Adam is the AI Practice Lead at Agile Insights. He works with customers to help them understand where AI can empower their organisations, and then makes that vision come to life. Adam loves adopting emerging technologies early, and then sharing best practices and lessons learned with the broader development community. In his downtime, you can find him outdoors camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, or at the beach.

Adele is a Software Engineer and Consultant at Trifork Amsterdam where she is working on systems for the educational sector. Most of her work day is spent in the JVM/Spring and React ecosystems, although increasingly she plays a pivotal role as trusted advisor to Trifork’s customers.

Adele is an experienced international speaker, having spoken at multiple editions of NDC, goto, Devoxx and JavaZone. As a speaker, she uses her exposure to real-world customer projects, experiences outside of tech and passion for story-telling to distill complex ideas into their essential parts. All with an air of good humour.

When she’s not at her computer or on stage, you can find her in the gym pumping some serious iron as she pursues the sport of powerlifting.

Alan Smith is a Cloud & AI Trainer, Mentor & Coach at Active Solution in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a strong hands-on philosophy and focusses on embracing the power and flexibility of cloud computing to deliver engaging and exciting demos and training courses.

Alan has held the MVP title since 2005, and is currently an AI MVP. He is in the organization team for the CloudBurst and AI Burst Conferences.

After almost two decades of leading digital transformation and building technology solutions at scale, I've embarked on a new mission: making AI a force for good by making it accessible to anyone ready to build, learn, and grow.

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies since 2007. In his spare time Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport, and loves playing and programming new and retro video games.

Alfonso (Poncho) is a Developer Advocate in Cisco Systems Portugal. He is passionate about adding value to the IT community with the power of coding. Data Networks, DevOps, Open Source and everything in between are some of his true passions. Apart from that, Alfonso often engages in technical speaking events, university masterclasses and delivery of coding trainings.

Anders Abel is a senior .NET developer in Stockholm. He has been programming since he was 9 and still thinks it’s tremendously fun. When asked what he does for a living he often responds "building login buttons". Anders has extensive experience on Single Sign On and API security. His Saml2 library is trusted by millions of users world wide and he has deep expertise on OAuth and OpenID Connect from his work on Duende IdentityServer.

Anders Erlandsen is a product manager at Team Agile, currently in an engagement with Statens Vegvesen building data-driven capabilities for traffic flow and emergency response. He has seven years of experience owning outcomes for digital products in regulated industries, with a toolkit grounded in product discovery and delivery.
At Gjensidige Forsikring, he led the digital sales team's transition to a modern product operating model, which increased both revenue and team satisfaction. He also has deep experience with digitalization and transformation across different industries, working closely with tech, legal, finance, and sales/service teams.
In 2025 he presented product content to 3,500+ attendees through Team Agile's webinar series. Spillmakker is his solo side project, launched in March 2026 — both a real product and a working study in what changes when one PM can ship production software without a team.

Born in Rome in 1994, passionate about mobile development since forever. Andrea has been a technology enthusiast for as long as he can remember. He started developing his first Java programs in his early high school years, but with the advent of smartphones, he quickly fell in love with the mobile world. His experience started in Switzerland for an Android project in the medical field and continued for large companies such as NTT Data and Deloitte, until he got to his current Capgemini. Over the years he has developed applications with large user bases for various industries, specializing in native Android development, Flutter and now Kotlin Multiplatform. His life is not only programming, but also football and padel!Born in Rome in 1994, passionate about mobile development since forever. Andrea has been a technology enthusiast for as long as he can remember. He started developing his first Java programs in his early high school years, but with the advent of smartphones, he quickly fell in love with the mobile world. His experience started in Switzerland for an Android project in the medical field and continued for large companies such as NTT Data and Deloitte, until he got to his current Cegeka. Over the years he has developed applications with large user bases for various industries, specializing in native Android development, Flutter and now Kotlin Multiplatform.
His life is not only programming, but also football and padel!

Was a developer, then a teacher, then a lecturer and now a trainer at Instil. Having completed the circle, he very much wants to ensure that the circle joins, flows and radiates for current and future industry professionals.

Andrew Murphy started his career as a Software Engineer but, after a decade in technology leadership, he decided to focus on teaching the skills that he learnt the hard way. When he moved into leadership there was no support, so he had to make all the mistakes (a lot of them!) and learn from them.

His goal is now to make sure that tech leaders don’t have to do things the hard way by providing them with the mindsets and skillsets that can make them happy, confident and effective leaders.

His company, Tech Leaders Launchpad, currently focuses specifically on the new and emerging leader space, as that's the place we can have the biggest impact on the students, and the industry.

Anemari Fiser is a tech leadership coach and trainer who helps engineers grow into confident, people-centered tech leads. 
She is the author of O’Reilly’s book ‘Leveling Up as a Tech Lead’ and the creator of the O’Reilly course ‘Soft Skills for Tech Leads’.
With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, she has held roles from software engineer to engineering leader. 
As an independent coach and trainer, Anemari has worked with 500+ engineers and trained 400+ tech leads across different organisations worldwide. 
She also shares practical leadership insights with a community of 30,000+ tech professionals on LinkedIn.

