World Congress 2025

Preliminary lineup

July 9–11, 2025 · Berlin, Germany · 473 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.

Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 9

Marko.js: Unsung Hero of Scalable Web Frameworks

Eugene Fidelin

Engineering Manager & Frontend SME @ eBay

Eugene Fidelin
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–13:50

Airstream 1

Prompts are boring. Also, avoidable.

Marcin Koralewski

Marcin Koralewski, Lead Data Scientist at Zoovu

Marcin Koralewski
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Responsible AI @ Microsoft - Governance, Standards, Learnings

Rebekka Weiss, Tobi Müller

Rebekka Weiss
Tobi Müller
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 13

The End of Unconscious Bias Training. A Scientific Approach to Creating an Inclusive Culture

Charlie Pearmond

CEO at Kiin

Charlie Pearmond
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 11

The Evolving Landscape of Application Development: Insights from Three Years of Research

Julia Wilson, Olga Diachkova

Julia Wilson
Olga Diachkova
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 12

The Impact of AI on your Workforce: Signal vs Noise

Rudi Bauer, Syed Ali Abbas

Rudi Bauer
Syed Ali Abbas
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 10

Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM

Gerrit Grunwald

Senior Developer Advocate at Azul Systems

Gerrit Grunwald
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:40–14:10

Stage 4

Why Security-First Development Helps You Ship Better Software Faster

Michael Wildpaner

Maw Wildpaner, VP of Engineering, Security at GitLab

Michael Wildpaner
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 13:55–14:05

Airstream 1

LLM Local Inference: Tools, Techniques, and Insights

Riccardo Zoncada

Software Engineer @ xtream

Riccardo Zoncada
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:00–15:00

NVIDIA Lounge (Booth A16/17)

NVIDIA Expert Session: CUDA Developer Best Practices

Lavinia Ghita, Max Stadler, Paul Graham

Lavinia Ghita
Max Stadler
Paul Graham
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:10–14:20

Airstream 1

From Workshop to Workspace: The Maker Mindset in Modern DevOps

Sarah Matthies

Sarah Matthies, Solutions Architect at GitLab

Sarah Matthies
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 8

AI Meets Hoare Logic: Revolutionizing Software Testing with Formal Methods

Onur Kasimlar

Onur Kasimlar, Lead Cloud Engineer at Posedio GmbH

Onur Kasimlar
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 12

Attract and Retain Talent: Strategies that Work

Ana Gospodinova, Anastasia Pshegodskaya, Christine James, Luke Davis

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Ana Gospodinova
AP
CJ
Luke Davis
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 13

Beyond the Numbers: Engineering Recruiting Excellence Through Quality, Data, and Team Empowerment

Christian Wastlhuber

Fractional Talent Attraction Leader & Data-Driven-Recruiting Evangelist at The UnleashPeople

Christian Wastlhuber
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 9

Building a framework-independent component library

Tobias Scholz

Senior Consultant

Tobias Scholz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 10

CRaCing Java Snapshots

Pasha Finkelshteyn

Developer Advocate, BellSoft

Pasha Finkelshteyn
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 4

Delegating the chores of authenticating users to Keycloak

Alexander Schwartz

Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Alexander Schwartz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 2

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases

Wei Hu

Senior Vice President of Research and Development

Wei Hu
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Mainstage

Fireside Chat with Stephanie Cohen, Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudflare

Mike Butcher, Stephanie Cohen

Mike Butcher
Stephanie Cohen
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 1

Great DevEx and Regulatory Compliance - Possible?

Martin Reynolds

Field CTO @ Harness

Martin Reynolds
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 11

Harnessing the Power of Open Source's Newest Technologies

Francisco Carneiro

Ecosystem Development Manager at the Eclipse Foundation

Francisco Carneiro
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 7

How to Decipher User Uncertainty with GenAI and Vector Search

Ben Greenberg

Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Arbitrum

Ben Greenberg
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 5

LLMOps-driven fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference with NVIDIA NIM & NeMo Microservices

Anshul Jindal

Sr. Solution Architect at NVIDIA

Anshul Jindal
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Real-World Security for Busy Developers

Kevin Lewis

Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub

Kevin Lewis
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Airstream 2

Say more with less

Alla Pavlova

Riot Games, Sourcing Partner, Coach

Alla Pavlova
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 6 - Red Hat

Simplifying edge app delivery: one workflow, thousands of devices

Christian Koep

Solution Architect - Energy & Utilities, Red Hat

Christian Koep
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:20–14:50

Tech Leaders Stage

The AI Hype Filter: What’s Real, What’s Investable, What’s Noise?

Justus Lumpe, Konstantin Vinogradov, Nils Eiteneyer, Stephan Wirris

Justus Lumpe
Konstantin Vinogradov
Nils Eiteneyer
Stephan Wirris
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:25–14:35

Airstream 1

How losing 60 lbs made me a better Platform Engineer

Markus Eisele

Cloud Native and AI in a hybrid world. Loves Java and programming.

Markus Eisele
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:30–16:30

M2 (40 Seats)

Green Software Development – Tools, SDK and Patterns for climate friendly applications

Aydin Mir Mohammadi

software architect & cto at bluehands, community enthusiast

Aydin Mir Mohammadi
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:30–16:30

M4 (40 Seats)

Use your source code to document your application

Michaël Hompus

Architect @ Info Support | Microsoft MVP

Michaël Hompus