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 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 11

How GitHub secures open source

Joseph Katsioloudes

GitHub Security Lab

Joseph Katsioloudes
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 8

How to sabotage your software development with agile? – 10 pro tips for guaranteed success

Marlene Roth, Tobias Mohr

Marlene Roth
Tobias Mohr
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 13

HR & Tech: Why can't we be friends?

Sibila Erdei

Sibila Erdei, Talent Partnership & Acquisition Manager

Sibila Erdei
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 4

In-depth .NET Azure Functions: Flex plan, Isolated mode and performance

Stanislav Lebedenko

Microsoft AI & Azure MVP | Cloud Architect | Developer

Stanislav Lebedenko
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 1

IP Authentication: A Tale of Performance Pitfalls and Challenges in Prod

Christoph Eicke

Christoph Eicke, Engineering Manager at Statista

Christoph Eicke
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 6 - Red Hat

Keycloak case study: Making users happy with service level indicators and observability

Alexander Schwartz

Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Alexander Schwartz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 5

Possibilities with Web Capabilities

Rowdy Rabouw

Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer

Rowdy Rabouw
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 12

Thriving Is a Feature, Not a Bug: Wellbeing for the Future of Work

Ute Neher

Principal Talent Intelligence at Indeed

Ute Neher
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 10

Why (most) software projects fail silently...

Hendrik Lösch

Sustainability in Software, Software Evolution, Software Architecture, Resource Efficency, QA,

Hendrik Lösch
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 9

Your Testing Strategy is broken - lets fix it!

Luise Freese

Changing the world one app at a time

Luise Freese
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:30–17:30

NVIDIA Lounge (Booth A16/17)

NVIDIA Expert Session: Sovereign AI in Practice: Building, Evaluating, and Scaling Multilingual LLMs

Sergio Perez, Ziv Ilan

Sergio Perez
Ziv Ilan
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Airstream 1

Achieving Design Excellence in Open-Source Software

Martin Keary

Head of Software, Muse Group

Martin Keary
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Tech Leaders Stage

AI Changed the Game: How VCs Rethink Product, Talent & Technical Moats

Christian Nagel, Justus Lumpe, Romain Mombert, Shikha Ahluwalia

Christian Nagel
Justus Lumpe
Romain Mombert
Shikha Ahluwalia
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Airstream 2

Beyond the Logo: Data-Driven Employer Branding

Ana Gospodinova, Aneta Bochenek, Martyna Prus

Ana Gospodinova
Aneta Bochenek
Martyna Prus
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 5

Blazing Fast Page Navigation with Speculation Rules

Medhat Dawoud

Senior Software Engineer

Medhat Dawoud
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Building Blocks for Agentic Solutions in your Enterprise

Dennis Zielke, Rene Pajta

Dennis Zielke
Rene Pajta
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 13

Cracking the Code to Tech Team Satisfaction

Pauline Pagliaro

denkwerk GmbH

Pauline Pagliaro
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 10

Crew Management System for Airlines: Plan duties for pilots & flight attendants worldwide

Annette Schelten, Krishnan

Annette Schelten
Krishnan
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 6 - Red Hat

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ben Breard

Product Manager at Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ben Breard
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 7

How Robots Learn to be Robots

Alexander Schwarz

Alexander Schwarz, Solutions Architect at NVIDIA

Alexander Schwarz
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 1

Kubernetes Security Best Practices

Rico Komenda

Senior Security Consultant

Rico Komenda
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 11

Supercharged Retrieval with Agentic GraphRAG

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations

Stephen Chin
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 8

Supply Chain Security and the Real World: Lessons From Incidents

Adrian Mouat

Technical Community Advocate at Chainguard

Adrian Mouat
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 9

The 2025 State of JavaScript Testing

Daniel Afonso

Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty

Daniel Afonso
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 2

Vibe coding sucks! Long life to vibe coding: Hardening Applications for Production with GenAI

Raúl Berganza Gómez

Senior AI Engineer & Trainer @ E.ON Digital Technology

Raúl Berganza Gómez
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Mainstage

Videogames: The Medium of the 21st Century

Warren Spector

Chief Creative Officer at OtherSide Entertainment

Warren Spector
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 4

What you can learn from an open-source project with 500 million downloads

Dennis Doomen

Hands-on architect in the .NET space with 27 years of experience on an everlasting quest for knowledge to build the right software the right way at the right time

Dennis Doomen
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 17:30–18:00

Stage 3 - Microsoft

Agentic DevOps: How AI-Powered Automation Transforms Software Delivery on GitHub and Azure

Mike

Microsoft MVP and RD, Founder/CEO Xpirit Germany

Mike
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 17:30–19:00

Stage 12

BEST RECRUITERS Award

Bernhard Schwingsandl, Christian Pasteka, Ivana Spiridonovic

Bernhard Schwingsandl
Christian Pasteka
Ivana Spiridonovic
Open session

World Congress 2025

July 10, 2025 · 17:30–18:00

Stage 4

Building resilient .NET applications for the modern age

Sander ten Brinke

Lead Software Engineer @ Arcady | Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies)

Sander ten Brinke