Tech Race Summit 2026 united iGaming and global technology leaders in Warsaw to address the shared challenges of scaling, security and artificial intelligence across high-load industries.
The sold-out inaugural event, organised by SOFTSWISS, attracted around 1,500 technology and iGaming professionals on 10 September.
The summit gathered representatives of more than 25 iGaming companies and more than 40 speakers across three stages: Vision, Solution, and Experiment. 17 partners also joined the event, creating a meeting point for operators, technology providers, and experts working on AI, infrastructure, cybersecurity, product development, and high-load systems.
Technology Insights from Tesla, Shazam, and iGaming
The programme connected strategic technology questions with cases already tested inside global technology companies and iGaming businesses.
Javier Verdura, Global Director of Product Design at Tesla, shared his experience of building teams with stronger ownership and accountability in “Building High-Performance Teams: Lessons from Tesla.”
Dhiraj Mukherjee, Co-Founder of Shazam, examined leadership through major shifts in technology in “From Shazam to Generative AI: Why the Biggest Technology Shifts Always Look Impossible.”
Igor Borzunov, CTO at Maincard, presented “From 3 AM Pages to 30 Seconds: Building an Autonomous AI Ops Agent.” He showed how his team used an autonomous AI operations agent to bring incident reaction time down to 30 seconds.
Alexander Krivetsky, CTO at BGaming, presented “AI-powered Fraud Detection System: From Idea to Production in Just 3 Months”. The three-month development process covered data preparation, model training, integration, and the work needed to turn an initial idea into a system ready for production.
Experts from AWS, Oracle, Cloudflare, Google, Gcore, Fastly, ScyllaDB, Coralogix, and other technology companies brought experience from outside iGaming. Their sessions addressed production AI, infrastructure, security, observability, performance marketing, and real-time systems.
The exchange continued away from the stages. Operators, technology leaders, engineers, and partners used the summit to compare approaches, discuss shared technology challenges, and build connections across companies and sectors.
SOFTSWISS Highlighted Its Approach to AI-Assisted Development
SOFTSWISS used Tech Race Summit 2026 to give attendees a closer look at how the company applies AI inside its own software development processes.
In “From Idea to Verified Change: Rethinking the SDLC with AI,” Illia Slepau, Software Architect at SOFTSWISS, showed how the company has developed an internal Orchestrator to coordinate AI agents across the development process while keeping validation and approval with human teams. For technology teams, this means spending less time coordinating AI-generated work while keeping control over code quality; for the business, it can shorten the path from an idea to a verified software change.
Reflecting on the success of the first edition, Sergey Kastsukevich, CTO at SOFTSWISS, said: “We are grateful to every partner, speaker, and attendee who helped make Tech Race Summit happen. What was especially rewarding was seeing how many conversations continued between the sessions – people were meeting, exchanging experiences, discussing ideas, and finding common ground. This is exactly what we wanted Tech Race to create. I hope those connections prove valuable long after the event itself, and I look forward to welcoming everyone back to Warsaw next year.”
Tech Race Summit to Return to Warsaw in 2027
Tech Race Summit was created to give technology a more prominent place in an iGaming event calendar, often centred on commercial growth and regulation. Its first edition connected iGaming experience with expertise from companies working on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, high-load systems, and global digital products.
Following the sold-out 2026 edition, Tech Race Summit will return to Warsaw in 2027.
To become a Tech Race Summit partner, contact the team under [email protected].
To share technology experience or a case worth sharing on stage, apply to become a speaker here.
To join Tech Race Summit 2027, get an early-bird ticket on the official event website.
