From f6e0e3fc15e276bf5262cc2a36775091af786461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjie Gillam Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:32:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Sync data --- scripts/sync-sched/schedule-2026.json | 1397 +++++++++++++------------ scripts/sync-sched/speakers.json | 128 +-- 2 files changed, 819 insertions(+), 706 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/sync-sched/schedule-2026.json b/scripts/sync-sched/schedule-2026.json index 725f1f781b..d9d9303521 100644 --- a/scripts/sync-sched/schedule-2026.json +++ b/scripts/sync-sched/schedule-2026.json @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ "pinned": "N", "name": "Solutions Showcase", "event_start": "2026-05-19 08:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:40", "event_type": "Solutions Showcase", - "description": "", + "description": "In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.", "goers": "2", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", @@ -63,27 +63,28 @@ "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:30pm", + "event_end_time": "5:40pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", "start_time": "08:00:00", "start_time_ts": 1779202800, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:30:00", + "end_time": "17:40:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { "event_key": "1147387", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Keynote Sessions To Be Announced", + "name": "Keynote: Opening Remarks - Speaker To Be Announced", "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 09:25", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 09:15", "event_type": "Keynote Sessions", "description": "", "goers": "3", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Any", "id": "3a574de6a65ba152733cbf247ae54d2d", "venue_id": "2288547", "event_start_year": "2026", @@ -99,19 +100,65 @@ "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "9:25am", + "event_end_time": "9:15am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", "start_time": "09:00:00", "start_time_ts": 1779206400, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "09:25:00", + "end_time": "09:15:00", "event_subtype": "" }, + { + "event_key": "1", + "active": "Y", + "pinned": "N", + "name": "Sponsored Keynote: Federation Patterns We See in the Wild - Uri Goldshtein, CEO, The Guild", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:15", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 09:20", + "event_type": "Keynote Sessions", + "goers": "0", + "seats": "0", + "invite_only": "N", + "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Any", + "id": "76fc09beec012a1f43092ba55a295afb", + "venue_id": "2288547", + "speakers": [ + { + "username": "uri_goldshtein.23xujj9a", + "id": "14900013", + "name": "Uri Goldshtein", + "company": "The Guild", + "custom_order": 0 + } + ], + "event_start_year": "2026", + "event_start_month": "May", + "event_start_month_short": "May", + "event_start_day": "19", + "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_start_time": "9:15am", + "event_end_year": "2026", + "event_end_month": "May", + "event_end_month_short": "May", + "event_end_day": "19", + "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_end_time": "9:20am", + "start_date": "2026-05-19", + "start_time": "09:15:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779207300, + "end_date": "2026-05-19", + "end_time": "09:20:00", + "event_subtype": "", + "description": "" + }, { "event_key": "1143157", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Keynote: The Creator's Curse: Why Meta Is Re-inventing GraphQL - Elena Bukareva & Braxton Bragg, Meta", + "name": "Keynote: The Creator's Curse: Why Meta Is Re-inventing GraphQL - Elena Bukareva, Software Engineering Manager & Braxton Bragg, Senior Product Manager, Meta", "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:25", "event_end": "2026-05-19 09:45", "event_type": "Keynote Sessions", @@ -161,13 +208,59 @@ "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1146935", + "event_key": "2", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Keynote: Creating a Golden Path for GraphQL - Benjie Gillam, Graphile", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:45", + "name": "Keynote: GraphQL in the AI Era - Matt DeBergalis, CEO and Co-Founder, Apollo GraphQL", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:50", "event_end": "2026-05-19 09:55", "event_type": "Keynote Sessions", + "description": "A year ago, we forecast an important role for GraphQL in an AI future. That prediction has come true, with GraphQL now serving as the foundation of critical AI initiatives at household brands in retail, hospitality, health care and many more. Just as importantly, GraphQL's declarative entity-based architecture has proven to be an ideal match for modern agentic development.\n \nIn this talk, we'll share a view of where GraphQL now sits in the modern enterprise stack, recount lessons we've learned putting MCP workloads and agentic software in production with the graph, our roadmap for an AI-first world, and a vision of where GraphQL can and must go next.", + "goers": "0", + "seats": "0", + "invite_only": "N", + "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Any", + "id": "a69fbe0529ffa9b7fb81ab3407e4886c", + "venue_id": "2288547", + "speakers": [ + { + "username": "matt1575", + "id": "7503056", + "name": "Matt DeBergalis", + "company": "Apollo GraphQL", + "custom_order": 0 + } + ], + "event_start_year": "2026", + "event_start_month": "May", + "event_start_month_short": "May", + "event_start_day": "19", + "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_start_time": "9:50am", + "event_end_year": "2026", + "event_end_month": "May", + "event_end_month_short": "May", + "event_end_day": "19", + "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_end_time": "9:55am", + "start_date": "2026-05-19", + "start_time": "09:50:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779209400, + "end_date": "2026-05-19", + "end_time": "09:55:00", + "event_subtype": "" + }, + { + "event_key": "1146935", + "active": "Y", + "pinned": "N", + "name": "Keynote: Creating a Golden Path for GraphQL - Benjie Gillam, Maintainer, Graphile & Kewei Qu, Software Engineer, Meta", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:55", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:05", + "event_type": "Keynote Sessions", "description": "GraphQL's precise specification gives us incredible interoperability and a rich ecosystem of tooling to be used with any compliant GraphQL service... And yet, that hasn't led to every adopter of GraphQL having a great experience. Some leave disillusioned with performance pitfalls, security concerns, and unforeseen complexity. This can be frustrating for successful GraphQL practitioners since in many cases the solutions to these problems have existed for most of the last decade.\n \nThe Golden Path Initiative aims to make it so avoiding common pitfalls becomes the path of least resistance. By encouraging off-the-shelf GraphQL-related software to implement the recommended default behaviours, we hope that GraphQL adopters will have the greatest chance of being successful even without ingesting the vast amount of information in the ecosystem. The Golden Path is not centred on building the most optimal experience, instead it is focused on minimizing downsides: making it so users are exploring around the \"pit of success\", and taking them far from the \"pit of despair\".\n \nBut to do this will take a huge, coordinated community effort! We need successful GraphQL practitioners; maintainers of key GraphQL libraries, frameworks and tooling; and documentation writers to join us over the next 6 months as we lay out the Golden Path, its recommendations and requirements; and then next year: time to start implementing it across the ecosystem!", "goers": "4", "seats": "0", @@ -183,6 +276,13 @@ "name": "Benjie Gillam", "company": "Graphile", "custom_order": 0 + }, + { + "username": "qkw1221", + "id": "18743864", + "name": "Kewei Qu", + "company": "Meta Platforms", + "custom_order": 1 } ], "event_start_year": "2026", @@ -191,34 +291,35 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "9:45am", + "event_start_time": "9:55am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "9:55am", + "event_end_time": "10:05am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "09:45:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779209100, + "start_time": "09:55:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779209700, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "09:55:00", + "end_time": "10:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { "event_key": "1147377", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Keynote Sessions To Be Announced", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 09:55", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:15", + "name": "Keynote: Closing Remarks - Speaker To Be Announced", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:10", "event_type": "Keynote Sessions", "description": "", "goers": "3", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Any", "id": "aa9669cf887841fa3ee79abedd6b15d7", "venue_id": "2288547", "event_start_year": "2026", @@ -227,19 +328,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "9:55am", + "event_start_time": "10:05am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "10:15am", + "event_end_time": "10:10am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "09:55:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779209700, + "start_time": "10:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779210300, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "10:15:00", + "end_time": "10:10:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -247,8 +348,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Break", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:15", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:35", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:10", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:30", "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", "description": "", "goers": "2", @@ -263,19 +364,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "10:15am", + "event_start_time": "10:10am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "10:35am", + "event_end_time": "10:30am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "10:15:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779210900, + "start_time": "10:10:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779210600, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "10:35:00", + "end_time": "10:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -283,8 +384,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Big Graphs, Tiny Contexts: Dev Tools for Agents - Stephen Spalding & Kavitha Srinivasan, Netflix", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:00", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:55", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", "description": "How do you make one of the world's largest federated graphs accessible to token-constrained LLM minions?\n \nWith hundreds of teams contributing to or consuming GraphQL APIs at Netflix, good tools are critical. Today, our GraphQL platform supports engineers across the entire dev lifecycle. However, the nature of developer tooling is rapidly changing.\n \nIt’s no longer enough to have a pretty UI if LLMs can’t access it—”agent-friendly” is now table stakes. \n \nIn this talk, we'll discuss how our tools have adapted to expose agent-friendly interfaces, allowing agents to seamlessly interact with and utilize them for exploring the graph, building queries, designing schemas, and more. \n \nFinally, how can we leverage the power of AI within the tools themselves? We’ll discuss techniques for superpowering GraphQL tooling via focussed agents with guardrails and feedback loops, increasing accuracy and trust.", "goers": "4", @@ -316,19 +417,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "10:35am", + "event_start_time": "10:30am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "11:00am", + "event_end_time": "10:55am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "10:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779212100, + "start_time": "10:30:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779211800, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "11:00:00", + "end_time": "10:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -336,8 +437,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Safely Merging Subgraphs in a Distributed World - Clarice Abreu & Rodrigo Jesus, Brex", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:00", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:55", "event_type": "Federation + Distributed Systems", "description": "In the rush to \"break the monolith\" through GraphQL Federation, organizations can go too far and end up with an explosion of subgraphs. At scale, this can lead to a different kind of pain: high operational overhead, reliability issues, and ultimately, a degraded graph quality. This session explores how to pivot from \"splitting\" to \"merging\" without impacting the customer.\nThe presentation will dive into the workflow developed by Brex to consolidate federated subgraphs safely and reliably, covering:\n•⁠ ⁠The Why: Identifying the tipping point where service fragmentation hurts more than it helps.\n•⁠ ⁠The Strategy: A zero-downtime workflow for merging services covering code migration, schema composition and traffic shifting\n•⁠ ⁠Reliability: How to ensure schema integrity and 0 customer impact during the transition.\n•⁠ ⁠Outcomes: How the consolidation improved our graph design and simplified our overall architecture.\n \nAttendees will leave with a framework for evaluating when federation boundaries are hurting more than helping and a roadmap for executing a \"subgraph smash\" in their own federated infrastructure.", "goers": "0", @@ -369,19 +470,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "10:35am", + "event_start_time": "10:30am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "11:00am", + "event_end_time": "10:55am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "10:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779212100, + "start_time": "10:30:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779211800, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "11:00:00", + "end_time": "10:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -389,14 +490,15 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Sponsored Session: Federation, Reversed: A Consumer-First Future with Fission - David Stutt, Wundergraph", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:00", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 10:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 10:55", "event_type": "Federation + Distributed Systems", "description": "GraphQL Federation traditionally takes a bottom-up approach: individual service schemas are defined first, and the final federated API emerges from the federation algorithm. However, GraphQL's strength is enabling APIs that are designed around what consumers actually need. A bottom-up model can make it harder to intentionally design the federated API surface. In this talk we introduce Fission, a new federation algorithm that enables a consumer-first, design-driven approach to federated GraphQL APIs. We'll show how Fission lets teams start with API design and derive the services therefrom—flipping the traditional federation paradigm on its head. And best yet: we'll explain using cake.", "goers": "0", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Intermediate", "id": "c8e90ab44520b08fdf3eb7daf79864c3", "venue_id": "2288547", "speakers": [ @@ -414,19 +516,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "10:35am", + "event_start_time": "10:30am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "11:00am", + "event_end_time": "10:55am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "10:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779212100, + "start_time": "10:30:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779211800, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "11:00:00", + "end_time": "10:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -434,8 +536,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "React Server Components Vs. GraphQL - Jordan Eldredge, Meta", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:10", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:35", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:30", "event_type": "Servers", "description": "React Server Components (RSC) and GraphQL have considerable overlap in the problems they seek to solve. This makes them competitors in some scenarios.\n \nIn this talk we’ll recount the origins of RSCs at Meta as a prototype within the Relay GraphQL client, discuss how to choose between the two technologies, and end with an exploration of architectures in which they both might reasonably coexist moving forward.", "goers": "3", @@ -460,19 +562,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "11:10am", + "event_start_time": "11:05am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "11:35am", + "event_end_time": "11:30am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "11:10:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779214200, + "start_time": "11:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779213900, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "11:35:00", + "end_time": "11:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -480,8 +582,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Service-to-service GraphQL: The New Sweet Spot! - Mark Larah, Yelp", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:10", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:35", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:30", "event_type": "Servers", "description": "Using GraphQL for service-to-service communication has historically been....frowned upon. Certainly, in isolation, there are compelling alternatives (gRPC, thrift, good ol' REST).\n \nBut in the age of LLMs and SDUI (Server Driven UI), there's lot of data whizzing around microservices. Does GraphQL fit this use case? I'll argue...yes!\n \nYou could define your data models with a combination of REST, gRPC, GraphQL; each layer gets a different transport protocol. Or we could consolidate on GraphQL.\n \nThis talk lays out why and when this makes sense, and what patterns are helpful to achieve this.\n \n(ATTN: CFP reviewers -- fwiw the title is referencing https://productionreadygraphql.com/blog/2020-05-14-sweetspot)", "goers": "4", @@ -506,19 +608,65 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "11:10am", + "event_start_time": "11:05am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "11:35am", + "event_end_time": "11:30am", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "11:10:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779214200, + "start_time": "11:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779213900, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "11:35:00", + "end_time": "11:30:00", + "event_subtype": "" + }, + { + "event_key": "1146936", + "active": "Y", + "pinned": "N", + "name": "The State of GraphQL Agent Skills - Dale Seo, Apollo GraphQL", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:05", + "event_type": "AI and LLMs", + "description": "AI coding agents are now a daily reality for GraphQL developers, yet there's a persistent gap between what agents can do and what they actually know. Without guidance, they generate anonymous queries, skip variables, rely on deprecated patterns, and miss conventions experienced teams consider obvious. Every conversation starts from zero. Agent Skills are an emerging answer: a lightweight, open format for encoding expertise that agents can automatically apply. In a short time, the community has begun building Skills that teach everything from schema usage to client caching, and the ecosystem is evolving fast. This talk surveys the current state of GraphQL Agent Skills: what they are, how they're authored, how they plug into AI tools and workflows, and how they complement MCP. As the creator and maintainer of Apollo Skills, I'll share what we've learned building and shipping them. Through real-world examples, we'll see how Skills help agents design a schema safely, write the right operations, and recover from mistakes. We'll examine design trade-offs, emerging patterns, and open challenges still ahead. You'll leave knowing how to make your graph work better with AI agents.", + "goers": "3", + "seats": "0", + "invite_only": "N", + "venue": "Humor", + "audience": "Beginer", + "id": "f6c386dc9b66f92219c5f36fc59c5a45", + "venue_id": "2294963", + "speakers": [ + { + "username": "dale.seo", + "id": "24421538", + "name": "Dale Seo", + "company": "Apollo GraphQL", + "custom_order": 0 + } + ], + "event_start_year": "2026", + "event_start_month": "May", + "event_start_month_short": "May", + "event_start_day": "19", + "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_start_time": "11:40am", + "event_end_year": "2026", + "event_end_month": "May", + "event_end_month_short": "May", + "event_end_day": "19", + "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_end_time": "12:05pm", + "start_date": "2026-05-19", + "start_time": "11:40:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779216000, + "end_date": "2026-05-19", + "end_time": "12:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -526,8 +674,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Shopify's Breadth-First Bet: Rethinking GraphQL Execution - Greg MacWilliam, Shopify", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:45", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:10", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:05", "event_type": "Performance", "description": "Pretty much every major GraphQL execution implementation follows the same pattern: depth-first traversal. But the spec doesn’t require this. At Shopify, we challenged that status quo and rewrote GraphQL execution to run breadth-first.\n \nHere’s how it works: instead of running a field resolver repeatedly across each object in a list during its depth pass, we execute each field resolver only once per selection with a complete breadth of objects spanning the response. The napkin math is compelling—5 fields resolved across a list of 100 objects running depth-first will produce 500 resolver calls + lazy promises, while running breadth-first will only produce 5. We’ve seen dramatic results with some large list queries shaving many seconds off their end-to-end response times.\n \nThis talk will cover:\n \n* Why depth-first has hidden costs that scale linearly.\n* How breadth-first inverts the cost model.\n* Why dataloaders are a hack.\n* The trade-offs we accepted.\n* How we're incrementally migrating to breadth execution.\n \nIf you've ever been concerned that CPU-bound GraphQL performance doesn't scale well, this talk offers a new perspective—and proof that challenging conventions can pay off.", "goers": "6", @@ -552,19 +700,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "11:45am", + "event_start_time": "11:40am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "12:10pm", + "event_end_time": "12:05pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "11:45:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779216300, + "start_time": "11:40:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779216000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "12:10:00", + "end_time": "12:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -572,8 +720,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "The 40,000-field Query: Optimizations for Gigantic High-QPS Operations - Gary Zeng, Meta", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:45", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:55", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 11:50", "event_type": "Production Insights", "description": "Parsing a GraphQL query generally has negligible cost. But what happens your front page query has millions of QPS, 10s of thousands of fields, and there are hundreds of versions of the query? At Meta, we've found that parsing becomes a significant bottle neck under these constraints.\n \nIn this talk, we dive into server-side optimizations we built to handle persisted documents beyond simple LRU caches. We will cover:\n- Lazy fragment parsing. We delay parsing a fragment until the executor encounters a spread that matches the fragment's type, using offset maps to jump through the document text.\n- Traffic based caching. We cache pre-parsed structures taking into consideration CPU savings and memory cost.\n- Fragment inlining to reduce overhead in the CollectFields step. \n \nAttendees leave with deep understanding of performance considerations of GraphQL execution engines. 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But what if you have one client, fragmented internal APIs, and colleagues as your consumers? This talk explores that different axis—and why GraphQL still matters.\n \nAt trivago, we built a second GraphQL Gateway to unify internal services. What started as admin tooling became something more: a lens that surfaced hidden system relationships, a catalyst for cross-team collaboration, and now a foundation for AI-assisted tooling enriched with human-written business context.