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community centers around the world on topics including Agile software development, diversity, and leadership. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Anne M. V. Bosch is a computer science educator at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She jumped in headfirst into academia after working as a software developer in the consultancy industry, and her goal as an educator is to help students find the same joy for the craft of software development as she found. She is passionate about creative coding, hikes (aka. having lunch with a view) and old books. 

Anuradha Sridharan operates at the intersection of software engineering and early technology education—a journey shaped by over 23 years in the tech industry and a growing curiosity about how developers are formed long before they enter the workforce.

As a Test and Release Manager at Telia, she works with complex systems where quality, reliability, and adaptability are critical in real-world production environments. In parallel, as the Founder & CEO of YoungCoderz, she has spent the past 10 years building and running after-school programs across 12 international schools, helping more than 300 students each year get excited about programming, robotics, and AI through competition-driven learning.

Alongside this, Anuradha actively contributes to the broader tech community, regularly volunteering with initiatives such as Girl Tech Fest, TENK Tech Camp, and Java Zone Kids —supporting early engagement and inclusion in technology.

Connecting these experiences has led to a central insight: the mindset required to navigate uncertainty, experiment, and adapt in modern software systems is not built at the point of employment—it is formed much earlier.

Her work focuses on bridging this gap, bringing upstream learning perspectives into industry conversations and highlighting how adaptability—not just technical skill—will define the next generation of developers.

Ash Banaszek is a passionate and outspoken UX leader at with 15 years of experience in the field. Ash holds a masters of science in information science from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO and returns to occasionally guest lecture in human factors and human-computer interaction courses.  Ash has a passion for teaching and getting folks to that "ah-hah" moment about UX. As an avid proponent of creating technology people want to use, Ash's eternal quest is to destroy technology that gets people so frustrated that they want to chuck it out of a window. Outside of righting tech wrongs, Ash is an award-winning Toastmaster and uses public speaking experience to infuse humor and thought-provoking questions into talks. You can follow Ash at linkedin.com/in/ashmb or ux-ash.com

Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide.

Brandon is an independent .NET Consultant at Code Traveler LLC where he gets to work closely with the developer community to help fellow C# developers make 5-star apps.

With over 15 years of C# experience working across Xamarin, Microsoft and Amazon, Brandon is an expert in high-performance asynchronous programming, mobile app development, Azure and AWS. He is the creator and lead developer on numerous open-source libraries that have earned millioned downloads, such as AsyncAwaitBestPractices and CommunityToolkit.Maui.

An avid developer, Brandon loves to code and has contribute to open-source libraries and mobile apps.

Brecht De Ruyte is a self-taught front-end developer located in Belgium with a passion for UX and Design. During the day you can find him working at iO, a full service agency. Besides that, he is also a Google Developer Expert, Smashing Magazine writer and blog owner of utilitybend.com. He also participates in the W3C communities: Open UI, CSS-next, and WHATNOT

Bryan Hunter is an Enterprise Fellow at HCA Healthcare. He has two decades of consulting experience in complex business domains. In 2012 he founded Nashville Functional Programmers (NashFP). He enjoys supporting FP communities around the world and has shared his experience at conferences and universities in London, Manila, Oslo, Bangalore, and throughout the United States.

I am a senior web platform engineer at Zocdoc, working with design systems.

I am also the creator of various open-source projects like the Web Components Toolkit (wc-toolkit.com).

In my free time, I love spending time with my wife and three daughters, practicing martial arts, jamming on my ukulele, and learning new things (usually about software engineering).

Charlie Eriksen is a Security Researcher at Aikido Security, specializing in software supply-chain security. He focuses on detecting malicious code in open-source packages and on improving the ecosystem's resilience against emerging threats. Previously, he worked in consulting, offensive security, and bug bounties, co-founded a training company focused on the OWASP Top 10, and founded a company focused on JavaScript static analysis.

Chris Klug has been building software professionally since sometime around 2000, back when .NET was new, CSS was a suggestion, and Roy Fielding’s REST paper had just been published. Since then he has written code for everything from model agencies to online sports betting to professional sail racing, because staying in one industry sounded far too boring.

He has been a Microsoft MVP for something like 15 years (depending on when he last updated this abstract), which either means he knows a thing or two or that he just talks a lot. Possibly both, but we all know the latter is a given. These days he works at Active Solution in Stockholm, helping clients solve problems and build better systems.

When he is not writing code, Chris is usually geeking out on some form of extreme sport like skydiving, kitesurfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, or wing foiling. He loves learning new things and spends way too much time thinking about weird stuff most people never even notice.

