World Congress 2026 Europe

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484 sessions

July 8–10, 2026

Berlin, Germany

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The Velocity Tax: The Hidden Cost of Unintentional Feature Alignment

  • Tushar Gupta

    Schwarz Digits

    Engineering Lead

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Vendor Neutral by Design: Building Healthy Open Source Ecosystems with Diverse Stakeholders

  • Hendrik Ebbers

    Hashgraph

    Director of Open Source

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What 500+ Production Environments Taught Us About Shipping AI Agents

  • Liran Hason

    Coralogix

    VP of AI

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You don't need to write the code. You need to become a verification architect and prove it's correct

  • Guillaume Moigneu

    Upsun

    Field CTO

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Fast Agents Produce Bad Results Faster

  • Mardu Swanepoel

    Flinn.ai

    Head of AI Engineering

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Fast, Confident, and Wrong: When AI Fails at Accessibility

  • Radostina (Ina) Tsvetkova

    NAV

    Senior Advisor

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Agentic AI: building autonomous systems for developers

  • Anshul Jindal

    NVIDIA

    Senior Solution Architect

  • Sebastian Mahr

    SAP

    Chief Development Architect

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An alternative approach to digital sovereignty: Confidential Computing

  • Mike Bursell

    Confidential Computing Consortium

    Executive Director

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Beyond Resilience: Architecting Antifragile Systems

  • Jan de Vries

    Naboek

    DevOps Advocate

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Building on Open Source: The New Product Playbook

  • Cédric Gégout

    Canonical

    VP of Product

  • Dana Lawson

    Netlify

    CTO

  • Michael "Monty" Widenius

    MariaDB

    CTO

  • Sebastian Kister

    Volkswagen Group

    Chief AI Architect

  • Ignacio Riesgo

    IBM & Red Hat Runtimes

    Senior Director, Developer Advocacy

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Contract Testing with MCP: Building Self-Describing, Self-Testing APIs

  • Moataz Nabil

    AVIV Group

    Software Engineering Manager

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Developers become Orchestrators: From Human-in-the-Loop to Spec-in-the-Loop

  • Bastian Heilemann

    Carl Zeiss

    Lead Cloud Solution Architect

  • Stefan Bley

    ZEISS Digital Innovation

    Software Architect

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How to Attract & Retain in a fast moving environment

  • Kent Frederiksen

    The LEGO Group

    Vice President Reward

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It's a Great Time to be a Builder: Leveraging AI for Good

  • Seth Webster

    Expo

    Chief Developer Evangelist

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Linux (Pseudo)Filesystems: The Hidden Backbone of Cloud Native

  • Daniel Drack

    FullStackS

    Senior DevOps Engineer

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Physical AI for the Next Wave of Industrial Digitalisation

  • Sergio Perez

    NVIDIA

    Senior Solution Architect

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Responsibility Beyond Code - Build with Societal Impact In Mind

  • Yiyang Lu

    pdm

    Head of R&D

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The day the chatbot asked for sudo

  • Alex Olivier

    Cerbos

    Co-founder and CPO

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The Internet is Dead, Long Live the Internet: Building Community in the Time of Bots

  • Colleen Lake

    GitLab

    Developer Advocate

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The New Org Chart: When AI Joins the Workforce

  • Avani Prabhakar

    Atlassian

    Chief People and AI Enablement Officer

  • Benjamin Mann

    Delivery Hero

    CTO

  • Nils Berger

    Viewpointsystem

    Founder and CEO

  • Damiana Casile

    Dow Jones

    Director of People Business Partners

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The Retrieval Layer for Edge AI

  • Sasha Denisov

    Brainform.ai

    CTO and Co-founder

  • Chadha Sridi

    Qdrant

    Developer Relations Engineer

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Under the Hood of Building on Lovable

  • Fabian Hedin

    Lovable

    Co-founder and CTO

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Beyond the Wrapper: Technical Bets That VCs Back

  • Christian Nagel

    Earlybird Venture Capital

    Partner and Co-Founder

  • Filip Dames

    Cherry Ventures

    Founding Partner

  • Justus Lumpe

    i5invest

    Co-CEO

  • Philipp Moehring

    tiny supercomputer investment company

    Founder and Managing Partner

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Building Accountability in Agentic AI

  • Frederik Gregaard

    Cardano Foundation

    CEO

  • Mariana de la Roche W.

    BlackVogel

    CEO

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Code Style in Practice: Balancing Preferences and Consistency

  • Angelika Shvets

    Global-e

    Senior Software Engineer

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Fireside Chat - Why the future is built on “AND”

  • Jürgen Hartwig

    Daimler Truck

    CHRO

  • Rudi Bauer

    WeAreDevelopers

    CCO

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Inside Mercedes-Benz: 140 Years of Heritage meet AI

  • Daniel Geisel

    Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

    CEO

  • Jens Petersohn

    Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

    CTO

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Spot, Squash, Secure: Fighting Security Bugs with GitHub Copilot

  • Malte Lantin

    GitHub

    Strategic Solutions Engineer

  • Marie Theresa Brosig

    GitHub

    Strategic Solutions Engineer

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The Future of Knowledge Retention: AI-Driven HR Transformation

  • Trecilla Lobo

    Flip

    SVP People and Culture

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The Hidden Costs of CPU Limits in Kubernetes

  • Pavel Malyarevsky

    Deutsche Bank

    Director PCCP