Speakers

This Year We Are Proud to Present Some Amazing Speakers
Allard Buijze

Allard Buijze

AxonIQ

Creator of Axon Framework

Talks:

Event Storage in Axon Server - How does it work?
Event-Driven Microservices, the Sense, the Non-sense and a Way Forward

Masterclasses:

DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing with Axon Framework
#partner
Anita Sengupta

Anita Sengupta

University of Southern CA

Rocket Scientist, Professor of Astronautics and Space Technology University of Southern CA

Talks:

From Flying Cars to Humans on Mars - The Future of Transportation
#smart things
Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta

AWS

Principal Open Source Technologist at AWS and CNCF Board Member

Talks:

Using Kubernetes for Machine Learning Frameworks
Secure and Fast microVM for Serverless Computing
#kubernetes
#machine learning
Aslak Hellesøy

Aslak Hellesøy

Cucumber

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

Talks:

Millisecond Full Stack Acceptance Tests
#testing
Ben Wilcock

Ben Wilcock

Pivotal

Established Technology Blogger & Advisory Solution Architect in Cloud Application Transformation

Talks:

How to Build CQRS and Event Sourcing Application with Axon and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
#cqrs
#event sourcing
#ddd
#microservices
#live demo
Bert Jan Schrijver

Bert Jan Schrijver

OpenValue

JavaOne Rockstar & Champion, NLJUG leader & CTO at OpenValue

Talks:

Mastering the Linux Command Line
#developer productivity
#programming
Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson

Iron Maiden

Businessman, Pilot & Lead Singer of Iron Maiden

Talks:

Turning Your Customers into Fans
#customers and fans
Christiaan Hees

Christiaan Hees

Google Cloud

Customer Engineer at Google Cloud

Talks:

How we Built Google Tulip by using Serverless Technology and Machine Learning
#machine learning
#partner
Christina Boutrup

Christina Boutrup

TV2

China Expert and Author of "The Great Tech Revolution"

Talks:

Extreme Digitalization in China
Claudio Perrone

Claudio Perrone

Agile Sensei

Inventor of the PopcornFlow Thinking Model

Talks:

PopcornFlow: If Change is Hard, Make it Continuous
#agile
#teams
Corina Pip

Corina Pip

Test & Automation Leading Expert & Creator of "The Little Tester" Comic

Talks:

Selenium Tests, the Object Oriented Way
#testing
#programming
Damiaan Zwietering

Damiaan Zwietering

IBM

Data Science Developer Advocate at IBM

Talks:

Hands-On Lab: Robustness in Image Recognition (Part 2)
Hands-On Lab: Robustness in Image Recognition (Part 1)
#machine learning
#partner
#hands-on lab
Daniel Bryant

Daniel Bryant

Author of "Containerizing Continuous Delivery in Java"

Talks:

In Search of the Perfect Cloud Native Developer Experience
#kubernetes
#testing
#teams
#developer productivity
#devops
Dawid Ziolkowski

Dawid Ziolkowski

Container Solutions

Masterclasses:

One day Istio Masterclass
Eamonn Boyle

Eamonn Boyle

Instil

Masterclasses:

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams
Em Grasmeder

Em Grasmeder

ThoughtWorks

Code, Anarchy, Witchcraft

Talks:

Thinking Like a Data Scientist

Masterclasses:

Continuous Intelligence: Data Science, Hypothesis Driven Development, and Continuous Delivery
#machine learning
Emily Gorcenski

Emily Gorcenski

Data Scientist, Technologist & Hockey Player

Masterclasses:

Continuous Intelligence: Data Science, Hypothesis Driven Development, and Continuous Delivery
Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson

AWS

Senior Developer Advocate - AWS Serverless

Talks:

Attitude of Iteration
What Does THIS Button Do? Serverless and IoT
#human factor
#partner
#serverless
#iot
Erwin de Gier

Erwin de Gier

Trifork

Building the Bleeding-edge Crypto Platform "WeAreBlox" at Trifork

Talks:

