Kent C. Dodds
Employers on the program
- 2026EpicProduct.engineer2 talks
- 2026Kent C. Dodds Tech LLC1 talk
- 2025EpicAI.pro1 talk
- 2023EpicWeb.dev1 talk
- 2026Independent1 talk
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
- QCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2026 | AI Engineer Code Summit 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | workshop | Closing the Agentic Loop: Getting Agents to Safely Build, Verify, and Ship as Independent Agents can write code. That's not the hard part anymore. The hard part is trusting what they ship. In this hands-on workshop, I'll show you the loop I run every…Show lessAgents can write code. That's not the hard part anymore. The hard part is trusting what they ship. In this hands-on workshop, I'll show you the loop I run every day: agents safely build, verify, and deploy the outcomes I want, and that loop is hooked up to signal (my own ideas, user feedback, bug reports, and friction) so it keeps itself going. | |
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | expo session | Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers — Part 2 as EpicProduct.engineer | |
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | workshop | Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering for Software Developers (Part 1) as EpicProduct.engineer | |
| Apr 20, 2026 | AI Engineer Miami 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Build a Free Agent as Kent C. Dodds Tech LLC Most AI assistants are still just chats with tool access. This talk shows a different approach: using MCP as a personal runtime. I'll walk through how Kody uses…Show lessMost AI assistants are still just chats with tool access. This talk shows a different approach: using MCP as a personal runtime. I'll walk through how Kody uses `search`, `execute`, and `open_generated_ui` to discover capabilities, run sandboxed workflows, manage and use memory, keep secrets out of prompts, and turn generated interfaces into reusable software. | |
| May 23, 2025 | MCP Developers Summit 2025 (San Francisco) | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Please Make Jarvis (so I don't have to) as EpicAI.pro | |
| Mar 27, 2023 | QCon London 2023 | QCon | speaker | The Web's Next Transition as EpicWeb.dev The web. What started as a document sharing platform has evolved into an application platform. The web has been through a number of transformations over the…Show lessThe web. What started as a document sharing platform has evolved into an application platform. The web has been through a number of transformations over the years. From static HTML files to dynamic server-generated HTML responses. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurie Voss | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Philip Kiely | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Ahmad Osman | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Hancock | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ankit Jain | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Antje Barth | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Brandon Waselnuk | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Charlie Guo | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dexter Horthy | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Diogo Almeida | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dominik Kundel | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Erik Thorelli | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Frank Coyle | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Hassan El Mghari | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ivan Leo | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.