Name: NDC Oslo 2023
Start: 2023-05-22
End: 2023-05-26
Location: NDC Oslo

Aaron is the founder and CTO of Petabridge, and the co-founder of the Akka.NET open-source project. Prior to Petabridge, Aaron founded MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers. Prior to that he worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

As a newly graduated computer scientist, Adam maintains a passion for algorithms and machine learning. Currently working as an IT consultant on the notification system of a startup. 

Adam Cogan blogs at adamcogan.com and interviews for tv.ssw.com frequently. He is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom enterprise .NET and Azure solutions mostly using Angular and React. His solutions also involve Office365, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Power BI.

*Clients* - At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance, and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, CBA, and Aurecon.

*Scrum* - Adam is a Certified Scrum Trainer with scrum.org, trains developers in Australia, the US, UK and Europe, and contributes to scrum.org thinking. He consults with development teams on improving their scrum process through mentoring and being an SSW Solution Architect and Scrum Master. He has written many rules around Scrum best practices.

*China* - Adam has also run multiple consulting firms in China for the last 12 years. Adam has seen the whole Chinese software ecosystem develop and understand the differences that the Chinese market requires in order to be successful. Adam helps western companies modernize their software, so they are not only servicing the USA and European markets, but also grabbing a slice of the Chinese market of 1.4 billion consumers.

*Speaking* - In addition to being a Microsoft MVP in Azure DevOps, Adam is one of only 3 Microsoft Regional Directors in Australia. In this role, he regularly presents in conferences such as TechEd (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Malaysia). A couple of times a year, he visits Microsoft headquarters in Seattle to learn the latest on Microsoft strategic directions and to undertake training in development technologies. His favourite Microsoft teams that he loves to work with are Nat Friedman’s GitHub and Azure DevOps team, James Phillips’ Power BI team, and Jeff Teper’s SharePoint team.

*Software Architecture* - Adam enjoys working with teams, improving their usage of Scrum and DevOps, reviewing the architecture of large .NET and Azure projects, while also taking an active interest in the overall User Experience (UX). He is also the founder and a mentor of SSW’s FireBootCamp, an intensive 9-week .NET training course where developers are retrained learning developer and architecture best practices.

Adele is a software engineer at Trifork Amsterdam, where she is working on backend systems for the educational sector. Most of her work day is spent in the JVM/Spring ecosystems. Adele got the coding bug later in life but since then has been making up for lost time, going from command line noob to employed software engineer in just one year. Her experiences both in and out of tech have given her a unique perspective on the art of programming together with humans, which she hopes is useful to other humans who program with humans.

Alasdair Allan is in charge of writing things down at Raspberry Pi, where he leads a team that responsible for everything from beginner-friendly tutorials, to register-level documentation of new silicon.

Before joining Raspberry Pi he worked as a consultant and journalist focusing on open hardware, machine learning, and emerging technologies. He is known for benchmarking the new generation of machine learning accelerator hardware, and hacking hotel radios. But, more than ten years on, he is probably still most well known for causing one of the first big mobile privacy scandals.

In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and been mentioned on South Park. Originally an astrophysicist, he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of what — at the time — was the most distant object yet discovered.

With 20 years of experience in building software, Alessandro worked within companies ranging from small start-ups to large enterprises.
He helps companies embrace Agile Technical Practices in London where he currently resides, and previously in Italy and Norway.

Adopting Agile methodologies, especially eXtreme Programming reshaped the way he builds software and thinks about the whole lifecycle of the solutions he delivers from inception to delivery.
He likes concise, expressive, and readable code as well as pragmatically improving existing solutions.

He is passionate about developing and designing OO and functional code. Using his skills to lead digital transformation through cultural change and architectural evolution to scalable distributed asynchronous systems.

Being a continuous learner, he loves to share his experience with others through coaching, mentoring, delivering workshops and talks

Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he's been around open source for 25 years and recently moved to a new Developer Relations role. Twitter handle: @bongo



Alexander is the co-founder and CTO at ClimateClever - a climate-tech company helping businesses of all sizes to accurately measure and reduce emissions, focusing on aggregating supply chain emissions.

A full-stack developer with over ten years of experience, he previously ran an App development agency, managing various teams from design and marketing to web and native mobile app developers in Australia and abroad.

