Agenda
9:00 AM
Main stage
Looking ForwardZeno kicks off Resend Forward and sets the tone for the day: a celebration of the people who care deeply about their craft and the software they ship.
Zeno RochaCEO, Resend
9:30 AM
Main stage
Resend InboxesPhil announces Resend Inboxes.
Phil NashDX Engineer, Resend
9:45 AM
Main stage
Resend ForgeLucas announces Resend Forge.
Lucas da CostaSoftware Engineer, Resend
10:00 AM
Main stage
Caring in the Age of AIInnovation in AI is making it easier than ever to ship, fast. Those who make a difference will be those who care.
Aaron FrancisVP of Marketing and Community, Laravel
10:00 AM
Builder room
Be curious, not judgmentalCredentials and hot takes don’t produce the best code, the best products, and the best careers. Those things come from curiosity. This is a story about craft, judgment, and what happens when you follow the unfamiliar instead of dismissing it.
Sergiy DybskiyDeveloper Experience Engineer, Sentry
10:30 AM
Main stage
Healthy culture accelerates productCristina Cordova, COO of Linear, sits down with Jonni Lundy, COO of Resend, for a conversation about building companies and the culture that makes great products possible.
Cristina CordovaCOO, Linear
Jonni LundyCOO, Resend
10:30 AM
Builder room
Building faster with agents: my AI-driven development workflowThe shift from writing code to orchestrating AI agents: moving beyond basic prompting to spec-driven development, and the practical habits for steering autonomous agents while staying responsible for production code.
Aileen Villanueva LecuonaSoftware Engineer
11:00 AM
Main stage
Snack breakA break to recharge and connect with other builders.
11:30 AM
Main stage
The new creative advantageAI has changed the speed of creative production. But when everyone can make something “good enough”, the advantage shifts from producing to deciding. A talk about taste, judgment, and building teams that can sustain real craft at scale.
Valentina BearzottiHead of Development, basement.studio
11:30 AM
Builder room
Resend from start to finishLearn how to get the most out of Resend. Verify a domain, build templates with React Email, and set up complex automations. Isabella and Phil will show you how to build out a robust email system that fits your app.
Isabella AquinoSoftware Engineer, Resend
Phil NashDX Engineer, Resend
12:00 PM
Main stage
Primitives are your productUsers don't want your product. They want the problem it solves to go away. A talk about primitives, how to craft yours, and why they're the foundation of good software.
Josh BrownCommunity Engineer, PlanetScale
Ahmed DarwichDeveloper Educator, PlanetScale
12:00 PM
Builder room
Changelog Podcast IRLAdam Stacoviak from the Changelog Podcast interviews Taylor Otwell, founder and CEO of Laravel. Taylor famously cares deeply about code quality, going so far as to approve every PR that makes it into Laravel’s codebase. How is he thinking about code quality in the age of AI?
Adam StacoviakHost, Changelog podcast
Taylor OtwellFounder & CEO, Laravel
12:30 PM
Main stage
LunchTake a break and enjoy lunch with fellow attendees.
1:30 PM
Main stage
Eulogy for the software engineerSomebody should say a few words. This profession has been lamenting in fragments for two years with a headstone that turns out to have the wrong name on it. Come mourn; leave with a renewed job description and a reason to keep handing what you know to somebody else.
Dave KissStaff Community Engineer, Mux
2:00 PM
Main stage
Attention Is All You HaveHow should teams of people work with teams of agents? And how do we, as builders, make it easier rather than harder?
Calvin French-OwenEIR, Thrive Capital
2:00 PM
Builder room
Writing software before you build itHow do you start a new project? It shouldn’t be with code, or even a prompt. In this talk, we’ll explore using technical documents to structure your thinking, understand the problem, resolve ambiguity, and get buy-in for your solution. All of this before ever writing (or prompting) a single line of code.
Eduarda ScharnhorstSenior Software Engineer, MongoDB
2:30 PM
Main stage
Shipping in the age of agentsGuillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, joins Zeno Rocha for a fireside chat on how AI agents are changing what developer experience means, why speed of iteration matters more than ever, and what stays constant: craft, taste, and reliability.
Guillermo RauchCEO, Vercel
Zeno RochaCEO, Resend
3:00 PM
Main stage
Afternoon snack breakA break to recharge before the afternoon sessions.
3:30 PM
Main stage
New Ways of SeeingWe often think of tools as things we create to extend our abilities. But the relationship goes both ways. The software we build changes how we move, perceive, remember, communicate, and think. Over time, it can reshape us too.
Zeh FernandesHead of Design, Resend
4:00 PM
Main stage
Built for agents: patterns from the teams getting it rightAI agents are now the power users of tools, yet most products are still failing them. From evaluating hundreds of devtools, we share the patterns that set the most agent-ready teams apart.
Mika SagindykCo-Founder & CEO, Firegoat (prev. 2027.dev)
4:30 PM
Main stage
Mastering Craft (as a human)A coming-of-age story about passion, curiosity, and an obsession with the little big details.
Jonnie HallmanIndependent Design Engineer
5:00 PM
Main stage
Where do we go from here?Closing thoughts to wrap up Resend Forward.
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Main stage
After-partyWind down with snacks, music, and fellow builders.