Where Tech Leads Strategy
Tech Leaders Summit
At WeAreDevelopers World Congress, executives, decision-makers, and policy-makers come together for strategic conversations on the pressing issues reshaping the industry in the age of AI.
September 23–25, 2026 San José, CA
Lead In The Age Of AI
Where The Decisions Behind AI Get Made.
From AI strategy and platform bets to org design, hiring, and the policy questions reshaping the industry, the Tech Leaders Summit brings together the people making those calls — with the time and the room to work through them in depth.
The on-site lounge for tech executives to network and discuss the pressing topics of the program in a setting built for senior peer-to-peer exchange.
Tech Leaders Stage
A curated stage of leadership-tier talks and panels on AI strategy, platform bets, scaling engineering organizations, and the decisions that shape the next few years of the stack.
Tech Leaders Night
An intimate evening event for executives, policymakers, and select special guests to get to know each other and discuss important matters of the industry and beyond.
Tech Leaders
In The Room.
A first look at the leaders confirmed for the program. The lineup grows as confirmations come in.
Mark Cavage
President & COO
Docker
Leigh-Ann Russell
CIO & Global Head of Engineering
BNY
Thomas Dohmke
CEO & Co-founder
Entire
Daniela Dimitrova
VP IT & CIO
Mercedes-Benz North America
Sri Shivananda
CIO of J.P. Morgan Payments & Global Banking
JPMorganChase
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
Co-founder & CEO
Netlify
Jared Jordan
GM & Head of
Capital One Garage
Milin Desai
CEO
Sentry
Prince Kohli
President & CEO
Sauce Labs
Wolfgang Platz
Founder & CEO
Tricentis, Katharo Ventures
Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO
Stack Overflow
Tushar Jain
CTO
Docker
Stefan Lederer
Co-founder & CEO
Bitmovin
Carina Hong
Founder and CEO
Axiom
Eric Simons
Founder & CEO
Bolt.New
Jennifer Serrato
CTO Platform
Workday
Ivan Burazin
Co-founder & CEO
Daytona
Joerg Tewes
CEO
Exasol
Sam Bhagwat
Founder and CEO
Mastra
Zhen Lu
Co-founder and CEO
Runpod
Kara Sprague
CEO
HackerOne
Isaac Evans
Founder & CEO
Semgrep
Daksh Gupta
Co-founder & CEO
Greptile
Guy Korland
Co-founder & CEO
FalkorDB
Zohar Fox
Co-founder & CEO
Aurora Labs
Rukmini Reddy
Senior VP of Engineering
PagerDuty
Chris Daden
CTO & Head of AI
Criteria
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote
CTO
RTI
Jeff An
Co-founder & CTO
Momentic
Dr. Ali Alkhafaji
Chief AI and Technology Officer
Omnicom
Ryan Ries
Chief AI & Data Scientist
Mission Cloud
Guy Gur-Ari
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
John Malcolm
Chief Technical Product Officer
Multiverse Computing
Rahul Tanniru
Senior VP Software Engineering
JPMorgan Chase
Alex Spinelli
Senior VP AI & Developer Platforms
Arm
Justin Boitano
VP, Enterprise AI Products
NVIDIA
Ben Haefele
Chief Product Officer
Webflow
Will Bryk
CEO
Exa
Shruti Tiwari
AI Product Lead
Dell
Scott Likens
Global Chief AI Engineer, Principal
PwC
Daniel Fau
CEO
TYPO3
Becky Bucich
Chief People Officer
Waymo
Ted Way
VP and Chief Product Officer, SAP Business AI Product Engineering
SAP
Alan Torrance
Senior Executive Director of Engineering
JPMorganChase
Mark Lechner
Chief Information Security Officer
Docker
Ramana Thumu
CTO
Expedia Group
Julia Elliott
Vice President, Technology and Chief of Staff
Expedia Group
Hari Lingamagunta
Head of Developer Infrastructure
Atlassian
Get A VIP Pass.
The Tech Leaders Summit is part of the VIP Pass — full access to the leadership program alongside everything in WeAreDevelopers World Congress.
The VIP Pass Includes
- Tech Leaders Night
- VIP Lounge & Speakers Lounge access
- VIP badge and dedicated entry
- Workshops, Plus Lounge, fast-lane entry, and on-demand recordings
- Full access to the rest of WeAreDevelopers World Congress — all stages and the Tech Expo