Alexander's strengths are system architecture design and communicating complicated tech to everyday people. Having helped scale tech at numerous startups, he is passionate about making a positive difference. 

When not working, you can find him writing tech articles and teaching Javascript and React at SheCodes, an initiative helping to get more women into tech. He regularly gives talks on various topics, focusing on the impact the technology we build can have.

Alexander is devastated by the state of the world, loves a good political rant and can often be swearing at no one in particular. He enjoys building things in Node, Deno, React, Svelte, MongoDB and Rust.

Amichai is a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He is the author of the NuGet packages ErrorOr & Throw and has a .NET programming YouTube channel, in which he covers advanced topics such as design patterns, architecture, and best practices.

Amrit is a Computer Engineer turned Educator who believes in impact-based work. He is currently involved as Project Lead for NDC Code Chautari where he designs and delivers after school classes for the students of public schools in Nepal, focusing on Computer Literacy, Computer Programming and Computational Thinking. He is also pursuing a Master’s in Technical and Vocational Education and Training at Kathmandu University.

Previously he has worked as a Software Engineer at Cloudfactory, Science Teaching Fellow at Teach for Nepal and Content Generation Team Lead at Karkhana. He has a passion for diverse learning and wants to be a “jack—of—all”. This has led him to be a self-taught portrait sketch artist, graphic designer, guitarist, cajonist and a photographer among others.

In his free time, Amrit likes to read blogs and articles on random and diverse topics, make random logos and graphic designs and play guitar. His current research interests include Digital Divide, Self-directed learning, Minimally invasive education, Hands-on and maker based classes and alternative fluid learning spaces.

Amy wears many hats as a business owner, senior engineer, mentor and conference addict. She regularly shares her knowledge with her peers and the next generation of developers by mentoring, speaking at and organising events as well as mentoring up and coming developers within her business.

Amy can be found volunteering her time with DDD Perth as Vice Chair and Director of Conference Content, organising Perth Azure User Group and mentoring at various SheCodes events. She has been recognised as a Twilio Champion and a Microsoft MVP since 2019 and has been nominated for the WiTWA awards previously.

In her spare time Amy shares her knowledge and experience writing blogs, speaking at conferences and running workshops on a variety of topics across front end development, accessibility, mental health and more. She has previously given keynotes at international events and conferences around the world.

Anders is a senior software architect with extensive experience in security solutions. He has helped implementing IdentityServer in organizations over the world, often in combination with his Saml2 packages. Since 2021, Anders works with Duende Software Inc on designing and implementing authentication solutions built on IdentityServer.

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.

Language and AI nerd. 
M. Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (NTNU, 2011)
Ph. D. in Biotechnology (NTNU, 2018)


I'm a developer with a passion for building stuff that works for people. Currently, I'm building platform services to enable frontend engineers at NAV.

Originally from the UK but now based in Melbourne, I started out as a software developer and have been writing code for over 22 years, but this isn't what I'm the most proudest of.

As a psuedo-extrovert, I would never have dreamt that I'd be standing in front of people, on a stage, delivering workshops, keynote speeches and presentations.

I talk about topics that I'm passionate about, share my experiences and teach the skills that software managers, tech leads, consultants and heads of department need to succeed as a leader in technology.

As a technical leadership coach, I also enjoy mentoring other people to help them navigate the path of leadership in the technical world so that they get the success they want in their careers.

Anna works as a Lead UI Developer at Field Intelligence helping to bring healthcare the fastest emerging markets in the world. She is always trying to find ways to make people fall in love with coding and has a long history of organizing coding workshops for WebMuses and Rails Girls. She holds a Google Developer Expert title in Web Technologies area. In her spare time she is practicing Pilates, playing Hearthstone and traveling.

Anton is a Front-End Developer, speaker and community organiser. He is passionate about clean, structured code, web standards, accessibility and optimisation. He prides himself on delivering robust, high quality and beautiful solutions. Anton co-organises Fenders Front-End Developer meetup and DDD Perth. Anton has also volunteered as a mentor introducing others to the world of coding.

When not coding new features, Audun uses his time to find new ways of improving developer productivity. Automation of builds and deploys, manual testing, code quality checks and reviews are only some of the interesting topics that he deals with on an everyday basis.

