_Speaker Lineup
THE MOST CURIOUS DEV MINDS ON THE GLOBE
Our speakers do not beat about the bush. The stage program is all about concrete advice for the eager-minded. The speaker lineup features some of the most accomplished inventors, experienced specialists and curious dev ninjas out there sharing their best-kept secrets with the WeAreDevelopers community.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
>Founder of WWW & HTML
_W3C
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
About Sir Tim Berners-Lee
>Founder of WWW & HTML_W3C
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as a software engineer at CERN. With many scientists participating in experiments at CERN and returning to their laboratories around the world, these scientists were eager to exchange data and results but had difficulties doing so. Sir Tim understood this need, and understood the unrealized potential of millions of computers connected together through the Internet. Sir Tim documented what was to become the World Wide Web with the submission of a proposal specifying a set of technologies that would make the Internet truly accessible and useful to people. Despite initial setbacks and with perseverance, by October of 1990, he had specified the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s Web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your Web browser): HTML, URL, and HTTP. He also wrote the first Web page editor/browser and the first Web server. By the end of 1990, the first Web page was served. By 1991, people outside of CERN joined the new Web community, and in April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web technology would be available for anyone to use on a royalty-free basis. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering and in a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSAIL. He is a professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and author of 'Weaving the Web' and many other publications.
Jeff Atwood
>Author
_Coding Horror
Jeff Atwood
About Jeff Atwood
>Author_Coding Horror
I'm Jeff Atwood. I live in Berkeley, CA with my wife, two cats, three children, and a whole lot of computers. I was weaned as a software developer on various implementations of Microsoft BASIC in the 80's, starting with my first microcomputer, the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. I continued on the PC with Visual Basic 3.0 and Windows 3.1 in the early 90's, although I also spent significant time writing Pascal code in the first versions of Delphi. I am now quite comfortable in VB.NET or C#, despite the evils of case sensitivity. I'm currently learning Ruby. I consider myself a reasonably experienced web software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in my recommended developer reading list. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough; you have to study the people behind the software, too.
Srushtika Neelakantam
>Developer Advocate
_Ably Realtime
Srushtika Neelakantam
About Srushtika Neelakantam
>Developer Advocate_Ably Realtime
Srushtika Neelakantam is a Developer Advocate for Ably Realtime. She is a passionate tech advocate, with a keen interest in real-time and web technologies. Apart from being a regular speaker at tech conferences worldwide, she also loves to write about tech on popular publications. She is also a co-author of a book - 'Learning Web-Based Virtual Reality' published by Apress. In her spare time, she volunteers with the Mozilla Foundation as an official part of the Reps and Tech speakers programs.
Brenda Romero
>Game Designer
_Wizardry, Train, D&D, Def Jam
Brenda Romero
About Brenda Romero
>Game Designer_Wizardry, Train, D&D, Def Jam
Brenda is a major figure in the area of game design and is famous for her work on the role-playing series Wizardry, as well as Def Jam: Icon, Playboy: The Mansion, and Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes. She is the Course Director for the University of Limerick and Managing Director and Co-Founder of Romero Games Ltd., a game studio focused on fun.
John Romero
>President
_Romero Games Ltd.
John Romero
About John Romero
>President_Romero Games Ltd.
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 8 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.
Håkon Wium Lie
>Inventor of CSS, CTO of Opera Software
_Opera Software
Håkon Wium Lie
About Håkon Wium Lie
>Inventor of CSS, CTO of Opera Software_Opera Software
Håkon came to Opera from W3C, where he was responsible for style sheets. In 1994 he invented a small language called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS describes how web pages are presented — on screens, in print, or read out loud. You can read about it in a book 'Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web' he co-authored with Bert Bos. The book is written in HTML and CSS. Håkon is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab where he was part of Walter Bender's Electronic Publishing Group.
Glenn Gore
>Chief Architect
_Amazon Web Services
Glenn Gore
About Glenn Gore
>Chief Architect_Amazon Web Services
As the Chief Architect for Amazon Web Services, Glenn is responsible for creating architectural best practices and working with customers on how they use the cloud and innovation to transform their own businesses or disrupt new markets. Glenn has held previous roles in AWS, most recently as head of architecture for Asia Pacific and EMEA for Amazon Web Services where he managed regional teams working in the fastest-growing region. Glenn has experience in working in mature and emerging markets, helping customers use the latest advancements to give them a competitive edge. Glenn is a hands-on technologist with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining AWS, Glenn was the CTO of WebCentral where he worked on highly scalable web platforms and big-data systems for customers. He also held roles at OzEmail and UUNET the world’s largest network provider. Glenn has worked in engineering and technology leadership roles working with customers such as Facebook, Twitter, NASA and working on projects such as the Hadron super collider, interplanetary networking and large scale distributed systems. Glenn is passionate about his customers and about technology and how it is changing how we live and work.
Natalie Sererbyakova
>Sr. DevOps
_Reddit
Natalie Sererbyakova
About Natalie Sererbyakova
>Sr. DevOps_Reddit
My name is Natalie. I'm a Sr. Software Engineer. Currently working in the Infrastructure Team at Reddit in San Francisco. If I have time I also enjoy working on building and automating various tools that help our development team be more productive and happy. I think a fun fact about myself: I consider myself one of not many engineers out there who worked on the highest number of CI/CD systems(because I really enjoy making things better in the Software Release Processes) Occasionally I blog or speak at the conferences. The main reason that I write, both blog posts and open source software, is to learn. In my spare time, I like to hike or camp with my aussiedoodle Chai, bake cakes and, as I mentioned above, blog.
