Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a global software company which builds tools to help teams unleash their potential. More than 300,000 large and small organisations across the world use Atlassian’s collaboration products like Jira, Confluence and Trello to help their teams work better together. Scott is also a Co-Founder of Pledge 1%, a movement that inspires early-stage corporate philanthropy.

Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses.

Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.

Scott has been a developer for 30 years and has been blogging at https://hanselman.com for 20 years! He works in Open Source on .NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has been podcasting for over 800 episodes of http://hanselminutes.com over 15 years and 700 episodes of http://www.azurefriday.com. He's written a number of technical books and spoken in person to over one million developers worldwide! He's also on TikTok, which was very likely a huge mistake.

Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools developers love and accelerating innovations that are changing software development. Currently, Thomas is Chief Executive Officer of GitHub, where he has overseen the launch of the world’s first at-scale AI developer tool, GitHub Copilot. Before his time at GitHub, Thomas previously co-founded HockeyApp and led the company as CEO through its acquisition by Microsoft in 2014, and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.

Sitting on GitHub’s Executive Leadership team, Demetris Cheatham is currently the Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub, where she acts as the CEO’s trusted partner to move all of software development forward. Demetris is particularly passionate about the evolving nature of open source in the age of AI. Before her time as COS to the CEO, Demetris was Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy at GitHub, the Global Diversity and Inclusion at Lead at Red Hat, and was formerly the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the United States’ oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges.Demetris earned a B.S. in Computer Science with honors from North Carolina A&T State University and a JD/MBA from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and the University of Maryland Robert F. Smith School of Business.

Aleph Alpha Founder & CEO Jonas Andrulis is a serial entrepreneur and former AI R&D manager at Apple’s Special Projects Division (SPG). For several years, Jonas Andrulis has been at the forefront of the development towards transformative AI. His experience ranges from innovative academic experiments to building and operating petabyte machine learning pipelines for computer vision and language processing.

Douglas Crockford is at least partly to blame for the incredible success of JavaScript. He also discovered JSON, the world's best loved data interchange format. He was a researcher at Atari, Director of Technology at Lucasfilm, Director of New Media at Paramount, and a Distinguished Architect at Yahoo and PayPal. He is the author of "JavaScript: The Good Parts_ and _How JavaScript Works".

Constantijn van Oranje leads Techleap.nl, the initiative to turn The Netherlands into a European
powerhouse for tech companies. He and his team run programs and connect a community of the
most promising and ambitious startup & scaleup founders in The Netherlands. Techleap also works
with stakeholders like the government to improve the conditions for tech entrepreneurs to scale
their companies.

He is member of the National Growth Fund Investment Committee, Board member of the NATO
Innovation Fund, Fellow at Deloitte Centre for the Edge and Senior Advisor Digital Technology &
Macro Strategy at Macro Advisory Partners in London and New York. Additionally, he is ambassador
of the European Innovation Council.

Constantijn co-founded StartupFest Europe, which is still the biggest start-up event ever organised in
The Netherlands. Previously, he was Chief of Staff to VP Neelie Kroes at the European Commission in
charge of the Digital Agenda and led the Brussels office of the RAND Corporation following jobs at
Booz Allen & Hamilton, IFC and the Cabinet of EC Commissioner Hans van den Broek.
Aside from innovation and technology, Constantijn van Oranje is passionate about art, music,
photography, and nature.

Denis Yarats is the Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity, the conversational "answer engine" that provides precise, user-focused answers to queries — with in-line citations. Denis co-founded the company in 2022 after working as a research scientist at Facebook. He has a PhD in Computer Science from NYU and you can find him on Twitter/X and LinkedIn.

Jan is a quantum physicist and co-founding co-CEO of IQM, building next-generation quantum computers. IQM has assembled an exceptional team of international professionals to build quantum computers for high-performance centers, academia, and industry. IQM has raised €128 million in Series A2 funding (in 2022), largest ever funding round raised by a European quantum computing company. Jandid his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent. In 2023, he was selected as Founder of the Year by Handelsblatt. In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany and he received an entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Jan was in the Board of the European Innovation Council EIC and holds a Board seat in the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC. He is also and member of the German Federal Economic Senate, an EIC Scaling Club Council member, member of the Hall of Future, as well as a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the WEF.

Suzie Prince is the Head of Product, DevOps at Atlassian. She has 20 years experience building agile and developer tools. Suzie has been leading high-performing teams at Atlassian for 4 years, delivering products that power software development teams worldwide. Before joining Atlassian, she spent 15 years at ThoughtWorks, where she introduced Agile and DevOps practices to numerous global Fortune 500 businesses. Suzie is passionate about creating software that balances user, customer and business needs and loves empowering her teams to deliver value quickly, frequently and sanely.

David Simas is the Managing Director of Research and Impact at Emerson Collective, where heworks to develop in-depth research projects and distributes findings and analysis in service ofEmerson's priorities including democracy, immigration, education, and climate.

A native of Taunton, Massachusetts, David was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff toMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007. He then joined President Obama’sadministration in 2009 as a Deputy Assistant to the President, working with senior advisorsDavid Axelrod and David Plouffe. In 2012, he served as Director of Opinion Research forPresident Obama's reelection campaign. Following the reelection, Mr. Simas returned to theWhite House as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Political Strategy andOutreach. In 2016, President Obama selected Mr. Simas to serve as Chief Executive Officer ofthe Obama Foundation. Mr. Simas holds a B.A. in political science from Stonehill College and aJ.D. from Boston College Law School. He is the son of two Portuguese immigrants and lives inLos Angeles with his wife, Shauna, and their two daughters.

Noga Mann is an Engineering Manager at Figma, focused on bridging the gap between design and development, and enhancing collaborative product development with Dev Mode.
Committed to diversity and inclusion in tech, Noga founded QueenB, a non-profit connecting university students with teenage girls to teach coding and help young women launch their tech careers.

Dr. Carola Lilienthal is senior architect and managing director of WPS - Workplace Solutions GmbH and has been developing software architectures according to the principles of Domain Driven Design with her teams for more than 15 years. She is author of the books "Sustainable Software Architecture" and "Domain-Driven Transformation".

Scott Chacon is the former cofounder of GitHub; now cofounder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.

John Woods joined the Algorand Foundation as CTO in 2022. Prior to joining the leadership team he worked as Chief Architect of Cardano at IOHK. John has held roles leading software architecture and applied cryptography at a number of firms including Informatica and ConsenSys.

Chris Wysopal is Veracode's CTO and co-founder. He is one of the original vulnerability researchers and an early member of L0pht Heavy Industries, which he joined in 1992. He is the author of netcat for Windows and one of the authors of L0phtCrack. He has testified on Capitol Hill in the US on the subjects of government computer security and how vulnerabilities are discovered in software. He published his first advisory in 1996 on parameter tampering in Lotus Domino and has been trying to help people not repeat this type of mistake for 15 years. He is also the author of "The Art of Software Security Testing" published by Addison-Wesley.

Peter Bosch is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CARIAD, the software company of the Volkswagen Group. Prior to his appointment on June 1, 2023, Bosch was Member of the Board of Management for Production at Bentley from 2017 to 2023, where he was largely responsible for the successful realignment and restructuring of the company to become the market leader for sustainable, modern luxury vehicles.

