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  Steve Sewell

  CEO @Builder.io

  Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of Builder.io and the creator of the Mitosis open-source project.
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  Ryan Dahl

  Creator of Node.js

  Creator of the Node.js JavaScript runtime as well as the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.
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  Ryan Carniato

  Creator of SolidJS

  SOLIDSTART | CEO of Signals, JavaScript performance enthusiast and fine-grained reactivity superfan. He is the creator of the JavaScript framework SolidJS, and Principal Engineer on Netlify's OSS team, where he works with multiple open source projects to develop a better web.
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  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.
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  Emma Bostian

  Engineering Manager @Spotify

  Emma is a US-American who moved to Stockholm, Sweden 3.5 years ago. She's an Engineer turned Manager at Spotify. She's a LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters instructor and in her free time enjoys reading books and playing with her daughter, Freja.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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).
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  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.
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  Daniel Oh

  Java Champion & Sr Principal Dev Advocate @ Red Hat

  Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat. He works to evangelize building cloud-native microservices and serverless functions with cloud-native runtimes to developers. He also continues to contribute to various open-source cloud projects and ecosystems as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador for accelerating hybrid cloud platform adoption in a variety of enterprises. Daniel also speaks at technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers, SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams.
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  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.
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  Scott Chacon

  Co-Founder at Github

  Scott Chacon is the co-founder of GitHub; now co-founder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Minko Gechev

  Angular Core Team @ Google

  Awarded by Google and the President of the Republic of Bulgaria for impactful and influential open source projects and publications. The first laureate awarded in two categories in the contest "John Atanasoff" of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
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  Esther Kuijpers-Bastein

  Head of Product @JEX

  Started my career in the finance department at TUI Nederland touroperator in the Netherlands. After 9 year in finance I started out in product/IT as a analyst/expert on the finance/management information team in an international project. The project was to build an new cloud and event based touroperators systeem for 3 countries. Within a couple of months I transitioned to product owner Finance and after a while I also became value stream lead finance a.i. The next project was an even bigger program on which all 14 countries of the TUI group where to participate, on which we wanted to do the same as what we did in the project with 3 countries. Beside being a product owner for the payment team, I was delivery lead for 3 teams.