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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026

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eAreDevelopers 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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27Voices
158Underwriters
0Exhibitors
15On the bill · sessions
169Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at WeAreDevelopers, in alphabetical order.
Alexander Glätzle
CEO and Co-founder · planqc
Axel Schell
Chief Technology and Transformation Officer · Allianz Technology
Dana Lawson
CTO · Netlify
Daniel Gebler
CTO · Picnic
Daniel Geisel
CEO · Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation
Des Traynor
Co-founder · Intercom
Dr. Ramin Hasani
CEO and Co-founder · Liquid AI
Gülnaz Öneş
Group CIO · RWE
Jeff Atwood
Co-founder of Stack Overflow, Co-founder of Discourse, Author of Coding Horror
Johannes Kopf
CEO · Public Employment Service Austria (AMS)
Karsten Wildberger
Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation
Linda Tong
CEO · Webflow
Malte Ubl
CTO · Vercel
Markus Blume
Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts
Markus Rautert
CTO · adidas
Michael Amelig
President SAP Business Technology Platform, Member of the Extended Board · SAP
Michael Kagan
CTO · NVIDIA
Milin Desai
CEO · Sentry
Rajeev Rajan
CTO · Atlassian
Scott Chacon
CEO and Founder · GitButler
Sebastian Weber
CIO · E.ON
Taroon Mandhana
CTO of AI & Teamwork · Atlassian

— and 5 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AlgorandGold
Bright DataGold
EntireGold
TailscaleGold
AkamaiSilver
AtosSilver
Dash0Silver
EonSilver
FinSilver
Finanz InformatikSilver
GitLabSilver
Neo4jSilver
RunpodSilver
SentrySilver
TemporalSilver
ABP.ioBronze
AlmediaBronze
ApryseBronze
Axel SpringerBronze
Better StackBronze
BitriseBronze
Black AlpacaBronze
CheckmarxBronze
City of San JoseBronze
CloudHiroBronze
CloudinaryBronze
CoralogixBronze
DepotBronze
EGYMBronze
ExpoBronze
Finanzchef24Bronze
FlipBronze
German Testing BoardBronze
GraftcodeBronze
HarnessBronze
Infatica.ioBronze
iQMatixBronze
IREBBronze
ISAQBBronze
ISTQBBronze
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The Programme

Selected from 15 sessions on the bill.
  • 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

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 169 companies show up — and 6 bet on three roles at once?

169 companies. six 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
6All threespeak · spons · exh
148Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
15Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Atlassian·Bosch·E.ON·NVIDIA·SAP·Sentry

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

78% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1970%
  • Founder / Owner27%
  • Other roles622%

Of 27 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01AtlassianSp2V
  2. 02BoschSp1V
  3. 03E.ONSp·S1V
  4. 04NVIDIASp1V
  5. 05SAPSp1V
  6. 06SentrySp·S1V
  7. 07ABP.ioSp·B
  8. 08AccentureSp
  9. 09AI and ML EventsSp·C
  10. 10AI MagSp·M
  11. 11AI Tools NetworkSp·C
  12. 12AkamaiSp·S
  13. 13AldiSp
  14. 14AlgorandSp·G
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold4
3% of 158
silver11
7% of 158
bronze51
32% of 158
community partner29
18% of 158
media partner15
9% of 158
unspecified48
30% of 158
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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions