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.

Bakhtar Sobat

Android chapter lead at ABN AMRO

BUILDING A KOTLIN ML MODEL | Social butterfly with love for Android, Music and Football.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steve Sewell

CEO @Builder.io

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

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.

Daniel Paulus

Managing Specialist @Delegate

Daniel is a serial conference and meetup organiser. He's a Managing Specialist at Delegate, a Microsoft Azure 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.

Arnaud Porterie

Founder @Echoes, Ex VP engineering @ Veepee, ex senior EM @Docker

Arnaud Porterie, based in Amsterdam, is currently a Founder at Echoes HQ, bringing experience from previous roles at Veepee and Docker. He joined Veepee as VP Engineering after leaving a Senior Engineering Manager role at Docker in mid 2017. What began as overseeing a Paris-based organization of 180 ultimately evolved into the role of Deputy CTO, responsible for a European-wide group of 900. It allowed him to grasp the intricacies of managing a large-scale engineering team.

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.

Burcu K. Kutluay

Senior Mobile Engineer at Eurail

Burcu is a Senior Mobile Engineer and freelance engineering mentor with extensive experience in iOS development. She has worked across various industries, including finance, e-commerce, and travel. At Eurail, Burcu ensures seamless iOS experiences. From her previous experiences, she has led winning teams in international hackathons. As a strong advocate for Women in Tech, she shares her knowledge through leading, mentoring and writing. In her free time, she enjoys painting and playing guitar.

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.

Mete Atamel

Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at Google

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

Aicha Laafia

Java Software engineer at Adservio

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE SOFTWARE WITH JAVA | A member of the Moroccan Association of Computing Science, a Women Techmakers ambassador, and an IAmRemarkable facilitator.A Women Techmakers ambassador.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mohamad Shiralizadeh

Senior Frontend Engineer @ iO Digital

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.

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).

Alessandro Vozza

Platform Developers

Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he's been around open source for 25 years and recently moved to a new Developer Relations role at Solo.io, where he's on a mission to install a service mesh in every Kubernetes cluster he gets his hands on.

Archie Sharma

CEO @For Good AI

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.

Anton Bukov

Co-Founder @1Inch

Mell Brouwer

AI Developer for Strategy and Innovation

Thamaraiselvam Thangavel

Lead Consultant @Thoughtworks

Software Developer with 9+ years of experience leading and mentoring high-performing teams. Expertise in DevOps and Software Development practices, with a proven track record of delivering software faster, more reliably, and more securely. Passionate communicator, knowledge sharing advocate, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment.

Anna Appelman

Senior Manager Solution Engineering @Salesforce

Dominik Q. Birkmeier

Head of Digital Design & Engineering

Dr. Dominik Birkmeier is the Head of Digital Design & Engineering at MaibornWolff, where he leads the design of digital innovations for high-profile clients. With a strong background in business mathematics and statistics, he bridges the gap between technical precision and user-centered design – a focus shaped during his doctoral studies and countless projects. Dominik is passionate about crafting digital products from vision to execution, using a blend of rigorous methodology and creative thinking to transform user needs into innovative, sustainable solutions. His expertise lies in aligning business objectives with meaningful user experiences.

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 Power Platform Developer 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.

Rick Ossendrijver

Software Engineer in Picnic's Java Platform team

HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE TECH TEAMS WITH STANDARDIZED AND CENTRALIZED SOLUTIONS | Software Engineer at Picnic, a fast-growing online supermarket. He is part of the Java Platform team, which supports over 300 engineers within the company. Rick is a committer and enthusiast of the Error Prone project. Moreover, he is passionate about improving software quality through static analysis and automation, and works on Picnic's open-source Error Prone Support project.

