Architect
Neo4j
JavaScript
From Internal Innovation to Hilton.com: Building Hiltonâs 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
JavaScript
React - Server Components, Suspense, and the new mental model
David Kea
Technology Business Specialist
PNC
JavaScript
The Playwright Cipher: Writing Tests Like a Rap Verse
Wayne Jones
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
Your Prompt Is Not a Unit Test â 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
Leadership
Launching a Product On a Shoestring Budget
Michael Brown
CEO
Synaptic Weave, Inc
AI
This Isn't The Matrix: Stop Letting Your AI Agents Run Wild
Lawrence Lockhart
Senior Developer Advocate
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
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
What about DIY AI: Building AI Micro-Tools for Your Own Workflows
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
JavaScript
Develop Your First Mobile Game Easily with GameSalad
Braydon Coyer
Senior Frontend Engineer
LogicGate
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
JavaScript
Building CLI Tools That Don't Suck
Aidan McAlister
Developer Advocate
Prisma
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
WTF, Rust for Web Development??
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
JavaScript
Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI
Nerando Johnson
Software Developer
Hygiena
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm
JavaScript
TBH
Dennis Ivy
Developer Advocate
PostHog
JavaScript
Is Beauty Only Skin Deep?
Noah Harris
Managing Director
Radial Agency
AI
Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers
Tim Rayburn
Vice President of Consulting
Improving
AI
When AI Gets Manipulated: Security Risks in LLM Applications
Vishnu Ramineni
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Albertsons Companies
JavaScript
Property Based Testing for the Browser with Bombadil
Nate Custer
Principal Technologist
TTC Global
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
JavaScript
Serverless API Gateways for High Scale Systems Performance Cost and Security
Sujeeth Reddy Pasham
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Java
Thinking Architecturally
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect
Thoughtworks
JavaScript
Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends
Kaleb Garner
Fullstack Developer
HaloMD
AI
Skip the Middleman: Direct, Secure UI-to-Agent Communication with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Andres Moreno
Principal Software Architect
Caylent
JavaScript
Why Your Bug Rate Isnât a Code Problem: Engineering for Unstable Work Intake
Eric Bible
Software Engingeer 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 Fowling Warehouse
Close out Day 1 with the CYC community at Fowling Warehouse.
Day 2
Conference Day Two ⢠Advanced Sessions & Closing
Blue Room
Green Room
Orange Room
Red Room
Purple Room
Pink Room
8:00 am
9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am
10:00 am
Keynote with 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
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
Cloud
Engineering Real-Time Data Synchronization Across Multi-Cloud Systems
Eunice Kamau
Technical Lead
HCLTech
JavaScript
Build Failed StartupsâNot 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
AI
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
Borko Djurkovic
Member of Technical Staff
Cohere
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
Cloud
Unlocking CI Performance in the Age of Agentic Development
Scott McAllister
Community Evangelist
F5
12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
1:25 pm
JavaScript
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
AI
On-Device AI in React Native: Private, Offline LLMs for Real Apps
Nick GuzmĂĄn
Lead Software Engineer
Tuvu
AI
Announcing Soon
Announcing Soon
Speaker
CYC26
1:30 pm
1:55 pm
JavaScript
AI
TBAS
Mark Thompson
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Google
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
The Hidden ROI of Caching: Performance Optimization and MIPS Reduction in PBM Engineering
Soujanya Vummannagari
Senior Delivery Manager
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AI
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Boston Cartwright
Head of Agentic AI
Patch Retention
2:00 pm
2:25 pm
JavaScript
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Chris DeMars
Senior Developer Advocate
TuxCare
Java
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Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate
VMware Tanzu
Cloud
Writing a Container Runtime in Go
Michael Duren
Site Reliability Engineer
Target
JavaScript
The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering
Bethany Ann
Software Engineer
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JavaScript
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Nick Taylor
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Pomerium
2:30 pm
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JavaScript
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Ankita Sood
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Java
Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink
Mark Mackenzie
Principle Software Engineer
Noetic
Cloud
The Autonomous Pipeline: Using Agentic AI to Automate FCRA Compliance from API Spec to Production.
