Name: NDC Oslo 2025
Start: 2025-05-19
End: 2025-05-23
Location: NDC Oslo

Alex Shershebnev is a seasoned Computer Vision and MLOps Engineer with over nine years of experience shaping the future of AI-driven software development. Currently, Alex leads the ML/DevOps team at Zencoder, where he leverages his extensive background in Software Engineering, ML and DevOps to deliver high-quality machine learning solutions. His work spans complex data pipelines, cloud infrastructure management (GCP, Kubernetes), and advanced ML/DevOps pipelines, ensuring scalability and efficiency. Before Zencoder, Alex played pivotal roles in numerous projects, including leading teams at Sanas, ivi and MTS AI. His technical expertise in machine learning, data science, and bioinformatics has led to impactful solutions across industries, ranging from bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts to video analysis at ivi.ru and MTS AI. Alex has a proven track record of managing complex infrastructure that scales to hundreds of GPUs, enabling effective and easy use of cloud infrastructure for data scientists while driving down costs through cloud consolidation efforts and boosting productivity through the deployment of sophisticated AI models. In addition to his technical contributions, Alex has been instrumental in mentoring teams and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. His deep understanding of AI systems, from developing recommendation engines to cutting-edge computer vision algorithms to voice and NLP, positions him as a thought leader in the AI and ML space. Whether it’s speaking on the latest advancements in MLOps, sharing insights on AI-driven automation, or discussing the future of AI in the enterprise, Alex brings a wealth of knowledge, practical experience, and a passion for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

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

Agata specializes in the practical application of AI to solve real-world challenges. Currently, she holds the roles of CTO and AI Solutions Architect at the Hamburg-based AI consulting company theBlue.ai. With over 8 years of professional experience in AI and data-related fields, Agata has developed AI-based solutions for a diverse range of clients, from emerging startups to global companies. 

Ahlam is a software developer currently working for team reiseinfo at Ruter. Other than making sure that people are fined when they're caught without a valid ticket (I'm terribly sorry), she enjoys bouldering during her freetime (even though she's kinda scared of heights).



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

Alexander is an experienced technology leader and frontend expert with nearly 30 years of experience in technology development and leadership. Throughout his career, Alexander has led cross-functional teams in complex projects, combining technical expertise with strategic leadership. His leadership style values continuous learning, innovation, and fostering a culture that supports both professional growth and personal well-being.

Alexander is known for his innovative mindset and ability to challenge the status quo. He strongly believes that long-term value creation in the technology industry requires a combination of strategic thinking, professional competence, and a human-centric approach.

In addition to his technology career, he is a passionate advocate for open source and continuously explores emerging technologies.

He is available as a speaker and advisor for those seeking to build sustainable, technology-driven organizations.

Amy is a business owner,  senior developer, mentor and international conference speaker. She has a passion for sharing knowledge with the community with a focus on nurturing the next generation of developers. This has led to her organising and volunteering at events, running technical workshops, and writing and producing her own video content. She also regularly presents and keynotes at events all over the world, informing and entertaining audiences from a variety of industries and backgrounds.

A familiar face in the developer community Amy volunteers her time with several groups, including DDD Perth as Vice Chair and Director of Conference Content, Perth Azure User Group as one of the organising team and She Codes as a regular mentor. These contributions are not unnoticed, as she’s been recognised as a Microsoft MVP and a Twilio Champion since 2019 for her contributions to the tech community and ongoing commitment to helping those around her.

Anders Abel is an senior .NET developer in Stockholm. He has been programming since he was 9 and still thinks it’s tremendously fun. He works with Duende Software on IdentityServer and designing identity and security solutions.

Anders Norås first trained in arts and design, but for the past 25 years, he’s been creating magic with code instead of paint. Combining creativity with technical expertise, Anders offers a unique perspective on the tech world—one that’s as much about people as it is about pixels.

With over 100 conference talks to his name, Anders has spoken at events across the globe. His presentations aren’t just talks—they’re experiences. Known for his dynamic energy and sharp delivery, Anders has a talent for transforming even the driest technical topics into something engaging, memorable, and often hilarious.

