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.
8–10 July 2026 Berlin, Germany
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
A private evening at Classic Remise Berlin — the historic vintage car collection — 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.
Karsten Wildberger
Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
Markus Blume
Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts
Thomas Jarzombek
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
Michael Kagan
CTO
NVIDIA
Werner Vogels
CTO
Amazon
Markus Rautert
CTO
adidas
Gülnaz Öneş
Group CIO
RWE
Michael Ameling
President SAP Business Technology Platform, Member of the Extended Board
SAP
Axel Schell
CTTO
Allianz Technology
Florian Deter
General Manager EMEA Strategic Partnerships
Microsoft
Stefan Ostwald
CAIO and Co-founder
Parloa
Agur Jõgi
CTO
Pipedrive
Sabine Klauke
EVP Head of Digital Design Manufacturing and Services
Airbus
Grisha Pavlotskyi
CTO
Miro
Annabella Bassler
CFO
Ringier
Linda Tong
CEO
Webflow
Peter Bakenecker
President Central Europe
Mastercard
Mei Dent
Chief Product and Technology Officer
TeamViewer
Vinesh Sukumar
VP of Product Management
Qualcomm Technologies
Zohar Fox
CEO and Co-founder
Aurora Labs
Wolfgang Oels
COO
Ecosia
Sean Blanchfield
Co-founder and CEO
Jentic
Sandeep Pal
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
Daniel Terzenbach
Member of the executive board
Federal Employment Agency
Sasha Denisov
Chief Software Engineer
EPAM
Ross Kukulinski
VP of Product
Tailscale
Des Traynor
Co-founder
Intercom
Clemens Wasner
CEO
enliteAI
Johannes Kopf
CEO
Public Employment Service Austria (AMS)
Prince Kohli
President and CEO
Sauce Labs
Pavel Nesterov
Executive Director, Head of Data Science Function and AI Department
Revolut
Chris Daden
CTO and Head of AI
Criteria
Jakobus Schuster
CEO
Notarity
Marcus Ross
CCoE Lead
Hamburg Port Authority
Mark Pollok
CEO
Trenkwalder Group AG
Christian Trummer
Co-founder and Chief Scientist
Bitpanda
Guy Korland
CEO
FalkorDB
Avani Prabhakar
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
Atlassian
Thomas Dohmke
CEO and Co-founder
Entire
Rohit de Souza
CEO
MariaDB
Milin Desai
CEO
Sentry
Oliver Krizek
CEO and Founder
NAVAX
Misha Bragin
CEO and Co-founder of NetBird
NetBird
Jörg Tewes
CEO
Exasol
Jyoti Bansal
Founder and CEO
Harness
Helmut Schönenberger
CEO and Co-founder
UnternehmerTUM
Ivan Burazin
CEO and Co-founder
Daytona
Dr. Ramin Hasani
CEO and Co-founder
Liquid AI
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 at Classic Remise Berlin
- 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