Sani is the founder of Haibrid, a London-based consultancy that offers Ionic training & consultancy. Sani is also the co-organiser of Ionic UK & has spoken about Ionic on 4 continents. A published book author, Sani also recently created the first Ionic 3.0 course online VIA Lynda.COM. When he is not doing geeky stuff, he enjoys food tourism & paddle boarding on the ocean.

Christoph Pirringer, born in Burgenland, studied Petroleum Engineering in Leoben and worked in professional training before iscovering his enthusiasm for programming. In addition to his position as CEO at CodeFactory and his work as a Web Developer, you can also meet him as a volunteer paramedic in the ambulance.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlighting both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies. As an educator, his mission is to educate as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, in as many languages as possible, about Bitcoin and open blockchains.

Andreas has served as a teaching fellow for the free Introduction to Digital Currencies course offered to the public at the University of Nicosia. Along with co-authoring the course curriculum, Andreas has also written two best-selling technical books for programmers, Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. He has published The Internet of Money series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. In addition to these books, he has authored hundreds of syndicated articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers; and is a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. His live talks are always unique, unscripted, and combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent.

Andreas has been interviewed by Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Financial Times for his industry expertise. He has been a repeat guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and London Real. He has been featured in numerous documentary films, and is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast with more than 400 episodes recorded to date. He has also appeared as an expert witness in legal cases and regulatory hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee. Currently, Antonopoulos is working on his sixth book and third technical work, Mastering the Lightning Network. To learn more about Andreas’ work visit Patreon.

Jan-Niklas is an enterprise consultant with vast experience designing and implementing large scaled applications. He has a passion for developing clean and maintainable code, with unparalleled expertise in Angular and reactive programming. Jan-Niklas is also a member of the RxJS Core Team, giving back to the community whenever possible.

Tanmay Bakshi is a 16-year-old Canadian author, AI and ML Systems Architect, TED & Keynote speaker, Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning, and IBM Developer Advocate. He has addressed over 200,000 executives, students, and developers worldwide at conferences, universities, financial institutions, and international companies. The United Nations, Linux Foundation, Apple, SAP, IBM, KPMG, Microsoft, and Walmart are a few of the organizations he has keynoted for.

Tanmay has been covered in the media, being featured in the Toronto Star, on the front page of The Vancouver Sun, pictured on stage doing what he loves to do - sharing his knowledge with the world, in Forbes and CNBC, as well as in Bloomberg Businessweek as a Young Entrepreneur, in The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few.

His YouTube channel called “Tanmay Teaches” is where he shares his research and knowledge with audiences of all ages, and is the host of the live series “Tech Life Skills with Tanmay”. He has had the honour of being the recipient of the Life Mentor Award by the Hon. Lt. Governor of Manitoba, Twilio Doer Award, Knowledge Ambassador Award, and Global Goodwill Ambassador at LinkedIn.

He has developed machine learning powered systems, such as "Heart ID", a deep neural network based Electrocardiogram-based identification system, which won HPCWire's Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence. He's also worked on lower level software, like an ultra low-latency call tracer utility that can scale to trillions of function calls, and is powered by LLVM, for the IBM Db2 codebase.

From her many years of experience as a strategy consultant, Dr. Antonella Mei-Pochtler gain extensive knowledge of how institutions and states can successfully deal with challenges through long-term planning and effective strategies. In addition, her charitable initiatives in the area of social affairs and education are an important concern.

Trainer, consultant and programming architect with focus on Angular. Google Developer Expert (GDE) and Trusted Collaborator in the Angular team who writes for O'Reilly, the German Java Magazine, and windows.developer. Regularly speaks at conferences.

Henrietta Egerth studied commercial science at the University of Linz and then she worked for some years in Brussels. On her return to Vienna, she worked for the Federation of Austrian Industry before moving to the Ministry of Economics and Labour in 2000, where she was responsible for business promotion and research and development. Since 2004 Henrietta Egerth is General Manager of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG.

Adam is a web developer and consultant, web GDE, and author of open source libraries. He is a co-founder of 500Tech, a company that specializes in frontend technologies. He loves coding, and he loves speaking about code. Adam is very involved in the community, and is part of the organizing team of Angular & React meetups and conferences in Israel.

