World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 5
The Velocity Tax: The Hidden Cost of Unintentional Feature Alignment
Tushar Gupta
Engineering Lead at Schwarz Digits IT
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 · 10:50–11:20
Airstream 1
Vendor Neutral by Design: Building Healthy Open Source Ecosystems with Diverse Stakeholders
Hendrik Ebbers
Director of Open Source at Hashgraph
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 2
What 500+ Production Environments Taught Us About Shipping AI Agents
Liran Hason
VP of AI at Coralogix
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:50–11:20
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
You don't need to write the code. You need to become a verification architect and prove it's correct
Guillaume Moigneu
Field CTO of Upsun
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 10:55–11:05
Airstream 2
Fast Agents Produce Bad Results Faster
Mardu Swanepoel
Head of AI Engineering at Flinn.ai
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:10–11:20
Airstream 2
Fast, Confident, and Wrong: When AI Fails at Accessibility
Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova
Senior Advisor at NAV
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 2
Agentic AI: building autonomous systems for developers
Anshul Jindal, Sebastian Mahr
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 12
An alternative approach to digital sovereignty: Confidential Computing
Mike Bursell
Executive Director at Confidential Computing Consortium
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 5
Beyond Resilience: Architecting Antifragile Systems
Jan de Vries
DevOps Advocate at Naboek
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Tech Leaders Stage
Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook
Cédric Gégout, Dana Lawson, Michael "Monty" Widenius, Sebastian Kister
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World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 9
Contract Testing with MCP: Building Self-Describing, Self-Testing APIs
Moataz Nabil
Software Engineering Manager at AVIV Group
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Developers become Orchestrators: From Human-in-the-Loop to Spec-in-the-Loop
Bastian Heilemann, Stefan Bley
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Airstream 2
How to Attract & Retain in a fast moving environment
Kent Frederiksen
Vice President at The LEGO Group
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 11
It's a Great Time to be a Builder: Leveraging AI for Good
Seth Webster
Chief Developer Evangelist at Expo
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Linux (Pseudo)Filesystems: The Hidden Backbone of Cloud Native
Daniel Drack
Senior DevOps Engineer at FullStackS
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 7
Physical AI for the Next Wave of Industrial Digitalisation
Sergio Perez
Senior Solution Architect at NVIDIA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Responsibility Beyond Code - Build with Societal Impact In Mind
Yiyang Lu
Head of R&D at pdm
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
The day the chatbot asked for sudo
Alex Olivier
Co-founder and CPO of Cerbos
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Airstream 1
The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet: Building Community in the Time of Bots
Colleen Lake
Developer Advocate at GitLab
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 4
The New Org Chart: When AI Joins the Workforce
Avani Prabhakar, Benjamin Mann, Nils Berger, Damiana Casile
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Stage 1
The Retrieval Layer for Edge AI
Sasha Denisov, Chadha Sridi
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 11:30–12:00
Mainstage
Under the Hood of Building on Lovable
Fabian Hedin
Co-Founder and CTO of Lovable
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Tech Leaders Stage
Beyond the Wrapper: Technical Bets That VCs Back
Christian Nagel, Filip Dames, Justus Lumpe, Philipp Moehring
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Stage 12
Building Accountability in Agentic AI
Frederik Gregaard, Mariana de la Roche W.
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:20
Airstream 1
Code Style in Practice: Balancing Preferences and Consistency
Angelika Shvets
Senior Software Engineer at Global-e
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Stage 4
Fireside Chat - Why the future is built on “AND”
Jürgen Hartwig, Rudi Bauer
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Stage 11
Inside Mercedes-Benz: 140 Years of Heritage meet AI
Daniel Geisel, Jens Petersohn
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Spot, Squash, Secure: Fighting Security Bugs with GitHub Copilot
Malte Lantin, Marie Theresa Brosig
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Airstream 2
The Future of Knowledge Retention: AI-Driven HR Transformation
Trecilla Lobo
SVP People and Culture at Flip
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
The Hidden Costs of CPU Limits in Kubernetes
Pavel Malyarevsky
Director PCCP at Deutsche Bank
