YOW! Sydney 2025
Dec 10 - 12, 2025
Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, 61, 101 Phillip St, Sydney, NSW 2000
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! Sydney 2025

Alexander Chatzizacharias
JDriven
Software Engineer at JDriven

Amy Kapernick
AimHigher Web
Front End Engineer at AmysKapers.dev

Charles Humble
Conissaunce
Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Ekaterina Sirazitdinova
NVIDIA
Senior Developer Advocate at NVDIA

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

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

Katie Paxton-Fear
Manchester Metropolitan Uni...
PhD Student, Occasional Bug Bounty Hunter and Educational YouTuber

Kent Beck
Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

Kevin Dubois
Red Hat
Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Kevlin Henney
Curbralan + curbralan.com
Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

Matt Brunt
Bumble
Dungeon Master, Code Tinkerer & Cybersecurity Pro

Matthias Haeussler
Novatec
Chief Technologist at Novatec Consulting

Michael Feathers
R7K Research & Conveyance
Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

Nicolas Fränkel
Loft Labs
Developer Advocate for Loft Labs

Philippe De Ryck
Pragmatic Web Security
Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security

Rod Johnson
Atomist
Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist

Roy van Rijn
OpenValue
Developer and Architect, Robotics Enthusiast, Hobby Mathematician

Sarah Meiklejohn
University College London
Professor in Cryptography and Security

Scott Shaw
Commonwealth Bank of Austra...
Crew Lead, GenAI Platform at Commonwealth Bank