RenderATL 2026 | August 12 & 13, 2026

2025 was a great year for RenderATL attendees. 2026 already looks even better. same ticket gets you: conference days expo floor side events OpenJS Summit AI Summit RenderFEST we added more and didn’t raise the price (yet) prices go up May 1 : renderatl.com/tickets

hot take: applying to jobs online is hard sometimes. counterpoint: what if you just showed up to conference and talked to actual humans at actual companies who are actually hiring. radical concept i know

Nothing humbles you faster than staring at your screen whispering “please compile” like it’s a prayer request 😭 Engineering really is just: fix bug → create new bug → stare into space → try again Credit to @diariesofacodegirl on Instagram for this painfully accurate video

renderatl was founded by @ThugDebugger which is already the hardest twitter handle in tech. the conference started as a react event in 2019 and now it's 10,000+ people across 250k sq ft. mans scaled.

Not to be dramatic, but becoming a RenderATL ambassador might be one of the easiest “yes” decisions you make this month. You do not need 100k followers. You do not need to be the loudest person online. You just need to genuinely love tech, community, and sharing your perspective. We’re looking for creators, builders, engineers, students, career changers, community people… all of it. If selected, you’ll get a complimentary RenderATL 2026 ticket plus opportunities to connect with the RenderATL team, partners, and community all year long. Applications are open until the end of the month. Apply through the link in bio or at buff.ly/ohra8AN

Seve Savoie Teruel is speaking at RenderATL. Senior Web Engineer at Planet with 20+ years in the game, building across the stack with a focus on React and Node. But what makes his work stand out is how he approaches it. He’ll take a random idea, a joke, even just wordplay… and turn it into something real and interactive. A lot of that lives on Reactvts, and it’s exactly as fun as it sounds. He’s the kind of engineer who reminds you that building doesn’t always have to be serious to be good. If you like creative dev work, side projects, and people who actually enjoy what they’re building, this is a good one to catch. Get your ticket at renderatl.com

we have leadership talks because at some point you stop writing code and start managing people who write code and NOBODY prepares you for that. renderatl does though

Zillow’s VP of Talent said something that many execs miss. A lot of times people talk about career growth like it only impacts work. But for a lot of engineers and technologists, growing in their career changes things outside of work too. More stability. More opportunities. A different future for themselves and their families. That’s part of why this community matters so much to us. Really appreciate Zillow continuing to pour into the RenderATL community. Get your tickets for August 12-13 at renderatl.com

The Atlanta Tech Week A.I. Summit is officially back for year two and honestly… it got a lot bigger. And yes, it’s included with every RenderATL ticket. If you’ve been trying to keep up with how fast AI is moving, this is probably one of the better places to do it because the people actually building this stuff are gonna be here sharing what they’re learning in real time. Expect demos, workshops, conversations, and a lot of “wait… that’s actually crazy” moments throughout the day. Get your ticket at renderatl.com

just overheard someone at my other internship say "we should just rebuild it from scratch" and watched three senior engineers age five years in real time. the silence was cinematic

Yes it’s Friday Eve but tech has been moving a little too fast this week 😭🤖 Between AI, robotics, and everything happening in innovation right now… how is everybody actually feeling about robots becoming part of everyday life?

Sarah Drasner is speaking at RenderATL. She’s a Senior Director of Engineering at Google, leading core infrastructure across web, Android, iOS, and more… the kind of systems that power apps billions of people use every day. She also leads reliability for Google’s internal infra, which means when things break at scale, she’s part of the reason they get fixed. Before that, she was on the Vue core team and a VP at Netlify, so she’s seen this space from just about every angle. And somehow, she still manages to make complex things feel understandable without watering them down. If you care about building at scale or just want to hear how it actually works behind the scenes, this is one to be in the room for. Get your ticket at renderatl.com

i truly respect anyone who writes documentation for a living. you are holding civilization together and nobody thanks you. i am thanking you right now. thank you

Hiring great engineers is hard. Especially right now... The best talent usually isn’t sitting around refreshing job boards all day. They’re building, contributing to community, learning, networking, and showing up in rooms like RenderATL. That’s why companies keep coming back. RenderATL brings together thousands of engineers, builders, technical leaders, and emerging talent from across the country and around the world all in one place. And our concierge team helps make the process easier. Instead of your team trying to figure out where to start, who to talk to, or how to connect with the right people in the middle of a massive conference… let us help. We specialize in helping companies create meaningful connections with the right talent and community. You focus on the conversations. We’ll help with the hard part. Learn more about partnering with RenderATL at renderatl.com

ENGINEERING MANAGERS: One of the best things you can do for your team is put them in rooms where they can learn from engineers outside of your company. Different perspectives, workflows, and ways to solve the same problem. RenderATL was literally built for that. Workshops, technical tracks, leadership conversations, and thousands of engineers all in one place in Atlanta. If you’ve got professional development budget left, this is a pretty solid use of it. Group tickets available at buff.ly/X84UNxD

Rishab Kumar is speaking at RenderATL. He’s a Staff Developer Evangelist at Twilio, a Docker Captain, AWS Community Builder, Microsoft MVP… and someone who’s made a real name out of helping people get into cloud without making it feel impossible. He’s taught in classrooms, written about it, and shared his journey from learning cloud and DevOps to building a career in DevRel. If you’ve been trying to break into cloud or get better... this is a good one to sit in on. Get your ticket at renderatl.com

every senior engineer i've met has said the same thing: "i miss when i could just write code." what happens to you people in those meetings. what do they do to you in there????

One thing we hear a lot from people who move to Atlanta is that breaking into the tech community can feel intimidating at first. That’s a big reason why spaces like RenderATL matter. People come to learn about AI, software engineering, product, design, and all the technical stuff… but they also come to find community. To meet people. To stop feeling isolated. To finally have conversations with people who get what they’re interested in. A lot of friendships, collaborations, jobs, and opportunities start at conferences like ours. Get your ticket at renderatl.com

open source runs the entire internet and most contributors do it for free on weekends. the openjs summit is literally a chance to learn from the people maintaining the packages you npm install without thinking. show some respect (and show up)

COMMUNITY PARTNER APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🙌 If you’re running a meetup, coding community, nonprofit, bootcamp, student org, or anything helping technical talent grow… we’d love to partner with you for RenderATL 2026. This program is for the people already doing the work. Hosting events. Building community. Creating opportunities. Helping people break into tech or grow in it. Selected partners will receive complimentary RenderATL tickets to share directly with members of their community, plus visibility as an official RenderATL Community Partner. And to be clear… this isn’t about handing out random free tickets. We’re trying to make sure the right people are in the room. Apply now at buff.ly/ohra8AN

Paul Frazee is speaking at RenderATL. He’s the CTO at Bluesky and one of the people behind the AT Protocol, which is a big part of how folks are rethinking social platforms and the open internet right now. Before that, he was deep in indie and open source projects like Dat, Beaker, and Secure Scuttlebutt, building toward a more decentralized web long before it was a trend. He’s been consistent about one thing the whole time — giving people more ownership and control over the internet they use. If you’ve been curious about where social, identity, and the open web are headed, this is a good one to catch. Get your ticket at renderatl.com