Of the Field

MLcon London 2026

he Event for Machine Learning Technologies & Innovations

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19Voices

18Underwriters

0Exhibitors

11On the bill · sessions

30Companies · in total

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The Voices

Programmed at MLcon, in alphabetical order.

Dr. Pieter Buteneers

CTO at Emma Legal · Emma Legal

Elias Voelker

Expert in Agentic IT Operations and SRE

Francesco Esposito

Expert in LLMs, .NET & Python with a Focus on Intelligent Healthcare Solutions · Youbiquitous

Gil Fink

Web Dev Expert & Co-Author of SPA Development Book

John Davies

FinTech Architecture and Java Expert, Co-Founder & Author · Incept5

Martin Stypinski

Founder of Veemg GmbH and Vice-Dean for 'Machine Learning for Software Engineers' · Veemg GmbH

Maxim Salnikov

Web development, IoT, cloud, community, expert · Microsoft

Max Marschall

Web Project Consultant & Conference Speaker · Thinktecture AG

Mehreen Tahir

Expert in Machine Learning, AI-Powered Observability & Automation

Melanie Bauer

Young AI Developer Driving Innovation Through Code

Michael Dowden

Technology leader, author, and international speaker · Andromeda Galactic Solutions

Mike Amundsen

Author Speaker Trainer | Amundsen | API Architecture, Digital Transformation

Nir Kaufman

Angular Expert, Author & Community Organizer · Tikal

Rachel-Lee Nabors

Developer Education Expert

Raid Arfua

Expert in AI leadership, driving innovations in Recommender Systems and Generative AI.

Rainer Stropek

Award-winning software architect | Microsoft MVP & Regional Director | Author & Speaker · software architects

Ricardo Ribeiro

Expert in Observability, AIOps & Autonomous IT Operations · Lynxmind

Russell Miles

Expert in Chaos & Resilience Engineering | Author | Speaker | Software Architect · ClearBank

Steve Pereira

Creator and co-author of Flow Engineering · Visible Flow Consulting

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AI & ML EventsMedia Partner

AI Press RoomMedia Partner

Capitalbay NewsMedia Partner

DevITMedia Partner

DevITJobs.ukMedia Partner

Dev IT Jobs USMedia Partner

devmioConference Organizer

Digital ExpertMedia Partner

E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbHSilver Sponsor

German Tech JobsMedia Partner

iteratec GmbHSpecial Sponsor

knowis AGSilver Sponsor

Nebius B.V.Gold Sponsor

Neo4j, Inc.Discovery Day Partner

SimplitoDiscovery Day Partner

Sparx Systems Pty Ltd.Bronze Sponsor

Times of AIMedia Partner

UNITE AIMedia Partner

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The Programme

Selected from 11 sessions on the bill.

10:15 - 11:00
Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Managing AI Risk in Practice
The conversation around AI compliance has matured — it’s no longer about checklists, it’s about control. In this joint session, Komplyzen and Modulos.ai explore how organizations c…
AI Strategy & Governance
10:15 - 11:00
Breaking down an LLM for its parts
AI has been around for many years, we’ve been using text to speech and speech to text for over a decade, Siri, Alexa etc., cameras could follow faces a decade ago. However, the maj…
Generative AI & Agents
10:15 - 11:00
Teaching Machines to See and Read: The Science and Applications of Multimodal AI
Multimodality represents one of AI's most fascinating and business-actionable frontiers, yet its potential remains largely untapped. In this session, we'll explore multimodal archi…
Generative AI & Agents
11:30 - 12:15
AI Agents Unplugged: No Frameworks, Just Code
This talk provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building AI agents using only Python and an LLM API. Starting from a basic API call, we'll progressively add capabilities: pro…
Generative AI & Agents
11:30 - 12:15
Building a Native LLM Product: Hard Lessons, Unexpected Challenges, and Real Opportunities
What does it really take to build a product powered by large language models? In this talk, we’ll share an honest, behind-the-scenes look at launching an LLM-native application. We…
AI Strategy & Governance
11:30 - 12:15
ConvNeXt - The Image Processing Powerhouse
Vision transformers have been all the rage for computer vision, as they have pushed the performance of computer vision systems to new heights thanks to the pretraining and scaling …
AI Developer Tools
14:30 - 15:15
Building AI That Learns and Adapts: A Case Study in MRI Diagnostics
Explore how AI and continual learning can revolutionize MRI diagnostics, using our real-world case study in detecting Focal Cortical Dysplasias (FCD)—a crucial factor in epilepsy t…
ML & Deep Learning
14:30 - 15:15
Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable
The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) since early 2023 has fundamentally shifted IT's environmental footprint. Major tech companies now have electricity consumption eq…
AI Strategy & Governance
14:30 - 15:15
The HeatWave ML Cloud Service: Easy and fast machine learning for your MySQL data
MySQL HeatWave is a cloud-based database service that integrates transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning into a single MySQL database. The service includes an in-me…
AI Developer Tools

Intermission

Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 30 companies, parsed from the program.

“30 companies in attendance.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House

0All threespeak · spons · exh

18Sponsoringsponsor only

0Exhibitingexhibitor only

12Speakingspeaker only

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

21% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite15%
Founder / Owner211%
Director / Head of15%
Engineer · IC526%
Other roles1053%

Of 19 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room

№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier

bronze sponsor1

6% of 18

conference organizer1

6% of 18

discovery day partner2

11% of 18

gold sponsor1

6% of 18

media partner10

56% of 18

silver sponsor2

11% of 18

special sponsor1

6% of 18

№ 05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

entwickler.de×8 peers
GermanTechJobs×7 peers
CloudBees×5 peers
RedHat×5 peers
adesso×4 peers
Amazon Web Services, Inc.×4 peers
Black Duck Software×4 peers
Campixx×4 peers
CapitalBayNews×4 peers
Chainguard×4 peers
Ciroos, Inc×4 peers
Cleanstart Security×4 peers

№ 06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

ML Conference Munich 2026June 22, 2026 · Munich+ 18 shared
VibeKode Munich 2026June 22, 2026 · Munich+ 13 shared
ML Conference New York 2026September 28, 2026 · New York+ 12 shared
DevOpsCon Munich 2026November 30, 2026 · Munich+ 9 shared
DevOpsCon Berlin 2026June 15, 2026 · Berlin+ 8 shared
DevOpsCon New York 2026September 28, 2026 · New York+ 8 shared

MLcon London 2026

Beyond Compliance: Measuring and Managing AI Risk in Practice

Breaking down an LLM for its parts

Teaching Machines to See and Read: The Science and Applications of Multimodal AI

AI Agents Unplugged: No Frameworks, Just Code

Building a Native LLM Product: Hard Lessons, Unexpected Challenges, and Real Opportunities

ConvNeXt - The Image Processing Powerhouse

Building AI That Learns and Adapts: A Case Study in MRI Diagnostics

Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable

The HeatWave ML Cloud Service: Easy and fast machine learning for your MySQL data

“30 companies in attendance.”