Sani Yusuf
>Founder
_Haibrid
Sani Yusuf
About Sani Yusuf
>Founder_Haibrid
Sani is a Google Developer Expert & the founder of HAIBRID, a London based startup that uses Ionic & Angular to create innovative solutions. Sani co-manages the Ionic UK community and has done some work spanning 5 continents. He has also done some cool stuff with companies like Sworkit, Microsoft, Huddlebuy & Anritsu and actively contributes to the Ionic open source community.
Alexandra Waldherr
>Chemical Engineering Student
_TU Vienna
Alexandra Waldherr
About Alexandra Waldherr
>Chemical Engineering Student_TU Vienna
I am 18 years old and currently attend the final year at a higher technical college for chemical engineering. Since age 12, I am passionate about science, especially physics, programming and chemistry. In 2018 I finished the Viennese Physics' Olympiad best girl, this summer I worked with the department for material chemistry of TU Vienna and as a developer at AF-Institute Vienna (AI and data management for the medical sector). My passions generally evolve around the tiny things that matter - a beauty hidden almost invisible in everyday life whether it is now microbiology, genetic code or quantum computers. In autumn 2019 I helped with research at CERN Geneva and was invited to speak at the FifteenSeconds-Festival and introduced quantum computing at WeAreDevs Vienna. In chemistry, quantum mechanics have a long tradition - but how can we harness intriguing calculations and maybe change whole industries? Practical concepts of quantum computing still need lots of research and curiosity... I would therefore go with Schroedinger and say there is a 50% chance of me being a quantum computing expert. Your observation shall determine!
Jimmy Song
>Instructor
_Programming Blockchain
Jimmy Song
About Jimmy Song
>Instructor_Programming Blockchain
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.
Sumit Gupta
>VP, AI, Machine Learning & HPC
_IBM Cognitive Systems
Sumit Gupta
About Sumit Gupta
>VP, AI, Machine Learning & HPC_IBM Cognitive Systems
Sumit Gupta is VP, AI, Machine Learning, and HPC in the IBM Cognitive Systems business. Sumit leads the business strategy and software and hardware products for machine learning, deep learning, analytics, & HPC, including Watson ML Accelerator and Spectrum Compute. Prior to IBM, Sumit was the general manager of the AI & GPU accelerated data center business at NVIDIA and was central in building that business from the ground-up to what is now a multi-billion dollar business for NVIDIA. Sumit has a Ph.D. in CS from UC, Irvine, and a BS in EE from IIT Delhi.
Mathias Döpfner
>Chairman & CEO
_Axel Springer SE
Mathias Döpfner
About Mathias Döpfner
>Chairman & CEO_Axel Springer SE
Mathias Döpfner, 56, has served as a director since May 1, 2014. Mr. Döpfner is Chairman and CEO of German media group Axel Springer SE in Berlin. Holding a stake of about 3%, Mr. Döpfner is also one of the company’s largest shareholders. Axel Springer is the leading digital publisher in Europe and is active in more than 40 countries. Publishing brands include BILD, WELT and BUSINESS INSIDER. Since Mr. Döpfner became CEO in 2002, Axel Springer revenues from digital activities increased from €117 million to €2.3 billion with adjusted EBITDA from digital increasing from €-12 million to €620 million. Worldwide digital audience expanded to more than 300 million users. Mr. Döpfner is also a member of the Board of Directors of Netflix Inc.
Nikki Lannen
>CEO & Founder
_WarDucks
Nikki Lannen
About Nikki Lannen
>CEO & Founder_WarDucks
Nikki Lannen is the Founder and CEO of WarDucks, a dedicated team of all-stars pushing creative boundaries to build breakout games that they would love to play themselves. She founded WarDucks in 2013 and along with a great team, they began creating top-class games. Of their six hit VR titles, their most recent title RollerCoaster Legends was the #2 top-selling game on PlayStation VR in December 2017. RollerCoaster Legends II reached #7 on the PlayStation VR store in June 2018. Their current project is an exciting genre-defining Location-Based AR mobile game. Nikki also runs the IRISH AR & VR MeetUp, which takes place every two months. A chance for anyone building Augmented and Virtual Reality products in the Irish community to come together and showcase what they are working on.
Ricardo Ferreira
>Developer Advocate
_Confluent
Ricardo Ferreira
About Ricardo Ferreira
>Developer Advocate_Confluent
Ricardo is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka. He has over 22 years of experience working with software engineering, where he specialized in different types of distributed systems such as integration, SOA, NoSQL, messaging, API management, and cloud computing. Prior to Confluent, he worked for other vendors such as Oracle, Red Hat and IONA Technologies, as well as several consulting firms. While not working, he enjoys grilling steaks in his backyard with his family and friends, where he gets the chance to talk about anything that is not IT related. Currently, he lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and son.
Philipp Krenn
>Code and conference monkey
Philipp Krenn
About Philipp Krenn
>Code and conference monkeyPhilipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the open-source Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss about open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.
