9:20 AM
Ballroom CSpec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec-Kit: From Intent to Implementation
Barret Blake
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev Tools
Ballroom DAlgorithmic Archaeology: Excavating Insights from Computer Science History
Sarah Matta
IntermediateArchitecture & System DesignBack-EndSoftware Craftsmanship
Ballroom EThe Memory Problem: Why AI Doesn't Remember and Why That Changes Everything
Sho Soboyejo
Introductory and overviewCareer GrowthLeadership
Seminole AModern UX Sucks! Reviving HCI Fundamentals for Web, Desktop, and AI
Brandon Bruno
Introductory and overviewAccessibilityDesign & UXFront-End & Web
Seminole BHow to Keep Up With AI Without Losing Your Mind
Matt Reed
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev ToolsAI - Product & FeaturesAI - OtherCareer GrowthOther
10:20 AM
Ballroom CPolly Want a 500? Chaos engineering for .NET apps
Victor Frye
IntermediateBack-EndCloud & InfrastructureDevOps
Ballroom DFrom PRs to Performance: Using Metrics and AI to Coach Stronger Engineering Teams
Eric Martin
IntermediateAI - OtherCareer GrowthLeadership
Ballroom ERoot Access: Using Python to Keep My Garden Alive
Bianca Ploss
Introductory and overviewLanguages & FrameworksSoftware Craftsmanship
Seminole BHow I Digitized My Brain: Building a Queryable Knowledge System to Control the Chaos
Taylor MacDonald
AdvancedAI - Dev ToolsCloud & InfrastructureHardware & IoT
11:25 AM
Ballroom CDid I Leave the Garage Open? One Real-World Problem, Many Engineering Lessons
Matt Anderson
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev ToolsHardware & IoT
Ballroom DFrom Architecture to Terraform: Letting AI Do the Boring Parts
Chad Green
IntermediateAI - Dev ToolsAI - OtherCloud & InfrastructureDevOpsProcess & Delivery
Ballroom EThe Abysmal State of Software Security - And What To Do About It
Dave Hatter
IntermediateSecuritySoftware CraftsmanshipTesting & Quality
Seminole AIntroducing the SQL MCP Server
Jerry Nixon
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev ToolsAI - Product & FeaturesArchitecture & System DesignDatabases
Seminole Bstop watching from the sidelines: a practical playbook for your ai-era career
Taylor Desseyn
Introductory and overviewAI - OtherCareer Growth
12:30 PM
Ballroom CImposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success
Heather Downing
Introductory and overviewCareer GrowthLeadershipOther
Ballroom DFrom Black Box to Glass Box: Making AI Agents Observable (and Less Mysterious)
Samuel Gomez
IntermediateAI - Product & Features
Ballroom EBuilding a Skills Library: Teaching AI Agents Your Org's Tribal Knowledge
Vitaliy Matiyash
IntermediateAI - Dev ToolsProcess & DeliverySoftware Craftsmanship
Seminole AExotic Agentic Development Strategies: Everything old is new again
Stephen Shary
AdvancedAI - Dev ToolsArchitecture & System DesignSoftware CraftsmanshipTesting & Quality
Seminole BWhat Theme Parks Teach Software Developers About Human Behavior
Cheryl Nachbauer
IntermediateAccessibilityArchitecture & System DesignDesign & UX
1:30 PM
Ballroom CBuilding an Enterprise AI Quality Engineering Capability
Wanda Hayes
AI - Dev ToolsAI - OtherTesting & Quality
Ballroom DEliassen Sponsor Session
Ballroom ECrypto you can change: getting ready for post-quantum without a rewrite
James Carman
Architecture & System DesignSecurityOther
Seminole AFrom Prompt to Pipeline: Building Production-Ready Playwright Tests with AI
Charlie Cedrone
IntermediateAI - Dev ToolsFront-End & WebLanguages & FrameworksTesting & Quality
Seminole BWho Reviews the Robot's Code? Quality and Trust When the Development Isn't Human
Justin Behymer
Eric Rolf
Chris Van Dyke
Christine Eichhold
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev ToolsAI - OtherProcess & DeliveryTesting & Quality
2:15 PM
Ballroom CAI Can Make Mistakes: Stories from a Test Engineer
Anna Chernova
IntermediateAI - Product & FeaturesAI - OtherLanguages & FrameworksTesting & Quality
Ballroom DPossessed by Packages: Is Your JavaScript Haunted?
Chris DeMars
Introductory and overviewFront-End & WebLanguages & FrameworksSecurity
Ballroom EFrom Individual Contributor to Leader: Navigating the Gap Between Doing Great Work and Moving Up
Sarah Trimble-Oliver
Introductory and overviewCareer GrowthLeadership
Seminole ADesign Patterns for Distributed Systems: Building Scalable and Resilient Architectures
Sarah Dutkiewicz
AdvancedArchitecture & System Design
Seminole BBuilding the AI-first Developer Stack
Avindra Fernando
IntermediateAI - Dev ToolsAI - OtherProcess & DeliverySoftware Craftsmanship
3:15 PM
Ballroom CDesigning Data Pipelines That Don’t Hate You Six Months Later
Chris Birie
Introductory and overviewArchitecture & System DesignDatabasesTesting & Quality
Ballroom DCalm Under Pressure: How Technical Leaders Make Decisions With Imperfect Information
Brett Leonard
IntermediateCareer GrowthLeadership
Ballroom EApplying Observability to the Internet of Living Things (IoLT)
Sophia Solomon
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev ToolsBack-EndDevOps
Seminole AReturn to Zork - An Adventurer’s Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems with LangGraph.js
Guy Royse
Introductory and overviewAI - Dev ToolsLanguages & Frameworks
Seminole BBREW /descale: Building an Event-Driven Coffee Machine with ESP32, MQTT, and HTCPCP
Arturo Araya
AdvancedArchitecture & System DesignHardware & IoTSecurity