Accelerate Chicago 2026
Jun 22 - 24, 2026
Craft software with confidence in 2026. You ship it, you own it, you maintain it.
Experts from Accelerate Chicago 2026
Scott Hanselman
VP, Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft/GitHub
Alistair Cockburn
Independent
Co-authored the Agile Manifesto
Allen Holub
Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens
Nathen Harvey
Google Cloud
DORA Lead and Product Manager at Google Cloud
Bret Fisher
Core Enable
Container and CI/CD pro. Agentic DevOps advisor.
Mike Amundsen
Amundsen,com, Inc.
The ultimate API expert. #api
Diana Montalion
Mentrix Group
Systems architecture, thinking and design
Cedric Hurst
Spantree
Principal & Lead Software Engineer at Spantree
Tim Berglund
Confluent
VP Developer Relations at Confluent
Eric Johnson
AWS
Principal Developer Advocate at AWS
Sam Smith
Coinbase
Senior Staff Accessibility Lead at Coinbase
PJ Hagerty
GitButler
Open Source, AI, Developer Relations, Entrepreneur
Advait Patel
Broadcom
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Broadcom
Brian Martin
AbbVie
Chief AI Product Owner, Senior Research Fellow at AbbVie
Jenny Richards
Rebel 75
Principal of Strategy and Execution at Rebel 75
Jessie Shternshus
The Improv Effect
CEO at The Improv Effect
Kyle McCluskey
TXI Digital
Data Engineering/ML Leader @ TXI
Mark Rickmeier
TXI
CEO at TXI. Founder of Walkshop.
Nieky Allen
Slalom Build
Senior Software Architect at Slalom Build
Roberto Perez Alcolea
Netflix
Software Engineer at Netflix
Victory Omole
Infleqtion
Quantum Software Engineer at Infleqtion