Barry is a CITA-P certified Architect who has held Chief Architect positions at Microsoft and and iDesign. He has also been a startup CTO, the Worldwide Lead for the Solutions Architecture Community at Microsoft, and founder of the Swedish Azure User Group. He is also a PhD candidate in software design and complexity science. 

Bastiaan is an experienced IT infrastructure guy and Microsoft MVP who focuses on Microsoft Azure and software architecture. Born and raised in The Netherlands, Bastiaan now lives in Norway and works as an independent consultant. He is a big supporter of the “work hard, play harder” movement (if there is one…) and enjoys exchanging knowledge and experiences with others. 

Ben Dechrai is a technologist with a strong focus on security and privacy. At 11 years old he wrote software to stop his parents from breaking the family PC, and now he enjoys helping developers find the joy of problem-solving and experimentation.

Full stack developer and tech lead with a ❤️ for people, simplification and solving real-world problems. Ex-CTO of fintech startup Kron. And experience from companies like FINN, NRK and the University of Oslo. By night musical theatre lover, part time mezzo-soprano 🎶 and video game enthusiast 🕹️

Architect/developer at 4Subsea, working at 

. 4insight provides key decision support to onshore and offshore personnel for Oil & Gas and Offshore Wind operations.

Brandon is a  Developer Advocate at AWS where he gets to work closely with the developer community to help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps.

Brandon previously worked at Xamarin + Microsoft where he focused on creating mobile apps in C# using Xamarin + .NET MAUI.

An avid mobile app developer, Brandon loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

I am a data analytics advocate with an emphasis on generating people first insights.

I come from a unique background with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Mathematics and Psychological Science, and a Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence on the way. I look for unique problem-solving opportunities and thrive in complex environments.

I am passionate about all things data but have a keen interest in the development of machine learning in combination with traditional BI analytics. My role as a consultant keeps me close to the ground, giving me an insight into the technologies being used across many different domains.

Outside of my role as a consultant, I help others get into the data field by teaching the Data Analytics Bootcamp at the University of Western Australia.

Data is a rapidly growing domain. It is my vision to spread awareness of the power that comes with taking control of data.

Brynjar is a full-stack developer with an interest in Azure, DevOps, security, and integration. He has worked on security solutions at Equinor and currently is a part of the security team at Sbanken. In his free time, he has won two coding competitions in Stavanger, achieved the Azure DevOps expert certification, and played an active role in various roles in sports, stock analysis, and organization and management.

Callum Whyte is a x3 Microsoft MVP and x5 Umbraco MVP specialising in building robust scalable solutions on Azure and the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS.

Away from his desk you can find him organising community events; from local meetups and hackathons, to global conferences and roadshows. He’s an active contributor to open source projects, a regular speaker at events all over the world, as well as co-host of a weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee”!

Camilla spends a lot of her time building machine learning systems and thinking about the future that's already here, just not evenly distributed. 

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 Senior Customer Engineer on the Fast Track for Azure team at Microsoft. He has a focus in modern applications built with DevOps, microservices, containers, Single Page Apps, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies following agile practices. In his free time, Chris is a speaker at numerous meetups, an avid reader and a gamer.

Christian is a freelance fullstack developer writing code in languages like Java, Kotlin, Typescript and Javascript. He enjoys writing software and helping others.

Corstian treats the cognitive load associated with software development as an accessibility issue rather than a sign of virtue. His goal is to empower teams to improve their productivity by cutting away the cognitive overhead associated with a project.

Dan Mallott is the Team Lead for the Platform Team at Visma e-conomic in Copenhagen, Denmark. His passion is for distributed architecture, designing and building high performing service layers from the API down to the database.

Recently, Dan has been focused on leading the Platform Team in improving the cross-cutting concerns in the e-conomic application, including improving security, improving messaging performance, and managing the migration to .NET 6.0.

Previously, Dan was a Senior Principal for West Monroe, based in Chicago, IL, USA. While at West Monroe, Dan's projects included designing high performing architectures for a variety of clients, as well as developing APIs and UIs for healthcare, insurance, and financial services clients. Along the way, Dan worked with .NET Framework, .NET Core, Java/Spring Boot, React, and Angular. He also gained experience with a number of database technologies, including DataStax, Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Prior to joining West Monroe, Dan worked for a number of companies, focusing on .NET and Microsoft SQL Server development, including experience as a DBA.

