World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:10–12:40
Mainstage
The Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built
Lena Hall
Senior Director Developers and AI at Akamai
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 · 12:25–12:35
Airstream 1
Software Engineering for Muggles
Theresa Heine
Software Engineer at ING
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Stage 2
200 OK: Payment settled, resource delivered
Brian Whippo
Senior Director at Algorand
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Airstream 2
AI in Recruiting: What Works, What Fails - Real Lessons from Office & Volume Hiring
Barbara Kryslak
Associate Director, Recruiting and Employer Branding at Redcare Pharmacy
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Tech Leaders Stage
Creating Europe's AI Moment – Now or Never
Antonella Mei-Pochtler, Thomas Jarzombek, Thomas Saueressig, Jasper Bennink
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Mainstage
Designing for flow: How Atlassian Williams F1 Team is building an AI-led System of Work
Andrew Boyagi
Customer CTO, Atlassian
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Go's Concurrency and Parallelism Inside Containers
Rick Rackow
Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Author "Operating OpenShift"
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Stage 5
Nemotron: NVIDIA's open model strategy for developers
Sergio Perez
Senior Solution Architect at NVIDIA
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Programming with Contracts in C++26
Peter Bindels
Staff Software Engineer at TomTom
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Stage 1
Small, Secure, Interconnected: The next Internet Protocol
Ross Kukulinski
VP of Product & Interim VP Engineering, Tailscale
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:20
Stage 9
Synthetic Insiders: The New AI Risk to Your Org
George Proorocu
IT OPS Manager Cybersecurity and Fraud at ING Bank
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 12:50–13:00
Stage 7
TypeScript Features That Changed the Game
Dani Coll
Lead Developer Advocate at Dynatrace
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M2 (40 Seats)
Accelerating AI Inference at Scale: A Deep Dive Into NVIDIA Dynamo on Kubernetes
Anshul Jindal, Mohak Chadha
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M4 (40 Seats)
Bright Data Rush Give your AI agent the live web — build and ship in 2 hours
Rafael Levi
Developer Relations Lead at Bright Data
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room R2 (30 Seats)
Build a Production-Ready AI Agent in 90 Minutes
Tamas Piros
AI Consultant
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Building AI apps with the Google ecosystem
Marina Coelho, Rosário Pereira Fernandes
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M6 (40 Seats)
High Quality AI Development
David Tielke
Consultant, Coach and Trainer at www.David-Tielke.de
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room R3 (30 Seats)
HR Workshop - Vibe:athon: Where HR Goes to Build 2/4
Joe Atkinson, Leandro Gomes da Silva
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M5 (18 Seats)
Maintainable and Testable Code in the Age of AI
Dennis Doomen
Principal Consultant at Aviva Solutions
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room Ulm (35 Seats)
Teaching GitHub Copilot COBOL: A Practical Guide to Agentic AI Legacy Modernization
Julia Kordick, Laetitia Maar
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M8 (60 Seats)
The best SDLC is the one you build yourself: Why orchestration changes everything
Jovana Dunisijevic
Senior Technical Evangelist at Atlassian
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:00–15:00
Room M3 (18 Seats)
Trust, but Verify: Building a Document Agent That Survives Production
Cliff Simpkins
Lead Developer Relations at UiPath
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:10–13:20
Stage 7
The 8th Layer: Building the Open AI Stack Before It Builds You
Raffi Krikorian
CTO of Mozilla
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:20–13:25
Airstream 1
Startup Spotlight
General Program
GP
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:25–13:30
Airstream 1
Smaller Voice Models
Sohaib Ahmad
CEO of Neuphonic
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 13
Beyond authentication: an open-source trust model for the agentic web
Alexander Günsche, Sabrina Engling
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Mainstage
Building the Nervous System of AI
Michael Kagan, Sead Ahmetović
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Building the next generation of AI developer tools
Krzysztof Cieślak
Staff Research Engineer at GitHub Next
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 9
Bulletproof Web Applications: The 2025 OWASP Top Ten
Christian Wenz
CEO of Actition
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00
Stage 7
From AI Assistance to Agentic Systems: Scaling Sovereign AI in Banking
Julia Koch, Markus Hacker
