Speakers 2020 Speakers 2 talks Best Practices on Building an Award Winning Consulting Business Chinafy your apps + Lessons you can steal from China Adam Cogan Chief Architect at SSW 2 talks Wednesday Event Modeling Adam Dymitruk Author of Event Modeling, distributed systems expert, Adaptech Group CEO and Founder 1 talk Thursday Fluxing Up Your .NET Apps Alex Dunn Director and Principal Architect at Voicify 1 talk Friday SQL Server hates you(?) - what the DBAs never told the developers Alexander Arvidsson Star Wars fan extraordinaire 1 talk Friday OpenMetrics, OpenTracing, OpenTelemetry - are we there yet? Alexey Zimarev Reliable messenger 1 talk Thursday Lightning talks Almir Mesic NRK | Forse 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop How to Build an Inaccessible App Front End Web Fundamentals Amy Kapernick Front End Dev, Evangelist, Dog Lover 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday A Brief History of Computer Music Anders Norås Chief Technology Officer at Itera 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Andreas Lohne TECHPROS, Chief Information Security Officer 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Andreas Mosti Developer and SRE, senior consultant at Bekk Consulting Trondheim 1 talk Thursday Ring-fence the Chaos: When Technical Teams Meet Organisational Systems Anthony Dang Head of Development at ISS Liquid Metrix 1 talk Friday Data Mesh in Practice - How Europe’s Biggest Online Fashion Retailer Goes Beyond the Data Lake Arif Wider Head of AI, ThoughtWorks Germany 1 talk Thursday Owning Your Experience: Talking about Mental Health In the Workplace Arthur Doler Senior Software Developer at Aviture 1 talk Wednesday The "Guilded" Age: How a UX Guild can transform design at your company Ash Banaszek UX Associate 1 talk Wednesday This Startup Life: 3 Years Deep Ben Cull Chief Brewer - Pinch Payments 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Help! The team is not working! - Part 2/2 Workshop: Help! The team is not working! - Part 1/2 Benedicte Fjellanger Sopra Steria Agile coach 2 talks 1 talk + 1 workshop Top 5 Things to do Today to Give Your Users a Better Experience A Hands-on Introduction to UX Design for Developers and Managers Billy Hollis Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP for Windows Development 1 talk + 1 workshop Friday How we almost delivered 100 tons of Stracciatella Mousse Björn Wendland Passionate Full Stack Developer and Clean Code Evangelist. 1 talk Friday E2E testing goes Corporate Björn Weström Software Architect at Swedish Medical Products Agency 1 talk Thursday Lightning talks Børge Wiik Sopra Steria, Software Developer, faggruppeleder Microsoft-gruppen i Sopra Steria 1 talk Thursday Choosing The Best Mobile Framework Brandon Minnick Developer Advocate @ Microsoft 1 talk Thursday Using Security Threat Modelling to enable a DevSecOps Culture Bruno Amaro Almeida Principal Architect & Technology Advisor at Futurice 1 talk Wednesday Have I Got NDC For You! Carl Franklin 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Automatic Accessibility Testing for All - Part 1/2 Workshop: Automatic Accessibility Testing for All - Part 2/2 Cecilie Haugstvedt Test lead at SOCO 2 talks Wednesday Building a Better GitHub Pages Experience Using Azure Services, How Hard Can It be? Chris Klug Developer Badass-as-a-Service 1 talk 2-Day Workshops Blazor and the future of .NET web apps Chris Sainty Software Engineer 1 workshop Thursday Future-Proof Mobile Cross-Platform Apps with Flutter Christian Wenz CTO, Arrabiata Solutions GmbH 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Xamarin File->New to on your Mobile device 3D printed Bionic Hand a little IOT and a Xamarin Mobile App Clifford Agius Freelance Developer that just so happens to fly a Boeing 787 around the world. 