DevConf.US 2026

Schedule changes

Version 0.20 Sept. 24, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.19 Sept. 24, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.18 Sept. 23, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have moved a session around: “Build a Multi-Product Kubernetes Solution with Helmet (Hands-On)” by David Peraza, Romain Arnaud (Sept. 25, 2026, 1:30 p.m. → Sept. 25, 2026, 1 p.m.)

Version 0.17 Sept. 22, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Demystifying Quantization: Accelerating Open-Source LLM Inference with Red Hat AI” by Kyle Sayers.

Sadly, we had to cancel a session: “Becoming an AI First UX Team: Lessons for Experts and Newbs” by Beau Morley

We have moved a session around: “The End of the Junior Developer: How Gen Z Builders Are Redefining Engineering Culture” by Artemis Leonardou (Sept. 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m. → Sept. 25, 2026, 2:20 p.m.)

Version 0.16 Sept. 22, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Time for Clarity: Aligning Red Hat, Vendors, and Customers with PTP Testable Requirements” by Jim Ramsay.

Version 0.15 Sept. 21, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Hands-On llm-d: Building High-Performance AI Inference at Scale” by Christopher Nuland.

Version 0.14 Sept. 21, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “When AI Can Act: Engineering Guardrails for Production Agentic Systems” by Nirmal Jingar
  • “The Backend-for-Frontend Pattern: When It Breaks Down” by Khushi Kothari
  • “Observability-Driven Development: The Missing Link for the AI Coding Era” by Russ Whitman
  • “DevOps is Dead. Long Live DevOps” by Russ Whitman

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.13 Sept. 18, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “llm-d-async: Efficient Asynchronous Inference for Batch Workloads” by Madhu Goutham Reddy Ambati, Aneesh Puttur.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Device Mapper (But Were Afraid to Ask)” by Neal Gompa, bmr.southpaw
  • “When the Interface Reads Your Mind: User Agency and Control in Passively Adaptive Brain-Computer Interfaces” by Yuti Vora
  • “Honey, I Shrunk the Cluster! A Pragmatic Learning Path from Podman to Kubernetes via MicroShift” by Alex Callejas
  • “A Smarter Approach to Disaster Recovery: Mirroring Across Namespaces with Ceph and Rook” by Nikhil Ladha, Rewant Soni
  • “Operating AI Agents in Production: End-to-End Tracing with OpenTelemetry and MLflow” by Roberto Carratalá
  • “Smart Storage for Hosted Control Planes: Connecting to Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Ceph CSI Operator” by Nikhil Ladha, Rewant Soni
  • “Dinosaurs and Hummingbirds: How bootc changes Linux forever” by Jorge Castro

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.12 Sept. 15, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “How Project Lightwell is Rewriting Open Source Security” by Mairin Duffy.

Version 0.11 Sept. 11, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

Sadly, we had to cancel a session: “From VMs to Kubernetes: A Practical Guide to Modernizing Without Breaking Things” by Yashvardhan Nanavati, Tulsi Chandwani

We have moved a session around: “Compliance as Code for Finance: Automating Controls, Audit Trails, and Recovery” by Francisco Zompa, Jose Luis Vazquez Burgos (Sept. 24, 2026, 4 p.m. → Sept. 24, 2026, 1 p.m.)

Version 0.10 Sept. 8, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Security Process Improvements in Ceph and Rook ​” by Gabriella Roman, Sage McTaggart.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “LLM inference using vLLM on TPU and GKE” by Tahmid Muttaki
  • “When AI Can Act: Engineering Guardrails for Production Agentic Systems” by Nirmal Jingar
  • “Silent Breakages: When Security Fixes Pass CI but Fail in Production” by Satish Mane

Version 0.9 Aug. 25, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “When AI Can Act: Engineering Guardrails for Production Agentic Systems” by Nirmal Jingar.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “Open Source Analytics 101” by Avi Press
  • “Q-FENCE: A Hybrid Framework for Quantum-Resistant Digital Infrastructure” by Paul Power
  • “Portrait of a Server on Fire” by Rafael Vasquez

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.8 Aug. 18, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.7 Aug. 18, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “When GPUs Die Mid-Inference: Cross-Node Fault Tolerance for vLLM Serving on Kubernetes” by Sean McGovern
  • “Extending SBOM into AI-BOM: Managing ML Artifacts Beyond Traditional Software” by Ayushi Tiwari
  • “Red Teaming AI Agents on OpenShift: What Actually Stops the Attacks” by Roy Belio
  • “GitOps at Scale: Building a Virtualization Migration Factory on OpenShift” by Vikas Mulaje, Raffaele Spazzoli
  • “Emerging LLM Serving Architectures: Dynamic PD Disaggregation & Semantic Routing” by Ayushi Tiwari
  • “EZIO: Predictable, Fast, Scalable BitTorrent-Based Bare Metal Provisioning” by Date (Yu-Chiang) Huang
  • “Trust but Isolate: Securing LLM Tool Execution with MicroVM Sandboxing” by Rajesh Dulhani, Dipayan Dutta
  • “The Climb Nobody Expected: From ~#1200 to #3 rank on the PyTorch Leaderboard” by Saiesh Prabhu
  • “One Monorepo, 25+ Independent Frontend Apps: What Worked and What Didn’t” by Rohit Bharmal

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.6 Aug. 3, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “Intern 2 TBD”
  • “Pluggable Agents: Introducing the AG-UI Protocol” by Gage Krumbach
  • “Intern 1 TBD”

We have moved a session around: “Q-FENCE: A Hybrid Framework for Quantum-Resistant Digital Infrastructure” by Paul Power (Sept. 24, 2026, 5 p.m. → Sept. 24, 2026, 10 a.m.)

Version 0.5 July 14, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Dinosaurs and Hummingbirds: How bootc changes Linux forever” by Jorge Castro.

Sadly, we had to cancel a session: “Intern 3 TBD”

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.4 June 30, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “DevOps is Dead. Long Live DevOps” by Russ Whitman.

We have moved a session around: “Q-FENCE: A Hybrid Framework for Quantum-Resistant Digital Infrastructure” by Paul Power (Sept. 24, 2026, 4:40 p.m. → Sept. 24, 2026, 5 p.m.)

Version 0.3 June 29, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.2 June 29, 2026

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “All Your Keyboards Are Belong to us” by Federico Lucifredi.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

  • “See the Data, Not the Identity” by Gargi Kshirsagar
  • “From Data Chaos to Clean Dashboards with Snowflake and Streamlit” by Gargi Kshirsagar

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

Version 0.1 June 29, 2026

We released our first schedule!