Name: Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023
Start: 2023-08-28
End: 2023-09-01
Location: Copenhagen Developers Festival

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Join real life astronaut Christer Fuglesang for this inspiring festival keynote.

Evening Keynote with Christer Fuglesang

The earliest crewed spaceflights, including the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, were some of the earliest instances of software being responsible for life-or-death decisions. 

Architecting Apollo: Systems Design Lessons from the Golden Age of Spaceflight

Project management is supposed to help us build software more efficiently, so why does it often feel like more of a hinderance? Do we really need SCRUM anyway? 

A Developer's Guide to Surviving Sh*t Project Management

SASO Brings the perfect summer festival vibes as she plays her hit songs in the evening. 

SASO

While working from home during quarantine, our team launched a new service. It was important for me to keep tabs on its metrics, but I didn't have a second monitor just for displaying Grafana Dashboards like we do in the office. 

Hacking the quarantine with Grafana & Electronics

Press Play On Tape

Join in to break the binary of classical computing and start exploring the potential of quantum computing. In this session, we will explore how organisations can experiment with quantum computing on an on-demand basis and understand how far-reaching quantum will be within their industries.

Breaking the binary: Why organisations must embrace Quantum Computing now!

In this session, we will project 3-4 photos of space to generate awe and to bring our understanding of the beauty of the Universe to a deeper meaning. 

Space Awe

The 24-year-old singer and songwriter BATHSHEBA is an intriguing combination of attitude and vulnerability. Her soft and present voice puts honest words to catchy pop melodies. Although her lyrical universe can be dark, her energy is bright, and she doesn’t stray away from a strong pop anthem.

Bathsheba

You know the drill, there are a lot of fundamentals Developers disagree on. Tabs vs Spaces, GraphQL vs REST, and Majestic Monoliths vs Micro Services - get behind your preferred point of view in this live on-stage, developer vs developer Smackdown!

Developer Smackdown

In this short talk Anders Norås takes you on a trip into the world of one of the most influential software products ever. 

A Cultural History of WinAmp ⚡️

We have reached a tipping point when it comes to generative artificial intelligence, and things are currently changing so rapidly the field is almost unrecognisable from one week to the next.

Festival Keynote: Malignant Intelligence: Prompt engineering and software archeology

Guitaraoke is karaoke with guitars. Singers sing along with live guitar players – and for guitar and bass players, we can mute the lead, rhythm, and bass guitar parts from any of the songs on the list so you can play them live.

Guitaraoke: Live Guitar Karaoke!

Javascript is extremely versatile. We use it to build frontend, backend, desktop and mobile apps. But did you know you can even create music with it ?!

Beats in the Browser - Coding Music with JavaScript

Apache Kafka® is great at joining different software systems and processing their data in real time. But while event-based approaches like Kafka are growing in popularity, it can still be hard to see how a whole system fits together.

From Metrics To Music: Making Connections with Apache Kafka

Drawing from his experience with Copenhagen Suborbitals, a non-profit organization funded by donations and supporters, Mads Wilson will discuss the role of programming and technology in driving amateur space exploration.

Programming and Technology in Amateur Space Exploration

A short presentation on the math and theory of the rubiks cube including notation and algorithms for both humans and computers. Participants will then learn to solve the 3x3 and with some effort should be able to solve without a cheat sheet after completing the workshop.

Rubiks Cube Geekout

From One piece and Naruto to Neon Genesis Evangelion and DragonBall, Japanese animation is a cultural phenomena. 

What Anime Taught Me About K8s & Tech Careers

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed because you overcommit? A recovering “People Pleaser,” I know the harm and unrest that can come with saying “yes” too often.

Learn to Say "No!" Without Being a Jerk

Whether it's paint, clay, or film, every artist has a medium. But can you create art from code and garbage? This talk goes over the intersection of art and code.

Making Art with JavaScript and Garbage

Computer programmed music has come a long way since the CSIR Mark 1 played a scratchy Colonel Bogie back in the early 1950s.

A Brief History of Computer Music

I will describe the physics, energetics, and peculiarities of the most extraordinary astronomical objects in the Universe: black holes.

Black Holes: The Most Powerful Energy Sources in the Universe

There's no conference party without The LineBreakers!

The Linebreakers

Let's shrink the web! In this high-energy talk, we’re going to be looking at some easy wins for performance improvements like image optimization and JavaScript concatenation, that can actually make your users’ life better.

Shrink The Web: How To Get Happier By Removing Crap

NDC is holding its first Developer festival in the heart of Copenhagen! Like no other event, it will feature more than 110 talented speakers and artists coming from all around the world! Attend workshops, tech sessions and concerts with the same ticket! Whether you are a daytime attendee continuing your experience into the evening, or you are just able to join after hours, there is so much to discover!