2 talks 4 talks Workshop: Progressive Web Apps. Part 2/2 Workshop: Progressive Web Apps. Part 1/2 Workshop: Web Components Everywhere! Part 2/2 + 1 more Craig West Freelance Trainer and Architect 4 talks 2-Day Workshops Web Development with React and Redux Damjan Vujnovic 8 Pointers Limited founder. 1 workshop Thursday Production readiness in Azure: A practical guide David Pazdera Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft 1 talk Friday Rendering 3D Worlds in C# David Whitney Converting rum into code 1 talk Wednesday Autism in Tech Dennie Declercq Microsoft MVP || Developer & President DDSoft 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Dmitry Konovalov Senior Consultant at NovaNet 1 talk 2 talks + 1 workshop “OAuth 2.1” and beyond OpenID Connect & OAuth 2.0 – Security Best Practices Identity & Access Control for modern Applications and APIs using ASP.NET Core 3 Dominick Baier Identity & Access Control Consultant 2 talks + 1 workshop Thursday Teams Deliver Solutions, Leads Deliver Teams Don Kelly Production Engineering Manager - Shopify 1 talk Thursday Functional data that adapts to change Don Syme Principal Researcher at Microsoft Mobile Tools and Microsoft Research 1 talk Wednesday The leadership balancing act - achieving success without burning out Donna Edwards Partner Manager @ Amazon Web Services | CEO @ SHOUTOUT 1 talk Thursday The 7 commandments of the effective Legacy code maintainer Dror Helper Consultant and Software Architect 1 talk 4 talks The NDC Oslo Livestream Party Have I Got NDC For You! Keynote: Keep Talking + 1 more Dylan Beattie Independent Consultant 4 talks Friday Introduction to GitHub Actions Edward Thomson Product Manager, GitHub Actions 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Einar Høst Computer at NRK 1 talk Thursday Lightning talks Eirik Isene Consultant at Itera 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Eivind Arvesen Consultant, Bouvet 1 talk Thursday Lightning talks Elin Tøndel Capgemini, Cybersecurity consultant 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Elise Garborg Undheim Developer at Bouvet 1 talk Wednesday How Effective Teams Use Git Enrico Campidoglio Freelance Programmer, Speaker and Trainer 1 talk Wednesday Analyzing source code using Roslyn Erik Schierboom Senior developer at Exercism 1 talk Friday Tackling Social-technical complexity in the heart of your team Evelyn Van Kelle Trying to make sense of the socio-technical mashup that is called software development 1 talk Friday Immutable Infrastructure on Azure Evgeny Borzenin Senior Consultant and Co-Owner at Ensō AS 1 talk Friday MQTT: How we used Go Concurrency to overcome internet connectivity problems in Africa Fadhili Juma Software Engineer, Speaker: Andela Kenya 1 talk Thursday Improving with C#: 8 and Beyond Filip Ekberg Author. Speaker. Pluralsight author. Microsoft MVP. 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Drawing for IT Architects - Part 2/2 Workshop: Drawing for IT Architects - Part 1/2 Filip Van Laenen Chief Engineer at Computas 2 talks Friday The art & joy of testing in production Geert van der Cruijsen Mobile First Cloud First Architect 1 talk Friday Keep your nose out of it. Denying yourself access to production Glenn F. Henriksen Cloud wizard 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Capture The Flag - Hacking Competition - Part 2/2 Workshop: Capture The Flag - Hacking Competition - Part 1/2 Greger Martinussen Summer Intern at Experis Ciber 2 talks Friday Embracing Simplicity Guilherme Ferreira Software Architect, Minimalist 1 talk Wednesday Why you should consider Web Assembly in your next frontend project Håkan Silfvernagel Manager AI and Big Data 1 talk Thursday Lightning talks Hallstein Brøtan Novanet 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Build software like a bag of marbles, not a castle of LEGO® Building a scalable backend with Akka.NET Hannes Lowette Competence Coach .NET @ Axxes 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers Heather Downing Senior Developer Advocate at Okta 