Past speaking engagements have included PASS Summit, NDC London, NDC Melbourne, NDC Sydney, KCDC, Code PaLOUsa, and numerous SQL Saturdays throughout the US. Dan enjoys speaking at both large and small conferences, and values the interactions he gets with attendees and other speakers.

In his spare time, he can be found writing his own software instead of using package solutions or on the ice as an ice hockey player and referee. 

Danica began her career as a software engineer in data visualization and warehousing with a business intelligence team where she served as a point-person for standards and best practices in data visualization across her company. In 2018, Danica moved to San Francisco and pivoted to backend engineering with a derivatives data team which was responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that processes millions of financial market data per second in near real-time. Her first project on this team involved Kafka Streams – she never looked back. Danica now works as a Developer Advocate with Confluent where she helps others get the most out of their event-driven pipelines. 

Outside of work, Danica is passionate about sustainability, increasing diversity in the technical community, and keeping her many houseplants alive. She can be found on Twitter, tweeting about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

Daniel is a Software Engineer at Particular Software, makers of NServiceBus, and a Microsoft MVP for Integration. He can bend minds and spoons with asynchronous programming and has contributed to many open-source projects.

In his free-time, Daniel enjoys weightlifting, dark-roasted coffee, playing with his son and writing more code. At least until midnight when his self-imposed router hack kicks in.

Dave is a semi-retired software development consultant (writing code *and* giving advice about it), with 37 years of professional experience in a wide variety of languages, systems, frameworks, techniques, domains, etc.  He is the T. Rex of Codosaurus, LLC (his one-person consulting firm, which explains how he can get such a cool title, at https://www.Codosaur.us/) near Washington, DC, USA.  His main focus in software lately is to spread the gospel of quality, including defining what that even means, and talking about techniques to achieve it.  In his spare time, he makes mead and teaches others how.

At age 9 little David found a book in Russian 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 20 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 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 

Dean Schuster has been envisioning and creating human-centered digital products since the advent of the commercial web. He is founder and owner of the user experience strategy firm truematter, leading the team to help national and international organizations change the way they do business online. He travels all over the world to speak and teach, mentoring professionals and challenging teams to a higher standard for digital experiences.

Dean is also an avid ultra-marathoner and trail racer, often found in out-of-the-way places, including Antarctica.

Dennie is Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies and has experience in accessibility with Microsoft technologies. In daily life Dennie is president and developer at DDSoft, a nonprofit that connects IT to People who are less tech-savvy. Dennie invented technical solutions and systems to help people with disabilities to participate in their daily life. Thanks to his autism he's the right man at the right spot to contribute as a volunteer in function of people with disabilities.

Dennis is a veteran architect in the .NET space with a special interest in writing clean code, Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and everything agile. He specializes in designing enterprise solutions based on the .NET technologies as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building and maintaining enterprise systems. He is the author of www.fluentassertions.com, a very popular .NET assertion framework, www.liquidprojections.net, a set of libraries for building Event Sourcing architectures and he has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# on www.csharpcodingguidelines.com since 2001. He also keeps a blog on his everlasting quest for better solutions at www.continuousimprover.com. You can reach him on twitter through @ddoomen.

Developer with kids. Geek entrepreneur. C# magician. Azure friendly. Founded Sessionize.com. Microsoft MVP. Loves to travel. Always looking for new dev challenges!

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.

Dror is a senior solution architect working at AWS. In his current role Dror assists companies migrate to the cloud and modernize their existing code. 
He has been writing software professionally for more than a decade, during which he has worked for industry giants such as Intel and SAP as well as small startup companies. He has extensive knowledge of many programming languages and platforms including C++, assembly, .NET (C#/VB) and Java. 
Dror is a Pluralsight author and public speaker. He is an expert in agile methodologies and software engineering practices. When not writing code, Dror mentors developers and conducts courses about clean code, unit testing and TDD.
In his blog (www.helpercode.com) Dror writes about programming languages, software development tools, clean code, cool programming languages and anything else he finds interesting.

Duncan is a principal frontend engineer for zware.com.au. He works with enterprise and government agencies helping build awesome frontend experiences. If he is not coding he is likely climbing a cliff somewhere around the world.

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.

Einar W. Høst has been a software developer for a long time. He is working as a socio-technical advisor at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. He enjoys collaborative modelling, API design and computer programming. Over the past ten years, he has done talks on a variety of topics, including hypermedia, resiliency, recursive art and lambda calculus. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

Einar has been building and breaking computer things since the mid 90s. Unable to stick to any single technology for long, he’s tinkered with anything from game development to network drivers. The last 9 years have been spent at VG (Norway’s biggest newspaper), where he’s currently Head of Security. Along with newsroom security, he’s contributed to advanced data investigations, immersive storytelling and tech innovation.

Eli has been in tech for 6 years, working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design; now, they're doing developer advocacy at Scaleway and yelling at the cloud. In their spare time, they like to play video games, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

Enrico is a freelance programmer, teacher and mentor with a strong passion for acquiring and sharing knowledge. If allowed, he'll happily talk for hours about software quality, the DevOps culture, the history of personal computing or mechanical keyboards. One topic he's particularly fond of is Git, which, as he discovered, combines two of his other great passions: the Unix philosophy and source code history.

When it comes to teaching, Enrico speaks regularly at conferences and user groups, delivers workshops and produces online courses for Pluralsight.

He occasionally manages to do some open source work by contributing to AutoFixture—a .NET library for generating test data during unit testing—and by maintaining Cake.Curl, an addin for Cake that lets you invoke curl from a build script.

Enrico can be found online on his website at 

Eric is a software engineer and team leader working to improve the state of software development and deployment by working on fundamental infrastructure tooling.

Erick Wendel is a professional content creator and Node.js core committer. He has given more than 100 tech talks in over 10 countries around the world. He's awarded with the most important awards in software development for JavaScript: Microsoft MVP, GoogleDevExpert, and GitHub Stars. He has trained more than 100K people around the world as a professional instructor and content producer at his own company https://erickwendel.com


After finishing a degree in physics and mathematics, Erik joined Blank to create websites as a full time career.

Erwin Staal is an Azure Architect and DevOps consultant working for Xpirit in the Netherlands. Helping companies deliver their software to customers using DevOps practices and cloud-native architectures is what he loves to do. He believes in the power of both the monolith and microservices and prefers to run his workload on the Azure Cloud and/or Kubernetes.
Besides the work he does for the customers of Xpirit, he has a passion for sharing knowledge. He is one of the authors of 'Azure Infrastructure as Code' (https://www.manning.com/books/azure-infrastructure-as-code), occasionally writes a blog, and is an international speaker at conferences.

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.

Hey there! I am a tech enthusiast, retro gamer, and general nerd. When I am not busy breaking stuff for fun, I can be found breaking stuff professionally at Capgemini. You also might find me restoring and modifying old video game systems, most notably Game Boys.

I believe in simple explanations and demos over slide-heavy presentations. Join my talks if you want to have a good time, get some free stickers, and maybe learn something new!

I put down whatever catches my attention on my blog, https://damn.engineer, and my Twitter account, @theEugeneRomero.


Ewelina Wilkosz is a DevOps Engineer at Kosli, responsible for Customer Success and Developer Relations. She began her career in tech as a web developer before moving into software development and from there to CI/CD consultancy. Ewelina served as a Jenkins governance board member and is a co-creator of the popular Jenkins Configuration as Code plugin. Based in Malmö, Ewelina enjoys exploring the great outdoors when she’s not developing software. 

Fawaz Ghali is a Developer Advocate at Hazelcast with 20+ years’ experience in software developments, machine learning and real-time intelligent applications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked in the private sector as well as Academia as a Researcher and Senior Lecturer. He has published over 46 scientific papers in the fields of machine learning and data science. His strengths and skills lie within the fields of low latency applications, IoT & Edge, distributed systems and cloud technologies.


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.

Filip is a maintainer of several popular open source projects, a Microsoft Quantum MVP and author of the academic textbook "Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK". He specializes in language tools, compilers and quantum computing. Filip is based in Zürich where he works in a medical industry.

With 24 years of experience, Frank Dahle is among Itera's most experienced designers. He discovered digital accessibility in 2008 while working on the national project eResept - Mine resepter. Since then, he's taken a particular interest in this part of the UX design profession. He frequently arranges internal accessibility learning events for his colleagues in Itera. Besides accessibility, he's specialized in designing complex case-handling systems. And yes, he can fly.

