23-25 September 2026 · San José, CA

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Please welcome the first batch of confirmed speakers…

…and stay tuned as we continue to unveil more exceptional talents joining our lineup.

Thomas Dohmke

Entrepreneur & Founder | fmr. CEO of GitHub

Lin Qiao

CEO & Co-founder of Fireworks AI

Daniela Dimitrova

VP IT & CIO of Mercedes-Benz North America

Mathias Biilmann

CEO & Co-founder of Netlify

Christine Yen

CEO & Co-founder of Honeycomb

Erran Berger

VP of Product Engineering at LinkedIn

Richard Socher

CEO and Co-founder of you.com

Leigh-Ann Russell

CIO & Global Head of Engineering at BNY

Olivier Pomel

CEO & Co-founder of Datadog

Angie Jones

VP of Engineering, AI Tools & Enablement at Block

Milin Desai

CEO of Sentry

Avani Prabhakar

Chief People Officer of Atlassian

Victor Savkin

CTO & Co-founder of Nx

Dr. Ramin Hasani

CEO & Co-founder of Liquid AI

Rachel Wolan

CPO of Webflow

Jared Jordan

Managing VP at the Capital One Garage

Eli-Shaoul Khedouri

CEO of Intuition Machines

Derric Gilling

VP & GM, API Platform at WSO2

Amjad Shaikh

VP, Platform & AI at ServiceNow

Matt McClernan

CEO of Augment Code

Yoel Sommer

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CSW Solutions

Ryan Ries

Chief AI & Data Scientist at Mission Cloud

Guy Gur-Ari

Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Augment Code

Loïc Houssier

CTO of Superhuman

Alexander Glätzle

CEO and Co-founder of planqc

Jayant Tyagi

Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce

Jeff An

CTO & Co-founder of Momentic

Suren Konathala

Director of Engineering, Portfolio Manager at Capgemini

Stefan Lederer

CEO & Co-founder of Bitmovin

Francesco Ciulla

Computer Scientist and Content Creator

Merrill Lutsky

CEO & Co-founder of Graphite

Fatih Kadir Akın

Developer Relations Lead at Teknasyon

Zach Lloyd

CEO and Founder of Warp

Gil Feig

Co-Founder and CTO of Merge

Eric Simons

CEO & Founder of Bolt.New

Viswanathan Ranganathan

Senior Engineer at Netflix

Alex Garnett

Developer Relations at Bluesky

Ankita Sood

Sr. Principal Engineer at Secureworks

YK Sugi

Developer Experience Manager at Eventual

Carina Hong

CEO and Founder of Axiom

Daksh Gupta

CEO and Co-founder of Greptile

Kushaagra Goyal

Tech Lead at Rubrik, ex-CTO at Gan.AI, ex-Databricks

Alper Ebicoglu

Co-founder of Volosoft

Soumil Mandal

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at ServiceNow

Gain insights into every stage of AI-powered software and product development.

Discover why thousands of tech professionals return every year to learn, connect, and drive the next wave of innovation.

Artificial Intelligence

Software Development

Software Architecture

Cloud & Infrastructure

DevOps & Automation

Data Engineering

Security

Frontend & UX

Quality & Testing

Product Management

Emerging Tech

Blockchain

DevEx & Productivity

Developer Relations

Leadership & Innovation

People & Culture

Startups

Tech Business

Where developers learn, build, and celebrate technology

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Docker and WeAreDevelopers Bring World’s Largest Developer Event to North America

Docker joins WeAreDevelopers as presenting partner to bring the world’s largest developer event to North America - creating the truly immersive, high-energy, community-driven experience developers have long been waiting for.

With developers leading the charge into AI, this collaboration is built on a shared mission to empower builders of all kinds and to provide a space to connect, explore, and shape what’s next in AI, cloud, software development, and open source.

But this is more than just an event - it’s where we celebrate the craft of software and the energy, creativity, and ambition of the builder community. It's a shared commitment to the future of software - and the people building it.

Join us as we make history in San José.

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»WeAreDevelopers is my favorite conference. It's the best event you can go to if you are a developer!«

Joel Spolsky

Co-founder of Stack Overflow

»Hard to believe! This is the largest group I've ever been in front of. Honored to be here. All the people I'm meeting just remind me of myself!«

Steve Wozniak

Co-founder of Apple

»WeAreDevelopers is the place where you meet everyone else in the industry and learn about the latest things.«

David Singleton

CTO of Stripe

»WeAreDevelopers empowers talents to share ideas and build a common understanding of what truly matters in tech.«

Fanny Jimenez

Chief of Staff at Business Insider

»If you are part of the world of programming, this is the place to go.«

John Romero

Legendary Game Creator

»The people here are shaping the future of technology and humanity.«

Garry Kasparov

AI Pioneer | World Chess Champion

Agenda

From hands-on workshops and deep-dive masterclasses to keynotes, networking, and the legendary Congress party - here’s what to expect each day.

