Name: NDC Oslo 2021
Start: 2021-11-29
End: 2021-12-03
Location: NDC Oslo

Currently a Senior Developer Advocate for MongoDB, Adrienne Tacke is also a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Alexander is a principal solutions architect at Attollo in Sweden. Nobody really knows what it means to be a principal solutions architect, but he spends his days teaching courses or helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of their data. 
He has spent the last 24 years toying with data, databases and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world.  
He is a Data Platform MVP, frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on the Microsoft data platform stack.


Alexey is CEO of Ubiquitous AS, Developer advocate for Event Store, Chief Architect in ABAX and the author of “Hands-on Domain-Driven Design with .NET Core” book.

His particular interests are in event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, distributed systems, and event-sourcing. Alexey contributes to open-source software as a member of MassTransit and Proto.Actor projects, and a maintainer of RestSharp. He manages the Domain-Driven Design Norway meetup group and speaks at technical conferences.

Follow Alexey on Twitter at @Zimareff.

Originally educated in arts and design, Anders has spent the last twenty years writing code.

He has given numerous talks and keynotes at conferences such as JavaZone, NDC, J-Fall, Øredev and many more. Have given 100+ conference talks to a variety of audiences including media, design and hardcore computer science. Known for an energetic and highly engaging presentations.

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.

Having spent over 10 years in senior digital agency delivery roles, working with clients in the energy, telecoms and automotive industries, Anthony made the leap to the public sector joining the British Council in 2018.

Despite hoping for a quieter time, old habits die hard, and inevitably, as Exams Director of Technology and Delivery, he was charged with disrupting the status quo.

He believes that transformation is only possible when the organisation is ready and wants to change; with the groundwork firmly in place. He’s passionate and fascinated by architectural innovation, coupled with an employee and customer first mentality.

Despite a Prince2 project management up-bringing, once he’d seen the agile light he couldn’t really understand why he or anyone else would work another way.

Outside of work he enjoys navigating two small children, DIY, music and cooking, his speciality being eggs.

Arisa learned front-end on her own. After resigning from her previous job as a cabin crew on an airline, she had a chance to teach front-end in an online school. With her newfound skills and experience, she built her own school, Lilac. Some graduates from Lilac are working as web developers in tech companies. Lilac is structured as a free tech skill & knowledge-sharing community. Arisa is a DevRel Engineer at Storyblok and is tasked with demonstrating how Storyblok can minimize the gap between devs and non-devs to better work together. In her private time, she is a podcaster, a GirlCode ambassador, and a Front-End Foxes School mentor. She was a GatsbyConf 2021 speaker.

Arthur (or Art, take your pick) has been a software engineer for 16 years and has worked on things as exciting as analysis software for casinos and things as boring as banking websites. He is an advocate for talking openly about mental health and psychology in the technical world, and he spends a lot of time thinking about how we program and why we program, and about the tools, structures, cultures, and mental processes that help and hinder us from our ultimate goal of writing amazing things. His hair is brown and his thorax is a shiny blue color.

"In a world where anything has an API, everything is a software problem" this insight has guided Avishai Ish-Shalom throughout his diverse career working on improving the complex socio-technical systems that create and operate modern software and promoting the use of Mathematics in system design and operations. Spending 15 years in various software fields and capacities, Avishai has served as Engineer in Residence in Aleph VC, engineering manager at Wix.com, co-founded Fewbytes and consulted many other companies on software operations, reliability, design and culture. Currently Avishai is a Developer Advocate for ScyllaDB (The boring database ;-)

Barry (he/him) is a Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 30+ year resident of Phoenix Arizona USA. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamps, he spends his days as a Solution Architect for Carvana and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp, an annual event where software developers come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations.

Bjørn Einar is a .NET developer and architect. Ha has a background from automation systems in the energy sector and has for the last 6 years worked for NRK TV as a backend developer and architect in the streaming service. His main topics of interests are domain driven design and functional programming. Keeping NRKs services up and running has been the main driver for his interest in resilient architecture.

Brandon is the Director of Developer Experience at Blues Wireless, the founder of Carrot Pants Press, a maker education and publishing company, and an avid tinkerer and maker.

Brandon is a  Developer Advocate at Microsoft where he gets to work closely with the developer community and help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps.

An avid mobile app developer, Brandon loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

I'm a software developer at Sesam, an iPaaS company based in Oslo, where on both backend (Python/Cython/C++) and frontend (React/Redux).

I have previously worked as a full-stack developer at Nornir in Oslo. In 2016 I took a summer internship at CERN, where I built a small web application website for displaying data about beamlines operating in CERNs North & East Experimental Areas. 

I have a Bachelor degree in Computer Graphics and Visualizations from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Currently I am also studying for a Masters degree at IFI UiO in Oslo. I enjoy solving problems that deal with processing and visualizing data and I'm interested in developer tooling, programming language theory and software architecture. I'm a big fan of React's declarative programming model.