Glenn is a software engineer, tech speaker and workshop instructor with a passion for building innovative products and beautiful user interfaces using cutting edge web technologies and open source software such as React, GraphQL and TypeScript. Aside from tech, you’ll find him either traveling, on a road bike or playing the guitar.

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 20+ years he has co-owned two companies, worked as a consultant, manager, support tech, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favorite things are still swapping code for food and building stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives.

Graeme’s IT passion was first stirred with a 1Kb ZX81 in 1983 at 8 years old. He’s now had over 20 years of commercial experience using .Net, Javascript, Java, and VB, as well as writing Lisp neural networks at Uni and having Objective-C ios apps in the AppStore.

He is currently working at Bankwest helping teams to safely go faster.


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 runs his local JavaScript meetup in Ohio 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. In his spare time he likes to camp and studies history and linguistics.

Guy lives in Ohio with his wife, his sons, and an entire wall of board and role-playing games.

Often considered an instigator of controversy, Hackle advocates programming as a thinking game; he strives for simplicity and elegance, and enjoys sharing his learnings in pragmatic, idiomatic and accessible ways.


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.

Hans is a programmer and speaker with an interest in everything from electronic engineering to compiler development.
He regularly speaks at conferences about his Rust and Elixir work, and has been involved in the Rust community since 2015. He is a regular contributor to variety of open source Rust projects.

Platform Engineering at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) responsible for the NAIS platform. NAIS is an application platform built to increase development speed by providing our developers at NAV with the best possible tools to develop and run their applications.

Previously Chief Consultant and DevOps Practice Lead for TietoEVRY where I drove culture and competency building for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud Native practices internally and for customers in public government, telecom, banking and insurance sectors.

Open Source, DevOps, and Cloud Native evangelist. Member of the Node.js Foundation where I manage test and release of official Node.js versions and the official Docker Image for Node.js with 10M+ downloads.

Organiser of DevOps Bergen, Bergen NoSQL User Groups, and Co-Organiser of the DevOps Days Oslo Conference. I speak at various other local, and national, user groups and conferences on Open Source, open data, Cloud Native, and other new and exciting technologies and practices.

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.

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

Azure, Check! Power Platform, Check! Not only am I a geek on technology, helping others is what thrives me!
From low-code and fusion-dev to process management and more.

Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, Software Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer, always in a quest for latest trends and best practices in architecture, .NET and the world around it.

Irina has more than 1000 hours of delivered trainings, workshops, and presentations, being passionate about .NET and the world around it.

She is the founder of DotNet Iasi User Group where she tries to gather people that are willing to share their knowledge with others, and from time to time publishes articles on her blog: http://irina.codes


Isaac Levin is a .NET Developer Advocate as well as a Microsoft MVP. He has over 10 years of experience working as a developer for the web, mostly in the Microsoft Ecosystem. Outside of work, he hosts a podcast called Coffee and Open Source where he interviews folks from across the tech industry as well as builds open-source projects like PresenceLight and GitHub Stat Tracker. He lives outside of Seattle Washington and likes to wind down from work with his wife Ariana and his 2 children Isaac and Avery.

I am Ivette and in fact my world is very different from developers. I am just a mother of a son with autism. In 2018 my world has opened. I was a guest at NDC Oslo and I saw Dennie for the first time of my life how he really is in his world. This opened my mind! 
My dream is to help people with autism and developer’s who are going over their boundaries for any reason. Also I am very spiritual and want to tell the world how we can help people with love and understanding. 


Jake is a Principal Consultant at Arkahna, a cloud native consulting company focused on Azure with a unique, outcome-focused engagement model that partners with customers in a new way to deliver results, Jake brings a wealth of experience to the table, previously Seven West Media building their new digital news platform.
In addition to his consulting experience Jake is passionate about OSS Software, Teaching and Speaking at conferences, playing Ice Hockey and raising his amazing little girl.

Jakob Ehn works as a Cloud architecture and DevOps specialist at Active Solution. For more than 20 years, has has been building software solutions, educating developers and teams on Microsoft technologies through training, books, and conference talks. 

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, Techorama, DevSum, CloudBrew, UpdateConf and SweTugg. 


