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WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026

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eAreDevelopers World Congress North America 2026 is the world's largest event for developers, AI builders, and tech leaders. Hosted in San José, CA, the event brings together more than 10,000 developers and 4,000 companies. Attendees will enjoy technical keynotes, hands-on workshops, deep-dive masterclasses, a dynamic expo, and inspiring speakers covering t…

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20Voices
156Underwriters
0Exhibitors
35On the bill · sessions
168Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at WeAreDevelopers, in alphabetical order.
Angie Jones
VP of Engineering, AI Tools & Enablement at Block · Block
Christine Yen
CEO & Co-founder of Honeycomb · Honeycomb
Daniela Dimitrova
VP IT & CIO of Mercedes-Benz North America · Mercedes-Benz North America
Erran Berger
CTO Engineering at LinkedIn · LinkedIn
Ivan Burazin
CEO and Co-founder of Daytona · Daytona
Jared Jordan
Managing VP at the Capital One Garage · Capital One
John Malcolm
Chief Technical Product Officer of Multiverse Computing · Multiverse Computing
Kelsey Hightower
Global Developer Voice
Leigh-Ann Russell
CIO & Global Head of Engineering at BNY · BNY
Lin Qiao
CEO & Co-founder of Fireworks AI · Fireworks AI
Mathias Biilmann
CEO & Co-founder of Netlify · Netlify
Milin Desai
CEO of Sentry · Sentry
Olivier Pomel
CEO & Co-founder of Datadog · Datadog
Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO of Stack Overflow · Stack Overflow
Rachel Wolan
CPO of Webflow · Webflow
Richard Socher
CEO and Co-founder of you.com · you.com
Scott Hanselman
VP, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/Github · Microsoft/Github
Stefan Lederer
CEO & Co-founder of Bitmovin · Bitmovin
Thomas Dohmke
CEO and Co-founder of Entire, fmr. CEO of Github · Entire
Victor Savkin
CTO & Co-founder of Nx · Nx
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
NVIDIAPlatinum
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
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The Programme

Selected from 35 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    AI Decision Observability: Enabling Transparency and Trust in Intelligent Systems

  • TBA

    AI That Argues With Itself: Building Self-Debating Systems That Catch Their Own Bugs

  • TBA

    Autonomous Infrastructure: Building AI Agents for Global-Scale Capacity Efficiency

  • TBA

    Beyond SQL Generation: How to Teach Agents What Your Database Actually Means

  • TBA

    Bluesky's Open Source Moderation Tools: LLM-based Event Detection in Python

  • TBA

    Chat with Your Data: From Natural Language to SQL

  • TBA

    Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems

  • TBA

    Compute for your AI model: GPUs, LPUs, TPUs and beyond..

  • TBA

    Context Engineering Kung Fu

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 168 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

“168 companies. three 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
3All threespeak · spons · exh
149Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
16Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Datadog·Entire·Sentry

№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

95% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1470%
  • VP-level420%
  • Director / Head of15%
  • Engineer · IC15%

Of 20 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01DatadogSp1V
  2. 02EntireSp·G1V
  3. 03SentrySp·S1V
  4. 04ABP.ioSp·B
  5. 05AccentureSp
  6. 06AI and ML EventsSp·C
  7. 07AI MagSp·M
  8. 08AI Tools NetworkSp·C
  9. 09AkamaiSp·S
  10. 10AldiSp
  11. 11AlgorandSp·G
  12. 12AllConfsBotSp·C
  13. 13AllianzSp
  14. 14Allspark ResearchSp·C
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
1% of 156
gold4
3% of 156
silver11
7% of 156
bronze51
33% of 156
presenting partner1
1% of 156
media partner15
10% of 156
community partner29
19% of 156
unspecified44
28% of 156
№ 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