\n \nThis session shares honest lessons from six years of running an internal-facing gateway. You'll hear how we unified services without imposing upstream requirements, fostered collaboration across previously siloed teams, and designed audit logging around user intent—not just technical calls. Whether or not this specific approach fits your context, you'll leave with a broader perspective: there's more to GraphQL than its typical framing suggests.", - "goers": "1", + "name": "GraphQL: The Internal Agentic API - Christopher Chedeau, Meta", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 11:55", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:05", + "event_type": "AI and LLMs", + "description": "How do you expose all the internal tools to the Agents is the question everyone is asking today. Turns out we already expose all the things people can do with our internal tools at Meta through GraphQL and LLM Agents are now able to write GraphQL queries, so... come to this talk to see how both work wonderfully together!", + "goers": "5", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Humor", - "audience": "Intermediate", - "id": "07dd652a752f9eab711c7e87048cb2d6", - "venue_id": "2294963", + "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Beginner", + "id": "a9f12ca7a20cde46521324c5665fb96b", + "venue_id": "2288547", "speakers": [ { - "username": "angel.svirkov", - "id": "24421511", - "name": "Angel Svirkov", - "company": "trivago", + "username": "vjeuxx", + "id": "24421532", + "name": "Christopher Chedeau", + "company": "Meta", "custom_order": 0 } ], @@ -644,43 +792,43 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "11:45am", + "event_start_time": "11:55am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "12:10pm", + "event_end_time": "12:05pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "11:45:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779216300, + "start_time": "11:55:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779216900, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "12:10:00", - "event_subtype": "Regular Scale" + "end_time": "12:05:00", + "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1133703", + "event_key": "3", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "GraphQL: The Internal Agentic API - Christopher Chedeau, Meta", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 12:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:10", + "name": "Sponsored Session: Closing the Loop: How GraphQL Gives Coding Agents Eyes on What Actually Matters - Michael Staib, Chillicream", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 12:15", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:40", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", - "description": "How do you expose all the internal tools to the Agents is the question everyone is asking today. Turns out we already expose all the things people can do with our internal tools at Meta through GraphQL and LLM Agents are now able to write GraphQL queries, so... come to this talk to see how both work wonderfully together!", - "goers": "5", + "description": "Coding agents are reshaping how we build software. Implementing features, refactoring systems, and shipping changes at a pace unthinkable 6 months ago. But to be successful with agents you need the right feedback loop. One that guides your agent to success, not into the spiral of death.\n \nAsk Claude to add a review system to your product API. Without knowing what's in use, it might reshape your types, move fields, and break your deployed clients because it is missing a crucial feedback loop of what's in use in your clients.\n \nGraphQL changes this. Every client operation explicitly declares the exact fields and types it needs. That gives you something rare: field-level usage data across your entire consumer base. Not endpoint hits, but actual demand, broken down to the individual field.\n \nWhen coding agents can access this data, they stop guessing. Evolve your schema grounded in reality, not assumptions.\n \nThis talk shows how GraphQL's inherent usage visibility and the rise of coding agents create a feedback loop that didn't exist before. And why it matters for anyone building APIs that need to evolve fast.", + "goers": "0", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", "venue": "Mission Peak", - "audience": "Beginner", - "id": "a9f12ca7a20cde46521324c5665fb96b", + "audience": "Intermediate", + "id": "a45eba5992e9862dfb097c03c0041374", "venue_id": "2288547", "speakers": [ { - "username": "vjeuxx", - "id": "24421532", - "name": "Christopher Chedeau", - "company": "Meta", + "username": "michael_staib.23xujj9p", + "id": "14900031", + "name": "Michael Staib", + "company": "ChilliCream", "custom_order": 0 } ], @@ -690,101 +838,101 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "12:00pm", + "event_start_time": "12:15pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "12:10pm", + "event_end_time": "12:40pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "12:00:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779217200, + "start_time": "12:15:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779218100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "12:10:00", + "end_time": "12:40:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1147381", + "event_key": "1144557", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Lunch", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 12:10", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 13:25", - "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", - "description": "", - "goers": "4", + "name": "The Internal Lens: GraphQL Gateways From a Different Axis - Angel Svirkov, trivago", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 12:15", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 12:40", + "event_type": "Production Insights", + "description": "GraphQL is often framed around multiple clients, external consumers, and solving over/under-fetching. But what if you have one client, fragmented internal APIs, and colleagues as your consumers? This talk explores that different axis—and why GraphQL still matters.\n \nAt trivago, we built a second GraphQL Gateway to unify internal services. What started as admin tooling became something more: a lens that surfaced hidden system relationships, a catalyst for cross-team collaboration, and now a foundation for AI-assisted tooling enriched with human-written business context.\n \nThis session shares honest lessons from six years of running an internal-facing gateway. You'll hear how we unified services without imposing upstream requirements, fostered collaboration across previously siloed teams, and designed audit logging around user intent—not just technical calls. Whether or not this specific approach fits your context, you'll leave with a broader perspective: there's more to GraphQL than its typical framing suggests.", + "goers": "1", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Cafeteria", - "id": "9653ba6ecb6fdb9103d2008815483fef", - "venue_id": "2295257", + "venue": "Humor", + "audience": "Intermediate", + "id": "07dd652a752f9eab711c7e87048cb2d6", + "venue_id": "2294963", + "speakers": [ + { + "username": "angel.svirkov", + "id": "24421511", + "name": "Angel Svirkov", + "company": "trivago", + "custom_order": 0 + } + ], "event_start_year": "2026", "event_start_month": "May", "event_start_month_short": "May", "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "12:10pm", + "event_start_time": "12:15pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "1:25pm", + "event_end_time": "12:40pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "12:10:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779217800, + "start_time": "12:15:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779218100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "13:25:00", - "event_subtype": "" + "end_time": "12:40:00", + "event_subtype": "Regular Scale" }, { - "event_key": "1146936", + "event_key": "1147381", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "The State of GraphQL Agent Skills - Dale Seo, Apollo GraphQL", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 13:25", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 13:50", - "event_type": "AI and LLMs", - "description": "AI coding agents are now a daily reality for GraphQL developers, yet there's a persistent gap between what agents can do and what they actually know. Without guidance, they generate anonymous queries, skip variables, rely on deprecated patterns, and miss conventions experienced teams consider obvious. Every conversation starts from zero. Agent Skills are an emerging answer: a lightweight, open format for encoding expertise that agents can automatically apply. In a short time, the community has begun building Skills that teach everything from schema usage to client caching, and the ecosystem is evolving fast. This talk surveys the current state of GraphQL Agent Skills: what they are, how they're authored, how they plug into AI tools and workflows, and how they complement MCP. As the creator and maintainer of Apollo Skills, I'll share what we've learned building and shipping them. Through real-world examples, we'll see how Skills help agents design a schema safely, write the right operations, and recover from mistakes. We'll examine design trade-offs, emerging patterns, and open challenges still ahead. You'll leave knowing how to make your graph work better with AI agents.", - "goers": "3", + "name": "Lunch", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 12:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:10", + "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", + "description": "", + "goers": "4", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Humor", - "audience": "Beginer", - "id": "f6c386dc9b66f92219c5f36fc59c5a45", - "venue_id": "2294963", - "speakers": [ - { - "username": "dale.seo", - "id": "24421538", - "name": "Dale Seo", - "company": "Apollo GraphQL", - "custom_order": 0 - } - ], + "venue": "Cafeteria", + "id": "9653ba6ecb6fdb9103d2008815483fef", + "venue_id": "2295257", "event_start_year": "2026", "event_start_month": "May", "event_start_month_short": "May", "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "1:25pm", + "event_start_time": "12:40pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "1:50pm", + "event_end_time": "2:10pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "13:25:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779222300, + "start_time": "12:40:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779219600, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "13:50:00", + "end_time": "14:10:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -792,8 +940,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Schema Composition Without Federation - Matt Mahoney, Meta", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:10", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:10", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:20", "event_type": "Clients", "description": "In a world where context is limited, what do we need from GraphQL to build composable, type safe products?", "goers": "2", @@ -805,9 +953,10 @@ "venue_id": "2294963", "speakers": [ { - "username": "matt_mahoney.29fjqfma", - "id": "24421625", - "name": "Matt Mahoney", + "username": "mahoney.mattj", + "id": "19314398", + "name": "Matthew Mahoney", + "company": "Meta", "custom_order": 0 } ], @@ -817,19 +966,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:00pm", + "event_start_time": "2:10pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "2:10pm", + "event_end_time": "2:20pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:00:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779224400, + "start_time": "14:10:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779225000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "14:10:00", + "end_time": "14:20:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -837,8 +986,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Lower Latency With Streaming GraphQL - Rob Richard, 1stDibs", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:25", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:10", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:35", "event_type": "Performance", "description": "Learn how to lower latency in your applications by streaming your GraphQL responses using the @defer and @stream directives. Learn the trade-offs of when to use these new directives and how they differ from GraphQL Subscriptions. \n \n@defer and @stream have been in development for some time now and have gone through many iterations. Learn about the motivation behind these changes and how they will lead to scalable GraphQL servers and efficient clients.", "goers": "4", @@ -863,19 +1012,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:00pm", + "event_start_time": "2:10pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "2:25pm", + "event_end_time": "2:35pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:00:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779224400, + "start_time": "14:10:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779225000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "14:25:00", + "end_time": "14:35:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -883,8 +1032,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Teach Yourself GraphQL in 2026: An Anti-blueprint - Jeff Auriemma, Apollo", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:25", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:10", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:35", "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", "description": "After eleven years as an open source technology, GraphQL has never had a more favorable learning curve. Clearer mental models, better educational materials, and a deeper collective understanding of best practices have transformed the “wild west” of 2015 to a much more manageable landscape today.\n \nYou and your team are unique, so rather than a one-size-fits-all blueprint I thought I’d present a practical guide to teaching yourself GraphQL in 2026. We’ll examine how beginners typically build their first mental model of GraphQL, the most common misconceptions, and the key design questions they encounter early. Special attention will be paid to different modalities: schema-first vs. code-first, schema design principles, common pitfalls when considering enums, the proper use of fragments, and security and performance by default.