Sessions

Accelerate Chicago 2026

Keynotes

The Importance of Junior Developers in the Age of AI

Scott Hanselman

developer productivity

AI as an Amplifier: State of AI-Assisted Software Development

Nathen Harvey

AI engineering productivity

How to Be a Curiosity Curator

Jessie Shternshus

Conference Talks

Design in Software Is Deciding Where to Put the Line of Code, for Every Line of Code

Alistair Cockburn

quality software architecture

AI-Friendly Architecture

Allen Holub

software architecture AI engineering

Protecting Your GitHub From Supply Chain Attacks

Bret Fisher

quality security

From Automation to Augmentation: Designing AI Coaches That Amplify Expertise

Mike Amundsen

architecture AI engineering

Proactive Inclusion: Embedding Accessibility into the AI Revolution at Coinbase

Sam Smith

The Validation-First Loop: How to Ship Production Code with AI Coding Assistants

Cole Medin

AI engineering quality

Self-Building Software: Lessons from the HydraFlow Experiment

Travis Frisinger

AI engineering architecture

From Data to Discovery: How AI Is Finding Hidden Cures — and Making Them Human

Brian Martin

Mark Rickmeier

Seizing the Means of Computation with Local AI

Jeremy Kahn

Tag. Publish. Hope.

Roberto Perez Alcolea

The Hardware is Talking — Are You Listening?

Namrata Priyadarshani

The Stack You Can't Refactor

Tanarra Schneider

Jenny Richards

You Gave Your AI Agent Cloud Access. Here's What Can Go Wrong at 2am

Advait Patel

security AI engineering

Lightning Talks

A day in the life of a Quantum software engineer

Victory Omole

AI Is an Amplifier: Harness Engineering for 3x Velocity

Phil Borel

AI engineering productivity

Qubits & Neurons

Carl Anderson

Spec-Driven Development for Airflow DAGs

Kyle McCluskey

Your Agent Doesn’t Need a Bigger Context Window — It Needs a State File

William Mckenney