WeAreDevelopers World Congress Europe
The world's largest event for developers, AI builders & tech leaders. 15,000+ developers. 500+ speakers. 40,000 sqm tech expo.
About
WeAreDevelopers World Congress returns to Berlin. July 8–10, 2026.
Three days of keynotes, workshops, masterclasses, a massive tech expo, live coding, and the legendary Congress party. This is the flagship — where 15,000 developers, 8,000 companies, and 2,000 decision-makers come together every year to learn, build, and connect.
Now in its eighth year, the World Congress is where product launches happen, engineering leaders share real production learnings, and the global developer community shows up in person.
Speakers
The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership.
Karsten Wildberger (Federal Minister for Digital Transformation) · Michael Kagan (CTO, NVIDIA) · Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon) · Thomas Dohmke (fmr. CEO of GitHub) · Rajeev Rajan (CTO, Atlassian) · Linda Tong (CEO, Webflow) · Markus Rautert (CTO, adidas) · Jeff Atwood (Co-founder, Stack Overflow) · Milin Desai (CEO, Sentry) · Malte Ubl (CTO, Vercel) · Daniel Geisel (CEO, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation) · and 480+ more.
Full speaker list here
What You'll Learn
From idea to production — practical knowledge across the full software lifecycle in the AI era.
→ Design modern software systems that scale with real-world demands
→ Build smarter with AI-assisted coding, testing, and refactoring
→ AI engineering with LLMs, agents, and multimodal systems
→ Production AI done right — beyond demos to resilient, observable systems
→ Ship reliably — CI/CD, platform engineering, and DevOps at scale
→ Lead engineering teams as tools, roles, and workflows change
Topics span AI, software architecture, cloud & infra, data engineering, security, frontend, product management, DevEx, and more.
The Agenda
Day 0 — July 8: Badge pickup, workshops, masterclasses, satellite events, Tech Leaders Night
Day 1 — July 9: Official opening, main program, tech expo, CODE100 finals, Congress Party
Day 2 — July 10: Main program, tech expo, workshops, networking, closing keynote
