Merantix DevDay 2026

Every year, Merantix DevDay brings together the engineers, researchers, and applied scientists at the frontier of AI research and development, building and engineering the best products for production. It has become the event where the field takes stock of the latest advances, what works best, what scales, and what's next.

​Merantix DevDay brings talks, technical deep dives, and hands-on sessions covering the full stack: new architectures and training methods, evaluation and benchmarking, AI-native development workflows, and what it actually takes to deploy AI under real constraints. Beyond infrastructure, sessions go deep on where AI is creating step-change impact at the application layer — in biology and drug discovery, physical AI and robotics, climate and materials science, and other domains where the merge of disciplines and innovation push transformation.

​The next edition takes place on September 10, 2026. Attendance is open to the Merantix ecosystem. For everyone outside the portfolio, spots are limited and application-based.

​Program

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast & Arrival

9:30 - 9:45 Kick off

9:50 - 10:30 Keynote

→ Pepe Marquez, Cusp AI.

On the AI-Readiness of Materials Science Labs: A Data Infrastructure Perspective

10:35 - 10:55 Demo: Soofi

→ Tom Roehr - PhD at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)

10:55 - 11:15 Demo: Outpost Bio

→ Neythen Treloar - Principal ML Research Engineer at Outpost Bio

→ Saif Ur-Rehman - VP of Engineering at Outpost Bio

11:30 - 11:50 Demo: Mobilerun

→ Niels Schmidt - CTO of Mobilerun

11:55 - 12:15 Demo: Revel8

→ Kevin Ferreira - Software Engineer at Revel8

→ Roxane Vogel - Academy Associate at Revel8

13:15 - 13:55 Keynote

→ Rod Beckstrom, Former CEO & President of ICANN.

The Starfish, the Spider and AI Security - How to use Decentralized Strategies to Defend Against Agentic Attacks

14:00 - 14:45 Panel: Small Language Models + Sovereignty

→ Martin Genzel - Staff Machine Learning Researcher at Merantix Momentum.

→ Selim Nowicki - Co-founder & CEO of distil labs.

→ Prof. Dr. Gerard de Melo - Head of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Group at HPI

14:50 - 15:35 Panel: Post-Transformer Architectures

→ Noah Hollmann - CTO & Co-Founder of PriorLabs

→ Florian Wenzel - CTO & Co-Founder at Mirelo

→ ​Jakob Uszkoreit - CEO & Co-Founder of Inceptive

→ Glenn Kroegel - Senior ML Engineer at Merantix Momentum

15:50 - 16:10 Demo: Mirelo

→ Florian Wenzel - CTO & Co-Founder at Mirelo

16:15 - 17:15 CTO Roundtable: Agentic Software Development

17:30 - 19:30 Networking

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​AI is the biggest transformation of human history -  to run it the best possible way we must do it together.

​We can’t wait to see you there!

​The Merantix AI Campus, Merantix Momentum and Merantix Capital Team!