Børge Wiik is working as a software developer in Sopra Steria. He has been working for several important agencies in Norway as a developer making critical systems. He is now currently working on making a new pharmaceutical system in Norway.

Børge has a master degree in Cybernetics and holds several certifications on Microsoft Azure.

Børge is also very active in the Microsoft community in Sopra Steria, being a leader of the community and holding many presentations for others. Børge is person that likes to perform and act, and is a superman on the running tracks and on skies.

Cecilia Wirén is a Coding Security Advocate from Active Solution. She have been selected as Microsoft MVP for several years and are frequently speaking at Conferences and for User Groups. You will often find her organizing Swenug events in Stockholm. 
As a senior developer she realize that the baseline for the security knowledge amongst the common developer is kind of low and decided that she needs to do something about it. When she not talk about security she loves to play board games or just hang out with her family.

Chris Klug is a developer badass-as-a-service that either creates or solves problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application, a new kitchen or a new RC helicopter, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time, that means writing code and solving problems for clients at a company called Active Solution in Stockholm though. Except for the many days he spends at conferences and usergroups, talking about doing things he is passionate about, and for the days he goes mountain biking, IPSC shooting, kiteboarding or RC helicopter flying.
For the last 15-something years, he has been solving problems for customers, and loving it. But if he gets to choose, he'll go to the beach and kitesurf every day!

Chris is a Microsoft MVP, author, and principal software engineer with over 15 years experience with ASP.NET. He works at Deployed, a female founded startup, leading the engineering team.

Passionate about sharing his knowledge with the community, he regularly writes both for his own blog as well as others—such as Visual Studio magazine, Progress Telerik, and StackOverflow. This passion for blogging led to his current focus, writing Blazor in Action with Manning publications. He also maintains several popular open source projects under the GitHub organisation, Blazored. When not tapping on a keyboard, Chris is a keen speaker, having delivered talks at both user groups and conferences all over the world (virtually).

You can find Chris online at his blog chrissainty.com and on Twitter as @chris_sainty.

Christian is a security engineer working with tracking and analyzing APT actors. He has previously worked with vulnerability research and malware analysis. He is an avid CTF player and regularly solves challenges related to binary exploitation for his team.

Together, Marit and Christian compete in CTFs with the top Norwegian CTF team, bootplug. At the time of writing bootplug is ranked 7 in the world. In competitions Marit usually starts at the easy end of the binary exploitation challenges, while Christian starts at the advanced end. Together they make a great team!

Christian is an all-round developer with wide experience from both frontend and backend development, as well as infrastructure and cloud work. He built pure CSS frontends when HTML tables where still all the rage, and have continued to enjoy frontend work to this day. He's tought courses on JavaScript, and given countless talks on web-related topics. Christian is a consultant with Kodemaker, and currently works full-time with Clojure and ClojureScript.

Cliff is a senior first officer with a Major UK Airline on one of its newest jets the 787 Dreamliner.  
He has a passion for flying from an early age, although his earlier career was spent as an apprentice at the Ford Motor Company and then a Project Engineer covering Electrical/Software/Robot engineering in major automotive brands. However his drive, focus and determination was always to become a pilot. 
After self funding his pilots license and passing all necessary exams his first commercial flight was with Aer Arran (Irish regional airline), where he flew ATRs from Dublin and Galway to Ireland regions and into the UK. After this the jets got bigger, the cattle slightly less and eventually he applied and was selected to join a Major UK Airline. 
After initially flying the Airbus A320 Cliff has continued his personal development and now fly’s the fleet of 787’s across the world, including the recently arrived B787-900 with the new First Class. 
Although the current jets are technologically advanced its Cliff’s every decision and calculation on a minute-by- minute basis that carries over 215 people safely back and forth over the Atlantic or Siberia, therefore every decision is a critical one. He therefore has acute awareness of people’s decision-making processes and the consequences of these. 
Its these decisions that impact on people’s lives, from lost luggage to engine issues to landing in fog, every decision is critical and everyone has an impact on how the airline remain competitive minute by minute, if not second by second. When not flying the plastic jet he spends his time huddled over his laptop thrashing the keyboard and working on some project from embedded systems to .Net. 
Personal challenges are always part of Cliff’s spare time and as well as continuing to design computer software he is busy with family life of a Wife, 3 Boys and 2 dogs and is also a keen cyclist, with the Alps Passporte’s challenge as next year’s goal.

Dag spent large parts of his youth in front of a Commodore 64 and various Amigas. Since the late 90s he has had the privilege to focus on the art and craft of professional software development. For the last 5 years the focus has been software security, in particular the challenge of determining exactly who the man behind the machine is.

Daniel is a developer and architect that has his passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel has been developed iOS- and Android with Xamarin since the early days of Xamarin. But he started to develop mobile apps even before that, mostly on the Android- and Windows platforms. 