Mithun Dhar
>General Manager, Developer Relations
_HERE Technologie
Mithun Dhar
About Mithun Dhar
>General Manager, Developer Relations_HERE Technologie
Mithun Dhar is a senior executive with nearly 20 years of experience in the technology industry and developer relations. His diverse background includes overseeing the growth of developer platforms, managing partner ecosystems and building support for new technology. At HERE, Mithun is responsible for increasing the developer community’s ability to harness the power of location intelligence and engagement with the HERE Open Location Platform (OLP). His focus is on the strategy and vision for the Open Location Platform and working closely with key partners, such as AWS, Microsoft, SAP and Bosch, to ensure that developers around the world can leverage location intelligence solutions in their products and services. Before joining HERE, Mithun was Director of Developer Relations and Strategic Communications for SAP Concur, where he led a team that helped developers design, build and market applications that tap into the $1 trillion business travel industry. Prior to that, he was a Principal Strategist for Technology and Communications at Citrix, Director of Product Marketing at Edifecs, and held numerous positions at Microsoft within Microsoft Research, product management, product marketing and developer evangelism. Mithun speaks five languages and is known for his enthusiasm around developer communities and his ability to merge his technical background and business savvy. He has computer science and engineering degrees from Bangalore University and the National Institute of Information Technology in India.
Jigyasa Grover
>Machine learning Engineer
_Twitter, Inc.
Jigyasa Grover
About Jigyasa Grover
>Machine learning Engineer_Twitter, Inc.
Red Hat Women in Open Source Academic Award Winner 2017, Google Summer of Code alumna and currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter Inc., Jigyasa Grover is an ardent open-source enthusiast. She has also briefly worked on traffic anomaly detection framework in the ads system at Facebook. A feminist by heart, she was involved as Director of Women Who Code and Lead of Google Women Techmakers for a handful of years to help bridge gender gap in technology. In her quest to build a powerful bunch of girls and boys alike & believing in “we rise by lifting others” she mentors aspiring developers in the global programs like Google Summer of Code, Google Code-In, ‘Learn IT, Girl !’ & CodeHeat.
Eric Steinberger
>CEO & AI Researcher
_Climate Science
Eric Steinberger
About Eric Steinberger
>CEO & AI Researcher_Climate Science
Eric Steinberger's research focuses on Deep Reinforcement Learning. Since his first research appointment at age 18, he worked with MIT, TU Wien, and the University of Luxembourg to apply Deep Learning to complex real-world problems. His most recent project at MIT investigates how micro-lending in Africa could be improved by carefully designing game-theoretic incentives while keeping methods practical. Eric always loved science, but he never appreciated overcomplicated papers and reports. Therefore, he started giving talks introducing the technical sides of Deep Learning to a wider audience. His second area of interest is climate science, where he is also part of a team creating educational content for children.
Siddha Ganju
>Solution Architect
_Nvidia Corporation
Siddha Ganju
About Siddha Ganju
>Solution Architect_Nvidia Corporation
Siddha Ganju, who Forbes featured in their 30 under 30 list, is a Self-Driving Architect at Nvidia. Previously at Deep Vision, she developed deep learning models for resource constraint edge devices. A graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, her prior work ranges from Visual Question Answering to Generative Adversarial Networks to gathering insights from CERN's petabyte-scale data and has been published at top-tier conferences including CVPR and NeurIPS. Serving as an AI domain expert, she has also been guiding teams at NASA as well as featured as a jury member in several international tech competitions.
Frank Riemensperger
>Chairman
_Accenture Germany
Frank Riemensperger
About Frank Riemensperger
>Chairman_Accenture Germany
Frank Riemensperger has been Chairman of Accenture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since November 2009. In this role, Frank is responsible for strategy development and execution as well as Accenture’s market development in the German-speaking countries. Currently, Accenture has more than 8,000 employees in this region. The trained computer scientist and expert for digitization holds a seat in the acatech Senate, the German Academy for Engineering Sciences, and is a member of the supervisory board of the DFKI (German Institute for Artificial Intelligence). Frank is part of the executive committee of the German IT association BITKOM and a member of the steering committees of the Plattform Industrie 4.0 and of the Plattform Lernende Systeme. Furthermore, he is the Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, a member of the Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG), of the Feldafinger Kreis and is a jury member of several awards including the Top 500 German Growth Champions, the German Innovation Prize and the German CIO of the year. Together with Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann, President of acatech, Frank headed the German research project 'Smart Service Welt - Digital Transformation of the German Industry'. The project developed recommendations for German industry leaders and policymakers to lead the digital transformation of Germany’s key industries. Frank Riemensperger studied Computer Science in Germany and the United States, graduating in 1987.
Garance Flore Vallat
>Fullstack Engineer
_Marfeel
Garance Flore Vallat
About Garance Flore Vallat
>Fullstack Engineer_Marfeel
Garance is a 20-something software engineer striving for easier to use and faster websites during the day. At night, she waits for next Christmas. She works in Barcelona at Marfeel, where they transform the way newspapers publish mobile content. Interested in how the world works, she loves to spread the word on her latest discoveries!
Boyan S. Benev
>Founder
_SHYN
Boyan S. Benev
About Boyan S. Benev
>Founder_SHYN
Boyan is the founder of experimental quantum data visualisation company, SHYN. The company aims to define a visual toolset built for quantum from the ground up. SHYN's mission is to move discussion around QC beyond academia and theory and into the mainstream. Formerly, Boyan was CMO at the big data analytics and enterprise data warehousing company, MammothDB, acquired by MariaDB in 2018. Additionally, as a partner at Farstar, Boyan works on complex international development projects aiming to help engineers and researchers realise their business potential. Working with the Royal Academy of Engineering, the team support the design and delivery of the Leaders in Innovation Fellowships programme, working with academics in emerging economies on four continents to commercialise their research. Boyan is the co-author of the Carnegie-Mellon course ‘Digital Ecosystems’ delivered in the Sofia University Faculty of Mathematics & Informatics. He was on the presidential council for the John Atanasoff awards for scientific excellence, recognising top PhD talent in young researchers from around the world. He has close to twenty years experience in education and development, having worked with organisations including The Prince’s Trust, Shell Livewire and The Venture. In 2013 Boyan created and hosted the first talk-show dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation for the Bulgarian National Television. The award-winning format featured more than two hundred and fifty guests over more than forty hours of live television.
