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