Building a Cloud-native Event-driven Microservice Platform for Crypto Currency Trading with Spring Webflux
#microservices
#cloud
#programming
#event sourcing
#api
#cloud native
Evan Sutter

Evan Sutter

Hapzly

Co-founder of Hapzly, Measuring Businesses on Happiness Output

Talks:

The Happy Movement: How Business Is The Key To Making The World A Happier Place
#human factor
Florian Gilcher

Florian Gilcher

Asquera

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

Talks:

Rust 2018: Access All Areas
#programming
#webassembly
#languages
Garth Gilmour

Garth Gilmour

Instil

Ireland's most experienced software trainer

Masterclasses:

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams
Gary Crawford

Gary Crawford

AKQA Sweden

Used Agile Techniques for Smuggling Whiskey - All in the Name of Science

Talks:

Build Agility with Design Sprints
#agile
#teams
Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic

Neuri Consulting

Creator of Claudia.js & Award-winning Software Delivery Consultant

Talks:

Serverless: Five Key Things you need to Know
#cloud
#serverless
Graeme Rocher

Graeme Rocher

Grails and Micronaut

Creator of Grails and Micronaut

Talks:

Introduction to Micronaut: Lightweight Microservices with Ahead of Time Compilation
#microservices
#programming
#java
Han Markslag

Han Markslag

ING Bank

IT Chapter Lead Omnichannel, ING Bank

Talks:

Death of the IT manager - Being a Tech Lead in a Modern IT Organisation
#human factor
#teams
#agile
#partner
Heather Gray

Heather Gray

UC Berkeley

Assistant Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley

Talks:

Can Quantum Computing Help to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe?
#quantum computing
#physics
Jaideep Bansal

Jaideep Bansal

Global Himalayan Expedition

Energy Access Leader at Global Himalayan Expedition

Talks:

Energy and Education Access for Remote Communities
#saving the world
Johan Stokking

Johan Stokking

The Things Network

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

Talks:

Build Your Own LoRaWAN Network Now
#iot
#smart things
John Le Drew

John Le Drew

Wise Noodles

Experienced Engineer Making Psychological Safety a Right for Everyone

Talks:

Swearing, Nudity and Other Vulnerable Positions
#human factor
#teams
Jose Galarza

Jose Galarza

TransferWise

Tech Lead at TransferWise

Talks:

The Road to Migrating 100+ Services to Kubernetes
#kubernetes
#partner
João Silva

João Silva

CERN

Leader of CERN’s Applications and Services section

Talks:

CERN, from an IT Perspective
#it and society
#saving the world
Juan Paniagua

Juan Paniagua

Proteon

OpenShift Consultancy manager at Proteon

Talks:

Fast, Local Development for OpenShift Microservices (20 minutes)
#partner
Julius Volz

Julius Volz

Prometheus Co-Founder

Talks:

An Introduction to Systems and Service Monitoring with Prometheus
Kelley Robinson

Kelley Robinson

Twilio

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Talks:

PSD2, SCA, WTF?
Ken Mugrage

Ken Mugrage

Thoughtworks

Technology Evangelist with ThoughtWorks

Talks:

Modern Continuous Delivery
#continuous delivery
#architecture
#partner
Kief Morris

Kief Morris

ThoughtWorks

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

Talks:

Building Evolutionary Infrastructure
Book Signing with Kief Morris
#programming
#developer productivity
#cloud
#serverless
#devops
Koen Bos

Koen Bos

Relay42

CTO at Relay42

Talks:

Journey of an Entrepreneur: the Story of a Product Startup from a Founders Perspective
#teams
#human factor
#partner
Lee Boonstra

Lee Boonstra

Google

Customer Engineer at Google

Talks:

How we Built Google Tulip by using Serverless Technology and Machine Learning
#machine learning
#partner
Lieven Vandersypen

Lieven Vandersypen

TU Delft

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

Talks:

The Grand Challenge and Promise of Quantum Computing
#quantum computing
Linus Kvarnhammar