Patrick Baumgartner

Software Crafter @ 42talents

"Patrick Baumgartner is a passionate software crafter, technical agile coach and trainer at 42talents. He works with people to create beautiful and simple solutions and enjoys building software for the cloud with Java, the Spring ecosystem, Neo4j and ElasticSearch and other open source technologies. Learning new things from others and with others is something Patrick really enjoys. So he is actively involved in software craftsmanship, Java and Spring, and the agile community. He likes to make a difference, experiment and learn from and with others."

Davide Cioccia

Founder at DCODX Cybersecurity

Focusing on bridging the gap between development and security, working together with development teams to create and promote the DevSecOps security culture. He is one of the first contributors to the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide and member of the SANS advisory board and Chapter Lead of DevSecCon Netherlands. He is also a speaker at international security conferences like BlackHat, OWASP AppSec, DevSecCon, Hacktivity and regional OWASP security events, where he presented different approaches and tools to automate mobile security testing in CI/CD, detect and prevent phishing attacks and automate infrastructure security in the release cycles. On the personal side he loves to play racket sports, from tennis to padel, from ping pong to beach tennis. So reach out for a match if you are in the Netherlands.

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.

Raymon

Fullstack JavaScript Developer @ShareValue

As a fullstack JavaScript developer, I specialize in Angular, Vue, NodeJS, and a strong focus on AI and team leadership. Passionate about mentoring and personal development, I share my journey and insights at byrayray.dev.

Lian Li

Tech Lead for the CNCF TAG app-delivery @lianmakesthings

Lian always wanted to save the world. After dropping out of law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending and speaking at tech events, and soon fell in love with the tech community. In her roles as Developer, Consultant and Developer Advocate, Lian combined technical knowledge with an understanding of the human condition. Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam, where she serves as Tech Lead for the CNCF TAG app-delivery. She can also be seen on stage at various English-speaking musical theatre productions, doing standup comedy and improv theatre.

Ivan Burazin

CEO and Co-Founder at Daytona

Co-founded Codeanywhere, a pioneer in cloud development back in 2009. Concurrently, he established Shift, a premier developer conference in SE Europe, which was later acquired by Infobip—a worldwide communications cloud giant—in 2021. Following the acquisition, Ivan served as the Chief Developer Experience Officer at Infobip, overseeing global developer-oriented operations. Recently, he embarked on a new journey by co-founding Daytona, a platform dedicated to standardized development environments, reigniting the mission initiated by Codeanywhere over a decade ago.

Caoimhe Murphy

Founder & CEO at Anam.ai

Former commercial lead at Synthesia Entrepreneur at the intersection of AI and human experience, Caoimhe's revolutionizing how we interact with technology. As the founder and CEO of Anam.ai, she's pioneering the development of AI personas who feel as natural as interacting with a human.

Dan Mckean

Senior Product Manager

Product Manger at MongoDB, responsible for our Kubernetes support including our three Operators - Community Operator, Enterprise Operator, and Atlas Operator.

Peter Eijgermans

Sopra Steria, CodeSmith, Architect and Google Developer

DUTCH JAVA MAGAZINE | Medium and DZone | Peter Eijgermans is a long-time software developer and an adventurous and passionate CodeSmith Frontend at Sopra Steria. He likes to travel around the world with his bike. Always seeking for the unexpected and unknown. For his job he tries out the latest techniques and frameworks. He loves to share his experience by speaking at conferences all over the World and writing for the Dutch Java magazine, Medium and DZone. He believes that you as the front-end developer are the spider in the web to bring the user, the team and the product together.

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.

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!

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.

Harijs Deksnis

Director of Software Engineering @ Giraffe360 / Passionate People

Harijs is an IT leader who blends tech know-how with big-picture thinking to help organizations hit their goals. He’s passionate about software engineering and management, and loves breaking down complex ideas so everyone—from the team to stakeholders—can get on the same page. Harijs is all about building a positive team culture and helping others grow. He thrives in fast-paced environments, always embracing new challenges and learning opportunities. Outside of work, Harijs is curious about all sorts of things and sees himself as a lifelong learner.

