AI For Developers
Integrating AI's Latest Into Software Development Processes and Products
- 16 Deep Dives
- 1,638 AI Enthusiasts
Speakers & Topics
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.
Jessy The
Starting with Web3
Frontend Developer with big interest in web3, blockchain (development) and the Metaverse
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.
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.
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.
Carmen Ansio
Design Engineer at LottieFiles
Carmen Ansio is a Design Engineer at LottieFiles, a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and a Microsoft MVP. She specializes in frontend development, CSS, and web animations, focusing on creating seamless web experiences.
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.
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.
Raymon S
Lead 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.
Bakhtar Sobat
Android chapter lead at ABN AMRO
BUILDING A ML MODEL | Social butterfly with love for Android, Music and Football.
Mell Brouwer
AI Developer for Strategy and Innovation
Mell is currently working as an AI Developer for Strategy & Innovation at ABN AMRO, where she builds AI-powered applications using Python—something she is truly passionate about. A curious lifelong learner, she enjoys spending time tinkering in her IDE, constantly seeking ways to automate various aspects of her life.
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.
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.
Archie Sharma
COO @ Zencoder
Archie Sharma is a seasoned engineer and technology leader with a proven track record of driving innovation and scaling AI-powered solutions. As the Chief Operating Officer, GTM at Zencoder, he is spearheading the development and deployment of AI coding agents to revolutionize software development workflows. Previously, Archie was COO at HappyFox, focusing on AI agents for customer support and ITSM. His expertise extends to AI-driven collaborative work management tools, as demonstrated by his successful tenure at Wrike, where he more than tripled the company's value and oversaw its acquisition by Citrix for $2.25 billion. As a published author, Archie has shared his insights on technology and business in renowned publications such as BBC Capital, Business Insider, and Adexchanger. Archie holds two US patents in signal processing and machine learning, while also leading advanced technology teams at Western Digital. With a strong background in AI, software development, and global strategy, Archie has held executive roles at leading tech companies like HubSpot, OpenX, and Western Digital. He is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the tech industry. Archie holds a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Pune, MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Rochester and an MBA from UCLA.
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.
Anna Appelman
Senior Manager Solution Engineering @Salesforce
Anna Appelman is the Senior Manager of Solution Engineering for the Manufacturing & Automotive Industry in the Benelux region at Salesforce. With over 12 years of experience in the Salesforce ecosystem, Anna has a rich background that includes steering a large service operation as a Salesforce customer. Her passion for customer experience and technology drives her to create better, more connected experiences and to find smarter ways to work through technology. Anna has been with Salesforce for 7 years, contributing to both pre-sales and post-sales efforts across Sales, Service, and Marketing Cloud. She is particularly excited about the potential of AI and what the future holds in this space. Throughout her career, Anna has achieved significant milestones, including serving as a Customer Success Manager for some of the largest accounts in the region. She has also led initiatives to bring more women into the tech industry through the Women’s Network and mentors young professionals.
Brad Axen
Tech Lead for AI and Machine Learning
goose: an open source AI agent | The first operational system for goose is a software engineering agent. It can intelligently assess your project's needs, generate the required code or modifications, and implement these changes on its own. Goose can interact with a multitude of tools via external APIs such as Jira, GitHub, Slack, infrastructure and data pipelines, and more. If your task uses a shell command or can be carried out by a Python script, Goose can do it for you too.
Jackie Brosamer
Head of AI & Data Platform
goose: an open source AI agent | The first operational system for goose is a software engineering agent. It can intelligently assess your project's needs, generate the required code or modifications, and implement these changes on its own. Goose can interact with a multitude of tools via external APIs such as Jira, GitHub, Slack, infrastructure and data pipelines, and more. If your task uses a shell command or can be carried out by a Python script, Goose can do it for you too.
Lan Chu
AI Tech Lead @Rabobank
Lan is a AI Tech Lead who has been working in the past 7 years in the field of data science, machine learning and business intelligence in the financial services sector. She is also the Co-founder of The AI stories that focuses on building custom AI solutions. With a background in Data Science and Economics, she is passionate about applying technology and turning data into actionable insights that help companies grow and create positive impact.
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.
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.
Marius Obert
Staff Developer Evangelist
Marius' passion is to test the latest communication technologies and to speak about them. Originally from the Black Forest in Germany, he started his software-development career as a UI developer in sunny California. During this time, he learned to love web technologies like JavaScript in general and the entire Node.js ecosystem. After many ugly fights against CSS, he relocated to Munich, working as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. In this role, he tries to inspire his peer developers around the globe to build cloud-native apps with excellent customer engagement. Besides his day job at Twilio, Marius is also interested in web 3.0 technologies.
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.
Anant Pingle
Data Engineer, Supply Chain @ Albert Heijn
Anant is a Data Engineer with 5 years of experience, specializing in the Azure Data Stack. Currently working in supply chain for the past 1.5 years, he has previously worked as a Data Engineer in the credit insurance sector.
Ruben van de Geer
Lead Data Scientist @ Albert Heijn
Ruben is Lead Data Scientist of Albert Heijn's forecasting team, who is driven by a passion for connecting physical and digital worlds. He has a background in mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and operations research, which allows him to create simple yet effective data solutions for real-world problems.
Thijs Roukens
Senior Data Scientist
Thijs is a Senior Data Scientist at bol, where I work in the pricing, content, and assortment quality domain. With a background in econometrics, I enjoy tackling complex challenges and using data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and business outcomes. Outside of work, I'm passionate about sports, with squash being my favorite way to stay active and competitive.
Gokhan Simsek
Senior Data Scientist @ Bol
Gokhan is a senior data scientist at bol with a strong background in software engineering. Currently focusing on pricing and assortment related issues over at bol, I enjoy innovating at the intersection of multiple disciplines.
Effi Bennekers
Chapter Lead Engineer @ ING
Effi Bennekers is Chapter Lead Engineer Global Web and App at ING. He has been involved in Machine Learning and GenAI for a long time and is co-leading ING’s GenAI community and coordinating GenAI projects in his department. His other professional interests are green software, knowledge sharing, human development, and coding. He has been a speaker on topics like engineering and AI at Java One, Code Motion and JFall.
Han Markslag
Technology Lead AI and ML @ ING
Han Markslag is working as Technology Lead for AI & Machine Learning in the IT domain of Customer & Data at ING. He guides projects in the (Gen)AI space during their start-up and co-leads the GenAI community in ING with more than 1500 members. He has an extensive background in full stack development (Java and native Web), likes to code all the time and a big fan of the Advent of Code. He is a frequent speaker and panel member at (ING) events where he shares the GenAI journey of ING.
Jae Grant Maloney
Senior Researcher, KLM XRCOE
"Jae Maloney is a dedicated Technology researcher at Air France-KLM, leveraging his compassion and curiosity to drive positive change within the airline industry. With a keen interest in utilizing emerging technologies such as AI and XR to navigate the industry’s rapid transformation, Jae is committed to finding solutions that are both empathetic and environmentally responsible. Drawing on his personal experiences with radical change, Jae is passionate about using VR and AR to create a sustainable and commercially viable future for all stakeholders."