Adrian Spataru is an experienced Data Scientist with a focus on Time Series and Computer Vision. He is the organizer of the Machine Learning Graz Meetup, Co-founder and Leader of Data Team Graz. Next to his professional career, he devotes time to public speaking and educating on Data Science and Machine Learning topics.

Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist, and Head of NVT Future Hub, for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. With a drive to "lead from the future" and a mission to to unfold what is next for the future of human work, our global ecosystems, and SAP. Martin crafts future outlooks, concepts, defines and runs long term innovation frameworks.

He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systems, to define innovation visions and strategies. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).

"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. We are shaping SAP's innovation vision; the empathic symbiosis between humans and machines, investigating how we learn technology, and most of all, how technology learns us, especially when tech moves forward faster than how we, leaders, developers, humans seem to manage the implications"

Eric is the co-founder & CEO at Magic.dev, an AGI company building an AI software engineer.

Fascinated by the endless opportunities in VR, Swiss ETH graduates Roger Kung and Dennys Kuhnert founded next-gen VR studio Holonautic in 2018. Their team of seven created Holoception, a new type of hybrid VR game available on Steam and the Oculus Store and they recently released long awaited Hand Physics Lab on Sidequest. Both instructors bring diverse expertise to the table. Roger has a degree in Economics, Life Sciences, and Computer Science, while Dennys has a degree in Bioengineering. With the viral success of their interactive experiments with Oculus Quest hand tracking, they’re excited to share their knowledge and experience with you, and help push beyond the current standards of VR to build the future of spatial computing.

Petar is an experienced Android dev, and he's been at it ever since Ice Cream Sandwich was a thing, almost a decade ago. He started his journey at Bellabeat, a wellbeing hardware startup, and took it from aspiring crowd of 15 college grads in a small apartment, to 150 employee company with offices around the globe. After Bellabeat, he joined FIVE to push Android to its limits on products with global impact. Petar has a knack for building large and complex apps, and became passionate about scalability and app architectures. There is one architectural guiding principle he values most - "don't make me think".  Let the architectural framework solve hard parts like threading, lifecycle, and dependencies, and make time to focus on testable business logic and delightful eye-candy UX we all love.

John is an award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer whose work portfolio includes 130 games, of which 107 have been published commercially. John Romero has co-founded eight widely successful game companies, including id Software, Gazillion Entertainment, and Loot Drop. He co-owns Loot Drop and Romero Games. He is regarded as one of the world’s best game designers and his products have won over a hundred awards to prove it. Furthermore, John Romero is fully a self-taught designer and programmer, drawing inspiration from early Apple II programmers.

Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981.

Devlin Duldulao is a Filipino full-stack cloud engineer based in Norway. He is a Microsoft MVP, an Auth0 Ambassador, a trainer, a conference speaker, a published book author, and a senior consultant at Inmeta. He loves going to universities and user groups to share his expertise.

With over five years of professional experience Björn joined METRONOM last year and subsequently established Kotlin as programming language and became the company's Kotlin Ambassador. True to METRONOM's mission to “set the pace in food and technology”, he challenges solution, architecture and implementation every day. Björn distinguishes himself by his sound advice and solid decision making. Colleagues describe him as biased in a trustful way. In his free time Björn enjoys competing (or mostly goofing off) with friends during a gaming or a bouldering session.

A true problem solver with a heart for tech and people. With a long history of over 15 years within the tech & development industry. Marion started her career within IBM Lab Services. Throughout the years she gained brought experience within the development world – from being a developer herself, supporting customers with their challenges and needs, to managing product development and customer engagements. This history builds the foundation for her current position as a Program Manager of the Developer Advocacy Team in Berlin, where she works with a global team of developer advocates in order to leverage developer communities for growing innovation and driving change throughout technology. As a mother of two kids and passionate snowboarder with a faible for smart homes she brings ideas to life and truly treasures wild ducks.

Martin Wezowski is the Chief Futurist, and Head of NVT Future Hub, for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. With a drive to "lead from the future" and a mission to to unfold what is next for the future of human work, our global ecosystems, and SAP. Martin crafts future outlooks, concepts, defines and runs long term innovation frameworks.

He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systems, to define innovation visions and strategies. 2017 he was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany as the “Software visionary” (“Handelsblatt”).