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Copenhagen Developers Festival is a 5-day event for software developers with 2 workshop days, 3 days of conference talks, and 2 unforgettable festival evenings with live music, entertainment and much more.

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BATHSHEBA - 30 Aug

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Mark is the founder of RendleLabs, which is really just him playing with .NET Core, Docker, Azure, microservices and so on and then teaching other people about it and helping them build clean, stable, scalable solutions. He's been getting paid to do what he loves for nearly 30 years now, and still worries that somebody's going to notice and make him stop.

Andreas is a technological humanist. Starting at NASA, Andreas designed systems from scratch to support science missions. Then in Zambia, he built medical informatics systems that apply technology for social good. Now with Neo4j, he is democratizing graph databases to elevate understanding by emphasizing relationships.

Nick is a software engineer and Developer Technologies Microsoft MVP based in London. He is creating educational content on YouTube about everything .NET and C#.

A developer, business owner, consultant, cloud architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an online instructor, Mike Benkovich is an alumni of Microsoft from 2004 to 2012 where he helped build developer communities across the US, thru work on Microsoft Across America, MSDN Events, MSDN Webcasts, DPE and Channel 9. He's helped to create and grow developer conferences and user groups in various cities across the US. While at Microsoft he helped create the Azure Boot Camp events that were run in cities across the US and at PDC and TechEd before it was transferred to the community. In 2009 he started a Toastmaster club for Geeks called TechMasters in Minneapolis where we still grow speakers for Conferences. He's a LinkedIn Learning Instructor for Azure, have developed many online courses. Mike actively works in Azure Cloud Governance, DevOps, Application Architecture and Software Delivery consulting.

Jason Taylor is a solution architect, trainer, mentor, and full stack developer with over 20 years of experience. Currently, he specializes in developing, testing, and deploying custom applications to the cloud utilizing .NET, Angular, Blazor, and Azure. Jason loves a challenge and is skilled at progressing from a simple proposal into a well-defined, coded, and tested solution.

Scott Helme is a security researcher, consultant and international speaker. He can often be found talking about web security and performance online and helping organisations better deploy both.

Founder of report-uri.com, a free CSP report collection service, and securityheaders.com, a free security analyser, Scott has a tendency to always be involved in building something new and exciting.

Erin McKean is a developer advocacy program manager in Google's Open Source Programs office, where she focuses on improving documentation in open source via the Google Season of Docs program and the Docsy.dev. She is also the founder of the not-for-profit Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary. Before founding Wordnik, she was the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, and before Javascript, she dabbled in HyperCard, Perl, and Omnimark (if you have ever written anything in Omnimark, she will buy you a drink). In addition to writing code, blog posts, and documentation, she’s also the author of the Weird and Wonderful Words books and the best-selling novel The Secret Lives of Dresses, and is an honorary fellow of the Society for Technical Communication.

Architect/developer at 4Subsea, working at 

. 4insight provides key decision support to onshore and offshore personnel for Oil & Gas and Offshore Wind operations.

Brandon is a  Developer Advocate at AWS where he gets to work closely with the developer community to help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps.

Brandon previously worked at Xamarin + Microsoft where he focused on creating mobile apps in C# using Xamarin + .NET MAUI.

An avid mobile app developer, Brandon loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

Anton is a Front-End Developer, speaker and community organiser. He is passionate about clean, structured code, web standards, accessibility and optimisation. He prides himself on delivering robust, high quality and beautiful solutions. Anton co-organises Fenders Front-End Developer meetup and DDD Perth. Anton has also volunteered as a mentor introducing others to the world of coding.

Michelle (she/her) is a Senior Software Engineer, with 11 years of experience in tech, from engineering support to manager. A Philadelphia native that now calls Los Angeles home, she is an art school graduate and a self-taught engineer. She enjoys making it easier for others to create great things, from artists to entrepreneurs. She runs an interview format tech podcast called From the Source that examines what tech jobs are really like. Michelle works to promote diversity and inclusion in tech through conference speaking and organizing, mentoring, board membership, and making sure everyone knows they belong here.

Alex Dunn leads the product team at Voicify and is the founder of Enabled Play. He's also a Microsoft MVP, PubConf Champion, Bixby Premier Developer, and AWS Alexa SME. His background in accessibility, application development, and conversational AI has leaned into enabling applications to do more for businesses and consumers using scalable architectures and design, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, and TypeScript while building for cross-platform compatibility. You might find him co-organizing the Boston Mobile C# Meetup with Microsoft, speaking at all sorts of conferences and events around the world, streaming on Twitch, and on Pluralsight. You can read his regular tips and thoughts in the development community at https://alexdunn.org/ or watch him live at https://twitch.tv/suave_pirate

Outside technology, you can find him playing guitar, working with animal rescue, or exploring the great outdoors.