Christian started in 2000 as a software developer. Seven years later he became a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been teaching other developers ever since. Currently he is a Principal Cloud Architect at Betabit. A software development company specialized in building business critical applications in the cloud.

I build software for fun and profit. Frontend, backend, and infrastructure are all part of my job, and I enjoy building features across the whole stack. I have committed to main (master) and pushed directly to production for more than 10 years, and have lots of opinions on how to build software efficiently.

Christian Liebel is a developer with a passion for modern web technologies. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a Google Developer Expert (GDE) and speaks at user groups and conferences worldwide. As a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), he helps push the boundaries of the web.

Dag Brattli is an open source develper and reactive analytics expert working for Cognite. He loves functional, reactive, asynchronous and event based programming. Founder and maintainer of Rx for Python (RxPY), Fable.Python and Fable.Beam for F#.

Daniel Yuschick brings over 15 years of experience at the intersection of design and development, specializing in creating accessible and resilient design systems. Starting as a designer and transitioning to frontend development, Daniel has taken on Lead Design Systems Developer roles where he thrives on bridging the gaps between design and code while focusing on the aspects of the web he loves most. He contributes technical articles to various online publications and mentors aspiring developers through the Helsinki-based non-profits Codebar and Hive Helsinki. Beyond the technical, Daniel is a fiction author with a passion for engaging storytelling, great chocolate, and beautiful tattoos.

Daniel Sandberg is a Senior Software Architect with 20 years of experience designing scalable, high-performance systems. He combines deep architectural expertise with a strong focus on building reliable and secure solutions that meet modern business needs.

Dante is a technical consultant, full-stack software developer and public speaker. His passion is designing and building software solutions, mainly with C# and .NET. He is fascinated by software architecture and craftsmanship.

David is the Founder of EventCatalog.dev, a tool that simplifies event-driven architectures for developers by providing an intuitive interface to document and visualize event-driven systems. With a passion for open-source development, David has made significant contributions to the tech community, establishing himself as a prolific open-source contributor. His work is widely recognized for its impact on improving the accessibility and efficiency of event-driven applications.

Before founding EventCatalog.dev, David was a Developer Advocate at AWS, where he focused on serverless technologies and event-driven architectures. During his time at AWS, he authored the book EDA Visuals, which has become an essential resource for developers working with event-driven architectures. David is also a renowned international speaker, having presented at more than 20 conferences around the globe including AWS reInvent, GOTO Conferences, and EDA Day, among others. 

Outside of his professional endeavors, David enjoys playing guitar, singing and building communities.

At age 9 little David found an old book called "Electronic Computational Machines" at the library and, after reading it in a single weekend, decided that this was what he wanted to do with his life. Three years later he finally got to touch a computer for the first time and discovered that it was totally worth the wait. One thing led to another and now he’s a software engineer at Meta. David is a software developer with over 25 years of industry experience, speaker, trainer, blogger and co-author of “Pro Couchbase Server”. He specializes in large-scale distributed system architecture.

David is the Director of Architecture for NewDay, and the founder of Electric Head Software. Focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations.

He speaks about software design, culture, and ethics in technology - rounded out by an assortment of talks about software that probably doesn't need to exist but makes the world a little more fun. David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

David is a Microsoft MVP, has been part of the OpenUK Honours list for open-source advocacy, and is a twice bestselling author of children's books about programming.

You can find his open-source projects on NuGet, npm and GitHub, follow him on Twitter @david_whitney, or check out his technical blog at http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog.

http://www.electricheadsoftware.com 
http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk 

I like maze algorithms, compression algorithms and everything in between.

Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 29 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise solutions based on .NET as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building, documenting, deploying and maintaining software systems in an agile world. He is the author of several open-source projects, including Fluent Assertions, Pathy, Reflectify, PackageGuard, and several .NET Solution Templates, and has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# since 2001. You can find him on Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky.

Dennis Schulz is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. He holds a PhD in low temperature physics from the University of Heidelberg. Besides being a programmer, he organized and hosted the TV show Quasi Klar for RNF, published a book that was translated to Korean and Russian, and won Science Slam competitions all over Germany. As a part of the Innovation Hacking team at TNG, he worked on different AI showcases, fine-tuning embeddings, and data mining.

Diana is a Developer Experience Engineer at VictoriaMetrics. She has worked as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability. She is an active member of the OpenTelemetry CNCF open source project, co-organizer of Cloud Native Days Romania, co-lead of neurodiversity working group (part of CNCF initiative merge-forward) and supports underrepresented groups in tech. 

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist with The Linebreakers, the world's greatest nerd comedy classic rock disco alt punk covers band.

Einar W. Høst is a software developer at Norkart. He enjoys collaborative modelling, API design and computer programming. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

Eirik Ottesen is Chief Technology Officer at Easee, where he leads the engineering organization behind one of Europe's largest IoT deployments of 1 million connected smart EV chargers.