\n \nAttendees will leave with a conceptual roadmap for self-study, a recipe book for context engineering in their agent, and an understanding of the major decision points along the journey ahead.", "goers": "1", @@ -909,19 +1058,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:00pm", + "event_start_time": "2:10pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "2:25pm", + "event_end_time": "2:35pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:00:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779224400, + "start_time": "14:10:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779225000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "14:25:00", + "end_time": "14:35:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -975,8 +1124,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Bringing GraphQL Natively To Relational Databases With AI - Shashank Gugnani, Oracle", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:00", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:45", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:10", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", "description": "GraphQL offers a popular way for developers to access and interact with data. However, integrating GraphQL with enterprise databases often requires custom middleware, complex resolvers, and maintenance overhead. With Oracle AI Database 26ai, this changes: developers can now use GraphQL queries natively in the database, leveraging automated schema inference and built-in parsing with no loss of performance or scalability.\n \nIn this session, we will demonstrate Oracle’s first-class GraphQL integration, including the new table function that lets you run GraphQL queries as native SQL. We will showcase:\n \n- How to map and query relational data with GraphQL, with built-in features for joins, predicates, ordering, & calculations.\n- How LLMs can generate valid GraphQL queries from natural language, making API access approachable, and why targeting GraphQL via LLMs often delivers safer, better experiences than translating NL to SQL.\n \nWhether you’re an architect modernizing data APIs or a developer working with complex schemas, this session will help you take advantage of the best of both relational databases and the GraphQL ecosystem, with added automation from today’s AI advancements.", "goers": "1", @@ -1001,19 +1150,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:35pm", + "event_start_time": "2:45pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "3:00pm", + "event_end_time": "3:10pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779226500, + "start_time": "14:45:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779227100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "15:00:00", + "end_time": "15:10:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1021,8 +1170,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Scaling Real-Time: Building Federated Subscriptions in Rust - Denis Badurina, The Guild", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:00", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:45", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:10", "event_type": "Federation + Distributed Systems", "description": "Our journey implementing federated GraphQL subscriptions in Hive Router, a high-performance federation gateway written in Rust. Covering the architectural decisions and technical challenges we faced bringing real-time capabilities to a federated environment, the engineering work required to support the full spectrum of subscription transports (WebSockets, SSE, Multipart HTTP and HTTP callbacks), and how Rust’s performance characteristics enabled us to handle subscription workloads at scale.", "goers": "2", @@ -1047,19 +1196,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:35pm", + "event_start_time": "2:45pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "3:00pm", + "event_end_time": "3:10pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779226500, + "start_time": "14:45:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779227100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "15:00:00", + "end_time": "15:10:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1067,8 +1216,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "The @deprecated Journey: Five Stops From Schema Hint To Gateway Power - Nasser Abouelazm, Bloomberg", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:45", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:45", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 14:55", "event_type": "Schema Design + Evolution + Governance", "description": "@deprecated is usually treated as a client-facing hint. However, in federated GraphQL, it can evolve into a set of patterns that shape governance, runtime behavior, observability, and even gateway planning. In this lightning talk, I’ll take @deprecated on a five-stop journey across the federation lifecycle — 1) schema hint, 2) schema shaping, 3) runtime feedback, 4) client-aware telemetry, and 5) gateway power. I’ll close with a brief developer experience bonus — how structured deprecation metadata can feed code-gen/IDE tooling to suggest non-deprecated alternatives while queries are being written. The goal of the talk is to share a practical mental model and guardrails for keeping large federated graphs evolvable, observable, and safe.", "goers": "2", @@ -1093,19 +1242,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:35pm", + "event_start_time": "2:45pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "2:45pm", + "event_end_time": "2:55pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779226500, + "start_time": "14:45:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779227100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "14:45:00", + "end_time": "14:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1113,8 +1262,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Breaking up With Inputs (Without Breaking Your Users) - Laurin Quast, The Guild", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 14:50", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:00", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:00", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:10", "event_type": "Schema Design + Evolution + Governance", "description": "Deprecating fields and removing them in GraphQL is tricky itself, but tooling can help identifying such based on statically analysing operations or traffic. But, deprecating inputs is a whole different challenge! Once clients start sending arguments or input object fields, removing or changing them can break integrations in subtle ways, as you do not know which fields might be used in the future and which ones might not, especially if you are running GraphQL at scale. In this lightning talk we will explore possible options for making this whole process more safe in the present, and dip into how it could look in the future!", "goers": "3", @@ -1139,19 +1288,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "2:50pm", + "event_start_time": "3:00pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "3:00pm", + "event_end_time": "3:10pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "14:50:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779227400, + "start_time": "15:00:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779228000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "15:00:00", + "end_time": "15:10:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1159,8 +1308,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Connecting LLMs To GraphQL With Schema-Aware Embeddings - Thore Koritzius, Self", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:10", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:35", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:20", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:45", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", "description": "As AI assistants and MCP-style tools increasingly sit in front of GraphQL APIs, embeddings have become critical for fuzzy schema search, field retrieval, and natural-language-to-query systems. Yet most teams rely on general-purpose embedding models that were not specifically designed to understand GraphQL type systems, relationships, or naming patterns. This talk shares practical experience building schema-aware embedding pipelines with off-the-shelf and fine-tuned models while exploring how far preprocessing, chunking, and schema structuring can take you before custom training is needed. We’ll discuss evaluation methods, common failure modes like field confusion and hallucinated types, and the tradeoffs between large hosted models and compact, GraphQL-focused embeddings that can run with lightweight CPU inference. The goal is to give GraphQL platform teams concrete, production-ready guidelines for choosing, adapting, and shipping embeddings that actually understand their schemas.", "goers": "2", @@ -1185,19 +1334,65 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "3:10pm", + "event_start_time": "3:20pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "3:35pm", + "event_end_time": "3:45pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "15:10:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779228600, + "start_time": "15:20:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779229200, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "15:35:00", + "end_time": "15:45:00", + "event_subtype": "" + }, + { + "event_key": "4", + "active": "Y", + "pinned": "N", + "name": "Sponsored Session: Hands Off the Keyboard: An Introduction to Agentic Coding for GraphQL Developers - Erik Bylund, Apollo GraphQL", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:20", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:45", + "event_type": "AI and LLMs", + "description": "Every developer has the same instinct when working with AI: take over. Copy the output, fix it by hand, wonder why AI \"\"doesn't really work.\"\" That instinct is the problem.\n \nWhen AI-generated code is wrong, the fix isn't editing the code — it's improving the instructions that produced it. This talk teaches that discipline using Agent Skills — open-format markdown workflows — and the GraphQL SDLC as working context. We'll build skills for schema design, resolvers, testing, and docs, developing intuition for when to refine instructions versus when you've hit a model limitation.\n \nYou'll leave with transferable techniques, open-source GraphQL skills, and the beginnings of your own agentic intuition.", + "goers": "0", + "seats": "0", + "invite_only": "N", + "venue": "Mission Peak", + "audience": "Intermediate", + "id": "dded18c303b6caaf7d74b4a0f125cee5", + "venue_id": "2288547", + "speakers": [ + { + "username": "9b868b5052cc363f49b944ab9f70357e", + "id": "24999816", + "name": "Erik Bylund", + "company": "Apollo GraphQL", + "custom_order": 0 + } + ], + "event_start_year": "2026", + "event_start_month": "May", + "event_start_month_short": "May", + "event_start_day": "19", + "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_start_time": "3:20pm", + "event_end_year": "2026", + "event_end_month": "May", + "event_end_month_short": "May", + "event_end_day": "19", + "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", + "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", + "event_end_time": "3:45pm", + "start_date": "2026-05-19", + "start_time": "15:20:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779229200, + "end_date": "2026-05-19", + "end_time": "15:45:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1205,8 +1400,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "The Invisible Fortress: Embedding Zero-Trust Governance in the Supergraph - Gaurav Singh & Sulbigar Shanawaz, Capital One", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:10", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:35", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:20", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:45", "event_type": "Security", "description": "In high-stakes industries, a GraphQL schema is more than a technical contract—it is a live map of your enterprise’s risk surface. For security teams, schema modifications are often \"black box\" events that threaten data integrity. To scale safely, we must move beyond manual gatekeeping to a Zero-Trust Supergraph where security is an invisible, automated fortress.\n \nWe will present a framework for Embedded Governance to bridge engineering and enterprise risk. Learn how to transform your graph's technical \"menu\" into a transparent Data Marketplace with radical observability, ensuring built-in security and compliance.\n \nAttendees will learn to:\n- Navigate the Risk Primer: Translate GraphQL features (types, fields, directives) into risk language to build organizational trust.\n- Shift Security Left: Automate security with secure frameworks & replacing manual reviews.\n- Architect for Data Isolation: Use of fine grained access to manage entitlements and prevent unauthorized data exposure.