Jennifer Wadella has been writing code since before she realized it was a credible career path. She currently works as the Director of Angular Consulting at Bitovi and loves building performant web applications, speaking at technical conferences, and brewing kombucha. Jennifer is an active member of the KC tech community and the founder of Kansas City Women in Technology(KCWiT), an organization aimed at growing the number of women in technology careers in Kansas City. She is the PubConf Sydney 2018 Champion, a Silicon Prairie Champion Award Nominee, Rising Trendsetter STEMMy award-winner, and is apparently Missouri's Coolest Woman according to Pure Wow. 

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media.

Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 270 presentations in 20 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style.

As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator.

Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics.

For more information, please visit - https://feryn.eu/speaking 

Tess is a developer/data scientist working at Microsoft. Over the past 20 years she has worked with .net debugging and developed a large number of web applications and mobile apps. She currently works on data science, machine learning, and other Azure related projects with some of the largest companies around the world.

You can find her on twitter at @TessFerrandez

Hila Fish is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Wix, with 15 years of experience in the tech industry.
AWS Community Builder, and a public speaker who believes the DevOps culture is what drives a company to perform at its best and talks about that and other DevOps/Infrastructure topics at conferences. 
She carries the vision to enhance and drive business success by taking care of its infrastructure.

In her spare time, Hila is a lead singer of a cover band, giving back to the community by co-organizing DevOps-related conferences (Inc. "DevOpsDays TLV" & "StatsCraft" monitoring-focused event), providing mentorship and managing programs in “Baot” (The largest technical women’s community in Israel), and enjoys sharing her passion and knowledge wherever she can, including across diverse technology communities, initiatives and social media.


Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hila-fish
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hilafish1

Selena is a full-stack lead engineer at Fresho in Melbourne Australia who is particularly passionate about TDD. As a self-taught coder with a background in management, she is well-equipped to mentor others. In her spare time, she is a nak muay ying, professional kickboxer.

Michael is a developer keen on the people side of things. He loves pairing, and in particular with people new to writing software. He especially likes driving software out with tests and directing the evolution of the design. In his spare time he does a bit of running, camping and watching any one of his 4 kids excel above anything he ever managed to achieve.

Dennie is Microsoft MVP Developer Technologies and has experience in accessibility with Microsoft technologies. In daily life Dennie is president and developer at DDSoft, a nonprofit that connects IT to People who are less tech-savvy. Dennie invented technical solutions and systems to help people with disabilities to participate in their daily life. Thanks to his autism he's the right man at the right spot to contribute as a volunteer in function of people with disabilities.

Rowdy Rabouw is a web developer with over 25 years of experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Currently, he is a Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer working on Vue.js and Node.js projects with special attention for accessibility. Rowdy loves watching superhero movies and Formula One races and enjoys riding on his mountain bike to unwind.

Eli has been in tech for 6 years, working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design; now, they're doing developer advocacy at Scaleway and yelling at the cloud. In their spare time, they like to play video games, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

Sandi Barr is an Engineering Architect at Cisco where she collaborates with teams of engineers building Angular applications in an Nx monorepo. As a contributor to Angular ESLint, Sandi is on a mission to improve the accessibility rule set. Outside of life behind a keyboard, Sandi would almost always rather be out riding one of her electric unicycles, skateboards, or e-bike.

David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), C# Corner MVP, solutions architect, Code Quality Zar, consultant, professional code reviewer, speaker, and author. He lives in San Diego, California USA. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com... a website dedicated to helping software engineers in all aspects of programming since 1994. 

David has written for programming magazines and published numerous books, including "Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET" and “Rock Your Code: Code and App Performance for Microsoft .NET” available at: http://amazon.com/author/dotnetdave. David is a featured writer on the C# Corner where his articles have been read by over 1.3 million software engineers. 

David is the host of Rockin' the Code World with dotNetDave weekly show on the Internet hosted by C# Corner Live. Each week David interviews top tech leaders on what they are currently passionate about along with answering questions from viewers. Each episode reaches up to 20,000 viewers from all over the world. Episodes are simulcast on YouTube, Twitter, C# Corner, and Facebook. Past episodes can be found at https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/live/rockin-the-code-world-with-dotnetdave. David also hosts the Code Quality & Performance on C# Corner Live which reaches over 65,000 software engineers: https://codequalityconf.com. 

David gives lectures on programming and technical interviewing at user groups, colleges, high schools, and conferences such as C# Corner Conference (India), NDC, Code Camp, SQL Saturday, DevConnections, VSLive, and more. He taught at the University of California San Diego for 18 years. He also runs his own software/ consulting company called McCarter Consulting. You can find upcoming speaking engagements by going to: http://bit.ly/dotnetdaverocks.

He is one of the founders and directors of the San Diego .NET Developers Group for its 20-year run. In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008.

