GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer’s developer conference

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From the menus at Mo’s Diner to the badge hack station to major product ships, GitHub Universe 2026 delivered. The annual Octoverse report came out, showing just how much the platform has scaled over the past year in the face of agentic software delivery.

And the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community. Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI, Microsoft, delivers the keynote speech during GitHub Universe 2026, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, in San Francisco, Calif.

(Photo: Cameron Karsten) Yesterday’s opening keynote was packed with demos and announcements. But Copilot Fusion was clearly the belle of the ball. Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI, Microsoft, and GitHub Senior Director of Developer Advocacy Cassidy Williams onstage during GitHub Universe 2026, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, in San Francisco, Calif.

(Photo: Cameron Karsten) As a frame for the ships (of which there were many), EVP of CoreAI Jay Parikh laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world. …

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