GOTO Experts: Tech Leaders, Innovators, and Thought Leaders

Alexander Chatzizacharias
JDriven
Software Engineer at JDriven

Nicolas Fränkel
Loft Labs
Developer Advocate for Loft Labs

Barry O'Reilly
Black Tulip Technology
CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology

Carly Richmond
Elastic
Developer Advocate and Manager at Elastic

Jacqui Read
Ministry of Software Design...
Author of Communication Patterns

Josh Kahn
Amazon Web Services
Worldwide Tech Leader for Serverless and a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS

Daniele Frasca
Seven.One Studios
Team Lead of Content Discovery and AWS Serverless Community Builder

Luca Mezzalira
AWS
Author of "Building Micro-Frontends" and Principal Solutions Architect at AWS

Marcin Sodkiewicz
Ryanair
Principal Software Engineer @ Ryanair, AWS Community Builder & Leader, Cloud & Serverless technologies enthusiast

Alex Castrounis
Why of AI
Founder & CEO at Why of AI, NU Kellogg MBAi Professor, Author | Former INDYCAR Engineer, Race Strategist, and Data Scientist

Christopher Simon
Dev Cycles Technology Advis...
Technology Coach & Advisor at Dev Cycles Technology Advisory

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

Thomas Vitale
Systematic
Software Architect, author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action", CNCF Ambassador, Oracle ACE Pro

Patrick Kua
patkua.com
Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Holly Cummins
Red Hat
Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team

Allen Holub
Widely respected software architect and agile coach with 10 published books and hundreds of articles

James Coplien
Gertrud & Cope
Lean/Agile process and architecture coach; founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns project

Luxshan Ratnaravi
Comic Agile
Exposing what happens when agility meets reality through #ComicAgile

Alistair Cockburn
Independent
One of the “All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes”

Andy Greenberg
WIRED Magazine
Author of "Sandworm" and "Tracers in the Dark". Writes about security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture.

Venkat Subramaniam
Agile Developer, Inc.
Award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Brooklyn Zelenka
Ink & Switch
Author of numerous libraries including Witchcraft, and founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup.

Kent Beck
Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming

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

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

Henrik Kniberg
Crisp
AI Whisperer. Cofounder of Ymnig.ai

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

Martin Fowler
ThoughtWorks
Pioneer of various topics around object-oriented technology and agile methods

Felienne Hermans
Vrije Universiteit Amsterda...
Author of “The Programmer’s Brain”, Creator of the Hedy programming language

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

Florian Gilcher
Ferrous Systems
Founder of Ferrous Systems, Music Addict, Rubyist, Rust Trainer & Backend Programmer

Dave Farley
Continuous Delivery Ltd.
Author of the best-selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” and over 6 million views on his YouTube channel.

Katharine Jarmul
Thoughtworks
Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks & O'Reilly Author

Manuel Pais
Co-author of the book "Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow"

Christian Tzolov
Broadcom
Spring Framework Engineer at Broadcom; Lead developer for the Spring AI project;

Roy van Rijn
OpenValue
Experienced developer and architect, robotics enthusiast and hobby mathematician

Sam Newman
Independent
The Microservices Expert. Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

Garth Gilmour
Liberty IT
Delivered over 1,000 masterclasses & author of 40+ training courses; Learning Consultant at Liberty IT

Christoph Windheuser
Databricks
Building applications fast in high quality, based on data and AI

Sebastian Du Rand
Eneco
Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Advocate for Collaborative Innovation at Eneco

Vishal Kumar Bhagchandani
Illinois Institute of Techn...
GDSC Lead @ Illinois Institute of Technology

Jen Anderson
TAG - The Aspen Group
Senior Director of Engineering - Web Platform @ TAG - The Aspen Group

Timothy Patterson
NorthBay Solutions
Vice President, Services and Solutions @ NorthBay Solutions

Grant Lammi
Steve and Cindy Rasmussen I...
Cloud Development Manager at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Maja H. Kirkeby
Roskilde University
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of People and Technology

