Speakers

Engineers, researchers and practitioners building with and on agentic AI — the speaker line-up of Agentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026.

More speakers & sessions are being confirmed in the next days. Come back soon or .

Abbas Tutcuoglu
Abbas Tutcuoglu
OpenAI
Go-to-Market, Strategic AI Deployment · Caltech
Hands-On Session
Abdel Sghiouar
Abdel Sghiouar
Google Cloud
Cloud Developer Advocate · KubeCon Co-Chair · Kubernetes Podcast Host
Hands-On Session
Alessio Soldano
Alessio Soldano
IBM
Sr. Manager Software Engineering (Red Hat)
Talk
Alexander Büchel
Alexander Büchel
adesso Schweiz
Team Lead, Embedded Software Engineering
Talk
Andrés Marafioti
Andrés Marafioti
Hugging Face
Multimodal Research Lead · SmolVLM
Talk
Arsenii Gavrilenko
Arsenii Gavrilenko
OpenAI
Forward Deployed Engineer · EPFL · MIPT
Hands-On Session
Baptiste Macé
Baptiste Macé
Arolla
Agile / DevOps / Craft Coach
Talk
David Pech
David Pech
Wrike
Platform Engineer · CNCF Golden Kubestronaut
Talk
Dimitris Andreadis
Dimitris Andreadis
Red Hat / IBM
Sr. Engineering Director, Quarkus & Cloud Native Runtimes
Hands-On Session
Gabriel Dinant
Gabriel Dinant
Migros Online
Staff Software Engineer
Talk ★ Spotlight
Huriel Reichel
Huriel Reichel
Swiss Post
ML Platform Engineer & MLOps Product Owner
Talk
Jose Luis Latorre Millas
Jose Luis Latorre Millas
Swiss Life
Agentic & Software Architect · AgentEval creator · Microsoft AI MVP
Panel Discussion
Julius Brussee
Julius Brussee
Caveman
Founder · Stacklink, Caveman, Cavekit — ~100k GitHub stars
Talk
Kevin Dubois
Kevin Dubois
IBM
Senior Principal Developer Advocate · Java Champion · CNCF DevEx TAG Lead
Hands-On Session
Krzysztof Cieślak
Krzysztof Cieślak
GitHub Next
Developer Tools Researcher · Copilot co-creator · Ionide
Talk
Liuba Gonta
Liuba Gonta
Xebia
IT Consultant · GitHub Trainer · Microsoft MCT
Talk
Manisha De
Manisha De
Swisscom
Product Owner, Software Production Tooling
Talk
Markus Leutwyler
Markus Leutwyler
VisionPilot
Founder · Hardware · Software · People
Panel Discussion
Max Gfeller
Max Gfeller
Sutro
AI Engineer
Talk
Maxim Salnikov
Maxim Salnikov
Microsoft
Senior Solution Engineer, AI-Native Dev Tools · Panel Moderator
Panel Discussion
Michael Forrester
Michael Forrester
Accenture
AI for Leadership & Organizations Lead · 1M+ engineers trained
Talk
Natalie Pistunovich
Natalie Pistunovich
HTW Berlin
OpenAI Developer Ambassador · Google Developer Expert for Go
Talk
Oliver Hofmann
Oliver Hofmann
Swiss Post
Data Scientist
Talk
Pini Reznik
Pini Reznik
re:cinq
CEO & Co-Founder · AI Native Transformations
Talk ★ Spotlight
Raphaël Pinson
Raphaël Pinson
Isovalent
Cilium Alchemist · CNCF Ambassador · eBPF & Kubernetes
Talk
Ricardo Silveira Cabral
Ricardo Silveira Cabral
NVIDIA
Distinguished Research Scientist · Ex-Meta FAIR · GAIA 2 & ARE
Talk
Sebastian Witalec
Sebastian Witalec
Namespace
Head of DevRel and Education
Talk ★ Spotlight
Serena Sensini
Serena Sensini
TheRedCode
CTO @ Welyk · Innovation Leader @ Dedalus · author · Panelist
Panel Discussion
Sergiu Petean
Sergiu Petean
Atlassian
EMEA Field CTO
Talk ★ Spotlight
Simon Martinelli
Simon Martinelli
martinelli.ch
Programming Architect · Java Champion · Oracle ACE Pro
Hands-On Session
Sohan Maheshwar
Sohan Maheshwar
AuthZed
Developer Advocate Lead · AAIF Ambassador
Talk
Stefano Maestri
Stefano Maestri
IBM
Software Development Manager (Red Hat)
Talk
Susanna Wong
Susanna Wong
Typeform
Staff Engineer · Google Developer Expert
Talk
Sven Scheffel
Sven Scheffel
Migros Online
Staff Software Engineer
Talk ★ Spotlight
Syrian Hadad
Syrian Hadad
adesso Schweiz
CTO · Lecturer BFH
Talk
Tim Damen
Tim Damen
ABN AMRO
Head of Frontend Platforms & Accessibility Lead
Talk
Valentin Delaye
Valentin Delaye
ELCA
Platform Engineer · Jenkins Governance Board
Lightning Talk
Vincent G
Vincent G
letsboot
AI Innovation Engineer
Hands-On Session
Warren Parad
Warren Parad
Authress
CTO & Security Specialist · AWS Community Builder
Talk
Yuliya Khadasevich
Yuliya Khadasevich
Xebia
Software Development Consultant · Microsoft MVP
Talk
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