​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