Bosch joined the Volkswagen Group in 2011 and was initially responsible for optimizing the strategy, processes and structures of production for the Volkswagen brand worldwide. Prior to that, he was a senior director at Oliver Wyman, where he held various management positions.

Peter Bosch studied economics at the LMU Munich and mechanical engineering at the TU Munich. He lives near Munich with his family. In addition to his position as CEO of CARIAD, Bosch is a member of the Board of Directors of Scout Motors, where he supports the development of a manufacturer of electric trucks and SUVs for the Volkswagen Group in the USA.

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.

Maezza Romero is a Community Manager at Romero Games. With 5 years of experience in the industry, she has used her acquired skills to build and manage large community spaces, such as the Romero Games Discord which has recently celebrated 7,000 members.

The Romero Games Twitter, the company’s biggest social media page with nearly 9,000 followers is a fun and nostalgic space for fans of Romero’s legacy titles such as DOOM and Quake, offering discussions on what DOOM weapon one would bring to a desert island, and other lively user polls and QnA. The current social media landscape is challenging, with new platforms overtaking the next.

In 2023, fast-form video content is the meta, so Maezza has had to adapt her social media management to platforms such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. By utilising traditional social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as modern platforms, Maezza creates content for diehard Millennial and Gen-X fans.

Ulrich Irnich is Vodafone Germany’s CIO and a member of its Executive Committee. He leads the customer-focused IT strategy, digitalisation, new technologies and the modernisation of IT processes and systems.He has a 32-year track record in the IT and telecom industries, palying an instrumental role in driving Unitymedia’s agile and digital transformation as CIO. At Telefónica he orchestrated the company’s radical simplification and transformation.He has a degree in electrical engineering and in his spare time he enjoys running marathons and cycling. He's married with two adult sons.

Ray Eitel-Porter is a Senior Adviser for Responsible AI. He was previously Accenture’s Global Lead for Responsible AI developing solutions for data and AI ethics, advising clients and building Accenture’s own AI compliance program. He remains engaged as an Accenture Luminary. He has held leadership roles in data and AI for the past 15 years working across many industries. Ray led the formation of Accenture’s Strategic Partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and co-chairs the UK government’s Data Skills Taskforce. He initiated the UK’s first national data science prize for schools, in association with TeenTech. Ray holds an MA from Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He is fluent in German, having lived in Munich for many years.

Alex Soto is a Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat. He is passionate about the Java world, software automation and he believes in the open-source software model. Alex is the co-author of Testing Java Microservice, Quarkus cookbook, Kubernetes Secrets Management, and GitOps cookbook books and contributor to several open-source projects. A Java Champion since 2017, he is also an international speaker and teacher at Salle URL University. You can follow him on Twitter (@alexsotob) to stay tuned to what’s going on in Kubernetes and Java world.

Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK.

He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Web Summit, and DLD. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg.

He has also advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as being a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK.

He is the co-founder ThePathfounder.com newsletter; TheEuropas.com (the Annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards for 12 years); and the non-profits Techfugees.com, TechVets.co, and Coadec.com.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

His responsibilities include the positioning of Intel products and solutions in the AI environment. Together with his cross-site and inter-organizational team, Stephan Gillich plans and implements strategies for AI technologies worldwide and with a specific focus on the EMEA region.
Within Intel, Stephan has held various management positions with responsibility for technology and the positioning and marketing of relevant products for businesses and end-users.
He holds a degree (Dipl. Inform. Univ.) in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.

Daniel Tao is the Head of Engineering for DevOps Products at Atlassian, leading the engineering organization responsible for developer-focused experiences including Bitbucket Cloud and the Open DevOps solution in Jira Software. He has overseen initiatives at Atlassian including Bitbucket's migration from the data center to AWS, a strategic shift to supporting enterprises in the cloud, and launching a new beta product (Compass), among many others. Dan's professional experience includes time at Google, ThoughtWorks, and several startups.

Madona S. Wambua is the Founder and CTO of Jibu Labs, an Author, a Keynote Speaker, an Android Expert, and has over a decade in software engineering. She is also a Women Tech Makers Ambassador and AnitaB.org Co-Chair, a host of Tech Talks with Madona, and a developer who enjoys sharing her Android knowledge and teaching others how to make Android applications.

Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s newest business unit focused on open and decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world.
As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in 27 patented inventions in the areas of collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, virtual reality, and software development processes.

Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Oracle. He leads the development of mission-critical database capabilities as well Blockchain, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases.Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 40 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.

Gift Egwuenu is a Developer Advocate at Cloudflare. She has over 6 years of experience in web development and building tools to help businesses grow. In her previous role, she worked as a front-end developer. She is now working in developer relations.

Gift shares her experience in Web Development, Jamstack, and career-related topics, with the goal of helping people level up their skills in the industry.

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Involved in Open Source for over 15 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Jenkins or Apache Maven.

Being associated with the industry since 2004, I have lent my expertise predominantly in the solution architecture field. I have gained accolades for revolutionising the scalability of frontend architectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows, to delivering quality in products. My colleagues know me as an excellent communicator who believes in using an interactive approach for understanding and solving problems of varied scopes.
I helped DAZN becoming a global streaming platform in just 5 years, now as Principal Architect at AWS, I'm helping our customers in the media and entertainment space to deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions.
Moreover, I'm sharing with the community the best practices to develop cloud-native architectures solving technical and organizational challenges.

My core industry knowledge has been instrumental in resolving complex architectural and integration challenges. Working within the scopes of a plethora of technical roles such as tech lead, solutions architect and CTO, I have developed a precise understanding of various technicalities which has helped me in maximizing value of my company and products in my current leadership roles.

I'm Anja, Principal Fullstack Engineer working at Mister Spex @ Berlin, Germany. We are right now breaking down a monolith and replacing parts of it by future-ready technology. Previously, I have worked for eBay.
Also, I'm sports enthusiast and current local champion in wakeskating. I love to find and cross the borders of what seems achievable.

Michael Hunger has been passionate about software development for more than 30 years.

For the last 14 years, he has been working on the open source Neo4j graph database filling many roles, most recently leading Product Innovation.

As a developer Michael enjoys participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and contributing and writing software related books and articles. Michael spoke at numerous conferences and helped organized several of them.

Michael helps kids to learn to program by running weekly girls-only coding classes at local schools.

Arno is responsible for the development of all think-cell software products. He oversees our R&D team, quality assurance and customer care. Before founding think-cell, Arno worked at Microsoft Research and McKinsey. Arno studied computer science and management and holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech with a specialization in computer graphics.

Matthias Henze, aka Matze, has been serving as CEO of Jimdo for 18 years, is a curator for the German Founder's Award, and an expert in solo self-employment and micro-enterprises. As a founder, he has steered Jimdo to become a leading provider of software tools and services for these target groups. Additionally, Matze promotes the visibility of self-employed individuals, among other initiatives, through the Jimdo-ifo Business Climate Index. He hails from Göttingen and spent formative years of his childhood in Oman and the USA. He pursued his studies in Business Admin. in Kiel and Gothenburg.