1 talk 2 talks Lightning Talks Lightning Talks Helge Grenager Solheim Principal SW Engineering Manager at Microsoft 2 talks Wednesday AI in the battle against fakes. Henk Boelman Cloud Advocate at Microsoft 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Capability Mapping Practical Messaging Ian Cooper Coding architect 1 talk + 1 workshop Friday Learning from Disaster Ian Hughes Consultant with Readify 1 talk Wednesday Complex systems design in nature Ian Johnson Software developer, sketch noter 1 talk Thursday Billions of records: the real success story using Microsoft Power BI Embedded Irina Dragunova Solution Designer at Vattenfall AB 1 talk Friday Authoring ARM templates the easy way with FARMer Isaac Abraham F# MVP, founder of Compositional IT 1 talk Wednesday Getting more out of TypeScript Jake Ginnivan Tech Lead at Seven West Media 1 talk Thursday Event-driven computing with Kubernetes Jakob Ehn Doing cloudy DevOps things at Active Solution 1 talk Thursday Agile is a Dirty Word James Birnie Agile Transfiguration Catalyst 1 talk Wednesday gRPC for ASP.NET Core, a new framework for high performance APIs James Newton-King Developer on the ASP.NET team and author of Json.NET 1 talk Thursday Clean Testing - Clean Architecture with .NET Core Jason Taylor Solution Architect @ SSW 1 talk Thursday Does Your Codebase Spark Joy? Jenna Pederson 612 Software Foundry 1 talk Friday The Developer's Field Guide to Software Security Jennifer Janesko Senior Consultant, Synopsys 1 talk Friday Marten: Postgresql backed Document Db and Event Store for .Net Development Jeremy Miller Senior Software Architect, Calavista Software 1 talk Friday Make it Boring Jeremy Wagner Independent Web Performance Consultant 1 talk Friday DevOps in Real Life, A How-To Jessica Andersson Infrastructure Engineer, Meltwater 1 talk Thursday UNLEARNING – THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE Jessie Shternshus The Improv Effect 1 talk Wednesday Domain-Driven Refactoring Jimmy Bogard Chief Architect, Headspring 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Capture The Flag - Hacking Competition - Part 2/2 Workshop: Capture The Flag - Hacking Competition - Part 1/2 Joakim Ihle Frogner CTO at Inligo 2 talks Wednesday Who's your user? OpenID from the ground-up Johannes Brodwall Pricipal Software Engineer - Sopra Steria 1 talk Thursday Don't Fly Blind - Implementing Effective Application Instrumentation with Azure Application Insights John Garland Azure MVP, MCT, MCSE; Wintellect VP & Instructor 1 talk Thursday Building Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron. NET John Juback Product Architect, GrapeCity 1 talk Thursday The 5 Pillars of Collaborative Product Ownership John Le Drew Founder and Principal Consultant 1 talk Wednesday Quantum Computing deep dive Johnny Hooyberghs Passionate Developer 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Jonas Nordstrand Developer at SpareBank 1 Utveckling 1 talk Wednesday An almost free lunch - open source is hard work Jørgen Kvalsvik Equinor 1 talk Thursday Megahertz, Gigahertz, Registers and Instructions: How does a CPU actually work? Kendall Miller Gibraltar Software 1 talk Friday Tackling Social-technical complexity in the heart of your team Kenny Baas-Schwegler strategic software delivery consultant and sociotechnical architect 1 talk Thursday Uno - A Platform to Rule Them All Kenzie Whalen Software Developer - Infinity Interactive 1 talk Wednesday Designing and rewriting asynchronous tasks from scratch Kevin Gosse Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Criteo 1 talk Friday BeeIoT - Enter the World of Bees Kim Bredesen IT Consultant and agronomist 1 talk Thursday Compassionate Components Kristofer Selbekk React lead, Bekk 1 talk Dr. Kotowick is the founder of a Canadian consulting and development firm focusing on prototype and POC development for complex systems. Kyle Kotowick Founder, Imperative Systems