GitHub Universe 2026 highlights the shift toward agentic workflows, where AI agents become core collaborators in software development. For engineers, it's a chance to move from AI demos to practical, integrated workflows while networking with peers solving similar scale problems.
If you’ve been following all the AI agent conversations and wondering what’s useful versus what’s just noise, you’re not alone. There are ideas everywhere. What’s challenging is finding the time and a practical path from cool demos to workflows that make your day easier. GitHub Universe bridges that gap.
Universe is our flagship event for developers and the teams who support them—builders, maintainers, security practitioners, technical leaders, and partners—coming together for two days of learning, product exploration, and collaboration. One reason to come to Universe is the packed agenda. But perhaps the most crucial reason is the energy: the magic of what happens when you’re in the same room with people who speak your language and have solved (or are currently solving) the same problems as you.
Software development has always been deeply collaborative. Today, that collaboration goes beyond just people, extending to tools, integrations, and agents in one unified workflow.
GitHub Universe is where that workflow clicks into place: where builders become orchestrators and ideas shaping the industry show up in unexpected places.
Throughout the two days, you’ll attend exciting keynotes, panels, and sessions. Though some of the most valuable moments may just happen in between: a hallway conversation that saves you a week of trial and error, a live demo that sparks inspiration, a workshop where you get time with a workflow you can apply to a project, and a quick chat over really good donuts that turns into a future collaboration.
You’ll leave with practical examples, new approaches, and friends you can follow up with when you’re back in the day-to-day.
We’re evolving the Universe experience based on what attendees loved last year, making it easier to learn, connect, and take action.
Want a feel for the in-person energy? Last year, Universe brought the fun in all directions: giant inflatable flowers, robot cotton-candy machines, hackable badges, and a Makerspace where you could build your own Octolamp.
And that was only last year. Imagine what we have planned for 2026.
Super Early Bird passes are available now at our best price of the year. You can even bring your whole team: Save an extra 20% when you buy four or more passes.
Register before prices go up on July 9.
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