Daniel enjoying to share his knowledge by speaking, blogging or recording the podcasts, App In The Cloud and The Code Behind. Daniel is also co-author of the book, Xamarin.Forms projects and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

Daniel working for tretton37 in Sweden and he has experience for working with both local- and global customers. 


David Leitner is an Enthusiastic Software Professional from Vienna who is working in various projects using a bunch of different stacks and environments. He spends much of his time on the frontlines tackling the challenges of scaling software and complex domains. A software engineer with more than 10 years’ experience preferring his code simple and small instead of clever and edgy. David enjoys sharing his knowledge as speaker at conferences and as a lecturer for his post-diploma courses at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna.

David is the founder of Electric Head Software, working as an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.

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.

You can find his open source projects on NuGet 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 

David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Equinix Metal, CNCF Ambassador, and host of the official Kubernetes Office Hours.

As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015.

With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways; currently focusing on #RawkodeLive, a live stream for learning the technologies across the cloud native landscape.

Debbie O’Brien is Head Developer Advocate at bit.dev. Debbie has over 10 years experience in Frontend development. She has worked as a Tech Lead and consultant for many important clients with varios technologies and often with a strong focus on performance. She has lead teams both in house and remotely as well as giving workshops and training. She has many years of experience as a mentor for online learning platforms, Treehouse and OpenClassrooms. Debbie is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in developer technologies, Google Developer Expert in web technologies, Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, Auth0 Ambassador and Nuxt Ambassador. 

Debbie has a special love for JavaScript frameworks especially Vue.js and Nuxt.js and improving performance with webpack and of course the Jamstack. She holds a Frontend and FullStack Tech Degree and is Microsoft certified. Debbie is an international speaker, who has spoken at many meet-ups and conferences worldwide on many continents including Antarctica. She is an open source contributor and a teacher at Vue School and Jamstack Explorers and is also a writer for Ultimate Courses.

Debbie is Irish but lives and works in Mallorca, Spain and when she is not writing code and studying new technologies she can often be found doing all sorts of sports from running, cycling, body combat and skiing and of course Taekwondo where she is a 4th degree black belt.

Dominick spent most of his professional career implementing security systems for his customers and reading protocol specifications. This resulted in a number of popular open-source projects like IdentityServer and IdentityModel. Since 2020 he runs Duende Software Inc together with his longtime friend and colleague Brock Allen. Duende provides a sustainable home for the IdentityServer project and is the one-stop-shop for all things OpenID Connect and OAuth for .NET-based companies.

Don Syme is a Researcher at Microsoft. He works with open source communities to make better programming technologies, and, through that, make people more productive and happier.
 
His main responsibility is the design of the F# programming language and he contributes to its tooling and community. 


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 is known for his live music shows featuring software-themed parodies of classic rock songs. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Experienced software architect, developer, and Microsoft MVP, with a strong focus on creating maintainable software that solves real business problems, using techniques such as domain-driven design, test-driven development and following clean-code principles. 

Egil is also the creator and maintainer of bUnit, an open source library for testing Blazor components, and AngleSharp.Diffing, a library for semantic comparison of HTML in C#.

From a developer focused perspective, Egil is a polyglot full-stack developer with experience in technologies ranging from HTML, CSS, Blazor, JavaScript/TypeScript on the frontend, and C# (.NET Core), Groovy/Grains, MySql, MS SQL Server, to PL/1 and DB2 on IBM mainframes. Primary focus these days is C# and .NET Core.

Egil streams regularly on Twitch at twitch.tv/egilhansen.

Einar W. Høst is not a software craftsman; he is a genuine, PhD-certified ivory tower zealot. His heretic views include thinking even before programming and making drawings to understand things better. He does domain modelling, API design and computer programming at NRK. 

Eldert can be described as an Azure MVP, Technology Lead, Cloud Solution Architect, blogger, public speaker and technical author. He can regularly be seen on conferences and user groups, speaking on Cloud related topics, with a strong focus on Azure. His experience with the Cloud comes from his daily work with these technologies in many innovative projects with various clients, as well as his drive to further dive into the latest developments in his spare time. Eldert enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community, and believes this is the best way to each other obtain more and better opportunities.

Evelyn van Kelle is a strategic software delivery consultant, with experience in coaching, advising and guiding organisations and teams in designing socio-technical systems. Her Master’s degree in social sciences brings new and valuable perspectives when it comes to optimizing both delivery- and team processes. 

Being a firm believer of context shaping meaning, she is focused on understanding company- and team culture before anything else. Finding the actual problem to solve and adding business value are starting points in her work. Evelyn is convinced that we need a shared sense of reality including shared values, goals and language in order to perform best as a team. She is curious, driven and pragmatic. “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection” describes her line of reasoning. 

Besides her daily work, she has a predilection for books and linguistics, and highly appreciates good food. 

