GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Nathen Harvey

DORA Lead and Product Manager at Google Cloud

Troy Hunt

Information Security Author & Instructor at Pluralsight, Microsoft

Xin Yao

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

Barbara Oakley

Professor of Engineering at Oakland University

Adam Furmanek

Software Developer, Blogger, Public Speaker, Book Writer

Dave Thomas

Author of The Pragmatic Programmer

Evan Ratliff

Veteran journalist, author, and podcast host.

Gabriele Keller

Professor of Software Technology at Utrecht University

Jon Skeet

+34,000 answers on Stack Overflow

Orion Reed

Andreas Zeller

Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Gojko Adzic

Award-winning author and software delivery consultant

Laurentiu Spilcă

Java Community Lead at Endava

Ewelina Kurtys

Strategic advisor on frontier technologies

Tim Berglund

VP Developer Relations at IBM

Daniel Bryant

Platform engineer at Syntasso

Ixchel Ruiz

Senior Software Developer at Karakun

Jim Webber

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

Marie-Alice Blete

Bridging AI and software

Cole Medin

Founder of Dynamous AI

Diana Gaponcic

Computing Engineer @ CERN

Jennifer Petoff

Kasper Borg Nissen

Director DevRel @ Dash0, CNCF Ambassador, Author

Marit van Dijk

Senior Developer Advocate at JetBrains | Java Champion

Sam Newman

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

James Lewis

Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

Piotr Przybyl

Software Gardener

Adam Tornhill

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

Ben Eggers

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Heidi Howard

Senior Researcher at Microsoft Azure Research

Linda Rising

Queen of patterns; author of numerous books

Luca Mezzalira

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

Scott Helme

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

Simon Brown

Creator & Author of "The C4 Model"

Somtochi Onyekwere

Staff Sofwtware Engineer at fly.io

Sophia Drossopoulou

Professor at Imperial College London

William Schor

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Barry O'Reilly

CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

Alberto Brandolini

Creator of EventStorming

Alberto Carretero

Software Engineer at Canonical

Anatoliy Bilenko

Staff Engineer at Canonical

Anders Sveen

Advisor, Developer, Mentor and speaker

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions

Cate Huston

CTO at Twill and author of "The Engineering Leader"

Charles Humble

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Claus Vagner Pedersen

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

Clément Pascutto

Computer Scientist — Software Engineer

Damian Maclennan

Daniel Terhorst-North

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

Erik Doernenburg

CTO at DigitalService of the German Government

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

Kevlin Henney

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

Linda Liukas

Author and co-founder of Rails Girls

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Martin Dilger

Agentic Software Modeling on Eventmodelers.ai

Patrick Kua

Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Preben Thorö

Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, Group CTO Trifork

Rebecca Parsons

CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks

Samuel Kelemen

Principal Security Engineer at Lovable

Simon White

Chairman of TOCICO and Senior Program Manager at WTG

Sven Johann

Senior Consultant bei INNOQ

Søren Toft Odgaard

Head of Engineering

Vilhelm von Ehrenheim

Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at QA.tech