THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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AGENDA

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

BADGE PICKUP + BREAKFAST

LOBBY / 2ND FLOOR

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

WORKSHOP GO GO
Beginner to Builder Bootcamp

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.
WORKSHOP JAVA JAVA
Beginner to Builder Bootcamp

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.
WORKSHOP PYTHON AI/VERSIONING PYTHON AI/VERSIONING
Building Durable AI Agents With Temporal + Versioning Temporal Workflows

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.
WORKSHOP PYTHON NEXUS/AI PYTHON NEXUS/AI
Building Durable AI Applications With Temporal - Python

This is a full day workshop where you will learn to connect Durable Executions across team, namespace, and even cloud boundaries in this workshop covering one of Temporal's newest features, Nexus. Give your team clean service contracts, secure access to execution, integrated observability, and the full resilience of Temporal without the boilerplate.

In the afternoon 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.
HACKATHON
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.

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

2ND FLOOR

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

WORKSHOP GO GO
Beginner to Builder Bootcamp

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.
WORKSHOP JAVA JAVA
Beginner to Builder Bootcamp

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.
WORKSHOP PYTHON AI/VERSIONING PYTHON AI/VERSIONING
Building Durable AI Agents With Temporal + Versioning Temporal Workflows

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.
WORKSHOP PYTHON NEXUS/AI PYTHON NEXUS/AI
Building Durable AI Applications With Temporal - Python

This is a full day workshop where you will learn to connect Durable Executions across team, namespace, and even cloud boundaries in this workshop covering one of Temporal's newest features, Nexus. Give your team clean service contracts, secure access to execution, integrated observability, and the full resilience of Temporal without the boilerplate.

In the afternoon 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.
HACKATHON
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.

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

RECEPTION

LOBBY

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

BADGE PICKUP + BREAKFAST

LOBBY / DOWNSTAIRS

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote

Samar Abbas
Temporal Samar Abbas CEO & Co-Founder
Maxim Fateev
Temporal Maxim Fateev CTO & Co-Founder
Amjad Masad
Replit Amjad Masad CEO & Founder
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

BREAK / GO UPSTAIRS

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Orchestrating Data Pipelines at Scale with Temporal at Fivetran

Zainab Merchant
Fivetran Zainab Merchant Director of Engineering
Madhav Sodhani
Fivetran Madhav Sodhani Software Engineer
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Durable Execution & Agentic AI in Customer Accounts Transfers

Suresh Nageswaran
Grid Dynamics Suresh Nageswaran Sr. Director
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Agentic Data Infra: How Instacart is Leveraging Temporal for Agentic Orchestration and Workflows

Anant Agarwal
Instacart Anant Agarwal Staff Software Engineer
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How we built a real-time voice agent with Temporal: when resilience isn't the top priority

Eliot Miller
Gradient Labs Eliot Miller Backend Engineer
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Announcing New AI Capabilities

Johann Schleier-Smith
Temporal Johann Schleier-Smith Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Ethan Ruhe
Temporal Ethan Ruhe Staff Product Manager, AI
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Workshop: Secure Your Temporal Agents with Tailscale

Mason Egger
Temporal Mason Egger Sr. Solutions Architect
Kartik Bharath
Tailscale Kartik Bharath Solutions Engineer
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11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

BREAK

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Temporal and Autonomous Vehicles Infrastructure at Nvidia

Jeremy Cook
NVIDIA Jeremy Cook Sr. Software Engineer
Matt Tescher
NVIDIA Matt Tescher Software Engineer
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From Normalizing Complexity to Recognizing the Price

Shabnam Emdadi
Shopify Shabnam Emdadi Staff Engineer
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The Future Is Deterministic - Building the Next Generation on Temporal

Alban Preldakaj
Apollo Global Management Alban Preldakaj Principal, Head of Core Engineering
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A New Way of Building With Temporal

Tom Wheeler
Temporal Tom Wheeler Principal Developer Advocate
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

DOWNSTAIRS

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

BREAK / GO UPSTAIRS

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

AI Panel

Dan Kador
Abridge Dan Kador VP of Product Engineering
Ertan Dogrultan
Replit Ertan Dogrultan Director of Engineering
Jules Belveze
Dust.tt Jules Belveze Software Engineer
Ethan Ruhe
Temporal Ethan Ruhe Staff Product Manager, AI
Reggie Gomez
Hebbia AI Reggie Gomez Member of Technical Staff
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Rainbow Deployments in The Cloud

Satnam Dhanoa
Alaska Airlines Satnam Dhanoa Sr. Software Engineer
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Confidently Shipping with Temporal: A Look at Our Evolving Engineering Process and Internal Tooling

Anastasiya Melentyeva
Xero Anastasiya Melentyeva Software Engineer
Hudson Southey-Gordon
Xero Hudson Southey-Gordon Software Engineer
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Simpler By Design: Announcing Standalone Activities

Phil Prasek
Temporal Phil Prasek Sr. Staff Product Manager
Dan Davison
Temporal Dan Davison Sr. Software Engineer
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How OpenAI uses Temporal

Kshitij Wadhwa
OpenAI Kshitij Wadhwa Member of Technical Staff
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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

BREAK

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

The Path to Temporal General Availability at Netflix

Rob Zienert
Netflix Rob Zienert Sr. Software Engineer
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LinkedIn's reliable migration of 3 million cpu cores of compute to Kubernetes by using Temporal