Betty Enyonam Kumahor
The Cobalt Partners
Managing Partner at Cobalt Partners focused on frugal digital innovation

Phil Winder
Winder Research
CEO of Winder.AI, author of "Reinforcement Learning"

Dylan Beattie
Ursatile
Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language

Georges Saab
Oracle
Senior Vice President of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle

Fabio Nudge Pereira
Red Hat
Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator

Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe
Zoopla
Head of Data Science at Zoopla & Co-founder of Beautiful Places AI

Erik Meijer
Director of engineering at Facebook; "Think Like A Fundamentalist, Code Like A Hacker"

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

Bryan Cantrill
Oxide Computer Company
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Oxide Computer Company

Dean Wampler
IBM Research
Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.

Matt Stratton
Aiven
Host of the Arrested DevOps podcast and Director of Developer Relations at Aiven

Aaron Rinehart
Capital One
Sr. Distinguished Engineer of Production Reliability Engineering (PRE) at CapitalOne

Brian Carroll
Maintainer of Roc, a fast, friendly, functional programming language

Jacob Sherson
Aarhus University
Founding director of Center for Hybrid Intelligence and ScienceAtHome.org

Stig Elkjær Rasmussen
Kvantify
Quantum engineer with a PhD in quantum technology and machine learning

Henrik Bærbak Christensen
Department of Computer Scie...
Author of "Flexible, Reliable Software", Associate Professor at University of Aarhus

Robert Virding
Lisp Flavoured Erlang
Erlang co-inventor, and principal language expert at Erlang Solutions

Nikhil Srinidhi
QuantumBlack – AI by McKins...
Passionate about sustainability and conscious design

Jesse Anderson
Big Data Institute
Managing director of Big Data Institute, host of The Data Dream Team podcast

Erik Scherder
VU University Amsterdam
Attached to the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at VU University Amsterdam

Mark Rendle
Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP awards and 30+ years of experience building software

Martin Kleppmann
Technical University of Mun...
Researcher at the Technical University of Munich

Ivar Grimstad
Eclipse Foundation
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation & Java Champion

Uri Goldshtein
The Guild Software
Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem

Nicholai Stålung
Trifork
Data scientist who has spawned and led multiple data science and ML teams

Saša Jurić
Independent Elixir mentor
The ultimate beacon in the Elixir space; author of one of the most important books, "Elixir in action" #elixir #erlang

Fred George
Fred George Consulting
Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating MicroServices & Programmer Anarchy

Martin Förtsch
TNG Technology Consulting G...
Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Oracle Java Rock Star

Thomas Endres
TNG Technology Consulting G...
Partner at TNG Technology Consulting, lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Landshut

Chris Richardson
Microservices.io
Creator of the original CloudFoundry.com and author of 'POJOs in Action' and 'Microservices patterns'

Martin Thompson
Real Logic
High-Performance Computing Specialist, Java Champion with 25+ years of experience

Liz Keogh
Independent
Core Member of the BDD Community, Well-known Blogger, Lean & Agile Consultant

Christian Heilmann
Microsoft
Author of several JS books. "Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet"

Linda Stougaard Nielsen
Femtec Health
Data scientist, software developer, and agile practitioner

Klaus Bucka-Lassen
Netcetera
Agile consultant with 20+ years experience who's helped companies like LEGO, BP, Nestlé, and Jägermeister become more agile

Malte Foegen
wibas GmbH
Chief Operating Officer, working with clients on transforming to be successful in digital times

Muniba Talha
Copenhagen School of Design...
Lecturer at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology

Stephan Henningsen
Trifork A/S
Creative computer programmer and author of the infamous OkException Design Pattern.

Bjarki Madsen
Roof Management
Pushing buttons for a living and Icreative in my work, every day.

Bo Kristensen
Roof Management
Favorite quote: "This I have never tried before, so surely I can do it!"

Anna Urbaniak
Agile coach and consultant managing organizational systems, coaching and consulting for over 15 years

Danny Lange
Unity Technologies
SVP of AI and ML at Unity Technologies; previously led innovative ML teams at Uber, AWS and Microsoft

Pouyan Asgharzadeh
MHP
Senior machine learning expert & project lead for AI innovation at MHP – A Porsche Company

Roy Osherove
Team Agile
Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing" and "Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams"

Hannah Fry
University College London
Mathematician, best-selling author and all-round badass known for her joyful ability to bring maths to life for audiences of all interests and abilities

Simon Singh
Independent Author
Physicist, journalist and best-selling author with the first book about mathematics to become a No.1 bestseller in the UK

Geoffrey Lessel
Planning Center
Developer at Planning Center. Author of Phoenix in Action. Wannabe renaissance man.

John Le Drew
Wise Noodles
Coach, consultant, trainer, experienced engineer and international keynote speaker; founder of Wise Noodles

PJ Hagerty
Mattermost
Developer advocate at Mattermost and a board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness

Eberhard Wolff
INNOQ
Prolific author of "Microservices: Flexible Software Architecture". Working for 15+ years as an architect & consultant

Adrienne Braganza Tacke
Cisco
Senior Developer Advocate at Cisco & Author of "Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews"

Erik Doernenburg
Thoughtworks
Head of technology at Thoughtworks and contributor of several books

Benjamin Mitchell
Equal Experts
Experienced Agile Delivery Practitioner & Advocate of Effective Communication Skills

Daniel H Steinberg
Dim Sum Thinking
Daniel will bring his cutting-edge Swift knowledge straight from the source (WWDC in June). #swift

Anita Sengupta
University of Southern CA
Rocket scientist and expert on the future of transportation; responsible for the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover

Evelina Gabasova
The Alan Turing Institute
Machine Learning Expert & Data Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute

Chris Atherton
Pragmatic interaction designer and content consultant with extensive experience from digital product and service development

Eamonn Boyle
Gearset
World-renowned masterclass teacher with 15+ years' experience as a developer, architect and team lead

Doug Lenat
Cycorp
Award-winning AI pioneer who created the landmark Machine Learning program-AM

Bridget Kromhout
Microsoft
Co-host of Arrested DevOps Podcast & Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft

Marco Gercke
Cybercrime Research Institu...
Global Thinker & Writer Focussing on Global Security & Cybersecurity

Asim Hussain
Microsoft
First the European Space Agency, then Google, now Microsoft where Asim is the Green Cloud Advocacy Lead!

Prayson Daniel
NTT Data Business Solutions...
On a mission to help companies gain AI competitive advantage

Ekaterina Sirazitdinova
NVIDIA
Data scientist for computer vision, video analytics and deep learning at NVIDIA

Tibi Covaci
Microsoft
Microsoft Regional Director, Azure Architect and mastermind in Microsoft technologies and Angular

Gail Murphy
The University of British C...
VP Research & Innovation & Professor of CS at The University of British Columbia

Kurt Bittner
Scrum.org
Co Author of "The Professional Scrum Team" & Enterprise Solutions at Scrup.org

Casper Wilstrup
Abzu
Founder and CEO of Abzu with 20 years's experience building large scale systems for data processing, analysis, and artificial intelligence

Cosmin Mitescu
ING Tech Romania, the softw...
DevOps engineer at ING Tech Romania, the software development hub of ING

Florin Ioanitescu
ING Tech Romania, the softw...
Senior DevOps engineer at ING Tech Romania, the software development hub of ING

Wouter Ligtenberg
ING Tech Romania, the softw...
Engineering lead at ING Tech Romania, the software development hub of ING

Brian Vermeer
Snyk
Java Champion and software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience

Alex Bikfalvi
Adevinta
Product lead at Adevinta, building Adevinta's internal developer platform

Ricardo Sueiras
AWS
Experienced coach & mentor; principal advocate in Open Source at Amazon Web Services

