DEVWORLD CONFERENCE
Developer Conference for Tech Teams
- 27-28 February 2025
- RAI Amsterdam
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Disneyland
For Developers
🇳🇱 Meet & Greet City Tours by Bike or by soaking in the beautiful Canals by Foot.
🕹️ Done with the talks for a second? Go back in time with Tetris, Pacman, Street Fighter and More!
🏎️ First Time ever experienced AR Laser Gaming or Race like Max Verstappen?
🤝 Endless Networking at the Official Conference Street Party with 5 Bars & Themes, FREE DRINKS 🤯 and participate in the Largest Tech Meetup ever seen all over Amsterdam
🖨️ Visit Janos Kehl for a 3D Printing Workshop or for your Personal Printing Requests!
💲 Unique discounts from Amsterdam's best Experiences, Museums, Restaurants & Bars!
🎙️ Listen to Podcasts and Watch Devworld TV at the Glass Dome in the middle of the Hall whilst Chilling on your bean bag.
In 2024..
🕹️ 4,532 Techies unwinded at the VR LaserGame, Arcades, Formula 1 Simulator, Air Hockey and Fussball Corners!
🦆 921 Rubber Ducks were dressed up and decorated
🇳🇱 1,137 Techies joined the Meet & Greet City Tours soaking in the beautiful City and Canals.
🤝 1,963 Party Engineers gathered for the AMAZING Street Party with Free Happy Hours, Endless Bars, Karaoke and Arcades to enjoy!
🎙️ 480 minutes of Podcasts Recorded at the Devworld TV Dome.
Tracks
FullStack
Master the Entire Development Process with 25 Full-Stack deep dives.
Backend World
Features: Microservices, Java/Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Scalability, Refactoring, APIs, DDD, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Relational, NoSQL, Graph and New age databases.
Future of AI
AI Engineering, LLM's and Machine Learning Deep Dives bringing you a full overview on how to integrate AI and ML in your current products and how to elevate your teams productivity.
DevOps & Cloud
How to enable the improvements in time-to-market and customer experience with digital transformation-related initiatives like cloud migration, microservices, observability and CI/CD.
Data Engineering
Level Up Your Data Engineering Skills & Make Data Actionable
Engineering Management
Join the Leadership Conference for Engineering Managers & Tech Leaders
ProductUp Management
The Startup and Scaleup Conference of The Netherlands with Full Day of Product Management sessions.
First Speakers Released!
Steve Sewell
CEO @Builder.io
Steve is the Co-founder and CEO of Builder.io and the creator of the Mitosis open-source project.
Laura Bell Main
CEO and AppSec Specialist @SafeStack
Laura Bell Main is recognized as a global leader in developing secure software. As the CEO of SafeStack, a leading secure development education platform, she helps software development leaders worldwide engage their entire team in cyber security. She is the co-author of "Agile Application Security" (O’Reilly Media) and "Security for Everyone" (Holloway). Her work has been featured in many international publications, including WIRED and MIT Tech Review. She has presented at BlackHat USA, and RenderATL, as well as leading international software development and cyber security conferences.
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.
Sophia Frayle
AI Engineer @Formula E
AI Engineering at Formula E and how they go about it! Sophia is a AI Engineer | Data | GenAI | Women in AI
Rick van den Bosch
Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft
Rick is a coder at heart, though his official title is Cloud Solution Architect. He has been working with Microsoft Azure since its introduction and now helps companies maximize their Azure investments at Microsoft. In addition to hands-on cloud development, Rick provides cloud migration advice and strategies, designs system architectures, coaches developers, and optimizes software development processes to help clients build and implement complex, mission-critical systems
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marit van Dijk
Developer Advocate @JetBrains
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).
Anneke Keller
CTO @Postnl
Anneke is currently the CTO of PostNL and has been working in the technology industry for 25 years. She has led IT teams through transformations, starting with KPN, where she helped the telecommunications company transition into a service organization and enter new markets like mobile and internet. At TomTom and Coolblue, Anneke's leadership saw huge growth in their IT departments. At Jumbo, she founded and led the Jumbo Tech Campus, significantly enhancing their online proposition. Her last employer, the e-commerce company Wehkamp, benefited from her expertise as she guided the IT organization through the challenging market conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elias Nogueira
Senior Principal Software Engineer @Backbase
Elias is a Java Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Java Magazine NL Editor, and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Backbase helping people to deliver high-quality software.
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.
