World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 14:00–14:45
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Ship agents to production without losing sleep
Ricardo Niepel
Senior Solution Engineer - AI Apps & Agents at Microsoft
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 8, 2026 · 14:30–15:15
Airstream 2
Tool Time - Share Your Favorite Tools
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 15:00–15:45
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Engineering GitHub Copilot for Resilience at Scale
Angela Wen
Software Engineer at GitHub
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 15:30–16:30
Airstream 2
Drag Karaoke
General Program
GP
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M5 (18 Seats)
Adopting GitOps for microservices delivery via Argo CD
Stas Lebedenko
Cloud Architect at Eficode
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M6 (40 Seats)
Build a data-intensive dashboard (that actually works)
Josh Hobson, James Swinton-Bland, Zoheil Khaleqi
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–16:45
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Context is Money: Slashing RAG Production Costs with Foundry IQ
Kiran Panchal
AI Solution Engineer at Microsoft
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room R3 (30 Seats)
From Vector Search to Better Understanding: How Hybrid RAG Improves Answers, Not Just Matches
David vonThenen
Senior AI/ML Engineer at NetApp
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M4 (40 Seats)
How does a Java agent work? Building a Java agent from scratch.
Marco Sussitz
Senior Software Developer at Dynatrace
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M3 (18 Seats)
How to Pitch Innovation to Your CEO
Linda Stauffenberg, Markus Stauffenberg
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M8 (60 Seats)
Ideate & Strategize: Defining Your Football for Good Prototype
Salih Guler
Senior Developer Advocate at AWS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M7 (18 Seats)
Rust on Robots: Hands-on Embedded Rust on STM32
Robert Jeutter
Software Architect at CORPULS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:00–18:00
Room M2 (40 Seats)
The Art and Science behind evaluating AI Agents at scale
Alfonso Graziano
AI Tech Lead at Nearform
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 16:30–17:15
Airstream 2
Coffee With Developers: Live & Uncut
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 8, 2026 · 17:00–17:45
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Macro-delegation, Micro-steeting of AI Coding Agents
Nabil Bousselham
GitHub, Sr. GTM Strategy Lead - GitHub Copilot
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 08:00–09:15
Mainstage
Doors open - Day 1
Speaker TBA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 09:15–09:30
Mainstage
Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026
General Program
GP
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 09:30–10:00
Mainstage
The Agentic Assembly Line
Thomas Dohmke
CEO and Co-founder of Entire, fmr. CEO of GitHub
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:00–10:10
Stage 4
People & Culture Welcome Address
Rudi Bauer
CCO of WeAreDevelopers
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 12
7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform
Michael Coté
Senior Member of Technical Staff at Tanzu
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Building Trust Through Private and Verifiable AI
Mingshen Sun
Research and Engineering Lead at TikTok
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:20
Airstream 2
Designing UX for SRE Agents in High-Stakes Incidents
Osmar Matos
UX/UI Design and Frontend Lead at Hyground
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 13
From CPUs to QPUs: A Software Engineer’s Guide to Quantum Computing
André Alves
Software Engineer at eleQtron
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 5
Goodbye Microservices, Hello Self-Contained Systems
Simon Martinelli
Programming Architect at Martinelli
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 9
Let’s Talk Quality!
Lilia Gargouri
Board Member and Head of QA at German Testing Board
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Airstream 1
Open Source Software Licenses - A short Guide for Software Developers
Björn Stahl
Software Architect at Bechtle / AVS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Owning the Inference Layer: When and How to Run your Own Models
Taylor Jordan Smith
Senior AI Developer Advocate at Red Hat
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Ship Smarter Agents, Not Bigger Prompts
April Yoho
Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 7
Stop using Node.js like in 2020! What changed and what you can do today with Node.js
Alfonso Graziano
AI Tech Lead at Nearform
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Mainstage
The AI-Native Engineering Org: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Next
Taroon Mandhana, Sebastian Kister
