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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026

WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 is the world's largest event for developers, AI builders, and tech leaders. It features hands-on masterclasses, inspiring keynotes, technical workshops, a large technology expo, and unique networking opportunities. The congress delivers deep dives into modern software and AI engineering practices, bringing together the glo…

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134Speakers
236Sponsors
15Sessions
294Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at WeAreDevelopers, in alphabetical order.

Aeneas Rekkas
Founder and CTO of Ory Corp
Agur Jõgi
CTO · Pipedrive
Ahmed Tikiwa
Senior Software Engineer · Disney
Ailian Gan
Director of AI Product · Superhuman
Alexander Glätzle
CEO and Co-founder · planqc
Alexandre Guenoun
CEO & Founder of Kiro
Ali Alp
Distinguished Software Architect · Brainlab
Ana Mitrasevic
Chief People and Sustainability Officer of Delivery Hero
Anastasiia Stefanska
Solutions Architect · TUI
André Alves
Software Engineer · eleQtron
Annabella Bassler
Group CFO of Ringier
Anshul Jindal
Senior Solution Architect · NVIDIA
Aurélie Vache
Developer Advocate · OVHcloud, Docker Captain, CNCF Ambassador & GDE
Avani Prabhakar
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer · Atlassian
Awi Lifshitz
CEO of weXelerate
Axel Schell
Chief Technology and Transformation Officer · Allianz Technology
Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe
Senior Software Engineer · Stacks Labs
Benjamin Mann
CTO of Delivery Hero
Bernd Datler
Managing Director · ASFINAG
Brian Whippo
Senior Director · Algorand
Christian Weyer
CTO · Thinktecture
Clemens Wasner
CEO of enliteAI

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AtlassianPlatinum
AWSPlatinum
GitHubPlatinum
GitHub MicrosoftPlatinum
NVIDIAPlatinum
SalesforcePlatinum
AlgorandGold
Bright DataGold
EntireGold
Generali Deutschland AGGold
Google CloudGold
HederaGold
IBMGold
Red HatGold
SAPGold
TailscaleGold
TikTokGold
TwilioGold
AG GridSilver
AkamaiSilver
AtosSilver
ChainguardSilver
CloudflareSilver
Dash0Silver
Deutsche Bank Berlin Technology CentreSilver
DynatraceSilver
ECDC - South Africa PavilionSilver
Edge ImpulseSilver
EonSilver
FigmaSilver
FinSilver
Finanz InformatikSilver
GitLabSilver
Kong Global Inc.Silver
MiroSilver
MobioosSilver
Neo4jSilver
RunpodSilver
SentrySilver
TemporalSilver

Agenda

Selected from 15 sessions.

  • TBA

    11 Principles for Evaluating AI Dev Tools

  • TBA

    200 OK: Payment settled, resource delivered

  • TBA

    3x Performance: A Humbling Journey

  • TBA

    5 things I wish I hadn’t done building my AI agent

  • TBA

    5 Years in Cloud Native: The Good, the Bad, and the Bill

  • TBA

    7 Ways to Fail at Building a Platform

  • TBA

    Accelerating AI Inference at Scale: A Deep Dive Into NVIDIA Dynamo on Kubernetes

  • TBA

    Advanced AI Systems With MCP, Memory & Human-In-The-Loop

  • TBA

    A Dystopian Future for Software Engineering

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 294 companies show up, and 21 bet on three roles at once?

294 companies. 21 are betting more than once.

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.

Who's in the room
21All threespeak · spons · exh
213Sponsoringsponsor only
60Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Atlassian·NVIDIA·SAP·Snowflake·Algorand·Bosch·Cloudflare·Couchbase·Docker·Entire·Eon·German Testing Board·Google Cloud·IONOS·Microsoft·MongoDB·Openapi·Salesforce·Sentry·Tailscale·Veracode

Speakers by seniority

66% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite6246%
  • Founder / Owner54%
  • VP-level64%
  • Director / Head of1612%
  • Manager / Lead1410%
  • Engineer · IC1612%
  • Research / Science11%
  • Advisor / Investor11%
  • Other roles1310%

Of 134 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AtlassianSponsor · Platinum3
2NVIDIASponsor · Platinum3
3SAPSponsor · Gold2
4SnowflakeSponsor · Bronze2
5AlgorandSponsor · Gold1
6BoschSponsor1
7CloudflareSponsor · Silver1
8CouchbaseSponsor1
9DockerSponsor1
10EntireSponsor · Gold1
11EonSponsor · Silver1
12German Testing BoardSponsor · Bronze1
13Google CloudSponsor · Gold1
14IONOSSponsor1
Sponsors by tier
platinum6
3% of 236
gold12
5% of 236
silver24
10% of 236
bronze104
44% of 236
media partner15
6% of 236
community partner35
15% of 236
custom10
4% of 236
unspecified30
13% of 236
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.

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IT-Tage 2026December 7, 2026Frankfurt am Main21
DeveloperWeek 2027February 9, 2027Santa Clara21
DEVWorld 2027June 3, 2027Amsterdam20

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