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

Michael Feathers

Michael Feathers

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R7K Research & Conveyance

Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

Sam Aaron

Sam Aaron

Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi

Sarah Meiklejohn

Sarah Meiklejohn

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University College London

Professor in Cryptography and Security

Alexander Chatzizacharias

Alexander Chatzizacharias

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JDriven

Software Engineer at JDriven

Andrew Harmel-Law

Andrew Harmel-Law

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Thoughtworks

Tech Principal at Thoughtworks

Anton Arhipov

Anton Arhipov

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JetBrains

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Charles Humble

Charles Humble

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Conissaunce

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Conor Hoekstra

Conor Hoekstra

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NVIDIA

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

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NVIDIA

Senior Developer Advocate at NVIDIA

Frank Elavsky

Frank Elavsky

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Carnegie Mellon University...

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Jim Webber

Jim Webber

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Neo4j

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

Katharine Jarmul

Katharine Jarmul

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Probably Private

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

Katie Paxton-Fear

Katie Paxton-Fear

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Manchester Metropolitan Uni...

Occasional Bug Bounty Hunter and Educational YouTuber

Kevin Dubois

Kevin Dubois

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Red Hat

Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Kevlin Henney

Kevlin Henney

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Curbralan + curbralan.com

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

Kip Compton

Kip Compton

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Fastly

CEO of Fastly

Liz Fong-Jones

Liz Fong-Jones

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Honeycomb

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Matt Brunt

Matt Brunt

Dungeon Master & Team Tinkerer

Matthew Keesan

Matthew Keesan

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IonQ

VP & GM at IonQ

Matthias	 Haeussler

Matthias Haeussler

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Novatec

VP Consulting Expert at CGI

Nada Amin

Nada Amin

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Harvard SEAS

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer and Architect

Philippe De Ryck

Philippe De Ryck

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Pragmatic Web Security

Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security

Phillip Krüger

Phillip Krüger

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Red Hat

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Roy van Rijn

Roy van Rijn

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OpenValue

Developer and Architect, Robotics Enthusiast, Hobby Mathematician

Simon Brown

Simon Brown

Creator of the famous C4 model, author

Tyler McMullen

Tyler McMullen

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Fastly

Co-Founder and Fellow at Fastly

Yao Yue

Yao Yue

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IOP Systems

Founder of IOP Systems

Amy Kapernick

Amy Kapernick

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AimHigher Web

Front End Engineer at AmysKapers.dev

Derek Bingham

Derek Bingham

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AWS

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Paul Roe

Paul Roe

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James Cook University

Dean Research at James Cook University

Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson

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Embabel

Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel

Scott Shaw

Scott Shaw

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Commonwealth Bank of Austra...

Crew Lead, GenAI Platform at Commonwealth Bank

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