Inc. Thursday DataOps for the Modern Data Warehouse on Microsoft Azure Lace Lofranco Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Lars Jakobsen CTO at Novanet 1 talk Thursday Rise of the Machines – Technology in Humanity Lars Klint Azure Technical Instructor - A Cloud Guru 1 talk Wednesday Rock n Roll with code Laura Silvanavičiūtė Software Engineer, Swedbank 1 talk Friday From Tables to Documents -- Changing Your Database Mindset Lauren Schaefer Developer Advocate, MongoDB 1 talk Friday TDD and the Terminator - An introduction to Test Driven Development Layla Porter Twilio Developer Evangelist, Microsoft MVP 1 talk Friday You’ve Been Coded Out Lia James Lia James 1 talk Wednesday A Tale Of Four Startups Liam Westley Head of Engineering at Huddle and loud suit wearer 1 talk Thursday Workshop: Getting graphy - a hands-on crash course with Neo4j Ljubica Lazarevic Neo4j, Developer Relations Advocate 1 talk Thursday Running atomic transactions across multiple data models?!? Loris Cro Developer Advocate @ Redis Labs 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Build a Cloud Native App with Distributed App Runtime(Dapr) - Part1 Workshop: Build a Cloud Native App with Distributed App Runtime(Dapr) - Part2 Lynn Orrell Cloud Native Global Black Belt - Microsoft 2 talks Thursday Do Developers Dream of Stateless Apps? Łukasz Gebel Senior Software Engineer at TomTom 1 talk Friday Microservices for building an IDE – The innards of JetBrains Rider Maarten Balliauw .NET and web. Works at JetBrains 1 talk Wednesday Safety-critical systems from the inside Maciej Gajdzica Senior Embedded Developer at Solwit 1 talk Thursday Hybrid Cloud Restore by Veeam Software Magnus Lislevatn 1 talk Wednesday Reinforcement Learning: Pac-Man Malte Loller-Andersen Knowit Objectnet - Software engineer 1 talk Wednesday Reinforcement Learning: Pac-Man Manu Gopinathan Tech Lead @ Knowit 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Marius Røed Business- & Senior Web Developer, Sopra Steria 1 talk 3 talks It's a Polyglot World. Enabling Every Developer to Build Distributed Applications Workshop: Build a Cloud Native App with Distributed App Runtime(Dapr) - Part1 Workshop: Build a Cloud Native App with Distributed App Runtime(Dapr) - Part2 Mark Fussell Principal Program Manager 3 talks 2 talks + 1 workshop Have I Got NDC For You! From WCF to gRPC Modern distributed systems with gRPC in ASP.NET Core 3 Mark Rendle Cloud Native and Founder of RendleLabs 2 talks + 1 workshop Friday Deconstructing Deep Learning Mark West Manager Data Science, Bouvet Oslo 1 talk Friday Strangling Hydra one head at the time Markus Fanebust Dregi Leading a scientific computing team, Equinor 1 talk Thursday Building a real-time serverless app in Blazor using AWS Martin Beeby Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Developer Relations | Amazon Web Services 1 talk Wednesday The Tyranny of Taylorism and how to spot agile lies Martin Hinshelwood Founder of naked Agility Limited 1 talk 2 talks Type-setting in CSS: Using typography to enhance your design Kiss My Sass Martine Dowden UX/UI Designer & Developer, GDE, MVP 2 talks 2 talks Workshop: Capture The Flag - Hacking Competition - Part 2/2 Workshop: Capture The Flag - Hacking Competition - Part 1/2 Mathias Rørvik Consultant at Bekk 2 talks Thursday Don’t Drop ACID - Transactions in Distributed NoSQL Matthew Groves Microsoft MVP, Couchbase Developer Advocate 1 talk Wednesday Welcome to the (state) machine Mauro Servienti Solution Architect 1 talk Friday Data Mesh in Practice - How Europe’s Biggest Online Fashion Retailer Goes Beyond the Data Lake Max Schultze Senior Data Engineer - Zalando SE 1 talk Thursday Beyond LINQ: Using Expression Trees in .NET Maxim Arshinov HighTech Group. CTO, Co-founder 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Maxim Salnikov Microsoft 1 talk Wednesday Eventing with Knative and Cloud Run: From Basics to Advanced Mete Atamel