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

Development Manager at Gearset

• 15 years working as a developer, architect and team lead.
• 6 years as a full time software trainer and coach.
• Currently the Belfast Development Manager for the SalesForce DevOps solution provider Gearset

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

Staff Engineer at Solarisbank

• He has 10 years of experience working for Global 500 companies
• As an SRE Engineer he likes to get his hands dirty

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

• Broad experience in leading in technology in the banking sector
• Leads digital transformations and transitions organizations to an agile devops way of working

Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team

• 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

• Former R&D leader of Cisco’s cloud security solution

Director of Engineering at CROZ

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

Certified Cloud practitioner at AWS

• 4x AWS Certified, developer advocate, Serverless Evangelist & author
• Serverless geek and enjoys helping developers build faster with serverless

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

Head of Research Center AI

• Creator of AI Experiment Canvas
• Host podcast 'AIToday Live'

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

Editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know & co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

• Author of several books on software development & columnist for various magazines and websites
• Contributor to open source software

Agile coach and trainer

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional (CSP-SM & CSP-PO) and Product Owner (CSPO) and co-trained 20+ Scrum courses with Jeff Sutherland, the inventor of Scrum
• Co-founder of the Swiss Agile Leaders Circle (SALC)

CTO at CROZ

• Extensive experience in applying modern software delivery approaches in enterprise environments
• Very active in the Agile community in Croatia and regionally, organizing and participating at meet-ups and conferences

Domain architect at ING

• Technology mentor at Rockstart
• Several years’ experience in distributed web technologies, including cloud
• Passionate about designing and building products that improve lives

Head of IT / tech leader at ING Bank NL

• Certified Scrum Master & Java SE 6 Programmer
• Taught himself to code and originally started out as a Flash developer

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

• Helps clients build, test and deploy code into production at speed and scale

Reactive guru & Java champion

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

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 advocate in Open Source at Amazon Web Services

• Extensive coaching and mentoring experience at all levels
• 20+ years of experience leading open source, emerging technology and innovation programmes

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

Microsoft MVP and Technical Evangelist for Info Support

Developer advocate at CircleCI

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

Software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam

• Working on backend systems for the educational sector