Caching, harnesses, and advisors: Building on Claude at GitHub scale

GitHub’s Copilot team ships Claude to millions of developers across chat, CLI, coding agent, and code review, and has become one of the most demanding users of the Claude Platform. GitHub CPO Mario Rodriguez and Anthropic’s Brad Abrams break down how the team pushes quality up and costs down at scale, from caching and evaluation to the new Advisor strategy. Walk away with patterns you can apply to your own Claude-powered product.
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City
San Francisco
Date
May 6, 2026
Time
11:15AM – 11:45AM
Speaker(s)
Mario Rodriguez
Chief Product Officer,
 
GitHub
Brad Abrams
Product Management Lead, 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
10:30AM – 11:15AM
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
11:30AM – 12:15PM
Claude Code best practices
(Workshop)
Claude Code
·
Daisy Hollman
12:00PM – 12:30PM
Get to production 10x 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
12:30PM – 01:15PM
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
State of Claude Code
Claude Code
·
Cat Wu
Building with Claude Managed Agents and Asana AI teammates
Claude Platform
·
Arnab Bose
02:30PM – 03:15PM
From code to orchestration: building with Claude in Amazon Bedrock
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
·
Kazuya Iwami
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
03:20PM – 03:50PM
How Vercel builds for model step-changes: A tactical playbook
Research
·
Guillermo Rauch
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
Building with Claude on Google Cloud
Claude Platform
·
Ivan Nardini
Kaz Sato
04:30PM – 05:15PM
Build AI Agents using Claude in Microsoft Foundry
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
·
Madoka Chiyoda
Yoshio Terada
04:50PM – 05:20PM
Getting more out of the Claude Platform
Claude Platform
·
Brad Abrams
Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents
Claude Platform
·
Jonas Nelle
Alexi Robbins
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
·
Theo Chu
Evaluating and improving Replit Agent at scale
Claude Code
·
Michele Catasta
Hannah Moran
Evening
06:00PM – 08:00PM
Evening reception

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