Vagmi Mudumbai
Vagmi is a technology leader and a polyglot developer with over 23 years of experience building software and teams. He is currently the co-founder and CTO of Urai AI Corp.
Montreal 2026 sessions
Build your own JavaScript Runtime
English session - Advanced
There is Node, Bun, Deno, CF Workers, vercel edge runtime and a lot more. This talk delves into how runtimes work and their relationship with their underlying JS engine like V8, JavascriptCore, Hermes and more. We will then understand V8's architecture and how we can integrate with V8 using Rust and Deno. We will walk through a simple JS runtime that can do ES Module loading, native typescript support and see how we can extend it with the ops.
Building Effective real-world voice agents
English session - Intermediate
In this session, you will learn how to build voice agents. We will examine the elements and patterns of building voice agents, including full and half-cascade models, native speech models, and others. We will see how to run them locally and on the cloud. We will also explore common challenges in terms of getting reliable transcripts and tool calling, deployment infrastructure and considerations of how to deploy and scale voice agents.