"I want to innovate what we call "work" out-of our lives. We are shaping SAP's innovation vision; the empathic symbiosis between humans and machines, investigating how we learn technology, and most of all, how technology learns us, especially when tech moves forward faster than how we, leaders, developers, humans seem to manage the implications"

Meredith Hassett is a Developer Advocate, Corvid, a rapid development platform, by Wix, where she shares her experience and knowledge in web development. Meredith has worked on applications for financial institutions, nonprofits, and travel groups. Meredith currently works out of San Francisco and spends her days finding new ways to blend her other passions with technology.

Margarete Schramböck was born 1970 in Tyrol, Austria. She studied Business Administration at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna (WU), where she obtained her Doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences in 1997.

Before Ms Schramböck started her career in 2002 as CEO of NextiraOne, an IT communications company based in Paris, she was occupying a management position at Alcatel. From December 2008 to December 2011 she became Managing Director of NextiraOne Germany. In 2014 Ms Schramböck began working as CEO of Dimension Data Austria, which is a globally leading provider of network and communications technologies and IT services, in particular in the fields of network and computer centres, cloud services, IT security, voice and video communications as well as application integration. Between 2016 and 2017 she was CEO of A1 Telekom Austria.

On 18 December 2017 Margarete Schramböck was appointed Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy and from 8 January 2018 to 3 June 2019 she was Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs.

Ms Schramböck remains deeply attached to her Alma Mater and is a member of the WU's Center of Excellence. In 2017 she was elected both Tyrolean of the Year and University of Economics and Business in Vienna WU Manager of 2017.

Magarete was a Member of the National Council from 23 October 2019 to 7 January 2020.

Margarete Schramböck was appointed as Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs on 7 January 2020.

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly and The Little Bitcoin Book. Jimmy is a lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin and is a speaker at various Bitcoin conferences around the world.

Jonas' background includes web development and technical product management. He has over 16 years of experience in developing web applications, nurturing, adapting and improving processes of teams and clients. Today, he is a Solutions Architect at Platform.sh, the end-to-end web platform for agile teams, helping customers to run their web applications smoothly in the cloud. With a passion for travel, Jonas has been working remotely from more than 25 countries within the last two years. His interests are traveling, cooking, remote work culture. Apart from that, he is always up for a coffee. Jonas is fluent in German, English, Sarcasm, Giphy and JavaScript.

Uri is the founder of The Guild, a group of open source developers working around the world to help create important open source libraries, mostly around GraphQL. They support large companies to go through successful technological transformations.

What to say about this exceptional young person? She is a true Wunderkind! Alex developed an interest for science, programming, physics and chemistry since the early age of 12. Today, at the age of only 19, she already holds a Bachelor degree with distinction from the Technological University Dublin and is widely considered as one of the great generational talents. She was part of various programs at the MIT, CERN and IBM. She has received various honors and accolades and besides studying Molecular Medicine she also speaks regularly about Quantum Computing and Machine Learning at international conferences.

Anirudh Koul is a noted AI expert, UN/TEDx speaker, author of the Practical Deep Learning book and a former scientist at Microsoft AI & Research, where he founded Seeing AI, considered the most used technology among the blind community after the iPhone. With features shipped to a billion users, he brings over a decade of production-oriented applied research experience on petabyte-scale datasets. He also serves as an ML Lead for NASA FDL and coaches a team for Roborace, the Formula One championship of autonomous driving @200mph. His work in the AI for Good field, which IEEE has called "life-changing", has received awards from CES, FCC, MIT, Cannes Lions, American Council of the Blind, showcased at events by UN, World Economic Forum, White House, House of Lords, Netflix, National Geographic, and lauded by world leaders including Justin Trudeau and Theresa May.

Lee Boonstra is a Developer Advocate for Dialogflow and Contact Center AI at Google based in Amsterdam. She has been working with different technologies in the past 15 years, ranging from Web/Mobile Technology, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, Node.js, Conversational AI, Dialogflow, Actions on Google and Contact Centers. Over the years she has helped many brands & enterprises to build and deploy Conversational AI solutions (chatbots and voice assistants) at enterprise scale. Wearing different hats from Engineer, to Technical Trainer. From Sales Engineer to Developer Advocate. Also, she wrote a book for O’Reilly: Hands-on Sencha Touch 2.

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