WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026

Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, and Michael Kagan, CTO of NVIDIA, are confirmed on the main stage for WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026. Both are among the most senior technical leaders to appear at the Congress, reflecting the event's continued ability to draw top-tier infrastructure and AI hardware leadership.

David Soria Parra, Co-creator of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, is confirmed as a speaker for WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026. His session is expected to address how MCP is shaping agentic AI integration across developer tooling.

Dr. Karsten Wildberger, Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation of Germany, is confirmed as a speaker for the 2026 Congress, adding a government and digital sovereignty dimension to the programme.

The Tech Leaders Summit, the dedicated track for CTOs, CIOs and senior executives, has confirmed speakers including Gulnaz Ones (Group CIO, RWE), Linda Tong (CEO, Webflow), Sabine Klauke (EVP, Airbus), Grisha Pavlotskyi (CTO, Miro), Michael Amelig (President SAP Business Technology Platform) and Peter Bakenecker (President Central Europe, Mastercard).

The CODE100 Championships, Europe's biggest live coding competition, are scheduled for July 9, 2026 at 19:00, immediately followed by the Official Congress Party at 20:00. Both are included in the standard Congress Pass.

Tech Leaders Night, the exclusive VIP evening for executives and special guests, is confirmed for July 8, 2026 at 18:30, included with the VIP Pass and Congress Pass Plus tier.

WeAreDevelopers has confirmed that ticket prices increase as the event approaches, with the official site displaying a live countdown encouraging early registration to lock in current rates. The Congress Pass is priced at EUR 1,149 standard and EUR 999 for groups of four or more.

AI-assisted development and agentic systems are the central theme of the 2026 programme. Sessions cover how AI agents are integrated into real developer workflows, what has scaled in production, and what teams would not do again. David Soria Parra's session on MCP, the protocol he co-created at Anthropic, anchors this track.

Sessions from cloud platform leaders including Werner Vogels (Amazon) and Malte Ubl (Vercel) cover modern cloud architecture, platform engineering and the infrastructure decisions shaping production AI workloads. Michael Kagan's session from NVIDIA addresses AI hardware and accelerated computing.

Sessions on developer tools and platform engineering feature leaders from Sentry, Nx, Atlassian and Netlify, covering observability, build systems, CI/CD pipelines and the tooling decisions that determine whether AI-assisted development scales safely across engineering organisations.

Security sessions address what to trust and what to secure as AI moves deeper into production systems. This track covers application security, supply chain risk and the governance frameworks needed as AI agents gain more autonomy over codebases and infrastructure.

Sessions on software architecture and delivery workflows draw from engineering leaders across industries including adidas, Atlassian and Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, focused on what broke, what scaled and the decisions that shaped their technology stack.

The main stage hosts the full keynote programme on July 9 and 10, featuring engineering leaders across industries sharing hard-won lessons and real-world approaches to building, what worked, what broke and the decisions that shaped their stack.

Workshops, masterclasses and live coding sessions run primarily on Day 0 (July 8) and continue across the main Congress days, requiring separate pre-registration with limited seats. These are practical, hands-on sessions where attendees try the tools and break things, designed to be brought back directly into their own codebases and workflows.

The 40,000 square metre Tech Expo runs alongside the main programme on July 9 and 10, giving attendees full access to sponsor booths, product demonstrations and certification opportunities from 200+ partners showcasing the future of technology.

CODE100, Europe's biggest live coding competition, returns for 2026 with its finals scheduled for July 9 at 19:00. Competitors solve live coding challenges on stage in front of thousands of attendees, immediately followed by the Official Congress Party.

The Tech Leaders Summit is a dedicated track for CTOs, CIOs and senior executives, running alongside the main Congress with its own speaker lineup. Tech Leaders Night on July 8 at 18:30 is the exclusive VIP evening event for executives and special guests, included with VIP Pass and Congress Pass Plus tickets.

The Official Congress Party runs July 9 at 20:00 immediately after the CODE100 Championships finals, described by past attendees as the biggest developer party of the year.

Sessions led by practitioners from Amazon, NVIDIA, Vercel, Netlify, Sentry and Nx give developers direct access to people who are building and operating real production systems, with a focus on patterns to copy, mistakes to avoid and a sharper view of what is actually production-ready in AI-assisted development.

Dedicated sessions on security, observability and what to trust in AI systems give platform and security teams a concentrated view of how leading organisations are managing risk as AI agents gain more access to codebases and infrastructure.

The Tech Leaders Summit and Tech Leaders Night give CTOs and engineering executives a dedicated, curated environment to discuss technology strategy with peers from adidas, Airbus, Webflow, Mastercard, RWE and SAP, away from the main expo floor.

The Startup Pass offers an affordable rate for early-stage startups founded within the last five years with fewer than 30 employees, giving founders full Congress Pass access to the same content, networking and expo floor as enterprise attendees.

The confirmed appearance of Dr. Karsten Wildberger, Germany's Federal Minister for Digital Transformation, gives policy and government stakeholders a direct line into how the Congress's developer and AI community intersects with national digital strategy.