AI Coding Summit 2026

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and Remix.

Staff Engineer @REDACTED, ReactJS Advocate, Speaker, Producer, Synthwave Artist.

Ado has spent 15 years building things on the web and helping others do the same. Currently at Anthropic, he helps manage the community and creates content helping developers get the most out of Claude. Prior to Anthropic, Ado has worked in various leadership, developer relations, and community roles at Sourcegraph, DigitalOcean, MongoDB, and Auth0.

Eddy is a passionate Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience with a focus on front-end web development, but also expanding in backend, mobile development, and DevOps. Eddy works as a consultant at FrontValue, and he works on SaaS projects on the side.

Developer, primarily into the Apple Platforms world and playing around with AI driven coding. I have the goal of army of AI co-workers so I can finish my games backlog

DevRel for Firebase Studio at Google

Craig is a software educator, backend developer, and self-taught polyglot who thrives in the deep end and loves doing what people say isn't possible. He subscribes to the growth mindset, and hopes you will too. He knows that coding is fun, and makes sure that learning it feels that way too. As a developer, his strength is bridging the gap between idea and implementation to ensure that both programmers and product managers are speaking the same language. You should hang out. Craig lives in Portland, Oregon.

Mike Mikula is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer whose journey began at 17 when he was featured in The Wall Street Journal for his pioneering work in 3D virtual worlds. Over the next decade, he built, scaled, and successfully exited his own software company, growing its user base to over one million. Today, Mike is at the forefront of AI innovation, channeling his passion and expertise into maximizing efficiency for development productivity.

Louis is a co-founder of Vibe Kanban. A self-taught full-stack engineer, he's spent five years at the intersection of AI and developer productivity, from neural code search (2021) to LLM-based code translation (2024) to Vibe Kanban today. He also runs the AI Tinkerers London community.

Naresh is a software engineer on the Agents team at Cloudflare, building opinionated abstractions on the Cloudflare Developer Platform to run agents on production and give them access to sandbox environments. He was a founder prior to joining Cloudflare, building coding agents that were at the top of SWE Bench and was part of the YCombinator Summer 2023 batch. He was a founding engineer building payments infrastructure for India in the early part of his career and contributor to Open Source projects like gRPC.

Tech leader leveraging AI to solve real business problems. Built and scaled AI solutions across multiple ventures - from custom agent architectures to enterprise RAG systems and local AI deployments. My biggest passion is teaching others how to leverage AI effectively. I run a private AI community and a YouTube channel breaking down complex AI concepts into practical, hands-on guides. My content mostly covers building AI agents and leveraging AI coding assistants in ways that actually scale.

Carly is Developer Advocate Lead at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a technologist at a large investment bank, specialising in front-end web development and agility. She is a UI developer, who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker and a regular blogger. She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.

Stepan Suvorov has over 15 years of experience in web development, information security, and scaling tech startups. As the CTO at Studytube, he has led the AI-driven transformation strategy, introducing innovative features. Stepan is an expert in applying AI, particularly tools like ChatGPT, to streamline software development, from code generation and debugging to documentation and code reviews. A Google Developer Expert and frequent conference speaker, he is passionate about teaching developers how to use AI to boost efficiency and deliver high-quality results in real-world applications.

Daniel Sogl is a Consultant at Thinktecture AG and a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies – Web Development. He helps companies design and implement complex web applications, with a strong focus on modern web technologies with Angular as well as Generative AI and AI-assisted software development. Knowledge sharing is one of his core passions – as a speaker, trainer, and author, he regularly contributes to conferences, workshops, and publications. His mission is to foster technical excellence and empower teams to build sustainable, future-proof software solutions.

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps. A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications. With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following: - 30,000 LinkedIn connections - 7,000 Medium subscribers - 100,000+ monthly readers - 4 IT books.

John Robert is a Senior Data & Machine Learning Engineer at Sunnic Lighthouse (Enerparc AG), working at the intersection of data engineering, machine learning, and cloud platforms. He previously contributed to autonomous driving projects at Bosch and Mercedes-Benz, gaining hands-on experience with safety-critical AI systems. John is a frequent speaker at conferences such as PyCon, PyData, and Data Native, with a focus on AI safety, transparency, and trustworthy machine learning. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and building projects like PetWorld+ and SpreadsheetProAI, etc

Alex Astrum is a passionate builder working in Developer Relations at Google’s Firebase, where he helps teams ship production-grade AI features with Genkit, Vertex AI, and Firebase Studio. He authored Firebase codelabs on Genkit and Gemini Extensions. He enjoys presenting live workshops and volunteering at hackathons. His current focus is around the transformational potential of AI in the app building space.

Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless. He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014 he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which later was acquired by a networking giant. At this startup he also met Ori Keren and Dan Lines, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering, solving big challenges, and this time he is focusing on the world of Dev Productivity and Experience. He is also the host of the very successful Hebrew Podcast - Dev Interrupted.

Former Coding bootcamp instructor, Oracle cloud engineer, and current AWS developer working with Agentic AI. Transitioned career from biomedical sciences into tech after college. Passionate about developer productivity and success.

Dr. Nikita Golovko is a seasoned Solution Architect with over 16 years of experience in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective software architectures for industrial and business-critical systems. With a strong academic background and research in machine learning, he bridges the gap between advanced AI technologies and real-world applications on the shop floor. Nikita has led full project lifecycles—from requirements and architecture design to deployment—ensuring compliance with security and industry standards. He is known for translating business needs into robust architectures and aligning cross-functional teams. Passionate about innovation and sustainability, he focuses on applying AI, IoT, and edge computing to drive continuous improvement in industrial environments.

I bridge technical architecture and product vision to build impactful software solutions. My expertise spans from C++ and AWS to Node.js and Docker, leading end-to-end development for clients like the United Nations, Youtube and Mythos Labs. I focus on transforming complex challenges into efficient, user-centric systems, leveraging a strong R&D mindset to turn insights into high-impact products.