Joining in 2019 as one of the first software engineers,, Eirik has architected and scaled the software from its earliest days and is now taking ownership of the full technology stack, from hardware, electronics and embedded software, to apps, apis and platform infrastructure. 

He has experienced firsthand the challenges of scaling IoT systems through production incidents, platform migrations and the technical constraints of managing distributed hardware at scale.

Before Easee, he worked as a software engineer at an integrated circuits company in the UK and as a consultant in Norway. He now leads the engineering organisation bringing Easee's next generation of charging technology to market.

Elias Schecke is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. In addition to building RAG applications with his clients, he is part of the Innovation Hacking Team where he is engaged in developing AI showcases. Elias studied Mathematics at TU Berlin and graduated with a thesis on the application of Evolution Strategies in Mixed Integer Linear Programming. More information on our AI showcases can be found at innovation-hacking.com.

Elin is a Technology Leader at Gnist Consulting
She has worked as a developer for many years, but now she focuses on helping other developers shine and deliver.
She spends most of her days supporting the team and working long term on strategy.
She is occasionally lucky to share her experience with a wider audience, such as this.


Elise is a frontend developer in Variant and has been involved in a diverse range of projects for nine years. As a consultant, she has worked in and out of various teams, experiencing a wide range of team compositions.

She has a special interest and passion for accessibility.

She enjoys sharing insights about observations in the industry, and in 2022, she was the "Voice of the Year" in kode24, an online newspaper for Norwegian developers.

Elle Hunt is an 11-year-old student who has spent the last three years, more than a quarter of her life, learning about 3D printing. Her interest in the subject started out of curiosity and has since grown into a deep understanding of the technology. Elle’s commitment to learning and experimenting with 3D printing exemplifies her dedication to the field. Despite her young age, Elle has shown remarkable ability to grasp complex concepts and apply them in creative ways.

Erik is a software developer with a passion for teaching. He loves learning new programming languages and tries to learn one each year. He's built websites, mobile apps and open-source libraries, mostly in the education space. In the last 5 years he's worked at Exercism to build the optimal learning experience for 70+ programming languages.

In his spare time Erik likes to watch movies, play video games, read books and cook nice meals.

Espen is a developer and architect with over 25 years of experience. He has worked on everything from embedded systems, electronics and games to large scale cloud applications. He is as full-stack as they come. Espen started coding at age six on a C64, and has been cranking out software ever since. 

He served as the principal architect, tech lead and lead security 
engineer on the compensation scheme for Covid-19 suffering 
businesses released by the Norwegian government. 

Espen was the Senior VP of Technology Exploration for DNB in San Fransisco and is currently doing technology and security research in DNB NewTechLab.

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and over 30 Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, 12 x Microsoft MVP for. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master all things C# and .NET.

Hi, I'm Filip! I'm a founding engineer and a core maintainer at Wasp, an open-source web framework. I'm also a big fan of the web, compilers, and functional programming.

I believe in learning and using a language to its full potential, regardless of whether I'm talking to a computer or with another human.

When not working on Wasp, I teach Haskell and functional programming at a local university.

Fred is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, and has been working on the C# compiler and language design teams for almost a decade. When he's not working, he enjoys reading fantasy novels, bouldering, skiing, and working with FIRST Robotics.

Gaute is a software developer with extra passion for frontend. Gaute is a consultant in Capra and usually has a hobby project on the side.

Gayathri is a Senior Software Developer with 14 years of experience in building data-intensive systems, currently specialising in AI/ML applications in the financial domain. She works at the intersection of computer vision, agentic AI, and large-scale data pipelines — designing systems that turn complex, unstructured data into actionable intelligence.
She is currently pursuing an M.Tech in AI/ML from BITS Pilani, deepening her expertise in machine learning foundations, deep learning architectures, and applied computer vision. Her recent work spans MCP-connected agentic systems, Snowflake-based data platforms, and exploring geospatial AI for infrastructure monitoring.
Based in Oslo, Norway, she brings a Nordic perspective to global engineering challenges — bridging fintech, real assets, and cutting-edge AI tooling.

Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously exploring new tools, processes and technologies, and improving how he and his fellow developers work with code, tasks and projects. He has been a Microsoft Development MVP, a part of the Microsoft Regional Director program and is an ASP.NET Insider and an Azure Advisor. In the past 25+ years he has co-owned two companies, worked as a consultant, manager, support tech, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favourite things are still swapping code for food and building stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives.

Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for learning—and for sharing what he has learned—Guy explores interesting topics and spreads the knowledge he has gained around developer communities worldwide.

Teaching and community have long been a focus for Guy. He ran a local JavaScript meetup in Ohio for more than a decade and has served on the selection committees of numerous conferences. He'll happily speak anywhere that will have him and has even has helped teach programming at a prison in Central Ohio.

In his personal life, Guy is a hard-boiled geek interested in role-playing games, science fiction, and technology. He also has a slightly less geeky interest in history and linguistics. He has an entire wall of role-playing games and science fiction books, speaks Spanish like a two-year old, and is a ham radio operator—callsign W8GUY.

