Welcome our Speakers

WeAreDevelopers World Congress is honored to host a top-notch lineup of speakers who are at the forefront of technology and innovation.

Each year, we are privileged to bring together visionary thinkers, industry leaders, and innovative developers who are not just shaping the future of technology, but redefining it.

Please welcome the first batch of confirmed speakers, and stay tuned as we continue to unveil more exceptional talents joining our lineup.

Garry Kasparov
AI Pioneer | World Chess Champion
Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the Web
Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist at Google
Amanda Silver
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Joel Spolsky
Founder of Stack Overflow, Trello, Glitch, and HASH
Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO of Stack Overflow
Scott Hanselman
VP of Developer Community at Microsoft
Thomas Dohmke
CEO, GitHub
Demetris Cheatham
Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub
Rajeev Rajan
CTO at Atlassian
Jonas Andrulis
Founder & CEO of Aleph Alpha
David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals
Martin Wezowski
Chief Futurist at SAP
Douglas Crockford
Inventor of JSON, JavaScript Author
Sue Quackenbush
Chief People Officer at Dynatrace
Marco Landi
Former President & COO of Apple
Daniel Buchner
Head of Decentralized Identity at TBD
Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau
Special Envoy, Techleap
Jan Goetz
CEO and Co-founder of IQM Quantum Computers
Scott Chacon
Co-founder of GitHub | CEO at GitButler
Kris Rasmussen
CTO at Figma
David Simas
MD Emerson Collective, Fmr. CEO of Obama Foundation & White House Political Director
John Woods
CTO at Algorand Foundation
Chris Wysopal
CTO & Co-founder at Veracode
Peter Bosch
CEO at CARIAD
John Romero
Award-winning Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein
Ankit Patel
Senior Director & Product Leader at NVIDIA
Brenda Romero
Award-winning Game Designer
Rosanne Kincaid-Smith
Group Chief Operating Officer at Northern Data Group
Maezza Romero
Community Manager at Romero Games
Asrar Khan
Developer Marketing Lead at Google
Katrin Lehmann
CIO of Mercedes-Benz
Silke Eggert
Head of Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation, Vodafone

Abdel Sghiouar
Cloud Developer Advocate, Google
Ulrich Irnich
Chief Information Officer at Vodafone Germany
Ray Eitel-Porter
Former Global Responsible AI Lead at Accenture
Mike Brock
CEO of TBD, part of Block
Alex Soto
Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat
Mike Butcher
Editor-at-large at TechCrunch
Stephan Gillich
Head of EMEA AI Center of Excellence at Intel
Gleb Polyakov
Co-Founder & CEO of Nylas
Nina Levchuk
EMEA CSS Cluster Lead at Google, co-founder of Impact Force
Laura Moritz
Tech Manager at Globant
Dan Tao
Head of Engineering for DevOps at Atlassian
Helmut Reisinger
CEO for EMEA and LATAM, Palo Alto Networks
Madona Wambua
CTO & Founder of Jibu Labs
Christian Wiebus
Senior Director for New Business and Innovation at NXP Semiconductors
Sandra Ahlgrimm
Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
Ash Arnwine
Director of Developer Relations at Nylas
Angie Jones
Global VP of Developer Relations at TBD
Wei Hu
Senior VP of Research and Development at Oracle
Gift Egwuenu
Developer Advocate at Cloudflare
Carlos Sanchez
Principal Scientist at Adobe
Luca Mezzalira
Principal Solutions Architect at AWS | O'Reilly Author | Ex-VP at DAZN
Francesco Ciulla
Developer Advocate at daily.dev | Docker Captain
Michael Hunger
Head of Product Innovation at Neo4j
Arno Schödl
Founder & CTO at think-cell
Matthias Henze
CEO & Founder of Jimdo
Alan Southall
Senior Vice President of Software Transformation at Infineon Technologies
Shilpa Airi
Principal Product Manager at Jira
Eric Steinberger
Co-founder & CEO at Magic.dev
Anna J. McDougall
Director of Engineering | TEDx Speaker | Author of “You Belong in Tech” | Google Women Techmakers Ambassador
Hendrik Ebbers
Board of Directors Eclipse Foundation | CEO of OpenElements
Hannes Preishuber
CEO ppedv AG
Mabrouk Mahdhi
Senior Technical Consultant for eBiz Consulting GmbH
Elena de Kan
Director for Workplace Design and Consulting at Steelcase
Alex Birke
Business Agility Coach at Accenture
Ignacio Riesgo
Developer Marketing & Strategy, Global at Red Hat
Markus Hacker
Senior Regional Director Enterprise, D-A-CH at NVIDIA
Vicktoria Klich
Co-Founder & Partner at w3.fund
Dr. Christian Ertler
Co-Head of Technology Partnerships at ParityQC Germany
Laura Möller
Director at K.I.E.Z.
Maxim Salnikov
Developer Productivity Lead at Microsoft
Christian Heilmann
VP Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers
Karin Janina Schweizer
Director Digital & Application Innovation at Microsoft
Kai MĂĽller
Founder and CEO at Experience One
Sebastian Luxem
Chief Technology Officer at Experience One
Dmitry Lyalin
Group Product Manager, Google
Matic PetriÄŤ
Quantum Computing Researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS
Raphael Seidel
Senior Researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS
Daniel Archer
Senior PHP Developer at Three Ireland
Peter Friese
Developer Advocate, Firebase
Martina Kraus
Google Developer Expert Angular at Kraus Consulting IT
Alexandra Waldherr
ML & Quantum Computing Enthusiast
Maxim Romain
Co-founder & COO of Tier-Dott
Alayshia Knighten
Customer Architect at Pulumi
Linda Stauffenberg
Managing Director at Experience One AG
Evan Lezar
Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Adam Larter
Chief Technology Officer at Affinidi
Christian Kelly
Strategy Managing Director - Software & Platforms at Accenture
Kathrin Schwan
Lead Data & AI Network, Accenture DACH
Manfred Steyer
Trainer & Consultant at ANGULARarchitects.io; GDE; Microsoft MVP
Rustam Mehmandarov
Chief Engineer at Computas
Volker Zöpfel
Head of One Developer Journey at Schwarz IT
Duan Lightfoot
Sr. Cloud Networking Developer Advocate at AWS
Zaid Zaim
Spatial Computing Expert | Microsoft MVP
Maxim Fateev
CTO & Cofounder at Temporal Technologies
Amira Gutmann-Trieb
Cluster Manager ICT, Media and Creative Industries Berlin Partner for Business and Technology
SKi Sankhe aka SKi
Senior Solutions Architect, GitHub

...and while we prepare our next announcements, make sure to save your spot at the world's leading event for developers and tech decision-makers.