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.

Sérgio Laranjeira

Chief Technology Officer at Metacore

Sérgio Laranjeira, Chief Technology Officer at Metacore, has broad experience in leading engineering and development teams for top consumer platforms like Delivery Hero, Zalando, N26, and Farfetch. Now at mobile game company Metacore, one of Supercell's portfolio companies, Sérgio is enhancing the tech stack for the global hit game Merge Mansion and preparing technology for future live games.

Ramona Domen

Software Engineer

Inclusivity in tech, the missing link to great software | Ramona is a software engineer and public speaker with a passion for creating inclusive and accessible applications. She likes to spread awareness about this topic and hopes to inspire people both in her daily work and by taking the stage whenever she gets the chance.

Dave McAllister

Sr. Open Source Technologist

At NGINX, Dave works with open source projects to promote the advantages of modern architectures and orchestration to solve large-scale distributed systems challenges, especially for today's fast-moving cycles. Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clouds and containers. He speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices. Currently, his driving interests is app management, observability and service mesh. Dave was named as one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review, having cut his teeth on Linux and compilers before the phrase "open source" was coined.

Alfonso Graziano

Senior Developer @ NearForm | AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Alfonso Graziano is a Tech Lead with a strong background in software engineering, specializing in JavaScript, and distributed systems. Currently at Nearform, Alfonso leads engineering teams to deliver impactful projects, for governmental institutions and enterprise. With a history of scaling teams and designing innovative solutions across industries like fintech and media platforms, Alfonso brings expertise in AWS, Node.js, and React. Passionate about knowledge sharing, he loves to solve problems and contributes to tech communities. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, learning, and spending quality time with loved ones.

Andrea Eggert

Head of Design – newspective

An experienced UI/UX designer and Head of Design at newspective, a fresh design brand that combines technology-driven digital innovation with user-centered design. Since switching from industrial design to software development in 2017, Andrea has used her design expertise to delight clients in industries as diverse as automotive, IoT construction machinery, insurance, logistics, food industry, public sector, medical and agribusiness. She is passionate about developing product designs that are as innovative as they are functional, aesthetic and user-friendly. Her approach is based on the principle of human-centered design, which puts the human at the forefront from the concept phase to the final implementation.

Peter van Vliet

Co-Founder and Lead Architect @ Masking Technology

"Peter started his career as a full-stack software developer in 2002 and has since progressed to a lead architect role. Over the course of these 20+ years, he has fulfilled many roles in various industries and gained extensive experience with a wide range of technologies such as Java, C#, JavaScript, and others. Nowadays, he leverages his expertise to assist companies, write articles, and speak at conferences. His main focus is on making software development more cost-efficient and future-proofing applications. Additionally, he has picked up making illustrations as a hobby because he is a strong believer in visual communication. There are no boring slides in any of his presentations. "

Matteo Collina

Co-Founder & CTO at Platformatic | Node.js TSC member

The Alleged 'End' of Node.js is Much Ado About Nothing | Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev. He is also a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem and modules he maintain are downloaded more than 12 billion times a year. Previously he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things". Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics and http. He is also the author of the fast logger Pino and of the Fastify web framework. Matteo is an renowed international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay just to name a few. He is also co-author of the book "Node.js Cookbook, Third Edition" edited by Packt. In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.

Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman

Software Architect at Systematic

Mihaela is a Software Architect at Systematic, Romania. Ph.D in artificial neural network algorithms, Assistant Professor at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is a dedicated lead developer and architect who enjoys sharing her knowledge. In her professional career, spanning over 12+ years, she worked for telecom and defence domains with a focus on Java, Spring Boot, C, C#, Scala and Angular. Apart from her passion for programming, she loves parrots, she is enthusiastic about traveling the world and doing a lot of sports, from running at marathons, martial arts and to different aerobic trainings.

