GOTO Experts: Tech Leaders, Innovators, and Thought Leaders

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Artie Shevchenko

from

Canva

Lecturer at ITMO University, author of Code Health Guardian, and ex-Googler

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

Annie Vella

from

Westpac New Zealand

Engineering Leader and Researcher

Next presenting at:

YOW! Melbourne 2026

Daniel Terhorst-North

from

Goalwards

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

Next presenting at:

GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Barbara Oakley

from

Oakland University

Professor of Engineering at Oakland University

Next presenting at:

GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Dave Thomas

Author of The Pragmatic Programmer

Next presenting at:

GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Charles Humble

from

Conissaunce

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Next presenting at:

GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Gojko Adzic

from

Neuri Consulting

Award-winning author and software delivery consultant

Next presenting at:

GOTO Copenhagen 2026

Alexander Chatzizacharias

from

JDriven

Software Engineer at JDriven

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

Adel Smee

from

Ferocia

Engineering Director at Ferocia

Rick Giner

from

Envato

Technology Leader at Envato

Simon Wardan

from

Terem

Principal Engineer at Terem

Fredy Lievano

from

LGAQ

Digital Delivery Manager at LGAQ

Sameera Gayan

from

Mable

Engineering Manager at Mable

Phillip Krüger

from

Red Hat

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Sarah Wells

Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"

Holly Cummins

from

Red Hat

Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team

Martin Thwaites

from

Honeycomb

Principle Developer Advocate at Honeycomb

Dave Farley

from

Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Software Developer and Consultant, Founder of Continuous Delivery Ltd., Author

Trisha Gee

Software engineer, Java Champion, Author and PC Member

Heiko Gerin

from

Thoughtworks

Head of Technology, ANZ at Thoughtworks

Brigid O'Brien

from

Thoughtworks

Transformation Partner at Thoughtworks Australia

Yan Chernikov

from

Studio Cherno

Director at Studio Cherno

Erica Pisani

from

Float Financial

Sr. Software Engineer at Float Financial

Dave Thomas

from

Bedarra

Founder, Keynote Speaker, Software Industry Expert

Tudor Girba

from

feenk

Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenk

Daniel Coleman

from

Macquarie Bank

VP of Engineering at Macquarie Bank

Lee Campbell

from

VGW

VP of Engineering at VGW and Author of 'Introduction to Rx'

Dylan Beattie

from

Ursatile

Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language

Marharyta Nedzelska

from

SonarSource

Software Engineer at SonarSource

Jez Humble

from

Google

SRE at Google Cloud, Lecturer at UC Berkeley

Anne-Marie Charrett

from

Telstra

Group Owner - Developer Experience Automation at Telstra

Frank Yu

from

Coinbase

Director of Engineering at Coinbase

Hillel Wayne

from

Windy Coast Consulting

Chief Everything Office at Windy Coast Consulting

James Bowkett

from

OpenCredo

Technical Delivery Director at OpenCredo

Hannes Lowette

from

Axxes

Head of learning & development at Axxes and a passionate .NET developer

Christof Leng

from

Google

Lead for Google's SRE Engagement Model and SRE review programs

Martin Thompson

from

Real Logic

High-Performance Computing Specialist, Java Champion with 25+ years of experience

Vanessa Formicola

from

Prima

Principal architect and engineer

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)

from

Uncle Bob Consulting

Author of "Clean Code" & "The Clean Coder", Co-author of the Agile Manifesto

Kevin Carpenter

from

EPX

Patrice Roy

CPP Conference Formateur

Steve Pereira

from

Visible

Helping Teams Define and Optimize their Value Streams

Andrew Davis

Gergely Orosz

from

The Pragmatic Engineer

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

Ity Kaul

from

Twitter

Tech Lead at Twitter