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

Hendrik Ebbers (@hendrikEbbers) is a Java Champion, JSR expert group member and JavaOne Rockstar. He works as a contractor for Swirlds Labs on the public Hashgraph of Hedera. Hendrik is the founder and leader of the Java User Group Dortmund and gives talks and presentations in user groups and conferences around the world. His JavaFX book “Mastering JavaFX 8 Controls” was released in 2014 by Oracle press. He contributes to several open source projects including JakartaEE and Eclipse Adoptium. Hendrik is a member of the AdoptOpenJDK TSC and of the Eclipse Adoptium WG.

Maxim Salnikov is an Oslo-based cloud and tech community geek. He is a webdev maestro who builds apps since the end of the last century and shares his extensive web platform experience by speaking & training at developer events around the world. Daytime, Maxim is boosting cloud skills at the country scale by leading developer engagement in Microsoft Norway. In the evenings, you'll find him organizing the country's main web & mobile meetups, and two full-scale tech conferences.

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Former Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft. JavaScript and Accessibility expert. Worked on Chromium Developer Tools. Author of the Developer Advocacy Handbook, LinkedIn Learning and Skillshare Trainer. Cinephile.

Martina is a Google Developer Expert in Angular and web technologies. As a senior frontend developer, she focuses on implementing highly scalable software solutions with Node.js and Angular. Besides giving workshops as an Angular trainer, she founded RheinNeckarJS, is a core member of the ngGirls Team, co-organizes the local Angular Heidelberg user group and the German Angular conference NG-DE.

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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.

Alayshia Knighten has many years of experience in the DevOps realm. Alayshia specializes in enhancing technical and team-related experiences while educating customers on their journey with and beyond IaC. Previously, she spent time at Honeycomb.io, educating people on Observability. In her words, “Getting ish done while identifying how to accelerate at the person beyond the tooling is the real meat and potatoes.” She enjoys solving the “so, how do we solve that?” problems and meeting people from all walks of life.

Linda Stauffenberg is a strategic advisor specializing in driving people centric change and transformation initiatives within complex organizations. She is co-founder and managing director at Experience One, a digital transformation and innovation partner for companies like Mercedes-Benz, BOSCH, AOK, ZEISS, Sparkassen Group. Her expertise lies in changemaker positioning and coaching as well as delivering change programs to help companies to become customer centric and to establish innovation culture.

Evan Lezar is a Senior Systems Software Engineer on the Cloud Native team at NVIDIA. His focus is making GPUs and other NVIDIA devices easily accessible from containerized environments. This includes driving development and adoption of the Container Device Interface (CDI).

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.

Du’An is an Air Force veteran and Sr. Developer Advocate at AWS. He has 10+ years of designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise infrastructures. At AWS he uses his experience and knowledge to help customers learn and build on AWS.

Around 10 years of experience in different areas of AI in different fields. Including e-commerce, oil & gas, banking & now Meta.Around 10 years of experience in different areas of AI in different fields. Including e-commerce, oil & gas, banking & now Meta.
Main achievements:
- Currently ML Engineer at Meta working on Malware Detection (London);
- Built Computer Vision team for Petronas (Kuala Lumpur);
- Graduate course in AI at Stanford;

Dr. Johanna Pirker is a computer scientist focusing on development, research, and education of games and VR experiences is an active and strong voice of the local indie dev community. She has lengthy experience in designing, developing, and evaluating games and VR experiences and believes in them as tools to support learning, collaboration, and solving real problems. She started in the industry as QA tester at EA and still consults studios in the field of games user research. In 2011/12 she started researching and developing VR experiences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the moment she is Ass.Prof. for game development at TU Graz and researches games with a focus on AI, HCI, data analysis, and VR technologies. Johanna was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of science professionals.

Senior Web Software Engineer at Bloomberg, Ex Twitter. Passionate about getting more women into technology and teaching. Lover of digital art and chatting about web accessibility and building modular react applications.

Professional .NET developer with expertise in a variety of technologies including ASP.NET Core, WPF, UWP, Xamarin, Azure etc.
MCP/MCSD and Azure certified. MVP 2016-2019 in category Windows Development

Kevin Klues is a distinguished engineer on the NVIDIA Cloud Native team. Kevin has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of Kubernetes technologies, including the Topology Manager, the Kubernetes stack for Multi-Instance GPUs, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). When not working, you can usually find Kevin on a snowboard or up in the mountains in some capacity or another.

Daniel is a Germany-based Software Engineer who cares not only about building great products but also invests a lot in fostering a great engineering culture. Before joining the corporate world, he co-founded two startups and worked as a freelance software engineer.

It's me, a security engineer with more than 10 years of experience in AppSec/MobSec and Pentest. Since 2020 I help companies to establish Security in their development processes and promote DevSecOps.

Alejandro is the Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando SE, where he leads a cross-functional technology organisation of department heads, managers, principals and ICs. He is responsible for one of Zalando's large-scale central data platforms, a large portfolio of (10+) products, and SOtA machine learning systems powering critical use-cases across the org. Alejandro is also the Chief Scientist at the Institute for Ethical AI, where he contributes to policy and standards on responsible machine learning, and has led EU policy contributions including the AI Act, Data Act, DSA, etc.

Adora Nwodo is a multi-award winning Software Engineer. She currently works at the intersection of the Metaverse, Cloud Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and is passionate about the Cloud and Emerging Technologies. She is also an Advisory Board member for DevNetwork.

Adora is the Author of the popular book "Cloud Engineering for Beginners". This book is currently helping a lot of people start their career as Cloud Engineers. She is also the author of “Beginning Azure DevOps, ” a book published by Wiley, and “Confident Cloud,” a book published by Kogan Page.

Jose, a Venezuelan Lead Software Engineer in the U.K., with a decade of experience, drives innovative solutions. Committed to promoting diversity in tech, he's a Google Developer Group organizer, Ignite JAVA/Spring leader, and Affiliate Professor at the University of Glasgow. An engaging speaker, Jose simplifies complex tech concepts, making them accessible to all.

Eberhard Wolff has 20+ years of experience as an architect and consultant - often on the intersection of business and technology. He is Head of Architecture at SWAGLab. As a speaker, he has given talks at international conferences and as an author, he has written more than 100 articles and books e.g. about Microservices and Continuous Delivery. His technological focus is on modern architectures – often involving Cloud, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Microservices or NoSQL.

Darrel Idiagbor is a seasoned full-stack engineer who currently works as a software engineer, backend at Elli. He holds a first-class degree in computer science from Covenant University and has a wealth of experience in the tech industry. Darrel has made significant impacts at uLesson, where he built out the web application in just two months, amongst others Darrel's impactful contributions also include leading the technology division of Farmstripe. Darrel is currently working on B2B initiatives in the EV Charging company Elli.

Carsten is Head of Financial Innovation & Digital Solution at Finanz Informatik (FI), the digitization partner of the Sparkassen bank group. He is responsible for various initiatives, including the internally developed Low Code platform and the Open Banking solution for the Sparkassen financial platform. With his team, Carsten works on new and sometimes experimental approaches for faster and simpler application development, as well as the implementation of new technologies such as voice and chat bots to create innovative customer experience.

Raniz is a programmer, architect, speaker and coach at factor10, helping companies achieve software excellence with a business focus.

