Merantix Developer Day 2026
Every year, Merantix DevDay brings together the engineers, researchers, and applied scientists at the frontier of AI research and development, building and engineering the best products for production. It has become the event where the field takes stock of the latest advances, what works best, what scales, and what's next.
Merantix DevDay brings talks, technical deep dives, and hands-on sessions covering the full stack: new architectures and training methods, evaluation and benchmarking, AI-native development workflows, and what it actually takes to deploy AI under real constraints. Beyond infrastructure, sessions go deep on where AI is creating step-change impact at the application layer — in biology and drug discovery, physical AI and robotics, climate and materials science, and other domains where the merge of disciplines and innovation push transformation.
The next edition takes place on September 10, 2026. Attendance is open to the Merantix ecosystem. For everyone outside the portfolio, spots are limited and application-based.
Program
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast & Arrival
9:30 - 9:45 Kick off
9:50 - 10:30 Keynote
Pepe Marquez, Cusp AI.
On the AI-Readiness of Materials Science Labs: A Data Infrastructure Perspective
10:35 - 10:55 Demo: Soofi
Tom Roehr - PhD at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)
10:55 - 11:15 Demo: Outpost Bio
Neythen Treloar - Principal ML Research Engineer at Outpost Bio
Saif Ur-Rehman - VP of Engineering at Outpost Bio
11:30 - 11:50 Demo: Mobilerun
Niels Schmidt - CTO and Co-Founder of Mobilerun
11:55 - 12:15 Demo: Revel8
Kevin Ferreira - Software Engineer at Revel8
Roxane Vogel - Academy Associate at Revel8
13:15 - 13:55 Keynote:
Rod Beckstrom, Former CEO & President of ICANN.
The Starfish, the Spider and AI Security - How to use Decentralized Strategies to Defend Against Agentic Attacks
14:00 - 14:45 Panel: Small Language Models + Sovereignty
Martin Genzel - Staff Machine Learning Researcher at Merantix Momentum.
Selim Nowicki - Co-founder & CEO of distil labs.
Prof. Dr. Gerard de Melo - Head of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Group at HPI
14:50 - 15:35 Panel: Post-Transformer Architectures
Noah Hollmann - CTO & Co-Founder of PriorLabs
Florian Wenzel - CTO & Co-Founder at Mirelo
Jakob Uszkoreit - CEO & Co-Founder of Inceptive
Glenn Kroegel - Senior ML Engineer at Merantix Momentum
15:50 - 16:10 Demo: Mirelo
Florian Wenzel - CTO & Co-Founder at Mirelo
16:15 - 17:15 CTO Roundtable: Agentic Software Development
17:30 - 19:30 Networking
AI is the biggest transformation of human history - to run it the best possible way we must do it together.
We can’t wait to see you there!
The Merantix AI Campus, Merantix Momentum and Merantix Capital Team!