Fadzayi Chiwandire
>Lead Frontend Developer & SCRUM Master
_OnePointFour Consulting
Fadzayi Chiwandire
About Fadzayi Chiwandire
>Lead Frontend Developer & SCRUM Master_OnePointFour Consulting
Fadzayi Chiwandire is a Front-end Developer and Scrum Master at OnePointFour Consulting in Johannesburg South Africa, and also Founder of the DIV:A Initiative a non-profit initiative dedicated to empowering young girls between the ages of 8 and 18 years from disadvantaged communities with coding skills, in order to protect their futures and address the industry’s gender imbalance. At OnePointFour, Fadzayi has helped develop web and mobile apps mainly for the FinTech and retail industry used by many across the country.
Adam Klein
>Co-Founder
_500Tech
Adam Klein
About Adam Klein
>Co-Founder_500Tech
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.
Milan Todorovic
>Swift/iOS trainer & Software Engineer
_Crossover
Milan Todorovic
About Milan Todorovic
>Swift/iOS trainer & Software Engineer_Crossover
Milan is an Apple Certified Trainer, Consultant and Software Engineer, with long experience in software development and especially in training of developers of all levels of knowledge. He is deeply focused to Swift since the very beginning of life of this programming language. He works for Apple Authorized Training Centre - Crossover in Belgrade, Serbia. Passionately helping beginners, intermediate and experienced developers to improve their knowledge, in areas of general development, machine learning, augmented reality and other. Milan is also a sailboat skipper, combining development training with sailing with its goal to maximize motivation and knowledge adoption for attendees.
Kerstin Ewelt
>Head of Marketing & Business Development, Northern Europe
_Quora
Kerstin Ewelt
About Kerstin Ewelt
>Head of Marketing & Business Development, Northern Europe_Quora
I work at Quora in the "Writer Relations" team and Quora in German was the fourth language we launched. The baby is growing and thriving. Without the commitment of the Quora community, this would not be possible - I am happy about this every day and I am grateful to be able to offer Germany, Austria and Switzerland a knowledge platform that stands for high-quality content and credibility. Meanwhile, I am responsible for the northern European area: Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish – check out the language versions of Quora if you are interested. I studied "Political Science" at the FU Berlin and afterward I worked for different media companies (Bild, Berliner Zeitung, F.A.Z.) In 2003 I went to the USA – first to Pennsylvania and then to California. Now I made myself comfortable in Silicon Valley and experienced some tech company first hand. Before I joined Quora, I was responsible for the German-speaking market at Yahoo Search. As a Senator, I am involved in the think tank "Senate of the Economy" (Commission: Digital Future) and enjoy the exchange with the "Fellow Senators". Although I have been away from Germany for a long time, I still miss a lot (not only bread), but I have also learned that home means more than just a postal address. And I have decided to make the best of my two worlds every day. This works – most of the time ;-)
Martin Haunschmid
>CEO
_haunschmid.tech
Martin Haunschmid
About Martin Haunschmid
>CEO_haunschmid.tech
After developing business applications for years, Martin took the leap and started his own web development company. But a few years ago, one of his websites got hacked. He was lucky, nothing much happened. But this incident started his fascination with anything IT Security. He’s now consulting SMBs with regards to their ITSEC, and has his own tech-blog and recently started a YouTube channel.
Björn Wendland
>Full Stack Developer
_METRONOM
Björn Wendland
About Björn Wendland
>Full Stack Developer_METRONOM
Björn is a Full Stack Developer at METRONOM, Clean Code Evangelist, Dev Coach and part of the - in his eyes - best vertical ever: Payments. They contribute in setting the pace in technology by challenging their own solution, its architecture and its implementation every day.
Christian Waha
>Technical Fellow
_ti&m AG
Christian Waha
About Christian Waha
>Technical Fellow_ti&m AG
Technical Fellow at ti&m AG. Christian has been dealing with Microsoft cloud technologies for many years and is now a brand ambassador and evangelist. In addition, his share in the startup Swiss Legal Tech Solutions gives him an insight into the startup world and his involvement in Industrial Holographics gives him a good insight into digital reality, especially MR and AR.
Markus Harrer
>Software Development Analyst
Markus Harrer
About Markus Harrer
>Software Development AnalystMarkus Harrer is a software engineer who's passionate about improving the way we do software development. He specialized in the analysis of software data such as source code, application performance data or version control repositories to show the underlying problems of the symptoms we face on the surface.
Luka Kladaric
>Chaos Manager
_Sekura Collective
Luka Kladaric
About Luka Kladaric
>Chaos Manager_Sekura Collective
Luka has been doing computer stuff professionally for over half his life. Despises frontend, likes doing talks. Loves putting out trash fires for money. Runs Sekura Collective, a chaos management agency. Formerly engineering lead at meetup.com, infrastructure lead at noom.com, CTO/cofounder at hitlistapp.com and developer at deviantart.com. Splits time between Zagreb and New York. Dreams in matrixcode.