As a problem solver at heart, he jumps at complicated problems and believes that as much as possible should be automated, reproducible and stored as code.

Antoine is Principal Product Designer at Yelp and an Indiepreneur currently living and working in Hamburg. He successfully founded, designed, grew, and sold multiple bootstrapped SaaS companies. He is now working on Fernand, the ultimate custom messaging tool for modern SaaS.

Asrar leads targeted developer engagement within Google Cloud, driven by a deep passion for fostering vibrant connections within the global developer community. His primary objectives include driving key initiatives to boost developer engagement, amplifying advocacy efforts, forging strategic in-kind partnerships with developer communities, and fostering sustained global engagement among developers. Additionally, Asrar is dedicated to advancing developer learning and upskilling initiatives to empower developers to achieve excellence in their careers.

Zan is a developer advocate at CircleCI, on a mission to educate and inspire developers on the topics of CI/CD, DevOps, and software quality.

Across his career he has worked in companies of various sizes, from enterprises to own startups, and everything in between, and across industries as diverse as retail, AI, and developer tools.

He’s passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience. Outside of work, he enthuses over airplanes, craft beer, and the Oxford comma.

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O'Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.

Former open source startup co-founder and with a history at Zalando and Spotify. Now Director of developer programmes at Docker.

Have a broad background in open source, product, engineering leadership and security.

Timo Salm is the first Solution Engineer for Developer Experience at Tanzu by Broadcom in EMEA, focusing on internal developer platforms and commercial Spring products. In this role, he's responsible for educating customers on the value of these products and ensuring that they succeed by working closely on different levels of abstractions of modern applications and modern infrastructure.

Before Timo joined Pivotal, which VMware and now Broadcom acquired, he worked for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer.

Hadi has been in the IT Industry for over three decades and has been involved in a variety of technologies and platforms. He has been speaking at industry events for over two decades and is a renowned international keynote speaker. Hadi is currently VP of Developer Advocacy and Head of Open Source Department at JetBrains, where he oversees some of the key projects and products for the company, including Kotlin.

Georg studied computer science with a focus on web and network technologies but decided to become an app developer when the first iPhone was released. He spends most of his professional time architecting and developing apps using Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, native technologies and more recently also Python and LLMs.
With more than ten years of experience, he has a strong focus on application architecture, data modeling, testing and code quality. He gave talks at WeAreDevelopers, meetups in Munich and has taught a course on mobile app development at Hochschule Furtwangen.

Alex is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with 20 years of IT experience in expert and leadership roles. He is a strong advocate of agile and DevOps practices, and he enjoys seeing serverless, cloud-native and event-driven architectures deployed at scale. He has delivered large transformation projects and successfully developed own and customers’ businesses. He is a trained and experienced speaker, having presented at a wide range of events.

Andrew is a Distinguished Engineer and also the Senior Director Software Communities, within the Open Source Software group at Arm where he leads the Open Source Office and also many of the relationships Arm has with the wider open source community. He has spent over 20 years in open source most of which has been in the enterprise. He is actively involved in a variety of projects and communities, sitting on a number of project and Foundation Boards including FreeBSD, Rust, Xen and Yocto Project.

Matthias Niehoff works as Head of Data & AI and Data Architect for codecentric AG and supports customers in the design and implementation of data architectures. His focus is not so much on the ML model, but rather on the necessary infrastructure and organization to help data science projects succeed.

Ed is an Engineer and Marketer experienced in advanced vehicle technology, model-based design (MBD), and distributed ledger technologies (DLT). He is passionate about leading interdisciplinary teams, building user-centric solutions, and connecting with developers and organizations in technology sectors.

Currently, Ed works at Swirlds Labs, growing the Hedera network and helping developers get on board with Web 3. He is also pursuing a graduate degree in Management at Harvard.

• Managing Partner & Pricipal Consultant at Software Quality Lab
• More than 35 years of experience in software development in various industries and roles (Developer, Software Architect, Project Manager, Tester, Development Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner, Managing Director)
• Lecturer at several conferences (ASQF, ESE, Embedded meets Agile, iqnite, MedConf, OOP, ReConf, STEV, Software Quality Days, SPS, VÖSI Software Day, Embedded World, AutomationSTAR, WeAreDevelopers, …).
• Vicepresident of Austrian Testing Board

Ramona is a developer advocate and software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and developers alike, becoming a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress ambassador.

Jim is a seasoned technology executive with a passion for building meaningful connections. With an impressive career spanning over two decades, he has held pivotal roles in organizations of all sizes. As CTO of MeisterLabs, he continues to drive technological excellence, blending technical prowess with emotional intelligence to foster innovation and teamwork. Jim's career is a testament to his commitment to leveraging technology for connection and success in today's dynamic digital landscape.

Hendrik Lösch is a management consultant and architect at ZEISS Digital Innovation. The focus of his work is on the development and evaluation of software, based on Microsoft technologies. He also enjoys writing and talking about his work as well as his enthusiasm for clean code, software evolution and test automation in its various forms.

Andrew is a failed sports science student who wanders into software engineering by virtue of luck and the necessity to find a job in a hurry. Through the grace and patience of his colleagues, he has spent nearly the past decade learning how to be a software engineer, systems engineer, site reliability engineer and student of human factors. Most recently, he has been learning how to become an engineering manager and trying to pass on what knowledge he has gained so far to the next generation of software adventurers.

Ines Akrap is a Frontend Software Engineer passionate about optimizing websites to be fast, sustainable, and provide the best user experience for every user. She works in Storyblok as Solutions Engineer. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with others through talks, podcasts, workshops, and courses. Her current biggest project is teaching one little human risk management and words.

Dieter is a seasoned Solution Engineer with over 20 years of experience developing and optimising applications across various industries. With a strong background in software development, he deeply understands the challenges and needs of developers and clients alike.

At DataStax, Dieter empowers his clients using advanced data technologies and best practices to implement generative AI applications, helping them accelerate development cycles and deliver cutting-edge solutions.

Passionate about developer empowerment, he provides tools and technologies that catalyze innovation and efficiency.

Steve is a Quality Analyst who works to build empowered teams, capable of delivering and taking ownership of quality. He has worked on a wide variety of products, from mainframes to microservices and has a particular interest in complex socio-technical systems and how we work with them.

He is passionate about complexity theory, building quality into culture and testing as part of continuous delivery in modern, distributed architectures. Outside of work, Steve enjoys travel and mountains.

Nelly Sattari loves problem-solving and is passionate about driving minds to engage with technology. She is a software engineer and Tech Engineering Manager at Atlassian based in Sydney, Australia and has spent her entire career involved in the IT industry.

While her background is in full-stack development, today her focus is on building teams who create modern applications. A leader in local IT communities, she regularly facilitates knowledge-sharing platforms, supports user groups and nurtures beginner expertise, while steering clear of buzzwords for a more practical and tangible approach.

Ilya is a Cloud Native Architect, Founder of InfraPulse, Google Developer Expert on Cloud, Ph.D. in Engineering, CNCF CKA, GCP PCA.
Ilya is an expert in the world of cloud technologies and distributed systems. He helps SMBs to earn more and spend less with proper cloud decisions.
He also likes coffee, motorcycles, and travel.

