Sessions

Accelerate Chicago 2026

Keynotes

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 9:30 AM

The EiC Problem: Junior Developers, AI Agents, and the Missing Context Layer

Scott Hanselman

productivity

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 5:00 PM

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

Nathen Harvey

AI engineering productivity

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 1:30 PM

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

Brian Martin

Mark Rickmeier

data

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 9:30 AM

How to Be a Curiosity Curator

Jessie Shternshus

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 5:00 PM

How to Stay Human in the Age of AI - The Skills That Matter When AI Changes What Good Looks Like

Serena H. Huang

Conference Talks

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 10:45 AM

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

Alistair Cockburn

software architecture quality

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 2:45 PM

AI-Friendly Architecture

Allen Holub

software architecture AI engineering

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 4:00 PM

Protecting Your GitHub From Supply Chain Attacks

Bret Fisher

security quality

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 10:45 AM

From Automation to Augmentation: Designing AI Coaches That Amplify Expertise

Mike Amundsen

AI engineering architecture

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 4:00 PM

You Can’t Accelerate Beyond Your Intelligence Infrastructure

Diana Montalion

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 10:45 AM

I installed Open Claw. Here is how I did it and what I've learned

Cedric Hurst

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 4:00 PM

Tim Berglund

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 2:45 PM

Finding Determinism in a Non-Deterministic World

Eric Johnson

Event Driven Architecture

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 2:45 PM

Proactive Inclusion: Embedding Accessibility into the AI Revolution at Coinbase

Sam Smith

AI engineering

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 10:45 AM

Why Git Still Matters

PJ Hagerty

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 1:30 PM

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

Cole Medin

AI engineering quality

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 2:45 PM

Self-Building Software: Lessons from the HydraFlow Experiment

Travis Frisinger

architecture AI engineering

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 4:00 PM

Nieky Allen

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 10:45 AM

Qubits & Neurons

Carl Anderson

emerging tech

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 11:45 AM

Rafał Truszkowski

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 4:00 PM

Seizing the Means of Computation with Local AI

Jeremy Kahn

emerging tech

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 2:45 PM

Spec-Driven Development for Airflow DAGs

Kyle McCluskey

AI engineering

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 10:45 AM

Stick with it: making “glue work,” work

Gayle Silverman

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 11:45 AM

Tag. Publish. Hope.

Roberto Perez Alcolea

Aubrey Chipman

architecture

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 11:45 AM

The Stack You Can't Refactor

Tanarra Schneider

Jenny Richards

leadership

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 11:45 AM

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

Advait Patel

AI engineering security

Lightning Talks

Wednesday Jun 24 @ 11:45 AM

Lightning Talks - A day in the life of a Quantum software engineer

Victory Omole

emerging tech

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 11:45 AM

Lightning Talks - AI Is an Amplifier: Harness Engineering for 3x Velocity

Phil Borel

AI engineering productivity

Tuesday Jun 23 @ 11:45 AM

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

Wil Mckenney

AI engineering