Lewis Voncken

Lead Innovation

Meet Lewis Voncken, better known as "Mr. Lewis the Cycling Developer." Embracing the mantra of "Work Hard, Play Hard," Lewis seamlessly fuses his passion for coding with his love for cycling. With a knack for transforming lines of code into interactive wonders, he pedals through the digital landscape with the same enthusiasm he brings to the open road.

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).

Tamas Piros

Director of Developer Advocacy @Cloudinary

Tamas is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and a seasoned Developer Evangelist. He is a passionate advocate for modern web technologies, helping people understand and unlock the latest & greatest features of web development.

George Hantzaras

Director of Engineering, Core Platforms @MongoDB

George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies at enterprise scale. He is an Ambassador of the Data on Kubernetes community and the author of The Platform Engineering Playbook, by Packt. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Kubecon, OpenSource Summit, Hashiconf, LeadDev, SaaStr, and more.

François Martin

Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer at Karakun

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 one of the authors of the upcoming ISTQB Security Test Analyst syllabus.

Laura Begieneman

Solution Engineers Manager Europe @Atlassian

Laura is an accomplished Solutions Engineering Manager at Atlassian, where she leads a team of solutions engineers in designing and delivering cutting-edge software solutions. With extensive experience in presales management, Laura collaborates closely with (prospective) customers through executive meetings, discovery sessions, demonstrations, and presentations to ensure the successful adoption of Atlassian's tools. Laura is a trusted advisor in both software development and cybersecurity strategy, helping clients define their data protection journeys and navigate complex regulatory landscapes like GDPR. Her unique ability to translate technical business requirements into actionable privacy, security, and software solutions makes her a sought-after expert in her field. Passionate about collaboration, Laura thrives on engaging with fellow IT security professionals to drive innovation. Her leadership and vision continue to shape the future of software development, empowering developers to work smarter alongside AI and leveraging Atlassian's tools to navigate this evolving landscape.

Paul-Robert Marcu

Senior Systems Engineer at Philips

Developing Medical grade software | In the software development industry for 17 years from which 10 years in the healthcare domain. Currently Senior Systems Engineer at Philips IGT and a fanatic Salsa Dancer.

Daan van Santen

Technical Architect at Salesforce

With over 22 years of experience in the IT industry and 9 years dedicated to Salesforce, Daan is a seasoned technical and cloud architect. Currently overseeing Salesforce's Technical Architects in Northern Europe, Daan brings a deep understanding of complex technical landscapes. His background in software engineering, integration, middleware, and more recently AI technology is instrumental in guiding Salesforce's customers through intricate technical challenges and innovative solutions. A technologist at heart, Daan is passionate about the transformative power of technology and its potential to revolutionize our lives. Daan's key focus has always been to translate the complexities of technology into meaningful insights for organizations, helping them understand what these advancements truly mean for their business.

Rebecca Davidsson

Software Engineer @Navara

Rebecca is a passionate Software Engineer specializing in Frontend Development. With a foundation in computational science, she has transitioned seamlessly into the world of software. She is dedicated to continuous learning in her field and is constantly experimenting with new tools and techniques. She loves to share her knowledge through writing technical blogs, speaking at company sessions, and contributing to the TypeScript developer community.

Jack McCauley

Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus

Jack McCauley an Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley, Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus, an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and philanthropist. Jack is best known for designing the guitars and drums for the Guitar Hero video game series, and as a co-founder and former chief engineer at Oculus VR. At Oculus, Jack designed and built the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets. Oculus was acquired by Facebook for $2 Billion. McCauley holds numerous U.S. patents for inventions in software, audio effects, virtual reality, motion control, computer peripherals, and video game hardware and controllers. Jack was awarded a full scholarship to attend University of California, Berkeley where he earned as BSc., EECS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1986. Jack has authored numerous research papers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling of AI- based systems and is currently pursuing new projects at his private R&D facility and hardware incubator in Northern California.

