Gojko Adzic the author of Lizard Optimization, Impact Mapping, Specification by Example and a few more books… He is the founder or co-founder of Narakeet, MindMup and Votito, and a partner at Neuri Consulting LLP.Gojko is one of the 2019 AWS Serverless Heroes, the winner of the 2016 European Software Testing Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2011 Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Aw...
Meet Sander Hoogendoorn, an independent dad, traveler, and seasoned programmer with over four decades of experience who writes code daily. Currently, Sander is the CTO at iBOOD, formerly at other companies, and Capgemini's global agile thought leader. He is known for his post-agile mindset and provocative ideas that challenge the status quo.As an author and international speaker, Sander inspires t...
Kim van Wilgen is a seasoned leader in software and cloud, currently serving as the CTO at Schuberg Philis, a leading IT outsourcing company specializing in mission-critical solutions designed never to fail. With a fervent dedication to technology, Kim's expertise spans software development, edge computing and streaming data platforms. She specializes in the human element in technology, advocating...
Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests, contributions and work with companies covers programming, people and practice. He is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series and contributor to a number of sites and books. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Jav...
Neal is a Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, delivering technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He speaks at many conferences....
Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures and other distributed systems in a variety of technologies. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchit...
Simon Rohrer, Head of Enterprise Technology Architecture and Ways of Working at Saxo Bank has spent his career advocating for modern ways of working, with roles in hands on software engineering, agile coaching with a focus on technical excellence, and senior roles in enterprise architecture and strategy....
Aleix Morgadas is an engineering strategy consultant and CPO at Teamperature, where he focuses on helping leaders to assess their team cognitive load for broader organizational impact. With +10 years of experience in tech, Aleix specializes in Engineering Strategy with Domain-Driven Design, Team Topologies, and Wardley Mapping. He has been sharing his real-world experiences on his personal blog an...
Hands-on tech leader connecting business and technology while helping to nurture a culture where people are empowered to do their best work and innovate at speed.Author of Architecture Modernization (Manning)...
Nat Pryce is co-author of Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook and Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests....
A quiet and reserved researcher and practitioner, Joseph Pelrine is considered by cognoscenti to be one of the pioneers and top experts on Agile methods. He has spent almost 30 years helping some of the world’s most well-known companies improve their ability to satisfy the needs of their customers. As a psychologist, his focus on people and his experience in applying leading-edge techniques from s...
Nigel Thurlow is currently the Chief Executive Officer at The Flow Consortium, a collection of highly regarded companies in the Lean and Agile world and the scientific and academic communities at large. The Flow Consortium strives to expand the boundaries of current Lean and Agile thinking through the understanding of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science by tapping into th...
Duncan was a professional software developer for over 30 years, but is now trying to be retired. He was lucky enough to be an early adopter of Object Oriented programming, which was the gateway drug to patterns and Extreme Programming. He coauthored Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook, is a Google Developer Expert, and publishes a weekly YouTube video on Kotlin....
Diana wrote the O’Reilly book, Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills & Practices for Software Professionals. She has 20+ years experience engineering and architecting software systems for organizations including The Economist, The Wikimedia Foundation, Stanford, The Gates Foundation, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Teach For All. Her company, Mentrix, designs systems and publishes...
Llewellyn Falco is an independent agile coach. He discovered strong-style pair programming. He is the creator of the open-source testing tool ApprovalTests( www.approvaltests.com ). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C# specializing in improving legacy code. He is the co-founder of TeachingKidsProgramming.org & co-author of Mob Programming Guidebook...
Randy has spent more than two decades building distributed systems and high performing teams, and has worked as a senior technology leader at eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. He coaches CTOs, advises companies, and generally makes a nuisance of himself wherever possible. He talks a lot -- sometimes at conferences about software -- and is interested in the nexus of culture, technology, and organizatio...
Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimise technology organisations. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.With over thirty years of experience in IT, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences world...
Nick is an agility coach, specialising in flow and data, dedicated to helping organisations and teams focus on outcomes via a principle based approach when adopting new ways of working.He's incredibly passionate about data and telemetry generated by teams and using this for a data-driven approach when it comes to coaching at all levels of the organisation....
A Tech Principal at Thoughtworks, Andrew specializes in domain-driven design, org design, software and systems architecture, agile delivery, build tools and automation.Andrew is also an author and trainer for O’Reilly. They’ve written one book about facilitating software architecture and one chapter about implementing the Accelerate/DORA four key metrics. They also run regular online training sess...
What began as a hobby has evolved into a true passion. Now a software developer with more than 5 years of experience, in her spare time, Susan volunteers as an organizer for both the Calgary Software Crafters and the Software Developers of Calgary. Additionally, she actively contributes to the weekly mob programming sessions with Approval Tests....
Büşra is a product management coach and trainer, and a solopreneur with more than a decade of hands-on product management experience. She helps product teams and product professionals master the craft of product management and transforms them into confident product leaders who get successful products out of the door.Having worked in both product-led and non-product-led companies herself, from star...
Acknowledged by Forbes Magazine amongst the world’s youngest and most impactful individuals in the field of science, Kenneth F. Harris II is known for delivering thoughtful and dynamic leadership on programs of critical national and international importance. Kenneth is a Senior Project Engineer for The Aerospace Corporation, contributing to both DoD and NASA payload missions. In this role, Dr. Har...
Cat Hicks is a psychologist for software teams and defender of the mismeasured. She is the author of the Developer Thriving framework, the AI Skill Threat framework, and the VP of Research at Pluralsight. Cat is the founder of the Developer Success Lab, an open science research lab that creates empirical evidence about how organizations and individuals can achieve sustainable, resilient innovation...
Adrian Cockcroft is an independent technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom, in both enterprise and consumer-oriented businesses, from startups to some of the largest companies in the world, equally at home with hardware and software, development and operations.He’s best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and ...
Driven by a love of learning and technical excellence, Lada's at home with extreme programming, test-driven development, and domain-driven design. She has a way of unravelling accidental complexity, turning large tangled codebases into something you can actually work with – making it possible to finally add that feature everyone's been waiting for.She believes that positive change happens through ...
Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead without Blame, is a leadership and organizational advisor. With over twenty-five years of experience, her transformational leadership ignites the growth of leaders and resilient high-performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia boldly role models putting people first. Her aim is to create inclusive connections and collaborations that challenge and ...
Sam Newman is a technologist focusing on the areas of cloud, microservices, and continuous delivery—three topics which seem to overlap frequently. He provides consulting, training, and advisory services to startups and large multinational enterprises alike, drawing on his more than 20 years in IT as a developer, sysadmin, and architect. Sam is the author of the best-selling Building Microservices ...
Patrick Debois is a renowned expert in DevOps, DevSecOps, and the interaction with AI. He is a principal product engineer at Humans and code, and the co-author of the DevOps Handbook.Patrick's work focuses on helping engineering teams become more productive with AI tooling, and delivering AI-powered products with engineering rigor and good practices. He takes a pragmatic approach to his work, grou...
Colin leads the cloud platforms organization for Tesla Energy developing real-time services and critical infrastructure for power generation, battery storage, vehicle charging, and grid services. Over the past six years, he has seen these platforms grow from their infancy to become the largest and most integrated platforms for distributed, renewable energy in the world. Previously, Colin worked on...
Henrik Kniberg is Chief Scientist and cofounder of Ymnig.ai. He is an AI whisperer, trainer, product developer, and author. He created the viral video "Generative AI in a Nutshell" and the book with the same name. He is also famous for his videos "Spotify Engineering Culture", "Product Ownership in a Nutshell", and for silly metaphors such as the skateboard metaphor for product development, and fo...
As the Chief Architect of Instructure, the makers of Canvas, Zach Pendleton brings over a decade of experience in education technology to solving education’s most pressing challenges. In the past, he has built and scaled engineering organizations from a single engineer to over a hundred and worked on both large legacy applications and greenfield startup projects. As an engineer and a speaker he ha...
Seasoned InfoSec researcher & hacker. Sassi has accumulated extensive experience in Code & Information security for ~30 years, in Architecture design, DF/IR investigations and more, including Fortune100 accounts. Ex-Javelin Networks (acquired by Symantec in 2018). Worked for Microsoft ~8 years as Technology Group Manager and coded support tools for Windows Server. Sassi speaks at multiple ...