WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024
2024-07-17..2024-07-19
Berlin, Germany
[WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2019, WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2022, WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024, WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025]
who it's for
software developers, engineering managers, CTOs and technical leaders, data scientists, platform engineers, startup founders, security engineers
topics
GitHub Copilot and workspaces; co-pilot workspaces for enterprises; open-source decentralized web nodes; BitTorrent-based DID methods; sovereign European AI compute infrastructure; H100 access and on-prem inferencing; exascale and exaflop systems; local LLMs on laptops (olama); retrieval-augmented generation with vector databases; GenAI-based autonomous agents; developer experience with generative AI; zero trust across code and pipelines
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Road to One Billion Developers | Demetris Cheatham, Thomas Dohmke | 31m |
Claim to reach 1 billion developers by 2030 through practical tools: GitHub Copilot, Copilot Chat and a new Copilot workspace. Copilot ships after a failed… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Eric Demuth | 43m |
Bootstrapped in 2013–14 and scaled into Europe’s major crypto exchange, Bitpanda reports a $52M raise in 2020, lists 450 coins and claims a bitpanda.com… | ||
| Beyond the Hype: Real-World AI Strategies | Juergen Mueller, Katrin Lehmann, Tobias Regenfuss, Mike Butcher | 25m |
Company reports 60 production generative AI use cases launched in six months with a goal of 100 by year end, plus a bespoke co‑pilot called Jewel that aims to… | ||
| Collaborative Intelligence: The Human & AI Partnership | Prashanth Chandrasekar, Demetris Cheatham, Alejandro Saucedo, Jakob von Lindern | 33m |
Shows concrete examples: ChatGPT schedules a last‑minute train and Llama (Meta) generates a sonnet; GitHub Copilot and Stack Overflow surface combined context… | ||
| Giving the individual control of their data: Open Source Decentralized Web Nodes | Markus Sabadello, Angie Jones, Nalin Mittal, Daniel Buchner, Mike Brock | 40m |
Claim that apps no longer need to hold user data and demos of concrete tooling: an open-source SDK implements DIF’s decentralized web nodes standard, a DID… | ||
| Decoding Trends: Strategies for Success in the Evolving Digital Domain | Ignacio Riesgo, Irina Gontcharova, Gleb Polyakov | 35m |
Panel argues security is permanent, promotes zero trust across code, data and pipelines, and warns AI increases attack surface. Concrete tools… | ||
| Scaling Startups to Success | Thomas Bachem, Stefan Nagel, Malcolm Myers, Mali Baum | 35m |
Panelists state Europe now has a €10.7 billion EIC fund and still struggles with scale rather than ideas: six Code alumni go to Y Combinator, teams often get… | ||
| Responsible AI in Practice: Real-World Examples and Challenges | Ray Eitel-Porter, Mina Saidze, Björn Bringmann, Steffen Bosse | 33m |
Panel argues responsible AI needs operational rules not slogans, describing concrete measures: use IBM trustworthy AI toolkit to detect dataset bias during… | ||
| The Neuro-Architecture of Productivity: How Work Environments Impact Cognitive Performance | Elena de Kan, Rudi Bauer | 33m |
Argues that designing for brains (not aesthetics) measurably boosts outcomes: offices that combine biophilic elements and privacy report 8% performance gains… | ||
| How to build a sovereign European AI compute infrastructure | Markus Hacker, Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, Michael Bradley, Daniel Abbou | 31m |
Argues for building local, sovereign compute by pairing GPU vendors with European data centers and clouds (examples: NVIDIA partnerships, Northern Data, Tiger… | ||
| The Future of Computing: AI technologies in the exascale era | Stefan Gil, Christian vus, Alan soual | 34m |
Explains why exaflop counts matter for throughput but not for typical AI precision, cites two systems already hitting exaFLOP and contrasts GPU matrix… | ||
| Open Source: The Engine of Innovation in the Digital Age | Ankit Patel, Maxim Fateev, Ivan Burazin | 32m |
Practical takeaways: Dino: a TypeScript-first JavaScript runtime and Daytona: an Apache 2.0 dev-environment manager that ships a fully featured OSS product… | ||
| The Quantum Computing Future | Alexander Glätzle, Florian Neukart, Jan Goetz, Tomislav Tipuric | 35m |
Companies report 1,200 neutral-atom qubits kept operational for over an hour and a two-qubit gate fidelity record, while superconducting systems run tens to a… | ||
| GenAI after the Hype: Transforming Organizations with GenAI-based Agents | Silke Eggert, Alexander Birke | 31m |
A five-week pilot with 10 participants uses a dedicated cloud Jira and Confluence instance plus Atlassian Roo to auto-generate portfolio epics, break features… | ||
| Blockchain Beyond Crypto: Technology Unlocking Opportunities across Various Industries | Victoria Arthur, John Woods | 35m |
Claims concrete wins: Tezos reports 16 upgrades since 2018 and an EVM‑compatible layer called Etherlink for easy porting; Algorand-backed pilots include Haape… | ||
| The Power of Developer Communities | Rajeev Rajan, Angie Jones, Scott Hanselman, Sead Ahmetovic | 33m |
Developer communities drive product-led growth through concrete programs and numbers: Atlassian Marketplace reports ~5700 apps, ~20,000 third-party developers… | ||
| The Future of Developer Experience with GenAI: Driving Engineering Excellence | Kathrin Schwan, Dan Tao, Faris Haddad, Florian Schaudel | 33m |
Panel reports that GenAI already delivers code completion and full function generation plus IDE chatbots that speed learning and let teams prototype more… | ||
| Smart City, Smart Mobility | Maxim Romain, Christian Wiegand, Luise Hübbe, Lara Schermer | 33m |
Shared micromobility reports 125 million trips last year and shares anonymized trip data with cities to plan infrastructure; speed-limiting software and… | ||
| The Power of Purpose: Unlocking Potential and Innovation | Sue Quackenbush, stefan boser | 32m |
Panel claims company purpose raises engagement, retention and measurable performance: a German study finds ~60% of employees don't know their company purpose… | ||
| Fighting Digital Threats in the Age of AI | Helmut Reisinger, Chris Wysopal, Johannes Steger | 31m |
Panel argues generative AI creates speed, scale and sophistication in attacks — phishing moves from ~14 hours to 10–12 minutes, and detected new attacks climb… | ||
| Every CEO needs a digital twin to understand the scope of generative AI | Kai Müller | 42m |
Claims a CEO can offload roughly 30% of work to a proven digital twin after 1.5 years of experiments, mapping generative AI to five levels (assistant →… | ||
| Architecting the Future: Leveraging AI, Cloud, and Data for Business Success | Christian Ertler, Alexander Wallner, Karin Janina Schweizer | 34m |
Vendor stacks ship M365/GitHub co‑pilots and an extensible AI Studio with about 1,600 models ready for enterprise extension; CRM platforms offer a proprietary… | ||
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