Guy lives in Ohio with his wife. His three sons are adults now and are all moved out. He is immensely proud of the men they have become.

Haimanot Tekie is a senior full-stack developer with 10 years of experience across the public sector, fintech, and health-tech. She is passionate about helping herself and other developers navigate complex domains through better communication, deeper domain understanding, and practical collaboration techniques. She currently works on modernizing payment solutions at NAV and regularly shares lessons from real-world software challenges through talks and workshops.

Outside of work, her faith in Jesus is central to her life. She enjoys church, Bible study, and spending time with her husband and their two children.

I've been working professionally with C# and .NET since 2007, and become quite good at it. I like Azure, SQL server, Minimal APIs and the challenge of keeping it simple. Since 2025 I've let AI do the coding. It's a wild ride and I would like to share it!

Heidi is a developer and technical coach, with over 15 years of experience in software development. She is enthusiastic about most aspects of software development, and is especially interested in functional programming and how we can work better together as a team.

Heidi works as a tech lead across several teams in the Nowegian Police and has been working on building the polices data strategy for the last 5 years

Helén has a master's degree in High Energy Particle Physics and found the joy of programming during her time at university. Initially the plan was to become a data scientist but life took a different path and she is currently working as a frontend developer at NRK. Helén is passionate about how science and software can make the world a better place, one small step at the time.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

With over 13 years experience as a developer Imran is passionate about sustainability & staying on top of new tech to build more optimized apps

Iulia’s mission is to make tech exciting, understandable, and accessible to the new generation.
With a background spanning data science, AI, cloud architecture, and open source she brings a unique perspective on bridging technical depth with approachability.
She’s building her own brand, Back To Engineering, through which she creates a community for tech enthusiasts, engineers, and makers. From YouTube videos on building robots from scratch, to conference talks or keynotes about real, grounded AI, and technical blogs & tutorials — Iulia shares her message worldwide on how to turn complex concepts into tools developers can use every day.


Jake Page is a former high-school teacher turned DevOps engineer and now DevRel Engineer. Over the past five years, he has focused on cloud-native developer tooling across packaging, software delivery, FinOps, testing, and debugging, often with a strong Kubernetes angle. Now based in Lisbon, Jake is passionate about learning by doing and frequently speaks at meetups and conferences.

Jakob is a life-long nerd who's interested in everything from classical music and wine to pokemon cards and, of course, computers. He spends his days trying to create the nicest-feeling, least frustrating air travel experience in the world at Norwegian Air Shuttle. Jakob has a passion for teaching and loves the challenge of communicating complex topics in an entertaining and understandable way, something he aspires to show in his talks!

James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005 and has been crafting multi-platform apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows since 2011 with Xamarin and now .NET MAUI. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He can be found on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@jamesmontemagno, blogs code regularly on his personal blog https://www.montemagno.com, and co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict https://mergeconflict.fm.

Jan-Erik is an engineering leader and software engineer with 15+ years of experience building distributed systems and large-scale platforms.

As Head of Software at Easee, he leads the teams building the software, integration platforms, and web and mobile applications that connect 1M+ EV chargers to users, partners and energy services. 

He previously worked as a Principal Engineer at GoDaddy, helping lead large-scale cloud migrations and globally distributed systems.

Jan-Erik cares deeply about engineering culture and building high-performing teams that can ship fast and operate reliable systems at scale. 


Jarle Adolfsen is a partner and senior consultant at bspoke AS with more than 27 years of experience as a developer, architect, CTO, and tech lead. He has led large-scale API and microservice platforms, real-time systems, and performance-critical enterprise solutions using .NET and Azure.

He is also a serial entrepreneur and co-founded Link Mobility, which has grown into a multi-billion NOK international company. Jarle has built engineering teams across multiple countries and worked in South Africa, where he helped design and develop a mobile platform for Glocell.

His fascination with systems started in the 1990s as part of the Norwegian demoscene, programming 3D routines in 68000 assembler alongside fellow technologists such as Ander Norås.

Alongside enterprise architecture, Jarle builds complex systems from scratch — including a custom 3D engine powering the retro-inspired game The Omega Strain. He believes the best way to understand software is to build the hard parts yourself.

I’m a Lead software engineer and architect with a background in biotechnology. I specialize in modernizing legacy systems, transforming them into scalable, efficient, and maintainable solutions. I focus on applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to create software that not only meets technical requirements but also aligns with business goals.

I have experience designing modular, cloud-ready architectures and using techniques like microservices and event-driven design to solve complex challenges. I’m passionate about continuous learning and improvement, and I enjoy mentoring teams and promoting best practices in software development. My approach combines deep technical knowledge with a practical understanding of business objectives, ensuring that the solutions I deliver are both effective and future-ready.

