2026
PRO Workshop Day
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 · 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST @ San Jose Convention Center
12:00 PM · 50 min
DeveloperWeek
The Past, Present, and Future of Enterprise Java
Ivar Grimstad (Jakarta EE Developer Advocate) @ Eclipse Foundation
12:00 PM · 50 min
AI DevWorld
REST Budgets Don’t Fit LLM Traffic—Here’s the Open-Source Escape Hatch
Jeff Fan (Senior Solutions Architect) @ DigitalOcean
12:00 PM · 50 min
OpsWorld
Building Secure Infrastructure for Productive AI Agents
Jiachen Jiang (Senior Product Manager) @ Coder
12:00 PM · 50 min
DeveloperWeek
Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers: Beyond Academic Theory
Mudassir Syed (Lead Security Software Engineer) @ Autodesk
12:00 PM · 50 min
ProductWorld
Leading with Clarity: Diagnosing What’s Holding Your Product Team Back
Heather Samarin & Vidya Dinamani @ Product Rebels
1:00 PM · 50 min
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
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
Break the Cloud Lock-in: Building Adaptive Intelligence Orchestration with DIO
Zhao Snow (Founder & CEO) @ AIgentic
1:00 PM · 50 min
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
Prompt to Platform: Accelerating Development with AI and No-Code
Indu Chaube (Senior Software Engineer) @ Cisco Systems
2:00 PM · 50 min
Cloud Native World
Hands-On: Building a Platform Engineering CLI Tool with 12-Factor Principles
Billy Thompson (Senior Field Compute Technology Manager) @ Akamai
2:00 PM
AI DevWorld
Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes
Meryem Arik (CEO) @ Doubleword
2:00 PM · 50 min
AI DevWorld
Empowering Developers with Polaris MCP Server: Natural-Language Interfaces for Data Engineering
Yufei Gu (Senior software engineer) @ Snowflake
2:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
2:00 PM · 50 min
ProductWorld
Agentic AI in Practice: A Product Management Framework for Scalable Implementation
Bishal Dasgupta (Specialist)
3:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
3:00 PM · 50 min
AI DevWorld
The Data Context Layer: Why Data Engineering Agents Need More Than Code and Databases
Yoni Michael (Inference is the New Transform) @ Typedef
3:00 PM
AI DevWorld Workshop
3:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
3:00 PM · 50 min
ProductWorld
From Roadmaps to Results: How Product Teams Can Leverage TPMs to Scale Vision, Strategy, and Impact
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth (Staff Technical Program Manager)
4:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
4:00 PM
AI DevWorld Workshop
4:00 PM
AI DevWorld Workshop
4:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
4:00 PM
ProductWorld Workshop
5:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
5:00 PM
AI DevWorld Workshop
5:00 PM
AI DevWorld Workshop
5:00 PM
DeveloperWeek Workshop
5:00 PM
ProductWorld Workshop