World Congress 2026 Europe

Preliminary lineup

July 8–10, 2026 · Berlin, Germany · 484 sessions confirmed so far. More will be announced soon.

Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate at IBM

Daniel Oh
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Tech Leaders Stage

Future-Proofing Human Capital for the AI Economy

Stephanie Cohen, Grisha Pavlotskyi, Joël Mesot, Stefan Lehmann

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Stephanie Cohen
Grisha Pavlotskyi
Joël Mesot
Stefan Lehmann
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 11

Generative UIs and AI Assistants for Your Angular Applications

Manfred Steyer

Google Developer Expert at ANGULARarchitects.io

Manfred Steyer
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!

Manfred Bjørlin

Principal Cloud Native Architect at Sopra Steria

Manfred Bjørlin
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 1

Life Cycle Impact Assessment in TypeScript

Corinna John

Principal Software Engineer at adesso SE

Corinna John
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 12

Parquet, Delta, Iceberg & Ducklake - An introduction for developers

Matthias Niehoff

Head of Data at codecentric

Matthias Niehoff
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 5

RTX AI PC: Developing local and edge AI applications

Joerg Krall

Senior Industry Business Development Manager Automotive EMEA

Joerg Krall
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 3 - powered by AWS

Swift, Server-side, Serverless

Sebastien Stormacq

Developer Experience Engineer, AWS

Sebastien Stormacq
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 4

The AI-Fluent Team: A Playbook for Driving Enterprise AI Transformation

Avani Prabhakar

Chief People and AI Enablement Officer of Atlassian

Avani Prabhakar
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:30–14:00

Stage 2

Type Systems You Might Not Know (But Will Love)

Veit Heller

Technologist at Large

Veit Heller
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:35–13:40

Airstream 1

Edge Orchestration for the Physical World: Connecting Cameras, Sensors, and Devices with MQTT

Irina Terekhova

Co-founder and CPO of Banalytics

Irina Terekhova
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:45–13:50

Airstream 1

How One Developer Built the Back Office for 10 Million Companies

Alija Nuredini

Founder & CEO @ Pistacio | DesignOps Lead @ 8reasons Digital

Alija Nuredini
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 13:55–14:00

Airstream 1

Kill Your WordPress. Ship in Minutes. Win the SEO game.

Malte Lensch

Builder of AI-native web stacks & CEO at Till Freitag Consulting GmbH

Malte Lensch
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:05–14:10

Airstream 1

AIQSpecFlow: Improves and automates your agile process of specification and creation of testcases.

Rene Schenk

Software Architect @ iQMatix Innovations

Rene Schenk
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 12

3 Ways to Rebuild the Data Stack for Agents

Jordan Tigani

Chief Duck Herder (CEO) at MotherDuck

Jordan Tigani
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Tech Leaders Stage

AI-Ready? What Enterprise Transformation Actually Takes

Florian Deter, Mei Dent, Oliver Krizek, Stefan Lemke

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Florian Deter
Mei Dent
Oliver Krizek
Stefan Lemke
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 13

Cryptographic agility for a post-quantum future: Falcon signatures in TypeScript

Andrew Funk

Partner Integrations Lead at Algorand Foundation

Andrew Funk
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 10 - powered by TikTok

From Bytes to Execution: Writing a WebAssembly Runtime in Rust

Gaurav Gahlot

Staff Software Engineer at IONOS Cloud

Gaurav Gahlot
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 1

From Global Capability Centers to AI-Powered Command Centers

Sandeep Kusuma

Enterprise AI Transformation Leader at Bosch Global Software Technologies

Sandeep Kusuma
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 11

Headless by Design: Building Enterprise Systems That Agents Can Actually Use

Dirk Gronert

Distinguished Technical Architect at Salesforce

Dirk Gronert
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 2

How I built my own intelligent Robot Arm from Scratch

Iulia Feroli

Content Creator at Back to Engineering

Iulia Feroli
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Airstream 2

How to Build a Culture of Sustainable High Performance

Bianca Errigo

Bianca Errigo, Founder & CEO at HumanOS

Bianca Errigo
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat

No Keys for the Robot: GitOps as the Control Plane for Autonomous Agents

Jaroslaw Gajewski

Lead Technical Cloud Architect at Atos

Jaroslaw Gajewski
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 4

The 2026 Talent Pivot: Essential Trends for an Evolving Workforce

Bastian Eichler

VP Product / Marketing at WorkMotion

Bastian Eichler
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Mainstage

The integrated AI experience: A New Paradigm in an Agentic World

Loredana Crisan, Markus Rautert, Stefan Ostwald, Anna Heim

Loredana Crisan
Markus Rautert
Stefan Ostwald
Anna Heim
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft

Tour de Force: Open-Source LLM Inference Optimization from Simple to Sophisticated

Christin Pohl

Global Black Belt Solution Engineer at Microsoft

Christin Pohl
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 9

Trust Issues: Because Zero-Trust Isn’t Optional Anymore

Jan Peer Stöcklmair

Senior Software Engineer at Sentry

Jan Peer Stöcklmair
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 5

Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way

Aurélie Vache

Developer Advocate at OVHcloud

Aurélie Vache
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Stage 7

Unlocking the AI Black Box: Building Trust in the Era of Agentic Production

Jemiah Sius, Harry Kimpel

Jemiah Sius
Harry Kimpel
Open session

World Congress 2026 Europe

July 9, 2026 · 14:15–14:20

Airstream 1

Beyond LLM Agents: A World Model for Visual Software Testing

Manuel Weichselbaum

CTO of anyconcept

Manuel Weichselbaum