World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Stage 9
Truth, Lies, and Probabilities: Testing AI Hallucinations
Anastasia Simou
Quality Engineering Specialist at Accenture
World Congress 2026 Europe
Preliminary lineup
July 8–10, 2026 · Berlin, Germany · 484 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 17:30–18:00
Airstream 2
Your Competitors Know Your Skills Better Than You Do
Diana Gehrke
Lead Talent Intelligence and Sourcing at Stellantis
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 18:00–20:00
HIDE General
Booth Crawl @Expo Halls
General Program
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World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 18:00–20:00
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Drag Karaoke
General Program
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World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 19:00–20:00
Mainstage
CODE100 Finals - Europe's Ultimate Coding Competition
General Program
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World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 20:00–00:00
Stage 1
Official Congress Party powered by WeAreDevelopers
General Program
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World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 08:00–09:00
Mainstage
Doors open - Day 2
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 12
AI Agents Face-Off: Same App, Multiple Frameworks
Elaine Dias Batista
Senior Staff Engineer at SFEIR
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 7
An Opinionated Guide to Bulletproof APIs
Rustam Mehmandarov
Principal Engineer and Cloud Lead at MILES
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 9
Architecture 3.0: From 90% to 99.999% Reliability in Building AI Systems
Ingo Eichhorst
Engineering Trainer at IONOS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Mainstage
Building the Next Generation of Software
Des Traynor
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Fin
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 4
Decode Your People: Using PCM to Build High-Performance Teams
Chris Redmond
Founder of RedOwl Talent
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Diagnostic Tooling: How to get insights from your .NET services hosted in Kubernetes containers?
Tom Crecelius
Technology Evangelist at CID
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
From Build to Breach: Hacking Kubernetes Through the Supply Chain
Ali Alp
Distinguished Software Architect at Brainlab
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 11
GenAI Is a Junior Dev With Root Access
Julian Totzek-Hallhuber
Lead Solutions Architect at XBOW
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Airstream 1
Giving AI eyes: How to build a dashboard you can't see
Josh Hobson
Senior Engineer at AG Grid
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Leading with Reliability: Applying SRE Principles to Build Stronger Engineering Organizations
Maxim Schepelin
Engineering Manager at Booking.com
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–11:00
HIDE General
Meet-Up: When PMs turn to AMs · Berlin Brunch
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Repository as Network: Visualizing Collaboration in git
Dmitry Yanter
Director Technology, Data and Innovation at Deutsche Bank
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 1
Self-service Quality: QA Without QA
Ondřej Gróf
Senior QA Engineer at Canva
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:00–09:30
Stage 5
What is Local-first Web Development?
Alexander Opalic
Developer at Otto Payments
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 11
Best Practices for AI-Assisted Development of Distributed Systems
Przemysław Ładyński
CEO of Graftcode
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Blameless Postmortems That Change Nothing: Cultural Anti-Patterns in Incident Learning
Daniel Schley
Engineering Leader at Independent
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Mainstage
Evolving the developer experience in the age of AI
Thomas Jung, Michael Ameling
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 2
From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works
Sandhya Menon
Lead Data Engineer at E.ON Energy Deutschland
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Hack Me If You Can: Designing Unbreakable LLM Guardrails
Cansu Kavili Örnek
Principal Architect at Red Hat
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
In-depth .NET Azure Functions: Isolated mode, performance and durable AI agents
Stas Lebedenko
Cloud Architect at Eficode
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Airstream 2
Making Documentation AI-Ready: Preparing Your Docs for the LLM Era
Edvin Teskeredzic
Senior AI Software Engineer at Infobip
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 1
MCP doesn’t suck — your agent does
Jan Curn
Founder and CEO of Apify
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 09:40–10:10
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Open Source Is Not Just Code: Designing Communities That Actually Scale
Sinduri Guntupalli
Sr Developer Programs Engineer at Dynatrace
