Highlighted Speakers
Steve Sewell
CEO @Builder.io
Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of Builder.io and the creator of the Mitosis open-source project.
Bob van Luijt
CEO & Co-Founder @Weaviate
Bob van Luijt is a technology entrepreneur, technologist, and new media artist from the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of Weaviate and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation. In March 2016 Van Luijt started the open source vector search engine Weaviate. He has published and lectured about (open-source) software business models and the positioning of broadly applicable infrastructure software (e.g., databases and search engines). During a presentation for TEDxUniversiteitVanAmsterdam he shared his ideas about how the evolvement of language impacts ideas in software development.
Sergio Panday
Co-Founder & CEO @Roots Inspire
Sergio, with nearly 20 years of international leadership experience in banking, is now driven by a mission to increase ethnocultural diversity in corporate leadership. He firmly believes in the power of diverse leadership teams and recognizes the vast pool of ethnocultural talent that remains underutilized and poorly managed. For him, fostering this diversity presents a clear win-win for individuals, organizations, and society as a whole. His dedication lies in unlocking this hidden value. As the founder of Roots Inspire (𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆.𝒄𝒐𝒎), he has built a platform that provides practical ethnocultural diversity solutions to companies at various stages, guiding them through Awareness, Action, and Integration.
Wei Hu
Senior Vice President of Research and Development @Oracle USA
Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Oracle. He leads the development of mission-critical database capabilities as well Blockchain, Kubernetes, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases. Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 40 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.
Rick van den Bosch
Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft
I'm a coder, although the official term is Cloud Solution Architect. I have been working with Microsoft Azure since it was first introduced, and now work at Microsoft where I help companies make the most of their Azure investment. Next to developing cloud stuff hands-on, I've created cloud migration advises and migration strategies for customers. I design system architectures, coach developers and optimise the software development process to realise important and complex systems together with our customers.
Ingrid Tappin
Founder & CEO @ Diverse Leaders in Tech
Ingrid Tappin, CEO and Founder of Diverse Leaders in Tech (DLiT), is dedicated to setting the standard for DEI excellence in European tech. She leads the first community-driven DEI platform in the Netherlands through DLiT. Her organization employs a data-led approach, peer-to-peer learning solutions, and a robust DEI partner network to help companies attract, retain, and harness the innovation power of diverse teams, all supported by scalable tech solutions. Ingrid Tappin’s commitment to social impact is evident in her efforts to foster inclusive workplaces that not only recognize but also leverage the benefits of diversity. Her work ensures that DEI initiatives are not just theoretical but practical and impactful, driving real change within organizations. Join us at the DEI Stage and Diversity & Inclusion Lounge to gain valuable insights from Ingrid Tappin and learn how to transform your organization’s approach to diversity and inclusion. This event promises to be a pivotal moment for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the tech industry.
Brittany Ryan
Product Director @Backbase
Passionate product strategist with an entrepreneurial mindset - specialized in bringing products from concept, to prototype, to delivery together with cross functional teams.
Ariel Schulman
VP Product @ Bright Data
Keynote | Ariel Shulman is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in technology management, business development, marketing, and strategy. Since joining Bright Data in 2021, Ariel has leveraged his networking, security, and Internet expertise to drive innovation to access high-quality public web data solutions at scale. He now serves as VP of Product, responsible for Bright Data’s AI-integrated product suite that leads innovation.
Simon Hall
CTO @Payaut
Simon Hall is the Chief Technology Officer at Payaut where he leads the engineering, product, and operations. With over a decade of experience in technology leadership, he strives to build simple, understandable and effective organizations, processes and platforms. Before Payaut Simon worked in technology advisory for BCG Platinion and Accenture where he helped organizations with their IT organizations and systems.
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot
Author @Tauri
Daniel Thompson-Yvetot is an open-source champion, most renowned for the Tauri Framework that he co-founded. He wrote the first book in Europe about the Cyber Resilience Act (Manufacturing European Software). As an active member of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group, he is at the forefront of discussing and disseminating the impacts that the CRA and PLD will have on all of us. He lives in Malta.
Mohamad Shiralizadeh
Senior Frontend Engineer @ ING
Focused on engineering front-end technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Signals, React, & more ❤️). My passion for web development can be traced back to my experiences over the past years, I like to get people excited about things that I’ve been excited about.
