World Congress 2026 Europe

Preliminary lineup

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

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

Rate-limiting using eBPF and Istio: How to protect your SaaS customers from themselves

Jan Mensch

Software Developer at ClickHouse

Jan Mensch
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Stage 11

Refactoring in the Age of AI

Dominik Srednicki, Elena Lucarelli

Dominik Srednicki
Elena Lucarelli
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

Robust AIGC Provenance with Invisible Watermarking

Haoqi Wu

Research Engineer at TikTok

Haoqi Wu
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Stage 1

SMART Test Automation - the experience of legacy transformation

Leszek Włodarski

IT Deputy Director at mBank

Leszek Włodarski
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Tech Leaders Stage

The Anatomy of a Thriving Innovation Ecosystem

Helmut Schönenberger, Julian Teicke, Mats Kuuskemaa, Fanny Jimenez

Helmut Schönenberger
Julian Teicke
Mats Kuuskemaa
Fanny Jimenez
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Stage 4

The Human API: Designing Organizations for Judgment, Not Just Execution

Manjuri Sinha

VP HR at Miro

Manjuri Sinha
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 10:40–10:50

Airstream 2

Behind the Curtain: How Recruiters Shortlist Devs in an AI-Driven Market and How You Stand Out

Mina Golesorkhi

Founder of Hi Remi

Mina Golesorkhi
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 7

20 billion requests a week: Upgrading Twilio's API gateway at scale

Ainhoa Arruabarrena Ortiz, Mario Román Dono, Marius Obert

Ainhoa Arruabarrena Ortiz
Mario Román Dono
Marius Obert
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 13

Analytics in the Age of Agentic AI: A tour of ClickHouse and Langfuse

Hellmar Becker

Sales Engineer and Developer Advocate

Hellmar Becker
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 1

Are Classical Automation Frameworks Dead? How AI Agents Are Transforming QA

Andrei Nutas

Technical Test Architect at Atos

Andrei Nutas
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

Beyond SBOMs: The Future of Container Supply Chain Security

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi

Senior Software Engineer at JobRad

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 9

Code Is Cheap. Software Isn’t.

Markus Eisele

AI Developer Strategist at IBM

Markus Eisele
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 12

Confessions of a Software Archaeologist: What I Did Wrong in 10 Years of Restructuring Software

Hendrik Lösch

Management Consultant and Architect at ZEISS Digital Innovation

Hendrik Lösch
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 11

How building with AI can double the throughput of your engineering team

Brian Scanlan

Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom/Fin

Brian Scanlan
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 5

HTTP 402: Teaching the Web to Let Agents Pay

Ed Marquez

Head of Developer Relations at Hashgraph

Ed Marquez
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 3 - powered by AWS

It's Dangerous to Code Alone! Take This: Developer's AI Survival Guide

Salih Gueler

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Salih Gueler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Mainstage

Marketing x Product: How We Stopped Gaslighting Each Other and Built AI Products That Actually Work

Ariel Shulman, Yanay Sela

Ariel Shulman
Yanay Sela
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

PET ARENA Season 2.

Sagar Sharma .

Research Scientist with TikTok

Sagar Sharma .
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 2

Robots Among us: Advances in AI for Everyday Androids

Florian Gather, Thomas Endres

Florian Gather
Thomas Endres
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Tech Leaders Stage

Running AI at Scale: The Secret Ingredients

Boris Hecker, Max Tschochohei, Peter Kürpick, Tomislav Tipurić

Boris Hecker
Max Tschochohei
Peter Kürpick
Tomislav Tipurić
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Airstream 2

THE HUMAN OPERATING SYSTEM: Why Organizational Adaptability Will Be the Real Competitive Advantage o

Christian Wastlhuber, Cole Groom, Daniel Mühlbauer, Jessie Schofer

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Christian Wastlhuber
Cole Groom
Daniel Mühlbauer
Jessie Schofer
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft

When human meets canary

Sonja Nesic

Staff Engineer at bol

Sonja Nesic
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Tech Leaders Stage

AI in High-Stakes Industries: Lessons Learned

Alexandre Guenoun, Jaipal Singh, Nicolò Robba, Tomislav Tipurić

Alexandre Guenoun
Jaipal Singh
Nicolò Robba
Tomislav Tipurić
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 11

AI Wrote the Code. Now What?

Jyoti Bansal, Daniel Gebler

Jyoti Bansal
Daniel Gebler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 13

Building a Cross-Platform BLE Client with Kotlin Multiplatform and Kable

Georg Dresler

Principal Software Architect at Ray Sono

Georg Dresler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Mainstage

Can This Elephant Dance? IBM Bob and the Future of AI-First Software Development

Neel Sundaresan, Arvid Ottenberg

Neel Sundaresan
Arvid Ottenberg
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 2

Colorful quantum randomness

Jakub Gaj

Cloud Solution Architect at Danske Bank

Jakub Gaj
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 5

Design Patterns For AI Products in 2026

Vitaly Friedman

UX Lead at Smashing Magazine

Vitaly Friedman
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Airstream 2

From conversational job search to AI agents, must we reinvent recruitment?

Robindro Ullah

CEO of Trendence Institut

Robindro Ullah
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Airstream 1

One year of the CO2-challenge – insights and lessons learned

Aydin Mir Mohammadi

Software Architect and CTO of bluehands

Aydin Mir Mohammadi