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 · 14:40–14:50

Airstream 1

Better Safe Than Sorry: Preparing for the Next Supply Chain Attack with SBOMs

Julia Gätjens

Solutions Architect @GitLab

Julia Gätjens
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:45–16:45

M6 (40 Seats)

Agentic GraphRAG with MAGMA (Manifold Agency with Graph Models and Augmentation)

Andreas Kollegger

GenAI Lead for Developer Relations at Neo4j

Andreas Kollegger
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:45–16:45

M3 (45 Seats)

AI at the Edge: Build a Smarter IoT on Arm

Annie Tallund

Solutions Engineer at Arm

Annie Tallund
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:45–16:45

M1 (60 Seats)

If You Know Python, You Know Blockchain: Learn How to Create a Python Smart Contract

Astha Yadav

Astha Yadav, Senior Developer Relations Advocate, Algorand Foundation

Astha Yadav
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 14:55–15:05

Airstream 1

The Power of AI: A Completely New Perspective to Engineering Management

Serdar Bicer

Serdar Bicer, CTO at VALVEN

Serdar Bicer
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 5

20 Years of Domain-Driven Design: What I’ve Learned About DDD

Eberhard Wolff

Head of Architecture, SWAGLab

Eberhard Wolff
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 3 - Microsoft

AI Pair Programming with GitHub Copilot at SAP: Looking Back, Looking Forward!

Alexander Trusheim, Sumeet Shetty

Alexander Trusheim
Sumeet Shetty
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Tech Leaders Stage

AI Sovereignty: What Does It Take?

Boris Hecker, Clemens Wasner, Robin Hermann, Sonja Alvarez

Boris Hecker
Clemens Wasner
Robin Hermann
Sonja Alvarez
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 13

AI Won’t Replace Leaders: How Emotional Intelligence Defines the Future of Leadership

Antonina Makarova

Coach ICF & Mental Trainer | Ambassador of Human Potential and Emotional Intelligence

Antonina Makarova
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 6 - Red Hat

From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML

Daniel Brintzinger

Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat

Daniel Brintzinger
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 1

From Factory Floor to Kubernetes Core: Building an Edge Platform One Step at a Time

Dean Oren, Stefan Belsch

Dean Oren
Stefan Belsch
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Airstream 2

From Feedback to Feedforward: How AI is Transforming Performance Conversations

Nilima Gandhi

Head of HR at Zellerfeld

Nilima Gandhi
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 10

How Lufthansa Industry Solutions is preparing for the Quantum Age!

Julian

Senior Consultant - Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics at Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Julian
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 4

Kill Switch or Moral Compass: Who Programs AI’s Conscience?

Torsten Stiller

E.ON DT GmbH, Head of Automation Factory

Torsten Stiller
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–16:00

NVIDIA Lounge (Booth A16/17)

NVIDIA Expert Session: Customize Generative AI Models for Industry-Specific Solutions

Lavinia Ghita, Miguel Martínez, Sergio Perez

Lavinia Ghita
Miguel Martínez
Sergio Perez
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 7

Prompt API & WebNN: The AI Revolution Right in Your Browser

Christian Liebel

Web developer

Christian Liebel
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 11

Robots 2.0: When artificial intelligence meets steel

Thomas Tomow

Azure MVP - Cloud, IoT & AI / Co-Founder @Xpirit Germany

Thomas Tomow
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 8

Scrape, Train, Predict: The Lifecycle of Data for AI Applications

Vidas Bacevičius

Vidas Bacevičius, Solutions Engineer at Oxylabs

Vidas Bacevičius
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Mainstage

The Alpha‑Developer of Tomorrow: Building the Future of the Software Development Lifecycle

Alex Laubscher

Field CTO at Windsurf

Alex Laubscher
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 9

The Journey of a Pixel in a React Application

Shem Magnezi

CTO & Co-Founder @ Wilco

Shem Magnezi
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 2

What's (new) with Spring Boot and Containers?

Eva Panadero, maeddes

Eva Panadero
maeddes
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 12

When Vision Becomes Legacy: Generational Change in Family Businesses

Johanna Heise, Rudi Bauer

Johanna Heise
Rudi Bauer
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:10–15:20

Airstream 1

API First - Successfully decoupling teams

Andreas Taranetz

Holistic Developer & Tech Evangelist @Dynatrace

Andreas Taranetz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:25–15:35

Airstream 1

Beyond Files: Reimagining writing code in a distributed AI-powered era

Brian Graham

Independent Consultant @ Building Better Teams

Brian Graham
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:40–16:10

Stage 4

AI Agents Graph: Your following tool in your Java AI journey

Alex Soto

Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat

Alex Soto
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:40–16:10

Stage 12

AI or KO: Is HR ever going to use intelligent technology?

Data Dan

HR.Daten.Liebe

Data Dan
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:40–16:10

Stage 5

Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture

Dominik Schneider

Global Head of Data & AI Architecture and Excellence at Merck Group

Dominik Schneider
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:40–16:10

Stage 8

Breaking the Hardware Mindset: Overcoming Barriers to System-Level Innovation

Réka Leisztner

Senior Consulting Manager @ Zühlke Group | Product Management | Systems Thinking | Smart & Connected Devices | Technology Management | R&D Processes

Réka Leisztner
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:40–16:10

Stage 11

Can You Touch the Internet? A Journey in Remote Touch With Edge Computing and Haptic Coding

Andreas Noll

Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH

Andreas Noll
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 11, 2025 · 15:40–16:10

Stage 10

Comfortably Quantum with Qrisp

Matic Petrič

Quantum Computing Researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS

Matic Petrič