Dr. Halil-Cem Gürsoy
>Senior Solution Architect
_OPITZ CONSULTING
Dr. Halil-Cem Gürsoy
About Dr. Halil-Cem Gürsoy
>Senior Solution Architect_OPITZ CONSULTING
Halil is a Senior Solution Architect at OPITZ CONSULTING and is already active as Software Developer and Architect for over 20 years. His focus is on large distributed enterprise systems, mostly written in Java, but has written more productive infrastructure code in Go, Python, or Ruby than classic enterprise Java stuff in the last years. In addition, he’s a co-organizer of the JUG Essen.
Natalie Ramp
>Agile Sunshine
_Mayflower GmbH
Natalie Ramp
About Natalie Ramp
>Agile Sunshine_Mayflower GmbH
Natalie works as a Scrum Master at Mayflower GmbH. She helps teams to inspect and adapt processes and to find the right ways to improve collaboration and productivity. Above all, she is fascinated by the diversity in projects and teams. Natalie prefers to push things after clarifying the question of "Why?", of course preferably together with a team. She helps teams to inspect and adapt processes and to find the right ways to improve collaboration and productivity. Above all, she is fascinated by the diversity in projects and teams. Natalie prefers to push things after clarifying the question of "Why?", of course preferably together with a team.
Ratko Mutavdzic
>Cloud Services Director
_Microsoft Corporation
Ratko Mutavdzic
About Ratko Mutavdzic
>Cloud Services Director_Microsoft Corporation
Ratko Mutavdžić is Director, Cloud Services for Public Sector in Central Eastern Europe, with Microsoft. He was working on several managment position in Microsoft, driving solution developments Public Sector, starting in a consulting practice and then leading several different sales and technology teams. He is the author of number of published papers on different aspects of the technology, successful blogs on new technologies, change and transformation and active contributor in a number of social networks exploring the use and advance of new ways to connect and share innovation and invention. He frequently speaks on conferences, meetings, workshops, coffe shops and generally at every place where people like to explore, challenge, investigate, think and innovate.
Katrin Strasser
>Software Developer
_Catalysts
Katrin Strasser
About Katrin Strasser
>Software Developer_Catalysts
Katrin Strasser is an AI software developer with main focus on Natural Language Processing at Catalysts. This includes planning and developing AI solutions, as well as Business Development. During her bachelor studies in Game Development & Augmented Reality and her master studies in Bioinformatics, she was able to gain insights into a wide variety of IT-related topics.
Teemu Kinnunen
>Data Scientist
_futurice
Teemu Kinnunen
About Teemu Kinnunen
>Data Scientist_futurice
Teemu Kinnunen has passion for computer vision and machine learning. He develops tools to convert raw data such as video, images and text archives into easily tangible products. He has expertise using open source software to build applications and prototypes really fast and evaluate their performance in a scientific manner. Last year, he gave a talk about Deep Learning and Spark for NLP at WeAreDevs Vienna.
David Stancel
>Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Author, Evangelist & Consultant
David Stancel
About David Stancel
>Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Author, Evangelist & ConsultantDavid has been involved with crypto since 2012. He worked as an IT auditor for Big 4 and did his MSc. in Digital Currencies at University of Nicosia. And since 2016 he has been full time in cryptocurrencies - speaking at conferences, teaching at universities, consulting multiple companies and writing on Bitcoin and crypto.
Jonathan Avinor
>Frontend Developer
_Corvid by Wix.com
Jonathan Avinor
About Jonathan Avinor
>Frontend Developer_Corvid by Wix.com
Software engineer, teacher, and quite the math geek. After more than a decade in the software industry, I am haunted by numerous questions. What makes code readable? What’s the best way to spread knowledge in a team? How should developer interviews be conducted? Are these questions important? Writing code, giving talks and workshops, and learning from the talented engineers at Wix are just a few of the ways I’m trying to answer these questions and many more.
Rishabh Misra
>Machine learning Engineer
_Twitter, Inc.
Rishabh Misra
About Rishabh Misra
>Machine learning Engineer_Twitter, Inc.
Rishabh has a Masters in CS from the University of California San Diego and currently works at Twitter as an ML Engineer in the Timelines Quality team. He's passionate about identifying and tackling novel and practical problems using his ML expertise and his contributions have led to several research publications in competitive ML conferences like RecSys, ACL, and WSDM. The datasets he collected as part of his research have been very well received by the ML community. He was recently ranked in the top 20 dataset contributors on the Kaggle platform and his dataset on Sarcasm Detection was also used in Deeplearning.ai's Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow course on Coursera for teaching purposes. He also likes to explain convoluted concepts in an accessible manner and has written several blogs with the TowardDataScience online publication.
Tobias Schröder
>Full Stack Wizard
_METRONOM
Tobias Schröder
About Tobias Schröder
>Full Stack Wizard_METRONOM
Tobias has more than five years of experience as a professional full stack developer. After finishing his academic career with a Ph.D. in dialog-based online argumentation, he decided to join METRONOM in the mid of 2018. Since then, he and his team are continuously improving METRO's customer order fulfillment processes. They provide their colleagues in the stores with first-class digital tools accelerating the management of thousands of articles over several freshness zones. Tobias's daily obsession: minimize and simplify the communication about customers' order information using online services. In his spare time, he loves to write Clojure, and if you don't find him coding, he is standing in front of his barbecue or lifting some dumbbells.