Day 0

23 September 2026
  • Pre-checkin & badge pickup
  • Workshops
  • Masterclasses
  • Satellite Events
  • Networking
  • Tech Leaders Night

Day 1

24 September 2026
  • Official Opening
  • Main Program
  • Tech Expo
  • Workshops
  • Masterclasses
  • CODE100 Finals
  • Official Congress Party

Day 2

25 September 2026
  • Main Program
  • Tech Expo
  • Workshops
  • Masterclasses
  • Networking
  • Closing Keynote

Hall of Fame

Celebrating the visionary minds who have shaped the future of technology on the WeAreDevelopers stage.

Steve Wozniak

Co-founder of Apple

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the Web

Katrin Lehmann

CIO of Mercedes-Benz

Dr. Werner Vogels

VP & CTO, Amazon.com

Thomas Dohmke

Entrepreneur & Founder | fmr. CEO of GitHub

Anu Bharadwaj

President of Atlassian

Hanna Hennig

CIO of Siemens AG

Bjarne Stroustrup

Inventor of C++

Garry Kasparov

AI Pioneer | World Chess Champion

John Romero

Legendary Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein

Adam Cheyer

Founder of Siri, VP AI Experience at Airbnb

Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist at Google

Laurie Voss

Co-founder of npm | Data Evangelist at Netlify

David Heinemeier Hansson

Creator of Ruby on Rails

Amanda Silver

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Scott Hanselman

VP of Developer Community at Microsoft

Prashanth Chandrasekar

CEO of Stack Overflow

Dan Abramov

React Core Team Member & Open Source Leader

Rasmus Lerdorf

Inventor of PHP

Miško Hevery

Inventor of Angular | CTO at Builder.io

David Singleton

CTO at Stripe

Stormy Peters

VP of Communities at GitHub

Scott Chacon

CEO and Co-Founder of GitButler, Co-Founder of GitHub

Douglas Crockford

Inventor of JSON, JavaScript Author

Demetris Cheatham

Chief of Staff at GitHub

Mate Rimac

CEO & Founder at Rimac

Håkon Wium Lie

Inventor of CSS | Web Standards Activist

Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau

Special Envoy, Techleap

Brenda Romero

Award-winning Game Designer

Kris Rasmussen

CTO at Figma

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Expert

Jeremy Keith

Founder of Clearleft; Author; Tech Speaker

Chris Wysopal

CTO & Co-founder at Veracode

Rajeev Rajan

CTO of Atlassian

Ire Aderinokun

Cofounder, COO, and VP Engineering at Helicarrier

Tim O'Brien

General Manager AI at Microsoft

GitHub Copilot Launch

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke took the WeAreDevelopers stage for not only his first public appearance, but also to unveil the first public demo of GitHub Copilot.

OverflowAI Launch

Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar revealed OverflowAI - Stack Overflow's answer to Copilot live on the WeAreDevelopers stage.

Sir Tim's Vision

The inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, outlined his vision for the future of the web, where people regain control of their data.

Death of IE

Microsoft's Amanda Silver, Scott Hanselman, Chris Heilmann, and Torsten Stiller announced the end of Internet Explorer and unveiled a bold vision for the future of browsers.

A Trip to Space

A trip to space (literally) was offered to two lucky developers by WeAreDevelopers partner Rapyd, as they launched an out-of-this-world coding challenge!

Tiësto at the Party

Legendary DJ Tiësto took center stage at the biggest developer party ever, proving that they not only work hard but also play hard.

Insights from Woz

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak captivated the audience by sharing his insights and sparking discussions about tech's next disruptors.

Spolsky about GenAI

Founder of Stack Overflow and Trello, Joel Spolsky, announced the next big era of the web: Generative AI.

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vodafone
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Meta
Red Hat
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MongoDB
GitHub
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Datadog
Atlassian
Audi
Snowflake
SAP
Dynatrace
Docker
New Relic
Intel
Aldi
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Splunk
ING
Zoho Creator
JetBrains
Slack
Nord Security
Veracode
Figma
Zeiss
arm
Synopsys
Google Cloud
Hedera
Twilio
Couchbase
Finanzinformatik
Ionos
Allianz
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Oracle

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