If that's not enough, David is also an award-winning photographer and works for bands such as Queensryche, Buckcherry, Geoff Tate, Eric Johnson, Lit, Gary Hoey, P.O.D., Steel Panther, and too many other bands in the United States to list. David is also a guitarist and has had the honor to play with Carl Franklin (.NET Rocks) and the lead guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

His Microsoft MVP profile is located at: http://bit.ly/davidmvp

His GitHub repo is located at: https://github.com/RealDotNetDave

His NuGet packages are located at: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/davidmccarter

Alina Dima is a Senior Developer Advocate in the IoT Ecosystem Services team at Amazon Web Services. She is passionate about helping developers accelerate their journeys in the IoT ecosystem, and working with IoT communities to build better and move faster, from prototype to scale. Alina has worked in various industries such as telecommunications, manufacturing, automotive, retail, and photovoltaic. With nearly 20 years of experience as a software engineer, technical delivery manager and architect, she has designed and built multiple highly scalable, operationally ready IoT solutions, with millions of devices running in production today. Alina has shared her knowledge at various events, such as re:Invent, AWS Summits and online Webinars. 

Fatima is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, Canada. Post graduation, she's worked full-time as a Software Developer at DRW, a trading firm, and currently works at Yelp as a Software Engineer. Fatima is passionate about supporting fellow tech enthusiasts and has spoken at over 80 hackathons across North America in 2022. In addition, she's mentored over 300 students in tech, been a panelist at Harvard WeCode (2022 and 2023), presented at the Women Who Code Connect Event, Black is Tech Conference, Tapia Conference, and Women of Silicon Roundabout, London's biggest event for women in technology.

Olia Gavrysh is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft working on modernizing .NET applications and driving .NET desktop platforms such as WPF and WinForms. Prior to that, she was the program manager for .NET machine learning framework called ML.NET. Olia is a frequent conference speaker focusing on .NET technologies, an author of many articles, blog posts, and a book about .NET desktop.

Olia has a background in applied mathematics, artificial intelligence, and computer science and worked as a .NET software developer for over 10 years prior to becoming a program manager at Microsoft.

Originally from Ukraine, now Olia lives and works in Seattle, United States.

Christina Aldan is a brand strategy consultant, keynote speaker, trainer, and mentor. She offers businesses brand consulting and creative content for everyday media. With over 17 years of experience in the digital realm, Christina is highly regarded for her approach to business, partnering with clients to find unique strategies that ensure their goals are met. Christina builds connections through her keynote addresses, training workshops, and technological education. She uses these tools to help individuals and businesses cultivate value in everyday media. Christina has delivered talks on all 7 continents, presenting training workshops for the Microsoft MVP community, international corporations, and conferences worldwide. Christina uses her charisma and expertise to inspire others by mentoring women in business like herself. She also has sat on state and local boards supporting women in tech, entrepreneurship, mental health, and children with learning disabilities.

She is the recipient of the Las Vegas Women in Tech Community Service Award, the Distinguished Woman of the Year Award in STEM. Learn more at: Luckygirliegirl.com.

Originally educated in arts and design, Anders has spent the last twenty years writing code.

He has given numerous talks and keynotes at conferences such as JavaZone, NDC, J-Fall, Øredev and many more. Have given 100+ conference talks to a variety of audiences including media, design and hardcore computer science. Known for an energetic and highly engaging presentations.

After a decade in social work, Magali decided to change course and became a web developper. She tries to find a delicate balance between the technical aspects of the job (fun !), the creativity (fun too !) and trying to follow her ethics and change the culture of the industry (the less fun aspects of it anyway) by being an advocate and an activist. 

Kris Jenkins is a Developer Advocate for Confluent, a veteran startup contractor, and former CTO & Co-Founder of a gold trading business.  He started his career working for a finance company whose success depended on having a better data model than all their competitors, and the search for better architecture has been with him ever since.


Poornima is a .Net developer with over 10 years of experience in .Net and Umbraco. She is passionate about learning new technologies and keeping herself up-to-date with the latest developments in technology. Outside her work, Poornima enjoys music and is undergoing training in Indian Classical music. Based in Langley, UK she mothers a little girl and spends her spare time reading, cooking and watching movies.

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community centers around the world on topics including Agile software development, diversity, and leadership. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

Adrienne is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, author of the best selling book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor that's reached over 55,000 learners with her courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, Software Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer, always in a quest for latest trends and best practices in architecture, .NET and the world around it.

Irina has more than 1000 hours of delivered trainings, workshops, and presentations, being passionate about .NET and the world around it.

She is the founder of DotNet Iasi User Group where she tries to gather people that are willing to share their knowledge with others, and from time to time publishes articles on her blog: http://irina.codes


Annie Talvasto is an international technology speaker, CNCF Ambassador, Azure MVP and specialist in Kubernetes & open source. Annie hosts & produces the Cloud Gossip podcast and has been a co-organizer of Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. She has worked at various tech companies from cloud start-ups to enterprises. Annie has spoken at tech conferences on multiple continents, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Microsoft Build & Ignite, NDC, KCDC, Global Azure, Future Tech and more. During her career she has spoken to more than 30,000 developers at User Groups meetings & Conferences.