\n- Harden the Control Plane: Reduce attack surface using technical strategies like disabling introspection and enforcing persisted query ownership.", "goers": "1", @@ -1218,16 +1413,16 @@ "venue_id": "2294963", "speakers": [ { - "username": "sulbigar.shanawaz", - "id": "24460403", - "name": "Sulbigar Shanawaz", + "username": "gaurav.singh3", + "id": "24421544", + "name": "Gaurav Singh", "company": "Capital One", "custom_order": 0 }, { - "username": "gaurav.singh3", - "id": "24421544", - "name": "Gaurav Singh", + "username": "sulbigar.shanawaz", + "id": "24460403", + "name": "Sulbigar Shanawaz", "company": "Capital One", "custom_order": 1 } @@ -1238,19 +1433,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "3:10pm", + "event_start_time": "3:20pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "3:35pm", + "event_end_time": "3:45pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "15:10:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779228600, + "start_time": "15:20:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779229200, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "15:35:00", + "end_time": "15:45:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1258,8 +1453,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Break", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 15:55", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:45", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:05", "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", "description": "", "goers": "1", @@ -1274,19 +1469,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "3:35pm", + "event_start_time": "3:45pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "3:55pm", + "event_end_time": "4:05pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "15:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779230100, + "start_time": "15:45:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779230700, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "15:55:00", + "end_time": "16:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1294,8 +1489,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Simplifying MCP Tool Sprawl With GraphQL - Roy Derks, IBM", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:55", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:20", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:30", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", "description": "As teams adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCP), they often run into a new problem: tool sprawl. Every backend API turns into its own MCP server, each with separate schemas, auth, versioning, and deployment concerns. What starts as a clean integration quickly becomes hard to manage. In this talk, I'll show how GraphQL can act as a unifying layer for MCP using GraphQL capabilities like schema introspection and persisted documents. By exposing multiple backend services through a single GraphQL API and connecting it via one MCP server, LLMs gain access to a rich, strongly typed interface without an explosion of tools. We’ll walk through a practical architecture and share patterns for keeping MCP systems scalable, discoverable, and governable beyond early experiments.", "goers": "1", @@ -1320,19 +1515,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "3:55pm", + "event_start_time": "4:05pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:20pm", + "event_end_time": "4:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "15:55:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779231300, + "start_time": "16:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779231900, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:20:00", + "end_time": "16:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1340,8 +1535,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Changing the Game for Trusted Documents — What If Your Whole Platform Natively Supported It? - Adam Benkhassen, The Guild Software", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:55", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:20", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:30", "event_type": "Clients", "description": "Trusted documents (persisted queries) are one of the most powerful tools in the GraphQL security and performance toolkit. By restricting your API to only pre-approved operations, you eliminate entire classes of attacks, reduce payload sizes, and gain full visibility into client behavior. Yet most struggle to adopt them – the tooling is fragmented, the workflow is manual, and the deployment story is an afterthought.\n \nWhat if your entire platform natively supported trusted documents from end to end? In this talk, I’ll show what becomes possible when persisted queries are first-class citizens of your GraphQL platform – from registration and version through CI/CD validation to production deployment and rollback. But trusted documents aren’t just for GraphQL clients. I’ll explore how they unlock new capabilities: exposing GraphQL operations as simple REST endpoints, and even powering MCP tools for AI agents – all built on the same foundation of pre-approved, governed operations.\n \nYou’ll leave with a clear picture of what a complete trusted documents platform looks like and practical steps to get there.", "goers": "2", @@ -1366,19 +1561,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "3:55pm", + "event_start_time": "4:05pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:20pm", + "event_end_time": "4:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "15:55:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779231300, + "start_time": "16:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779231900, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:20:00", + "end_time": "16:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1386,8 +1581,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "The Easy Way and the Hard Way: Blue-green GraphQL Deployments - Zack Warnimont, Apollo", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 15:55", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:20", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:30", "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", "description": "Blue-green and canary deploys are table stakes for application code, but they’re surprisingly hard to get right for GraphQL. Routers often just “pull latest” schema, rollbacks mean republishing and recomposing, and it’s nearly impossible to answer a basic incident question: “What schema was this request actually hitting?”. After testing in a staging environment and deploying to production, we often find edge cases that broke the assumptions we made in the testing phase.\n \nThis talk is an engineering case study. I’ll walk through the design journey that led us to a blue-green deployment model for GraphQL built on immutable schema artifacts and explicit rollbacks. We’ll unpack the constraints (federation, many subgraphs, multiple environments), the dead-ends we hit, and the principles that finally worked.\n \nYou’ll leave with a mental model and concrete patterns you can apply to your own GraphQL infrastructure, irrespective of tooling: how to structure blue-green router fleets, how to pin to exact schema versions, how to do instant rollbacks safely, and what to log so you can always reconstruct “what was live where” when production gets weird.", "goers": "1", @@ -1412,19 +1607,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "3:55pm", + "event_start_time": "4:05pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:20pm", + "event_end_time": "4:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "15:55:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779231300, + "start_time": "16:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779231900, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:20:00", + "end_time": "16:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1432,8 +1627,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Shifting Instagram Development Towards Monolith Server Via Federated Schema - Xiao Han, Chi Chan, Lisa Watkins & Anirudh Padmarao, Meta", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:30", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:55", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:05", "event_type": "Federation + Distributed Systems", "description": "Instagram is moving from a Python monolith to a PHP monolith. Come find out how we leverage GraphQL to define a single API across both monoliths to power major product migrations (e.g. Stories, Reels, Threads) and facilitate incremental development shifts. \n \nMeta’s architectural philosophy favors federation to support a monolithic architecture over traditional microservices.", "goers": "4", @@ -1445,30 +1640,30 @@ "venue_id": "2288547", "speakers": [ { - "username": "x65han", - "id": "23098816", - "name": "Xiao Han", - "company": "Meta Platform Inc.", + "username": "apadmarao", + "id": "23098714", + "name": "Anirudh Padmarao", + "company": "Meta", "custom_order": 0 }, { - "username": "chikit", - "id": "24421529", - "name": "Chi Chan", + "username": "lisamwatkins", + "id": "23098774", + "name": "Lisa Watkins", "company": "Meta", "custom_order": 1 }, { - "username": "apadmarao", - "id": "23098714", - "name": "Anirudh Padmarao", - "company": "Meta", + "username": "x65han", + "id": "23098816", + "name": "Xiao Han", + "company": "Meta Platform Inc.", "custom_order": 2 }, { - "username": "lisamwatkins", - "id": "23098774", - "name": "Lisa Watkins", + "username": "chikit", + "id": "24421529", + "name": "Chi Chan", "company": "Meta", "custom_order": 3 } @@ -1479,19 +1674,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "4:30pm", + "event_start_time": "4:40pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:55pm", + "event_end_time": "5:05pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "16:30:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779233400, + "start_time": "16:40:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779234000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:55:00", + "end_time": "17:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1499,8 +1694,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Inverse Conway Maneuver, with GraphQL - Sam Deng, Zillow Group", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:30", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:55", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:05", "event_type": "Schema Design + Evolution + Governance", "description": "Left to its own devices, software companies ship its own team structure (Conway’s Law). Scale leads to data silos, unclear ownership, and an incoherent GraphQL schema. Zillow pushes back against this natural entropy.\nOrganizing data post hoc is untenable — trying to keep up with the legions of changing SaaS systems is a losing battle. The schema must be organized at the data producer end. This is the story of Zillow’s journey to bring order to a chaotic GraphQL schema. Starting with its most critical data domains, listings and customers, Zillow has built a canonical data schema in its federated graph, that aligns its multiple business units and streamlines data sharing.", "goers": "1", @@ -1525,19 +1720,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "4:30pm", + "event_start_time": "4:40pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:55pm", + "event_end_time": "5:05pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "16:30:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779233400, + "start_time": "16:40:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779234000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:55:00", + "end_time": "17:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1545,8 +1740,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Caching Deep Dive: The Ultimate Way To Speed up Your GraphQL API - Tuval Simha, The Guild", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:30", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 16:55", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 16:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:05", "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", "description": "What we will cover:\nThe \"All-or-Nothing\" Barrier: We'll analyze the limitations of traditional Document Caching in GraphQL. We will explain why a single personalized field or a volatile \"live\" value can invalidate an entire response, leading to low cache hit rates and overloaded origin servers.\n \nPartial Query Caching (PQC) Architecture: We will introduce a granular approach to caching. You'll learn how to decompose complex queries into atomic components, separating static fragments from dynamic ones within the same request to dramatically boost cache efficiency.\n \nThe Power of the Edge: We'll discuss the benefits of moving the \"split-and-merge\" logic to the Edge. We will explain how an intelligent Gateway can manage this complexity close to the user, saving expensive compute resources at the origin and reducing latency.\n \nThe Next Frontier: PQC meets @defer: To wrap up, we'll demonstrate how combining caching with the GraphQL @defer directive allows us to return cached fragments in milliseconds while streaming the remaining dynamic parts as they resolve.", "goers": "1", @@ -1571,19 +1766,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "4:30pm", + "event_start_time": "4:40pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "4:55pm", + "event_end_time": "5:05pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "16:30:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779233400, + "start_time": "16:40:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779234000, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "16:55:00", + "end_time": "17:05:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1591,8 +1786,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Understanding Your Graph, One Hash at a Time - Jens Neuse, WunderGraph", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 17:05", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:30", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 17:15", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:40", "event_type": "Observability + Telemetry + Tracing", "description": "Have you ever wished you could better understand how the entities in your graph behave over time? Are they cacheable? How often are they updated? How often are they accessed? What is the distribution of keys?