Our hot topics for 2026 were built to empower applications and software engineering leaders to turn AI-driven vision into action. Innovate, lead, and deliver adaptive strategies with results that matter — building the future, today.
Explore our 2026 tracks and our 2026 conference brochure for a quick look at our theme, tracks and hot topics.
AI Agent Architecture
Establish fundamental components and architectural patterns for building AI agents while preventing failures and technical debt.
AI-Ready Teams
Plan for AI’s workforce impact by building AI-focused teams that deliver business value.
AI Strategy and Implementation
Implement AI strategically to bridge expectations and reality, driving enterprise-wide transformation. Our 2025 Keynote built the foundations for this topic.
Application Modernization
Apply modernization practices, processes and technologies to rebuild, replace or refactor software, applications and integrations.
API Trends
Integrate AI-driven API trends such as MCP and A2A, distributed API management and API-first development.
Cost Optimization
Plan, deliver, and measure IT value to balance cost and growth. View our 2025 cost optimization sessions.
Future of Leadership
Understand what leadership will look like in the next five years.
Integrating Intelligent AI Apps and Agents
Create smart AI-powered solutions and make them work together with other technology to improve decision making and enhance user experiences.
Modernizing Software Eng Teams
Understand the evolving role of the software engineer, developers, and AI agents as they collaborate, combining creativity and automation for business value.
Rationalization
Learn the emerging practices for rationalizing applications based on cost reduction, capability alignment or vendor management.
Workflow Orchestration
Optimize business processes by coordinating automation, human tasks and workflows across systems.