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and a handful of Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, Microsoft and Xamarin MVP. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master C# by understanding important concepts such asynchronous programming, MSIL and much more.

Fredrik is a Principal Software Engineer at Aurum with more than 10 years of experience developing enterprise applications. Both for the public and private sector in Norway.

He is now working as a contractor at If Insurance helping them setting up DevOps practices, their Kubernetes setup, and overall architecture.

Gary Short is the founder of Darach.ai an AI/ML modelling company that helps you make better business decisions by predicting the future.

Glenn F. Henriksen is working as a mentor, evangelist and developer in Stavanger, Norway. Here he gets to explore new tools, processes and technologies and continuously improve 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 Azure Advisor. In the past 18 years he has co-owned a company, worked as a manager, support, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favorite thing is still swapping code for food. 

Guillaume Laforge is Developer Advocate for Google Cloud. He focuses on serverless technologies. He is also a Java Champion, and the co-founder of the Apache Groovy programming language.

Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.

In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.

As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.

In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.

You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.

Climbing the technology mountain and halfway up the side. Experience in .Net, mobile applications and more recently voice interface development. Dabbles in iOT & AR/VR. Focusing on coding for humans and choosing the right tool for the job.

Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise level mobile and .Net applications. She spends her spare time at tech conferences supporting the growth of new developers of all genders, ages and backgrounds. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.

Henning loves programming in high quality. He lives this passion as coder, coach, and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions in Hamburg, Germany. There he helps teams to structure their monoliths or to build new systems from the beginning with a sustainable architecture. Microservices or self-contained systems are often the result. Henning is author of “Domain Storytelling – A Collaborative Modeling Method” and the www.LeasingNinja.io as well as translator of “Domain-Driven Design kompakt”.

Principal Cloud Solution Architect and Azure Datacenter Lead at Microsoft Norway. Previously Enterprise Cloud Architect at Elkjøp Nordic.

Håkan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational behavior. He has also taken courses on university level in psychology, interaction design and human-computer interaction. He has 20 years’ experience of software development in various positions such as developer, tester, architect, project manager, scrum master, practice manager and team lead. 

Håkan is Chairman of the local chapter of the Norwegian .NET User Group Oslo (NNUG) and is active as an Ambassador for Oslo.AI the local chapter for the global City.AI community. In addition, he is the co-founder of AI42, an online school for learning about AI and Data Science.

Håkan is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in AI. 

Currently Håkan is working as Manager AI and Big Data at Miles AS, a Norwegian consultancy company.

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

Isaac Abraham is an. NET MVP and a .NET developer since .NET 1.0 with an interest in cloud computing and distributed data problems. He is the author of Get Programming with F# and is the director of Compositional IT. He specializes in consultancy, training and development, helping customers adopt high-quality, functional-first solutions on the .NET platform.

Jakob has 20 years of experience with professional software development, and currently works at Active Solution, specializing in DevOps and cloud architecture.

Jakob is a Microsoft Azure MVP (former ALM/DevOps MVP). He is a regular speaker at various conferences and user groups around the world, such as NDC, DevSum, CloudBrew, TechDays, WinOps, UpdateConf and SweTugg

Janani Subbiah is a product architect at Detroit Labs with experience building backend services and Android apps. What started out as long hours of playing Dangerous Dave on the computer paved the way for her software engineering career. While not at work or hacking on the next thing on her ever-growing list of things to learn, she can be found reading (its mostly one of the Harry Potter books for the nth time), planning her next vacation or trying her hand at growing food in her balcony garden.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught Front End Developer and school-taught Systems Engineer from Lagos, Nigeria. 

She currently works at Telesoftas, a software company based in Lithuania. 
She is an avid advocate for diversity and intersectionality in technology and accessibility in web development. 

She gives back to the tech community by speaking at conferences, volunteering at organizations geared towards diversity in the techspace and teaching web development classes to beginners every other weekend. 

She's also a huge nerd, slightly obsessed with cats and can usually be found on her laptop, coding or watching slice-of-life anime.

Jennifer Wadella has been writing code since before she realized it was a credible career path. She currently works as the Director of Angular Consulting at Bitovi and loves building performant web applications, speaking at technical conferences, and brewing kombucha. Jennifer is an active member of the KC tech community and the founder of Kansas City Women in Technology(KCWiT), an organization aimed at growing the number of women in technology careers in Kansas City. She is the PubConf Sydney 2018 Champion, a Silicon Prairie Champion Award Nominee, Rising Trendsetter STEMMy award-winner, and is apparently Missouri's Coolest Woman according to Pure Wow. 

Joep is a technologist with team-building skills. As an ex-CTO of 1200 engineers and builder of organizations and teams, he understands, he understands that tech is but a small part of successful businesses. His (unnatural) infatuation with organizational excellence helps him lead people through change, coach management teams and train teams to be more empathetic.