Julia Flament-Wallin
Engineering Manager @TomTom
Julia Flament - Wallin is a Value driven Engineering leader with a strong technical background working at TomTom. She gravitates towards AI, Data Engineering, cloud, NLP and graph stuff.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
Tom Cools
Java Champion
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.
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.
Zachary Powell
DevRel Manager @Vonage
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alisher Alimov
Sr Sys Engineer @NVIDIA
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.
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.
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
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.
Annie Hodgkins
Director Analyst @Gartner
Advisor and thought partner to Heads of Software Engineering and their teams. Passionate about platform engineering, DevOps and software development. Active outdoors enthusiast, skier, and hiker. Avid reader of all genres. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
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.
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.
Anand Chowdhary
Co-founder, CTO, CPO @FirstQuadrant
Anand Chowdhary is a technology entrepreneur, designer, and engineer. He is the co-founder of FirstQuadrant, an AI sales platform funded by Y Combinator. He is one of the world's top open source contributors, awarded as a GitHub Star in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He is also a consultant and advisor to several startups. He has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 (Asia 2018), Het Financieele Dagblad (Dutch Financial Times)’s list of 50 most-innovative entrepreneurs and professional under 35 in the Netherlands, and in publications such as TechCrunch, The Next Web, HuffPost, Hindustan Times, and Time Out magazine.
Minko Gechev
Angular Core Team @ Google
Awarded by Google and the President of the Republic of Bulgaria for impactful and influential open source projects and publications. The first laureate awarded in two categories in the contest "John Atanasoff" of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
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Free City Tours
Enjoy numerous ways to discover the beautiful Amsterdam Canals with Free Walking & Biking tours or endless City Discounts to visit Museums, Canal Tours and more for Free as a Devworld Attendee!
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Hotel Stay
In need of Hotel Stay? We have selected a wide variety of the best Stays in Amsterdam at every price point!
Last Year Speakers
Evan You
Creator of Vue & Vite
Talk: State of Vite & Vue | The Creator Vite, Vue and CEO of Void(0). Evan is an independent software developer currently based in Singapore. He is the creator of the JavaScript framework Vite & Vue.js and the frontend build tool Vite. Most of his work is open source and publicly available on GitHub. If you happen to benefit from his OSS work, you can support him financially via GitHub Sponsors.
Scott Chacon
Co-Founder at Github
Scott Chacon is the co-founder of GitHub; now co-founder of GitButler, a next generation version control client, based in Berlin. Scott helped grow GitHub from 4 cofounders to 450 employees over 8 years, eventually being acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Scott is also the author of Pro Git, published by Apress and found online at git-scm.com. In unrelated news, he holds a WSET Level 3 certification in Wines and Spirits and owns a dog rescue outside of Berlin.
Angie Jones
Vice President of Global Developer Relations
International keynote speaker who teaches workshops and gives conference talks on software development and decentralized technologies. Certified Java programmer and Java Champion with a knack for innovation. Creator of 27 patented inventions in the areas of metaverse, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet, and software development processes. Featured in Business Insider, Ebony magazine as one of the country's 30 young leaders under the age of 30; Women of Color magazine as a "Technology Rising Star"; Triangle Times as a "mover and shaker in the IBM corporation", and Spectacular magazine as the "Future of Tech in the Triangle". Committed to mentoring young women and exposing them to technology. In spare time, runs an online community, Diva Chix, where teenage girls and women learn to excel in technological areas as well as learn other key life lessons such as running a business and working as a team...all within the realm of a game.
Ryan Dahl
Creator of Node.js
Creator of the Node.js JavaScript runtime as well as the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.
Lee Boonstra
Software Engineer & Advocate for the Office of the CTO @Google
Conversational AI Expert at Google: The Office of the CTO (OCTO) is a diverse team of highly experienced engineers and technologists, working on behalf of the Cloud CEO, whose mission is to foster market-disrupting collaborative innovation between Google and the world’s most ambitious organizations. The customers we engage have hard technical problems and strong brand identities. In 2022, the OCTO team is starting an incubation/acceleration program (called the “Applied Innovation Factory”) to test the boundaries on ideas that could cause strategic shifts in industry and GCP’s business. We seek impact in everything from futuristic computing issues to AI and Voice technology.
Julia Flament-Wallin
Engineering Manager @TomTom
Julia Flament - Wallin is a Value driven Engineering leader with a strong technical background working at TomTom. She gravitates towards AI, Data Engineering, cloud, NLP and graph stuff.
