World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30
Tech Leaders Stage
The Limits of LLMs in Real-World Applications
Deivids Vilkinsons, Guillaume Esnou, Laura Moritz, Mariam Hakobyan
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 · 15:00–15:30
Stage 1
This App Reached 10,000 Users in One Week. Here's How.
Mahran Meißner
Head of Technology and Innovation Space at Siemens IT
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30
Stage 7
When Agents Meet Legacy: Never Change a Running System
Michael Friedrich
Principal Developer Advocate at GitLab
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30
Airstream 2
Your Code Is the Sales Team Now
Marcus König
Scaling B2B Growth
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:00–15:30
Stage 2
Your Kubernetes Node Is Not a Server: Rethinking the OS Layer
Natanael Copa
Software Engineer at Mirantis
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 11
AI Driven Development
David Tielke
Consultant, Coach and Trainer at www.David-Tielke.de
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Airstream 2
Cultural Intelligence: How to Build Teams That Work Anywhere Building belonging, not just headcount.
Renita Käsper
Co-founder of Recruitment Thursday
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 4
Debugging Humans: How MBTI Helps Engineering Teams Communicate Better
Hazel Wat
Analytic Engineer at Schwarz Digits
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Tech Leaders Stage
Fighting the Next Wave of Cybercrime
Michele Zuccala, Misha Bragin, Ross Kukulinski, Frank Schlesinger
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World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 5
From APIs to MCP: Enterprise Governance, Registry, and Controls
Stefan Mesquita
Platform Experience Lead at Deutsche Bank
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 9
Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. All of them. How I became sysadmin on Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba.
Fabiano Amorim
Principal Consultant at Pythian
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 2
Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing
Piotr Zaniewski
Head of Engineering Enablement at vCluster Labs
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Native Speed, Java Comfort: Calling Rust from the JVM with Project Panama
Gonzalo Ortiz Jaureguizar
Performance engineer at Startree
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Mainstage
Software That Fixes Itself
Milin Desai, Rodrigue Schäfer
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Airstream 1
Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product
Dominik Schmidle
Group Product Manager at Giant Swarm
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Teaching agents to pay: what devs need to know
Benjamin Smith
Senior Staff Developer Advocate at Stripe
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
The LLM Evolution: From Sequence Imitation to Verifiable Reasoning
Kamen Petroff
Software Developer at ATOS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 7
User 1st! Technology 2nd! Stop building AI nobody uses - start delivering real business outcomes
Mateusz Gren, Peter Hock
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 15:40–16:10
Stage 12
Vertical Slice Architecture: Micro Frontends Across Mobile, Backend & ML
Jens Posingies, Robert Pazurek, Vivek Kuppenhalli
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 4
Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat
Axel Ebert, Karin Krobath
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 12
Code Once, Use Everywhere: Building Shared Libraries for Multiple Projects
Vadzim Prudnikau
Co-Owner and Architect at Trainitek and Apotek 1
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 7
Completing the Feedback Loop
Nimrod Kor
Co-founder and CTO of Baz
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Airstream 1
Engineering/Manager Pendulum: Generating compound interest on your career
Marcin Olichwirowicz
Engineering Manager at Netflix
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Tech Leaders Stage
Europe's Regulatory Paradox: Burden, Barrier or Competitive Advantage?
Andreas Klinger, Jakobus Schuster, Thomas Eriksson, Katharina Schneeberg
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Agentic AI
Björn Buchhold
Technology Evangelist at CID
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Mainstage
Meta Harnesses: What the JS Framework Wars Teach Us About What Is Next for AI Agents
Victor Savkin
CTO and Co-founder of Nx
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬
Jeremy Murray
Founder and CEO of Stack8s
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Structured Concurrency in Practice: CoroutineScope vs StructuredTaskScope
Filip Egeric
Senior Software Engineer at Clue
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 2
Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes
Irina Branovic
Tech Lead at adjoe
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 10, 2026 · 16:20–16:50
Stage 9
The Sound of Privacy – What Your Spotify Data Reveals About You
Dennis Schulz, Thomas Hugle
