WeAreDevelopers World Congress introduced 15,000 attendees, greater than 500 audio system and know-how leaders from NVIDIA, Amazon, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Atlassian, SAP, Salesforce and IBM to Berlin, below the patronage of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Authorities Modernisation. Subsequent stops: San Jose, CA, and Bengaluru, India.
San José, CA / Berlin, DE, July 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The software program {industry} has stopped asking whether or not AI can construct software program and began asking how you can construct it effectively. That was the central takeaway of WeAreDevelopers World Congress, the world’s largest occasion for builders, AI builders and know-how leaders, which introduced 15,000 attendees to CityCube Berlin from July 8-10 to look at how AI in manufacturing is altering the way in which software program is designed, constructed, secured and operated.
15.000 Builders at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026
“Final 12 months, a lot of the {industry} was nonetheless asking itself what could possibly be constructed with AI. We noticed pilots, prototypes and ideas. This 12 months, we noticed working manufacturing tales: actual programs, actual customers, actual failures, actual numbers. As an {industry}, now we have moved from asking whether or not we will do that to asking how we do it effectively, securely, and at scale,” stated Sead Ahmetović, CEO and Co-Founding father of WeAreDevelopers.
The congress was held below the patronage of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Authorities Modernisation. Federal Minister Dr. Karsten Wildberger joined the Mainstage to debate Europe’s digital future and what it’ll take for Europe to maneuver from being a consumer of know-how to changing into a world shaper of it. Alongside the technical program, senior know-how executives and policymakers got here collectively in devoted government periods on AI infrastructure, digital sovereignty and the redesign of engineering organizations.
From experimentation to manufacturing
The convention program with greater than 500 audio system targeted on the operational questions that observe when AI turns into a part of the software program supply system: how you can consider outputs, safe autonomous workflows, protect context, function infrastructure, align groups and keep human judgment.
“When brokers take over the writing of code, understanding the system turns into the developer’s actual job. The worth shifts from typing traces to defining intent, judging output and designing how people and brokers work collectively,” stated Thomas Pamminger, CPO and Co-Founding father of WeAreDevelopers. “That’s altering what firms want from their engineers, and it’s why practitioners want a spot to share what really works in manufacturing. We constructed WeAreDevelopers for precisely that.”
Thomas Dohmke, CEO and Co-Founding father of Whole and former CEO of GitHub, argued that the software program growth lifecycle have to be rebuilt for agent-to-agent and agent-to-human collaboration. Taroon Mandhana, CTO AI and Teamwork at Atlassian, stated that alignment, not coding, is changing into engineering’s actual bottleneck. NVIDIA CTO Michael Kagan shared his perspective on the infrastructure powering trendy AI programs and the place it’s heading. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels mirrored on the engineering tradition that repeatedly turns “it might’t be completed” into manufacturing programs utilized by thousands and thousands.
Additional contributors included Markus Rautert, CTO of adidas; Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel; Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Government Board of SAP; Milin Desai, CEO of Sentry; Uli Irnich, CIO Advisor at Salesforce; and Neel Sundaresan, Normal Supervisor Automation and AI at IBM, amongst many different senior know-how leaders.
“We’re at a defining second for software program growth. AI is not merely altering the instruments builders use, it is reshaping how software program is imagined, constructed, and delivered to life, and increasing who will get to take part within the course of. WeAreDevelopers is an unimaginable place to attach with the worldwide developer group, trade concepts, and study from the individuals navigating that shift in actual time. The power here’s a highly effective reminder that the way forward for growth is being constructed proper now,” stated Dana Lawson, CTO, Netlify.
Human judgment as a aggressive benefit
Figma Chief Design Officer Loredana Crisan argued that as AI makes it simpler to supply work that seems full, the power to tell apart between what seems to be completed and what’s genuinely good turns into extra vital.
“AI could make one thing look completed in seconds. However finished-looking will not be the identical nearly as good. Craft is the power to listen to and really feel that hole, to discover extra instructions, and nonetheless know which one is price transport. In that sense, style turns into much more vital. Not only for the aesthetics, however as a aggressive benefit,” stated Loredana Crisan, Chief Design Officer, Figma.
A launchpad for know-how bulletins
4 years after presenting the primary public demo of GitHub Copilot on the WeAreDevelopers Mainstage as GitHub CEO, Dohmke returned together with his new startup Whole to unveil its distributed Git community, now in preview: repositories are mirrored throughout areas so AI coding brokers can clone and pull code with out the speed limits, latency and outages of centralized internet hosting.
Google Cloud selected the congress to announce the general public preview of Cloud Run sandboxes, a safe runtime setting constructed for executing untrusted code and AI agent workloads.
Vibrant Information launched Scraper Studio, an AI-powered platform that turns plain-English prompts into production-ready net scraping APIs. “The product lastly provides AI brokers dependable and structured real-time data from the net: no extra blocking, no messy HTML, simply clear, constant and compact Markdown or JSON output,” stated Ariel Shulman, CPO, Vibrant Information.
The 40,000-square-meter expo featured greater than 200 companions showcasing their newest merchandise, instruments, and insights, amongst them NVIDIA, Microsoft, GitHub, Google Cloud, Amazon Internet Providers, Atlassian, SAP, Salesforce, Twilio, Deutsche Financial institution, GitLab, Cloudflare, and IBM.
Subsequent stops: San Jose and Bengaluru
WeAreDevelopers continues its 2026 world program with WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose, CA, from September 23-25, adopted by WeAreDevelopers Convention India in Bengaluru from November 25-26.
“With Berlin, San Jose and Bengaluru, we’re taking this dialog to a few continents. The main target stays the identical all over the place: giving builders, AI builders and know-how executives a spot to trade what really works and form the subsequent part of software program growth within the age of AI,” stated Benjamin Ruschin, Government Chairman and Co-Founding father of WeAreDevelopers.
WeAreDevelopers World Congress is the corporate’s flagship occasion and the world’s largest gathering for builders, AI builders and know-how leaders.
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels with Thomas Pamminger, CPO and Co-founder of WeAreDevelopers
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