Dapr Day 2026: Virtual Event Sessions

Dapr Day 2026 was a virtual event hosted by CNCF on October 8, 2026, with sessions on building and running reliable workflows and agentic applications with Dapr.

Dapr Day 2026

Dapr Day 2026 was a virtual event, hosted by CNCF as part of Virtual Project Events, that took place on October 8, 2026, 15:00 - 18:30 UTC. The sessions covered building and running reliable workflows and agentic applications with Dapr.

Recordings coming soon

Watch for the sessions on the Dapr YouTube channel.

Agenda

Opening

Dapr Community Managers

Dapr in 2027

Mark Fussell & Yaron Schneider | Dapr co-creators

Crash-Proof AI Applications: Durable Spring AI 2.x with Dapr Workflows

Javier Aliaga | Software Engineer, Diagrid

Sidecars on a Laptop: A Local Dapr Inner Loop Measured in Seconds

Sagar Utekar | SRE, CrowdStrike

Ship with Confidence: 5 Production-Ready Dapr Practices

Nikunj Doshi, Neha Gupta & Manan Chawda | Solutions Architect, PDT Corp; Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat; Software Engineer, Experian

Distributed Event Processing with Dapr

Whit Waldo | Founder and CEO, Innovian

Dapr Agents: a maintainers perspective on building LLM powered autonomous agentic applications

Samantha Kendziora | Software Engineer, Diagrid

Closing remarks

Dapr Community Managers