Kristijan Sedlak
>CEO
_0xcert
Kristijan Sedlak
About Kristijan Sedlak
>CEO_0xcert
Lead author of the 0xcert Protocol/Framework, a full-stack developer, blockchain engineer, designer, and musician, started my career back in 1996, with extensive experience from web and mobile, CTO veteran, startup mentor, open-source believer, and crypt enthusiast.
Artemii Novoselov
>CEO
_Converance
Artemii Novoselov
About Artemii Novoselov
>CEO_Converance
I graduated as a Geologist from Moscow State University and then got my Master's degree in Geophysics in Norway. After studies, I worked for several years in the Oil industry but then realized that I am more attracted to science, and currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Vienna. Some time ago I and my team won a Hackathon with our RecSys for conferences and now we are bringing Converance to the market.
Mira Jago
>CEO & Coder
_Cuckoo Coding GmbH
Mira Jago
About Mira Jago
>CEO & Coder_Cuckoo Coding GmbH
I'm a former philosophy student turned Coworking manager (at St. Oberholz) turned app developer (Android Java, PWA, Flutter) turned founder (Cuckoo Coding GmbH). I'm running an app dev agency in Hannover and we mostly do Flutter apps nowadays. My freelancers and employees are located in Hannover and remote. I'm doing project management, but I actively code as well. Some projects we do with, and some without the help of a Graphic designer. So I had to get into the UX/ UI design part of app development as well - and especially with Flutter this is a lot of fun. I founded the Google Dev Group Hannover and the Female Techmakers Meetup Hannover. Bringing people together, learning together and supporting diversity are essential topics for me.
Flo Pachinger
>Developer Advocate
_Cisco DevNet
Flo Pachinger
About Flo Pachinger
>Developer Advocate_Cisco DevNet
Florian (or Flo) is a Developer Advocate at Cisco DevNet focusing on IoT and Network Programmability. With a software and networking background, he has worked on many IoT projects, mostly in Germany. DevNet leads the Developer Community within and outside of Cisco and covers information for APIs, DevOps, applications, automation and infrastructure management.
Olli Salonen
>Senior Tech Lead
_Futurice GmbH
Olli Salonen
About Olli Salonen
>Senior Tech Lead_Futurice GmbH
Olli is one of those lucky individuals who gets paid for doing his hobby. He has been programming for 20 years, over 10 years professionally. As a technologist, he has done mobile, web, cloud, DevOps, and solution design. He has led teams building digital services for multiple clients in various industries, but always hands-on. He is a Technology Director and has done a two-year stint on the board of directors of Futurice, a mid-sized, international company. These experiences have taught him to never consider technology in isolation, but rather how it affects other developers, teams, end-users, business and even organizational culture.
Arto Liukkonen
>Lead Developer
_Nordcloud
Arto Liukkonen
About Arto Liukkonen
>Lead Developer_Nordcloud
Arto is a lead developer & serverless ambassador at Nordcloud. Nordcloud is the leading provider of end-to-end multi-cloud solutions from cloud infra to cloud-native applications in Europe, and MSP to all our three hyper-scale partners. Arto has been working with serverless tools for over four years, from finance sector apps to industrial IoT solutions, not forgetting open-source contribution. Organizing tech-driven events such as Serverless Finland and HackJKL meetups makes him an active member of the scene in Finland. A hacky mindset takes him on various explorations to create better, more on-point solutions when “good enough” is not good enough.
Ulrike Strommer
>Requirements Engineer & SCRUM Master
_Cloudflight
Ulrike Strommer
About Ulrike Strommer
>Requirements Engineer & SCRUM Master_Cloudflight
Ulrike joined her first open-source project seven years ago and quickly became actively involved, currently as Vice Chairman of Drupal Austria. In 2017 she co-founded Open Minds - the Austrian Open Source Award & Open Source Ball [an event with more than 400 participants to highlight and celebrate Austrian open source heroes and heroines]. In her professional life, she is working as a Requirements Engineer/Product Owner and Scrum Master at Cloudflight. But the latest of her projects seems to be the most important one: Matilda, born in September 2018.
Denis Washington
>Senior Full-Stack Developer
_Futurice
Denis Washington
About Denis Washington
>Senior Full-Stack Developer_Futurice
Coding since his early teen years, Denis has been working professionally as a full-stack developer since 2016. He has a soft spot for web technologies but loves to work with a wide range of programming languages, frameworks and tools, each of which provides their unique approaches and viewpoints that help him improve his craft. For Denis, clear communication - be it in code, within the team, across the organization or with end-users - is the key to developing good software, and he is always on the lookout for practices and tools enabling that.
Steffen Heilmann
>CTO
_Aroundhome
Steffen Heilmann
About Steffen Heilmann
>CTO_Aroundhome
Steffen is CTO @ Aroundhome. Previously he was Bereichsleiter IT (SVP IT) @ MYTOYS GROUP. Before that, he was a senior IT manager at Allianz and a strategic management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He holds both a Master of Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration
Greg Scullard
>Lead Developer Advocate
_Hedera Hashgraph
Greg Scullard
About Greg Scullard
>Lead Developer Advocate_Hedera Hashgraph
Since owning his first computer in 1981, Greg has never stopped developing software. His grandmother was very proud when his name appeared on the front cover of a computer magazine at just age 12. Before joining Hedera Hashgraph as a Lead Developer Advocate, Greg spent nearly three decades working for small, medium, and large software development businesses in many different roles. He was on a path to an executive career until developing two mobile apps in his own time made him realize that it was software development and working with software developers that motivated him to do great things. Hedera came along just at the right time.
