# 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](https://www.youtube.com/@daprdev).

## 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*