Nela Chereja
Data Engineer @RTL
Data devotee, with an unquenched thirst for knowledge and human development, who loves making cross-domain connections for innovative solutions.
Daniel Paulus
Head of Azure Solutions @The Factory
Daniel is a serial conference and meetup organiser. He's Head of Azure Solutions at The Factory, a Cloud Native focused consultancy company, and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He helps companies succeed with Cloud Native technologies and DevOps practices. When not working with tech you can find him out in the woods or fishing at a lake.
Hanno Embregts
IT Consultant @Info Support
Hanno Embregts is a Java Developer with a passion for learning, teaching and making music. In his day-to-day job as an IT Consultant at Info Support, Hanno prefers work that is fast-paced and versatile. This is why he juggles Java development, software architecture, public speaking, leading Info Support’s Java Community and teaching courses at Info Support’s Knowledge Centre.
Marit van Dijk
Developer Advocate at JetBrains
97 THINGS EVERY JAVA PROGRAMMER SHOULD KNOW - co-author | With 20 years of software development experience in different roles and companies, Marit loves building awesome software with amazing people and making developers lives better. She enjoys learning new things as well as sharing knowledge on programming, software development, testing & test automation, and more. She has contributed to open-source projects like Cucumber and several other projects. Marit speaks at international conferences, in webinars, and on podcasts, writes blog posts and tutorials, and contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).
Elias Nogueira
Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Backbase
JAVA CHAMPION, MODERN TESTING TOOLS FOR JAVA | Oracle ACE Pro, Java Magazine NL Editor, and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Backbase helping people to deliver high-quality software.
Julia Flament-Wallin
Engineering Manager @TomTom
Julia Flament-Wallin is a passionate Software Engineering Manager in the world of location technology. With more than a decade of industry experience in the intersection of Computer Science, Data, and Engineering, She leads feature and tooling teams in TomTom in their quest towards an HD map at scale. As a sought-after speaker, she has delivered compelling talks on the intersection of AI and Software engineering. Julia's expertise and dynamic presentation style make her sessions both informative and inspiring, leaving audiences with valuable insights into the mapping, or questioning how we might improve our engineering practices.
Joan Chan
Data Analytics Lead @RTL
Joan's career began as a data analyst at Sizo Solutions, where she developed her analytical skills and learned the intricacies of data management. Her next step was to Pon Automotive in Leusden, where she expanded her knowledge in a new industry. The biggest leap in her career came at RTL, where she has now worked for over six years. At RTL, Joan has experienced impressive growth, advancing from data analyst to manager. Her passion for her work and dedication to the company have helped her achieve this position and excel in her role.
Oskar uit de Bos
Engineering Manager @Albert Heijn Technology
Oskar uit de Bos is an Engineering Manager at Albert Heijn with over fifteen years of experience in coding, architecture, building strong teams and delivering great products. Transitioned from the software consultancy world to the retail tech industry and loving it every day!
Milica Aleksic
Software Developer @ Novium
As an experienced software engineer with a background in developing successful React and React Native apps, Milica is passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the tech industry. She is particularly dedicated to supporting and empowering women in tech and inspiring young girls to pursue careers in technology. Along with her technical knowledge, Milica is also a frequent speaker at tech conferences, where she shares her insights and knowledge with the community.
Lovely Gupta
Engineering Manager @ IKEA
Lovely Gupta, a software professional working as an Engineering Manager at IKEA. Graduated from BIT Sindri, India. With a passion for payments, leading one of the teams in IKEA Online Payments. Also, previously worked with Bol.com, a webshop in the Netherlands, and many other different domain companies
Constantine Gavrykov
Sr Director of Product Design @Decathlon
Design leader with more than 20 years of experience dedicated to Product and User Experiences that turn heads, drop jaws and deliver impactful business results, while helping grow highly-efficient, innovative, customer and culture oriented teams.
Milo Maneo
VP of Engineering @Decathlon
With 20+ years of experience as a web professional, I've developed a wealth of expertise in online projects with a particular focus on e-commerce. From the creative and technological aspects to the business side of things, I have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved, and I excel at developing winning products and strategies that drive business success.
Tom Cools
Devrel@Timefold
Developer Relations Engineer for Timefold, Java Champion and leader of the Belgian Java User Group. Tom has a decade worth of experience delivering systems and loves to share not only knowledge but also passion for our craft.
