Speakers

Computer scientist & Turing Award winner

• Inventor of windows, object-orientation & Smalltalk
• One of the fathers of the idea of object-oriented programming (OOP), which he named
• Has received multiple awards and honors

Designer at NAV

• Previously worked on GOV.UK, where she helped build some of the UK's public digital services
• Former academic psychologist

Author of The Art Of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership: Growing Self-Organizing Teams

• Independent consultant & trainer
• Has been working in the software industry for over 20 years

Author of Retrospectives Antipatterns

• Teacher, technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator
• 12+ years of experience with patterns in software development and 10+ years' experience with facilitation of retrospectives

Chairman of the FIFA referees committee

• Former football referee
• Was named FIFA's "Best Referee of the Year" six consecutive times and is widely considered to be the greatest football referee of all time
• In 2003, Collina published his autobiography, My Rules of the Game (Le Mie Regole del Gioco)

Director, developer experience at Red Hat

• Java Champion since 2005
• Gave birth to Red Hat's JBoss SOA and BRMS product lines
• Founder of the DevNexus conference, the second largest java event in the U.S.

Principal solutions architect for the Nordics region at Sonatype

Author of Your Code as a Crime Scene

• Founder and CTO at CodeScene
• Has written the popular Lisp for the Web tutorial and self-published a book on Patterns in C
• Professional developer for 25 years

Developer advocate at RedHat & Java Champion

• Co-founder of Bucharest Software Craftsmanship Community
• Achieved IBM Certified Application Developer - Cloud Platform v1 in 2016

DevOps consultant & software delivery expert

• Teaches software automation practices and tooling across Europe
• One of the leaders of LatCraft - Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community
• Co-founder and organizer of DevTernity conference

Senior developer advocate at Snyk & Java Champion

• Oracle Groundbreaker ambassador
• Leader of multiple developer community user groups
• Mentoring and coaching junior developers and speakers

Site reliabilty engineer lead at Google

• PhD in computer science from TU Darmstadt, where he researched distributed systems
• Has been a postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California Berkeley
• Former vice president of the German Informatics Society

Director for business value consulting EMEA at OutSystems

• PhD in Speech Recognition with Artificial Neural Networks from Télécom Paris
• Has worked for 20+ years in the IT industry in various companies (SAP, Capgemini, GS1) and roles (development, product management, sales, IT, consulting)

Expert practitioner in continuous delivery, DevOps, TDD and software development in general

• Co-author of the Jolt-award wining book Continuous Delivery & The Reactive Manifesto
• Winner of the Duke award for open source software with the LMAX Disruptor

Software trainer at Instil Software

• Usually accompanied by Garth Gilmour, he is working as a full time trainer and coach, authoring and delivering courses on a range of topics to a broad range of delegates
• 15+ years working as a developer, architect and team lead

International security researcher and co-founder of Trike, an open source security ecosystem

• Startup security strategy and architecture guidance
• Contributed to the Briar and Mailpile secure messaging projects

Vice president & consulting expert at CGI

• Peer reviewer for IEEE Software, Journal of Systems and Software
• Program committee member for SATURN, WICSA, ICSA, ECSA and TechDebt conferences
• Winner of the 2016 Linda M. Northrop Software Architecture award

Principal developer advocate for serverless applications at AWS

• Public speaker for more than 30 years, for all ages about overcoming personal, corporate or any other challenges
• His speaking approach is all out humor with a point

Tech lead at NN

• Graduated cum laude on the topic of re-engineering
• Topics focus include domain-driven design (DDD), code quality, re-engineering, test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD) and inner source

Certified Scrum Master and trainer of several Java courses

• Working on multiple FinTech startups in the cryptocurrency and payment space
• Former editor for Dutch Java Magazine

Author of Digital Nudge

• Head of Open Innovation Labs in Latin America at Red Hat
• TEDx speaker and coach

Associate professor at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science

• Author of The Programmer’s Brain
• Creator of the Hedy programming language
• Was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research

Head of learning at Instil

• Ireland's most experienced software trainer
• Delivered over 1000 training events and mentored developers at all levels of experience across a range of industries
• Co-organizer of the Belfast BASH and Kotlin Users Group

IT lead of Retail banking products at ING Bank Netherlands

Innovation leader at IBM

• Alumna of the IBM Garage
• Co-authored Manning’s Enterprise OSGi in Action
• Completed a DPhil in quantum computation

Software architect at Atos

• Awarded by Atos the title of “Distinguished Expert” as a recognition of his technical expertise & professional accomplishments
• Won the 1st prize award at Atos Innovation Week 2020 for coming up with the most innovative idea

Senior Director of Engineering at Contrast Security

Director of Engineering at CROZ

• O'Reilly author contributing to "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"
• Passionate about leadership and organizational change

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Software architect and director at ThoughtWorks

• Has been a part of ThoughtWorks’ journey for 15+ years
• Internationally recognized expert on software architecture and design
• Helping organizations with technology strategy, distributed systems design and adoption of SOA

Developer advocate at Google

• Technical evangelist since 2005
• Co-author of First Steps in Flex
• Open source and community contributor

CTO & hands-on architect at Trifork Amsterdam

• Trainer and consultant for SpringSource (& still teaches the occasional Spring training for the GOTO Academy)
• Has been building enterprise applications in Java for over 20 years now

Principal consultant at INNOQ

• Since more than twenty years, he has been working in different roles in IT consulting and software development
• Involved in the organization of the JUG Berlin-Brandenburg and several conferences

#GOTOlegend #architecture

• More than 500k views on the GOTO Youtube channel
• Editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know & Co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

#teams #effectiveness

Has real life experience from international organizations that range from small to very big

He'll teach you about efficiency and effectiveness in an often opinionated and sharp, direct way

CTO at CROZ with extensive experience in applying modern software delivery approaches in enterprise environments.

• Specializes in Software & System Architecture
• Several years’ experience in distributed web technologies, including cloud
• Passionate about designing and building products that improve lives

Head of IT at Daily Banking Tribe at ING Bank Netherlands

DevOps leader, architect and engineer

• Author and presenter of 'Essential Kubernetes: Application Development'
• Co-organizer of the Istio London meetup

Enterprise Sales Engineer at Harness

Reactive guru & Java champion

• Author of Reactive Programming in Spring 5
• One of the top contributors to Project Reactor and Spring Framework

#DevOps

Senior developer advocate at Mattermost and board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness

He'll focus on stereotypes and biases and the importance of continuing to learn the craft of coding

Co-founder of City Innovation Exchange Lab (CITIXL)

• Founder of the IoT Living Lab, a citizen engagement consultancy in Amsterdam (NL)
• A multi-award-winning, internationally recognized expert in IoT, Smart Cities, Living Labs, UX design, e-Culture, social innovation and citizen engagement

Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services

Ricardo is passionate about cloud, innovation and open source and is excited about how cloud accelerates and amplifies customers’ ability to innovate.

TensorFlow developer advocate at Google

• He's used TensorFlow since the very early days
• Data scientist

CTO at ibood.com

• Also architecture coach at MendriX
• Has authored best-selling books such as This Is Agile and Pragmatic Modeling with UML, and published tons of articles in international magazines

Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Self-proclaimed serverless nerd

Developer Advocate at CircleCI

• Passionate about serverless technologies, mobile development, and developer experience

Software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam and aviation enthusiast

• Working on backend systems for the educational sector