Eltjo R. Poort
CGI
The founder and owner of CGI’s agile architecture approach Responsive, Collaborative Digital Architecture (RCDA) and leads CGI’s community of architects

Madhu Sivasubramanian
ING
Domain Architect at ING with hands-on experience in distributed large-scale web applications

Krešimir Musa
CROZ
Chief Technology Officer at CROZ helping startups with the adoption of agile principles, methods and culture

Marcin Pakulnicki
ING Bank Netherlands
Head of IT at Daily Banking Tribe at ING Bank Netherlands

Gary Crawford
AKQA Sweden
Used Agile Techniques for Smuggling Whiskey - All in the Name of Science

Robin Moffatt
Confluent
Don't miss these talks from the top-rated speaker from Kafka Summit 2020

Jovan Veljanoski
Machine learning specialist at Cloud Technology Solutions and co-founder of vaex.io

Simon Clatworthy
IT University of Copenhagen...
World recognized thought leader in service design and professor of design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Jan Damsgaard
Copenhagen Business School...
Professor at the department of digitalization at Copenhagen Business School

Tod Golding
Amazon
Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"
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Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Uncle Bob Consulting
Author of "Clean Code" & "The Clean Coder", Co-author of the Agile Manifesto

Zhamak Dehghani
Thoughtworks
Director of Emerging Technologies at Thoughtworks & Author of "Data Mesh"

Kirk Pepperdine
Kirk knows more about the JVM than most of the engineers that actually build it do. Let him take you to the secrets and dark corners of the JVM. #java

Thomas Anagrius
Trifork
One of the very first and early adopters;rocking Elm since 2016; Principal Engineer at Humio

Mark Heckler
Pivotal
Pivotal Principal Technologist & Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, & Java Champion

Tomasz Lelek
Dremio
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Dremio & Author of “Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs”

Johan Vos
Gluon
Java Champion, Gluon co-founder, everything from Java on embedded/mobile to Java in the Cloud, and Java in science

Mark Miller
The Linux Foundation
Vice President, Community Engagement &Outreach at The Linux Foundation

Avraham Poupko
Forescout Technologies
Head of Product Security & Compliance at Forescout Technologies

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

Joe Reis
Ternary Data
Co-Author of "Fundamentals of Data Engineering", Speaker, Professor & Podcaster

David Linthicum
Linthicum Research
AI & Cloud Computing Thought Leader & Influencer, Innovator, Educator, Author, Speaker & Business Leader

James Stanier
Spotify
Director of Engineering at Shopify & Author of "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager"

Eduardo da Silva
Independent Consultant on Sociotechnical Systems, Architecture, and Leadership modernization

Mickael Maison
Red Hat
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"

Sean Moriarity
Author of Genetic Algorithms in Elixir and Machine Learning in Elixir, co-creator of Nx.

Ashley Peacock
Staff Software Engineer & Author of "Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques"

Luciano Ramalho
Thoughtworks
Community Leader, International Speaker & Author of "Fluent Python"

Gergely Orosz
The Pragmatic Engineer
Writing "The Pragmatic Engineer" & Author of "The Software Engineer's Guidebook"

Anne Currie
Green Software Foundation
Co-Author of "Building Green Software" & Leadership Team at Green Software Foundation

Kate Wardin
Target Corporation
A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams

Debbie O'Brien
NuxtJS
Microsoft, Google, NuxtJS. Debbie's rise to the stars is an amazing story, and you can do the same

Mike Elsmore
Logz.io
Happy hacker of technology, usually found elbows deep in experiments, JavaScript, or trying to learn something new.

Armin Pasalic
Solarisbank
Obsessed with clean architecture, “proper” domain isolation and, in general, making software nice and enjoyable to work with.