Jon is a Program Manager on the .NET community team. He’s been developing software professionally since the late 1990’s, and over the years has written several books, popular .NET tutorials and samples, is the host of the ASP.NET Community Standup, a top speaker on Microsoft Virtual Academy, and worked behind the scenes on large Microsoft keynote demonstrations. He’s helped run the Herding Code podcast for 10 years, and tweets as @jongalloway.

Jonah Andersson is a Filipina-Swedish Software Developer at Forefront Consulting, Sweden. 
She studied Computer Science and System Development in .NET and Java which makes her very passionate about tech. 
Jonah likes solving challenging complex problems, programming back-end and has great interest in developing applications in .NET with new cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure. She likes continuous learning, connect with other developers, share her technical knowledge at her workplace and by public speaking.  Jonah wants to make difference by advocating gender equality, diversity and inclusion in tech. A mentor young women to choose a career in tech. 

Jose is a .NET engineer, developing Azure Cloud solutions, with a focus on Performance, Profiling, performance testing & Software Architecture. He also loves UI/UX, mostly with XAML-based technologies - he was a Silverlight MVP (also Microsoft MVP for 9 years) - which shows passion and skills for this field. 
He enjoys sharing his knowledge and having fun while doing so, either at user group talks, conferences, and trainings. 
He works at Swiss Life as Developer Community Lead & Software Architect.

A lot of knowledge is lost when designing and building software — lost because of hand-overs in a telephone game, confusing communication by not having a shared language, discussing complexity without visualisation and by not leveraging the full potential and wisdom of the diversity of the people. That lost knowledge while creating software impacts the sustainability, quality and value of the software product. Kenny Baas-Schwegler is a socio-technical architect. He blends IT approaches like Domain-Driven Design and Continuous Delivery and facilitates change through using visual collaboration practices, the Cynefin framework and Deep Democracy. Kenny empowers and collaboratively enables organisations, teams and groups of people in designing and building sustainable quality software products.

One of Kenny's core principles is sharing knowledge. He does that by writing a blog on his website baasie.com and helping curate the Leanpub book visual collaboration tool. Besides writing, he also shares experience in the Domain-Driven Design community as an organiser of Virtual Domain-Driven Design (virtualddd.com) and Domain Driven Design Nederland. He enjoys being a public speaker by giving talks and hands-on workshops at conferences and meetups.

Kevin Gosse has been using Microsoft .NET technologies for 15 years, across client, server, and mobile applications. He is Microsoft MVP and is currently employed at Datadog, where he works on the performance of the .NET APM.

Klara Vatn is Head of Design at Spacemaker. She is a digital product designer with 15 years of experience designing great products, specialised in combining the design process with an agile mindset. For the last three years, she has been using all her experience to disrupt the way we design our cities, building both the Spacemaker product and organisation from scratch

Chris is a photographer, globetrotter and software developer. Currently, he's working at GitHub as Senior Research Engineer where he researches and builds future software development tools like GitHub Copilot. He's an author of several OSS projects, including Ionide - VSCode plugin for F# development, and Saturn - F# MVC web framework. Chris is also an international speaker, who tries to convince developers around the world that OSS and FP are good, pragmatic choices for writing software. You can find him on Twitter as @k_cieslak, GitHub - @Krzysztof-Cieslak and read his blog at http://kcieslak.io

Dr. Kotowick is the founder of a Canadian consulting and development firm focusing on prototype and POC development for complex systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Systems Integration from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which he completed in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He has served as a consultant, architect, and developer for global firms, startups, and universities; as the Director of Information Technology for an ambulance service; and as a researcher for military navigation systems and for life support systems in space. He specializes in working with enterprise clients to define requirements and explore possible solutions, as well as in leading the development of project architecture, cloud services, and back-end software. He volunteers as a team leader and technology specialist for World Health Organization Emergency Medical Teams deployed to disaster zones, and has a passion for exploring the uses of technology in high-risk environments.

Lars has been working in & around .NET for the last 15 years as a programmer and consultant. On a day-to-day basis he is a hands-on CTO at Novanet.

I work as Senior Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft after almost 10 years spent working for IdentityMine and Valorem, two leading firms in Microsoft technologies. I am one of the foremost experts for XAML and C# based development. I code in Azure, Windows, WPF, Xamarin (iOS and Android), ASP.NET. On my free time, I write for technical publications such as MSDN Magazine, and my blog is on blog.galasoft.ch. I am a frequent speaker at conferences such as VSLive, TechSummit, NDC, Oredev and many other international events. In the past I spoke at Microsoft MIX, TechEd, TechDays and more. Prior to joining Microsoft, I was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows development from 2007 to 2017, a Microsoft Regional Director from 2013 and a Xamarin Most Valuable Professional from 2015. I am also the author of the well-known open source framework MVVM Light for Windows, WPF, Xamarin, and of the popular Pluralsight reference course about MVVM Light.