\n \nThe primitives of GraphQL federation are simple: Entities with keys to uniquely identify them, distributed across multiple services.\n \nThe story they tell? It's a fascinating one, but nobody talks about it. Until now.\nAnd it's not even that complicated, just a couple of hashes and we're able to learn more about your data than you ever thought possible.", "goers": "3", @@ -1617,19 +1812,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "5:05pm", + "event_start_time": "5:15pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "5:30pm", + "event_end_time": "5:40pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "17:05:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779235500, + "start_time": "17:15:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779236100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "17:30:00", + "end_time": "17:40:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -1637,8 +1832,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Scaling GraphQL on AWS: Production Architecture for High-Volume Data Systems - Aishwarya Tirumala, Amazon", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 17:05", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:30", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 17:15", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:40", "event_type": "Production Insights", "description": "This presentation explores production-scale GraphQL architecture on AWS, demonstrating how to handle millions of requests and complex data operations at enterprise scale. Drawing from real-world pricing systems that serve thousands of internal clients, we'll examine the architectural decisions behind building resilient, high-performance GraphQL services using AWS AppSync, Lambda, and DynamoDB. The session covers critical\nproduction considerations including query optimization strategies, caching layers, connection pooling, and event-driven architectures that power real-time notifications at scale. Attendees will learn how GraphQL simplifies data access across massive datasets while maintaining performance and reliability. We'll discuss scaling patterns, monitoring strategies, and lessons learned from operating GraphQL services that handle billions of daily operations across global marketplaces. This technical deep-dive is designed for engineers interested in understanding how to architect and operate GraphQL systems at huge scale, with practical insights from Amazon's production environments.", "goers": "0", @@ -1663,19 +1858,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "5:05pm", + "event_start_time": "5:15pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "5:30pm", + "event_end_time": "5:40pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "17:05:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779235500, + "start_time": "17:15:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779236100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "17:30:00", + "end_time": "17:40:00", "event_subtype": "Huge Scale" }, { @@ -1683,8 +1878,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Incrementally Adopting GraphQL. The Holy Grail? - Robert Balicki, Pinterest", - "event_start": "2026-05-19 17:05", - "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:30", + "event_start": "2026-05-19 17:15", + "event_end": "2026-05-19 17:40", "event_type": "Production Insights", "description": "Incrementally adopting GraphQL is hard. The shape of the data differs between REST and GraphQL. Components that were designed for one don't automatically work with the other. And migrating by making multiple network requests can worsen performance unacceptably. And big bang refactors? Well, if you believe those will be successful, I have some oceanfront real estate in Nebraska to sell you. \n \nIs there a better way? Well, what if instead of contorting our frontends for multiple backends, we gave our non-GraphQL backend one crucial property: generated queries that fetch exactly the right data. Then, migrating from one backend to another is as simple (and stress-free) as running an experiment and ramping up a decider!\n \nAnd Isograph makes that easy! Isograph is an opinionated, compiler-driven framework that makes it easy to build stable, performant data-driven apps, and it generates queries for just the data needed by a given screen. And crucially, it can generate multiple different versions of the same query: GraphQL, SQL, whatever your heart desires.\n \nFinally, adopting GraphQL can be simple, stress-free, and incremental!", "goers": "2", @@ -1709,19 +1904,19 @@ "event_start_day": "19", "event_start_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_start_time": "5:05pm", + "event_start_time": "5:15pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "19", "event_end_weekday": "Tuesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Tue", - "event_end_time": "5:30pm", + "event_end_time": "5:40pm", "start_date": "2026-05-19", - "start_time": "17:05:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779235500, + "start_time": "17:15:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779236100, "end_date": "2026-05-19", - "end_time": "17:30:00", + "end_time": "17:40:00", "event_subtype": "Regular Scale" }, { @@ -1761,91 +1956,91 @@ "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1147388", + "event_key": "1147391", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "GraphQL All Hands Meeting", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 09:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 10:00", - "event_type": "All Hands Meeting", - "description": "", - "goers": "4", + "name": "Solutions Showcase", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 08:00", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 17:30", + "event_type": "Solutions Showcase", + "description": "In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.", + "goers": "1", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Mission Peak", - "id": "1ff1e6a99e43cbc79ee48062ea156dfe", - "venue_id": "2288547", + "venue": "Mission Peak Foyer", + "id": "f61ca94d4c5127803f29b6b21c9ef493", + "venue_id": "2302980", "event_start_year": "2026", "event_start_month": "May", "event_start_month_short": "May", "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "9:00am", + "event_start_time": "8:00am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "10:00am", + "event_end_time": "5:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "09:00:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779292800, + "start_time": "08:00:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779289200, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "10:00:00", + "end_time": "17:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1147386", + "event_key": "1147388", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Break", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 10:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 10:15", - "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", + "name": "GraphQL All Hands Meeting", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 09:00", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 10:00", + "event_type": "All Hands Meeting", "description": "", - "goers": "1", + "goers": "4", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Mission Peak Foyer", - "id": "13605eb210a123441a11669fe6b3b546", - "venue_id": "2302980", + "venue": "Mission Peak", + "id": "1ff1e6a99e43cbc79ee48062ea156dfe", + "venue_id": "2288547", "event_start_year": "2026", "event_start_month": "May", "event_start_month_short": "May", "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "10:00am", + "event_start_time": "9:00am", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "10:15am", + "event_end_time": "10:00am", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "10:00:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779296400, + "start_time": "09:00:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779292800, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "10:15:00", + "end_time": "10:00:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1147391", + "event_key": "1147386", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Solutions Showcase", + "name": "Break", "event_start": "2026-05-20 10:00", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:45", - "event_type": "Solutions Showcase", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 10:15", + "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", "description": "", "goers": "1", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", "venue": "Mission Peak Foyer", - "id": "f61ca94d4c5127803f29b6b21c9ef493", + "id": "13605eb210a123441a11669fe6b3b546", "venue_id": "2302980", "event_start_year": "2026", "event_start_month": "May", @@ -1860,12 +2055,12 @@ "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "3:45pm", + "event_end_time": "10:15am", "start_date": "2026-05-20", "start_time": "10:00:00", "start_time_ts": 1779296400, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "15:45:00", + "end_time": "10:15:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2486,7 +2681,7 @@ "pinned": "N", "name": "Lunch", "event_start": "2026-05-20 12:25", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 13:40", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 13:55", "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", "description": "", "goers": "1", @@ -2508,12 +2703,12 @@ "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "1:40pm", + "event_end_time": "1:55pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", "start_time": "12:25:00", "start_time_ts": 1779305100, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "13:40:00", + "end_time": "13:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2521,10 +2716,10 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "A GraphQL-inspired Orchestration Language for the AI Era - Martijn Walraven, Apollo", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 13:40", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:05", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 13:55", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:20", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", - "description": "GraphQL and Federation solve real problems: replacing hand-written orchestration with a declarative, typed contract between clients and backends. That model works. But the landscape is shifting — AI agents are becoming first-class API clients, and they need to compose across services, reshape responses, and build workflows faster than coordinated schema design allows.\n \nThe core insight: one graph doesn't have to mean one API. What if the supergraph were less a single schema and more a catalog of data and services? That shift opens up a different kind of client language: one with expressions, data restructuring, and the ability to call non-GraphQL APIs directly.\n \nI'll show what we've been building: a language that keeps what makes GraphQL powerful — strong typing, composability, field-level selection — and extends it with the primitives clients need to work across service boundaries. It's open source and designed for any client — web, mobile, and AI agents alike. I'll explain what we learned from pushing GraphQL and Federation to their limits, and make the case that breaking the mold doesn't mean starting over.", + "description": "GraphQL and Federation solve real problems: replacing hand-written orchestration with a declarative, typed contract between clients and backends. That model works. But the landscape is shifting — AI agents are becoming first-class API clients, and they need to compose across services, reshape responses, and build workflows faster than coordinated schema design allows.\n \nThe core insight: one graph doesn't have to mean one API. What if the supergraph were less a single schema and more a catalog of data and services? That shift opens up a different kind of client language: one with expressions, data restructuring, and the ability to call non-GraphQL APIs directly.