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 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

Reporting Active Exploits in 24 Hours: Are You Ready for the CRA?

Matthew Brady

Sales Engineering Manager at Black Duck

Matthew Brady
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 7

REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and more: A comparison of modern API styles

Florian Bader

CEO of Lunaris Digital Solutions

Florian Bader
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

The Developer Workstation Blind Spot: Why Your Security Stack Can't See What Matters Most

Marcus Wermuth

VP of R&D at Safety Cybersecurity

Marcus Wermuth
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 3 - powered by AWS

Theia AI Live Demo: Air Gapped AI for Developer Tools and IDEs

Thomas Froment

Program Manager Development Tools at Eclipse Foundation

Thomas Froment
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 11:40–12:10

Stage 4

Why Distributed Teams Lose Momentum – Even When Everyone Means Well

Franziska Höhne

Project Manager at ALDI SOUTH

Franziska Höhne
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M6 (40 Seats)

Build Agents That Can Pay with x402: From Your Laptop to a Live Network

Ed Marquez, Hendrik Ebbers, Peter Swierzy

Ed Marquez
Hendrik Ebbers
Peter Swierzy
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room Ulm (35 Seats)

Building Multi-Agent Systems with Microsoft Agent Framework

Kiran Panchal, Ricardo Niepel, Isha Salania

Kiran Panchal
Ricardo Niepel
Isha Salania
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M8 (60 Seats)

Building the Agentic Economy with x402 and Stablecoins

Jorrin Bruns, Sara Jane Kenny

Jorrin Bruns
Sara Jane Kenny
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M2 (40 Seats)

Compress, Cut, and Distill: The Latest Gen AI Model Compression Techniques in Practice

Sergio Perez

Senior Solution Architect at NVIDIA

Sergio Perez
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M4 (40 Seats)

Create Your Own Role-Playing Game with Agentic AI using Strands Agents

Arnaud Jean

Developer Advocate at AWS

Arnaud Jean
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room R2 (30 Seats)

GenAI in Testing: Using GitHub Copilot to Accelerate Quality Without Losing Trust

Moataz Nabil

Software Engineering Manager at AVIV Group

Moataz Nabil
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M5 (18 Seats)

Hands-On Strategies for Cost-Effective Performance

Nati Cohen

Solutions Architect at AWS

Nati Cohen
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M3 (18 Seats)

How to mess up JWT's - a practitioner's guide

Wekoslav Stefanovski

Head Of Development at Sourcico

Wekoslav Stefanovski
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room R3 (30 Seats)

HR Workshop - The Human Advantage: Storytelling in the Age of AI

Stefan Ganß

Business Trainer at Storytellingtrainer.de

Stefan Ganß
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:15–14:15

Room M1 (60 Seats)

Vibe Coding with Postgres: From Zero to Prod in Your IDE

Cyrille Visser, Miguel Toscano

Cyrille Visser
Miguel Toscano
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Stage 13

Agent Smith Gets Hardware: Autonomous IoT Hacking From Debug Port to Cloud API

Marc Plogas

Herding AI Cats, Before It Was Cool.

Marc Plogas
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft

AI Won't Fix Your Engineering Culture

Julia Kordick

Senior Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft

Julia Kordick
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Stage 9

Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive

Agur Jõgi

Tech leader and former CTO at Pipedrive

Agur Jõgi
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Mainstage

Fireside Chat - In conversation with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com

Werner Vogels, Thomas Pamminger

Werner Vogels
Thomas Pamminger
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Stage 12

Future of Mobile AI. What On-Device Intelligence Means for App Developers

Sasha Denisov

CTO and Co-Founder of Brainform.ai

Sasha Denisov
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Tech Leaders Stage

Inside Look: AI & Developer Productivity Programs in a 1,500+ Engineering Team

Ellen Jones, Kristjan Ulst

Ellen Jones
Kristjan Ulst
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Stage 1

The AI-Native Software Team: How Agents Are Rewriting the SDLC

Marcin Wawryszczuk

Head of AI at Andersen

Marcin Wawryszczuk
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:50

Airstream 2

What if your HR software adapted to you, not the other way around?

Christian Voigt

Global Employment Specialist at Remote

Christian Voigt
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:20–12:30

Airstream 1

What time is it? The mysterious clocks of sports and other things we do.

Clemens Vasters

Principal Architect at Microsoft

Clemens Vasters
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:35–12:45

Airstream 1

MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of

Daniël van Eeden

Technical Support Engineer at PingCAP

Daniël van Eeden
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 12:50–13:00

Airstream 1

Hiring AI Native Talents

Zahhar Kirillov

Delivery Manager at EPAM Systems

Zahhar Kirillov
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30

Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft

Agentic AI in Go

Marc Arndt

VP Engineering and Architecture at Evana AG

Marc Arndt
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

Beyond the Benchmark: How to Evaluate AI Agents in the Real World

Taylor Jordan Smith

Senior AI Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Taylor Jordan Smith
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30

Stage 5

Building with IBM Bob

Maximilian Jesch

Outbound Product Manager - IBM Bob

Maximilian Jesch
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30

Stage 11

Designing for Agents Will Make You Better at Designing for Humans

Dana Lawson

CTO of Netlify

Dana Lawson