Whether you’re a design enthusiast, a media professional, or a hardcore computer science purist, Anders has insights that will make you think—and probably laugh. He doesn’t just discuss technology; he brings it to life.

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

Anshika has 10 years experience developing software at Posten Bring - Norwegian National Postal Service, building logistics systems and APIs that enable millions of people in the Nordics to order and receive packages. She values studying users, and fostering cross-departmental collaboration to demystify unruly business rules. A typical day at work involves climbing stairs to the 17th floor of Posten Bring’s towering headquarters in the heart of Oslo, where she will transform whiteboard scribbles into deployed features. Off-duty you'll find her chasing sunsets and culinary adventures, sampling flavours from around the globe.

Arthur (or Art, take your pick) has been a software engineer for 20 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.

Aurora Scharff is a software developer and Microsoft MVP from Norway with a bachelor's degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems. She has a solid foundation in engineering mathematics, robotics, algorithms, data structures, and computer architecture. Aurora began her career at a financial technology startup and now serves as a consultant at Crayon Consulting. She focuses on web development and has extensive experience in React and Next.js and active use of React Server Components.

Aurora shares her knowledge through workshops, technical blog posts, social media, demo applications, and supporting fellow developers, and she regularly presents internationally at recognized conferences to contribute to the global developer community.

Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter, teacher, and author, and he is an active member of the open source community. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Aydin Mir Mohammadi, partner and architect at bluehands, has been creating software for more than twenty years. He specializes in the development of distributed complex business applications based on Microsoft technologies. 

Aydin is co-initiator of the .NET User Group Karlsruhe, organizer of the Green Software Development Karlsruhe and host of the #nossued Open Space. He is also involved in the training of young software developers as a lecturer at the Karlsruhe Cooperative State University.


I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Kubernetes enthusiast with extensive experience in ensuring complex systems' reliability, scalability, and performance. I specialize in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, optimizing infrastructure, and automating processes.

With a strong foundation in SRE principles and DevOps practices, I thrive in fast-paced environments and am committed to continuous learning and innovation. I am also an active contributor to the tech community, sharing my knowledge through talks and workshops.


Barry is a veteran Architect who has held Chief Architect positions at Microsoft among others. 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. 

Bodil Ibrahim has extensive experience with the development of the Trumf loyalty program and held the role of Product Owner for Trumf Pay during the development and launch of the mobile payment solution. 

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

Callum Whyte is a x5 Microsoft MVP and x7 Umbraco MVP specialising in building robust scalable solutions on Azure and the .NET stack, as well as websites with the open-source Umbraco CMS. By day he heads up the award-winning team at Bump, across the UK and Australia.

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”!

Cecilia Wirén senior developer at Active Solution with over two decades of experience in the world of Microsoft development. Her accomplishments have been recognized multiple times with the Microsoft MVP award. Cecilia is often invited to share her insights at conferences and user group meetings.

During Cecilia's journey she has specialized in several areas, including Security and DevOps. Now, the field of artificial intelligence has become her new favorite topic.

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 Ayers is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Microsoft’s AzRel Risk SRE team, drawing on years of experience in cloud architecture, software development, and DevOps practices. He’s passionate about continuous improvement, driving reliability, and sharing industry best practices. Outside of work, Chris is a devoted father, technology enthusiast, and avid gamer. Connect with him online to explore insights into cloud operations, agile methodologies, and more.

Christian is a freelance fullstack developer and Microsoft MVP writing code in languages like Java, Kotlin, Typescript and Javascript. He's been working as a software engineer since over a decade. He loves learning from others and sharing his knowledge.

Christina Aldan is a brand strategy consultant, keynote speaker, trainer, and mentor. She offers businesses brand consulting and creative content for everyday media. With over 18 years of experience in the digital realm, Christina is highly regarded for her approach to business, partnering with clients to find unique strategies that ensure their goals are met. Christina builds connections through her keynote addresses, training workshops, and technological education. She uses these tools to help individuals and businesses cultivate value in everyday media. Christina has delivered talks on all 7 continents, presenting training workshops for the Microsoft MVP community, international corporations, and conferences worldwide. Christina uses her charisma and expertise to inspire others by mentoring women in business like herself. She also has sat on state and local boards supporting women in tech, entrepreneurship, mental health, and children with learning disabilities.