Layla is a Developer Advocate at VMware serving the .NET community. She is a Live Coder on Twitch, a Microsoft MVP, A GitHub Star, a director on the board of the .NET Foundation, and co-organiser of MK .NET user group. Layla loves sharing knowledge whilst having fun. No question is stupid and beginners are always welcome.

With a day job as the development lead for a mid-sized Minneapolis agency, Lemon spends his work time making websites for money and his free time making websites for no money.

He's created over a dozen gimmick sites like damn.dog, pretend.world and greatsex.tips. He also hosts a podcast that looks at some of the internet's weirder subcultures. It is not safe for your work, unless you work somewhere really cool.

Liam Westley is Head of Engineering at FreemarketFX, a fintech startup specializing in foreign currency trading, with a cloud native platform in Azure. He quite likes working near London Bridge as there is some fantastic food and coffee to be had within a few minutes walk.

Previous to FreemarketFX, Liam worked at Huddle just down the road in Aldgate helping the mobile and desktop teams create apps to play nicely with microservices.  At Criteria MX, a digital media startup he worked as a consultant via his own company Tiger Computer Services Ltd, 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 channels in the Netherlands.

Hi, I'm Loris! I'm VP of Community at the Zig Software Foundation and the creator and host of Zig SHOWTIME. I believe in creating software that you can love.



Luce is a proudly neurodiverse Microsoft MVP, Twilio Champion and software developer based in Manchester, England.

She works as a Developer Advocate at MongoDB. When not writing mobile apps for fun in her spare time, she speaks around the UK and Europe at user groups and conferences, curates the Weekly Xamarin newsletter, occasionally streams, and writes on her blog.

Follow Luce on Twitter @LuceCarter1 and also her Blog at lucecarter.co.uk

I'm an Agile Delivery Consultant with over twenty years experience of helping developers, teams and organisations improve their software delivery. I’m currently consulting with Equal Experts, at a variety of public and private sector clients.

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains. 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 http://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Majid is a Google developer expert and passionate software developer with years of developing and architecting complex web and mobile applications. His passions are generally Flutter, PWA, and performance. He is an award-winning book author at Apress and instructor at PacktPub/Udemy and Pluralsight. 
He loves sharing his knowledge with the community by writing and speaking, having workshops and video tutorials, contributing to open source, and organizing meetups and events. He is also the organizer of several big Nordic conferences and meetups such as FlutterVikings!

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Majid is Google developer expert, an award-winning book author, Flutter, PWA, perf enthusiast, and a passionate software developer with years of developing and architecting complex web and mobile applications.

Marcel Britsch is an independent Digital Consultant, Product Owner and Business Analyst. 
He helps organisations build solid products and services in a sustainable way, by facilitation, pairing, coaching or hands-on product management. 

He believes that project success is strongly linked to happy teams, value-focused decision- making and fast feedback cycles. He is passionate about finding the best tools and techniques to optimise team culture, ways of working and solution design. He considers projects that follow classic waterfall / big-design-up-front practices to be too likely doomed to go anywhere near them, but loves to help organisations build products and transform in incremental evolutionary fashion. 

Outside of work he is interested in SciFi and comic books, Theravada Buddhist meditation and number theory.

He can be found at www.beautifulabstraction.com or his blog www.thedigitalbusinessanalyst.com

Marit is a Senior Software Engineer working with secure development and application security at Sopra Steria. She is engaged in the hacking community in Norway and is the former leader of Norway’s largest CTF, TG:HACK. 

Together, Marit and Christian compete in CTFs with the top Norwegian CTF team, bootplug. At the time of writing bootplug is ranked 7 in the world. In competitions Marit usually starts at the easy end of the binary exploitation challenges, while Christian starts at the advanced end. Together they make a great team!

Mark is a 20 year Microsoft veteran and has worked on a number of products and services including, Windows Mobile, Bing Maps and Microsoft’s Web Platform & Tools Team. Mark has been on Azure since 2011 and has worked on Azure Web Apps Service, Redis Cache, Azure Networking and Azure Cosmos DB. Prior to Microsoft, Mark worked for a number of early e-commerce and dot-com startups. Mark is passionate about web development, cloud computing and growing the developer community around Azure and Cosmos DB.

Mark is the founder of RendleLabs, which is really just him playing with .NET Core, Docker, Azure, microservices and so on and then teaching other people about it and helping them build clean, stable, scalable solutions. He's been getting paid to do what he loves for nearly 30 years now, and still worries that somebody's going to notice and make him stop.

Martin is a consultant, speaker and o11y enthusiast. With a passion for all things monitoring, he pushes platform ownership and autonomy whenever he goes.

He's an ex-VP in engineering, with skills in hands-on engineering and enabling high-performing teams.

