World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Tech Leaders Stage
The New Financial Stack: AI, Agents and Trust
Annabella Bassler, Daniele Tonella, Peter Bakenecker, Klaus Fiala
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 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 1
The R in RAG: Why retrieval is often the weakest link (and how to fix it)
Tomek Porożyński
Staff ML Engineer at deepsense.ai
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 11
What’s New in Web? 2026 Edition
Christian Liebel
Software Developer at Thinktecture
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 4
You Can't Automate Trust — The Future of Recruiting is Still Human
Mahmoud Aly
TA Business Partner at Semrush
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Your Tests Are Lying to You: Let AI Expose What You Missed
Maish Saidel-Keesing
Developer Advocate at AWS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:10–10:40
Stage 2
You Will Migrate Eventually: A developer approach to technology adoption
Luisa Rink, Wouter Ligtenberg
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:25–10:35
Airstream 2
One Color to Rule Them All: Relative CSS Colors in Practice
Mert Akça
Software Engineer at SAP
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Build a Multi-Agent Marathon Planner with ADK and A2A
Abdelfettah Sghiouar, Riccardo Carlesso
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room R2 (30 Seats)
Building a Better Tomorrow: Tips and Tricks for Docker Builds
Daniel Bodky
Senior Developer Advocate at NETWAYS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M6 (40 Seats)
Building Modern Distributed Systems using Less AI Tokens
Przemysław Ładyński
CEO of Graftcode
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M8 (60 Seats)
Building the Agentic Economy with x402 and Stablecoins
Gabriel Kuettel, Sara Jane Kenny
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M3 (18 Seats)
Defending the Modern Supply Chain: Hands-On Vulnerability Remediation
Boy Baukema, Patrick Feige
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room Ulm (35 Seats)
GitHub Copilot: From Zero to Hero
Lisa Becker, Tugdual Grall
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M4 (40 Seats)
Hands-on AMQP with LavinMQ: Decoupling Services with Message Queues
Erica Weistrand
Developer Lead at CloudAMQP
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room R3 (30 Seats)
HR Workshop - Vibe:athon: Where HR Goes to Build 1/4
Joe Atkinson, Leandro Gomes da Silva
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M7 (18 Seats)
Prompt Engineering Hands-on
Harald Nezbeda
Python Technical Lead at Anexia
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M2 (40 Seats)
Teaching AI to Code in Every Language with NVIDIA NeMo
Antonio Rueda-Toicen, Marco Gullotto DE, Nikita Pavlichenko
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:30–12:30
Room M5 (18 Seats)
You shall (not) pass!? An Introduction to Testing authentication
Ramona Schwering
Developer Relations Engineer @mittwald
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:40–10:50
Airstream 2
Your Distributed System Just Got a Brain. Now What?
Marcin Makowski
CEO of BeOne
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 9
Back to the Roots: Testing in the Age of AI
Jakub Janczyk
Senior Engineer at Kit
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Tech Leaders Stage
Building 10x Organizations Using Modern Productivity Metrics
Justin Reock
Deputy CTO of DX
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 11
Design Systems for the Machines - How to Make AI Understand Your UI
Jennifer Wjertzoch
Senior Frontend Engineer at DKB Code Factory
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Mainstage
Europe's Digital Future: How to Get from User to Shaper?
Karsten Wildberger, Larissa Holzki
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 12
From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform
Dominik Krichbaum
Product Manager at ING
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
GPU is not Monolithic : Packing LLMs with MIGs on Kubernetes
Hajed Khlifi
AI / HPC Architect at Quantori
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Product Innovation through Partnerships - Search and Local Services
Lindsey Kelt Zikry
Business Development Lead at TikTok
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Production AI Is a Systems Problem: How ML Breaks at Scale and How to Prevent It
Elle S
JOBTITLE at COMPANY
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 1
Scaling GraphRAG: Efficient Knowledge Retrieval for AI
Gal Shubeli
AI Engineer at FalkorDB
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 13
Simple, Clean, Intuitive, and Qrisp: Quantum Linear Algebra for Developers
Matic Petrič
Quantum Computing Researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 4
The Great Reskilling - Who Wins in the AI Economy?
Daniel Terzenbach, Johannes Kopf, Rudi Bauer
