World Congress 2026 Europe

Preliminary lineup

July 8–10, 2026 Β· Berlin, Germany Β· 484 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–18:00

New York 1

Advanced AI Systems With MCP, Memory & Human-In-The-Loop

Roelant Dieben, Stuart van der Lee

Roelant Dieben
Stuart van der Lee
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–19:00

HIDE General

Check-in & Badge Pickup at CityCube powered by Microsoft and GitHub

General Program

GP
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–18:00

London 2

Event-Driven Microservices: Patterns and Practices for Production-Ready Systems

Lutz Huehnken

Fractional CTO, Interim Manager and Architect

Lutz Huehnken
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–18:00

New York 3

Mastering Software Architecture

David Tielke

Consultant, Coach and Trainer at www.David-Tielke.de

David Tielke
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–18:00

London 3

Modern Angular Architectures: SignalStore, Signal Forms, and Agentic UI

Manfred Steyer

Google Developer Expert at ANGULARarchitects.io

Manfred Steyer
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–16:00

HIDE General 3

Pre-Checkin & Badge Pickup at Computer Gaming Museum (Computerspielemuseum)

Speaker TBA

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–16:00

HIDE General 2

Pre-Checkin & Badge Pickup powered by GetYourGuide

Speaker TBA

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–18:00

New York 2

Spec First Development: Building and Modernizing Apps with Agentic AI

Julia Kordick

Senior Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft

Julia Kordick
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 10:00–18:00

London 1

The Software Engineer 2030: From Coder To AI Orchestrator?

Patrick Schnell

Managing Director at schnell.digital

Patrick Schnell
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room M8 (60 Seats)

Agents of Football: Build AI Agents That Compete in Live Football Matches

Roland Odorfer, Salih Guler

Roland Odorfer
Salih Guler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room R3 (30 Seats)

Deep Dive: Mastering Agents, MCP and other hypes

Dr. Damir Dobric

Lead Architect and CEO of DAENET/ACP Digital

Dr. Damir Dobric
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room M6 (40 Seats)

From COBOL to Java: How Developers Transition 60 Years of Legacy into Modern Java Services

Daniel Branski, Hergy Fongue, Jannis Eickenroth

Daniel Branski
Hergy Fongue
Jannis Eickenroth
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room M2 (40 Seats)

Prompt Engineering Hands-on

Harald Nezbeda

Python Technical Lead at Anexia

Harald Nezbeda
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room M3 (18 Seats)

Teaching Kubernetes Security in your Cluster

Thomas Fricke

Cloud Security Architect

Thomas Fricke
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room M4 (40 Seats)

The Decisions Developers Make Without Noticing – And How to Make Them Better

Stan BΓΌhne

Managing Director at IREB

Stan BΓΌhne
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–13:00

Room R2 (30 Seats)

What do we need to deliver high quality products?

Erhardt Wunderlich

Member at German Testing Board

Erhardt Wunderlich
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 11:00–11:45

Room M1 (60 Seats)

Your Data, Your Agents: Building a Multi-Agent Workflow with Microsoft Fabric

Hanna Schwab

Data & AI Lead @ teccle group

Hanna Schwab
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 12:00–12:30

Airstream 2

CODE100 Intro

Speaker TBA

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 12:00–12:45

Room M1 (60 Seats)

GitHub Copilot in JetBrains: From Plugin to AI Agentβ€”A New Era of Developer Productivity

Sandra Ahlgrimm, Konstantin Aleev

Sandra Ahlgrimm
Konstantin Aleev
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 12:30–13:00

Airstream 2

Fireside Chat with Julia Kordick, Sr. Software Global Black Belt

Christian Heilmann, Julia Kordick

Christian Heilmann
Julia Kordick
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:00–13:45

Room M1 (60 Seats)

Build Agents Once, Run Them Anywhere: AI Systems That Survive Change

Isha Salania

Cloud & AI Solution Engineer at Microsoft

Isha Salania
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:15–14:00

Airstream 2

WeAreDevelopers LIVE: Live and Uncut

Speaker TBA

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room M4 (40 Seats)

Beyond the Thor’s Hammer: Pragmatic Agentic AI with Caching, Reuse, and Cost Guardrails

Satej Sahu

Principal Data Engineer at Zalando

Satej Sahu
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room M8 (60 Seats)

Build an agentic full-stack tabletop game master application

Salih Guler

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Salih Guler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room R3 (30 Seats)

Build a Production-Ready AI Agent in 90 Minutes

Tamas Piros

AI Consultant

Tamas Piros
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room M5 (18 Seats)

Engineering Customer Journey Analytics at Scale: Lessons from Germany's Largest Banking Platform

Jannis Eickenroth, Sophie-Theresa Kleinke, Yasmin Schneider, Peteris Dundars

Jannis Eickenroth
Sophie-Theresa Kleinke
Yasmin Schneider
Peteris Dundars
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room M2 (40 Seats)

From messy addresses to production-ready data: Build a location enrichment pipeline on AWS with HERE

Alberts Jekabsons

Senior Developer Evangelist at HERE

Alberts Jekabsons
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room R2 (30 Seats)

MCP is all you need to make an AI-agent consume your RESTful API

Nikos Delis

Founder and CEO of Aristevin

Nikos Delis
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room M3 (18 Seats)

Trust, but Verify: Building a Document Agent That Survives Production

Alex Iordan, Cliff Simpkins

Alex Iordan
Cliff Simpkins
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 8, 2026 Β· 13:30–15:30

Room M6 (40 Seats)

Trust code you didn't write: From code review to confidence

Ben Hutchison, Carl Fagerlin

Ben Hutchison
Carl Fagerlin