Martin is a freelance software developer and Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He specializes in architecting and building cross-platform mobile and cloud solutions on the Microsoft technology stack. Martin loves contributing to open-source, as it is a tremendous source of learning. You can also meet him on Stack Overflow, where he frequently helps other developers. To document his developer journey, Martin regularly writes posts on his blog at https://blog.mzikmund.com/. In spare time he likes to play squash, game on Xbox, read, and search for geocaches.

Martin is a software leader and mentor with over 17 years of experience in the field. Today Martin works as a CTO for the software consultancy tretton37 that focuses on custom-built solutions. His work is focused on setting the technical vision and direction, inspiring people and helping teams deliver high-quality software. Martins journey with software started in the childhood years and during his life, he has had the privilege to work with several organisations, large and small, and in several different roles. This has given him a unique perspective on software, people and organisations. Martin believes that building software is first and foremost a people problem - not a technical problem

Martin Altenstedt is a software developer and architect with 25 years of experience in Sweden's IT industry. He specializes in being able to take part in both the development and management of software.

Martin is head of the Security Office at Omegapoint, Gothenburg, a group of experts in application security that performs penetration tests and security reviews. He has developed several courses in secure application development and gives presentations on application development and security.


I love to start things and little one-off experiments. Drive for teaching and unblocking others. He/him.

Matt Ellis is a developer advocate at JetBrains. He has spent 20 years shipping software and currently works with language tooling, having fun with abstract syntax trees and source code analysis. He owns and contributes to various open source projects, and believes in the open closed principle.

Matthias is a passionate C# developer and likes to talk about clean code, testing and tooling in general. Much of his spare time is devoted to his very own open-source projects. He is working at JetBrains as developer advocate for the .NET department.

Mattias has been working professionally as a developer for 20 years.

His interest in coding started already in the 80s with the Commodore 128 and the true passion came with the Amiga.

Today he's a partner and senior architect at WCOM, a Microsoft partner located in Gothenburg, Sweden.

He’s also a Microsoft Azure MVP, a Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP and a member of the OzCode Magician community.

Outside work he a father of two, husband of one and contributes actively to the .NET open source community.

Most know there for being one of the lead maintainers behind the .NET foundation project Cake.

Software developer focused on clean code, functional programming, testing. 

Besides work and personal projects, I'm active in the developer communities - previously GDG for 5 years, now Civic-Tech community Česko.Digital. 

🇨🇿 living in 🇳🇴

Maxim Salnikov is an Oslo-based cloud and tech community geek. He is a webdev maestro who builds apps since the end of the last century and shares his extensive web platform experience by speaking & training at developer events around the world. Daytime, Maxim is boosting cloud skills at the country scale by leading developer engagement in Microsoft Norway. In the evenings, you'll find him organizing the country's main web & mobile meetups, and two full-scale tech conferences.



I'm a Developer Advocate at Google, currently focused on helping developers with Google Cloud Platform. As a long-time Java and a recent C# developer, I like to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, I worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from Cyprus, I currently live in Greenwich, not too far away from the prime meridian.

Michael Richardson is a software developer, conference speaker, developer community organizer, and outdoor enthusiast. Michael has written software in JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, C#, SQL, Cypher, and even VB.NET. He particularly enjoys mentoring junior developers, clearing roadblocks, and finding common ground. As a technical lead at Kroger Digital, Michael helps create compelling web experiences for millions of Kroger customers. He helps to organize the Momentum Developer Conference, the Cincinnati Software Craftsmanship meetup, and the HackCincy hackathon.

Mickey Gousset is a DevOps Architect at GitHub.  Formerly a DevOps Architect at Microsoft, as well as a Microsoft Visual Studio and Development Technologies MVP (for 13 years). Mickey has been lead author of several books, including "Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2013" from Wrox Publishing.  He is very passionate about DevOps and the cloud, and speaks on DevOps and Cloud topics at various user groups, code camps, and conferences around the world. Learn more about Mickey at https://mickeygousset.com and https://youtube.com/mickeygousset

Mikko Hypponen is an award-winning security researcher. He has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and lectured at the universities of Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge. Mr. Hypponen was selected as the Cybersecurity Person Of The Year 2020 by CISO Mag.

Mitchel Sellers is globally known as a 12 time Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, a DNN MVP, is an MCP (Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET and SQL Server), and CEO of IowaComputerGurus Inc. Sellers has a deep understanding of software development and when speaking focuses on proper architecture standards, performance, stability, security, and overall cost-effectiveness of delivered solutions. This message and his abilities resonate in the technical war room as well as the executive board room. 

Mitchel is a prolific public speaker, presenting more than 400 sessions at user groups and conferences globally, such as DevUp, SDN, and Code PaLOUsa. Sellers has been the author of multiple books and a regular blogger on technology topics.