She is the recipient of the Las Vegas Women in Tech Community Service Award, the Distinguished Woman of the Year Award in STEM. Learn more at: Luckygirliegirl.com.

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

As a distinguished Microsoft MVP and software maestro at Particular Software, Daniel Marbach knows a thing or two about code. By day, he's a devoted .NET crusader, espousing the virtues of message-based systems. By night? He's racing against his own mischievous router hack, committing a bevy of performance improvements before the clock strikes midnight.

Raniz is a programmer, architect, speaker and coach at factor10. He is a problem solver who keeps track of the bigger picture. He is prestigeless, likes to get into new domains, and loves sharing knowledge and ideas. Raniz has worked with system- and software architecture at several companies since 2010 and has been with factor10 since 2021. When not working he's into beer brewing, sourdough bread, 3D printing and triathlons.

Darrel is currently the Orion Flight Software System Manager at NASA, Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has over 40 years experience in Commercial, Department of Defense, and NASA aircraft/spacecraft software. He has worked on software for the F-16, OV-1, AHIP, Space Station, Space Shuttle, and the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion). He has worked with embedded software control systems his whole career.

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

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

Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 28 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise solutions based on .NET as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building, documenting, deploying and maintaining software systems in an agile world. He is the author of several open-source projects, including Fluent Assertions, Pathy, Reflectify, PackageGuard and Liquid Projections, and has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# since 2001. You can find him on Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky.

Diana is GitHub’s Head of Design, where she and her team strive to deliver a developer experience that empowers and transforms the world of software development. Diana oversees Product Design, Design Infrastructure, Brand and Marketing Design, Customer Research, and Design Engineering. Her team is responsible for the end-to-end user experience of GitHub's products and features—such as Pull Requests, Actions, and Copilot—as well as brand direction for marketing campaigns and key events such as GitHub Universe.

Karoline Josefine, known by her stage name KAAFIKE, is an energetic and versatile female DJ, music enthusiast, vocalist, and producer who has established herself as a prominent figure in the music industry. Over the past eight years, her impressive career, combined with her passion behind the decks, deep commitment to her craft, and unique, positive presence, has generated great enthusiasm among audiences nationwide. In addition to performing as a warm-up DJ for well-known names such as Kris Winther, Staysman, Olav Haust, and Marco Chili, she has established successful collaborations with leading industry players and agencies, and has played at numerous renowned clubs and festivals in Norway. With her infectious energy, this talented artist is ready to create an unforgettable atmosphere for any occasion.

Open-source contributor
SWE @ Uno Platform 
.NET & Flutter dev - Storylines, Recurrents 
A little bit of a gamer 🎮

Dora is a lead product designer with over 17 years of professional experience in design, product delivery and management. In all roles, her goal is to ensure that the processes run smoothly and that her colleagues receive all possible support.

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

Experienced software developer/architect, international speaker, and Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, with a strong focus on creating maintainable software that solves real business problems in the cloud and on-prem, using techniques and practices 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#.

Egil has worked with many technology stacks and architectural patterns throughout his career. He is now primarily focused on the .NET ecosystem, including backend and front-end technologies, and developing solutions running in the cloud.

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

Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 7 years ago. They've spent their time working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design to developer advocacy, continually getting nerd-sniped along the way. These days, they work at the Bennett Institute as a Research Software Advocate, helping to build the next generation of healthcare research tooling. In their spare time, they like to go bouldering, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

About me:
Worked as a developer for many years, but sadly not a lot of time left for coding now.
I spend most of my days supporting the team and working long term on our technical and resource strategy.
On occasions lucky to share my experience with a wider audience, such as this.


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

Software developer at Nav, where i mostly work with frontend on Nav's survivor's pension. 

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

Hi 👋 my name is Erik. I’m a software developer living and working in Minneapolis as a full-stack developer working with the cloud. I’m the author of the https://excaliburjs.com open source project. I love teaching, cooking, making games, and running long distances. And sometimes I can give a talk and chew bubble gum at the same time.