Linus Kvarnhammar

Syneptic

Security consultant & ethical hacker

Masterclasses:

Hacking Web Applications
Liz Keogh

Liz Keogh

Independent

Core BDD Community Member, Cynefin Advocate, Sci-Fi Writer & Haiku Poet

Talks:

It's Getting Faster
#human factor
#it and society
#agile
Liz Rice

Liz Rice

Aqua Security

Technology Evangelist with Aqua Security

Talks:

Getting to Grips with Kubernetes RBAC
Marcin Pakulnicki

Marcin Pakulnicki

ING Bank

IT Chapter Lead Omnichannel, ING Bank

Talks:

Death of the IT manager - Being a Tech Lead in a Modern IT Organisation
#human factor
#teams
#agile
#partner
Marco Gercke

Marco Gercke

Cybercrime Research Institute

Global Thinker & Writer Focussing on Global Security & Cybersecurity

Talks:

AI/ML, Quantum Computing and 5G – Opportunities, Challenges and the Impact on Society
#artificial intelligence
#quantum computing
#iot
#5g
Marcos Maia

Marcos Maia

ING

Full Stack Engineer at ING

Talks:

Real Time Investment Alerts using Apache Kafka at ING Bank
#partner
Markus Wittwer

Markus Wittwer

Coaching Agile Teams to Stay Sane Using Mindfulness

Talks:

Mind as Code - Mindfulness for Developers and Knowledge Workers

Masterclasses:

Modern Mindfulness Practices for Coders and Knowledge Workers
#human factor
Martin Woolley

Martin Woolley

Bluetooth SIG

BLE Wizard & Developer Relations Manager at Bluetooth SIG

Talks:

An Introduction to Bluetooth mesh for Developers
#smart things
#iot
Mathias Verraes

Mathias Verraes

Independent

Programmer, Consultant & Advisor in Complex Environments & Spare Time Lego Train Constructor

Talks:

Temporal Modelling
#event sourcing
#cqrs
#human factor
Matt Brunt

Matt Brunt

Helical Levity

Dungeon Master, Code Tinkerer & Cybersecurity Pro

Talks:

Content Security Policies: Let's Break Stuff
#security
#programming
Matt Feigal

Matt Feigal

Google Cloud

Cloud Customer Engineering Manager for Benelux

Talks:

How we Built Google Tulip by using Serverless Technology and Machine Learning
#machine learning
#partner
Mike Amundsen

Mike Amundsen

Director of API Architecture

API Expert & Author of O'Reilly's "RESTful Web Clients"

Talks:

Discovering RESTful Web Microservices: A Traveler's Guide

Masterclasses:

Building Great APIs from the Ground Up
#api
#microservices
#programming
Morten Birk

Morten Birk

Alexandra Instituttet

Software Developer at Interactive Spaces Lab & Augmented Reality Wizzard

Talks:

Augmented Reality, Beyond Virtual Objects Floating in Physical Space
#augmented reality
#smart things
#machine learning
Nell Watson

Nell Watson

Founder of QuantaCorp, Engineer, Entrepreneur & Tech Philosopher

Talks:

Machine Ethics
#machine ethics
Nicki Watt

Nicki Watt

OpenCredo

CTO of OpenCredo, Leading Delivery of Large-scale, Cloud Native Projects

Talks:

Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies
#microservices
#cloud native
Nicolas Frankel

Nicolas Frankel

Exoscale

Developer Advocate at Exoscale

Talks:

Migrating Spring Boot Apps from Annotation-based Config to Functional with Kotlin
#kotlin
#live demo
#developer productivity
Nikolas Burk

Nikolas Burk

Prisma

Created the Popular Online Tutorial "How to GraphQL"

Talks:

Boost your API Development with GraphQL & Prisma
#api
#programming
Oliver Drotbohm

Oliver Drotbohm

Pivotal

Author of the first Book on Spring Data & Spring Data Lead

Talks:

REST beyond the Obvious - API Design for ever Evolving Systems
#ddd
#api
#data
Paulien van Alst