Eugene Petrenko
JetBrains
Eugene from JetBrains is here to tell you all facts you didn't know about Kotlin. #kotlin #programming

Mark West
Bouvet Norge AS
Data scientist by day, IoT maker by night and one of GOTO’s highest-rated speakers

Daniel Lebrero Berna
Multidisciplinary developer with 20+ years experience (he's literally done it all)

Steve Wozniak
Woz U
Apple Cofounder, Silicon Valley Icon and Philanthropist, Winner of Several Technology Awards

Ron Bodkin
Google Cloud
Technical Director for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Google’s Cloud

Natalie Lund
Trifork
Community manager, performing artist, traveller, mover, yogini and happy person

Ashley Quinto Powell
Ashley Powell Consulting
Speaker, Revenue Consultant, Champion of Moms, Relentless Supporter of Entrepreneurs. A fun person to follow.

Alexander Condello
D-Wave Systems
Manager, Applications Development Technology and Tools at D-Wave Systems

Daniel Grum
John Deere
Senior Test Operations Engineer - John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group

Rebecca Miller-Webster
Mastery
Founder of Write/Speak/Code, educator and director of engineering

Stuart Langridge
Kryogenix Consulting
Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author

Kelley Robinson
Twilio
Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Angela Dugan
3Cloud Solutions
Solution Director on the Strategic Engagements at 3Cloud Solutions

Antti Partanen
Futurice
Finding and solving problems for better, funnier and easier world @ Futurice

Stephen Carver
Cranfield University School...
Lecturer, consultant & speaker at Cranfield University School of Management

Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Tech...
Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology

Richard Clayton
University of Cambridge
Director, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge

Morten Birk
Alexandra Instituttet
Software Developer at Interactive Spaces Lab & Augmented Reality Wizzard

Johan Stokking
The Things Network
Tech Lead, CTO & Co-founder of the World's Largest LoRaWAN Network

Ben Wilcock
Pivotal
Established Technology Blogger & Advisory Solution Architect in Cloud Application Transformation

Robert Metzger
Ververica
PMC member of the Apache Flink project; Co-founder, Engineering Lead Ververica

Kief Morris
ThoughtWorks
Author of O'Reilly's "Infrastructure as Code" & Cloud Practice Lead at ThoughtWorks

Aslak Hellesøy
Cucumber
Creator of Cucumber; Author of "The Cucumber Book, Behaviour-Driven Development for Developers and Testers"

Lieven Vandersypen
TU Delft
Professor of Quantum Nanoscience & co-director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft & co-founder of QuTech

Mathias Verraes
Founder & Principal Consult...
Founder & Principal Consultant at Aardling, Advisor in Complex Environments

Stoyan Stefanov
Facebook engineer, ex-Yahoo, architect of the YSlow 2.0 performance tool and creator of the smush.it image optimization tool

Michael “Stu” Stewart
Opendoor
ML Engineer at Opendoor and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award winner

Ashley Williams
Integer32
A specialist and core contributor to Rust, the most loved dev-driven language. #rust

Ricardo Garcia
BigchainDB
Helping developers deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and applications at BigchainDB

Kristian Løken Wille
Bouvet ASA
Expert in security, web development, real-time positioning systems, mobile platforms and children's toys

Marc Cohen
Building tools, demos, tutorials, and other educational artifacts to make computing and data science more accessible and inclusive

Maarten Mulders
Info Support
IT architect at Info Support passionate about lean and elegant solutions

Alberto Brandolini
Avanscoperta
Creator of EventStorming

Lars Grunske
Humboldt University of Ber...
Software Engineering Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin

Philipp Nagele
Wikitude
AR expert, building award-winning multi-sensory experiences at Wikitude

Stefan Rudnitzki
Europace
Transformer of organisations, who helped turn Europace into a fully-autonomous holocracy

Sascha Möllering
Amazon Web Services EMEA SA...
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL

Kiki Carter
Lightbend
Developing large-scale distributed systems using Reactive Principles at Lightbend

Pak-Hang Wong
Universität Hamburg
Ethics in Information Technology Research Associate at Universität Hamburg