Espen is a lead software engineer and tech lead for a robotics warehouse automation team at Element Logic. Passionate about improving developer experience, he helps teams deliver value efficiently and enjoy their work, guided by the principle: "If something is painful, change it." With a strong background in .NET and React, and expertise in software architecture, Espen brings practical insights from building complex systems and simplifying them to deliver real impact. He has also published research on neural networks and is excited to share lessons learned as a first-time speaker at NDC Oslo.

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.

I’m a Software Engineer in Test with a passion for both quality and development. After years in QA, I embraced the world of software engineering and have fully immersed myself in the .NET ecosystem.

Currently, I’m expanding my skills at Radancy, where I combine my my testing background with development, automating complex workflows and creating reliable, high-performance software. It’s not just about writing code — it’s about problem-solving, collaboration, and growing alongside a community of passionate developers.

Let’s connect and share ideas!

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and over 20 Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, Microsoft MVP for 11 years in a row. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master all things C# and .NET.

Filip is a dual Microsoft MVP (Azure AI Services / Azure Innovation Hub), author of the academic textbook "Introduction to Quantum Computing with Q# and QDK” and an open source contributor. He specializes in cloud technologies, quantum computing and AI workflows. Filip is based in Zürich where he works in the medical industry as a Cloud Architect.

François Martin is a senior full stack software engineer at Karakun AG, living in Switzerland. He is an active open source contributor and co-author of the two open source JavaFX frameworks WorkbenchFX and PreferencesFX, an active member of the Swiss Testing Board and he participates in the working group of Advanced and Expert level at ISTQB. He is also a co-author of the ISTQB Test Analyst v4.0 and upcoming Security Test Analyst syllabus.

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.

Architect at Storebrand by day. Making a better society by night. Transparency, openness, and evaluating security and privacy in various systems. Managing Norway's largest database of public records, covering 686 authorities. Holding power to account.


Halvor Sakshaug is involved in everything AppSec at PG Forsta. His main interests are Content Security Policy (and everything else that can protect the client), bug bounties, teaching security, and looking for vulnerabilities.

In his spare time he does real debugging by helping people get rid of silverfish.

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

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


Ivett Ördög is a public speaker and the creator of Lean Poker, a gamified DevOps training tool that teaches agile, lean and continuous deployment practices to developers. She is based in Bavaria, Germany and has over 25 years of professional experience in software development and 15 in leadership. She is passionate about innovation, collaboration and learning, and enjoys sharing her knowledge and insights with others. 

Jacqui Read is a keynote speaker, an internationally-recognised solution and enterprise architect, and author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects. She teaches public and private workshops and speaks at international conferences on topics such as architecture practices, systems design, and technical communication. Jacqui specialises in untangling and extracting value from data and knowledge, helping businesses to determine direction in complex environments.

Her professional interests include collaborative modelling, knowledge management, Domain-Driven Design, sociotechnical architecture, and modernising enterprise architecture practices. Outside of work she enjoys gardening and strumming her ukulele while singing at the same time. Her website is [https://jacquiread.com](https://jacquiread.com).

Jakob is a life-long nerd who's interested in most things 🤓

He spends his day learning from his colleagues at Variant, where he's a developer and consultant. He primarily focuses on frontend development, but enjoys diving into other parts of the stack from time to time.

Jakob has a passion for teaching and loves the challenge of communicating complex topics in an entertaining and understandable way, something he aspires to show in his talks!

James Eastham is a Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog and a Microsoft MVP. He has over 10 years of software experience at all layers of the software development process and has spoken at conferences all over the world.

He answered phones in front-line support, administered databases, and built SSIS packages, as well as developed cloud-native backends with serverless technologies. He spent time at AWS working with some of the biggest companies on the planet, migrating workloads from data centers into the cloud and modernizing in the process.

James produces content on YouTube focused on architecting and building applications with serverless technologies using .NET and Rust. He also has a strong interest in and expertise in event-driven architecture and building more loosely coupled systems.

