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.

• Kelsey Hightower — Global Developer Voice

• Thomas Dohmke — CEO and Co-founder of Entire, fmr. CEO of GitHub

• Christine Yen — CEO & Co-founder of Honeycomb

• Mathias Biilmann — CEO & Co-founder of Netlify

• Daniela Dimitrova — VP IT & CIO of Mercedes-Benz North America

• Olivier Pomel — CEO & Co-founder of Datadog

• Scott Hanselman — VP, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub

• Richard Socher — CEO and Co-founder of you.com

• Lin Qiao — CEO & Co-founder of Fireworks AI

• Victor Savkin — CTO & Co-founder of Nx

• Milin Desai — CEO of Sentry

• Prashanth Chandrasekar — CEO of Stack Overflow

• Erran Berger — VP of Product Engineering at LinkedIn

• Angie Jones — VP of Engineering, AI Tools & Enablement at Block
  
  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.