Jeff Fritz is a principal program manager in Microsoft’s Developer Division on the .NET Community Team where he leads development of live video and online content. Jeff is the executive producer of the .NET Conf series of online events. He is also a Twitch and YouTube partner. You can catch Jeff writing .NET Code with GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure on his video stream called 'Fritz and Friends' at twitch.tv/csharpfritz

Jill has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, starting with her first job as a developer in the Philippines in 2003. After working in Dubai for Emirates Bank, she has lived in Norway for nearly 14 years. As an introvert, she doesn’t seek attention but loves challenges—which is why she now stands on the NDC stage to face one of her biggest.

Jo Minney is a small business founder and technical communicator based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia. She is passionate about user experience, data-driven decision making, cats and travel – not necessarily in that order. She’s also an avid maker, from 3D printing to sewing to woodworking, and loves combining technology and creativity to make cool stuff and encouraging others to do the same.

By day, you’ll find Jo working with charities and NGOs helping them to create bespoke digital platforms, conducting usability testing, or running workshops to help organisations level up their digital presence. You might also find her donating her time to help tackle social issues (such as gender inequality, domestic violence and global poverty) through the use of technology, or freelancing as a Nielsen Norman certified user experience research consultant.

Jo is an ambassador, sponsor and lead mentor for She Codes Australia, a social enterprise that aims to make tech jobs more accessible for women, and a has been recognized via multiple awards for her advocacy work related to diversity and gender equity. An accomplished international conference speaker, Jo can regularly be found with a microphone in hand speaking about user experience, accessibility, imposter syndrome, closing the gender gap and pockets.

Joanna is an interaction designer, entrepreneur, and thought leader in human-centred technology. She is best known as the creator of Pillow Talk, the world’s first IoT product designed to help families feel emotionally connected across distance, now used in over 80 countries worldwide.

With over a decade of experience at the intersection of tech and intimacy, Joanna now runs and advises companies on designing digital products that prioritise empathy, trust, and human connection. 

Known for her honest, no-fluff approach, she speaks globally on the future of emotionally intelligent tech.

Joep works at the overlap of socio-technical design, technical story-telling and platform engineering technologies. Driven by empathy to reduce burnout caused by platform obesity/complexity and tech industry hype. Organizer of devopsdays Amsterdam, FastFlowConf NL. Field CTO at Portainer.io

Johan has been developing software since 1996 and has worked with .NET since version 1.0. With extensive experience as a lead developer and architect for .NET solutions, he is deeply passionate about clean coding and test-driven development. At JMAC Software Solutions and Bergler, he designs architectures for .NET solutions and coaches and trains developers in the domain of software engineering in general and Microsoft technologies in particular. 

Jonathan, or J. as he's known to friends, is a husband, father, and founding partner of Trailhead Technology Partners, a custom software consulting company with employees across the U.S., Europe, and South America. He is a 12-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for his work with .NET, a frequent speaker at software conferences around the world, and was recently elected to the .NET Foundation Board for the 2026–2027 term. He doesn’t mind the travel, though, as it allows him to share what he's been learning and also gives him the chance to visit beautiful places like national parks—one of his passions. So far, he's visited 58 of the 63 U.S. national parks.

J. is also passionate about building the software community. Over the years, he has served on several non-profit boards, including more than a decade as president of the board for Beer City Code, Western Michigan's largest professional software conference. Outside of work, J. enjoys hiking, reading, photography, and watching all the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars ceremony each year.

Joseph is a leading voice in cybersecurity and AI, developing software and content that shape how developers build securely. His open source game gh.io/scg has helped 10K+ developers gain future-proof security skills. His videos, with 2.8M+ views, simplify complex security topics and deliver actionable tips to a global audience. As a speaker, Joseph has delivered 68 talks across 25 countries over the past four years, captivating audiences with his insights and energetic stage presence.

Jostein is a full-stack developer who loves exploring new technologies. He has experience with everything from backend development in Rust, Java and .NET to frontend development in React and mobile development in React Native. Jostein enjoys teaching and has previously lectured on several subjects at NTNU. He currently works with the real estate platform Hjem.no 🏠

Kaja Vogt is an AI ethics researcher, speaker, and former journalist with a unique background at the intersection of technology, society, and communication. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology, where her research focused on how AI systems and large language models shape perceptions of reality, bias, and power.

As part of her fieldwork, Kaja spent several months in Silicon Valley studying the people and cultures behind some of today’s most advanced AI systems. Her work explores topics such as gender bias in AI, responsible innovation, and the human values embedded in technology.

Katharina Damschen is a coding architect and consultant at factor10. During her 10 years in the field she has navigated complicated technical domains like train signaling and geotechnical engineering. She is convinced that collaboration and communication are crucial to solve complex problems through code. Katharina is dedicated to developing robust and maintainable software that delivers real value through the application of Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), and containerization. Outside of software development, she channels her problem-solving skills into practical pursuits like raising backyard chickens and crafting her wardrobe through sewing and knitting.

