We Are Developer World Congress 2025

Workshops and talks I have seen:

Day 0

A Hands-On Guide to Writing Smart Contracts Like You Write Software by Ben Greenberg(Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Arbitrum)
Building a new onboarding on your app by Amanda Cavallaro (Developer Advocate at Vonage), Anthony Névo (Senior Software Engineer at Orange), Laura La Carra (Head of Developer Relations at Telefónica) and Noel Wirzius (Commercial Product Manager at Telekom)
Tooltime by Christian Heilmann (VP Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers) and Daniel Cranney (Developer Advocate at WeAreDevelopers)

Agents for the Sake of Happiness
Diversity Backlash, Anti-Wokeness, Resistance – Is the World Going Downhill, or Moving Up?
Resolving technical debts in software architecture by Carola Lilienthal
Modern software architectures by David Tielke
Leadership – Building Your Leadership Muscle: How You Show Up Impacts Culture by Meghan Hennessy
Reimagining the Developer Experience: The AI Advantage by Anu Bharadwaj (Atlassian) and Tobias Schlottke (CTO & Co-Founder of OMR)
The future of Stack Overflow as the most vital source for technologists by Prashanth Chandrasekar (CEO of Stack Overflow), Jody Bailey (Chief Product & Technology Officer at Stack Overflow)
How to sabotage your software development with agile? – 10 pro tips for guaranteed success by Marlene Roth (Architecture Lead at Lufthansa Technik) & Tobias Mohr (Senior Director IT Aircraft Maintenance and Digital Fleet)
Videogames: The Medium of the 21st Century by Warren Spector
The irresistible UX: the psychology of brainwaves and clickbait by Dora Makszy (Head of Design at Element Logic)

Accessibility Test Driven Development by Maria Korneeva
Outsmarting the System: What Game Cheaters Can Teach Us About Cyber Security by John Romero
Raising Young Coders by Cassandra Chin
Valven Atlas: Engineering Intelligence That Delivers by Serdar Bicer (CTO of VALVEN)
Mobile vs. Backend DevOps by Mete Baydar (VP of Sales at Appcircle)
Secure and Private AI – DeepMask by Hissan Usmani (Co-Founder & CEO of Deepmask)
Open Source AI (Panel Talk)
Modular Secrets to Lightning-Fast Android Builds by Mohamed Gamal (Mobile Staff Engineer at SumUp)
The End of Unconscious Bias Training. A Scientific Approach to Creating an Inclusive Culture by Charlie Pearmond (CEO of Kiin)
Attract and Retain Talent: Strategies that Work (Panel Talk)
20 Years of Domain-Driven Design: What I’ve Learned About DDD by Eberhard Wolff (Head of Architecture at SWAGLab)
Harnessing Apple Intelligence: Live Coding with Swift for iOS by MIlan Todorović (CEO at Edulibris Estonia)
Coding for Good: Achieving social change with an app by Chris Ward (Head of Mobile Development Empowerment at 1&1 Mail and Media)
Five things in tech that matter and we have to make work by Christian Heilmann (VP Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers)