Beyond the basics with Claude Code
The mechanics that separate basic Claude Code use from real leverage: CLAUDE.md done well, wiring tools in with MCP, packaging team knowledge as skills, and using auto mode safely.
Details
City
San Francisco
Date
May 6, 2026
Time
11:15AM – 12:00PM
Session type
Workshop
Speaker(s)
Daisy Hollman
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
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Ami Vora, Dianne Penn, Angela Jiang, Katelyn Lesse, Cat Wu, Boris Cherny
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
10:30AM – 11:00AM
10:15AM – 11:00AM
11:15AM – 11:45AM
Caching, harnesses, and advisors: Building on Claude at GitHub scale
Claude Platform
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Mario Rodriguez
Brad Abrams
11:15AM – 12:00PM
12:00PM – 12:30PM
The AI-native engineer: How Netflix moves engineers up the Claude Code maturity ladder
Claude Code
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Eric Wendelin
12:30PM – 02:00PM
Lunch
afternoon sessions
12:15PM – 12:55PM
01:30PM – 02:15PM
01:50PM – 02:20PM
02:30PM – 03:15PM
[AWS]
From code to orchestration: building with Claude in Amazon Bedrock
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Ayan Ray
02:35PM – 03:05PM
Building AI-native: Inside the stacks powering Cognition, Gamma, and Harvey
Claude Platform
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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
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Guillermo Rauch
Angela Jiang
03:30PM – 04:15PM
04:05PM – 04:35PM
04:30PM – 05:15PM
04:50PM – 05:20PM
05:30PM – 06:15PM
05:35PM – 06:05PM
[CURSOR]
Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents
Claude Platform
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Alexi Robbins
Evening
06:00PM – 08:00PM
Evening reception
Anthropic's developer conference
Join us for a day of hands-on workshops, live demos of new capabilities and conversations with the teams behind Claude. Watch live from anywhere.