Atul Luykx
>Head of Cryptography
_Swirlds
Atul Luykx
About Atul Luykx
>Head of Cryptography_Swirlds
Atul Luykx is the head of cryptography at Swirlds, where he focuses on research surrounding the hashgraph algorithm. He co-designed multiple cryptographic algorithms, one standardized at ISO/IEC and another a winner of a cryptographic competition (CAESAR). He has authored over twenty papers in cryptography, published at top-tier venues. Previously, he was a Staff Research Scientist at Visa Research, and has spent time as the Belgian Head of Delegation for ISO/IEC SC27’s working group on the standardization of cryptographic algorithms. He completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Bart Preneel at the KU Leuven.
Carolin Ullrich
>Student & Robot Enthusiast
_Technical University Berlin
Carolin Ullrich
About Carolin Ullrich
>Student & Robot Enthusiast_Technical University Berlin
My name is Caro, and I’m a student at Technical University of Berlin. My educational sweet spot is the intersection of humans and machines. I love to translate research insights into moving stories or tangible ideas and products. I’m writing about human-machine interaction on my blog 'Of Men & Machines'.
Stephen Jones
>CUDA Architect
_NVIDIA
Stephen Jones
About Stephen Jones
>CUDA Architect_NVIDIA
Stephen is the architect of CUDA at NVIDIA, making the CUDA language and programming model span the needs of parallel programming from high-performance computing to artificial intelligence. Prior to his present position, he lead the Simulation & Analytics group at SpaceX, where he worked on various projects including large-scale simulation of combustion processes in rocket engines. His background is in computational fluid mechanics and plasma physics, but he has worked in diverse industries including networking, CAD/CAM, and scientific computing.
Andreas Grimm
>Serverless, Identity & Access Management, Domain-Driven Design, Meetup Organizer
Andreas Grimm
About Andreas Grimm
>Serverless, Identity & Access Management, Domain-Driven Design, Meetup OrganizerAndreas is an expert in Identity & Access Management and a proponent of the serverless methodology. Because getting to a shared understanding with the business is more important than technical solutions, he's into approaches like Domain-Driven Design and Collaborative Modeling. He's from the community for the community and organizes several meetup groups in Berlin like @DDDBER, @fullstack_JS and @ServerlessBER.
Alphonse Delaporte
>Product Engineer
_Platform.sh
Alphonse Delaporte
About Alphonse Delaporte
>Product Engineer_Platform.sh
Alphonse Delaporte is a Product Engineer in the UX team of Platform.sh, a company that takes care of all infrastructure needs, from hosting and technology to global deployment and support. He is based in Paris and joined the company three years ago, right after graduating from university. Even after years, Alphonse never gets tired of playing around with the product and is passionate about helping people to understand it in order to get the most out of the service. Besides his technical interests in AI and machine learning, Alphonse enjoys woodworking, learning to play the piano, and playing videogames with his friends.
Branislav Bujisic
>Director of Accounts Engineering
_Platform.sh
Branislav Bujisic
About Branislav Bujisic
>Director of Accounts Engineering_Platform.sh
Branislav Bujisic is a software developer and Director of Accounts Engineering at Platform.sh. Originally from Serbia, having a Hungarian mother and Montenegrin father, he lives in Germany and works for an English-speaking, yet French company. This gives him quite a funny accent, which he loves sharing by helping clients use and understand the product via demos and trainings. His technical interests lie in service-oriented architecture, automation of everything, and best practices in development, deployment, and life-cycle management. Away from the command line, he is a family guy with two beautiful daughters; passionate about good craft beers, fine foods, travel, and shiny new technology.
Jonas Kröger
>Solutions Architect
_Platform.sh
Jonas Kröger
About Jonas Kröger
>Solutions Architect_Platform.sh
Jonas’s 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.
Sebastian Benz
>Lead Developer Advocate
_Google
Sebastian Benz
About Sebastian Benz
>Lead Developer Advocate_Google
Sebastian is an engineer at Google working on AMP. He focuses on helping developers build great experiences across the web with AMP.
Dr. Zoltan Fazekas
>Blockchain Consultant
_iteratec GmbH
Dr. Zoltan Fazekas
About Dr. Zoltan Fazekas
>Blockchain Consultant_iteratec GmbH
Dr. Zoltan Fazekas has been working as a consultant, speaker and author on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for many years. Since 2007 he is heading the Austrian branch of iteratec GmbH. He is the founder of the IT service provider's Blockchain Labs, responsible for the blockchain education at FH Technikum Wien, the largest technical university of applied sciences in Austria, and an active member in the blockchain working group of Austrian Standards International.
Olivér Pintér
>Blockchain developer
_Kiss Consult
Olivér Pintér
About Olivér Pintér
>Blockchain developer_Kiss Consult
Long time blockchain advocate and enthusiast. Working as a solidity developer in up and coming tokenization projects. Co-owner in Kiss Consult, tech company.
Pablo Weremczuk
>Frontend Developer
Pablo Weremczuk
About Pablo Weremczuk
>Frontend DeveloperI worked in the past for companies like Unilever, Lego, The Walt Disney Company, Blue Smart and Barclays. Angular Developer for living. C Developer as a hobby. Creator of Vox Populi, Vox Dei(a werewolf thriller). I work in a company created in 1690. My opinions are my own.
