World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 1
Java Sucks (So C# Didn't Have To)
Adele Carpenter
Software Engineer at Trifork Amsterdam
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 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Mainstage
Localized Open Models in Production: What Builders Need to Know
Ankit Patel, Pierre-Louis Cedoz, Jamie Madden, Stephen Batifol
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
REST In Peace: Why LLMs Can't CRUD
Martin Sakowski, Martin Karrer
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 12
Surviving the Vulnpocalypse: Open Source and Supply Chain Security in a Post Mythos World
Adrian Mouat
Technical Community Advocate @ Chainguard
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 4
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating People, AI, and European Sovereignty
Sebastian Kister
Chief AI Architect at Volkswagen Group
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Tech Leaders Stage
The AI-Ready Workforce: Upskilling Lessons from the Real World
Bernd Datler, Laura Thorson, Mark Pollok, Hendrikje Rudnick
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
What Production Knows: Closing the Loop Between AI Agents and the Systems They Build
May Walter
Co-Founder and CTO of Hud
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 7
When Value Becomes Programmable: A Developer's Guide to Tokenization
Luke Forrest
Developer Relations Engineer at Hashgraph
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:00–13:30
Stage 2
Why your codebase lies to AI?
Zaak Chalal
CEO at Mobioos
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:05–13:15
Airstream 1
Quantum DevOps - Enabling Industrial Engineering
Ilie-Daniel Gheorghe-Pop
Researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:20–13:30
Airstream 1
From Space to Software: Reliability Lessons 40 Years After Challenger
Robert Barron
SRE Architect at IBM
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:35–13:45
Airstream 1
Your Docs Are Now AI Infrastructure (Treat Them Like It)
Emil Sorensen
CEO and Co-founder of kapa.ai
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 12
Automate or Stagnate: Keep Your Dependencies up to date with Renovate
Susanne Bach Ladefoged Hou
Senior Software Developer @ Unioo.io | Speaker | Driven by Passion, Powered by ADHD
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Building APIs for Agents vs Systems. Is MCP the answer?
Adam Bird
CEO and Co-founder of Cronofy
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 1
Context is all you need
Raphael De Lio, Samuel Agbede
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 5
From Perception to Autonomy: Building Agentic Edge AI Robots with ROS 2
Moe Sani
Edge AI Solutions Architect at Qualcomm
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Tech Leaders Stage
How to govern Vibe Coding for the Enterprise
Neena Thomas
Head of Platform, AI Appgen at Retool
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Mainstage
None of Us Is As Dumb As All of Us: Community And Knowledge Go Hand In Hand
Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe, Jeff Atwood
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 2
One Interface, Two Audiences: Designing CLIs for Humans and AI Agents
Gala Dvoretskaya, Sean O'Dell
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
POC Prison: Why agentic systems never escape the lab and how to fix that in 90 days
Luise Freese
Architect at m365princess
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 7
Quantum Computing - How Does It Work, How Will it Affect Us and When?
John Fletcher, Lorenzo Petricone
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Stop Parsing Strings: Treating LLMs Like Type-Safe Microservices
André Behrens
Senior Solution Architect at Atos
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 4
The Impact of AI on Game Development and the Industry
Eric Bowman
CTO of King
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 9
The Missing Layer Between Enterprise Data and AI Agents
Jannis Eickenroth, Sebastian Klenke
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
There Is No Such Thing as a Fair DBaaS Benchmark
Daniel Seybold
Co-Founder of benchANT
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:40–14:10
Stage 11
Why Git Still Matters
PJ Hagerty
Developer Focused, Community Oriented
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 13:50–14:00
Airstream 1
Can SVG be fast? Rendering a scatter chart with over 10k points
Bernardo Belchior
Software Engineer at MUI
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50
Stage 11
11 Principles for Evaluating AI Dev Tools
Nnenna Ndukwe
Principal Developer Advocate at Qodo AI
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50
Stage 4
API, MCP or MCP App? Choosing the right surface for AI agents
Rishabh Budhiraja, Rishi Deorukhkar
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50
Stage 12
Beyond Chat: AI Workflows That Actually Investigate Alerts (So You Don't Have To Know Everything)
Aram Hakobyan, Nune Isabekyan