\n \nI'll show the result of our explorations: a language that keeps what makes GraphQL powerful — strong typing, composability, field-level selection — and extends it with the primitives clients need to work across service boundaries. It should feel familiar and is designed for any client — web, mobile, and AI agents alike. I'll explain what we learned from pushing GraphQL and Federation to their limits, and make the case that breaking the mold doesn't mean starting over.", "goers": "0", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", @@ -2547,43 +2742,43 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "1:40pm", + "event_start_time": "1:55pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:05pm", + "event_end_time": "2:20pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "13:40:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779309600, + "start_time": "13:55:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779310500, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:05:00", + "end_time": "14:20:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1147081", + "event_key": "1146929", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Grafast: A Declarative Solution To GraphQL's Execution Woes - Benjie Gillam, Graphile", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 13:40", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:05", - "event_type": "Servers", - "description": "A new approach to GraphQL execution, enabling engineers to build next-level efficiency into new or existing GraphQL APIs. This declarative approach to execution eliminates the many pitfalls of traditional resolvers and optimizes communications with your business logic. This is achieved through understanding the request's full data requirements and planning the best batched execution strategy before requesting anything from the business logic. This decoupling of data fetching from the GraphQL request shape results in fewer and more efficient operations against your backend services and data sources, eliminating both over- and under-fetching on the backend along with deduplication of redundant work, leading to reduced operational costs and delightful user experiences! A passion project of a founding GraphQL TSC member, this MIT-licensed open source technology has already been in production at a number of companies for over a year!", - "goers": "3", + "name": "Observability for a Multi-Tenant GraphQL Gateway at Scale - Vickey Yeh, Airbnb", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 13:55", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:20", + "event_type": "Observability + Telemetry + Tracing", + "description": "Viaduct, Airbnb's unified data access layer, hosts over 1.5M lines of application code from 500+ tenants, with 200+ changes merged daily—all operating as a single service. At this scale, enabling teams to independently monitor and troubleshoot their code is essential. \nThis talk describes how we approach observability with multitenancy at the core: \n- Establishing clear ownership of modules and attributing metrics, spans, and errors to those owners \n- Providing alerts and dashboards at multiple levels: system, operation, tenant, and field\n- Enabling schema-driven alerting, where tenants declaratively specify monitoring requirements directly in the schema and the platform implements them automatically\n- Using execution traces to visualize query execution and core-tenant interactions, tackling challenges like:\n- Representing batched dataloader calls (where N field requests become 1 RPC)\n- Instrumenting downstream service clients across all data-fetching code\n- Managing observability costs via selective sampling and cardinality-aware metrics \n \nOur goal: empower tenants to manage their portion of Viaduct as a standalone service—without bottlenecking on the platform team.", + "goers": "1", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Dumbarton", - "audience": "Intermediate", - "id": "4173396a76b0052395608ef918aacdbf", - "venue_id": "2294960", + "venue": "Humor", + "audience": "Any", + "id": "d1bdf1a3eb90cb599c172cbdfa7fdd1c", + "venue_id": "2294963", "speakers": [ { - "username": "benjie3", - "id": "18743846", - "name": "Benjie Gillam", - "company": "Graphile", + "username": "vickey.yeh", + "id": "24421604", + "name": "Vickey Yeh", + "company": "Airbnb", "custom_order": 0 } ], @@ -2593,43 +2788,43 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "1:40pm", + "event_start_time": "1:55pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:05pm", + "event_end_time": "2:20pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "13:40:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779309600, + "start_time": "13:55:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779310500, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:05:00", + "end_time": "14:20:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1145687", + "event_key": "1147081", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Brute Force Correctness - James Bellenger, Airbnb", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 13:40", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:05", - "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", - "description": "So you’re a maintainer of a GraphQL system. Whether it’s a federation gateway, a complex client library, or a custom executor—how do you know that it’s capital-C Correct?\n \nYour tests are decent, and they seem to pass, but what about the test cases that you didn’t think of? Did you remember to handle @skip directives on fragment spreads? What about when those directives use variables? Or when you spread an abstract type in an abstract scope?\n \nWould you trust your system to serve million-dollar transactions?\n \nThis session will cover how probabilistic testing can be applied to complex GraphQL systems to find bugs in places we wouldn’t have thought to look. We’ll discuss how Airbnb leveraged this approach to launch a novel GraphQL engine with 0 spec conformance bugs, and how you can apply these same techniques to build unshakable confidence in your own systems.", - "goers": "1", + "name": "Grafast: A Declarative Solution To GraphQL's Execution Woes - Benjie Gillam, Graphile", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 13:55", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:20", + "event_type": "Servers", + "description": "A new approach to GraphQL execution, enabling engineers to build next-level efficiency into new or existing GraphQL APIs. This declarative approach to execution eliminates the many pitfalls of traditional resolvers and optimizes communications with your business logic. This is achieved through understanding the request's full data requirements and planning the best batched execution strategy before requesting anything from the business logic. This decoupling of data fetching from the GraphQL request shape results in fewer and more efficient operations against your backend services and data sources, eliminating both over- and under-fetching on the backend along with deduplication of redundant work, leading to reduced operational costs and delightful user experiences! A passion project of a founding GraphQL TSC member, this MIT-licensed open source technology has already been in production at a number of companies for over a year!", + "goers": "3", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Humor", + "venue": "Dumbarton", "audience": "Intermediate", - "id": "0a67525d56d469af7df6fc4763e3f75e", - "venue_id": "2294963", + "id": "4173396a76b0052395608ef918aacdbf", + "venue_id": "2294960", "speakers": [ { - "username": "jbellenger", - "id": "24421556", - "name": "James Bellenger", - "company": "Airbnb", + "username": "benjie3", + "id": "18743846", + "name": "Benjie Gillam", + "company": "Graphile", "custom_order": 0 } ], @@ -2639,19 +2834,19 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "1:40pm", + "event_start_time": "1:55pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:05pm", + "event_end_time": "2:20pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "13:40:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779309600, + "start_time": "13:55:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779310500, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:05:00", + "end_time": "14:20:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2659,8 +2854,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Governing the AI-Graph: Observability and Security for LLM-Generated Queries - Rajeshwari Sah, Apple Inc", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:15", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:40", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:55", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", "description": "When we give AI agents access to our GraphQL APIs, we introduce a new class of distributed system challenges: non-deterministic queries, potential N+1 floods, and authorization bypasses. How do we ensure our \"AI-generated\" queries are safe and efficient?\n \nThis talk bridges the gap between AI Quality Engineering and GraphQL governance. Building on my work designing evaluation frameworks for multi-agent systems, I will present strategies for monitoring and governing agents that interact with GraphQL endpoints. We will discuss how to implement \"Semantic Rate Limiting\" (analyzing query complexity vs. user intent) and how to evaluate the accuracy of agent-generated GraphQL syntax using \"LLM-as-a-Judge\" frameworks.\n \nWe will also cover the \"Human-in-the-Loop\" aspect: using GraphQL subscriptions to stream agent reasoning to human supervisors for real-time validation before a mutation is executed. Attendees will learn how to open their Graphs to AI without compromising on security or performance reliability.", "goers": "0", @@ -2685,19 +2880,19 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "2:15pm", + "event_start_time": "2:30pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:40pm", + "event_end_time": "2:55pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "14:15:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779311700, + "start_time": "14:30:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779312600, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:40:00", + "end_time": "14:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2705,8 +2900,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "The State of GraphQL Federation - Michael Staib, ChilliCream", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:15", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:40", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:55", "event_type": "Federation + Distributed Systems", "description": "The GraphQL community has come together to standardize how distributed systems can be built with GraphQL as an orchestrator.\n \nIn this talk, I will outline our vision for GraphQL as an orchestration layer and explain how the emerging Composite Schema specification addresses the challenges of composing distributed graphs. We’ll review the progress made since the last GraphQLConf within the Composite Schema Working Group and take a look at early RFCs and experimental prototypes.\n \nThe specification builds on the strongest ideas from existing federation approaches in the ecosystem, distilling them into a vendor-neutral standard. Its goal is to enable interoperability — allowing vendors, platform teams, and open-source projects to implement the specification, or parts of it, in a way that integrates seamlessly across tools and ecosystems.\n \nThis session is a community update on the work happening under the GraphQL Foundation to standardize Federation: the problems we are solving, the principles guiding the design, and what comes next.", "goers": "3", @@ -2731,98 +2926,6 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "2:15pm", - "event_end_year": "2026", - "event_end_month": "May", - "event_end_month_short": "May", - "event_end_day": "20", - "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", - "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:40pm", - "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "14:15:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779311700, - "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:40:00", - "event_subtype": "" - }, - { - "event_key": "1146786", - "active": "Y", - "pinned": "N", - "name": "If AI Can’t See It, It Doesn’t Exist: Making GraphQL Discoverable - Catherine Deskur, Fern", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:15", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:25", - "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", - "description": "GraphQL's built-in introspection is powerful for developers who already know your API exists, but what about everyone else? As AI-powered search engines and LLMs increasingly mediate how developers discover and evaluate tools, GraphQL APIs face a unique discoverability problem: playgrounds and schema explorers are invisible to search crawlers and generative AI.\n \nThis talk explores why the GraphQL community needs to rethink documentation as a first-class product concern, not just an interactive schema browser. We'll examine how REST APIs have long benefited from structured, crawlable reference docs and what GraphQL can learn from that playbook. You'll walk away with practical strategies for making your GraphQL APIs discoverable through traditional SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO). This includes learning how to structure content so that both Google and LLMs can surface your API when developers need it the most.", - "goers": "0", - "seats": "0", - "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Dumbarton", - "audience": "Beginner", - "id": "28bdde198df3911a6a2d64a173e260a2", - "venue_id": "2294960", - "speakers": [ - { - "username": "catherine616", - "id": "24421526", - "name": "Catherine Deskur", - "company": "Fern", - "custom_order": 0 - } - ], - "event_start_year": "2026", - "event_start_month": "May", - "event_start_month_short": "May", - "event_start_day": "20", - "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", - "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "2:15pm", - "event_end_year": "2026", - "event_end_month": "May", - "event_end_month_short": "May", - "event_end_day": "20", - "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", - "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:25pm", - "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "14:15:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779311700, - "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:25:00", - "event_subtype": "" - }, - { - "event_key": "1145438", - "active": "Y", - "pinned": "N", - "name": "Inside a Modern GraphQL Compiler - Alec Aivazis, Arista Networks", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:30", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 14:40", - "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", - "description": "Modern GraphQL clients are expected to do far more than execute queries. From supporting pagination to incrementally re-analyzing documents as they change, the demand for fast, scalable static analysis has never been higher.