Developer Advocate at Google 1 talk Thursday Building real-time applications with Blazor and GraphQL Michael Staib Co-Founder of ChilliCream 1 talk Friday Build a DevOps Culture: Microsoft's Journey to adopt an Agile Mindset and DevOps culture Mickey Gousset DevOps Architect at Microsoft 1 talk Wednesday Where's my Stuff? Exploring data storage options in Azure Mike Benkovich Exploring the possible 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Mufrid Krilic Senior Software Developer/Coach at DIPS, Norway 1 talk Thursday Security Tooling in Your DevOps Pipeline Nancy Gariché Secure That Cert!, Co-Founder 1 talk Wednesday Real-time serverless applications using Azure SignalR Service. Nelly Sattari Lead developer at Challenger / Microsoft Azure MVP 1 talk 2 talks What is a software security initiative and do I need one? Lightning Talks Nick Murison Principal Security Consultant 2 talks Thursday Reducing Third-Party Security Risk in .NET Core Applications Niels Tanis Security Researcher 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Niklas Bae Pedersen Sopra Steria - Business Developer and Technical Tester - Quality Solutions 1 talk Friday Real rebels pay their taxes Nils Norman Haukås User experience designer by education, full stack developer by trade. 1 talk Thursday Building an open source government application platform in the cloud Nina Kylstad Full-stack developer / technical architect at Accenture 1 talk Wednesday Smart home from scratch - a little C#, a little C++ and a whole lot of cheap Chinese electronics Nir Dobovizki Senior consultant and software architect, also builds robots 1 talk Friday DevOps in Real Life, A How-To Ola Petersson Software Engineer 1 talk Thursday Going fast and cheap with Bots, Sanity and Kubernetes Olav Nybø Senior consultant at Novanet 1 talk Wednesday Machine Learning for .NET developers Olia Gavrysh PM, .NET team, Microsoft 1 talk Friday Infrastructure as Software Paul Stack Staff Software Engineer @ Pulumi 1 talk Thursday F# as a Better Python Phillip Carter F# at Microsoft 1 talk Thursday How Sigmund Freud would perform a code review? Piotr Czajka Senior Software Engineer at TomTom 1 talk Wednesday Have I Got NDC For You! Richard Campbell Co-host of .NET Rocks!, MS MRD & ASP.NET MVP 1 talk Thursday GraphQL, gRPC or REST? Resolving the API Developer's Dilemma Rob Crowley Head of Engineering @ Vix Technology 1 talk Thursday Kafka as a Platform: the Ecosystem from the Ground Up Robin Moffatt Developer Advocate, Confluent 1 talk Thursday Domain Driven UI Roman Sachse Learner <> Father <> Teacher 1 talk Thursday Running 30 year old software as a cloud native SaaS solution with Docker and Kubernetes on Azure Roy Cornelissen Xpirit 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Ruby Jane Cabagnot A Filipino software developer based in Norway. 1 talk Thursday Building an open source government application platform in the cloud Rune T. Larsen Technology Architect Accenture Technology 1 talk Wednesday Navigating microservices with .NET Core Ryan Nowak Developer on the ASP.NET team 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Hiding The Lead Designing Microservices Sam Newman Independent Consultant 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday Running 30 year old software as a cloud native SaaS solution with Docker and Kubernetes on Azure Sander Aernouts Consultant @ Xpirit B.V. 1 talk Friday Event Sourcing with Azure Cosmos DB Sander Molenkamp Principal Cloud Architect @ Info Support & Microsoft Azure MVP 1 talk Friday Feature flags: the toggle, the A/B test and the canary Santosh Hari Sr Azure & DevOps Consultant @ Microsoft | President @Onetug #OrlandoCC 1 talk Thursday Lightning talks Sara Bergman Software Engineer Microsoft Development Center Norway 1 talk Thursday Let’s stop blaming our users for getting hacked when it is our problem to solve Scott Brady Identity & Access Control Lead at Rock Solid Knowledge 