WeAreDevelopers World Congress Brings the Who’s Who of the Software Industry to San José in Its North America Debut

In this episode of Global Economic Press, Alex Brady discusses the recent WeAreDevelopers World Congress, which made its North American debut in San José. The event, which you can learn more about on their website, brought together over 10,000 developers, artificial intelligence builders, and technology leaders to explore the future of artificial intelligence-powered software. The congress focused on transitioning artificial intelligence from the prototype phase to production, a critical step for the industry. Sead Ahmetović, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of WeAreDevelopers, emphasized the importance of collaboration among labs, platforms, and enterprises to achieve this goal.

The program featured discussions on building and deploying agentic systems, running artificial intelligence-written software in production, and securing autonomous systems. Docker's president, Mark Cavage, delivered a keynote on manufacturing trust and announced Docker Cloud Sandboxes, a new solution for secure artificial intelligence agent execution. The event also included notable speakers such as Thomas Dohmke, Amjad Masad, and Milin Desai, with companies like OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft represented. The congress concluded with plans for the WeAreDevelopers Conference India in Bengaluru, emphasizing the need for a global conversation on artificial intelligence in software development.