\n \nBut what does it take to build tooling that meets these demands? How do you support a wide and ever-growing set of features without sacrificing performance or maintainability?\n \nIn this talk, Alec explores the design of Houdini’s new compiler, sharing a somewhat unconventional architecture and the lessons learned along the way.", - "goers": "2", - "seats": "0", - "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Dumbarton", - "audience": "Intermediate", - "id": "1a2e715b15a55d536f0844b53a49543f", - "venue_id": "2294960", - "speakers": [ - { - "username": "alec102", - "id": "18743870", - "name": "Alec Aivazis", - "company": "Arista Networks", - "custom_order": 0 - } - ], - "event_start_year": "2026", - "event_start_month": "May", - "event_start_month_short": "May", - "event_start_day": "20", - "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", - "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", "event_start_time": "2:30pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", @@ -2830,12 +2933,12 @@ "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "2:40pm", + "event_end_time": "2:55pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", "start_time": "14:30:00", "start_time_ts": 1779312600, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "14:40:00", + "end_time": "14:55:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2843,8 +2946,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "GraphQL Data Mocking at Scale With LLMs and @generateMock - Michael Rebello, Airbnb", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:50", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:15", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:30", "event_type": "AI and LLMs", "description": "Producing valid and realistic mock data for prototyping and testing has been an unsolved challenge for years. Mock data is tedious to write and maintain, but attempts to improve the process such as random value generation and field stubbing fall short as they lack essential domain context to make test data realistic and meaningful.\nIn this talk, I’ll share how we’ve reimagined GraphQL mocking at Airbnb by combining existing GraphQL infrastructure, rich product and schema context, and LLMs to generate convincing, type-safe mock data simply by adding a directive (@generateMock) to a field or operation:\n- How integrating LLMs that are highly contextualized by a schema, documentation, and UX design into existing GraphQL tools drives a leap forward in the speed and quality of mock data creation.\n- How a directive-driven approach lets engineers generate production-like, schema-conformant mock data without writing code.\n- How integrating generated mock data into the GraphQL client runtime can enable engineers to build and test clients before server implementation.\n- How this strategy guarantees that generated mock data is correct, deterministic, and stays in-sync with the server schema.", "goers": "1", @@ -2869,19 +2972,19 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "2:50pm", + "event_start_time": "3:05pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "3:15pm", + "event_end_time": "3:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "14:50:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779313800, + "start_time": "15:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779314700, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "15:15:00", + "end_time": "15:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2889,8 +2992,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Building MCP Apps With GraphQL Patterns You Already Know - Jerel Miller, Apollo GraphQL", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:50", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:15", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:30", "event_type": "Clients", "description": "You know how to build client apps—but where do client developers fit in the new world of ChatGPT and MCP? If you've used GraphQL before, it turns out your knowledge translates directly. This talk demonstrates how to build MCP apps using Apollo's AI apps client and MCP server with patterns you already use:\n1. Fragment colocation → Tool design: Structure MCP tools like component data requirements\n2. Query optimization → Tool call patterns: Minimize LLM roundtrips with the same performance thinking\n3. Type safety → Tool schemas: Apply GraphQL's type discipline to MCP definitions\nA live demo builds an MCP app querying a GraphQL API, showing how best practices from GraphQL client development apply to OpenAI and MCP apps.", "goers": "1", @@ -2915,19 +3018,19 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "2:50pm", + "event_start_time": "3:05pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "3:15pm", + "event_end_time": "3:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "14:50:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779313800, + "start_time": "15:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779314700, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "15:15:00", + "end_time": "15:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2935,8 +3038,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "The Graph Awakens: Next-Level GraphQL Visualization - Ivan Goncharov, APIs.guru", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 14:50", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:15", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:05", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:30", "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", "description": "Last year, we explored why the \"Graph\" in GraphQL matters. This year, the graph awakens to its full potential.\n \nBuilding on 10 years of schema visualization experience, I'll reveal advanced techniques that make even massive, complex schemas readable and intuitive. We'll explore cutting-edge layout algorithms and visualization methods that go beyond what existing tools offer.\n \nBut here's the revelation: graphs aren't just for viewing, they're for understanding. I'll show how graph metrics and analytics can reveal hidden characteristics of your schemas, providing insights into complexity, coupling, and design patterns that are invisible in traditional documentation.\n \nThis isn't just about prettier diagrams. It's about using graph theory to support schema analysis, optimization, and architectural decisions.\n \nJoin me to see GraphQL schemas in ways you never imagined possible and discover what makes the \"Graph\" in GraphQL truly powerful beyond just visualization.", "goers": "1", @@ -2961,19 +3064,19 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "2:50pm", + "event_start_time": "3:05pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "3:15pm", + "event_end_time": "3:30pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "14:50:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779313800, + "start_time": "15:05:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779314700, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "15:15:00", + "end_time": "15:30:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { @@ -2981,8 +3084,8 @@ "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", "name": "Break", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:15", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:35", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:30", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 15:50", "event_type": "Breaks + Networking + Special Events", "description": "", "goers": "1", @@ -2997,43 +3100,43 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "3:15pm", + "event_start_time": "3:30pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "3:35pm", + "event_end_time": "3:50pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "15:15:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779315300, + "start_time": "15:30:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779316200, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "15:35:00", + "end_time": "15:50:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1146929", + "event_key": "1144108", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Observability for a Multi-Tenant GraphQL Gateway at Scale - Vickey Yeh, Airbnb", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 16:00", + "name": "Beyond HTTP 200: Observability With GraphQL - Dotan Simha, The Guild", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:50", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 16:15", "event_type": "Observability + Telemetry + Tracing", - "description": "Viaduct, Airbnb's unified data access layer, hosts over 1.5M lines of application code from 500+ tenants, with 200+ changes merged daily—all operating as a single service. At this scale, enabling teams to independently monitor and troubleshoot their code is essential. \nThis talk describes how we approach observability with multitenancy at the core: \n- Establishing clear ownership of modules and attributing metrics, spans, and errors to those owners \n- Providing alerts and dashboards at multiple levels: system, operation, tenant, and field\n- Enabling schema-driven alerting, where tenants declaratively specify monitoring requirements directly in the schema and the platform implements them automatically\n- Using execution traces to visualize query execution and core-tenant interactions, tackling challenges like:\n- Representing batched dataloader calls (where N field requests become 1 RPC)\n- Instrumenting downstream service clients across all data-fetching code\n- Managing observability costs via selective sampling and cardinality-aware metrics \n \nOur goal: empower tenants to manage their portion of Viaduct as a standalone service—without bottlenecking on the platform team.", - "goers": "1", + "description": "To run GraphQL in production with confidence, we need more than just uptime checks and HTTP 200 - we need deep visibility into the graph itself.\n \nIn this talk, we will explore how to implement the three pillars of observability: traces, metrics, and logs - specifically for GraphQL. \n \nWe'll explore OTel and GraphQL, allowing you to trace requests from the gateway down to individual Federation subgraphs and deeper.\n \nFinally, we will look at how to leverage dedicated tooling like Hive Console to make sense of this data.", + "goers": "2", "seats": "0", "invite_only": "N", - "venue": "Mission Peak", - "audience": "Any", - "id": "d1bdf1a3eb90cb599c172cbdfa7fdd1c", - "venue_id": "2288547", + "venue": "Dumbarton", + "audience": "Intermediate", + "id": "616a26da6957b595a0bc10905cff2720", + "venue_id": "2294960", "speakers": [ { - "username": "vickey.yeh", - "id": "24421604", - "name": "Vickey Yeh", - "company": "Airbnb", + "username": "dotan1", + "id": "23098735", + "name": "Dotan Simha", + "company": "The Guild", "custom_order": 0 } ], @@ -3043,43 +3146,43 @@ "event_start_day": "20", "event_start_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_start_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_start_time": "3:35pm", + "event_start_time": "3:50pm", "event_end_year": "2026", "event_end_month": "May", "event_end_month_short": "May", "event_end_day": "20", "event_end_weekday": "Wednesday", "event_end_weekday_short": "Wed", - "event_end_time": "4:00pm", + "event_end_time": "4:15pm", "start_date": "2026-05-20", - "start_time": "15:35:00", - "start_time_ts": 1779316500, + "start_time": "15:50:00", + "start_time_ts": 1779317400, "end_date": "2026-05-20", - "end_time": "16:00:00", + "end_time": "16:15:00", "event_subtype": "" }, { - "event_key": "1147363", + "event_key": "1145687", "active": "Y", "pinned": "N", - "name": "Turning San Francisco Into a GraphQL Server - Jean Lucas Lima, ConfrariaTech", - "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:35", - "event_end": "2026-05-20 16:00", - "event_type": "Servers", - "description": "What if a city could run as a GraphQL server?\n \nIn this talk, we model San Francisco as a modular GraphQL runtime powered by Viaduct. Instead of stitching together microservices or configuring external gateways, we organize zoning, building permits, transit, and census data as domain modules inside a single distributed graph engine.\n \nUsing real public datasets from the City of San Francisco and the U.S. Census, we demonstrate how tenant modules compose into a unified schema, how execution is coordinated across domain boundaries, and how teams can evolve parts of the graph without central bottlenecks.\n \nWe introduce a lightweight Skills SDK that abstracts runtime configuration and enforces clear ownership rules, making modular graph design approachable.\n \nFinally, we connect an AI client to the server to demonstrate structured, explainable reasoning over live city data.\n \nAll demo code and schema modules will be open sourced for attendees to explore and extend.", + "name": "Brute Force Correctness - James Bellenger, Airbnb", + "event_start": "2026-05-20 15:50", + "event_end": "2026-05-20 16:15", + "event_type": "Tooling + DX + Testing + Documentation", + "description": "So you’re a maintainer of a GraphQL system. 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