Niels Tanis has got a background in .NET development, pentesting and security consultancy. He is Microsoft MVP and has been involved in breaking, defending and building secure applications. He joined Veracode in 2015 and right now he works as a security researcher on a variant of languages and technologies related to Veracode’s Binary Static Analysis service. He is married, father of two and lives in a small village just outside Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

A self-motivated and energetic enthusiast willing to accept challenges in life, availing every
opportunity to constantly learn and improve. Accustomed to leading and working in groups and
an effective communicator. Committed to empowering and educating others. I believe in hard work and being a kind human and helpful to others. Loves to travel.

My portfolio: https://ayesha54.github.io/developerFolio

Michel de Ru currently holds the position of Head of Solution Engineering at DataStax, where he oversees the Technical Solutions team for Astra DB in the EMEA region. His role involves guiding the team to enhance business value for customers by leveraging Astra DB's capabilities in Vector Search and Generative AI. Astra DB, known for its robust NoSQL framework based on Apache Cassandra, is integral for real-time, business-critical applications.

Kevin is a Java Champion, software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java, and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and improving the developer experience. Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop).

Lucille is an Engineering Manager at Canva working on developing and deploying tools that are making developers life easier. She started her career as a Software Engineer in France before moving to New Zealand.
She is passionate about crafting software, valuing the diverse perspectives brought by individuals from varied backgrounds. Committed to fostering growth and knowledge-sharing within the tech community, Lucille actively contributes as a co-organizer of Go meetups in Auckland where she gives talks and develops workshops that empower and educate fellow enthusiasts in the field.

I started my career in machine learning by participating in kaggle competitions, two times achieving top-1% results in contests with 1000+ participants. After that worked at MTS (biggest Russian telecom), VK (Russian most popular social media), and Yandex focusing on recommender systems. Now I'm working at JetBrains focusing on AI Code Completion (product demo: https://youtu.be/DLBiJ5kYUFg).

Jens Happe is responsible for the software engineering teams at Chrono24, an online marketplace for luxury watches with over 9 million monthly active users. He is passionate about fast-growing tech companies and the complexity that arises there, from organizational challenges to growing technical complexity. In recent years, Jens built a consulting firm that helps fast-growing tech companies scale their software development. While at SAP, he built a performance engineering team that helped development teams build highly scalable applications. He also holds a PhD in software engineering.

Reinhard’s focus relies on security testing of IT and industrial cyber-physical systems. Based on his prior experience in cyber defense, he works with companies to develop security capabilities and secure products. Reinhard is an experienced instructor and develops tailored security trainings. His mission is to apply research methods (combinatorial security testing) to industrial applications, like automotive, embedded or cloud.

Elmar works both as a researcher and a founder. Elmar wrote his PhD thesis on static code analysis and is still active as a researcher in software quality analysis. In 2009, he co-founded CQSE GmbH and since helps teams in using analysis tools more effectively. Elmar frequently talks at research conferences (e.g. ICSE, ICPC) and industry events (e.g. GTD, OOP, JAX). He was elected best speaker at Clean Code Days, Software Quality Days and Java Forum Stuttgart. Elmar was named Junior Fellow of the GI in 2015.

Max is a senior software engineer at Nx, where he's focused on building Nx Console, the UI for Nx & Lerna. Loves open source, Typescript and taking apart problems one step at a time.

As a fully remote worker, you will hopefully find him enjoying a sci-fi book on the beach, exploring new cities or taking in a view after work.

Madalena Costa, a distinguished Product Designer at Glanceable, is passionate about weaving technology and design. With her deep roots in the design community as a leader for Ladies that UX Lisbon and a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, she has been at the forefront of design innovations. She also hosts the 'Down the Rabbit Hole' podcast, shedding light on emerging tech trends and design principles.

Hannah is an experienced engineering manager, coming from a Software engineering background developing versatile mobile applications on Android. She is a Google Developer Expert for Android who mentors, writes technical articles, and speaks at technical conferences to motivate others to pursue careers in tech. Aside from work, Hannah loves to bake and read books in her free time.

Started and exited 4 companys, currently leading a team of over 100 Engineers at a SaaS with thousands of customers across 30+ countries
Angel Investor, working closely with fast growing Startups and mentoring both CTOs and CEOs
Writing about being a CTO in a SaaS company at https://jcamarate.substack.com

Hey,

I love building things: Developer Relations @ Telekom, Communities @ GDG Berlin Android or strange things with all sorts of materials.

I'm happy to chat about technology, languages, communities, speaking at conferences and meetups, my cats and everything else. :) ZeBadgeMan

Francesco is a senior software engineer at Sentry, where he helps build the JavaScript SDKs powering thousands of websites worldwide. He lives in Vienna, Austria, where he loves to drink good coffee and play boardgames. Outside of work, he loves to travel around Europe by train.

I've been a software developer at heart for ten years and am interested in everything related to software development, like containerization and orchestration, machine learning, security, and the cloud. I work as an Associate Manager @ Accenture in Munich, Germany. I love fishing, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and TikTok.

Egyptian living in Hungary. I have studied Computer Science BSc. I have 3 years of experience in software development. Working currently at IBM. I have mainly worked with Web Development on several projects mostly with Angular and NodeJS. I am currently studying Artificial Intelligence MSc.

Markus Over graduated in computer science at RWTH Aachen university in 2012, after which he spent a few years as an independent video game developer. Since 2015 he's been working in web development with a focus on interesting algorithmic problems of any kind. Since 2020 he's been breaking down language barriers at DeepL.

Ozan Sazak is a Software Engineer at Edge Delta, mainly focusing on design, deployment and maintenance of Clickhouse database servers on Kubernetes. Ozan is interested in technologies like Go, Linux, eBPF, Kubernetes, and concepts around distributed systems. Beyond his technical role, Ozan also engages with the tech community, leading local technical reading clubs.

Marcel started his career with classic ASP and luckily moved on to modern tech stack over time without limiting himself to a certain technology. He doesn't know why but Spring was a faithful companion for many years now while frontend technology changed a few times.

Soroosh is a software engineer and software architecture enthusiast, passionate about building simple but impactful solutions. With over 10 years of experience in diverse domains, including Telecom, Media & Entertainment, and E-Commerce. He has worked with small startups and large enterprises serving 80 million active subscribers. Currently working as a consultant at Bol.com (the biggest e-commerce in the Netherlands) via Code Nomads Amsterdam. Soroosh strongly believes in the power of collaborative learning and enjoys sharing his experiences and insights with other developers.

Loïc leads Theodo e-commerce department as technical director.
He advise clients, from startups, scale-ups to large groups on how to build e-commerce platforms.
This position allows him to discover various technical architectures on various business context, and to extract and recommand the best practices from each.
He is also owner of innovation on e-commerce technologies at Theodo.

David is an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.

David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving, and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

Jonas is an experienced software developer renowned for solving challenges with creative approaches. He lent his skills to industry giants like NASA, Bosch, and Telekom. Beyond coding excellence, his creative prowess has garnered recognition. He appeared on TV presenting a Rube Goldberg machine and accepted three film awards in New Zealand, England and Germany. His teenage band’s catchy song “Metropole Ruhr” not only won a music competition in 2010 but is still played today in local hardware stores in Western Germany.

