WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America (with Docker & GitHub)
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:
Warm-up 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. Warm-up day 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: 12:00PM to 6:00PM
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: 10:00AM to 7:00PM
Pick up your badge a day early and skip the line for the main congress on Thursday morning
Workshops: 11:00AM to 6:00PM
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**
WeAreDevelopers World Congress pre-check-in and badge pickup: 10:00AM to 7:00PM Pick up your badge a day early and skip the line for the main congress on Thursday morning.
Workshops: 11:00AM to 6:00PM 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. 300+ 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
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 (Highlights)
9:45AM, Mainstage: Manufacturing trust, speed and safety in the age of agents. Mark Cavage, President & COO, Docker.
10:20AM, Mainstage: Keynote, Ramin Hasani, Co-founder & CEO, Liquid AI.
11:00AM, Mainstage: Building the agentic software factory. Thomas Dohmke, CEO & Co-Founder, Entire.io.
11:00AM, Tech Leaders Stage: Building AI for the physical world. Alex Spinelli, SVP AI & Developer Platforms, Arm.
12:50AM to 2:20PM, Mainstage: Acquired, live. Four interviews back to back, Amjad Masad (Replit), Sri Shivananda (JPMorganChase), Justin Boitano (NVIDIA), and one more not yet announced.
2:50PM, Mainstage: Running AI-written software in production. Milin Desai, CEO, Sentry, and Ivan Burazin, Co-founder & CTO, Daytona.
4:10PM, Mainstage: The future of workforce, at high speed. Daniela Dimitrova.
After hours:
5:30PM, Mainstage: Keynote by John Romero, the legendary game creator.
6:30PM, Stage 3: Live DOOM II deathmatches with John Romero.
Full Day 2 lineup: https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress-north-america/agenda/schedule
Sessions we can't stop thinking about
Give the agent a budget, not a token. Sachin Malhotra, Anthropic. Day 2, 12:20PM, Stage 4. Token-level thinking about agent cost is table stakes. This pushes it up a level.
Evals are infra. Phoebe Wang, OpenAI. Day 2, 3:30PM, Stage 4. The case for treating evals as production infrastructure, not a pre-launch checkbox.
Give the agent its own machine. Dan Ndombe, Docker. Warm-up day, 3:00PM, Stage 1. Isolation and sandboxing for agentic dev environments, practical, not theoretical.
Supply chain security when agents write the code. Ajeet Raina, Docker. Warm-up day 2:00PM, Stage 1. What changes in your supply chain threat model when the commits aren't human.
Running AI-written software in production. Milin Desai (Sentry) and Ivan Burazin (Daytona). Day 1, 2:50PM, Mainstage. Two CEOs, one shared production problem.
What is a software factory and how to build one in 20 minutes. Victor Savkin, Nx. Day 2, 12:20PM, Stage 2. A concrete build, not a thought experiment.
Acquired, live and back to back. Day 1, 12:50PM to 2:20PM, Mainstage. Four interviews in a row, no need to pick one: Amjad Masad (Replit), Sri Shivananda (JPMorganChase), Justin Boitano (NVIDIA), and one more not yet announced.
Fun things to do that aren't sessions
Live DOOM II deathmatches with John Romero. Day 1, 6:30PM, Stage 3. The co-creator of DOOM, live, right after his mainstage keynote at 5:30PM.
Build Failed, Legs Passed. Day 0, 06:00AM. A casual morning run and coffee before the buzz starts. No pace target, no dropping anyone.
Open Air Stage. Warm-up day, 12:00PM, all day. Live podcasts, fireside chats, and more, outdoors.
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
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.