World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Airstream 1
Checkmate: 5 Real Incidents That Can End a Software Company
Jasmin Azemović
CISO| Associate Professor | Microsoft MVP
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 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
Designing high quality software with AI
Brian Lovin
Product Designer at Notion
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room M1 (60 Seats)
Developing Crash-Proof Java Applications
Tom Wheeler
Principal Developer Advocate at Temporal
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room M5 (18 Seats)
Dockerize Java Securely: SBOMs + Attestations + Bake
Mohammad-Ali A'râbi
Senior Software Engineer at JobRad
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room M8 (60 Seats)
Ducks, Sensors & Agents: Hands-On Edge AI with Arduino UNO Q
Jenny Speelman, Dmitry Maslov
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room M2 (40 Seats)
Faster Together: Train and Deploy a Speculative Decoding Model for Low-Latency LLM Inference
Amit Kushwaha, Dmitry Mironov
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room R3 (30 Seats)
HR Workshop - The Human Advantage: Storytelling in the Age of AI
Stefan Ganß
Business Trainer at Storytellingtrainer.de
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Is it still C#? Practical systems programming with .NET (war stories included)
Szymon Kulec
Lead Developer Advocate at RavenDB
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room M4 (40 Seats)
Managing Sovereign AI Infrastructure: MLOps and LLMOps in Highly Regulated Banking IT
Daniel Evenschor, Matthias Kordt, Lars Langerbein
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room R2 (30 Seats)
Shall we play a Game? LLM Security in Practice
Joseph Katsioloudes
Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 2
Sociotechnical Architecture Reviews: Understanding Teams, Not Just Artefacts
Eberhard Wolff
Head of Architecture at SWAGLab
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–17:30
Room M6 (40 Seats)
Spec-Driven Development with Agentic Skills
Predrag Radenkovic, Žan Jonke
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
Strategies for Efficient Log Management in Large-Scale Kubernetes Clusters
Aliaksandr Valialkin
CEO of VictoriaMetrics
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Airstream 2
Tech as a Profit Center – Maximizing P&L Impact by Research Funding and Capitalization
Henriette Brune
Chief of Staff to the CTO at FINN
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Mainstage
The Agent Interface Layer: Protocols, Tools and Trust Boundaries
David Soria Parra, Duan Lightfoot, Malte Ubl, Taroon Mandhana
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 11
The Golden Age of Email: Owning the Inbox in the Age of AI
Dana Lawson, Nikhil Gandhi
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Stage 4
The New Shiny Syndrome: How to Avoid Tech Hype Traps
Josip Stuhli
CTO of SofaScore
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 15:30–16:00
Tech Leaders Stage
When AI Runs the Business: The Reality of Enterprise-Wide Automation
Axel Schell, Michael Ameling, Ines Erker
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 3 - powered by AWS
5 things I wish I hadn’t done building my AI agent
Shachar Azriel
VP Product at Baz
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Mainstage
A Computer Is All You Need
Steren Giannini
Director and Founder of Google Cloud Run
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 8 - powered by Red Hat
AI That Fits Your Business, Not the Other Way Around
Anshul Jindal, Cansu Kavili Örnek
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 9
Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source
Viktoria Semaan
Principal AI Evangelist at databricks
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 4
Five Ways to Break Silos in Your Engineering Organization
Daniel Schniepp
Chief Architect Developer and Cloud Platforms at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 10 - powered by TikTok
Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
Alexander Schwartz
Principal Software Engineer at IBM
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Airstream 2
Keeping Your AI Software Supply Chains Sovereign in the Age of Commercial Open Source
Franz Kiraly
Director at German Center for Open Source AI
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 11
Microfrontends: Lessons Learned from Growing a Design System and Shared Libraries Across 20+ teams
Erasmo Hernandez
Senior Web UI Developer and Tech Lead at Globant
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Tech Leaders Stage
Physical AI: The Era of Intelligent Machines
Clemens Wasner, Dr. Ramin Hasani, Vinesh Sukumar, Zohar Fox
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Airstream 1
Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine
Daniel Meilak, Enris Nogare von Tein
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 6 - powered by Microsoft
Practical tips for keeping your C# code base clean
Dennis Doomen
Principal Consultant at Aviva Solutions
World Congress 2026 Europe
July 9, 2026 · 16:10–16:40
Stage 7
Rust in the Real World: Adoption, Migration, and Tradeoffs
Vitaly Bragilevsky
Head of Rust Ecosystem at JetBrains
