How Vercel builds for model step-changes: A tactical playbook
When Opus 4.5 landed, v0 was ready on day one — not by luck, but by design. Guillermo Rauch, CEO, walks through the architectural choices (and the patterns now on skills.sh) that let Vercel absorb major model upgrades without rebuilding. A tactical playbook for developers who want their agent workflows to get better every time a new model drops.
Details
City
San Francisco
Date
May 6, 2026
Time
03:20PM – 03:50PM
Speakers
Guillermo Rauch
Vercel
Agenda
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Check in and breakfast
09:00AM – 10:00AM
Opening keynote
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Ami Vora
Dianne Penn
Angela Jiang
Katelyn Lesse
Cat Wu
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
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10:30AM – 11:15AM
11:15AM – 11:45AM
11:30AM – 12:15PM
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
12:30PM – 01:15PM
01:30PM – 02:15PM
01:50PM – 02:20PM
02:30PM – 03:15PM
From code to orchestration: building with Claude in Amazon Bedrock
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Kazuya Iwami
02:35PM – 03:05PM
Building AI-native: Inside the stacks powering Harvey, Gamma, and Cognition
Claude Platform
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Niko Grupen
Deeni Fatiha
Walden Yan
03:20PM – 03:50PM
03:30PM – 04:15PM
04:05PM – 04:35PM
04:30PM – 05:15PM
Build AI Agents using Claude in Microsoft Foundry
(Workshop)
Claude Platform
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Madoka Chiyoda
Yoshio Terada
04:50PM – 05:20PM
Giving coding agents their own computers: How Cursor built cloud agents
Claude Platform
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Jonas Nelle
Alexi Robbins
05:30PM – 06:15PM
05:35PM – 06:05PM
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06:00PM – 08:00PM
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