Teena is a Principal Engineer at Investec based out of London. She is an Azure certified Solution Architect, passionate about developing and architecting applications in .NET and Azure. In her current role, she focusses on uplifting engineering across Investec and enabling various teams in Azure as they migrate and modernise their applications on Azure. Teena has avid interest in Quantum and is currently doing research to identify applications of Quantum computing in Finance. 

iOS developer who loves football and also loves writing iOS apps, now working at Forza Football building the best live score app on iOS.

Glenn is a software engineer, tech speaker and workshop instructor with a passion for building innovative products and beautiful user interfaces using cutting edge web technologies and open source software such as React, GraphQL and TypeScript. Aside from tech, you’ll find him either traveling, on a road bike or playing the guitar.

I’m a software developer at Team rockstars IT who loves to use and find new techniques and pragmatically apply them. 

Amy wears many hats as a business owner, senior engineer, mentor and conference addict. She regularly shares her knowledge with her peers and the next generation of developers by mentoring, speaking at and organising events as well as mentoring up and coming developers within her business.

Amy can be found volunteering her time with DDD Perth as Vice Chair and Director of Conference Content, organising Perth Azure User Group and mentoring at various SheCodes events. She has been recognised as a Twilio Champion and a Microsoft MVP since 2019 and has been nominated for the WiTWA awards previously.

In her spare time Amy shares her knowledge and experience writing blogs, speaking at conferences and running workshops on a variety of topics across front end development, accessibility, mental health and more. She has previously given keynotes at international events and conferences around the world.

Martin is a technical advisor and leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in the field. He is the Chief Product and Technology Office for the Swedish software consultancy tretton37, which helps its clients create unique software products and high-performing teams. 

Martin's work is focused on guiding people and inspiring people, and helping teams deliver high-quality software. As a consultant, he has had the privilege to work with organizations of different sizes and varying industries, taking on many different roles. This has given him a unique perspective on software, people, and organizations. 

Ultimately Martin believes technology is a powerful tool for solving problems and positively impacting the world. 

I've been working as a .NET developer for over 16 years now in a variety of industries including government, retail and manufacturing. But I've been hacking around with computer code since I was old enough to read my Dad's copy of the ZX Spectrum BASIC coders manual. 

I've been speaking about Functional C# at various user groups and conferences around the UK, USA,  Europe and Australia and am particularly interested in seeing just how far we can push C# without breaking it.  

I'm currently working on a book for O'Reilly publications about functional programming with C#.  Expected to appear in bookshops some time in 2023.

When I'm not coding, or running after my two small children, I have been known to enjoy the classic series of Doctor Who, Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, Cryptic Crosswords, and rather more coffee than is probably good for me.

With a lifelong passion for the weirdness of the internet and a day job as the front end lead for Savas Labs, Lemon spends his work time making websites for money and his free time making websites for no money.

He's created a number of stupid things for the internet, like all the games on kinda.fun, the wikiHow game damn.dog, the Google Autocomplete game idiots.win, and a bunch of other things of questionable use. He also hosts a podcast that looks at some of the internet's weirder subcultures. It is not safe for your work, unless you work somewhere really cool.

Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj is the head of product and developer relationship at Fermyon. He has a long background in product management, customer success, and developer engagement at Microsoft, working on products such as Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Container Instances, and the open-source project Virtual Kubelet. He’s passionate about developer and operator experiences, with a mission to make the path from idea to reality frictionless and quick. Mikkel lives in a tiny and beautiful village in Denmark.

Anders Lybecker is a Principal Software Engineering Lead, former Global Black Belt IoT specialist and Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. He has many years of experience as a cloud architect, working with some of the biggest accounts at Microsoft. VW, WHO, Vestas, NHS, Nokia...

Adelina Simion is a polyglot engineer and developer relations professional, with a decade of technical experience at multiple startups in London. She started her career as a Java backend engineer, converted later to Go, and then transitioned to a full-time developer relations role. She has published multiple online courses about Go on the LinkedIn Learning platform, helping thousands of developers upskill with Go. She has a passion for public speaking, having presented on cloud architectures at major European conferences. Adelina holds an MSc. Mathematical Modelling and Computing degree.

Yonatan is a Team Lead at the Frontend Infrastructure group at Wix.com, where he is able to make his love for creating developer tools a part of his daily work. He also enjoys working on open-source developer tools, and blogs about them at blog.yonatan.dev.

Gien Verschatse is an experienced consultant and software engineer that specialises in domain modelling and software architecture. She's fluent in both object-oriented and functional programming, mostly in .NET. As a Domain-Driven Design practitioner, she always looks to bridge the gaps between experts, users, and engineers.

