Cicero Demo Conf 20262026-09-24 – 2026-09-25 · Pier 27 Pavilion

Sessions

5 published
5 of 5 sessions
Day
Topic
Track
Format
Location

What we learned shipping an agent to 40,000 people

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 10:30 AM – 11:15 AMMain Hall
Applied AIKeynoteMain Hall
Priya Nair — Head of Product Engineering, Halcyon

A candid account of an agentic feature in production: what the evaluation harness caught, what it did not, and the two incidents that changed how we scope tool…

Running Postgres for people who would rather not

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 12:00 PM – 12:30 PMStudio A
PlatformTalkcase studyStudio A
Sam Rivera — Staff Engineer, Meridian Data

The five operational decisions that account for most self-hosted Postgres pain, and what to pick for each when nobody on the team wants to be the database perso…

Your build is slow because of four things

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 2:30 PM – 3:00 PMStudio A
Developer ExperienceTalkStudio A
Jonas Holm — Build Systems Engineer, Nordwerk

A profiling walkthrough of a monorepo build that went from eleven minutes to ninety seconds, with the measurements that justified each change.

A workshop on schema migrations that do not lock

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 3:30 PM – 5:00 PMWorkshop B
PlatformWorkshopneeds A/V checkWorkshop B
Amara Osei — Principal Engineer, OstreaSam Rivera — Staff Engineer, Meridian Data

Hands-on: take a table with sixty million rows through four migrations without downtime. Bring a laptop with Docker.

Designing for the keyboard first

Friday, September 25, 2026 · 11:00 AM – 11:30 AMMain Hall
Developer ExperienceTalkfirst-time speakerMain Hall
Mei Tanaka — Design Engineer, Independent

Dense, keyboard-driven interfaces are a minority taste that turns out to serve everyone. How to add a command palette without it becoming a junk drawer.

Sessions · Cicero Demo Conf 2026