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# 20 Years of Solving Unsolvable Problems


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 10:20–10:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100214-20-years-of-solving-unsolvable-problems)

## Description

What does it take to solve problems everyone says are impossible? In this keynote, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, reflects on 20 years of AWS and the engineering culture that repeatedly turned "it can't be done" into production systems used by millions. 
A story about constraints, refusal to accept the status quo, and the invisible work that makes everything else possible.

## Speaker

### [Werner Vogels](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@werner-vogels)

CTO of Amazon.com


## Related talks at this congress

- [None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us: Community And Knowledge Go Hand In Hand](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1320-none-of-us-is-as) — Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe, Jeff Atwood
- [Can This Elephant Dance? IBM Bob and the Future of AI-First Software Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1462-can-this-elephant) — Neel Sundaresan, Arvid Ottenberg
- [Marketing x Product: How We Stopped Gaslighting Each Other and Built AI Products That Actually Work](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1259-marketing-x-product) — Ariel Shulman, Yanay Sela
- [The Agentic Assembly Line](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/973-the-agentic-assembly) — Thomas Dohmke