GraphQLConf 2026: Venues

May 19 - 20 | In-Person Only
GraphQLConf 2026 website

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Please note: This schedule is automatically displayed in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). To see the schedule in your preferred timezone, please select from the drop-down located at the bottom of the menu to the right.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.

9:00am • Keynote: Opening Remarks - Janette Cheng, Software Engineer, Meta
9:05am • Keynote: GraphQL Foundation Update - Lee Byron, Co-Creator of GraphQL and Director, GraphQL Foundation
9:15am • Sponsored Keynote: Shaping New GraphQL Patterns from Strong Baselines - Uri Goldshtein, CEO, The Guild
9:25am • Keynote: Built to Evolve: 13 Years of GraphQL - Elena Bukareva, Software Engineering Manager & Braxton Bragg, Senior Product Manager, Meta
9:50am • Keynote: Creating a Golden Path for GraphQL - Benjie Gillam, Maintainer, Graphile & Kewei Qu, Software Engineer, Meta
10:00am • Keynote: GraphQL in the AI Era - Matt DeBergalis, CEO and Co-Founder, Apollo GraphQL
10:05am • Keynote: Closing Remarks - Janette Cheng, Software Engineer, Meta
10:30am • Sponsored Session: Federation, Reversed: A Consumer-First Future with Fission - David Stutt, Wundergraph
11:05am • Service-to-service GraphQL: The New Sweet Spot! - Mark Larah, Yelp
11:40am • From Query to Conversation: GraphQL as an AI Interface Layer - Hugh Nguyen & Adam Conrad, Meta
12:15pm • Sponsored Session: Closing the Loop: How GraphQL Gives Coding Agents Eyes on What Actually Matters - Michael Staib, Chillicream
2:10pm • Lower Latency With Streaming GraphQL - Rob Richard, 1stDibs
2:45pm • Scaling Real-Time: Building Federated Subscriptions in Rust - Denis Badurina, The Guild
3:20pm • Sponsored Session: Hands Off the Keyboard: An Introduction to Agentic Coding for GraphQL Developers - Erik Bylund, Apollo GraphQL
4:05pm • The Case Against __typename - Sabrina Wasserman, Meta Platforms Inc.
4:40pm • Shifting Instagram Development Towards Monolith Server Via Federated Schema - Xiao Han, Chi Chan, Deepak Singh, Kristina Kamendova & Anirudh Padmarao, Meta
5:15pm • Incrementally Adopting GraphQL. The Holy Grail? - Robert Balicki, Pinterest

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