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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # World Congress 2026 Europe — Session lineup July 8–10, 2026 · Berlin, Germany · 484 sessions - [The Velocity Tax: The Hidden Cost of Unintentional Feature Alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1009-the-velocity-tax-the) — Tushar Gupta - [Vendor Neutral by Design: Building Healthy Open Source Ecosystems with Diverse Stakeholders](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1018-vendor-neutral-by) — Hendrik Ebbers - [What 500+ Production Environments Taught Us About Shipping AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1006-what-500-production) — Liran Hason - [You don't need to write the code. You need to become a verification architect and prove it's correct](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1007-you-don-t-need-to) — Guillaume Moigneu - [Fast Agents Produce Bad Results Faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1020-fast-agents-produce) — Mardu Swanepoel - [Fast, Confident, and Wrong: When AI Fails at Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1021-fast-confident-and) — Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova - [Agentic AI: building autonomous systems for developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1023-agentic-ai-building) — Anshul Jindal, Sebastian Mahr - [An alternative approach to digital sovereignty: Confidential Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1380-an-alternative) — Mike Bursell - [Beyond Resilience: Architecting Antifragile Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1026-beyond-resilience) — Jan de Vries - [Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1037-building-on-open) — Cédric Gégout, Dana Lawson, Michael "Monty" Widenius, Sebastian Kister, Ignacio Riesgo - [Contract Testing with MCP: Building Self-Describing, Self-Testing APIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1030-contract-testing) — Moataz Nabil - [Developers become Orchestrators: From Human-in-the-Loop to Spec-in-the-Loop](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1024-developers-become) — Bastian Heilemann, Stefan Bley - [How to Attract & Retain in a fast moving environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1179-how-to-attract) — Kent Frederiksen - [It's a Great Time to be a Builder: Leveraging AI for Good](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1032-it-s-a-great-time-to) — Seth Webster - [Linux (Pseudo)Filesystems: The Hidden Backbone of Cloud Native](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1029-linux-pseudo) — Daniel Drack - [Physical AI for the Next Wave of Industrial Digitalisation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1028-physical-ai-for-the) — Sergio Perez - [Responsibility Beyond Code - Build with Societal Impact In Mind](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1031-responsibility) — Yiyang Lu - [The day the chatbot asked for sudo](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1027-the-day-the-chatbot) — Alex Olivier - [The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet: Building Community in the Time of Bots](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1035-the-internet-is-dead) — Colleen Lake - [The New Org Chart: When AI Joins the Workforce](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1025-the-new-org-chart) — Avani Prabhakar, Benjamin Mann, Nils Berger, Damiana Casile - [The Retrieval Layer for Edge AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1022-the-retrieval-layer) — Sasha Denisov, Chadha Sridi - [Under the Hood of Building on Lovable](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1457-under-the-hood-of) — Fabian Hedin - [Beyond the Wrapper: Technical Bets That VCs Back](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1048-beyond-the-wrapper) — Christian Nagel, Filip Dames, Justus Lumpe, Philipp Moehring - [Building Accountability in Agentic AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1468-building) — Frederik Gregaard, Mariana de la Roche W. - [Code Style in Practice: Balancing Preferences and Consistency](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1046-code-style-in) — Angelika Shvets - [Fireside Chat - Why the future is built on “AND”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1040-fireside-chat-why) — Jürgen Hartwig, Rudi Bauer - [Inside Mercedes-Benz: 140 Years of Heritage meet AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1043-inside-mercedes-benz) — Daniel Geisel, Jens Petersohn - [Spot, Squash, Secure: Fighting Security Bugs with GitHub Copilot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1041-spot-squash-secure) — Malte Lantin, Marie Theresa Brosig - [The Future of Knowledge Retention: AI-Driven HR Transformation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1047-the-future-of) — Trecilla Lobo - [The Hidden Costs of CPU Limits in Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1444-the-hidden-costs-of) — Pavel Malyarevsky [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions?page=5) [Complete agenda in one response](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions.md?all=true)