YOW! Melbourne 2025

YOW! brings together leading software development industry experts from all over the world for an in-depth look at emerging technologies and best practices without commercial hype.

Experts from YOW! Melbourne 2025

Kent Beck

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Michael Feathers

Michael Feathers

from

R7K Research & Conveyance

Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Sam Aaron

Sam Aaron

Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Sarah Meiklejohn

Sarah Meiklejohn

from

University College London

Professor in Cryptography and Security

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Alexander Chatzizacharias

Alexander Chatzizacharias

from

JDriven

Software Engineer at JDriven

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Andrew Harmel-Law

Andrew Harmel-Law

from

Thoughtworks

Tech Principal at Thoughtworks

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Anton Arhipov

Anton Arhipov

from

JetBrains

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Charles Humble

Charles Humble

from

Conissaunce

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Conor Hoekstra

Conor Hoekstra

from

NVIDIA

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

from

NVIDIA

Senior Developer Advocate at NVIDIA

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Frank Elavsky

Frank Elavsky

from

Carnegie Mellon University...

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Jim Webber

Jim Webber

from

Neo4j

Working on a variety of database research topics with a focus on fault-tolerance at Neo4j

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Katharine Jarmul

Katharine Jarmul

from

Probably Private

Privacy/Security Expert at Probably Private & O'Reilly Author

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Katie Paxton-Fear

Katie Paxton-Fear

from

Manchester Metropolitan Uni...

Occasional Bug Bounty Hunter and Educational YouTuber

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Kevin Dubois

Kevin Dubois

from

Red Hat

Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Kevlin Henney

Kevlin Henney

from

Curbralan + curbralan.com

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Kip Compton

Kip Compton

from

Fastly

CEO of Fastly

Liz Fong-Jones

Liz Fong-Jones

from

Honeycomb

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Matt Brunt

Matt Brunt

Dungeon Master & Team Tinkerer

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Matthew Keesan

Matthew Keesan

from

IonQ

VP & GM at IonQ

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Matthias	 Haeussler

Matthias Haeussler

from

Novatec

VP Consulting Expert at CGI

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Nada Amin

Nada Amin

from

Harvard SEAS

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer and Architect

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Philippe De Ryck

Philippe De Ryck

from

Pragmatic Web Security

Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Phillip Krüger

Phillip Krüger

from

Red Hat

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Roy van Rijn

Roy van Rijn

from

OpenValue

Developer and Architect, Robotics Enthusiast, Hobby Mathematician

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Simon Brown

Simon Brown

Creator of the famous C4 model, author

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Tyler McMullen

Tyler McMullen

from

Fastly

Co-Founder and Fellow at Fastly

Yao Yue

Yao Yue

from

IOP Systems

Founder of IOP Systems

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Amy Kapernick

Amy Kapernick

from

AimHigher Web

Front End Engineer at AmysKapers.dev

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Derek Bingham

Derek Bingham

from

AWS

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Paul Roe

Paul Roe

from

James Cook University

Dean Research at James Cook University

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson

from

Embabel

Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel

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YOW! Brisbane 2025
Scott Shaw

Scott Shaw

from

Commonwealth Bank of Austra...

Crew Lead, GenAI Platform at Commonwealth Bank

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YOW! Brisbane 2025

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