Your guide to GitHub Universe 2026 is here: The schedule just launched!

GitHub Universe 2026’s session catalog is now live, featuring interactive workshops, community talks, demos, and panels focused on AI-powered development. The two-day event will include sessions led by experts from companies such as AMD, Figma, NVIDIA, Coinbase, Anthropic, and OpenAI, covering topics like delegating tasks to Copilot, enterprise-scale AI measurement, and fine-grained security for MCP servers. Attendees can also participate in one-on-one discussions with the GitHub team, career advice sessions, and Ship & Tell presentations where teams showcase their projects. Early Bird registration, offering a $300 discount, is available until August 19, with group discounts available for additional savings.

The schedule highlights practical learning opportunities, including hands-on workshops where attendees can configure Copilot to handle complex tasks and build working projects. Sessions such as “Stop prompting, start delegating” and “Inside GitHub Copilot’s coding harness” will demonstrate how to optimize AI tools for real-world use. Other workshops will cover workflows like stacked pull requests, which streamline code review by breaking changes into smaller, dependent pull requests. The event also includes hallway tracks, partner booths, and sessions focused on building AI fluency at scale, such as UPS’s approach to moving developers from awareness to practical use of Copilot.

Notable sessions include “Building AI fluency at UPS,” which explores how enterprises can transition developers from trying AI tools to using them fluently in production. Another session, “Code is the easy part,” will examine how the Open Home Foundation manages a fully open roadmap across 20,000 contributors using GitHub’s collaborative tools. Additional workshops, such as “I made my Octolamp think with GitHub Copilot CLI hooks,” will demonstrate how to integrate AI workflows with physical devices. The event also features a panel on the future of AI-assisted development, featuring leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub.

Registration options include a Day of Learning pass for $50, which provides access to a full day of learning at GitHub’s headquarters and includes a GitHub Certification exam voucher. Attendees can vote on breakout sessions until August 21, with the winning session available on demand. The event emphasizes practical takeaways, including workflows that can be implemented immediately and insights into scaling AI adoption in enterprise environments.