​Welcome to WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America! Brought to you in Partnership with Docker

​Three days filled with Networking, Building, Learning, and Growth.

Check the full agenda below:

​Networking Day (Free) by GitHub and Presenting partner Docker

​The Bay Area has no shortage of developer events, and most of them are built around one stack. That focus is why they work, and it leaves the harder question open: how does the whole thing actually fit together. Day 0 is the free half of the event that takes that question on. Everything it takes to build, test, secure, and ship great software in the age of AI, and the people doing it.

​Find the conversations that pull you in.

​No congress ticket required.

​Build Failed, Legs Passed: 06:00 (start time 06:00 or 06:30, TBC)

• ​A casual morning run followed by coffee. No pace target, no distance goal, no dropping anyone.

• ​Meet outside San Jose McEnery Convention Center, then finish at a cafe nearby (venue TBC)

• ​Come as you are, wake up before the buzz starts.

​Networking Day by GitHub at McEnery Convention Center: 12:00 to 18:00

• ​Drinks, mingling and a warm-up program before the main event days

• ​Two stages of talks (agenda to be announced this week)

• ​Fireside chats hosted by VP of DevRel, Chris Heilmann

• ​WeAreDevelopers LIVE (and Uncut) Podcast recording

• ​Community Meet-Ups (Code & Coffee, Hackersquad, Women in AI, and more)

​WeAreDevelopers World Congress Pre-check-in and badge pickup: 10:00 to 19:00

• ​Pick up your badge a day early and skip the line for the main congress on Thursday morning

​Workshops: 11:00 to 18:00

• ​Hands-on, small-group sessions led by industry experts (Restrictions Apply)

​**Most Workshops are only available for WeAreDevelopers Congress Attendees with an RSVP in-app beforehand**

​Networking Day also includes optional paid full-day Masterclasses, with two free passes raffled off in the week prior.

​Also on September 23: AI Context Series San Jose, a satellite event at CreaTV San Jose, ten minutes from the convention center. A full day on deploying and governing agentic AI in production, from 08:45, hosted by Dockland Media Group. Tickets $199, and code WEAREDEVELOPERS50 gets you 50% off.

The world's largest event for developers, AI builders & tech leaders in the heart of Silicon Valley.

​10,000+ developers. 500+ speakers. 200,000+ sq ft tech expo.

​Day 1-2 by presenting partner Docker

​***Congress ticket required***

​Real production knowledge and the kind of conversations that only happen when 10,000 developers show up in person. Workshops, masterclasses, keynotes, a 200,000 sq ft tech expo, and the official Congress party.

​Docker joins as presenting partner a shared commitment to empowering builders and shaping what's next in AI, cloud, and open source.

​​Speakers

​The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership.

• ​Thomas Dohmke, CEO AND Co-Founder of Entire.io

• ​Erran Berger, CTO Engineering of LinkedIn

• ​Kelsey Hightower, Global Developer Voice

• ​Christine Yen, Co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb.io

• ​Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience at Agentic AI Foundation

• ​Sachin Malhotra, Platform Engineer and MTS at Anthropic

• ​Paige Bailey, Member of the Technical Staff at Google DeepMind

• ​Guy Gur-Ari, Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

• ​Phoebe Wang, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

• ​Milin Desai, CEO of Sentry

• ​Leigh-Ann Russell, CIO and Global Head of Engineering at BNY

• ​Dr. Ramin Hasani, Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI

• ​Olivier Pomel, Co-founder and CEO of Datadog

• ​Ivan Burazin, Co-founder and CEO of Daytona

• ​Victor Savkin, Co-founder and CTO of Nx

• ​Viktoria Semaan, Principal Technical Evangelist at Databricks

• ​Alex Spinelli, Senior VP AI and Developer Platforms at Arm
  
  And many, many more of the brightest minds of our time
  Find the full speaker list here

​Day 1 Agenda

​TBA

​Day 2 Agenda

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​​What You'll Learn

​From idea to production — practical knowledge across the full software lifecycle in the AI era.

​→ Design modern software systems that scale with real-world demands

​→ Build smarter with AI-assisted coding, testing, and refactoring

​→ AI engineering with LLMs, agents, and multimodal systems

​→ Ship reliably — CI/CD, platform engineering, and DevOps at scale

​→ Secure software by design across code, APIs, and supply chains

​→ Lead engineering teams as tools, roles, and workflows change

​Topics span AI, software architecture, cloud & infra, data engineering, security, frontend, product management, DevEx, and more.

Find out more about topics and what you'll learn here

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​​Topics

​Artificial Intelligence · Software Development · Software Architecture · Cloud & Infrastructure · DevOps & Automation · Data Engineering · Security · Frontend & UX · Quality & Testing · Product Management · Emerging Tech · Blockchain · DevEx & Productivity · Developer Relations · Leadership & Innovation · People & Culture · Startups · Tech Business

​​Where Tech History is Written

​From landmark product launches to defining conversations in software and AI — WeAreDevelopers stages have hosted first public demos of GitHub Copilot, the launch of OverflowAI, Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the web, and appearances from Steve Wozniak, Joel Spolsky, and John Romero.