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 9, 2025 · 16:00–18:00

M3 (45 Seats)

You get what you define - Backlog Refinement

Arjan Brands

Managing Partner at Trendig Technology Services

Arjan Brands
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 9, 2025 · 17:00–19:00

Airstream 2

Drag Karaoke

General Program

GP
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 09:15–09:30

Mainstage

Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025

Benjamin Ruschin, Sead Ahmetovic

Benjamin Ruschin
Sead Ahmetovic
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 09:30–10:00

Mainstage

Agents for the Sake of Happiness

Thomas Dohmke

CEO of GitHub

Thomas Dohmke
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:00–10:10

Stage 12

HR Leaders Summit Opening

Adriaan Kolff, Rudi Bauer

Adriaan Kolff
Rudi Bauer
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:00–11:00

NVIDIA Lounge (Booth A16/17)

NVIDIA Expert Session: Optimized Deployment of Large Language Models

Anshul Jindal, Kevin Klues, Martin Piercy

Anshul Jindal
Kevin Klues
Martin Piercy
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 7

30 powerful AWS hacks in just 30 minutes: Boost your developer productivity

Modood Alvi

AWS Solutions Architect

MA
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Airstream 1

4 years of building k8s platforms: lessons learned

DrackThor

Senior DevOps Engineer @ FullStackS GmbH | Community & KCD Organizer

DrackThor
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 9

Advanced Micro Frontends: Multi-Version and Multi-Framework Scenarios

Manfred Steyer

Google Developer Expert focusing on Angular

Manfred Steyer
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 11

AI & Ethics

PJ Hagerty

Developer Focused, Community Oriented

PJ Hagerty
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 2

Best practices: Building Enterprise Applications that leverage GenAI

Damir

daenet GmbH - ACP Digital, Microsoft Regional Director, Most Valuable Professional - AI

Damir
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 4

Bullet-Proof APIs: The OWASP API Security Top Ten

Christian Wenz

CEO, Actition GmbH

Christian Wenz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 6 - Red Hat

Developer Joy with Quarkus

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate

Daniel Oh
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 12

Diversity Backlash, Anti-Wokeness, Resistance – Is the World Going Downhill, or Moving Up?

Cawa Younosi, Rudi Bauer

Cawa Younosi
Rudi Bauer
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 1

Hidden efficiency - How to enable your non-engineers as a CTO

Andi Stryz

Andreas "Andi" Stryz, CTO & Co-Founder at FINN

Andi Stryz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 10

Lynx: Native for More

Xuan Huang

Lynx Architect

Xuan Huang
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Migrating from COBOL with AI: A Moonshot Demo

Julia Kordick

Global Black Belt - Developer Productivity @ Microsoft

Julia Kordick
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 5

Optimistic UI Updates: Enhancing User Experience and Improving Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Marc Müller

Sr. Software Engineer at Grover

Marc Müller
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Stage 8

RPC Reinvented: Asynchronous, Durable, and Agent-Ready

Maxim Fateev

CTO and Co-Founder of Temporal Technologies Inc.

Maxim Fateev
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Mainstage

The State of GenAI & Machine Learning in 2025

Alejandro Saucedo

Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando

Alejandro Saucedo
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:10–10:40

Tech Leaders Stage

The Technology Revolution: Mastering the Challenges of Radical Change

Dominik Krimpmann

Business & Technology Futurist - Managing Director @Accenture, Podcast & Keynote Speaker, Writer

Dominik Krimpmann
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:30–12:30

M7 (18 Seats)

Code Red: When Your Tools Turn Against You

Aaron Bray, Julian Totzek-Hallhuber

Aaron Bray
Julian Totzek-Hallhuber
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:30–12:30

M1 (60 Seats)

Gemini 2.x for Developers

Abdel Sghiouar, Daniela Petruzalek

Abdel Sghiouar
Daniela Petruzalek
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:30–12:30

M5 (45 Seats)

Microservices in Action, Hands-on with Message Queues: Build and Connect Microservices with AMQP

Christina Dahlén, Lovisa Johansson

Christina Dahlén
Lovisa Johansson
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:30–12:30

M3 (45 Seats)

Scaling LLM Applications on Arm: Optimize for Performance and Cost in the Cloud

Avin Zarlez

Staff SW Engineer & Developer Evangelist at Arm

Avin Zarlez
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:45–12:45

M6 (40 Seats)

Beyond AI Readiness: Scaling Data-Driven Engineering for Next-Gen Software & Infrastructure

Eduard, Jannis Eickenroth, Sophie Kleinke

Eduard
Jannis Eickenroth
Sophie Kleinke
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:45–12:45

M2 (40 Seats)

Building Agentic Apps with Docker

Michael Irwin

Principal Software Engineer, Developer Success at Docker

Michael Irwin
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:45–12:45

M4 (40 Seats)

Build production-ready headless CMS solutions: Mastering Storyblok and Symfony Integration

Edo, Silas Joisten

Edo
Silas Joisten
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:50–11:20

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Agentic AI - From Theory to Practice: Developing Multi-Agent AI Systems on Azure

Ricardo

Senior Technology Specialist - Azure Application Innovation at Microsoft

Ricardo
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 10:50–11:20

Stage 6 - Red Hat

Agentic AI Systems for Critical Workloads

Mario Fusco

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Mario Fusco