As a side interest, she's researching the science of decision-making strategies, to help teams improve how they make technical and organisational decisions. She shares her knowledge by speaking and teaching at international conferences. 

And when she is not doing all that, you'll find her on the sofa, reading a book and sipping coffee.

Mathias Verraes is the founder of Aardling, a software modelling & design consultancy, with a penchant for complex environments. His focus is on design strategy and messaging-centric domain modelling. Since leaving a lead developer job in 2011 and moving to consulting in 2011, Mathias has worked with clients in Finance, Government, Supply Chain, Mobility, Energy, E-Commerce, and more.

Mathias writes about software design at verraes.net since 2011. As a speaker, he's been at major conferences such as NDC and Goto, and has been a keynote speaker DDD eXchange, ExploreDDD, KanDDDinsky, and others. Occasionally, he teaches courses on Domain-Driven Design & messaging architecture. Mathias is also the founder of the DDD Europe conference.

Mathias has a Masters in Music from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, and is an autodidact on software. When he’s at home in Kortrijk, Belgium, he helps his two sons build crazy Lego contraptions.

Ben created Katacoda (Katacoda.com), an interactive learning environment for software engineers which was acquired by O'Reilly Media in 2019. 

Barbara is an Engineering Manager with a strong software development background and over nineteen years of both commercial and academic experiences. While working with a variety of different companies, she gained experience in building diverse software systems. This experience brought her focus to the Data Science and Big Data field. She believes in the importance of the data and metrics when growing a successful business.

Alongside collaborating around data architectures, Barbara still enjoys programming activities. Currently speaking at conferences in-between working in London. Tweets at @BasiaFusinska and blogs on http://barbarafusinska.com

Guilherme is a Minimalist Software Craftsman, passionate about simplicity and a continuous improvement enthusiast. He is a C# and .NET content creator, currently working as OSS Developer Advocate at FARFETCH. Guilherme is also a NetPonto Porto Community co-organizer and an NDC Porto Agenda Committee proud member.


Dr. Kyle Kotowick is the founder of a Canadian consulting and development firm focusing on cloud infrastructure, security, and Internet-of-Things implementations for high-growth clients. He completed his Ph.D. in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, joint with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has served as a consultant, systems architect, and developer for global firms, startups, and universities; as a Lead Engineer for the Government of Canada; and as a researcher for military navigation systems and for life support systems in space. He specializes in working with both startups and enterprise clients to define requirements and explore possible solutions, as well as in leading the development of project architecture, cloud services, and back-end software.

Niklas Gustavsson is the Chief Architect at Spotify where he focuses on holistic architecture, technology innovation and engineering practices, and with a strong interest towards making architecture m

I am a software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies and iOS/Swift.

I am a technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at our company to make life easier for developers and help deliver high. I was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open-source work around .NET Core.

Google Cloud Engineer with a focus on Serverless platforms, kubernetes and a passion for IoT and ML. Previsouly worked as in infra and devops teams.

Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups. 

In her previous roles she has focused on building robust data pipelines, setting technical strategy, building excellent engineering teams & communities, and reliability management. Some more specifics include setting org-wide vision & strategy for observability, improving on-call processes, adopting chaos engineering practices, and cultivating culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first. 

She shows care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea.

Michał is software developer from Poland, currently living in Sweden. On the daily job he works mostly with backend for web and mobile applications. He has worked with many programming stacks but currently focuses mostly on .NET. Big fan of functional languages. Recently interested in machine learning and data science. Aviation geek, skier and wheels of fury. 


Full-stack developer who loves sharing their knowledge and singing. Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies, software engineer at Qualtrics, public speaker, trainer and blogger. Talking and writing about Web, a11y, teaching others how to code and code best practices.

An award winning CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer, International Speaker, and author, Martine focuses on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, accessible, and usable. She approaches user experience from both art and science, drawing from her degrees in psychology and visual communications. She has worked as an developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. 
In 2015, she published a children's book, “Programming Languages ABC++”. She then went on to write “Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success” which was released in June 2019 and “Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Stylesheets” in 2020.
Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for front end development.

Mark is a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author and open source developer. He works as .NET developer and software architect, building digital evidence management systems in Azure for the police. You can keep up with what he's doing on his blog at markheath.net or on Twitter @mark_heath

Einar W. Høst has been a software developer for a long time. He is working as a socio-technical advisor at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. He enjoys collaborative modelling, API design and computer programming. Over the past ten years, he has done talks on a variety of topics, including hypermedia, resiliency, recursive art and lambda calculus. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

Adam Stephensen is an Azure Technical Specialist for Microsoft. If he isn't coding his own prototypes or helping companies deliver cloud solutions, he is probably presenting, training or mentoring on new technologies.

Adam is passionate about building awesome teams, growing technical communities and helping organisations understand where AI & the cloud can help them be successful.

