2026
PRO Workshops are in-depth, technical training sessions designed for developers, engineers, architects, and technical leaders who want to go beyond conference presentations. These hands-on workshops provide practical guidance, live demonstrations, real-world examples, and best practices from industry experts, giving attendees actionable skills they can apply immediately to their projects. Workshops are included with PRO and PREMIUM Passes.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 @ Santa Clara Convention Center
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT
API
Deepankar Das (CTO and Cofounder) @ LexAxiom
12:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT
API
Master Workshop: AI-Driven API Design
Mike Amundsen (Founder and President) @ Amundsen
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT
Cloud
How to Operate Your Favorite Lobster Responsibly: Threat Modeling Agentic Systems
Lenin Alevski (Security Engineer) @ Google
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM PDT
AI
Clearing the Backlog: Batch Modernization at Scale with GitHub Copilot
Ayan Gupta (Cloud Advocate) @ Microsoft
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PDT
API
Building Secure API-Driven Agentic Workflows for Privacy and Data Governance
Pranav Nitin Motarwar (Data Engineer)
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PDT
Cloud
How Do You Forecast Hardware at Billion-User Scale?
Ankur Gupta (Senior Staff Technical Program Manager) @ LinkedIn
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PDT
AI
Why Open Source Data Infrastructure Beats AI Platform Overspend
Anil Inamdar (Global Head of Data Services) @ NetApp Instaclustr
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT
API
Inside the Mind of an API Attacker: A Hands-On AI & Defense Workshop
David Homoney (Senior Enterprise Security Architect) @ Akamai Technologies
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT
Cloud
Agentic Infrastructure in the Cloud: Running Autonomous AI Systems Safely at Scale
Nishant Gupta (Tech Lead, Software Engineering) @ Meta SuperIntelligence Lab
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM PDT
AI
Vertical APIs for Agentic AI: Routing the Right Context to the Right Expert
David vonThenen @ NetApp
3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT
API
Make Your AI Smarter with Real-Time Search
Julien Khaleghy (Founder & CEO) @ SerpApi
3:00 PM – 5:50 PM PDT
API
Master Workshop: Build AI-Ready APIs
Emmanuel Paraskakis (Founder) @ Level 250
3:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT
Cloud
Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs
Sheilah Kirui (Senior Developer Advocate) @ Akamai
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PDT
API
The AI Agent Playbook for People Building on Top of APIs, Not Hype
Brenton House (Principal Advisor, Automation and Emerging Technology) @ IBM
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PDT
Cloud
Debugging AI Systems in Production: A Hands-On Failure Analysis Workshop
Sanjana Arun (Product Lead) @ eBay
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM PDT
AI
Headroom: A Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications
Tejas Chopra (Senior Software Engineer) @ Netflix
5:00 PM – 5:50 PM PDT
API
The Latency-vs-Security Curve: Operational Engineering for High-Scale Agentic Architectures
Vyshak Bellur (Software Engineer III) @ JPMorgan Chase
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