Paulien van Alst

OpenValue

Passionate Software Engineer at OpenValue Teaching Kotlin

Talks:

Upgrade Time: Choose Java 11 or the “other” one… Kotlin
#programming
#java
#kotlin
#languages
Phil Winder

Phil Winder

Winder Research

Machine Learning whiz and Advocate for DataDevOps

Masterclasses:

Data Science (ML/AI/Analytics/etc.) for Production Engineers (Beginner)
Philip Leonard

Philip Leonard

Picnic

Picnic

Talks:

Reactive I/O: The Key To Absolute Reactivity (20 minutes)
#partner
Philippe De Ryck

Philippe De Ryck

Pragmatic Web Security

Founder of Pragmatic Web Security, Google Developer Expert

Talks:

Common API Security Pitfalls
Taking Security Seriously

Masterclasses:

Client-side Security for Modern Web Applications
#api
#security
Preben Thorö

Preben Thorö

Trifork GmbH

Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, CTO Trifork GmbH

Talks:

Conference Opening Thursday
Conference Opening Wednesday
Conference Opening Tuesday
Priit Potter

Priit Potter

Plumbr

Co-Founder of Plumbr

Talks:

Distributed Tracing in Practice (20 minutes)
#partner
Priyanka Vergadia

Priyanka Vergadia

Google

AI and ML strategist at Google

Talks:

Conversation AI, the new User Experience
#machine learning
Radu Weiss

Radu Weiss

Amazon

Firecracker Expert

Talks:

Secure and Fast microVM for Serverless Computing
Robert Metzger

Robert Metzger

Ververica

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

Talks:

Introduction to Stateful Stream Processing with Apache Flink
Ronnie Mitra

Ronnie Mitra

Co-Author of Continuous API Management

Talks:

Practical API Design
#api
#programming
Roy van Rijn

Roy van Rijn

OpenValue

Experienced Developer & Architect, Robotics Enthusiast & Hobby Mathematician

Talks:

From Tic Tac Toe to AlphaGo: Playing games with AI
#machine learning
#artificial intelligence
Sam Aaron

Sam Aaron

University of Cambridge

Creator of Sonic Pi & Live Coding Musician

Talks:

GOTO Gathering in Grote Zaal
Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
#live demo
#open source
Sander Hoogendoorn

Sander Hoogendoorn

Quby

Chief architect at Quby

Talks:

It’s a Small World after all - How Thinking Small is Changing Software Development Big Time
Sander Mak

Sander Mak

Luminis

Java Champion, Author of O'Reilly's "Java 9 Modularity" & Fellow at Luminis

Talks:

Keeping Up with Java

Masterclasses:

Java.Next: Keeping up with Java
#java
#programming
#languages
Steve Peak

Steve Peak

Storyscript

Storyscript

Talks:

The Future of Programming from the Top-Level
#partner
Steve Smith

Steve Smith

Continuous Delivery Consulting

Author of "Measuring Continuous Delivery"

Talks:

Continuous Delivery and the Theory of Constraints
#developer productivity
#testing
#devops
Steve Smith

Steve Smith

Atlassian

Collaborative data and hit'n'run ops at Atlassian

Talks:

Knowledge is Power: Getting out of Trouble by Understanding Git
#programming
#developer productivity
Steven van Beelen

Steven van Beelen

AxonIQ

Axon Framework Lead Developer

Talks:

How to Build CQRS and Event Sourcing Application with Axon and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
#cqrs
#event sourcing
#ddd
#microservices
#live demo
Tim van Baarsen

Tim van Baarsen

ING

Full Stack Engineer at ING

Talks:

Real Time Investment Alerts using Apache Kafka at ING Bank
#partner
Trisha Gee

Trisha Gee

JetBrains

Developer Advocate & Java Champion

Talks:

Life After Java 8
#programming language
Vasi Philomin

Vasi Philomin

Amazon

Master of language and speech technologies

Talks:

Innovate using Machine Learning and AI
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