Gokul Prabagaren
Lead Software Engineer
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AI
The Agentic Economy: exploring the shift from behavioral economics to machine logic
Jaiden Howard
AI Engineer
IBM
AI
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Ron Dagdag
Research Engineering Manager
Thomson Reuters
JavaScript
CSS as a Game Engine: Building Playful, Stateful Web Experiences Without JS
Alvaro Montoro
Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft MVP
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3:00 pm
3:30 pm
Open Networking
3:30 pm
3:55 pm
JavaScript
Utilising the JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Automated Frontend Lifecycle Management
Tim Damen
Frontend Chapter Lead & Accessibility lead
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Java
TBAS
Devyn Coyer
Senior Frontend Developer
LogicGate
Cloud
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Systems Engineer
Ecology Computing
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
JavaScript
Zerops AI Workshop
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
4:00 pm
4:25 pm
JavaScript
Prickly by Nature: TanStack in the Wild
Sara Baqla
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Artemis Bytes
JavaScript
Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS
Linda Thompson
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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
JavaScript
The Death & Resurrection of the IDE: Why Agents Need Semantic Understanding
Jason Torres
Developer Advocate
JetBrains
AI
Building MARVIN: What Teaching a Non-Technical Marketer to Use MCP Taught Me About AI Adoption
Sterling Chin
Founding Developer Relations
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4:30 pm
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AI
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Anupama Pathirage
Director of Engineering
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JavaScript
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Calypso Hernandez
Executive Operations Lead
This Dot Labs
AI
Quincy Larson
Quincy Larson
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CYC26
AI
Zero To Agent: A Beginner's Guide to AWS AgentCore and Strands SDK
Chris Gonzalez
Platform Architect
Caylent
AI
Why Your LLM is Idle 40% of the Time: The Inference Serving Problem Nobody Talks About
Vaadeendra Kumar Burra
ML Architect
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5:00 pm
5:30 pm
JavaScript
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Avindra Fernando
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Remote Agents, or: How I Fixed Our Page's Performance Without Really Doing Anything
Eric Karschner
Software Engineer
Datadog
Leadership
Caleb Jenkins
Caleb Jenkins
Chief Technology Officer
DebtBlue
AI
Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents
David Parry
Principal Architect
Qodo
AI
Beyond the Demo: Building a Production App with Claude Code
Jacob Orshalick
Principal Consultant
Focus DEV Solutions
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
Blue Room
Green Room
Orange Room
Red Room
Purple Room
Pink Room
8:00 am
9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am
10:00 am
Keynote with 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
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
Cloud
Engineering Real-Time Data Synchronization Across Multi-Cloud Systems
Eunice Kamau
Technical Lead
HCLTech
JavaScript
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Ramiro Beltran
Senior Software Engineer
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AI
AI Governance in Financial Services: What Every Developer Should Know
Belle Duran
Data Risk & Compliance Analyst
Texas Capital
AI
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
Borko Djurkovic
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Cohere
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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
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AI
AI-Driven Supply Chain Security: Using AI-BOM to Detect Hidden Vulnerabilities
Anitha Dakamarri
Lead Security Engineer
DFIN
Cloud
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Scott McAllister
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12:00 pm
1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
1:25 pm
JavaScript
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Java
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Briana Valmont
Senior Engineer
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Cloud
Building Stelvio: An Open Source Journey to Deploy Python to AWS
Bas Steins
Software Developer
Miltenyi Biotec
AI
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Srikanth Maru
Sr Manager, Data Engineering
Cricut Inc
AI
On-Device AI in React Native: Private, Offline LLMs for Real Apps
Nick GuzmĂĄn
Lead Software Engineer
Tuvu
AI
Announcing Soon
Announcing Soon
Speaker
CYC26
1:30 pm
1:55 pm
JavaScript
AI
TBAS
Mark Thompson
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Google
Java
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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
The Hidden ROI of Caching: Performance Optimization and MIPS Reduction in PBM Engineering
Soujanya Vummannagari
Senior Delivery Manager
GalaxE an Endava Company
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
JavaScript
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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
JavaScript
The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering
Bethany Ann
Software Engineer
Buildertrend
JavaScript
Build your First MCP App
Nick Taylor
Developer Advocate
Pomerium
2:30 pm
2:55 pm
JavaScript
Modern Angular đ¤ Modern CSS
Ankita Sood
Senior Principal Engineer
Secureworks
Java
Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink
Mark Mackenzie
Principle Software Engineer
Noetic
Cloud
The Autonomous Pipeline: Using Agentic AI to Automate FCRA Compliance from API Spec to Production.