Jamie Wright is a maker of internet things with a love/hate relationship for Redbull™, standing desks, and paintball guns. He has a love only relationship with teaching, learning, and building bots. Jamie runs Tatsu, a software bot that helps teams save time by performing standup meetings over Slack.

Developer with occasional strays to the security side for 20+ years, for the most part on the JVM.

Jason Taylor is a solution architect, trainer, mentor, and full stack developer with over 20 years of experience. Currently, he specializes in developing, testing, and deploying custom applications to the cloud utilizing .NET, Angular, Blazor, and Azure. Jason loves a challenge and is skilled at progressing from a simple proposal into a well-defined, coded, and tested solution.

Jeff French is a DevOps engineer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He has a passion for automation and has expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure.

Jeff has worked on a variety of projects, from small startups to large enterprises, and has a track record of successfully implementing and maintaining DevOps practices. He is skilled at building and managing Kubernetes clusters, and has extensive experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.

 Jeff is the CEO of Moonswitch, a DevOps and Cloud Migration consulting firm focusing on implementing solutions based on Kubernetes. He has led the migration of several legacy systems to Kubernetes and has helped to establish a GitOps workflow using the Flux GitOps framework.

Jeff is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups, and is known for his engaging and informative presentations on DevOps and cloud infrastructure. He is an active member of the Oklahoma city tech community and is always looking for opportunities to share his knowledge and experience with others.

I have been working as a tester in the consultancy firm Itera in Oslo, Norway for the past three years. During those three years I have worked on different projects for a variety of customers. Currently I am working for a large customer in the financial sector where I am hired as a technical tester for one of their core systems. Here I mainly work with implementing synthetic testdata, API-testing and test automation.

Jeremy Miller is the Senior Director of Software Architecture at MedeAnalytics. Jeremy began his software career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his tedious engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is heavily involved in open source .NET development as the the lead developer of Marten, Lamar, Alba, and other projects in the JasperFx family. Jeremy occasionally manages to write about various software topics at http://jeremydmiller.com.

Jernej Kavka (JK) is a Microsoft AI MVP, SSW Solution Architect, and organizer of several user groups like AI Hack Days and Global AI The Podcast. JK is a full-stack .NET developer, but his passion lies in Azure Cognitive Services, AI and machine learning. He is the main architect behind SSW's virtual receptionist - SophieAI: https://sswsophie.com

He is also very active in the developer community and enjoys speaking at conferences like NDC, DDD, as well as User Groups and Hack Days.

Jessica is Product Area Lead for Engineering Enablement at Kognic, providing products and services for internal development teams. Jessica is also a CNCF Ambassador and engaged in the Nordic and local Meetup communities, as an attendee, speaker and organiser.

Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He is also an investor/advisor for Nucleus Security, BitDiscovery, SecureCircle, and Inspectiv. Jim is a frequent speaker on software security practices, is a member of the Java Champion community, and is the author of "Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications" from Oracle Press. Jim also volunteers for the OWASP foundation as the project lead for the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard and the OWASP Cheatsheet Series. For more information, see 

Joakim Vindenes is an XR enthusiast looking to leverage the potential of Immersive Technologies. His background comes from the University of Bergen where he delivered his PhD dissertation in Information Science focusing on VR UX. Here, he also taught VR design and development as Asst. Professor. Joakim now works as an XR developer in Equinor, working on simulations and digital twins.

25 years + experience in IT. From the age of 15. Ongoing interest to learn and understand the latest trends in modern multi-cloud architectures.

As a people person, my social skills are an asset to serve customers as well as my co-workers.
Being a multi-linguist help dealing with different cultures globally.

I love to inspire others and transfer my knowledge to people at all levels. 
Experienced speaker and trainer internationally.

- Passionate about creating a future of digital transformation
- Driven to learn and stay up to date with the latest IT trends
- Experience in building multiple cloud platforms
- Focused on increasing developer productivity
- Customer obsessed, going above and beyond to the point of 100% customer satisfaction

Jonas is an editorial developer and designer at VG. He’s got 20+ years of experience designing and building everything from large scale web applications to immersive digital storytelling. For the past ten years he has primarily focused on the latter, and is a firm believer that all designers should know how to code.