Medhat Dawoud
Senior Software Engineer @ Miro
Medhat is a Senior Software Engineer at Miro and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance with extended experience in several web technologies, through his writings on his blog, online video courses, and talks he likes to share learnings, tips to write cleaner/reusable code, and useful DevTools, also he likes to speak about web performance and how to ship a fast and accessible web application to everyone.
Zachary Powell
DevRel Manager at Vonage
BUILDING A KOTLIN MULTIPLATFORM LIBRARY | With 15 years of Android development experience, Zachary moved into DevRel at the start of 2021. While turning to the dark side and moving into management he's still very passionate about Android and all things mobile!
Daniel Laskewitz
Senior Cloud Advocate @Microsoft
Power Apps. Power Automate. Microsoft 365. Azure. Daniel works with a lot of different technologies. He loves low-code AND code. Daniel is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where he continues to enthuse people about the possibilities of the Power Platform. Daniel loves to talk to you about what the Power Platform can do for you, whether you're a developer, an IT Pro, an architect, or an administrator.
JJ Asghar
Developer Advocate @IBM
JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing IBM all over the world. He mainly focuses on the IBM Kubernetes Service and OpenShift, trying to make companies and users have a successful onboarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem. He’s also been known in the DevOps tooling ecosystem and generalized Linux communities. If he isn’t building automation to make his work streamlined he’s building the groundwork to do just that. He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. A father and husband, trying to learn to balance his natural nerdiness with family life. He enjoys a good strong dark ale, hoppy IPA, some team-building Artemis, and epic Gloomhaven campaigning. He has recently dove headfirst into Fedora since IBM bought Redhat, but still secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better web technology developer, though he normally just uses bash to get the job done.
Alain van Hoof
HPC Consultant @Eindhoven University of Technology
Alain van Hoof is a Linux user since 1993, when XFree86 settings could blow up your VGA monitor. At the age of 42 (yes 42) he became a MSc in System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Doing all the Hipster things like CI/CD and Cloud as a consultant he ended up where his heart belongs: in an academic HPC environment where he can do Linux professionally and at scale. At home his Kubernetes cluster in “de meterkast” has an uptime of many years, running a website with 1 visitor a day. Besides the IT, his hobbies in include (Islay) whisky, speed skating, running and cycling.
Ramona Schwering
Devloper Advocate @ Auth0
AUTHN IN VUE, THE IMPORTANT PARTS | Ramona, a Developer Advocate at Auth0, bridges roles as a tester and developer. She's a Google Dev Expert in Web Tech, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress Ambassador, building trust in test automation and identity topics.
Gilad Shoham
VP of Engineering @Bit
Currently leading the development team at Bit. A former architect and team lead of Sisense's full-stack web team, founder of Propcy and Stunity, and a graduate of IDF's elite programming unit.
Laly Bar-Ilan
Chief Scientist @Bit
Laly is Chief Scientist at Bit, a platform for composable software development. With 17 years of experience as a software engineer and data scientist specializing in NLP, Laly has helped multiple companies in different fields build and scale their products. Her unique blend of linguistics and software engineering expertise fuels her passion for advancing code semantics representation, retrieval, and generation.
Alisher Alimov
Sr. Sys Engineer at NVIDIA
REACTIVE ARCHITECTURE - THE NEED FOR SCALABILITY AND RESILIENCE | Dedicated software engineer with over 14 years of experience in the tech industry. Currently, working at Nvidia, where he focuses on cloud platform development, optimizing performance, and ensuring the scalability of complex systems.
Eduard Keilholz
Cloud Solution Architect @4dotnet
Eduard is a Cloud Solution Architect at 4DotNet (The Netherlands). He likes to help customers with implementing and experiencing cloud technologies. He likes to create highly performant software and help team members reach a higher skill level of software development. He focusses is on the Microsoft development stack, mainly C# and the Microsoft Azure Cloud, and has a strong affinity with Angular. He enjoys speaking at (inter)national conferences and contributing to community events. In 2020, Microsoft has recognized these community activities with the Microsoft MVP Award for Azure.
Nick Frolov
Head of Product at refact.ai
Nick will explain how AI Software Agents work. He writes software for 20+ years in a variety of roles, growing from software engineer to the Head of Development and software services business in EPAM Netherlands.