Gokul Prabagaren
Lead Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
The Agentic Economy: exploring the shift from behavioral economics to machine logic
Jaiden Howard
AI Engineer
IBM
AI
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Ron Dagdag
Research Engineering Manager
Thomson Reuters
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
Utilising the JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Automated Frontend Lifecycle Management
Tim Damen
Frontend Chapter Lead & Accessibility lead
Focusring.io
Java
TBAS
Devyn Coyer
Senior Frontend Developer
LogicGate
Cloud
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Systems Engineer
Ecology Computing
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
JavaScript
Zerops AI Workshop
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
4:00 pm
4:25 pm
JavaScript
Prickly by Nature: TanStack in the Wild
Sara Baqla
Software Engineer
Artemis Bytes
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
The Death & Resurrection of the IDE: Why Agents Need Semantic Understanding
Jason Torres
Developer Advocate
JetBrains
AI
Building MARVIN: What Teaching a Non-Technical Marketer to Use MCP Taught Me About AI Adoption
Sterling Chin
Founding Developer Relations
Inngest
4:30 pm
4:55 pm
AI
Building Intelligent Integration Flows: From Natural Language to Execution with Ballerina
Anupama Pathirage
Director of Engineering
WSO2
JavaScript
Web Design Basics (Now With Extra AI Magic)
Calypso Hernandez
Executive Operations Lead
This Dot Labs
AI
Quincy Larson
Quincy Larson
Speaker
CYC26
AI
Zero To Agent: A Beginner's Guide to AWS AgentCore and Strands SDK
Chris Gonzalez
Platform Architect
Caylent
AI
Why Your LLM is Idle 40% of the Time: The Inference Serving Problem Nobody Talks About
Vaadeendra Kumar Burra
ML Architect
DataNimbus
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
JavaScript
Revolutionize Your Backend: Mastering Server Actions with Next.js and React
Avindra Fernando
Principal Architect | Fractional CTO
Taprobane Consulting
JavaScript
Remote Agents, or: How I Fixed Our Page's Performance Without Really Doing Anything
Eric Karschner
Software Engineer
Datadog
Leadership
Caleb Jenkins
Caleb Jenkins
Chief Technology Officer
DebtBlue
AI
Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents
David Parry
Principal Architect
Qodo
AI
Beyond the Demo: Building a Production App with Claude Code
Jacob Orshalick
Principal Consultant
Focus DEV Solutions
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
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Morning Connect
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Keynote with 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
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
Cloud
Engineering Real-Time Data Synchronization Across Multi-Cloud Systems
Eunice Kamau
Technical Lead
HCLTech
JavaScript
Build Failed StartupsâNot 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
AI
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
Borko Djurkovic
Member of Technical Staff
Cohere
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
Cloud
Unlocking CI Performance in the Age of Agentic Development
Scott McAllister
Community Evangelist
F5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 1:25 pm
JavaScript
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
AI
On-Device AI in React Native: Private, Offline LLMs for Real Apps
Nick GuzmĂĄn
Lead Software Engineer
Tuvu
AI
Announcing Soon
Announcing Soon
Speaker
CYC26
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
