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 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 5

Building Interactive Async UI with React 19 and Ariakit

Aurora Scharff

Web developer and consultant at Crayon Consulting

Aurora Scharff
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Tech Leaders Stage

Business Strategies for Scaling European Tech

Anastasia Zemskova, Gilli Cegla, Nikola Pavesic, Vuyiswa V. M'Cwabeni

Anastasia Zemskova
Gilli Cegla
Nikola Pavesic
Vuyiswa V. M'Cwabeni
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 1

Docker network without Docker

Oliver Seitz

Oliver Seitz. Associate Manager at Accenture

Oliver Seitz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–17:30

M7 (18 Seats)

From Chaos to Control: GitOps Workflows Using ArgoCD

Alexander Linke, Emanuel Juric, Michael Abey

Alexander Linke
Emanuel Juric
Michael Abey
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–17:30

M1 (60 Seats)

From Monolith to Magic: An AI-Powered DevOps Workshop

Riccardo Carlesso

Riccardo Carlesso, Developer Advocate at Google Cloud

Riccardo Carlesso
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 4

From Painful to Easy: Discover .NET Aspire

Shako Turashvili

Shako Turashvili, Software Engineer at TBC Bank

Shako Turashvili
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 12

From Uncertainty to Empowerment: Personalizing the Human Experience with AI

Nazim Unlu

Global HR & Transformation Lead at Novartis

Nazim Unlu
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 8

Hello JARVIS - Building Voice Interfaces for Your LLMS

Nathaniel Okenwa

(He/Him) Developer Evangelist @twilio / Wannabe Dev-Rel Superstar / Loves: Coding 👨‍💻 - MMA 🥊 - Manga/anime 🀄 - Superheroes🦸🏾‍♂️🦸🏾‍♀️ - 🇬🇧🇳🇬

Nathaniel Okenwa
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–17:30

M5 (45 Seats)

High-quality software development

David Tielke

Consultant at www.David-Tielke.de

David Tielke
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Airstream 2

Hiring for the Future: AI, Human Judgment, and the War for Top Tech Talent

Tatjana Obenaus

Tatjana Obenaus, Global Head of Employer Brand at Prosus Group

Tatjana Obenaus
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–17:30

M3 (45 Seats)

How Average Developers Can Become Great Digital Designers

Stan Bühne

IREB GmbH

Stan Bühne
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 9

Node.js: More Threads Than You Think

Matteo Collina

Platformatic Co-Founder and CTO, Node.js TSC member, Fastify Lead Maintainer

Matteo Collina
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 13

Successful talent development in tech: A joint journey of executives and talents

Alexander Weißhaupt, Stefan Menschner, Tabitha Kleine, Vanessa Zellien

Alexander Weißhaupt
Stefan Menschner
Tabitha Kleine
Vanessa Zellien
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 6 - Red Hat

Test-Driven Development: It's easier than you think!

Eric Deandrea

Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Eric Deandrea
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 10

The Dependency Cookbook - Recipes for Micro Frontend success

Lucas Braeschke, Stefan Bley

Lucas Braeschke
Stefan Bley
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 11

The Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: Taming the Wild West of Information Overload

Jeff Watkins

Chief Technology Officer

Jeff Watkins
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Mainstage

The future of Stack Overflow as the most vital source for technologists

Jody Bailey, Prashanth Chandrasekar

Jody Bailey
Prashanth Chandrasekar
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 2

The Limits of Prompting: ArchitectingTrustworthy Coding Agents

Nimrod Kor

Co-founder & CTO @ Baz

Nimrod Kor
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 7

The Open Future of AI: Beyond Open Weights

Matt White

GM of AI, Linux Foundation. Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation

Matt White
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:30–16:00

Airstream 1

Transforming Developer Experience: Lessons from Building a Platform Team

Tobias Mende

Hands-on Advisor for (Engineering) Leadership and Developer Experience

Tobias Mende
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:45–17:45

M2 (40 Seats)

Cross-Platform Browser Extensions: Building AI-Powered Personalized New Tab Experiences

Ahmed Megahd

Ahmed Megahd, Software Development Head at Soki AG

Ahmed Megahd
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:45–17:45

M6 (40 Seats)

From Mainframe to Modular: The Developer’s Guide to Legacy Modernization

Hergy Fongue, Jannis Eickenroth, Kritika Murugan, Lars Reichert

Hergy Fongue
Jannis Eickenroth
Kritika Murugan
Lars Reichert
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 15:45–17:45

M4 (40 Seats)

Hands-On MCP: Building AI-Connected Tools

Patrick Schnell

Patrick Schnell, AI-enabler and CEO at schnell.digital GmbH

Patrick Schnell
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 7

AI-Augmented DevOps with Platform Engineering

Romano Roth

Global Chief of DevOps | Thought Leader | Coach | Trainer | Speaker | Lecturer | Organizer of DevOpsDays Zürich & DevOps Meetup Zürich | Bringing People, Process and Technology together to continuousl

Romano Roth
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Tech Leaders Stage

AI in Leadership: How Technology is Reshaping Executive Roles

Bernd Datler, Jasmin Kaiser, Jeff Hausmann, Sonja Alvarez

Bernd Datler
Jasmin Kaiser
Jeff Hausmann
Sonja Alvarez
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 2

AI'll Be Back: Generative AI in Image, Video, and Audio Production

Anonymized By Request, Martin Foertsch, Thomas Endres

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Martin Foertsch
Thomas Endres
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Airstream 1

Buy or build and what is AI Middleware

Gerhard Kuerner

Gerhard Kürner CEO 506.ai & Vice Chairman AI Upperaustria

Gerhard Kuerner
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Composable Intelligence: How Henkel and Microsoft Are Shaping the Agent Ecosystem

Dennis Zielke, Manuel Schettler

Dennis Zielke
Manuel Schettler
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Airstream 2

From Job Titles to Skill Signals: How AI Reinvents Talent Matching

Laurens Waling

Laurens Waling, Chief Evangelist at 8vance

Laurens Waling
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Mainstage

How AI Models Get Smarter

Ankit Patel

Senior Director Developer Marketing at NVIDIA

Ankit Patel