Adam believes communication and agility lead to success: 'fail fast', inspect, adapt, have a lot of fun. 

Colleen Lavin is the lead Developer Advocate at Particle, with a background in software development and product management. She’s worked with NASA and was featured on Gimlet Media’s Startup podcast. When she’s not playing with robots or coding you can usually find her lost in the woods or on twitter  (@colleencodes).

Enrico is a freelance programmer, teacher and mentor with a strong passion for acquiring and sharing knowledge. If allowed, he'll happily talk for hours about software quality, the DevOps culture, the history of personal computing or mechanical keyboards. One topic he's particularly fond of is Git, which, as he discovered, combines two of his other great passions: the Unix philosophy and source code history.

When it comes to teaching, Enrico speaks regularly at conferences and user groups, delivers workshops and produces online courses for Pluralsight.

He occasionally manages to do some open source work by contributing to AutoFixture—a .NET library for generating test data during unit testing—and by maintaining Cake.Curl, an addin for Cake that lets you invoke curl from a build script.

Enrico can be found online on his website at 

Robert is a solution architect currently designing and building systems for the cloud. He is also the main developer of Memstate, and open source in-memory database. When not coding Robert can be found on the nearest squash court.

Grishma Jena is a Data Scientist with the UX Insights team at IBM in San Francisco. As the only Data Scientist in the org, she supports 80+ user researchers and designers and uses data to understand user struggles and opportunities to enhance product experiences. 

She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 40+ talks and workshops at multiple conferences around the globe including PyCon US (largest Python conference in the world) and O’Reilly OSCON. She has also taught Python at the San Francisco Public Library and frequently guides school and university students.

Grishma is extremely passionate about encouraging, mentoring, and empowering people, especially women and students, in the world of technology. Currently, she serves on the AI/ML Advisory Board for DevNetwork. She is also an ambassador for the Women in Data Science initiative, as well as a part of the leadership team for Society of Women Engineers - Golden Gate Section. In 2023, she was recognized by Women Who Code as one of 100 Technologists To Watch for her excellence, innovation, and leadership.

In her free time, she likes to write, cook, and explore new places.

Code by day, music by night. I help classically trained musicians learn to code. Lead Software Engineer at Zopa Bank, first violinist of the Cambridge String Quartet, & leader of Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra.

Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on the latest methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Kinect for Windows, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.

April is a senior cloud developer advocate and the DevOps practice lead at Microsoft, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers plan their journey.

In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons.

Arne Christer Fuglesang is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space.

David is the founder of Electric Head Software, working as an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.

David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving, and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

You can find his open source projects on NuGet and GitHub, follow him on Twitter @david_whitney, or check out his technical blog at http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog.

http://www.electricheadsoftware.com 
http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk 

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and is known for his live music shows featuring software-themed parodies of classic rock songs. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Climbing the technology mountain and halfway up the side. Experience in .Net, mobile applications and more recently voice interface development. Dabbles in iOT & AR/VR. Focusing on coding for humans and choosing the right tool for the job.

Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise level mobile and .Net applications. She spends her spare time at tech conferences supporting the growth of new developers of all genders, ages and backgrounds. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.

Mads is the lead designer of C# and a program manager at Microsoft. He's worked on C# for 16 years, and on programming languages for quite a bit longer.

Damian leads the Developer Advocacy team at GitHub and loves all things DevOps.

Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for 4 years, and prior to that a dev at Octopus Deploy (https://octopus.com) and a Microsoft MVP, Damian has a 20+ year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries.
Damian regularly speak sat conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world.
 
Most of the time you'll find Damian talking to developers, IT Pros, and data scientists to help them get the most out of their DevOps and MLOps strategies.

Layla is a Developer Advocate at VMware serving the .NET community. She makes videos and livecodes on YouTube. She is a Microsoft MVP,  a GitHub Star, Progress Ninja, and the founder of the #WomenOfDotNet Initiative. Layla loves sharing knowledge whilst having fun. No question is stupid and beginners are always welcome.

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I am a highly motivated, curious and compassionate leader with a keen interest in driving entrepreneurial culture and pioneering Melbourne’s esports industry. I have founded several tech companies and, as a result, sits at the forefront of this city’s science, tech, esports and startup scenes.

Everyday I get to create awesome experiences and engage with the vibrant GitHub developer community. I've run many hackathons, and am an accomplished MC, speaker, and facilitator. You'll often catch me at an event or speaking on stage!

In my 'spare' time I'm a streamer, journalist, and always working on something exciting ⚡

Hackathon Queen®™ | Founder | Esports Queen

Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.

In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.

As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.

In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.

You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.