Jerry Nixon is a Microsoft SQL Server Principal Product Manager on the Developer Experiences team, championing Data API builder. With more than two decades of experience, Jerry is an engineer at heart. He teaches Computer Science at university and speaks at events worldwide. Over the years, he has trained thousands of developers, but today, he focuses on software simplicity, intuitive tooling, and excellence in data-driven apps. You'll find him talking about quantum computing, design patterns, machine learning, and—on occasion—SQL Server, the finest of them all. He lives in Colorado, and while most of his days revolve around Outlook, Visual Studio, and online Docs, what he enjoys most is teaching his three daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.

Jimmy is the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR, and the originator of Vertical Slice Architecture. Jimmy is an independent software consultant based in Austin, TX. Jimmy has received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award every year since 2009.

Jo Minney is a small business founder and technical communicator based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia. She is passionate about user experience, data-driven decision making, cats and travel – not necessarily in that order. She’s also an avid maker, from 3D printing to sewing to woodworking, and loves combining technology and creativity to make cool stuff and encouraging others to do the same.

By day, you’ll find Jo working with charities and NGOs helping them to create bespoke digital platforms through her microagency. You might also find her donating her time via the Mission Digital program to help tackle social issues (such as gender inequality, domestic violence and global poverty) through the use of technology, or freelancing as a Nielsen Norman certified user experience research consultant.

Jo has provided advice and training to hundreds of Aussie small business owners on all things digital, with a special focus on website creation and management through federally funded workshops and programs. She is also an ambassador, sponsor and lead mentor for She Codes Australia, a social enterprise that aims to make tech jobs more accessible for women, and a past winner of the Women in Tech WA Shining Star award for Advocacy, Community and Volunteering. An accomplished international conference speaker, Jo can regularly be found with a microphone in hand speaking about user experience, accessibility, imposter syndrome, closing the gender gap and pockets.

Joakim has worked as a Consultant and Web developer for several Norwegian Organizations, the last 3 years at Avinor. With a main focus on C# and React, but lately also Blazor and Generative AI. 

Jodi Jones is a managing consultant at Lean TECHniques, where she specializes in product management and delivery. She is an accomplished IT professional with a proven track record leading software development teams with a focus on improving product development and delivery using agile techniques. Her background includes software development and delivery, project leadership, team leadership, and coaching. 

Jodi is a change enthusiast with a passion to make organizations and the technology community a great place to work for technology professionals. She has been a central figure in the Des Moines tech scene and has done invaluable work in organizing events, user groups and conferences. She organizes the DevOpsDays Des Moines and Agile Iowa conference and helped plan the DevOpsDays Global Organizer summit.

Co-Author of 'Coaching for Learning; the Art and Practice' and 'Create Your Dojo; Upskilling Your Organization for Digital Evolution,' Joel helps organizations evolve through learning.  This combines a blend of XP, agile, lean, devops and product thinking practices all to embrace learning in the context of work.

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

John Inge is an Enterprise Agile Coach with more than 15 years of experience in agile working methods and organisations. He started as a developer with an interest in methodology in architectural work, and has taken further education in psychology, professional coaching, and leadership development. He now works as a mentor and coach for leaders, teams, and agile coaches, in addition to running trainings and workshops. John Inge leads Distilled's coaching and coursework.

I believe in collaborative software design where *‘every voice shapes the software’*.  Leveraging a domain-driven design approach with Team Topologies, I facilitate clearer communication between stakeholders and software creators by collaborative modelling and deep democracy, decoding complexities, resolving conflicts and ensuring software remains agile to business demands.

As an independent software consultant and trainer, I specialise in technical leadership, software architecture, and sociotechnical system design. I work with organisations and teams to design and build sustainable and resilient software architecture.

Kristian has been programming since a young age and has been a full-time developer since 2012. He is currently a Team Lead at Storebrand.

Balancing work and family commitments, he still finds time for hobbies like game programming and Dungeons & Dragons.