The Hidden ROI of Caching: Performance Optimization and MIPS Reduction in PBM Engineering
Soujanya Vummannagari
Senior Delivery Manager
GalaxE an Endava Company
AI
Agents are not Apps: Stop building interfaces, Start building coworkers
Boston Cartwright
Head of Agentic AI
Patch Retention
JavaScript
AI
TBAS
Mark Thompson
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Google
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
The Feature Nobody Used & What It Taught Me About Product Engineering
Bethany Ann
Software Engineer
Buildertrend
JavaScript
Build your First MCP App
Nick Taylor
Developer Advocate
Pomerium
2:30 pm - 2:55 pm
JavaScript
Modern Angular đ¤ Modern CSS
Ankita Sood
Senior Principal Engineer
Secureworks
Java
Squeezing Java Containers: Shrinking Your Kubernetes Footprint with jlink
Mark Mackenzie
Principle Software Engineer
Noetic
Cloud
The Autonomous Pipeline: Using Agentic AI to Automate FCRA Compliance from API Spec to Production.
Gokul Prabagaren
Lead Software Engineer
Capital One
AI
The Agentic Economy: exploring the shift from behavioral economics to machine logic
Jaiden Howard
AI Engineer
IBM
AI
How to Test AI Features Before Your Users Do
Ron Dagdag
Research Engineering Manager
Thomson Reuters
JavaScript
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
JavaScript
Utilising the JavaScript Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Automated Frontend Lifecycle Management
Tim Damen
Frontend Chapter Lead & Accessibility lead
Focusring.io
Java
TBAS
Devyn Coyer
Senior Frontend Developer
LogicGate
Cloud
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Systems Engineer
Ecology Computing
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
JavaScript
Zerops AI Workshop
Francesco Ciulla
Head of Developer Relations
Zerops
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
JavaScript
Baseline Magic: The Art of Intent-Driven CSS
Linda Thompson
Software Engineer
This Dot Labs
JavaScript
Prickly by Nature: TanStack in the Wild
Sara Baqla
Software Engineer
Artemis Bytes
JavaScript
The Death & Resurrection of the IDE: Why Agents Need Semantic Understanding
Jason Torres
Developer Advocate
JetBrains
AI
Building MARVIN: What Teaching a Non-Technical Marketer to Use MCP Taught Me About AI Adoption
Sterling Chin
Founding Developer Relations
Inngest
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
AI
Zero To Agent: A Beginner's Guide to AWS AgentCore and Strands SDK
Chris Gonzalez
Platform Architect
Caylent
AI
Quincy Larson
Quincy Larson
Speaker
CYC26
JavaScript
Web Design Basics (Now With Extra AI Magic)
Calypso Hernandez
Executive Operations Lead
This Dot Labs
AI
Building Intelligent Integration Flows: From Natural Language to Execution with Ballerina
Anupama Pathirage
Director of Engineering
WSO2
AI
Why Your LLM is Idle 40% of the Time: The Inference Serving Problem Nobody Talks About
Vaadeendra Kumar Burra
ML Architect
DataNimbus
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Leadership
Caleb Jenkins
Caleb Jenkins
Chief Technology Officer
DebtBlue
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
JavaScript
Revolutionize Your Backend: Mastering Server Actions with Next.js and React
Avindra Fernando
Principal Architect | Fractional CTO
Taprobane Consulting
JavaScript
Remote Agents, or: How I Fixed Our Page's Performance Without Really Doing Anything
Eric Karschner
Software Engineer
Datadog
AI
Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents
David Parry
Principal Architect
Qodo
AI
Beyond the Demo: Building a Production App with Claude Code
Jacob Orshalick
Principal Consultant
Focus DEV Solutions