THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AGENTIC AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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AGENDA

BEYOND THE EVENT HORIZON

WORKSHOP ADD-ON

+$100

Choose your own adventure through hands-on Temporal workshops. Build crash-proof applications with Durable Execution, or create production-ready GenAI agents, and explore versioning strategies for evolving Workflows and Workers in production.

HACKATHON ADD-ON

FREE

Kick off Replay 2026 with our annual Hackathon. This year’s hackathon is for experienced Temporal users to build new and exciting projects for Code Exchange, which we’ll celebrate by demoing to fellow conference-goers on the main event stage.

HACKATHON

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

BUILD TOGETHER

This year’s hackathon is for experienced Temporal users to build new and exciting projects for the code exchange. Attendees will form teams, collaborate, and showcase their creations, fostering community and friendships while learning and growing as engineers. The event culminates in demos where attendees will deploy each other’s projects from the code exchange, with the demonstrator and the original team teaming up to present, and then these projects are celebrated by fellow conference-goers on the main event stage.

FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

BEGINNER TO BUILDER BOOTCAMP - GO

This workshop provides an accelerated journey for developers ready to build their first Temporal application. In this hands-on workshop you’ll gain a deeper understanding of Durable Execution, discover how Temporal delivers crash-proof execution, and learn how this relates to best practices for application developers.

This workshop expects no prior knowledge of Temporal and is appropriate for any experience level who wants to build a Temporal application. If you’re new to these concepts and want to get a head start, you can complete this tutorial prior to the Workshop. If you’d like a deeper dive into the basics, take our free Temporal 101: Introducing the Temporal Platform course.

BEGINNER TO BUILDER BOOTCAMP - JAVA

This workshop provides an accelerated journey for developers ready to build their first Temporal application. In this hands-on workshop you’ll gain a deeper understanding of Durable Execution, discover how Temporal delivers crash-proof execution, and learn how this relates to best practices for application developers.

This workshop expects no prior knowledge of Temporal and is appropriate for any experience level who wants to build a Temporal application. If you’re new to these concepts and want to get a head start, you can complete this tutorial prior to the Workshop. If you’d like a deeper dive into the basics, take our free Temporal 101: Introducing the Temporal Platform course.

Building durable AI Agents with Temporal + Versioning Temporal Workflows - Python

This full-day workshop covers two essential Temporal topics through hands-on exercises. In the morning you’ll build production-ready AI agents that seamlessly engage humans and can run for extended periods. We will explore both the use of Agent SDKs (i.e. OpenAI, Pydantic, etc.) and native Temporal implementations.

In the afternoon you’ll explore various versioning strategies for safely evolving Workflows and Workers in production, including deployment practices, Worker routing, and emergency remediation techniques.

HALF-DAY WORKSHOP

01:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Building Durable AI Applications with Temporal - Python

In this half-day workshop participants will build production-read AI agents that seamlessly engage humans, and can run for extended periods of time. We will explore both the use of Agent SDKs (i.e. OpenAI, Pydantic, etc.) and native Temporal implementations.

07:00 AM - 09:00 AM

Registration Opens

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote

Maxim Fateev

CTO & Co-Founder | Temporal

Samar Abbas

CEO & Co-Founder | Temporal

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Orchestrating Data Pipelines at Scale with Temporal at Fivetran

Zainab Merchant

Director of Engineering | Fivetran

Durable Execution & Agentic AI in Customer Accounts Transfers

Suresh Nageswaran

Sr. Director | Grid Dynamics

Resource Fairness: Implementing (and deprecating) a Lease Broker

Andrew Wells

Sr. Software Engineer | Relativity

Agentic Data Infra: How Instacart is Leveraging Temporal for Agentic Orchestration and Workflows

Anant Agarwal

Staff Software Engineer | Instacart

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Temporal and Autonomous Vehicles Infrastructure at Nvidia

Jeremy Cook

Sr. Software Engineer | NVIDIA

Matt Tescher

Software Engineer | NVIDIA

Accepting Complexity, Awakening to Simplicity: A Temporal Awakening Story

Shabnam Emdadi

Staff Engineer | Shopify

The Future Is Deterministic - Building the Next Generation on Temporal

Alban Preldakaj

Principal, Head of Core Engineering | Apollo Global Management

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Lunch

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM

AI Panel

Dan Kador

VP of Product Engineering | Abridge

Steve Androulakis

Senior Staff Solutions Architect | Temporal

Ertan Dogrultan

Director of Engineering | Replit

Jules Belveze

Software Engineer | Dust.tt

Rainbow Deployments in The Cloud

Alyssa Krueger

Sr. Software Engineer | Alaska Airlines

Confidently Shipping with Temporal: A Look at Our Evolving Engineering Process and Internal Tooling

Anastasiya Melentyeva

Software Engineer | Xero

Hudson Southey-Gordon

Software Engineer | Xero

03:00 PM - 03:45 PM

The Path to Temporal General Availability at Netflix

Rob Zienert

Sr. Software Engineer | Netflix

LinkedIn's reliable migration of 3 million cpu cores of compute to Kubernetes by using Temporal

Hengyang Hu

Staff Software Engineer | LinkedIn

04:15 PM - 05:00 PM

Building Flexible, Long-Running Agent Workflows with Temporal

Catherine Zhang

Software Engineer | Block

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Networking Reception

07:00 AM - 09:00 AM

Registration Opens

09:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Product Keynote

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Durable Agents: Long-running AI workflows in a flakey world

Samuel Colvin

Founder | Pydantic

From Bottlenecks to Self-Service: How Duolingo Built Workflow-as-a-Service with Temporal Nexus

Zhihao Wang

Sr. Software Engineer | Duolingo

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

100 Temporal Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

Jacob LeGrone

Software Engineer | Datadog

Retool Agents: Building a Robust, Production-Ready AI Agent Platform with Temporal

Lam Tran

Software Engineer | Retool

Smarter Workflows, Leaner Costs: Inside Yum! Brands’ Temporal Evolution

Yeshwanth Kumar Pentakota

Staff Software Engineer Lead | Yum! Brands

12:30 PM - 01:30 PM

Lunch

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM

Platform Panel

Cornelia Davis

Sr. Staff Developer Advocate | Temporal

Jack Burns

Software Engineer | Nordstrom

Jonathan Jaegerman

Software Engineer | Netflix

Slava Vitebski

Software Architect | Redis

03:00 PM - 03:45 PM

Temporal at Scale: Lessons in Migration and Security

04:15 PM - 05:00 PM

How Temporal Powers Salesforce's AI-Driven DDoS Protection

Simone Mainardi

Principal Network Security Engineer | Salesforce

Prabhat Singh

Vice President, Software Engineering | Salesforce

Gagan Shivananda Bharathi Gangothri

Principal Network Security Engineer | Salesforce

Temporal and Streaming: Real-Time Continuous Data from your Workers to your Customers

Eric Ziegler

Software Architect | Washington Post

05:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Evening Celebration