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Sam Newman is interested in technology at the intersection of things, from development, to ops, to security, usability and organisations. After over a decade at ThoughtWorks he is now an independent consultant. Sam is the author of "Building Microservices" from O'Reilly. He has worked with a variety of companies in multiple domains around the world, often with one foot in the developer world, and another in the IT operations space. If you asked him what he does, he’d say ‘I work with people to build better software systems’. He has written articles, presented at conferences, and sporadically commits to open source projects. While Java used to be his bread and butter, he also spends time with Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Clojure, Infrastructure Automation and Cloud systems.

Tedx Speaker, Tech Girl Superhero, Microsoftie and one of MCV's 30 Most Influential Women in Games. I am a Microsoft Developer Engagement Lead who acts as an API between technology and the world. I advocate for STEM, the Games Industry and Developers. I present at around 50 Conferences and Events around the world on Azure, Data Science, Responsible AI and Gaming.

George has been a tech geek for more than 20 years with a passion for technology and the Internet. 

I love learning, teaching and growing. Cyber Security Cloud Solution Architect by day, gamer by night I am happiest when I'm being social and adding value to those around me.

I have a broad range of interests in technology starting in hardware and infrastructure, maturing into cloud, devops and code, cyber security with both red and blue team activities and finally augmented, virtual and mixed reality.

20 years in software development and not even a wrinkle (or almost not). Curious by nature, I am always on the lookout for anything that can make us more efficient as an individual, as a team or within an organization.
I’m co-organizing the amazing Newcrafts conference (https://videos.ncrafts.io/) and also co-founder of the Nantes Software Crafters Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/nantes-software-crafters-Nantes)

Nick works with product and technology leaders to map strategy, model domains, design, architecture and build continuous delivery teams while helping to deliver successful business outcomes. He is the author of Architecture Modernization (Manning), and Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wrox).

My name is Rob Conery and I help developers of all sorts learn what’s new with technology. I have been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. My original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonicand the first Micro-ORM: Massive. In addition I co-founded Tekpub.com (acquired byPluralsight) with James Avery and co-host This Developer’s Life with my friend, Scott Hanselman. I currently create videos for Pluralsight and build open source things as I can.

I've worked on a number of open source projects - some you may have heard of:

Massive: the very first "Micro-ORM" for .NET. I made this one weekend after I read a blog post about Entity Framework as a way to mitigate the despair I felt at the time.


Massive-JS: an experiment with data access. I wanted to see what I could do if I chucked the concept of "persistence ignorance" and went all-in with PostgreSQL. Based on the stars I have on Github (well over 1000), it seems to be rather popular.


Moebius: yet another data-access tool. This time for Elixir. I know databases and data access so it makes sense that I build one every now and again in a new language. I like this one a lot.
Subsonic: This one goes way back to 2005. I extracted this from some work I was doing and people liked it a lot. I liked it too - and I still get emails from people thanking me for making it.


Stripity-Stripe: A Stripe payment library for Elixir. I made this because the other ones were broken and I needed to ping Stripe. It's the go-to library for Elixir and Stripe at the moment.
PG-Auth: No one cares about this one - it's from a fit of madness I had one weekend where I decided to built a data access library with nothing but a set of functions in PostgreSQL.


Jo is a Developer Advocate at Spotify. She is passionate about the web a better place, developing fun PWAs, building sparkly wearable internet connected tech, and of course writing beautiful CSS. She is a mentor and organiser at codebar.io and at Front End Foxes where she is able to act on her passion not only for teaching good use of the web but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals.

Vittorio Bertocci is a Principal Architect for Auth0. Before Auth0, he had a lengthy career with Microsoft, where Vittorio worked with Fortune 100 and Global 100 companies, including working on Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory team as principal program manager focusing on the developer experience. He contributed to the inception and launch of Microsoft's claims-based platform components (Windows Identity Foundation and ADFS, ADAL and MSAL SDKs, ASP.NET middleware). Vittorio is a well known speaker, educator and published author.

Mattis Folkestad is a designer and developer working at Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for the last 20 years.
He has also released two commercial games, the award-winning adventure Milkmaid of the Milky Way and critically acclaimed game Embracelet at his solo game dev company, Machineboy. 

Awardwinning designer, 3D animator and VFX compositor, working in the TV and film industry since 1993..
Worked in several animation companies in Norway and ran his own company, Merlinanimation for a couple of years before he got employed in the design department at NRK in 2006.

worked many years as a developer and architect. 

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Kesha Williams is an award-winning technology leader teaching others how to transform their lives through technology. She has 25+ years of experience architecting, designing, and building enterprise web applications. Her passions include teaching cloud topics and leading software engineering teams. Kesha holds multiple AWS certifications and is recognized as an AWS Machine Learning Hero, Alexa Champion, AWS Ambassador, and HackerRank All-Star. She currently serves as the Program Director of Slalom's Cloud Residency and on the Board of Directors for Women in Voice.

We're a geeky rock band out of Copenhagen primarily covering tunes from old computer games.

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