Dr. Kyle Kotowick is the founder of a Canadian consulting and development firm focusing on cloud infrastructure, security, and Internet-of-Things implementations for high-growth clients. He completed his Ph.D. in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, joint with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has served as a consultant, systems architect, and developer for global firms, startups, and universities; as a project lead for military medical and communication technology; and as a researcher for military navigation systems and for life support systems in space. He specializes in working with both startups and 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.

I work on the Nais application plattform at Nav.

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

Lars is a dev lead and developer at Norkart. He likes expressive code that he can trust to work as expected, drawing inspiration from domain-driven design and functional programming. At work he gets to deep dive into tax calculations and geospatial problems while writing functional F# code for a living. He tries to be a morning person every December for the annual Advent of Code.

Layla is a Microsoft MVP, Progress Champion, 3 times GitHub Star, and former director on the board at the .NET Foundation.
She is the co-founder of November North, a micro-game studio, developing and producing a first-person stealth game code-named "HorroTown".
Layla is passionate about .NET, enterprise software development, and system architecture. She has recently started bringing those architecture concepts into game development, live coding Unity game development on Twitch.
Layla lives in the UK with her husband Jim and dogs Lily and Cookie.

With a lifelong passion for the weirdness of the internet and a day job as the Front End Development Director for Savas Labs, Lemon spends his professional time making websites for money and his free time making websites for no money.

He's created a number of stupid things for the internet, like all the games on kinda.fun, the wikiHow game damn.dog, the Google Autocomplete game idiots.win, and a bunch of other things of questionable use. 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.

Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups. 

In her current role, she is focused on observability, shared platforms, and building excellent teams by setting reliability vision & strategy across The Times, improving our observability footprint, and cultivating culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first. She shows care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea. 

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

Mackenzie is a developer advocate with a passion for DevOps and code security. As the co-founder and former CTO of a health tech startup, he learnt first-hand how critical it is to build secure applications with robust developer operations. 
Today as the Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, Mackenzie is able to share his passion for code security with developers and works closely with research teams to show how malicious actors discover and exploit vulnerabilities in code. 


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


Malte is a passionate machine learning engineer working for Norkart, operating in the geospatial domain. Through various projects for big Norwegian companies, he has gathered in-depth knowledge about data engineering, machine learning and MLOps.

In addition to diving deep into the technicalities, Malte enjoys sharing knowledge and holding talks at various conferences. Since starting his career he has held workshops and talks at several international conferences, and he will continue doing exactly that until a global pandemic stops him. If a global pandemic even can stop him!

Marcel Britsch is an independent Digital Consultant, Product Owner and Agile Transformation specialist. Born in Germany, he has been living and working in London for over 20 years. He has worked with creatively and technically focused agencies and clients across retail, conservation, automotive, finance, healthcare and energy.
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 is a regular speaker at conferences, blogs at www.thedigitalbusinessanalyst.com, co-hosts the https://www.theburnup.com podcast about 'all things agile', and can be found at https://www.beautifulabstraction.com.

I'm a CTO of a software house, a hands-on architect, and a Trainer with 18 years of experience mainly in the Java world. I've spent a lot of time mentoring developers and leading teams, with a big focus on creating sustainable solutions - systems that will last for many years. This set me on the path of learning about Software Craftsmanship, Domain-Driven Design, and code quality early on.

Over my career, I've completed many small and large projects that work in production, interviewed developers, handled communication with customers, helped design Architecture for entire systems and delivered them, and introduced many technologies proven in production.

I've trained hundreds (400+) of people in modern architecture and testing. I like to share my knowledge at conferences related to software development.


Marianne Wahlstrøm is CEO at Novanet. I began my journey as a developer in 2001, and since then, have gained valuable experience working in both software development and leadership roles. I am an advocate of servant leadership philosophy, and have a particular interest in self-leadership, as I believe it is essential for individuals to take control of their own career and life.

Mark Erikson is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay, and lives in southwest Ohio, USA.  Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs.  He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there's a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.

Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.

Martin Ertsås is a software developer working for Cisco Systems in Norway on their Colaboration Video Endpoints.

Martin views himself as a code monkey, enjoying the weird parts of C++, Linux and Security. He enjoys digging through new code to figure out how it works, and spending time improving tools to increate the happiness and workflow of the people he works with.

