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.
Leigh-Ann Russell
CIO and Global Head of Engineering
BNY
Thomas Dohmke
CEO and Co-founder
Entire
Erran Berger
CTO Engineering
LinkedIn
Daniela Dimitrova
VP IT and CIO
Mercedes-Benz North America
Lin Qiao
Co-founder and CEO
Fireworks AI
Mathias Biilmann Christensen
Co-founder and CEO
Netlify
Jared Jordan
GM and Head of
Capital One Garage
Milin Desai
CEO
Sentry
Christine Yen
Co-founder and CEO
Honeycomb.io
Eli-Shaoul Khedouri
CEO
Intuition Machines
Prince Kohli
President and CEO
Sauce Labs
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder and CEO
Datadog
Wolfgang Platz
Founder and CEO
Tricentis, Katharo Ventures
Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO
Stack Overflow
Alexander Glätzle
Co-founder and CEO
planqc
Rachel Wolan
CPO
Webflow
Stefan Lederer
Co-founder and CEO
Bitmovin
Avani Solanki Prabhakar
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
Atlassian
Mirko Novakovic
Co-founder and CEO
Dash0
Anurag Goel
Founder and CEO
Render
Carina Hong
Founder and CEO
Axiom
Eric Simons
Founder and CEO
Bolt.New
Jennifer Serrato
CTO Platform
Workday
Ivan Burazin
Co-founder and CEO
Daytona
Joerg Tewes
CEO
Exasol
Sam Bhagwat
Founder and CEO
Mastra
Zach Lloyd
Founder and CEO
Warp
Zhen Lu
Co-founder and CEO
Runpod
Merrill Lutsky
Co-founder and CEO
Graphite
Matt McClernan
CEO
Augment Code
Kara Sprague
CEO
HackerOne
Isaac Evans
Co-founder and CEO
Semgrep
Daksh Gupta
Co-founder and CEO
Greptile
Guy Korland
Co-founder and CEO
FalkorDB
Farshad Abasi
Founder and CEO
Eureka DevSecOps and Forward Security
Zohar Fox
Co-founder and CEO
Aurora Labs
Derric Gilling
VP and GM API Platform
WSO2
Rukmini Reddy
Senior VP of Engineering
PagerDuty
Scott Hanselman
VP and Member of Technical Staff
Microsoft/Github
Chris Daden
CTO and Head of AI
Criteria
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote
CTO
RTI
Jeff An
Co-founder and CTO
Momentic
Loïc Houssier
CTO
Superhuman
Loris Degioanni
Founder and CTO
Sysdig
Dr. Ali Alkhafaji
Chief AI and Technology Officer
Omnicom
Ryan Ries
Chief AI and Data Scientist
Mission Cloud
Guy Gur-Ari
Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
John Malcolm
Chief Technical Product Officer
Multiverse Computing
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