Vercel Ship 26 — NYC

Next.js, Vercel, Supabase, Claude agents & automation
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🗺️ Your Gameplan

Talks and workshops run in parallel and nothing's recorded, so this is one timeline with my pick at each conflict marked ★ my pick (green outline). Hit ★ My schedule only up top to see just that path.

9:10 Opening Keynote — Eve / Sandbox / Chat SDK get announced; everything builds on it.
10:35 Brex just-bash → Vercel support agent (skip the Aurora workshop it overlaps — you're on Supabase). Your two most actionable talks.
11:40 Don't give your agent the master key — scoped agent credentials. Your security blind spot.
12:00–1:00 The big trade: spend your ONE workshop on “Build an Agent with Eve” — it runs straight through lunch. It's your launchd-monitor pattern made durable + native; the highest-leverage hour of the day. Eat + network the 1:00–1:20 tail, and make the closing reception your real networking block.
2:00 Agents with Wallets (income), then 2:55 Claude Managed Agents (Anthropic — your exact stack), then the two you flagged: AWS + Agentic Storefronts.

🤝 Networking gameplan

Three windows: pre-9am registration coffee, the 1:00–1:20 lunch tail (Eve eats most of lunch), and the closing reception — make that your main one.
Who to find: the Anthropic speaker (Harrison Stall) + any Vercel DevRel; the Stripe agentic-payments folks; and other solo/indie builders — your peer group for “sell what you build.”
Your 15-sec line: “Solo builder — I ship small Next.js apps on Vercel and run a fleet of Claude agents/monitors. Figuring out how to package and charge for them.”
Bring one artifact: Islander or your monitors dashboard on your phone. A live thing beats a pitch.
QR, not cards: have your LinkedIn QR (or website QR) saved in Photos — see note below the timeline.

Full Timeline

9:10–10:15Context★ my pick

#9Opening Keynote

Vercel — Rauch, Occhino, Zandi, Dara, Grosser, Ubl

For you: frames the whole day; Eve / Sandbox / Chat SDK get announced here. Be in the seat.

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The final actor is shifting from human to machine. Introduces "Agentic Infrastructure" — software that acts, builds, and understands itself in production.

10:15–10:35Skip-ish

How SERHANT shipped AI without a second chance

Ryan J. Coyne — CXO, SERHANT

For you: org-rollout story, not a build-pattern talk. Low priority — breather.

Full description

Salespeople don't try new tools twice. When SERHANT rolled out AI to its real-estate team, every interaction had to work the first time. What they built on Vercel, what broke, what held up.

10:35–10:55Don't miss★ my pick

#3Giving bash to Brex's audit agent

Brandon Bloom — Dir. of Engineering, Brex

For you: a technique talk, not a Brex-product talk. Give the agent a bash shell instead of dozens of structured tools → 4× fewer tokens. Exactly how Claude Code works; directly attacks your weekly-limit burn.

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Tool calls hit a wall the moment an agent has to reason about what it's reading. Brex's audit agent reviewed every company expense for fraud; they rebuilt it on "just-bash" and tokens dropped 4×. What changed and why.

10:35–11:00If curiousWORKSHOP

Ship the Whole Stack: Vercel Backends meet Amazon Aurora

Ronak Shah (AWS), Andrey Buzin (Vercel)

For you: backends (FastAPI/Express/Nest) from one git push is genuinely cool, but it's Aurora-specific and you're on Supabase. Overlaps your two must-see talks — skip.

Full description

Vercel isn't just for frontends. With Fluid Compute and Framework-Defined Infrastructure, deploy real backends from a single git push, connect to Amazon Aurora, and ship a full-stack app live.

10:55–11:15Don't miss★ my pick

#4Automating 90% of support tickets: Vercel's support agent

Kathryn Middleton — Eng. Manager, Vercel

For you: the exact problem set your monitors/agents hit — prompts that don't degrade as context grows, safe MCP tool-calls, retrieval over big doc surfaces. Closest thing to a how-to for what you build.

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Zero to production in weeks. Every layer of the build: prompts that don't degrade as context grows, safe tool-call patterns with MCPs, and retrieval that works over a large doc surface.

11:15–11:40Optional

CTO panel: Internal apps and agents in production

Vercel, MJH, Serhant, ZoomInfo

For you: enterprise-governance angle, less relevant solo. Half-listen / breather.

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Eng/product leaders on building & deploying agents internally: who gets to build, what governance holds, moving from experiment to production.

11:15–11:55If curiousWORKSHOP

#14How Notion is building an agentic platform on Vercel

Jonathan Clem — Software Engineer, Notion

For you: the interactive Workers piece is hands-on; platform-scale otherwise. Optional — not your one workshop.

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How the Notion team uses Vercel's primitives to build a platform for developers and agents. Includes an interactive Workers build session.

11:40–12:00High value★ my pick

#5Don't give your agent the master key

Chris Sev · Ari Schapiro — Auth0

For you: you hand API keys to background agents and run a monthly security sweep. This is the scoped-credential pattern you don't have yet. Live AI-SDK demo.

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Agents read your email, call APIs, make purchases. Each action raises three questions: who authorized this agent, what can it do, can it prove its authority on every call? Four standards-based identity patterns, live Vercel AI SDK demo.

12:00–1:00Top pickWORKSHOP★ my pick

#1Build an Agent with Eve: The Open Agent Framework

Andrew Barba — Software Engineer (Eve), Vercel

For you: empty folder → durable backend agent in under an hour. Markdown for instructions, TS for tools, survives restarts & follow-ups. This is your launchd-cron-monitor pattern, native + durable on Vercel. Worth eating into lunch for.

