Speaker Spotlight: @FrancescoCiull4
Rust for web dev used to be overkill with a hostile compiler. In 2026 things look very different. Francesco shows why WTF became why not.
2 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @dennisivy11
A year ago Dennis mapped AI coding on this stage. Everything changed since. This is the follow-up the room asked for.
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Speaker Spotlight: @ErikCH
Serverless is great until the job is long-running and must not die. Erik covers durable executions that survive anything.
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Speaker Spotlight: @therealdanvega
No, Java developers do not need to learn Python to build AI. Dan proves the Java ecosystem already has everything you need.
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Speaker Spotlight: @joelhooks
A Roomba for your code. Joel's agents coordinate to do your chores 24/7 while you build the things that matter.
2 days until CYC26.
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You have probably used Ziosk without knowing who built it.
That tablet where you split the check and pay without flagging anyone down? That is them. 220,000+ tablets, a million guests a day.
They pioneered pay-at-the-table. From Plano.
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Speaker Spotlight: @codestackr
The infrastructure behind ChatGPT's voice mode is open source. Jesse shows how to build the same experiences into your own app.
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Speaker Spotlight: @elchefe
AI quietly elevated tech's most undervalued profile: the Deep Generalist. Tim traces the rise from LAMP admins to now.
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Speaker Spotlight: @RealChrisSean
His AI forgot his salary and hallucinated his daughter's name. So Chris fixed AI memory himself. This talk is the fix.
3 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @jerrymannel
Raw concept to working prototype in 20 minutes, live on stage. Bravery or madness, Jerry is attempting both.
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Speaker Spotlight: Jacob Orshalick
Claude Code wrote nearly all of a real production app. Jacob shipped it and brought back the lessons nobody's demo mentions.
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Speaker Spotlight: @nickytonline
MCP tools can return UI, not just text. Nick builds an MCP App live, and the wow factor is real.
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Speaker Spotlight: @bytesofbree
Stop waiting on someone else's product roadmap. Bree builds AI micro-tools shaped exactly to your own workflow.
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Speaker Spotlight: Noah Harris
Requirements will change. Noah on software beauty that is more than skin deep: code that adapts without the rewrite.
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Speaker Spotlight: Raviteja Sankuratri
Inside the mind of a Solutions Architect: how business goals become technical decisions. Raviteja walks requirements to reality.
3 days until CYC26.
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"Works on my machine" is not an engineering strategy.
Coder moves development into the cloud: every engineer gets the same environment, new hires ship on day one, and source code never lives on a stealable laptop.
coder.com/
Speaker Spotlight: Kyle Taylor
Your prompt is not a unit test. Kyle covers the observability layer your LLM app needs in production and probably does not have.
3 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Reece Iriye
Weeks of LoRA fine-tuning, or better prompts? Reece breaks down weights vs words for improving agentic AI workflows.
3 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @focusotter
The hard part is not making agents capable. It is knowing when to make them stop. Michael covers human-in-the-loop patterns that matter.
3 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Kerline Moncy
You hit play on an audio tag and hope. Kerline opens the black box of browser audio, from games to real-time apps.
4 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Eric Karschner
He fixed a React SPA's performance without really doing anything. Remote agents ground through the long tail. Eric shows how.
4 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @davidthedev004
Server Components and Suspense are not features. They are a new mental model. David rebuilds how you think about React.
4 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Pranav Puranik
RAG demos are easy. RAG at production scale is not. Pranav covers the techniques that keep retrieval accurate when it matters.
4 days until CYC26.
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From the people who founded OWASP: know exactly what code runs in production, with a verifiable chain of custody from commit to deploy.
Half your repos are not even deployed. Stop triaging their alerts.
crashoverride.com/
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Speaker Spotlight: Vaadeendra Kumar Burra
Your $4/hour GPU is idle 40% of the time and your p99 is awful. Vaadeendra covers the inference serving problem nobody talks about.
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Speaker Spotlight: Moeez Khan
Agentic AI systems do not fail at the model layer. They fail in production. Moeez covers where they break and how to build for it.
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Speaker Spotlight: Hunter Long
Every runtime LLM call costs latency, money, and reliability. Hunter maps how modern AI architectures minimize reasoning at runtime.
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Your coding agent just shipped to an environment identical to production. On Zerops, dev and prod ARE identical.
Full Linux containers, 15+ built-in services, bare metal underneath.
Try it with $65 in credit: zerops.io/
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Speaker Spotlight: @sandonjacobs
Would you ship a REST API where users guess the formats? Then why does your Kafka look like that? Sandon brings API discipline to streaming.
4 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Linda Thompson
Modern CSS lets you express intent, not hacks. Linda crafts a design live with container queries and the new baseline fundamentals.
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Speaker Spotlight: @timdamen_io
Your codebase is an AST, and the AST can do the maintenance for you. Tim automates frontend consistency at scale with NX.
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Speaker Spotlight: Srikanth Maru
Dashboards get ignored. Data products get used. Srikanth on the shift: ownership, SLAs, and datasets built for a consumer.
5 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Sujeeth Reddy Pasham
Traditional API gateways buckle under unpredictable traffic. Sujeeth covers serverless gateways for performance, cost, and security at scale.
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Speaker Spotlight: Aaron Krauss
Standard business apps should not require stitching five frameworks together. Aaron shows the Laravel + Filament path.
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Speaker Spotlight: Sayeed Mohammad
20 years of frontend across airlines, healthcare, and government. The lessons that matter are not about frameworks. They are about judgment.
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Voice is becoming the interface, and Deepgram is what developers ship it with.
Speech to text and text to speech APIs that are fast enough for live conversation and accurate enough for production. Add voice to your app in an afternoon.
deepgram.com/
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Speaker Spotlight: Sara Baqla
40,000 acres of desert, one data-heavy research tool. Sara shows TanStack in the wild at a real biodiversity station.
