Full Agenda
Schedule
Three days of keynotes, deep-dive tracks, hands-on workshops, and the best hallway track in tech.
Day 1 — Thursday, Sept 18
Registration & Morning Coffee
Grab your badge and meet fellow attendees.
Opening keynote: The next decade of software
A look at where AI, infrastructure, and product are converging — and what it means for every engineer in the room.
Maya Chen · VP Engineering, VercelShipping AI products people actually trust
Evaluation, guardrails, and UX patterns that build confidence with real users.
Andre Okafor · Founder & CEO, Latency LabsModern frontend at scale
Mono-repo strategies, build caching, and shared design tokens across 50+ product teams.
Scaling Postgres to a billion rows
Indexing, partitioning, and the mistakes we made along the way.
Diego Mensah · DevRel Lead, SupabaseThe product-led growth playbook
How PLG companies structure their free tiers, activation flows, and upgrade moments.
Lunch Break
Catered lunch in the main hall. Sponsor booths open.
Building with vector databases
Embeddings, similarity search, and building retrieval-augmented generation pipelines in production.
TypeScript at the edge
Lessons from running TypeScript in V8 isolates and WebAssembly runtimes.
Workshop: Build an agent from scratch
Hands-on lab — bring a laptop. Limited to 60 seats. You'll leave with a working multi-step AI agent.
Opening night reception
Drinks on the rooftop deck. Sponsored by Vercel.
Day 2 — Friday, Sept 19
Morning keynote: Design systems that scale
How Figma's own design language has evolved — and what we'd do differently.
Priya Nair · Principal Designer, FigmaFeature flags done right
Rolling out to millions of users with zero downtime and full observability.
From monolith to micro-services (and back)
A brutally honest post-mortem from a team that went both ways.
Designing for a world where AI writes the first draft
UX principles, accessibility, and trust patterns for AI-assisted products.
Priya Nair · Principal Designer, FigmaObservability beyond metrics
Distributed tracing, structured logs, and the shift to OpenTelemetry.
Lunch Break
Catered lunch. Lightning talks in the main hall at 12:30.
CI/CD for the AI era
Evaluations, model versioning, and deployment pipelines for LLM-powered apps.
Inside speculative decoding
How we halved inference latency without cutting model quality.
Liam Torres · Staff ML Engineer, OpenAI99.9999%: the most reliable piece of the internet
What it actually takes to run payments infrastructure that can't go down.
Hana Ito · Engineering Manager, StripeWorkshop: Zero to production with Supabase
Auth, database, storage, and realtime in 90 minutes.
Speaker dinner (Pro & Team tickets)
Invite-only dinner at a nearby SF restaurant.
Day 3 — Saturday, Sept 20
Morning coffee & open networking
Unconference board opens. Propose and vote for afternoon sessions.
From 5 to 120 engineers
The architecture decisions that defined a hypergrowth startup — and the ones we regret.
Sara Volkov · CTO, BeamlineSecurity for the modern stack
OWASP top 10 in 2026: what's changed and what still gets teams breached.
The economics of open source
Dual licensing, open-core, and how open-source companies actually make money.
Workshop: Playwright for modern web testing
E2E, component tests, visual diffs, and CI integration.
Lunch Break
Final networking lunch. Sponsor giveaways.
Unconference sessions
Community-voted deep dives. Check the board in the main hall.
Closing keynote: The next 10 years of software
Noah Brandt closes Summit 2026 with a look at the forces reshaping our industry.
Noah Brandt · Author & Advisor, IndependentFarewell & see you next year
Closing remarks, prize draws, and early-bird tickets for Summit 2027.
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