Full description

Eve is Vercel's framework for durable backend agents, and it starts with a directory. Empty folder to running agent in under an hour: filesystem-first authoring (markdown instructions, TypeScript tools), the runtime split between channels/harnesses/workflows, and shipping an agent that survives restarts, handles follow-up turns, and stays inspectable. No prior experience required.

12:00–1:20

🍽️ Lunch — Eve runs 12–1, so eat & network the 1:00–1:20 tail.

1:00–1:30Strong #2WORKSHOP

#7Build and deploy a Slack Agent to Vercel

Josh Milas — Dir. of Product Management, Slack

For you: you push everything to Mac popups today — a deployed Slack surface is a real distribution channel for your monitors. Great pick if you skip Eve; otherwise it overlaps the lunch tail.

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Your AI agent needs a home, and your users are already in Slack. Create a support agent with the Slack CLI, customize it, and deploy it to Vercel. Walk out with a working agent in your pocket.

1:20–1:40Skip-ish

Building the future of fashion × AI with Alta

Jenny Wang (Alta), Maxwell Osborne, Guillermo Rauch

For you: showcase, not a build talk. Skip unless you want commerce inspiration.

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Vogue/ELLE/GMA-featured, TIME best-inventions. Alta powers a consumer AI styling/shopping app plus agentic commerce for designers, built on Vercel.

1:40–2:00Skip-ish

Sandboxes in Production at FLORA

Charlton Roberts — CTO, Flora

For you: neat parallel-workflow pattern, but image-gen domain. Skip unless idle.

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One FAUNA session fans out into dozens of parallel, minutes-long image generations rolling into one exploration — a long-running parallel agent on Vercel Workflows.

1:40–2:20Quick winWORKSHOP

#12Ship a Production App with v0 and Snowflake

Dom Sipowicz (Vercel), Jordan Floyd (Snowflake)

For you: v0 speedrun = fast template-machine. Snowflake part is ignorable. Overlaps Agents-with-Wallets — skip unless you want the v0 reps.

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Blank page to live in the time it takes to make breakfast. A 30-minute v0 speedrun — how to deploy and keep iterating after Ship.

2:00–2:20High (income)★ my pick

#6Agents with Wallets: the Machine-to-Machine Economy

Prasad Wangikar — Principal Engineer, Stripe

For you: ties straight to your "$3–4/mo micro-service" thread. The "accept agent payments" half is a revenue channel you haven't considered (MCP / UCP / x402).

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Agents are economic actors: they consume tokens, call paid APIs, transact for customers. MCP for tool discovery, UCP for checkout, MPP/x402 for machine payments. Give agents spending power securely and accept agent payments as new revenue.

2:20–2:40If curious

#131,200 analytics requests a day: Clay × Vercel

Abhi Sivasailam (Vercel), Josh Hanson (Clay)

For you: "ask your data in plain English" instead of static dashboards — you could put this over your Umami / 18-site metrics. Interesting, not urgent.

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Vercel's internal analytics agent fields 1,200 requests/day — simple queries to multi-step statistical analysis, and the architecture that runs it reliably. (Clay = GTM/data co.; bet is analytics becomes conversational, not pre-built dashboards.)

2:20–3:00Income pickWORKSHOP

#8From init to deploy in 30 minutes (Stripe Projects)

Gordon Diggs (Stripe), Colin Wren (Stripe)

For you: billing wired in from minute one = the missing piece for a paid micro-service. Strong — but it overlaps the Claude Managed Agents talk (#2), so I'd take the talk. Do this one only if you've already locked Claude content elsewhere.

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Skip the hour of setup. Use Stripe Projects to provision your entire stack from a few CLI commands, then build and deploy on Vercel. Bring an idea, a laptop, your coding agent, and share what you ship.

2:40–2:55

☕ Break

2:55–3:15Don't miss★ my pick

#2Claude Managed Agents on Vercel's Agentic Infrastructure

Harrison Stall — Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic

For you: you're all-in on Claude. This is the Claude-on-Vercel talk — Sandbox + Chat SDK running Claude agents in prod. Front-row it, and find the speaker after.

Full description

Claude Managed Agents run natively on Vercel's Agentic Infrastructure — Sandbox handles execution, the new Chat SDK adapter wires the app layer. Grounded in how Rogo runs Managed Agents on Sandbox in production, plus what the integration unlocks.

3:15–3:35You flagged★ my pick

#10Think Bigger: Prototype to Global Scale (Vercel + AWS)

Shaown Nandi — AWS

For you: the useful bit is "start on v0/Kiro, add prod DB + search + models in a click, scale without re-platforming." AWS-flavored, but the path-from-prototype is yours.

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Start fast with v0 and Kiro, add production DBs/search/models in a click, operate at enterprise scale without re-platforming — Vercel + AWS together.

3:35–3:55You flagged★ my pick

#11Fireside: Building Agentic Storefronts

Vanessa Lee (Shopify) · Tom Occhino (Vercel)

For you: you want a storefront free, not Shopify — take the concept (prompt→storefront, agents that shop) and build it on Vercel + Stripe. Perfect for your template-store idea. Listen for the pattern, ignore the Hydrogen pitch.

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Years of headless commerce (Ruggable, Paige, AG1), now rebuilt: framework-agnostic Hydrogen, Shopify in v0, prompt-to-storefront, and what commerce looks like when AI agents do the shopping.

4:00–4:30Optional★ my pick

Closing Keynote

Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) · Ivan Zhao (Notion)

For you: vision/inspiration, no build takeaways. Stay if you have energy; otherwise permission to start the closing-reception networking early.

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Fireside to close the day with Notion's founder/CEO.