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Speaker Spotlight: Raja Krishna
AI agents that survive production, in TypeScript. Raja builds multi-step workflows with Mastra, schemas and structure included.
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Speaker Spotlight: Paul Coroneos
It started as an internal innovation idea. It shipped as Hilton's first agentic AI trip planner. Paul tells the whole story.
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Ask a DFW developer where their favorite meetup happens. Good odds it is an Improving office.
Consulting and training with a reputation built over years in this community. When companies talk about investing in developers, Improving just does it.
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Speaker Spotlight: @trayburn
Every AI tool integrating with every system is an N x M problem. Tim introduces MCP servers, the toolbox that solves it.
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Speaker Spotlight: @rishabincloud
"I destroyed months of your work in seconds." Real quotes from unsandboxed AI agents. Rishab shows the horror stories and the Docker fix.
5 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @oldewhittington
Going viral should not cost you a $30,000 AWS bill. Whittington brings a simple framework for low-cost infrastructure that scales.
5 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Anitha Dakamarri
Thousands of dependencies. AI components nobody audits. Anitha shows how AI-BOM finds the vulnerabilities hiding in your supply chain.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Nate Custer
Bombadil autonomously explores your web UI and finds the bugs your tests never imagined. Property-based testing for the browser.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Soujanya Vummannagari
Caching is not just response time. In mainframe-connected PBM systems it cuts backend calls and real money. Soujanya shows the hidden ROI.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @patrickhulce
Open source video generation crossed the threshold. Patrick walks the full stack, training data to your own deployed VideoGen model.
6 days until CYC26.
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git push. Get a URL. That is the whole deployment guide.
Render runs your apps, databases, cron jobs, and autoscaling without a DevOps side quest. Your side project deserves production infrastructure, and now it can afford it.
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Speaker Spotlight: @GeekyVoices
Stale accounts and forgotten permissions are breach headlines waiting to happen. Noah automates the identity life cycle in the cloud.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @nerajno
Your site is fast, accessible, and invisible to AI. Nerando covers optimizing content for the age of ChatGPT answers.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @daviddryparry
MCP workshop, hands on. Watch live protocol messages, then write your own MCP server tool from scratch.
6 days until CYC26.
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Patch the Linux kernel without rebooting the box. Yes, really.
@TuxCare_ live-patches running systems, so security updates stop meaning downtime. And that ancient CentOS box nobody wants to touch? They keep end-of-life systems safe too.
tuxcare.com/
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Speaker Spotlight: @LMFinneyCoder
Promises, Observables, Signals. Three async models, one single-threaded language. Lance maps when to reach for each.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @wayneoflife
A good rap verse has flow, hooks, and bars that hit. Wayne argues great e2e tests do too. Playwright, structured like a cipher.
6 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @0x1bitcrack3r
Prompt injection is the vulnerability class your security team has not trained for. Vishnu shows how LLM apps get manipulated and how to defend them.
6 days until CYC26.
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We are ALMOST at a total that will have us reaching a combined $55,000 donated to charity over the course of the last 3 conferences!
Don't ever think a $40 tech conference ticket can't make an impact in the lives of others!
THE HOST HOTEL IS ALMOST FULLY BOOKED!
We are trying to lock in a backup host hotel to send everyone to. If you have not booked your room yet, book it ASAP before they are all gone.
We DO NOT get a kickback from the hotel, they apply all that directly to the room cost for you.
Speaker Spotlight: Naveen Parameshwarappa
Federal systems need extreme security and operational flexibility for massive user populations. At the same time.
Naveen shows how cloud identity architecture pulls it off.
39 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @EdgingtonC
Modern browsers do not trust local devices. Printers, scanners, USB. Blocked over HTTPS, and it is getting worse.
Chris shows what breaks, why, and the workaround that ships.
39 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Michael Duren
What actually happens between docker run and your process running in isolation?
Michael builds a container runtime in Go, live. Namespaces, cgroups, chroot. No magic left.
39 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @therambeltran
Nobody's side project ever shipped. It lives on a dev server with a README nobody reads.
Ramiro's fix: build failed startups instead. Real domain, real deploy, real stakes.
40 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Joey Brown
Dockerfiles simplified containers, then quietly made devs responsible for base images and CVE patching.
Joey shows how Buildpacks hand that burden back to the platform.
40 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @rprathap
APIs became AI. AI is becoming agents. Enterprise Java is coming along for the ride.
Prathap covers tool calling and MCP with Java and Ollama, built for enterprise reality.
40 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @browniepoints
Have a business idea and a shoestring budget? The Lean Startup method exists for exactly you.
Michael shows how to launch without waste, while keeping the day job.
41 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @saltnburnem
Have you ever actually looked inside your node_modules? The packages of your packages?
Chris dives below the waterline of the dependency iceberg. Bring a flashlight.
41 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @cmgriffing
Are MCP servers dead? The obituary is exaggerated.
Chris covers the criticisms, the alternatives like skills, and the lesser-known MCP Apps that might revive the ecosystem.
41 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @ecology_chris
Platforms balance developer experience against production stability, and the tradeoffs compound over time.
Chris connects human-centered DevOps and SRE across the value stream.
42 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: Chris Gonzalez
Never built an AI agent? This is your on-ramp.
Chris takes you zero to deployed with AWS AgentCore and Strands. Basic Python and an AWS account is all you need.
42 days until CYC26.
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Speaker Spotlight: @TheSwiftNomad
Before revenue, before product, a startup makes its biggest decision: the story it tells the world.
Jeremy shows what happens when your brand writes a check it cannot cash.
43 days until CYC26.
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