While not working, Martin loves creating and playing out stories in role playing games, especially Dungeons and Dragons. Or grabbing a tent and running out into the woods with his wife to escape from the fast pace of everyday life.

I am an ex-developer, now working as a Senior Penetration tester and security advisor at the Police IT Unit(PIT) in Norway. I am one of the leaders of PIT's Security Champions, focusing on imparting security concepts through hands-on training and engaging presentations. I also lead PIT's after-work hacking team, Abyss. I travel to schools where I talk about a career in IT with a special focus on a job role in cybersecurity. I also holds talks, training and presentations for public & private cooperation focusing on cybersecurity for both technical and non-technical staff.

Martin is a technical advisor and leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in the field.

Martin's helps organizations bridge the communication gap between tech and business by guiding and inspiring people. Over his long tenure as a consultant, he has worked with organizations of different sizes and industries, taking on many different roles. This has given him a unique perspective on software, people, and organizations that he leverages today to help teams deliver products customers love.

Ultimately, Martin believes technology is a powerful tool and is passionate about wielding it in a way that positively impacts the world.

Martin has 20+ years of experience within development and design, but turned to product management by chance. He and his team is currently responsible for all digital initiatives in SKAGEN Fondene, a Storebrand brand.

Mathilde is the head of AI at Norkart. She has a broad experience in applied AI, and she enjoys sharing her vision and inspiring audiences at the intersection of geospatial data and artificial intelligence.

Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile and web developer, trainer, speaker, and author of 14 books, including latest titles "Hacking Web Performance" (O'Reilly Media) and "Learn PWA!" (Google). A frequent speaker at international conferences, he's a recognized figure in the mobile and web community. Maximiliano has created over 35 web and app development courses for platforms like Frontend Masters, Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, and teaches workshops on a range of topics including mobile (Android, iOS), web app development, performance, and applied AI.

Gosia is a full-stack developer specialising in .NET and React, with a knack for test automation, DevOps and building reliable, user-friendly applications. After graduating in Automatic Control and Robotics, she discovered her passion for programming and hasn’t looked back since.

When she’s not coding, Gosia is a mom, a painter, and a piano beginner. She’s a lifelong learner who loves solving problems and sharing her discoveries with others. Whether you know her as a developer, a friend, a colleague, or just “hey, you!”, Gosia brings curiosity and creativity to everything she does.

Mesut brings over 15 years of expertise across Industrial Automation, IoT, SaaS/PaaS, Cloud Services, the Defense Industry, Autonomous
Mobile Robots, and Embedded Software.
Skilled in CMMI, Scrum, and PMP methodologies, he has held key roles, including Quality Owner, Hiring Manager, and Chapter Lead, in multinational projects. Mesut specializes in test automation and CI/CD integration for continuous testing, alongside establishing test strategies and overseeing the testing lifecycle to ensure high-quality project outcomes.


I’m a Software Engineer and a Developer Advocate at Google in London. I build tools, demos, tutorials, and give talks to educate and help developers to be successful on Google Cloud.

Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer and a public speaker who brings Star Wars geekery to everything she does. 
As a Backend Developer, Mey has developed in multiple programming languages, including Nodejs, Python, Groovy, and her favorite, Clojure.
Today Mey is a Senior Platform Engineer at Forter, leading the complex migration of 400+ services to Kubernetes. 
When she is not spending her weekends developing games she’s playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Switch.
May the force be with you.

I'm a Norwegian developer who seeks to reduce the amount we rely on factors outside of our control. My professional experience spans from web development to real time safety critical systems, having worked for private and public companies in the domains of maritime, defence and public services.

Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. Cf. cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter. Texas Forever!

Michaël Hompus is an Architect and Area Lead at Info Support.

As an architect he is part of several teams, creating new and innovative solutions, preferably using the Microsoft Cloud.
Michaël has many years of development experience with dotnet, Java, and Azure.

His passion is to share knowledge with colleagues, customers, and peers.
Microsoft has recognized his efforts for the community by awarding him a Microsoft MVP award.

NDC { Oslo }

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