LocalStack at The Cloud & AI Summit 2026
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026 in St. Charles, MO
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026, the community-driven conference for developers, architects, and technology leaders working with Azure and AI, running September 30 – October 2 at the Ameristar Casino & Convention Center in St. Charles, MO. Find our team to talk about local cloud development, faster Azure feedback loops, and giving every developer, AI agent, and pipeline a safe place to build and test. Then catch two sessions from Kiah Imani: one on fixing the Azure dev loop by running cloud architectures locally, and one on how developer experience needs to change now that AI agents are testing, debugging, and deploying code.
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026 in St. Charles, MO
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026, the community-driven conference for developers, architects, and technology leaders working with Azure and AI, running September 30 – October 2 at the Ameristar Casino & Convention Center in St. Charles, MO. Find our team to talk about local cloud development, faster Azure feedback loops, and giving every developer, AI agent, and pipeline a safe place to build and test. Then catch two sessions from Kiah Imani: one on fixing the Azure dev loop by running cloud architectures locally, and one on how developer experience needs to change now that AI agents are testing, debugging, and deploying code.
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LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026 in St. Charles, MO
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026, the community-driven conference for developers, architects, and technology leaders working with Azure and AI, running September 30 – October 2 at the Ameristar Casino & Convention Center in St. Charles, MO. Find our team to talk about local cloud development, faster Azure feedback loops, and giving every developer, AI agent, and pipeline a safe place to build and test. Then catch two sessions from Kiah Imani: one on fixing the Azure dev loop by running cloud architectures locally, and one on how developer experience needs to change now that AI agents are testing, debugging, and deploying code.
Talks
The Future DevEx is Autonomous
AI agents are no longer science fiction. They can already test, debug, and even deploy applications with little human input. That changes who your developer experience is for.
In this introductory session, Kiah Imani looks at how DevEx has to change to serve AI agents as well as human developers. You'll learn why machine-readable interfaces such as OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and GraphQL introspection are becoming the front door to your platform, and what it takes to get your APIs, tooling, and docs ready for autonomous developer workflows, so your platform works for every developer, AI agent, and pipeline. (AI track · Introductory · Room: Clarity)
The Future DevEx is Autonomous
AI agents are no longer science fiction. They can already test, debug, and even deploy applications with little human input. That changes who your developer experience is for.
In this introductory session, Kiah Imani looks at how DevEx has to change to serve AI agents as well as human developers. You'll learn why machine-readable interfaces such as OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and GraphQL introspection are becoming the front door to your platform, and what it takes to get your APIs, tooling, and docs ready for autonomous developer workflows, so your platform works for every developer, AI agent, and pipeline. (AI track · Introductory · Room: Clarity)
Kiah is a developer who advocates and evangelises about all things cloud-native at LocalStack. She has over a decade of experience covering both engineering and business roles, and prides herself on bringing a unique perspective to building products from idea to deployment and navigating product-market fit.
Azure Feels Slow Because Your Dev Loop Is Broken
Azure isn't slow. Your development loop is. Most teams build on Azure the same way: deploy, wait, debug, repeat. It works, but every change costs minutes you don't get back, and integration bugs turn up late, when they're most expensive to fix.
In this session, Kiah Imani breaks down where the friction hides in a typical Azure development workflow and shows a different approach: running your cloud architecture locally so you get fast feedback, can test integrations safely, and can troubleshoot before you deploy. You'll watch a real event-driven application get built and tested entirely on a local machine, with workflows triggered, failures simulated, and fixes iterated in seconds instead of minutes.
This isn't about replacing Azure. It's about building for Azure faster than the cloud allows. (Cloud Operations track · Intermediate · Room: Integrity)
Azure Feels Slow Because Your Dev Loop Is Broken
Azure isn't slow. Your development loop is. Most teams build on Azure the same way: deploy, wait, debug, repeat. It works, but every change costs minutes you don't get back, and integration bugs turn up late, when they're most expensive to fix.
In this session, Kiah Imani breaks down where the friction hides in a typical Azure development workflow and shows a different approach: running your cloud architecture locally so you get fast feedback, can test integrations safely, and can troubleshoot before you deploy. You'll watch a real event-driven application get built and tested entirely on a local machine, with workflows triggered, failures simulated, and fixes iterated in seconds instead of minutes.
This isn't about replacing Azure. It's about building for Azure faster than the cloud allows. (Cloud Operations track · Intermediate · Room: Integrity)
Kiah is a developer who advocates and evangelises about all things cloud-native at LocalStack. She has over a decade of experience covering both engineering and business roles, and prides herself on bringing a unique perspective to building products from idea to deployment and navigating product-market fit.
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LocalStack at The Cloud & AI Summit 2026
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026 in St. Charles, MO
LocalStack is heading to The Cloud & AI Summit 2026, the community-driven conference for developers, architects, and technology leaders working with Azure and AI, running September 30 – October 2 at the Ameristar Casino & Convention Center in St. Charles, MO. Find our team to talk about local cloud development, faster Azure feedback loops, and giving every developer, AI agent, and pipeline a safe place to build and test. Then catch two sessions from Kiah Imani: one on fixing the Azure dev loop by running cloud architectures locally, and one on how developer experience needs to change now that AI agents are testing, debugging, and deploying code.
Schedule
Azure Feels Slow Because Your Dev Loop Is Broken
Azure isn't slow. Your development loop is. Most teams build on Azure the same way: deploy, wait, debug, repeat. It works, but every change costs minutes you don't get back, and integration bugs turn up late, when they're most expensive to fix.
In this session, Kiah Imani breaks down where the friction hides in a typical Azure development workflow and shows a different approach: running your cloud architecture locally so you get fast feedback, can test integrations safely, and can troubleshoot before you deploy. You'll watch a real event-driven application get built and tested entirely on a local machine, with workflows triggered, failures simulated, and fixes iterated in seconds instead of minutes.
This isn't about replacing Azure. It's about building for Azure faster than the cloud allows. (Cloud Operations track · Intermediate · Room: Integrity)
The Future DevEx is Autonomous
AI agents are no longer science fiction. They can already test, debug, and even deploy applications with little human input. That changes who your developer experience is for.
In this introductory session, Kiah Imani looks at how DevEx has to change to serve AI agents as well as human developers. You'll learn why machine-readable interfaces such as OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and GraphQL introspection are becoming the front door to your platform, and what it takes to get your APIs, tooling, and docs ready for autonomous developer workflows, so your platform works for every developer, AI agent, and pipeline. (AI track · Introductory · Room: Clarity)
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