Oleg is a passionate Open Whatever advocate: software, hardware and communities. He is a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Oleg is a core maintainer and board member in Jenkins, and also WireMock and OpenFeature co-maintainer. Oleg has a PhD degree in hardware design and volunteers in the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation. He created a few pet projects like Testcontainers for C/C++ or FaaScinator. CNCF and CDF Ambassador, Testcontainers Champion

Oleksii Ishchenko, VP of Engineering at Elopage (B2B, SaaS, Fintech), began his career as a Software Engineer over 20 years ago, and moved to Senior Management roles. His extensive experience includes:

15+ years building and leading development teams
10+ years in startup environments
Managed 100+ FTE teams
Expertise in SaaS, Insurtech, Healthcare, Gaming, Real Estate, and Fintech

Oleksii is passionate about mentorship, eagerly sharing his leadership and architectural knowledge.

Pierluigi came to IT via a degree in computer science and jobs as a software engineer and architect. He quickly realized that IT experts are often reduced to their coding skills and left out of decisions. So he skilled up beyond code and focused on the early phases of IT projects: the Why and What. Soft skills are a silent game changer for IT quality and especially for career advancement. After various management positions, he made it to C-level and finally set up his own e-learning academy for soft skills in IT. He is known for his thought-provoking and humorous presentations at conferences.

Leading a Software Engineering team, our mission is to optimize performance for external software companies on Intel CPU, GPU, and NPU. We specialize in enhancing commercial and digital content workflows, including AI, Rendering, Video Editing, and more. With a focus on next-gen Intel products, we actively seek feedback to drive innovation and excellence.

I'm a developer who loves frontend, backend, infrastructure, networking, and embedded. I've been leading small teams and I like to mentor. I've switched a couple of programming languages and platforms because knowing at least two different ways to get things done gives at least two possible solutions.

Software engineer with a decade of experience in the design and development of complex distributed systems, including high-loaded microservices and large data storage. Worked with the majority of the most popular and established technologies. I am passionate about non-trivial solutions that empower engineers to make a better world!

Kay Grebenstein works as a test manager and agile QA coach for adesso SE. In recent years, he has ensured quality and tested software in projects in various specialist domains (telecommunications, industry, mail order, energy, etc.).

An experienced software engineer, Álvaro has worked in top tier global banks and small software vendors. Having majored in Physics, he brings curiosity, intensity and an analytical mind to the table. He has a robust foundation in understanding the interplay between finance and technology, and has a track record of delivering impactful projects with a focus on reliability, evolvability, and thorough testing.

UX Designerin und Visionärin bei der Novatec Consulting GmbH.
Während meinen verschiedenen Tätigkeiten in Softwareunternehmen, Startups oder auch als Freelancerin war es mir immer wichtig das Thema UX voranzutreiben und die bestmögliche Lösung für Nutzer*innen zu erschaffen. Dafür ist mir der Austausch mit Software Engineers von Anfang sehr wichtig. Ich beziehe sie direkt in die Konzeptphase mit ein, finde gemeinsame Kompromisse und Lösungen. Denn nur zusammen gelingt es ein großartiges Produkt zu entwickeln.

Digital Technology enthusiast with more than 15 years of experience & education in industrial software and building technologies. Extensive experience gained at both lead corporations and startup teams in development of IIoT platforms, disruptive digitalization / software solutions and ecosystems.

Mrinalini (Mrina) has been "hacking" away at tech projects since the age of 14! Her first project was programming her TI-84 calculator to be able quickly find the hypotenuse of a right triangle. Since then she has been in constant pursuit of employing CS to enable her curiosity; be it building a text messaging COVID bot or a motion detector for her pup's sleep. She is a UC Berkeley Alumnus and currently works as a Developer Relations Manager at CKSource.

Working since 11 years for Germany's biggest financial daily "Handelsblatt", since 2020 as Italy correspondent in Rome. Since 2022 covering as well Web3, Crypto and NFTs and building the first newspaper driven NFT community in Europe. Moderated several events in Germany and Italy. Founder of the digital art platform VistaVagabond.xyz in 2023.

Hi I am Wendelin from Vienna, Austria.
I am a Fullstack developer at WhizUs. In the Frontend I worked with React, Vue and Angular and in the backend with nodejs, bun and Java (Spring Boot).
I am married and have 2 kids. In my free time I love to work on my home assistant smart home.

Data Scientist with over 10 years of experience in design, development and implementation of data-driven solutions for cross-functional teams in organizations.

Over the span of this decade, I have had the pleasure of working with high performance innovation-driven teams, from startups in Silicon Valley, Berlin, Cluj to global organizations such as Mercedes, Fedex and many more.

Specializes in advanced statistical modeling, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning algorithms and generative AI models, model management etc.

Sasha is an experienced software developer with a rich background, in IT for more than 20 years. He worked with different stacks in backend, frontend and mobile fields, but since 2018 his main interest is Flutter. Sasha is a Chief Software Engineer and Head of Flutter Discipline in EPAM. Also, he is Flutter and Dart GDE and Co-Organizer of Flutter Berlin community.

Sven is developer and software-quality consultant at CQSE GmbH. He studied computer science at TU Darmstadt and PUC de Rio de Janeiro and did his PhD in software engineering at TU Darmstadt. Sven is a requested (keynote) speaker on software quality topics at conferences, meetups, companies and universities around the world, drawing inspiration from his vast project experience working with CQSE’s many customers across all industries.

Andre (Pietsch) has been working for Splunk for more than 5 years now. He "splunked" for a customer before and was always keen to check his approaches with others. He started as a developer and knows the challenges that come with the job. He always proclaims that the job of a developer is to create value for the company and not to be the operations monkey for a tool. He now concentrates on Observability and OpenTelemetry cause these are releveating the most annoying pains of the DevOps community.

Stan Girard is the creator of Quivr, an open-source Generative AI personal assistant, which gained remarkable traction in the tech community (20k+ stars on Github in 4 months). Alongside his tech pursuits, he maintains a blog at primates.dev, helping developers and IT enthusiasts. With his recent venture into Generative AI, Stan combines innovation with practicality as he continues to explore to AI-driven solutions.

Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular, also an OpenJs Foundation Member, Nicolas is a French FontEnd specialist and User Interface Designer from Metz, France.

He works as a Developer Advocate and Senior Staff Engineer at Sfeir Luxembourg. Besides that, Nicolas is a speaker, and likes to contribute to the community by giving talks, trainings, writing articles or participating in open source projects like NG Zorro

I'm a Full Stack Developer in NearForm. I work mainly with Node.js and React. In my free time I like to read books and articles, cook, and walk in the nature.
Take a look at my YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/@alfonsograziano

Desiree is a software developer, technical leader and Emerging Tech Lead at Thoughtworks Germany with over 10 years of experience in agile developing software across multiple industries. Passionate about Agile methodologies, software, and hardware development, she is also delighted to use emerging technologies and techniques to solve real-world problems by creating value now through cute-edge technologies.

Adnan is an author, failed startup founder, and ex-Free CodeCamp leader. Adnan has spent the last 5 years building open-source developer tooling in the Observability and Big Data space. He is currently leading the Developer Relations efforts for Tracetest.io.