I’m a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Formerly the Product Manager for Windows Terminal, Microsoft PowerToys, and Cascadia Code. I work at the intersection of AI, developer experience, and tooling, with a background in software engineering and human‑computer interaction.

Kent Inge has been working with Software Engineering since 2005. In that time, he has contributed to numerous projects and systems as well as publishing several academic and opinion pieces on various topics in Software Engineering including green and resilient software design.

Kevin Gosse has been using Microsoft .NET technologies for 20 years, across client, server, and mobile applications. He is Microsoft MVP and is currently employed at JetBrains, where he works on improving the performance of ReSharper.

Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He is a contributor to the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel. Kevlin is also co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know and former columnist for a number of magazines and sites.

Kilian is a front-end developer with over 20 years of experience that switched from building websites to building apps to build websites with. He is interested in modern web development, desktop app development and new technologies, and regularly speaks about topics like responsive websites, accessibility, design systems and Electron. Kilian is a frequent open source contributor.

Kitty is a UX Lead in the Financial Crime Prevention unit at Tieto. She specializes in UX and accessibility audits, inclusive design, and building scalable design practices within complex product teams.

Working closely with developers and product managers, she creates clear structures, shared ownership, and effective workflows that help teams deliver better user experiences. Certified in accessibility, Kitty focuses on turning insight into action and raising UX maturity across roles.

She regularly speaks internally at Tieto, sharing practical methods for improving usability, accessibility, and cross functional collaboration.

Knut Erik has been engaged with coding and computing since 1983, starting with the Spectrum ZX81 and Commodore VIC20. He holds a formal education in software development. His interest in cybersecurity emerged later in his career when he played a role in establishing the Application Security (AppSec) team. This experience left a lasting impact, fuelling his desire to further enhance his cybersecurity expertise.

Currently, Knut Erik is a leader at Bouvet, where he is responsible for building and managing a team of front-end and back-end developers. Additionally, he is spearheading an initiative to develop a team of AppSec and cybersecurity engineers. Knut Erik resides in Tananger, near Stavanger.

Laila Bougria is a Solutions Architect and Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the Microsoft .NET space. She's a keynote speaker, a Microsoft MVP in Azure and Developer Technologies, and frequently shares her knowledge and insights at conferences worldwide. Currently, Laila is busy building NServiceBus at Particular Software and solving distributed riddles. When she's not immersed in complex problems or code, Laila enjoys indulging in her favorite pastime - knitting! She finds that tangling the yarn into beautiful patterns helps untangle her thoughts.

Lars is a Principal Developer Advocate at Atlassian, an author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Liam Westley was most recently Head of Engineering at FreemarketFX, a fintech startup specializing in foreign currency trading, with a cloud native platform in Azure, helping expand a single development and QA team from eight people, to five teams, while obtaining an Ireland banking licence and implementing full Azure regional redundancy.

Previous to FreemarketFX, Liam worked at Huddle helping the mobile and desktop teams create apps to play nicely with microservices.  At Criteria MX, a digital media startup and he has worked as a consultant specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system was used by QVC UK for eight years to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen. Liam is also responsible for the ticketing system for Hat Trick Productions which provides e-tickets to shows such as Have I Got News For You and Room 101.

Liam has worked for chellomedia, GMTV, BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems, project managed the launch of the GMTV web site, was key to delivering the first interactive television chat service in the UK for BSkyB and helped launch the first live shopping channel in the Netherlands.

When you follow the cables, behind every piece of tech is a person, consumer and creator, and we should never lose sight of this.

Lianne is an award-winning digital anthropologist and technologists specialising in software engineering, cybersecurity and AI. Lianne’s speaking specialism is to deliver talks that not only challenge audiences, but change them.

She provides strategic consultancy to help organisations build and transform security operations into resilient, forward-thinking teams. As former Head of SecOps for Europe’s largest greenfield technology transformation, she established a cutting-edge security function that set new industry benchmarks through innovation and collaboration.

An international keynote speaker, Lianne bridges cybersecurity, technology, and anthropology, drawing on her experience as both a security-focused software developer and practicing anthropologist. Currently pursuing an MSc in AI and Data Science, her research focuses on AI safety, alignment, and the societal implications of emerging technologies.

Recognised with accolades including Security Specialist of the Year and Cybersecurity Personality of the Year, she also champions diversity and inclusion in tech through community initiatives, publications, and her award-winning podcast Compromising Positions. Each week, she interviews experts from anthropology, psychology, and behavioural science to explore how human culture shapes cybersecurity. 


Lucía Conde-Moreno is a consultant software engineer at Info Support, specializing in data and AI applications. She is known as a Jack Of All Trades by her colleagues (and as a Master Of None by her imposter syndrome), having worked in varied roles ranging from .NET or Java developer to data scientist or platform engineer. She has worked for different national and international clients, in diverse fields such as finance, health care, energy, or education. She is part of the AI Champions chapter for promoting AI-augmented engineering tools, and she is responsible for supervising internal research in subfields of AI like explainability or computer vision. When she is not working, she is busy switching across random hobbies, from filmmaking to DJing. She holds a MSc in Computer Science, and a BSc in Telecommunications Engineering.

