WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America

The world's largest event for developers, AI builders & tech leaders — in the heart of Silicon Valley.

10,000+ developers. 500+ speakers. 200,000+ sq ft tech expo.

About

WeAreDevelopers World Congress is coming to North America. September 23–25, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

Three days of technical depth, real production knowledge, and the kind of conversations that only happen when 10,000 developers show up in person. Workshops, masterclasses, keynotes, a 200,000 sq ft tech expo, and the official Congress party.

Docker joins as presenting partner — a shared commitment to empowering builders and shaping what's next in AI, cloud, and open source.

Speakers

The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership.

• Thomas Dohmke, CEO AND Co-Founder of Entire.io

• Erran Berger, CTO Engineering of LinkedIn

• Kelsey Hightower, Global Developer Voice

• Christine Yen, Co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb.io

• Angie Jones, VP Developer Experience at Agentic AI Foundation

• Sachin Malhotra, Platform Engineer and MTS at Anthropic

• Paige Bailey, Member of the Technical Staff at Google DeepMind

• Guy Gur-Ari, Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

• Phoebe Wang, Member of Technical Staff at OpenA

• Milin Desai, CEO of Sentry

• Leigh-Ann Russell, CIO and Global Head of Engineering at BNY

• Dr. Ramin Hasani, Co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI

• Olivier Pomel, Co-founder and CEO of Datadog

• Ivan Burazin, Co-founder and CEO of Daytona

• Victor Savkin, Co-founder and CTO of Nx

• Viktoria Semaan, Principal Technical Evangelist at Databricks

• Alex Spinelli, Senior VP AI and Developer Platforms at Arm
  
  And many, many more of the brightest minds of our time
  Find the 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

→ Ship reliably — CI/CD, platform engineering, and DevOps at scale

→ Secure software by design across code, APIs, and supply chains

→ 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.

Find out more about topics and what you'll learn here

Topics

Artificial Intelligence · Software Development · Software Architecture · Cloud & Infrastructure · DevOps & Automation · Data Engineering · Security · Frontend & UX · Quality & Testing · Product Management · Emerging Tech · Blockchain · DevEx & Productivity · Developer Relations · Leadership & Innovation · People & Culture · Startups · Tech Business

Agenda

Day 0 — September 23, 2026 Pre-checkin & badge pickup, Workshops, Masterclasses, Satellite Events, Networking, Tech Leaders Night

Day 1 — September 24, 2026 Official Opening, Main Program, Tech Expo, Workshops, Masterclasses, CODE100 Finals, Official Congress Party

Day 2 — September 25, 2026 Main Program, Tech Expo, Workshops, Masterclasses, Networking, Closing Keynote

Where Tech History is Written

From landmark product launches to defining conversations in software and AI — WeAreDevelopers stages have hosted first public demos of GitHub Copilot, the launch of OverflowAI, Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the web, and appearances from Steve Wozniak, Joel Spolsky, and John Romero.

Partner Events:

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