Sergej Dechand
>CEO & Co-Founder
_Code Intelligence
Sergej Dechand
About Sergej Dechand
>CEO & Co-Founder_Code Intelligence
Sergej Dechand is CEO and co-founder of Code Intelligence. He and his team strive to revolutionize the way the world tests software. He is an expert in usability aspects of IT security. Sergej has ten years of experience in software development, software testing, IT security and academic publishing. Before founding Code Intelligence with his colleagues in 2018, he worked as an external IT consultant and as a project manager at Fraunhofer FKIE.
Mikko Pohja
>Master Builder, Emerging Business
_Futurice Oy
Mikko Pohja
About Mikko Pohja
>Master Builder, Emerging Business_Futurice Oy
Mikko is a professional enthusiast from Finland working as a Master Builder of Emerging Business Team at Futurice. He has got a long past with full-stack web development, but in recent years increasing number of hours has gone into learning and prototyping with deep learning, IoT and other emerging technologies.
Tomislav Tipurić
>Chief Technology Officer
_Nephos
Tomislav Tipurić
About Tomislav Tipurić
>Chief Technology Officer_Nephos
Tomislav is CTO and partner in Nephos - company that successfully supports the digital transformation of their clients at home and abroad with its products and services. Prior to joining Nephos, Tomislav worked for Microsoft for ten years, the last few as a technology strategist for partners that embed Microsoft's technology and cloud services into their own products. During his career, he has worked with some companies in the region, from the smallest startups to renowned large companies, helping developers and system engineers to apply the latest Microsoft technologies. He is currently focussing on the world's leading cloud technologies, DevOps topics, artificial intelligence, and the way of doing business in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution. He spends much of his time transferring knowledge through workshops and lectures at numerous conferences in the region, helping individuals and businesses to be more successful in applying innovative technologies.
Bernd Stransky
>Solutions Architect
_New Relic
Bernd Stransky
About Bernd Stransky
>Solutions Architect_New Relic
After studying computer science at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Bernd Stransky first worked at iXOS for several years as a programmer and then for Hewlett-Packard in the mid-1990s. He then worked in the United States for several years, where he then accepted a position at Veritas / Symantec in the pre-sales area. Relocating to London with Symantec as a Technical Account Manager, where primarily looked after enterprise customers in the financial sector. He has been living in Switzerland for ten years - initially continued to work for Symantec and has now been with New Relic for over three years, where he supports various enterprise customers in DACH and EMEA as a Solutions Architect.
Olaf Stelter
>Developers Community Manager
_Mercedes-Benz
Olaf Stelter
About Olaf Stelter
>Developers Community Manager_Mercedes-Benz
Olaf has empowered Daimlers' internal API Management program since 2017. As an API evangelist, he cultivates API product thinking. In his role as program manager, he organized and moderated the oneAPI Forum with 600+ employees. The last year his focus moved forward on evolving Mercedes-Benz /developers and the business potential behind it. As the community manager, he is highly engaged with developers and startups. Olaf initiated and led the UPSTREAM program to help startups grow their business with Mercedes-Benz data.
Maria Laaksonen
>Customer Success Engineer
_Aito
Maria Laaksonen
About Maria Laaksonen
>Customer Success Engineer_Aito
Maria works as a Customer Success Engineer at Aito. After kicking off her career in Academia and researching brain cancer, she gradually shifted more towards the private side of the BioIT industry. And now, she works with machine learning and applying it to solve business problems. Thanks to her diverse background, Maria is highly skilled with hardcore data analysis but also extremely fluent with people. In front of them, on stage, Maria likes to dive deep into ML solutions and why, how, when and where to use them. She can shed simple light on complex issues and help her technical (or non-technical) audience avoiding the usual AI/ML pitfalls. But be aware: sometimes she might throw in some nice-to-know facts about Yorkshire terriers. Or humbly brag with her (honestly: very impressive) painting skills. But mostly she talks tech – at least when on duty.
Dana Farhat
>Senior Developer
_Shopify
Dana Farhat
About Dana Farhat
>Senior Developer_Shopify
Coming from a family fathered by a bank programmer, Dana moved to Canada at the age of 16 to study software engineering. Right off school, she developed one of the top 10 visited websites in the world right now. After that, she worked on monetizing the same website, which carved her retail and online payments career. Now she is a Senior Developer working on Payments at Shopify.
Tadej Vengust
>Head of Blockchain development
_Kalmia LTD
Tadej Vengust
About Tadej Vengust
>Head of Blockchain development_Kalmia LTD
Tadej developed his passion for programming at the age of 13 when he created his first web page. Since then, he was involved in several startups and projects while completing his engineering degree at the same time. He worked in fintech for three years developing POS systems and webshops and after that, he worked on VOIP applications. In 2016 he became interested in blockchain and trading, then mining and eventually programming. He's been building blockchain applications ever since in a full-stack capacity (from solidity to front-end).
Katrin Bertschy
>(Frontend-)Dev loving UX
Katrin Bertschy
About Katrin Bertschy
>(Frontend-)Dev loving UX- 15 years experience in web development - always as part of an (agile) team, always close to the UI - learned a lot from writing identical, pixel-perfect frontends for IE6 and Firefox - currently working as a full-stack developer (with a clear preference for frontend-jobs) and UX consultant - looking for inspiration and things to borrow in psychology, art, and design all the time - co-hosting the UX meetup in Würzburg and the "create" track of the DevCamp taking place in Würzburg every year