The data and culture guy. Currently leading the big data platform group @ Wix.com.
Josef has over a decade of experience building data intensive SaaS applications and growing the awesome teams that make them.
He believes that the secret sauce for creating sustainable complex systems is good design practices, effective communication between people, and automating everything. On his day to day work he works tirelessly on building the culture necessary to support these values and propagate them to others, one pep-talk at a time.

Initially from a communications background, Josefine got into frontend development in her late twenties by joining a coding boot camp. After working as a front-end developer for two years, she now combines her curiosity for tech with her experience in marketing and communications and works as a Developer Relations Engineer at Storyblok. She is a Girl Code ambassador, passionate about all things web accessibility and coding communities. 

Joe Guadagno is a Senior Director of Engineering at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, which is based in Detroit, Michigan. He has been writing software for over 20 years, has been an active member of the .NET community,
serving on the .NET Foundation Board of Directors and has been a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than 13 years. At Rocket Mortgage, I lead three software development teams building and modernizing our internal services. He has spoken through the United States and at international events on topics ranging from Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure, Ionic, Bootstrap, and many others. You can see the complete list at https://www.josephguadagno.net/presentations. When not sitting at a computer Joe loves to hang out with his family and play games. When not playing games with the family, Joe is checking out the latest in Home Automation. You can connect with Joe on Twitter at @jguadagno, Facebook at JosephGuadagnoNet, and on his blog at https://www.josephguadagno.net.

Kari Meling Johannessen is 3 years (almost) into her professional career as a as a full stack system developer at Norkart. In 2020, she graduated with a master’s degree in geomatics and ICT. This fall, Kari will be leading a new team responsible for Norkart’s Frontend Monorepo platform. 

Kesha Williams is an award-winning technology leader teaching others how to transform their lives through technology. She has 25+ years of experience architecting, designing, and building enterprise web applications. Her passions include teaching cloud topics and leading software engineering teams. Kesha holds multiple AWS certifications and is recognized as an AWS Machine Learning Hero, Alexa Champion, AWS Ambassador, and HackerRank All-Star. She currently serves as the Program Director of Slalom's Cloud Residency and on the Board of Directors for Women in Voice.

Kevin Griffin is an author, teacher, mentor, and consultant focusing in software development.  He is also a 12-time Microsoft MVP, specializing in ASP.NET and web development.  As the owner of Swift Kick, a software training and services company, Kevin specializes in helping businesses push their technology stacks into the 21st century.   You can often find Kevin speaking at conferences and user groups across the country or blogging at https://consultwithgriff.com.

Kimberley is a law student at the University of Ottawa and an analyst for the Canadian government. Her research focuses on ethical technologies and the application of legal concepts in digital environments. As part of her work with the government, she has conducted foresight projects on financial technologies. Kimberley co-founded the Engineering Toolkit, a database that promotes the inclusion of equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering research. She is involved with the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, Engineers Canada and IEEE and is on the board of directors of the Community-Based Research Center. Kimberley holds a BASc in Computer Engineering.

Kitty Toft has a bachelor's degree in "Interactive Media - Game Design" and works at Tietoevry as a UX designer. Kitty started working with design in 2017 with user experience within different sectors like hospitality, payroll, and the public sector. Kitty has a passion for UX/UI design and design systems. Her primary tool is Figma, and she has experience with multiple design systems and design profiles within the projects she has been a part of.



Kjersti is a frontend developer, curious and forward thinking. She's a firm believer in sharing knowledge and practice as the way to become a better developer, team and organization.

I'm Kris, I live in Norway, love coding and spreading love for cats in presentations😼 Currently I am working as a Software Architect and driving several exciting tech projects that support digitalization journey in public and private sector, minimizing bureaucracy and making citizens' life easier.

As a person I love learning new things and sharing my journey and experiences with others. My biggest passion is tech and my goal is to inspire other developers to code with sustainability and security in mind by spreading my knowledge and experience. My goal is also to be a female coder role model that can inspire and motivate all the beautiful girls and ladies out there to join the world of tech! 💖

I also strongly believe that contributing to making this world a better place by volunteering is something all of us should consider doing, therefore being a volunteer is a big part of my life. Other than that, I'm a cat mom, a Potterhead, a Witcher fan and a bookworm. I love books, photography, puzzles, board games, hiking, cats and unicorns. I am also an active supporter of sustainability, including sustainable software engineering, and animal welfare.

NDC { Oslo }

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