Taylor Desseyn

Community Builder @Torc

Taylor is a skilled people connector, dedicated to helping individuals find their perfect career fit. With over 10+ years of expertise in facilitating ideal matches within the IT industry, he has successfully helped over 600+ engineers find their dream jobs. Taylor's knack for creating community shines through his use of social media and content creation. He's a team-scaling expert, with an emphasis on team growth happening the right way. Currently, his focus is helping job seekers find opportunities faster and engineering leaders hire more efficiently. Beyond recruitment, Taylor hosts podcasts, engages with an ever-growing texting/email community, and speaks at conferences-- all to build a thriving tech community nationwide. His mission is simple yet impactful: to show people they’re not alone in the job search while providing valuable support and insights every step of the way.

Kilian Valkhof

Founder at Polypane browser for developers

Kilian is a front-end developer with over 20 years of experience that switched from building websites to building apps to build websites with. He is interested in modern web development, desktop app development and new technologies, and regularly speaks about topics like responsive websites, accessibility, design systems and Electron. Kilian is a frequent open source contributor.

Henk Oordt

Writes and teaches Rust @ Tweede golf

Henk is an embedded software engineer and one of the lucky people that mainly use Rust in embedded. He's so passionate about Rust that he can't help spreading the word by hosting Rust training for all kinds of areas, and by developing teach-rs, the modular, reusable Rust university course platform.

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.

Carmen Ansio

Design Engineer at LottieFiles

"Hi, I'm Carmen, a Design Engineer at LottieFiles and a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Web Technologies, as well as a Women Techmakers ambassador. I’m passionate about creating seamless web experiences and empowering developers with knowledge. I thrive on sharing insights and best practices for frontend development, CSS, and web animation, both on stage at conferences and across social media, where I actively engage with the community. Join me to dive into the world of creative coding and learn how to elevate your web animations!"

Christopher Van Hessert

Vice President Security @Polygon

Gwen Kolader

VP Global Head DE&I @Hexaware & Mobiquity

Subhadhra Padmanabhan Dhandapani

Senior Performance Data Analyst @JustEatTakeaway.com

8+ years XP in data analytics. Su makes sure that Marketing departments are fueled with smart data to maximize efficiency.

Rico Stuijt

Principal Performance Measurement @JustEatTakeaway.com

10+ years XP in online marketing, tracking and attribution. Rico makes sure that Marketing departments have maximum effect on total business.

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.

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.

Ronald Allard

Technology Lead @Postnl

Ronald Allard has been working at PostNL for 3 years as Technology lead.

Lan Chu

Data Scientist @Rabobank

Sergio Panday

Co-Founder & CEO @Roots Inspire

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.

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.

Jan Boerlage

Head of IT Data Platforms @Sligo Food Group

Jan’s career trajectory showcases his evolution from a hands-on technologist, building software solutions from the ground up, to a seasoned leader with over a decade of senior management experience. His distinctive blend of management acumen and technical proficiency enables him to navigate complex technological landscapes with precision and insight. At Sligro Food Group, he spearheaded numerous innovative projects, including the third iteration of Sligro’s Webshop, integration with Heineken, and laying the technical groundwork for Sligro’s future IT landscape. Presently, Jan, in his role as Head of IT Data Platforms, is dedicated to establishing new technical capabilities to propel Sligro further towards its goal of becoming truly data-driven.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nick Frolov

Ai Enthusiast

Nick 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. Now he is back to coding using AI Agents as his colleagues

Mark Dembo

Solutions Architect, Developer Services

Mark is a Solutions Architect for Developer Services and co-leads the global AI Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy at Cloudflare. Before joining Cloudflare, Mark established and led the DevOps, Solutions Engineering, and Developer Platform teams at a leading conversational AI startup, which was later acquired by a NASDAQ-listed company. He also founded his own startup. With a background in full-stack development, Mark specialises in emerging serverless technologies.