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Chris Con 2026

Agenda

Dec 1–4 · Harborview Convention Center, Chicago, IL · + Calendar feed (.ics)
DAY 1 · TUE, DEC 1
TUE 18:00–9:15REGISTRATION & BADGE PICKUPALL ROOMS
TUE 19:30–10:00Welcome & Opening Remarks
Chris V. (Conference Chair · Chris Con)
—Main Stage
TUE 110:15–11:00Building with Reasoning Machines: The Next Decade of Software
Maya Okonkwo (Principal Engineer · Lattice & Loom)
AI & MLMain Stage
TUE 111:00–11:30COFFEE BREAKALL ROOMS
TUE 111:30–12:00HTTP/3 Is Here: What It Means for Your Stack
Daniel Reyes (Staff Engineer · Brightpath Software)
Web PlatformRiver Hall
TUE 111:30–12:00Kill Your Staging Environment
Priya Raman (Head of Platform · Cobalt Systems)
InfrastructureLakeview Room
TUE 112:00–13:00LUNCHALL ROOMS
TUE 113:00–14:30Threat Modeling for Busy Teams: A Hands-On Workshop
Marcus Hill (Principal Consultant · Hillside Security)
SecurityWorkshop Studio
TUE 113:00–13:30View Transitions in the Wild: Case Studies from Production
Sofia Marchetti (Frontend Architect · Tidepool)
Web PlatformMain Stage
TUE 113:45–14:30Lessons from the Lockfile: Defending Your Dependency Chain
Tomas Lindqvist (Security Researcher · Norwind Labs)
SecurityRiver Hall
TUE 114:30–15:00AFTERNOON COFFEEALL ROOMS
TUE 115:00–15:45AI in Production: Beyond the Demo
Aisha Bello (Developer Advocate · Hexagon Cloud), Hannah Weiss (ML Engineer · Lattice & Loom), Tomas Lindqvist (Security Researcher · Norwind Labs)
AI & MLMain Stage
TUE 116:00–16:30Shipping Faster with Hexagon Cloud PipelinesSPONSORED
Developer ExperienceMain Stage
TUE 116:45–18:00WELCOME RECEPTIONALL ROOMS
DAY 2 · WED, DEC 2
WED 28:30–9:00DOORS & COFFEEALL ROOMS
WED 29:00–9:45Engineering Culture at Scale: Lessons from a Decade of Growth
Grace Park (CTO · Fernwood Robotics)
Developer ExperienceMain Stage
WED 210:00–10:30On-Call Without Burnout: Humane Incident Response
Liam O'Donnell (SRE Lead · Quayside)
InfrastructureRiver Hall
WED 210:00–10:30Feature Flags Are Tech Debt (and That's Okay)
Ingrid Solberg (Product Engineer · Fjord Analytics)
Developer ExperienceLakeview Room
WED 210:45–11:30Inside the Token Budget: Serving LLMs Without Burning Money
Hannah Weiss (ML Engineer · Lattice & Loom)
AI & MLMain Stage
WED 212:00–13:00LUNCHALL ROOMS
WED 213:00–14:30Docs as Code: Building a Developer Portal Your Team Will Actually Use
Aisha Bello (Developer Advocate · Hexagon Cloud)
Developer ExperienceWorkshop Studio
WED 213:00–13:30Mobile Release Trains That Don't Derail
Ravi Chandran (Mobile Lead · Papercrane)
Developer ExperienceMain Stage
WED 214:30–15:00AFTERNOON COFFEEALL ROOMS
WED 215:00–15:30Observability from Day OneSPONSORED
InfrastructureMain Stage
WED 215:45–16:30Postgres at the Edge: Patterns for Global Data
Kenji Mori (Engineering Manager · Papercrane)
InfrastructureMain Stage
DAY 3 · THU, DEC 3
THU 38:30–9:00DOORS & COFFEEALL ROOMS
THU 39:00–9:30The Accessibility Wins Hiding in Your Design System
Elena Vasquez (Accessibility Lead · Tidepool)
Web PlatformRiver Hall
THU 39:00–9:30From Cron to Queues: Evolving Background Jobs
Diego Fuentes (Platform Engineer · Sundial)
InfrastructureMain Stage
THU 39:45–10:15Typed End-to-End: Sharing Contracts Between Client and Server
Ana Petrova (Staff Software Engineer · Meridian Grid)
Web PlatformMain Stage
THU 310:30–11:00COFFEE BREAKALL ROOMS
THU 312:00–13:00LUNCHALL ROOMS
THU 313:00–15:30OPEN SPACE — BRING YOUR TOPICSALL ROOMS
DAY 4 · FRI, DEC 4
FRI 49:00–9:30DOORS & COFFEEALL ROOMS
FRI 49:30–10:00Streaming Data Without the Ops Hangover
Omar Haddad (Data Engineer · Meridian Grid)
InfrastructureMain Stage
FRI 410:15–11:00The Boring Revolution: Why Reliability Is the Most Exciting Problem in Tech
Nadia Karim (VP Engineering · Cobalt Systems)
InfrastructureMain Stage
FRI 411:00–11:30CLOSING REMARKS & PRIZE DRAWALL ROOMS
FRI 411:30–12:30FAREWELL LUNCHALL ROOMS