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# Agents for the Sake of Happiness


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 09:30–10:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** ai, ai agents, automation, career growth, community, productivity

## Description

Three years ago, Thomas kicked off the age of Copilot right here at WeAreDevelopers World Congress. This year, he returns to the stage to jumpstart the age of agents, making strong predictions about the future of software engineering- including how it will reinforce and extend the power of human developers. 

## Speaker

### [Thomas Dohmke](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@thomas-dohmke)

CEO of GitHub


## Related talks at this congress

- [Reimagining the Developer Experience: The AI Advantage](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/619-reimagining-the) — Anu Bharadwaj, Tobias Schlottke
- [Beyond the IDE: A new era of agent collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/824-beyond-the-ide-a-new) — Ryan J. Salva
- [Beyond Chatbots: How to build Agentic AI systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/761-beyond-chatbots-how) — Philipp Schmid
- [On a Secret Mission: Developing AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/695-on-a-secret-mission) — Jörg Neumann