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WG Day:

Menlo Park, California
Session Format
Talk Category
Audience

Wednesday, May 6

09:00 – 09:25
Keynote SessionsKeynote Sessions To Be AnnouncedTransbay
09:25 – 09:45
Keynote SessionsThe Creator's Curse: Why Meta Is Re-inventing GraphQL Elena Bukareva, Braxton BraggTransbay
09:45 – 09:55
Keynote SessionsCreating a Golden Path for GraphQL Benjie GillamTransbay
09:55 – 10:15
Keynote SessionsKeynote Sessions To Be AnnouncedTransbay
10:15 – 10:35
Breaks + Networking + Special EventsBreakFoyer
10:35 – 11:00
Federation + Distributed SystemsSafely Merging Subgraphs in a Distributed World Clarice Abreu, Rodrigo JesusAna of California
AI and LLMsBig Graphs, Tiny Contexts: Dev Tools for Agents Stephen Spalding, Kavitha SrinivasanPeahi
11:10 – 11:35
ServersReact Server Components Vs. GraphQL Jordan EldredgePeahi
TrendsService-to-service GraphQL: The New Sweet Spot! Mark LarahTransbay
11:45
Production InsightsThe Internal Lens: GraphQL Gateways From a Different Axis Angel SvirkovAna of California25 min
PerformanceShopify's Breadth-First Bet: Rethinking GraphQL Execution Greg MacWilliamPeahi25 min
Production InsightsThe 40,000-field Query: Optimizations for Gigantic High-QPS Operations Gary ZengTransbay10 min
12:00 – 12:10
AI and LLMsGraphQL: The Internal Agentic API Christopher ChedeauTransbay
13:25 – 13:50
AI and LLMsThe State of GraphQL Agent Skills Dale SeoAna of California
14:00
ClientsSchema Composition Without Federation Matt MahoneyAna of California10 min
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationTeach Yourself GraphQL in 2026: An Anti-blueprint Jeff AuriemmaPeahi25 min
GraphQL SpecificationLower Latency With Streaming GraphQL Rob RichardTransbay25 min
14:35
AI and LLMsBringing GraphQL Natively To Relational Databases With AI Shashank GugnaniAna of California25 min
Schema Design + Evolution + GovernanceThe @deprecated Journey: Five Stops From Schema Hint To Gateway Power Nasser AbouelazmPeahi10 min
Federation + Distributed SystemsScaling Real-Time: Building Federated Subscriptions in Rust Denis BadurinaTransbay25 min
14:50 – 15:00
Schema Design + Evolution + GovernanceBreaking up With Inputs (Without Breaking Your Users) Laurin QuastPeahi
15:10 – 15:35
SecurityThe Invisible Fortress: Embedding Zero-Trust Governance in the Supergraph Gaurav SinghAna of California
AI and LLMsConnecting LLMs To GraphQL With Schema-Aware Embeddings Thore KoritziusPeahi
15:55 – 16:20
AI and LLMsSimplifying MCP Tool Sprawl With GraphQL Roy DerksAna of California
ClientsChanging the Game for Trusted Documents — What If Your Whole Platform Natively Supported It? Adam BenkhassenPeahi
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationThe Easy Way and the Hard Way: Blue-green GraphQL Deployments Zack WarnimontTransbay
16:30 – 16:55
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationCaching Deep Dive: The Ultimate Way To Speed up Your GraphQL API Tuval SimhaPeahi
Federation + Distributed SystemsShifting Instagram Development Towards Monolith Server Via Federated Schema Xiao Han, Chi Chan, Anirudh Padmarao, Lisa WatkinsTransbay
17:05 – 17:30
Production InsightsScaling GraphQL on AWS: Production Architecture for High-Volume Data Systems Aishwarya TirumalaAna of California
Observability + Telemetry + TracingUnderstanding Your Graph, One Hash at a Time Jens NeusePeahi
OtherIncrementally Adopting GraphQL. The Holy Grail? Robert BalickiTransbay

Thursday, May 7

10:15 – 10:40
PerformanceWhen GraphQL Gets Expensive: Performance & Cost Patterns in Production Serverless Architectures Harpreet SiddhuAna of California
Schema Design + Evolution + GovernanceScreens on Shuffle: How Netflix Scales Server‑Driven, Ever‑Changing Pages Sreekanth RamakrishnanPeahi
10:30 – 10:40
ClientsResolvers Everywhere: Rethinking Client and Server Boundaries in GraphQL Janette ChengTransbay
10:50 – 11:15
ClientsModern Apollo Client React Brennen DavisAna of California
PerformanceAn Alternative To JSON Responses: Argo in WhatsApp Kevin GorhamPeahi
AI and LLMsGraphQL Meets LLMs & Agents: Building Production AI at Starbucks Scale Sharon GorlaTransbay
11:25 – 11:50
Production InsightsHow GraphQL Helped Create Scalability and Stability in the Retirement Space. Cameron SechristAna of California
AI and LLMsSemantic Introspection Pascal SennPeahi
ClientsThe Case Against __typename Sabrina WassermanTransbay
12:00 – 12:25
Schema Design + Evolution + GovernanceStop Reviewing Schemas: How Intuit Made Developers Faster by Automating Governance Oleks BidiukAna of California
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationThe Biggest Change To GraphQL Codegen in 10 Years Eddy Nguyen, Igor KusakovPeahi
AI and LLMsGraphQL Embeddings: AI-Powered Dynamic Operations From Schema To IDE Michael WatsonTransbay
13:40 – 14:05
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationBrute Force Correctness James BellengerAna of California
ServersGrafast: A Declarative Solution To GraphQL's Execution Woes Benjie GillamPeahi
AI and LLMsA GraphQL-inspired Orchestration Language for the AI Era Martijn WalravenTransbay
14:15
AI and LLMsGoverning the AI-Graph: Observability and Security for LLM-Generated Queries Rajeshwari SahAna of California25 min
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationIf AI Can’t See It, It Doesn’t Exist: Making GraphQL Discoverable Catherine DeskurPeahi10 min
Federation + Distributed SystemsThe State of GraphQL Federation Michael StaibTransbay25 min
14:30 – 14:40
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationInside a Modern GraphQL Compiler Alec AivazisPeahi
14:50 – 15:15
ClientsBuilding MCP Apps With GraphQL Patterns You Already Know Jerel MillerAna of California
AI and LLMsGraphQL Data Mocking at Scale With LLMs and @generateMock Michael RebelloPeahi
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationThe Graph Awakens: Next-Level GraphQL Visualization Ivan GoncharovTransbay
15:35 – 16:00
Tooling + DX + Testing + DocumentationSpeed Without Sacrifice: How Wayfair Transforms DevEx With AI and MCP Rohit Gupta, Bhavana Sree PallempatiAna of California
ServersTurning San Francisco Into a GraphQL Server Jean Lucas LimaPeahi
Observability + Telemetry + TracingObservability for a Multi-Tenant GraphQL Gateway at Scale Vickey YehTransbay
16:10 – 16:35
Production Insights@live GraphQL in Practice: Postgres-to-React Realtime Data Sync Tobbe LundbergAna of California
Observability + Telemetry + TracingBeyond HTTP 200: Observability With GraphQL Dotan SimhaPeahi

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Is anything happening on May 08 after the main conference?
Working Group Day is on May 08, 2026. For attendance, schedule, and day-of logistics, see the WG Day page.
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