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Experts from GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

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GOTO Copenhagen 2027

Troy Hunt

from

Have I Been Pwned

Information Security Author & Instructor at Pluralsight, Microsoft

Xin Yao

Change Facilitator, Consultant & Trainer (DDD, sociotechnical architecture)

Barbara Oakley

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Oakland University

Professor of Engineering at Oakland University

Adam Furmanek

Software Developer, Blogger, Public Speaker, Book Writer

Evan Ratliff

Veteran journalist, author, and podcast host.

Gabriele Keller

from

Utrecht University

Professor of Software Technology at Utrecht University

Jon Skeet

from

Trainline

+34,000 answers on Stack Overflow

Orion Reed

Making software as easy to change as to use

Andreas Zeller

from

CISPA Helmholtz Center for ...

Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Gojko Adzic

from

Neuri Consulting

Award-winning author and software delivery consultant

Ewelina Kurtys

from

FinalSpark

Strategic advisor on frontier technologies

Tim Berglund

from

Independent

DevRel leader, teacher, speaker

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

Daniel Bryant

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Syntasso

Platform engineer at Syntasso

Ixchel Ruiz

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Karakun AG

Senior Software Developer at Karakun

Jim Webber

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Neo4j

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

Wilco Burggraaf

Sustainable Digital Architect & Transformation Lead

Lu Wilson

Software Engineer at tldraw

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YOW! Melbourne 2026

Jennifer Petoff

from

The Reliable PgM™

Co-Editor, Site Reliability Engineering

Kasper Borg Nissen

from

Dash0

Director DevRel @ Dash0, CNCF Ambassador, Author

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YOW! Melbourne 2026

Marit van Dijk

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JetBrains

Senior Developer Advocate at JetBrains | Java Champion

Sam Newman

from

Independent

The Microservices Expert. Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

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GOTO Copenhagen 2027

James Lewis

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Thoughtworks

Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

Adam Tornhill

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CodeScene

Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Heidi Howard

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Azure Research

Linda Rising

from

Independent

Queen of patterns; author of numerous books

Luca Mezzalira

from

AWS

Solutions Architect, Consultant, International Speaker & Author of “Building Micro-Frontends”

Scott Helme

Security researcher, hacker, founder of Report URI & Security Headers

Somtochi Onyekwere

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Fly.io

Staff Sofwtware Engineer at fly.io

Sophia Drossopoulou

from

Imperial College London

Professor at Imperial College London

William Schor

from

Netflix

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Barry O'Reilly

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Black Tulip Technology

CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology

Alberto Brandolini

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Avanscoperta

Creator of EventStorming

Alberto Carretero

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Canonical

Software Engineer at Canonical

Anatoliy Bilenko

from

Canonical

Staff Engineer at Canonical

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

Cate Huston

CTO at Twill and author of "The Engineering Leader"

Charles Humble

from

Conissaunce

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Claus Vagner Pedersen

Organizational Developer - helping people and organizations navigate in our complex world

Clément Pascutto

from

Lovable

Computer Scientist — Software Engineer

Daniel Terhorst-North

from

Goalwards

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

Don Syme

from

GitHub Next

Distinguished Engineer at GitHub. Co-creator of GitHub Agentic Workflows and Repo Assist

Erik Doernenburg

from

German Government

CTO at DigitalService of the German Government

Frank Lyaruu

from

Hightech Innovators

Principal Innovator at Hightech Innovators (Sustainability Team)

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

Joakim Sundén

from

Better Product Work

Founding partner at Better Product Work and co-creator of the Spotify model

Kevlin Henney

from

Curbralan + curbralan.com

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

Linda Liukas

from

Hello Ruby

Author and co-founder of Rails Girls

Luxshan Ratnaravi

from

Comic Agile

Exposing what happens when agility meets reality through #ComicAgile

Martin Dilger

from

Nebulit GmbH

Agentic Software Modeling on Eventmodelers.ai

Patrick Kua

from

patkua.com

Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Preben Thorö

from

Trifork AG

Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, Group CTO Trifork

Rebecca Parsons

from

ThoughtWorks

CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks

Samuel Kelemen

from

Lovable

Principal Security Engineer at Lovable

Simon White

from

TOCICO and WiseTech Global ...

Chairman of TOCICO and Senior Program Manager at WTG

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

Vilhelm von Ehrenheim

from

QA.tech

Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at QA.tech

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

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Antithesis

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Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. We are over 11,500 people strong across 51 offices in 18 countries. For 30 years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator.

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Trifork

We are a NextGen IT and business service provider and sustainability is our point of departure and arrival. We continuously challenge the status quo - for ourselves and our customers - to create digital solutions that better our world.

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Factum Books

FACTUM Books has existed as a "not-for-profit" bookstore since 1985, and is a key book supplier for students and professionals all over Denmark.

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Saxo

The award-winning financial institution trusted by 1,200,000+ clients worldwideSaxo provides the leading online trading platform connecting investors and traders to global financial markets. As a fully regulated and licensed independent provider, our clients have secure access to more than 71,000 financial instruments.Curiosity can lead you to places you never could have imagined. When you invest, you stimulate the mind, you see new perspectives, and you broaden your horizons. Personal transformation is inevitable as you develop a sincere interest and curiosity for not only the world, but also for others.At Saxo, our greatest hope is for everyone to become engaged, to feel empowered, and to Be Invested.

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CodeScene

CodeScene is the leading software engineering intelligence tool, revolutionizing the way we look at code. We guide you towards a healthy codebase where you can spend more time on innovation while reducing stress and business risk in the process.

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Elastic

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Endava

We accelerate our clients’ ability to take advantage of market opportunities by ideating and delivering platforms and digital experiences, fuelling the rapid, ongoing transformation of their businesses.

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Microsoft

Our mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.

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Neo4J

Neo4J Graph Intelligence Platform transforms complex data into contextual knowledge to power smarter decisions and AI systems you can trust. Built to work everywhere and integrate with everything across every cloud for dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems.We deliver quicker results, contextual knowledge, and solutions that impact customers and employees across the business.

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