Dhananjay Kumar
Freelance, Organiser Angular India
Dhananjay Kumar is a Consultant and Trainer from India and organizer of one of the world's largest Angular conferences, ng-India. He is a published Book Author, International Speaker, and Founder of geek97, which provides full enterprise-level training and consulting to various clients worldwide. Currently, he is focusing on Angular, .NET Core, Azure, and GraphQL. He lives in Gurgaon, India, and is writing his second Angular book and training for his first half marathon.
Daniel Bojczuk
Cloud Engineer @Jumbo
With over 15 years of experience as a Software Engineer, I have worked with different programming languages, environments, and business areas. For the last five years, I have dedicated my focus to Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, actively assisting companies in truly embracing the DevOps mindset and implementing best practices.
Rafael Levi
Senior Solutions Consultant
As a Senior Solutions Consultant at Bright Data, Rafael Levi specializes in developing and implementing advanced web data extraction solutions, leveraging over six years of experience in networking, JavaScript, and web scraper development. His role includes optimizing data utilization for clients through strategic project management and solution consulting. With extensive experience in support and a focus on innovative data extraction technologies, he helps clients plan and create complex scraping projects tailored to their specific needs. His technical proficiency and leadership ensure clients achieve robust and efficient data solutions across various industries.
Gbonjubola Adelokun
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Gbonhubola has extensive experience in Banking, Fintech, and Entertainment. Gbonhubola began a career as an application developer at one of the leading African banks, honing skills in building robust financial applications. Transitioning to Fintech, Gbonhubola adapted to the fast-paced startup environment, blending development with strategic tech planning. Currently, as a Partner Engineer in the Entertainment sector, Gbonhubola acts as a solution architect interfacing with partners across EMEA, sharing best practices and designing seamless integrations. Gbonhubola leads key technical projects and ensures smooth and efficient collaborations. Throughout the career, Gbonhubola has demonstrated adaptability and innovation, thriving in both startup settings and large tech enterprises. The diverse experience equips Gbonhubola with a unique perspective and the capacity to deliver excellence in various technological environments.
Jens Kat
Developer Engineer
Developing the API software development kit for the JVM with Scala, providing support and training for its user-base.
Simone Romani
Chapter Lead Backend Engineering
Senior developer and engineering manager. Always up-to-date with the latest standards and never out of touch with code. Test-driven development enthusiast and testing advocate. Striving to deliver always the most reliable code while being understandable.
Alessandro Vozza
Technical Specialist Application Innovation & AI @ Microsoft
Alessandro, a seasoned community leader and CNCF ambassador, has spent the last few years architecting cloud-native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, energizing the Dutch tech community, and helping professionals achieve CKx certification. With over 25 years immersed in open-source technologies, Alessandro is deeply passionate about the cloud-native ecosystem. He's now back at Microsoft as a Senior Technical Specialist in Application Innovation & AI.
Leo Kraan
Director of Engineering, Developer Experience @ Booking.com
Over the past 25+ years Leo has been driven by a passion for bringing together diverse development teams to deliver great products powered by technology. While his journey began in software development, and he still enjoys the technical challenges it offers, what truly excites him is navigating the business, strategic and people challenges of creating impactful solutions. This thread of collaboration and creation has been the constant throughout his career, spanning industries like travel, video games, and professional services.
Martin Reynolds
Field CTO @ Harness
Martin is a seasoned speaker and thought leader with 30+ years in software development, architecture, and delivery. With expertise in DevOps, DevSecOps, and Developer Experience, he’s a sought-after voice in tech, featured in outlets like The NewStack, Diginomica and LeadDev. Martin’s highlights include leading cloud migration and scaling DevOps at OneAdvanced, the UK’s third-largest software company. He speaks on transforming DevOps, optimizing developer experience, and fostering blameless accountability, offering actionable insights for organizations to scale secure, high-quality software delivery.
John Crespo
Senior Solution Engineer @ Harness
Software engineer turned solutions engineer with over 12 years of experience in tech. Started as a developer and engineering manager, building projects across different industries before moving into enterprise SaaS pre-sales. Particularly interested in automation, developer experience, and building scalable systems. Currently focused on helping development teams optimize their workflows through technical solutions. Combining hands-on development experience with a knack for translating complex technical concepts into practical solutions.
Usama Nasir
Software Architect @GetYourGuide
Usama is a Software Architect at GetYourGuide, leading the Supplier Tech architecture. He builds systems that help suppliers connect with millions of travelers worldwide. Usama is passionate about improving system design and creating simple, easy-to-maintain solutions.
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