When Mitchel is not working in technology, you will find him flying his airplane, teaching others how to fly, or spending time with his wife and 2 small children. He is also actively involved in the Open Source Community working diligently to further the movement. Find out more about Sellers at his website http://www.mitchelsellers.com.

One of CoWorkers at CoWork, Norway, a consultancy travelling together with the customers on their IT-transformation journey.

I have 20+ years of experience as software architect, developer and coach, in telecom and healthcare, thus being deeply involved in developing enterprise-solutions in complex domains. The major part of the last 10 years of my professional career has been devoted to leading and coaching different development teams, by cultivating knowledge sharing in the organization and increasing co-developer’s business understanding. My professional philosophy is rooted in Domain-Driven Design and in building agile and technical coaching culture on an organization-wide level.

Apart from work I enjoy spending time engaging my kids in STEM activities. I am an enthusiastic First Lego League mentor and have actively contributed to the FIRST community locally and internationally.

Niels Tanis has got a background in .NET development, pentesting and security consultancy. He also holds the CSSLP certification and has been involved in breaking, defending and building secure applications. He joined Veracode in 2015 and right now he works as a security researcher on a variant of languages and technologies related to Veracode’s Binary Static Analysis service. He is married, father of two and lives in a small village just outside Amersfoort, The Netherlands.

Oda works as a software developer and enjoys working with backend java. She is curious about new technology and has a desire to always learn and improve. In teams, she thrives when code and architecture is discussed so that together we find the best solution.

Olena is a full-stack developer at The Adecco Group from Berlin in Germany. She has previously worked in a service company based in Ukraine and took a part in the creation of various products from small startups, B2B applications, to enterprise platforms.
Moreover, she is passionate about new technologies, clean code, and best practices.
In her free time, when she’s not spending it on hobbies, she likes to build demos around real-life use cases, share knowledge with others, and the opposite, learn about someone else's experience.

Olia Gavrysh is a senior program manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. She focuses on .NET desktop platforms such as WPF, WinForms and others. Before that, she was working on machine learning framework for .NET called ML.NET.

Patricia Aas is an international speaker and has spoken at CppCon, ACCU, C++OnSea, NDC Security, NDC Oslo and many other conferences on subjects ranging from Sandboxing in Chromium to Vulnerabilities in C++. She has taught a range of subjects in Computer Science at the University of Oslo.

Patricia has a masters degree in Computer Science and 13 years professional experience as a programmer, most of that time programming in C++. During that time she has worked in codebases with a high focus on security: two browsers (Opera and Vivaldi) and embedded Cisco telepresence systems.

Paul Stack is an infrastructure coder and has spoken at various events throughout the world about his passion for continuous integration, continuous delivery and good operational procedures and why they should be part of what developers and system administrators do on a day to day basis. He believes that reliably delivering software is more important as its development. Paul’s passions are the DevOps and Continuous Delivery movements and how they help the entire business and its customers.

Phil is the author of the C++ test framework, Catch2, and the composable command line parser, Clara. As Developer Advocate at SonarSource he's involved with SonarLint, SonarCloud and SonarQube, primarily from a C++ perspective. More generally he's an advocate for good testing practices, TDD and using the type system, functional techniques and static analysis to reduce complexity and increase correctness. He's previously worked in Finance and Mobile as well as an independent consultant and coach specialising in TDD on iOS.

Philippe De Ryck helps developers protect companies through better web security. His Ph.D. in web security from KU Leuven lies at the basis of his exceptional knowledge of the security landscape. As the founder of Pragmatic Web Security, Philippe delivers security training and security consulting to companies worldwide. His online course platform allows anyone to learn complex security topics at their own pace. Philippe is a Google Developer Expert and an Auth0 Ambassador for his community contributions on the security of web applications and APIs.

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals.

Richard is the author of Elm in Action from Manning Publications and the instructor for the front-end masters 2-day Elm workshop. When he’s not writing about Elm, teaching Elm, speaking about Elm or co-hosting the San Francisco Elm meetup, he likes to take a break from his job of writing Elm code full-time as an engineer at NoRedInk by kicking back and working on some of his open-source Elm projects. Some have said he’s “into Elm,” but he’s not sure where they got that wild idea.

Robin is  a member of the Elm core team and has implemented some of the language's builtin data structures, as well as the time travelling debugger.

Outside of open source he works as a consultant at Bekk, where he gets to work on the Elm code that powers the website of Vy, Norway's largest transport provider.

NDC { Oslo }

Speakers

Adrienne Tacke

Alexander Arvidsson

Alexey Zimarev

Anders Norås

Anjuan Simmons

Anthony Nicols

Arisa Fukuzaki

Arthur Doler

Avishai Ish-Shalom

Barry Stahl

Bjørn Einar Bjartnes

Brandon Satrom

Brandon Minnick

Branislav Jenco

Børge Wiik

Cecilia Wirén

Chris Klug

Chris Sainty

Christian Resell

Christian Johansen