SF : Developer Week 2026

Three days at DeveloperWeek 2026 at the San Jose Convention Center, February 18 through 20. The scale is what hits first. A multi track conference and expo, a thousand plus attendee hackathon running in parallel, a thousand plus attendee tech hiring expo, and an agenda dense enough that you have to choose deliberately. I spent most of my time across the AI and LLM Engineering track, the cloud and APIs track, and the keynote stage, and talked to enough founders, platform teams, and individual contributors to fill a notebook. Three keynotes worth flagging. Nazrul Islam from IBM walked through a roadmap for an Enterprise AI Fabric, framing the production AI stack as something that has to be built like networking, not procured like SaaS. Katie Steigman from Yahoo Mail dug into product strategy for turning inboxes into intelligent hubs, which was a useful counterpoint to the agent only framing of the week. Richmond Alake from Oracle introduced Memory Engineering, exploring how to build the memory layer of the agent stack, which I think is going to be one of the more important conversations of the next year. The signal I came for, more than any single talk, was where practitioner consensus is settling on agents, evaluations, and developer tooling, and that signal came through clearly. Worth the trip, and worth blocking out the calendar for next year.