Architecting for model step-changes: A fireside with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch

When Opus 4.5 landed, v0 was ready on day one — not by luck, but by design. Guillermo Rauch sits down with Angela Jiang at Anthropic to unpack how Vercel architects for model step-changes: the bets that paid off, the ones that didn't, and what becoming an "agent-pilled company" actually looks like inside a frontier platform team.
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City
San Francisco
Date
May 6, 2026
Time
03:20PM – 03:50PM
Speaker(s)
Guillermo Rauch
CEO,
 
Vercel
Angela Jiang
Head of Product, Claude Platform,
 
Anthropic

Agenda

Demos and office hours run all day. Drop by between sessions. All times in Pacific Time (PT).
08:00AM – 09:00AM
Check-in and breakfast
09:00AM – 10:00AM
Opening keynote
·
Ami Vora, Dianne Penn, Angela Jiang, Katelyn Lesse, Cat Wu, Boris Cherny
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
10:30AM – 11:00AM
What's new in Claude Code
Claude Code
·
Dickson Tsai
What's new on the Claude Platform
Claude Platform
·
Mahesh Murag
10:15AM – 11:00AM
Picking the right model
(Workshop)
Research
·
Rodrigo Olivares
11:15AM – 11:45AM
Caching, harnesses, and advisors: Building on Claude at GitHub scale
Claude Platform
·
Mario Rodriguez
Brad Abrams
The expanding toolkit
Research
·
Lucas Gonzalez
11:15AM – 12:00PM
Beyond the basics with Claude Code
(Workshop)
Claude Code
·
Daisy Hollman
12:00PM – 12:30PM
How to get to production faster with Claude Managed Agents
Claude Platform
·
Jess Yan
Lance Martin
The AI-native engineer: How Netflix moves engineers up the Claude Code maturity ladder
Claude Code
·
Eric Wendelin
12:30PM – 02:00PM
Lunch
afternoon sessions
12:15PM – 12:55PM
Build a production-ready agent with Claude Managed Agents
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
·
Michael Cohen
01:30PM – 02:15PM
Rearchitecting your workflows with Claude Code
Claude Code
·
Sid Bidasaria
01:50PM – 02:20PM
Live coding session with Claude Code and Boris
Claude Code
·
Boris Cherny
Building with Claude Managed Agents and Asana AI teammates
Claude Platform
·
Arnab Bose
02:30PM – 03:15PM
[AWS] From code to orchestration: building with Claude in Amazon Bedrock
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
·
Ayan Ray
02:35PM – 03:05PM
Running an AI-native engineering org
Claude Code
·
Fiona Fung
Building AI-native: Inside the stacks powering Cognition, Gamma, and Harvey
Claude Platform
·
Deeni Fatiha
Niko Grupen
Walden Yan
Beth Robertson
03:20PM – 03:50PM
Architecting for model step-changes: A fireside with Vercel's Guillermo Rauch
Research
·
Guillermo Rauch
Angela Jiang
The thinking lever
Research
·
Donny Greenberg
03:30PM – 04:15PM
The prompting playbook
(Workshop)
Research
·
Hannah Moran
04:05PM – 04:35PM
How Datadog built a universal machine tool for Claude Code
Claude Code
·
Sesh Nalla
[GOOGLE CLOUD] Building with Claude on Google Cloud
Claude Platform
·
Ivan Nardini
04:30PM – 05:15PM
Build AI Agents using Claude in Microsoft Foundry
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
·
Henk Boelman
Pamela Fox
04:50PM – 05:20PM
Getting more out of the Claude Platform
Claude Platform
·
Brad Abrams
Evaluating and improving Replit Agent at scale
Claude Code
·
Michele Catasta
Hannah Moran
05:30PM – 06:15PM
Build a proactive agent workflow with Claude Code
(Workshop)
Claude Code
·
Noah Zweben
05:35PM – 06:05PM
The capability curve
Research
·
Alex Albert
[CURSOR] Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents
Claude Platform
·
Alexi Robbins
Evening
06:00PM – 08:00PM
Evening reception

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