2026

Workshops

PRO Workshop Day

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 · 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST @ San Jose Convention Center

DeveloperWeek
PRO Stage

AI DevWorld
Main Stage

AI DevWorld
Expo Stage

DevExec World
Main Stage

ProductWorld
Main Stage

12:00 PM · 50 min · DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

DeveloperWeek

The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java

Ivar Grimstad (Jakarta EE Developer Advocate) @ Eclipse Foundation

12:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

2x Throughput at Scale: Lessons from Optimizing One of the World’s Largest AI Platform

Jeff Fan (Senior Solutions Architect) @ DigitalOcean

12:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Expo Stage

OpsWorld

Building Secure Infrastructure for Productive AI Agents

David Fraley (Product Manager) @ Coder

12:00 PM · 50 min · DevExec World Main Stage

DeveloperWeek

Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers: Beyond Academic Theory

Mudassir Syed (Lead Security Software Engineer) @ Autodesk

12:00 PM · 50 min · ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Leading with Clarity: Diagnosing What’s Holding Your Product Team Back

Heather Samarin & Vidya Dinamani @ Product Rebels

1:00 PM · 50 min · DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

DeveloperWeek

The New Economics of Data Infrastructure: Tiered Storage, Vector Search, and Open Source Innovation

Anil Inamdar (Global Head of Data Services) @ NetApp Instaclustr

1:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization

Taylor Jordan Smith (Senior AI Developer Advocate) & Legare Kerrison (Senior AI Developer Advocate) @ Red Hat

1:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Expo Stage

AI DevWorld

Break the Cloud Lock-in: Building Adaptive Intelligence Orchestration with DIO

Zhao Snow (Founder & CEO) @ AIgentic

1:00 PM · 50 min · DevExec World Main Stage

Dev Security World

Guardon: Shifting Kubernetes Compliance Left with Developer-First Guardrails

Sajal Nigam (Technology professional – Expert Application Engineer) @ Discover Financial Services

1:00 PM · 50 min · ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Prompt to Platform: Accelerating Development with AI and No-Code

Indu Chaube (Senior Software Engineer) @ Cisco Systems

2:00 PM · 50 min · DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

Cloud Native World

Hands-On: Building a Platform Engineering CLI Tool with 12-Factor Principles

Ruckus Voxi (Sr. Developer Advocate) @ Akamai

2:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Building Scalable Multi-Agent Systems: A Microservices Approach

Brij Mohan (VP – Software Development) @ LPL Financial

2:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Expo Stage

AI DevWorld

Empowering Developers with Polaris MCP Server: Natural-Language Interfaces for Data Engineering

Yufei Gu (Senior software engineer) @ Snowflake

2:00 PM · 50 min · DevExec World Main Stage

DeveloperWeek

How I Refactored a Legacy Codebase with Ralph That Was Estimated to Cost 1 Dev Month

Tuhin Kanti Sharma (Principal Software Engineer) @ Salesforce.com

2:00 PM · 50 min · ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

Agentic AI in Practice: A Product Management Framework for Scalable Implementation

Bishal Dasgupta (Specialist)

3:00 PM · 50 min · DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

ProductWorld

AI Product Strategy: From Innovation to Market Impact

Yan Liu (Principal Product Designer) @ Microsoft

3:00 PM · AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld Workshop

3:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Expo Stage

AI DevWorld

Continuous Evaluation: The Missing Reliability Layer for LLMs and Agents

Arshdeep Singh (Member of Technical Staff) @ xAI

3:00 PM · 50 min · DevExec World Main Stage

Cloud Native World

Automating trust in the age of Agentic AI

Vishwas Manral (Founder) @ Precize

3:00 PM · 50 min · ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

The Marketing Experience Layer. How Product and Tech Unlock Real Velocity

Mohd Asher & Jose Platero @ Air Canada

4:00 PM · 50 min · DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

DeveloperWeek

Guardrails for AI-Assisted DevOps: Drift Detection, Approvals & Compliance at Scale

Sonam Singhal & Vaneet Goyal @ Microsoft

4:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Automatic Agent Optimization and the Rise of Self-Improving Agents

Vincent Koc (AI, ML and Data) @ Comet and MIT

4:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Expo Stage

AI DevWorld

Shared Product Memory – The Infrastructure Layer Your AI Agents Are Missing

Mathias Kleverud (Co-founder) @ Momental

4:00 PM · 50 min · DevExec World Main Stage

DevExec World

Optimizing Software Team Dynamics to Maximize Impact from AI Integration

Belle Walker (Reducing friction in day to day collaboration)

4:00 PM · 50 min · ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

From Vibes to Specs: How PMs Can Prototype Smarter with Spec-Driven Development

Chris Butler (Product Manager) @ GitHub

5:00 PM · 50 min · DeveloperWeek PRO Stage

DeveloperWeek

Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Strands Agents, AgentCore and MCP

Duan Lightfoot (Sr. Cloud Networking Developer Advocate) @ AWS

5:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Main Stage

AI DevWorld

Evaluating the Evaluators: How to Measure Quality and Alignment in Multi-Agent Systems

Rajeshwari Sah (Machine Learning Engineer) @ Apple

5:00 PM · 50 min · AI DevWorld Expo Stage

AI DevWorld

The Ascendancy and Challenges of Agentic Large Language Models

Naman Goyal (ML Engineer and Researcher) @ Google DeepMind

5:00 PM · 50 min · DevExec World Main Stage

DeveloperWeek

Running MCP in the Enterprise: Observability, Governance, and Safe Automation at Scale

Swetha Sridharan (Principal Product Manager) @ Workato

5:00 PM · 50 min · ProductWorld Main Stage

ProductWorld

The AI Enhanced Product Manager

Jim Morris (Founder) @ Product Discovery Group