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 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 3 - powered by AWS

Beyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery

Phil Leggetter

Head of Developer Experience at Hookdeck

Phil Leggetter
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Tech Leaders Stage

Data: The Deciding Factor in AI Success

Damandeep Kochhar, Jörg Tewes, Siddhika Nevrekar, Ed Huang

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Damandeep Kochhar
Jörg Tewes
Siddhika Nevrekar
Ed Huang
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Airstream 2

From Vague Ideas to Precise Specifications – AI as Process Catalyst

Patrick Schnell

Managing Director at schnell.digital

Patrick Schnell
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

Garbage In, Garbage Out: Engineering Reliable AI Document Extraction Pipelines

Nazeer Saeed

Staff Solutions Engineer at Apryse

Nazeer Saeed
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 2

Multiple Apps, Millions of Users: Scaling React Native in Production

Milica Aleksic

Senior Software Engineer at Novium

Milica Aleksic
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 1

Outclassing Frontier LLMs at Extracting Information

Etienne Bernard

CEO and Co-founder of NuMind

Etienne Bernard
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 7

Quantum Computing: Separating the Breakthroughs from the Buzz

Yuval Dvir, Marcus Hennig

Yuval Dvir
Marcus Hennig
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

Swapping a Data Warehouse at Runtime: Zero-Downtime Migration Without Changing a Single Client

Max Fischer, Michael O'Toole

Max Fischer
Michael O'Toole
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft

Testing AI Agents: Automated Evaluation for Chatbots & RAG Systems

Sebastian Messingfeld

Staff Engineer at Eurowings Digital

Sebastian Messingfeld
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 9

The End of Commit-Fail-Commit: Rethinking CI with AI Agents and GitHub Actions

Ben De St Paer-Gotch, Julia Kordick

Ben De St Paer-Gotch
Julia Kordick
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Stage 5

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can’t See

Maish Saidel-Keesing

Developer Advocate at AWS

Maish Saidel-Keesing
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:20–14:50

Mainstage

The New AI Security Stack: Observe, Detect, Protect

Milin Desai, Christian Trummer, Jyoti Bansal, Tomislav Tipurić

Milin Desai
Christian Trummer
Jyoti Bansal
Tomislav Tipurić
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room M1 (60 Seats)

Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs

Duan Lightfoot

Senior Developer Advocate at Akamai

Duan Lightfoot
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room M8 (60 Seats)

Build a Multi-Channel AI Agent

Anni Chen

Developer Evangelist at Twilio

Anni Chen
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room Ulm (35 Seats)

Context > Models: How to make your agents truly intelligent

Florian Wagner, Marc Teipel

Florian Wagner
Marc Teipel
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room M2 (40 Seats)

Generate Synthetic Data for Physical AI with NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation Models

Alexander Schwarz, Stefanie Manzinger, Tsubasa Onishi

Alexander Schwarz
Stefanie Manzinger
Tsubasa Onishi
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room M4 (40 Seats)

Hack Me, Bro: An Antifragile AI Battle Arena

Andrew Demczuk

Chief Revenue Officer at angel-serve.com

Andrew Demczuk
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room R2 (30 Seats)

Never say refactoring is impossible

Andreas Kleinbichler

Engineering Manager at Admiral Technologies

Andreas Kleinbichler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 14:45–16:45

Room M6 (40 Seats)

The Retrieval Layer in Context Engineering: From Intuition to Implementation

Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya

Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant

Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

Automated Security for the Entire SDLC

Carey Liu

Product Security Operation Specialist at TikTok

Carey Liu
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 12

Building Moduliths That Last: Patterns for Sustainable Module Integration

Christoph Kober

Lead Software Engineer at SQUER

Christoph Kober
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 4

Building Organizations That Can Actually Adapt

Anastasija Removic, Claudia Tattanelli, Kerstin Wagner, Nazim Ünlü

Anastasija Removic
Claudia Tattanelli
Kerstin Wagner
Nazim Ünlü
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 5

Context Graphs for Explainable, Decision-Aware AI Agents

Zaid Zaim, Jordi Spranger

Zaid Zaim
Jordi Spranger
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 3 - powered by AWS

Football for Good: Hackathon Finals - Live Pitches & Awards

Salih Guler

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Salih Guler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft

LLMs in the wild: Building an AI agent that survives production

Steven Mi, Giampaolo Casolla

Steven Mi
Giampaolo Casolla
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Mainstage

Measuring the Wrong Things Faster Than Ever

Laura Tacho

Senior Principal Technologist at AWS

Laura Tacho
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 9

MFA? Game over! Watch your protection collapse – live

Christoph Menzel

Head of Security Excellence at Inovex

Christoph Menzel
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

Swapping Code, Losing Memory: A JVM Deep Dive

Marco Sussitz

Senior Software Developer at Dynatrace

Marco Sussitz
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Stage 11

Teaching an LLM to review code … like a Senior Engineer!

Kesha Mykhailov

Principal Engineer at Intercom/Fin

Kesha Mykhailov
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30

Airstream 1

The AI Velocity Trap: Shipping Faster Without Breaking More

Ohans Emmanuel

Former Staff Engineer at HelloFresh

Ohans Emmanuel