Dennis dives deep into machine learning algorithms like a kid in a candy store, leveraging his engineering chops to architect optimized ML solutions on AWS that make sci-fi tech seem pedestrian. His passion for understanding both the mathematical intricacies of neural networks and the gritty details of cloud infrastructure enables Dennis to geek out with anyone from high-level executives to hardcore developers. Dennis dreams in data science, envisions inferencing at the edge, and innovates machine learning to reality on AWS every day.

I'm a Software Developer working in the mobile gaming industry for several years. I love working on all aspects of infrastructure solutions and greatly enjoy participating in meetups, game jams and community events. If you see me at the conference, I'm always happy to chat.

I'm a senior technology executive focused on building high-performance product teams and organizations.

I was born and raised in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. I'm a football fan - playing and watching. I love to read and travel. I also love to connect with people and learn from them. I'm always up for a friendly coffee chat. I believe education can change the world, so I volunteer as much as I can to coach the next generation of leaders.

François Martin is a senior full stack software engineer at Karakun AG, living in Switzerland. He is an active open source contributor and co-author of the two open source JavaFX frameworks WorkbenchFX and PreferencesFX and an active member of the Swiss Testing Board.

Mesut has been working for around 18 years starting from Intern Software Engineer to Director of Engineering in different companies, projects and teams. Though delivering value in companies such as Thoughtworks, Trivago, MOIA and more, he gained experience in leadership, software development and architecture in leading cross functional teams from 5 to 50 developers in several industries.

He has passion about "Creating High Performance Teams", "Tech Excellence", "Building Safe Environments", "Servant Leadership" and "Mentoring and Enabling People"

My name is Marcel Sim. I have worked for more than 20 years in IT and for 10+ years in the Observability space, where I, for example, built up Instana in EMEA. Starting as a classical IT consultant, I transitioned to a hybrid model, combining my IT knowledge with sales, and moved on to a leading sales role in EMEA.

At Dash0, I am focusing on building up the whole brand, including the go-to-market model and the marketing activities.

Thomas is founder of LAINIE.ai. Thomas previously owned product strategy for NGINX's SaaS and Management product portfolio. He previously worked for multiple Internet/tech startups going back to the mid-1990's, HashiCorp, VMware, Oracle Cloud, and created LegalGuru, an early AI legal advisor app that was pitched at San Diego Startup Week 2018. Thomas is also a past college professor with degrees in law and business. He has a patent in data security/integrity and is working on additional patents in the security and AI spaces.

I have been a Software Engineer since 2013, specializing in front- and backend development.
I am experienced in developing web, cross-platform, and native mobile REST and GraphQL applications.
I am keenly interested in software design and its different approaches, like DDD or clean architecture. Additionally, I enjoy exploring new technologies and programming paradigms, like functional programming.
Sharing knowledge is also a priority for me, as I have actively participated in company tech talks, mentored colleagues, and supervised students in their theses.

Fullstack Software Design Engineer at Mattermost. He has helped with the re-architecturing of the new version of the mobile app, written in React Native. Confident with React, React Native and Go, and always happy to learn new things. Fun fact: studying psychology for fun.

During my studies I discovered my enthusiasm for technology, innovation and programming. After a few years in larger corporations such as Continental and IBM, I moved to the IT service provider MaibornWolff. Today, I work there as a software engineer in agile teams designing various digital products.

Started coding at the age of 16 (in 2008).

Since 2023: Lecturer (part-time) at University of Applied Sciences Fh Joanneum Graz. Course: Web Application Development.
Since 2023: AVL DiTest, Development Engineer Software
2019 – 2022: TBK Automatisierung und Messtechnik GmbH, Head of Software Development, Software development and customer projects
2017 – 2019: Pull-off Software Solutions GmbH, Software Architecture & Development
2016 – 2017: Siemens AG, Firmeware Developer
2010 - 2015 Computer Science (Bachelor and Master) - Graz University of Technology

Passionate software architect, full-stack developer and speaker with enthusiasm for technology, architecture and organization. Develops and maintains data-driven software, focusing on customer value. He enjoys educating and training himself and others — A proud founding member of the Hacker School.

Krzysztof is a photographer, globetrotter, and public speaker. He works as a Principal Research Engineer at [GitHub Next](https://next.github.com/), where he designs and builds the next generation of developer tools such as GitHub Copilot or Copilot Voice.

After the work, Krzysztof is an open-source software maintainer passionate about functional programming (especially F#), editor tooling and developer experience - he has created and maintained several OSS projects varying from language servers to web frameworks to VSCode plugins.

Sami is an original team member from Vaadin. With the mission of "empowering developers to build cool things", he is an experienced web application developer. He has built web applications and reusable components for web development for Vaadin and other web frameworks. Taking software where it has not existed before, the current hobby is a hardware project for his sailing boat and using the MQTT as the backend.

Angelika Shvets, a software developer based in Israel.
I've been in the IT industry since 2004.
Over the last 6 years, my work has primarily involved software development, encompassing research, implementation, integration, and testing of systems of varying complexity.
Prior to my current role, I spent 8 years as a full-stack web application developer.
In the early stages of my career, I gained a solid foundation with 5 years of experience as a system administrator.
I also served as a system administrator in the military.
I hold a Masters in Mathematics and Computer Engineering.

I work at NTT Data as a Cloud Solution Architect with a clear focus on cloud infrastructure and architecture, DevOps and Platform engineering. I can look back on a total of 8 years of experience working with Kubernetes and cloud technologies, especially AWS. And in case I am not working on AWS, then I mainly work on topics in the area of DevOps and everything that has anything to do with cloud and cloud native development.

Sebastian Leuer completed his master's degree in media informatics at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in 2019. Since then, he has been a research associate at the German research institute Fraunhofer IEM. His tasks and research topics include training software engineers to become Security Champions as well as the development of tools for secure software development and programming languages, especially for C# and the .NET runtime. In the recent past, he worked together with customers on industry-leading, high-precision static code analysis.

For Sascha Lehmann, it was already evident with his first PC in which direction the journey was going. Through desktop and backend development in the .NET environment, he found his true passion over the years, web development. As an expert in Angular and the UI/UX environment, he helps customers with their daily challenges and projects at Thinktecture AG in Karlsruhe. Of course, he doesn't keep his knowledge to himself but passes it on to others with a lot of dedication so they can share his passion for web development.

Andreas arbeitet als Principal Software Architect bei adesso SE. Er ist ein JVM Veteran erster Stunde, kann sich für eine Vielzahl an Programmiersprachen begeistern. Als Pragmatiker gehen ihn Lösungen gehen für vor Technik. Unter anderem ist er an der Online Community „Architecture Antipattern“ beteiligt.

Juarez Barbosa Junior is a Senior Principal Java Developer Evangelist at Oracle. Previously, an Azure Developer Relations Lead at Microsoft, and a Thought Leader and Technical Evangelist at IBM.

He has 20+ years of professional experience, having held senior leadership roles in DevRel, software engineering, and startup-related initiatives.

His knowledge comprises Java, Python, Cloud Computing (Oracle OCI, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, and AWS), DevOps, IaC, CI/CD, and Cloud Native.

https://linktr.ee/juarezjunior

Pawel Adaszewski is a Senior Software Consultant at ZEISS Digital Innovation in Görlitz, Germany. In his daily work, he tries to overcome the challenges of the Industrial IoT world using the AWS cloud. His main tasks include designing and building automatically provisioned serverless cloud infrastructures.