Ankit Rajesh Methwani
LinkedIn Ankit Rajesh Methwani Sr. Software Engineer
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Lessons Learned Using Temporal to Run Temporal Cloud

Manu Srivastava
Temporal Manu Srivastava Engineering Manager
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Lightning Round Talks

Jack Burns
Nordstrom Jack Burns Software Engineer
Catherine Jue
kernel.sh Catherine Jue Co-Founder
Johnathan Chan
RBC Johnathan Chan Director, Corporate Real Estate
Ryan Stevens
ZoomInfo Ryan Stevens Sr. Principal Software Engineer
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3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

BREAK

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Powering AI Agents with Temporal & kgoose: Lessons from Block’s High-Scale Production Use Case

Catherine Zhang
Block Catherine Zhang Software Engineer
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Building Agentic Consumer Products with Temporal

Jeremy Stribling
Cursor Jeremy Stribling Software Engineer
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Resource Fairness: Implementing (and deprecating) a Lease Broker

Andrew Wells
Relativity Andrew Wells Sr. Software Engineer
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Build with Confidence: Announcing Major Worker Improvements

Carly de Frondeville
Temporal Carly de Frondeville Software Engineer
Stefan Richter
Temporal Stefan Richter Sr. Staff Software Engineer
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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

NETWORKING

LOBBY

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

BADGE PICKUP + BREAKFAST

LOBBY / DOWNSTAIRS

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Product Keynote

Preeti Somal
Temporal Preeti Somal Sr. VP of Engineering
Dan Rosanova
Temporal Dan Rosanova VP, Product
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

BREAK / GO UPSTAIRS

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

100 Temporal Mistakes (and how to avoid them)

Jacob LeGrone
Datadog Jacob LeGrone Software Engineer
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From Bottlenecks to Self-Service: How Duolingo Built Workflow-as-a-Service with Temporal Nexus

Zhihao Wang
Duolingo Zhihao Wang Sr. Software Engineer
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How OpenAI Uses Codex to Change How We Build

Dominik Kundel
OpenAI Dominik Kundel Developer Experience Lead
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A New Foundation: Building with CHASM

Paul Nordstrom
Temporal Paul Nordstrom Principal Software Engineer
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11:15 AM - 11:45 AM

BREAK

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

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

Samuel Colvin
Pydantic Samuel Colvin Founder
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Retool Agents: Building a Robust, Production-Ready AI Agent Platform with Temporal

Lam Tran
Retool Lam Tran Software Engineer
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Smarter Workflows, Leaner Costs: Inside Yum! Brands’ Temporal Evolution

Yeshwanth Kumar Pentakota
Yum! Brands Yeshwanth Kumar Pentakota Staff Software Engineer Lead
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Cruising with Temporal: Navigating Road Bumps from Design to Production

Tihomir Surdilovic
Temporal Tihomir Surdilovic Senior Staff Developer Success Engineer
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

DOWNSTAIRS

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

BREAK / GO UPSTAIRS

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Platform Panel

Cornelia Davis
Temporal Cornelia Davis Sr. Staff Developer Advocate
Jack Burns
Nordstrom Jack Burns Software Engineer
Jonathan Jaegerman
Netflix Jonathan Jaegerman Software Engineer
Slava Vitebski
Redis Slava Vitebski Software Architect
Alban Preldakaj
Apollo Global Management Alban Preldakaj Principal, Head of Core Engineering
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From Scale to Stability: High Availability in Temporal

Liang Mei
Temporal Liang Mei Director of Engineering
Sergey Bykov
Temporal Sergey Bykov Principal Software Engineer
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How We Reliably Send a Million Messages per Request: A Temporal Workflow Deep Dive

Parth Nagori
Twilio Parth Nagori Staff Software Engineer
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Agentic Ambient Listening at Abridge

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2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

BREAK

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Temporal at Scale: Lessons in Migration and Security

Ian Yap
Coinbase Ian Yap Staff Software Engineer
David Nicholas
Bitovi David Nicholas System Engineer
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Beyond the State Machine: scaling order orchestration at Booking.com

Roman Kuskov
Booking.com Roman Kuskov Sr. Software Engineer
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Announcing Priority & Fairness for Temporal

David Reiss
Temporal David Reiss Staff Software Engineer
Rahul Kekre
Temporal Rahul Kekre Sr. Engineering Manager
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Lightning Round Talks

Franz Busch
Apple Franz Busch Sr. Software Engineer
Hugh Neale
Thand Hugh Neale Founder
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3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

BREAK

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

How Temporal Powers Salesforce's AI-Driven DDoS Protection

Simone Mainardi
Salesforce Simone Mainardi Principal Network Security Engineer
Prabhat Singh
Salesforce Prabhat Singh VP, Software Engineering
Gagan Shivananda Bharathi Gangothri
Salesforce Gagan Shivananda Bharathi Gangothri Principal Network Security Engineer
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Streaming Messages from Temporal Workers

Eric Ziegler
Washington Post Eric Ziegler Software Architect
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Supercharging Cloud Orchestration using Temporal Open Source

Vivek Gupta
Capital One Vivek Gupta Director, Distinguished Engineer
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From Nothing to Everything: One Single Alert to Managing Datacenters with AI

Jeff Ferland
Crusoe Jeff Ferland Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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Bridging the CHASM: A Deep Dive into Temporal Server's State Machine SDK

Roey Berman
Temporal Roey Berman Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Yichao Yang
Temporal Yichao Yang Staff Software Engineer
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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

CLOSING & AFTER PARTY

LOBBY