1 talk 2-Day Workshops Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence Scott Helme Security Researcher 1 workshop 1 talk + 1 workshop Keynote: Journey to One .NET Blazor and the future of .NET web apps Scott Hunter Director of .NET PM 1 talk + 1 workshop Friday Lightning Talks Scott Leaman Mixed Reality Lead for Sopra Steria Norge 1 talk 2 talks + 1 workshop The Power of Composition Building confidence in concurrent code with a model checker Domain Modeling Made Functional Scott Wlaschin .NET developer, architect and author 2 talks + 1 workshop Wednesday A Friendly Introduction to Deep Learning for Computer Vision Seth Juarez Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft 1 talk 2-Day Workshops Docker and Kubernetes Workshop Shahid Iqbal Independent consultant 1 workshop 3 talks It's a Polyglot World. Enabling Every Developer to Build Distributed Applications Workshop: Build a Cloud Native App with Distributed App Runtime(Dapr) - Part1 Workshop: Build a Cloud Native App with Distributed App Runtime(Dapr) - Part2 Shailendra Singh Chauhan Global Cloud Solution Architect 3 talks Thursday Functional Programming with C# Simon Painter .NET Contractor and Consultant 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Sindre Lindstad DevOps Evangelist @ Entur AS 1 talk Thursday Building an open source government application platform in the cloud Stephanie Buadu Software Engineer at Avanade 1 talk Wednesday Fighting Back Against a Distracted World - Increasing your Focus and Self-motivation Stephen Haunts Founder of Stephen Haunts Training 1 talk Wednesday Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Requests Steve Gordon Microsoft MVP and Senior Software Developer at Madgex Ltd 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Blazor WebAssembly, a new framework for .NET web apps Blazor and the future of .NET web apps Steve Sanderson Microsoft Developer on the ASP.NET Team 1 talk + 1 workshop Friday From Traditional Ops to Cloud-Native in Azure. A Real-World Scenario. Sven Malvik Team Leader Cloud Platform at Vipps AS 1 talk Wednesday Vue.js is going to take the world Thiago Passos Solution Architect 1 talk 2 talks Workshop: Help! The team is not working! - Part 2/2 Workshop: Help! The team is not working! - Part 1/2 Thomas Almnes Agile Coach and Facilitator 2 talks Friday Getting your feet wet with Open Source Thomas Heartman Developer @ Intility, FP zealot 1 talk Thursday Reverse Engineering a Classic Video Game Tim Comport Team Leader, Software Engineer at ANCA Motion 1 talk Thursday Living Style Guides: Bringing Designers and Developers Together Tim G. Thomas UI Architect, Maker, Brony 1 talk 2 talks Computer Vision: Machine Learned Systems with Sight in Action The Ethical Dilemma of AI: Save the World or Forsake It? Tim Huckaby InterKnowlogy / VSBLTY, Founder / CTO, MSFT Global RD & MVP (AI) 2 talks Friday How we almost delivered 100 tons of Stracciatella Mousse Tobias Schröder Full Stack Wizard 1 talk Friday Best Practices on Building an Award Winning Consulting Business Todd Fine CEO of Wintellect and Microsoft Regional Director 1 talk Friday BeeIoT - Enter the World of Bees Tom Erik Støwer Linguist, programmer, agronomist and proud father. 1 talk 2-Day Workshops Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence Troy Hunt Internet Security Specialist 1 workshop Thursday Measuring DevSecOps: building metrics to understand effectiveness and success. Victoria Almazova Cloud Security Architect 1 talk Friday Continuous Delivery with Azure Web Apps Vidar Kongsli Developer, architect, lean and continuous delivery enthusiast. Azure fanboy. 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Migrate and Modernize with Kubernetes and Windows Containers Azure Architect Masterclass Vishwas Lele CTO Applied Information Sciences / Azure MVP 1 talk + 1 workshop Wednesday Refactoring the Architect’s role Yogi Aradhye Principal Consultant, Headspring 1 talk