Alexis Yushin is the Founder and CTO of Apexive, a rapid software development agency. He pioneered internet access in Ukraine at 16, bringing the internet to the region for the first time. Yushin relocated to The Netherlands at 19, working for one of the country’s first ISPs. There, he created NSD, a foundational program for resolving internet domain names. His tenure as CTO at Blink and roles at SpareIO and Skype underscore his tech prowess. Yushin found a passion for piloting and was a private jet pilot and Scandinavian Airlines captain before returning to tech and launching Apexive.

Hartmut Armbruster is a senior software engineer with many years of experience designing and building solutions for high-load projects using distributed technologies. Over the past 6 years he has been working in real-time data processing at HSBC, NEX Group plc, Deutschebahn on mission critical platforms. Striving to see the bigger picture, passionate about architecture, combining, integrating, and bringing all things together.

I'm Francesco, 43 years old, senior software engineer specialized in web applications living in Giussano, Italy.

I have more than 18 years experience in frontend and backend technologies. I've worked in international teams for many different companies (eBay, Pirelli, currently @ sysdig)

Megan Cook has spent over 15 years delivering software in a range of industries. She’s been everything from a developer to an agile coach. She currently serves as the Head of Product for Jira Software, driving the vision of agile work management to support any team. Megan eats, sleeps, and breathes agile teams and is passionate about helping software teams thrive.

James Clancey is the Head of Developer Relations at Locofy.ai. Previously Meta (VR), Microsoft (Principal PM Architect), and Xamarin (Technical Advisor to the CEO). He lives in Anchorage, Alaska, balancing a tech career with family life, including his wife, four children, 2 Hairless cats, and about 200,000 bees. James is known for engaging talks that blend deep technical expertise with personal stories, highlighting his passion for technology's impact on both professional and personal levels. He enjoys discussing beekeeping, 3D printing, VR, game development, life in Alaska.

Over 30 years of experience as a software developer, startup builder and visionary. I am always open to question the status quo.

I worked as a CTO for a OTTO company with 80 people. And currently I am building e-commerce platforms and mobile applications for the better good as a freelancer.

My favorite language are Scala, Kotlin and Rust.

Andreia Ocanoaia is a Fullstack Software Engineer@Genezio very keen to empower coders to build safer, reliable cloud applications. She is also a passionate trainer and speaker, always eager to share her knowledge with other tech enthusiasts.

Sander ten Brinke is a Microsoft MVP and Lead Software Engineer at Arcady, a Dutch IT consultancy firm based in Zwolle. He loves working with .NET, Azure, CI/CD and a whole lot more. He always stays up to date with all new technology and loves sharing his knowledge with everyone by speaking, blogging, podcasting and more!

Blockchain educator and developer focused on Ethereum, smart contracts and Bitcoin. MSc in digital currencies. She has been working with technology for over 20 years. Speaker in world conferences since 2018, also she won awards at Ethereum hackathons. She was listed in Cointelegraph Brazil top 50 and top 2 women.

Martin is a Product Manager working for Oracle. He joined Oracle in December 2021 after eight eventful years working for @Enkitec in Europe and other exciting engagements.

Martin’s work focuses on JavaScript support for the Oracle Database, DevOps & SRE, and anything remotely related to “the cloud”, Cloud Native Applications, and automation.

In addition to running a weblog since 2003, he published three books about Oracle, all highly regarded by their readers. Martin has been acknowledged multiple times for his knowledge and willingness to share his knowledge with the community.

A programming enthusiast since childhood, inspired by a fascination with computer games. His professional journey involves working with various technologies such as Spring Framework, Angular, React, and NestJS. He believes that continuous learning and knowledge-sharing are crucial in the dynamically evolving IT industry. Last year, he set a goal to educate others through active participation in conferences and local meetups. He is the initiator and organizer of the Toruń Web Development Meetup, where local developers can share their experiences and learn from one another.

Aydin Mir Mohammadi, Partner und Architekt bei bluehands erstellt seit mehr als zwanzig Jahren Software. Er ist spezialisiert auf die Entwicklung verteilter komplexer Fachanwendung auf Basis der Microsoft Technologien.

Aydin ist Mitinitiator der .NET User Group Karlsruhe, Organisator der Green Software Development Karlsruhe und host des #nossued Open Space. Darüber hinaus engagiert er sich bei der Ausbildung von jungen Softwareentwickler:innen als Dozent an der Dualen Hochschule Karlsruhe.

Johannes Stern holds a PhD in computer science and has over 15 years of experience in professional software development, ranging from hard real-time systems to frontend applications. His passion is Clean Code and testing as an integral part of development. His mission as a conference speaker is to encourage other developers to empower themselves and to become aware of their often underestimated influence on what software is written and on how the whole development process is organized.

Mackenzie is a developer advocate with a passion for DevOps and code security. As the co-founder and former CTO of a health tech startup, he learnt first-hand how critical it is to build secure applications with robust developer operations.
Today as the Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, Mackenzie is able to share his passion for code security with developers and works closely with research teams to show how malicious actors discover and exploit vulnerabilities in code.

Markus is a technologist that has been developing software since the late 90s and now mostly specializes in cloud-native applications.

In his current role as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, he helps his customers build well-architected, scalable and cost-efficient solutions using AWS technology.

As a subject matter expert for serverless applications, Markus also work with customers on the most complex topics in the serverless domain and provides thought leadership in the form of blog posts and public speaking.

Christian is a Global Customer Solutions Manager at AWS. He is passionate about automotive, AI/ML and developer productivity. Christian supports some the world’s largest automotive brands on their cloud journey, encompassing technology as we as cloud and business strategy. Before joining AWS, Christian worked at BMW Group in both hardware and software development in various projects including connected navigation.

Theresa has worked as a people-centric facilitator and team coach in software companies incl. ShareNow and netgo software for 4 years. She has chosen an iterative and incremental way of working since Covid turned the world upside down. Her strong speaking skills were recognized at the Berlin Agile Camp and the PANDA Tech & Software Contest in 2021.
Now a happy Agile Coach, she is a former, depressed diplomat-to-be turned into a sad sustainability manager-for-real before discovering servant leadership. Living as an European citizen, she studied and worked in Germany, France and the UK.

Jose Alonso is a seasoned SRE at Amadeus where he also plays the role of DevOps Ambassador, representing a community of 600+ members. With expertise in software development, data analysis, and DevOps practices in various organizations, including Amadeus, CERN, and the European Central Bank.

Over the years he has been involved in several software engineering projects, ranging from developing children's educational apps to predicting anomalies of CERN services or operating highly critical applications processing more than 10k mission-critical transactions per second for the travel industry

Developer advocate at ING with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing and maintaining Android, Java SE/EE and Spring applications. Strong focus on getting things done with the Agile mindset. Love to share knowledge on the latest Java language, EE and Spring improvements by giving workshops and talks as well as participating in them.

Oleg Šelajev is a head of developer relations at AtomicJar working on making integration tests with Testcontainers better for everyone in the community. VirtualJUG leader. Java Champion.