Luise is an Azure & Power Platform Architect based in Germany. She is an awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional working with organizations that want to move beyond digital theatre. Her focus is on AI-enabled solutions that are designed to last in real-world environments. She helps teams build accessible apps, robust data models, and automation that respects governance, compliance, and human effort. A recurring theme in her work is making the invisible visible: unmeasured work, emotional load, operational friction, and the real cost of “quick wins”. Her motto "Changing the world one app at a time" stems from her extensive work with non-profit organizations.
Alongside client work, Luise writes and speaks about productivity myths, pseudo-agile practices, AI readiness, and why many digital initiatives fail long before technology becomes the problem. She is known for combining clear technical guidance with a sharp eye for organizational patterns; and for asking the uncomfortable questions others tend to avoid.

When not working and traveling, she is a runner, a mother of (teenage) dragons, a LEGO-builder and a lover of the number 42. Her favorite color is #ff69b4. 

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Head of Customer Success at Duende Software. Creator and maintainer of https://speaker.travel. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten's blog can be found at https://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018 - before Aspire, she worked across the .NET stack and brought .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has been obsessed with making developers’ lives easier ever since her first dev tools internship, where she realized it perfectly combined her tech background with her passion for product development.

These days, she’s focused on making modern distributed app development suck a whole lot less. Maddy’s an experienced speaker who’s presented everywhere from local user groups to major keynotes, known for bringing great energy and a genuine love for dev tools to every talk.

You can find her on Bluesky and GitHub at @maddymontaquila!

Magnar is a happy developer, building stuff on and off the job. He is the author of the Emacs Rocks! and Parens of the Dead screencasts, an avid open source contributor, and functional programming enthusiast.

Makan Sepehrifar is a software architect whose fascination with the intricacies of organisational behaviour and cognitive psychology has led him to redefine the way technology interfaces with human understanding. Looking at software architecture as a craftsmanship process, he realised that the more abstract you look at it, the more complexities arises. His career has been a testament to his commitment to bridging the gap between technology and human behaviour, resulting in innovative software solutions that not only work efficiently but also self-adaptive teams that embrace the mindset of agile.

Frontend developer working for Miles in Bergen, with great interest in user design and accessibility.


Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid and enjoys sharing knowledge on how to build distributed applications. He's one of the Dapr Community Managers, and he loves helping developers to achieve more every day.

You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference, since he's a regular speaker and event-organizer in the area of Dapr, Azure cloud, and serverless technologies. From 2019 to 2025 Marc received the Microsoft Azure MVP award for his community contributions.

In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain. He likes to create pixel art (check out VSCode Pets), code visuals & music, and create an occasional retro game.

When I'm not skiing or composing songs about tech, you'll find me writing & pentesting for Radically Open Security, working on smartmessages.net, supporting 1CRM at syniah.com, or writing books. I'm the maintainer of PHPMailer, a top-10 PHP project on GitHub, and probably the world's most popular email sending code. I'm a contributor to many other open-source projects, and I wrote the HTML5 email address spec. I'm an accomplished PHP and Laravel developer, Linux sysadmin, and the author of "The HTTP/3 Book". I'm a strong advocate of digital rights and privacy - I love GDPR! I've been speaking at technical conferences in Europe and around the world since 2006. I live in the French alps with my wife, kids, cat, guitars, bikes, and far too many skis.

Mariami Tsotsolashvili is a Senior Software Engineer and Squad Tech Lead at TBC Bank, with a passion for creating inclusive, scalable, and human-centered web applications. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technologies from BTU University in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Mariami began her career in frontend development in 2019 at TBC Bank, contributing to multiple large-scale projects before joining the global tech company EPAM Systems, where she grew into the role of Senior Software Engineer, Resource Manager, Technical Interviewer, and Mentor. During her time there, she authored a TypeScript coursebook for internal training programs and led technical education initiatives.

Beyond her professional work, Mariami has taught HTML, CSS, and JavaScript at GeoLab and continues to share knowledge through talks and workshops at TBC. She is also a two-time grantee of the Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit (Warsaw, 2022 & 2023), recognized for her active role in empowering women in technology.

With a strong belief that accessibility and empathy are as important as code quality, Mariami advocates for building a culture where developers lead with inclusion, curiosity, and collaboration.

Marin Niehues is an independent consultant with a track record of over 20 client projects and two startups of his own. He works with VC-backed scaleups and DAX40 companies alike, advising on organizational design, operational performance, and management structures that actually scale.

In the past three years, Marin has been a featured speaker at conferences in more than ten countries across three continents - including repeated invitations from Google and Microsoft.

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