Martin Quensel
Centrifuge
Startup co-founder building the OS for global commerce to decentralise business relations

Laurent Bossavit
Agilist, recipient of Agile Alliance's 2006 Gordon Pask award and leprechaun hunter

Sebastien Goasguen
Bitnami
Leading Kubernetes efforts as Sr. Director, Cloud Technologies at Bitnami

Andre Duis
Metro Systems
Domain Architect (Cloud Platform) & Product Owner Deployment at Metro Systems

Heinz Kabutz
The JavaSpecialists
Author of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, Java Programmer, Java Champion, Instructor of advanced Java courses

Francesc Campoy
source{d}
Gopher, Host of the Just For Func Podcast, and VP of Developer Relations at source{d}

Chris Seaton
Oracle Labs
Research manager leading the work to implement Ruby using the next generation of JVM technology at Oracle Labs

Wendy Mackay
INRIA Saclay/Université Par...
Research director with INRIA Saclay and Head of ExSitu team at Université Paris-Sud

Mark Coleman
dotscience
VP Marketing at dotscience and Marketing Chairperson for Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cindy Sridharan
Distributed Systems Enginee...
Author of O'Reilly Book on Distributed Systems Observability

Poul Jørgen Jennum
KU / Rigshospitalet
Professor of Neurophysiology and Head of the Danish Center for Sleep Medicine

Kyle Kingsbury
Jepsen
Author of Riemann monitoring system and Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness

Michael Irwin
Virginia Tech
Docker Captain, Community Leader & Application Architect at Virginia Tech

Dominica DeGrandis
Tasktop
Author of Making Work Visible and Director of Digital Transformation at Tasktop

Todd Montgomery
StoneTor, LLC
Co-author of Aeron, Ex-NASA researcher, Ex-CTO of 29West & network geek

Noel Rappin
Table XI
Principal Software Engineer at Table XI and host of the Tech Done Right podcast

Marvin Laucher
Mined Minds
Former Coal Miner turned Software Developer and the inspiration for the development of Mined Minds

Tomas Petricek
fsharpWorks
Author of 'Real-World Functional Programming' & Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute

Adron Hall
Thrashing Code
Coder, Messenger, Recon, Infrastructure, Ops, & A Sprinkling of Metal

Susan Landau
Tufts University
Bridge Professor at Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science at Tufts University

Michael Green
Blackwood Seven A/S
Machine Learning Expert and Artificial Intelligence Evangelist

Henrik Johansen
Region Syddanmark
Chief Consultant for IT Operations and Security, Region Syddanmark

Gilles Philippart
Société Générale Corporate ...
Senior Software Engineer at Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

Chris Valasek
Uber
Security Lead at Uber’s Advanced Technology Center & Renowned 'White Hat' Hacker

Rafal Kuklinski
Amazon Development Center
Amazon Text-to-Speech Technology Team Lead & MD at Amazon Development Center

Julie Pitt
Order of Magnitude Labs
Machine Intelligence Expert & Co-founder at Order of Magnitude Labs

Sid Anand
Datazoom
Data Architect for Datazoom, a rising email security company. Committer, Advisor, Speaker. Former LinkedIn, Netflix and eBay

Marcy Sutton
Deque Systems
Web Developer and Accessibility Advocate, Senior Front-End Engineer at Deque Systems, Inc

Jamie Grier
Data Artisans
Helping people realizing the potential of Flink in their own projects, Director of Applications Engineering at Data Artisans

Michelle Casbon
Qordoba
Director of Data Science at Qordoba, uses machine learning to create better UX and less pain for engineers

Gabrielle Crevecoeur
Microsoft
Technical Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on open source technologies

Lorena Mesa
Sprout Social
Keeper of Proximate Knowledge aka Platform Engineer, Data at Sprout Social

Nicole Forsgren
DevOps Research and Assessm...
CEO & Chief Scientist, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)

Ed Burns
Oracle
Software stylist, speaker, and author, currently working in the server side Java space