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.

  1. 9:10  Opening Keynote — Eve / Sandbox / Chat SDK get announced; everything builds on it.
  2. 10:35  Brex just-bash → Vercel support agent (skip the Aurora workshop it overlaps — you're on Supabase). Your two most actionable talks.
  3. 11:40  Don't give your agent the master key — scoped agent credentials. Your security blind spot.
  4. 12:00–12:45  The big trade: spend your ONE workshop on “Build an Agent with Eve” — it's your launchd-monitor pattern made durable + native; the highest-leverage 45 min of the day. It ends 12:45, so you can still duck into the Slack agent workshop at 1:00 right after — no longer either/or. Eat/network 12:45–1:20, and make the closing reception your real networking block.
  5. 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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
12:00–12:45Top 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 45 min. Markdown for instructions, TS for tools, survives restarts & follow-ups. This is your launchd-cron-monitor pattern, native + durable on Vercel. Ends 12:45 → you can still catch the Slack workshop at 1:00.
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 12–12:45; eat/network 12:45–1:20, or duck into the Slack workshop at 1:00.
1:00–1:30Do bothWORKSHOP★ my pick
#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. Since Eve ends 12:45, this is no longer either/or — do Eve, then this. Grab food in the 12:45–1:00 gap.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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).
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
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.
Full description
Fireside to close the day with Notion's founder/CEO.

Sponsor Tables — Your Goals

Booths to actually work, what to ask, and which of your projects each one plugs into. Top 6 are worth your time; the rest are enterprise/agency — skip.

AnthropicTop priorityPartner

Goal: your single best contact of the day. Find Harrison Stall after the 2:55 talk. Ask: how to cut your Opus weekly-limit burn (just-bash pattern, prompt caching, when sonnet is enough), and running Claude agents on Vercel Sandbox instead of your Mac mini.

Use it for: your whole Claude daemon fleet — hidescore bake, betting/first-dibs monitors, weekly-limit guardrail.

SupabaseTop priorityGold

Goal: 🎟️ enter the “Win a MacBook Neo” raffle — create a new Supabase project + insert any data (deadline Mon Jul 13, 12pm ET; rules supabase.com/go/contest-rules). Ask about free-tier limits, Storage (could replace Vercel Blob on Islander) and pgvector.

Use it for: Islander (already your DB) + any new DB app. pgvector → a semantic search over your 18 sites / memory.

StripeTop priorityPlatinum

Goal: the missing piece for charging money. Ask how to wire billing into a tiny subscription with minimal setup (Stripe Projects), and the agent-payments angle (x402/UCP) from the 2:00 talk.

Use it for: your $3–4/mo micro-alert service and the template store checkout.

ResendAdopt thisGold

Goal: clean transactional email API (by the React-Email folks), generous free tier. Ask about deliverability on a custom domain + their React email templates.

Use it for: replace your gmail-script alerts — Islander waitlist/notifications + emailed digests for betting/first-dibs instead of only Mac popups.

SentryAdopt thisGold

Goal: error + performance monitoring, free tier covers a solo dev. Ask about the Next.js SDK and cron-monitoring.

Use it for: hidescore (you've had silent ESPN / refetch failures) and Islander — catch the breakages your users hit before you do.

NeonGold

Goal: serverless Postgres with instant DB branching and a big free tier. Ask how it compares to Supabase for a throwaway/second DB.

Use it for: a cheap second DB for the micro-service idea, or branch-per-PR on Islander.

Auth0Diamond

Goal: grab the pattern, not the product. After the 11:40 talk, ask how to scope what a background agent's API key can do — you hand keys to daemons and run a monthly security sweep.

Use it for: hardening your agent fleet's credentials (likely roll-your-own from their pattern; their product is paid/overkill for you).

Vercel (host booth / “Powered by AWS”)Host

Goal: ask the one question that bit you — does Fluid Compute / their edge-request pricing change the math for a high-poll app, vs Cloudflare? (This is why subwaytimes left for CF.)

Use it for: Islander (your one real Vercel app) cost + the new Sandbox/Agent stuff.

Skip: OpenAI / Google DeepMind (you're all-in on Claude), Slack (chat after the workshop if at all), Linear, Snowflake, Contentful, Contentstack, Code and Theory, Jakala, Monogram — enterprise/agency/CMS, nothing for a solo builder.