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Opening Keynote: The Next Decade of Software

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

An expansive look at what the next ten years hold for software engineering — the role of AI in the development loop, the blurring line between infrastructure and product, and what it means to be a great engineer when so much can be automated. A keynote designed to provoke and inspire.

React Server Components: A Year in Production

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

The early adopters have shipped. Here's an honest accounting of what RSC delivers in production — real performance numbers, the mental model shift your team actually needs, and the patterns that work versus the ones the docs don't warn you about. Live code examples throughout.

Building Autonomous AI Agents with Tool Use

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

A hands-on walkthrough of building agents that do real work — browse the web, write and execute code, interact with APIs, and self-correct. Covers architecture patterns, failure modes, and the human-in-the-loop designs that make agents safe to deploy.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization: Real Numbers from Real Clusters

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

The average Kubernetes cluster wastes 60% of its allocated resources. This session shows exactly where that waste hides, how to find it in your own environment, and the combination of right-sizing, bin-packing, and spot-instance strategies that cut the bill in half.

The Modern Web Stack in 2026

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

A benchmark-driven update to the framework landscape. We test Next.js, Remix, Astro, SvelteKit, and Nuxt on load time, TTI, server render throughput, and DX metrics. What changed in the last year, what to use for which use case, and where the ecosystem is heading.

RAG in Production: What Actually Works

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

A deep dive into what separates a useful RAG system from a demo that impresses in a meeting. Chunking strategies that hold up in production, retrieval evaluation, hybrid search, re-ranking, and the caching patterns that cut cost without hurting quality.

Keynote: Open Source and the AI Era

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

How AI is reshaping the economics of open-source software — who funds it, who benefits from it, and what happens when the tools developers use are trained on the code they write. A nuanced look at sustainability, licensing, and the future of the commons.

Vite 6 and the Future of Frontend Build Tools

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

What changed in Vite 6, what's coming next, and why the JavaScript build tooling space is about to see its biggest shift in five years. A technical deep-dive from the creator, including a preview of Rolldown and what it means for build performance.

Fine-Tuning LLMs Without Going Broke

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

When to fine-tune vs. prompt-engineer, and how to do it cost-effectively. Covers LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT techniques, dataset curation that actually matters, evaluation frameworks, and the infrastructure for running fine-tuning jobs without a $50k GPU bill.

Secrets Management: Beyond Vault

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

HashiCorp Vault is powerful but operationally demanding. This session surveys the current secrets management landscape — external secrets operators, cloud-native solutions, and when Vault is still the right call. Includes migration patterns for teams already on Vault.

React Native in 2026: Still Worth It?

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

An honest assessment of React Native after the New Architecture rollout — what improved, what's still painful, and how it compares to Flutter, native, and Expo in 2026. Data from apps with 1M+ MAU on both platforms.

Contributing to Major OSS: A Practical Guide

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

The gap between wanting to contribute and actually getting a PR merged is real. This session covers how to find high-impact first issues, understand unfamiliar codebases quickly, navigate maintainer relationships, and build a reputation in open source that advances your career.

Keynote: Developer Experience is the Product

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

The companies winning the engineering talent war aren't just paying more — they're building better internal developer experiences. What DX actually means, how to measure it, and the internal platform investments with the highest ROI.

Edge Computing: Practical Patterns in 2026

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

Edge runtimes have matured. This session covers what actually belongs at the edge — personalization, A/B testing, auth, geolocation — versus what doesn't, with real performance comparisons between Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, and Vercel Edge Functions.

LLM Evaluation: Building a Testing Culture for AI Features

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

Shipping AI features without evals is like shipping code without tests. This session shows how to build an eval culture from scratch: defining metrics that aren't arbitrary, running evals in CI, using LLM-as-judge techniques responsibly, and connecting eval results to product decisions.

The Open Source AI Stack in 2026

5:30 PM – 6:20 PM

A curated tour of the OSS AI ecosystem — what's production-ready, what's vaporware, and the projects worth watching. Covers training frameworks, inference servers, vector databases, orchestration tools, and the datasets that are actually useful.

WebAssembly Beyond the Browser

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

WASM is eating the server. Edge functions, plugin systems, serverless compute, and portable runtimes are all converging on WebAssembly as the common substrate. A technical deep-dive into WASI, component model, and what this means for how we ship software.

Securing Your AI Pipeline End to End

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

AI systems introduce new attack surfaces: prompt injection, training data poisoning, model theft, and output manipulation. This session covers threat modeling for AI applications and the defensive patterns that actually work — drawing on red team exercises against production LLM systems.

Keynote: The Future of Open Source

4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

A closing keynote on what open source looks like in 10 years — sustainability models, AI-generated code attribution, the role of foundations, and why the commons matters more than ever.

Hackathon Awards & Live Project Demos

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

The top 10 teams from the 72-hour hackathon each get 4 minutes to demo their project. Judges announce winners across four categories: Best Technical Achievement, Most Impactful, Most Creative, and Community Choice. $100,000 in prizes distributed live.

Closing Keynote: What's Next

9:00 PM – 9:50 PM

A fast-paced forward-look at what's coming — from compiler technology to AI-native IDEs to post-cloud infrastructure. Not predictions, but honest assessments of the bets worth making. The final session of Global Developer Summit 2026.