Stacy Cashmore
Tech Explorer DevOps @Omniplan
Stacy has been developing solutions since the mid-1990s in various companies and industries ranging from facilitating contract jobbing to allowing consumers to close a mortgage without the help of a financial adviser – with lots in between.
Rodger Werkhoven
Executive Creative Director @ iO
Rodger contributed making OpenAI's generative AI safe for Beta and public launch. Rodger is an Amsterdam based creative director, now working for iO, with an innate curiosity regarding ALL things scientific, cultural, artsy and nerdy. Rodger is no now testing DALL-E Experimental for OpenAI. Soon to become DALL-E 3. Rodger advises advertising and design companies on the topic of AI and its impact on the creative industry.
Minko Gechev
Angular Core Team @ Google
Awarded by Google and the President of the Republic of Bulgaria for impactful and influential open source projects and publications. The first laureate awarded in two categories in the contest "John Atanasoff" of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria.
Sven Peters
DevOps Advocate @Atlassian
DevOps advocate at Atlassian, has been studying trends in software development for the last 15 years uncovering the cultural and technical attributes to help development teams work effectively and drive innovation. He has 20 years experience in writing code, leading teams, and sharing his experience with thousands of developers at uncountable conferences in 25+ countries.
Daniel Gebler
Chief Technology Officer @Picnic
Daniel Gebler is CTO of Picnic, the world's fastest growing online supermarket that makes grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable for everyone. Previously, he was Director R&D of Fredhopper, responsible for the product and technology roadmap, and led engineering teams located in Amsterdam and Sofia.
Ian Sleebe
Senior Solution Architect @Zoom
Ian Sleebe is a Senior Solutions Architect at Zoom where he has been working for almost four years, seeing the world change and more importantly seeing how people are changing how they work. From working at a major ITSP building out a UCaaS platform and internal processes, while staying compliant to new and existing legislation, to explaining security and privacy in the IT-space and helping people understand how technology can help them, Ian has a lot of experience helping companies all over the world. At Zoom as a Senior Solutions Architect Ian Sleebe explains how Zoom works from the inside out. From GDPR or other privacy-related questions to encryption architecture and IT governance, but also how you could embed Zoom into your application or platform.
Cato Bui
Global Chief of Staff @DEPT®
Cato Bui is a professional with extensive experience in strategy, innovation, and consulting. She is currently the Global Chief of Staff at DEPT®, a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates end-to-end digital experiences for global brands such as Google, Audi, KFC, Patagonia, Twitch, eBay, and Philips. We help our clients to pioneer by investing in innovation, and by leveraging our proprietary tech, data, and knowledge platforms for all our clients worldwide. We are experts in Technology Strategy & Architecture, Mobile App & Web Development, CX/UX, Commerce Platform, Cloud Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. In 2022, the company launched WEB3/DEPT® - a global team of over 300 specialists including solidity engineers, ethicists, economists and game designers to build Web3 and the Metaverse. Before joining DEPT®, Cato held various positions at Google, including Agency Strategist and Google for Startups Operations Lead. In these roles, she owned and grew a portfolio of full-funnel advertisers, combining her knowledge of sales and the digital economy with her entrepreneurial drive to enable brands to further expand their businesses. Cato also has experience in consulting at Deloitte and strategy and innovation at ABN AMRO Bank. In 2017, she co-founded a cleantech startup in the maritime industry.
Will Scougal
Global Director Creative Strategy @Snap Inc
I help to build and lead creatively driven businesses. I am a global marketer, strategist and creative with a proven track record building high performance teams that simplify and scale new ideas through innovative and effective marketing strategies and creative techniques. I spent 7 years at Snapchat as Global Director of Creative Strategy. During that time I was responsible for building the augmented reality business in EMEA from the first sponsored AR experience to being one of the largest AR advertising businesses in the world today. Prior to Snapchat I was Head of Brand Strategy at Twitter where I built the team to be the most creatively awarded globally.
Albert-Jan Schot
Chief Technology Officer @Blis Digital
As a senior cloud architect Albert-Jan Schot enjoys stepping up to the challenge of designing, developing and building innovative cloud solutions. He is a valuable source of knowledge for his colleagues, customers and the worldwide Microsoft-community. With his no-nonsense and can-do mentality he brings a unique combination of in-depth hands-on experience and consultancy skills on all levels to any team. As a CTO within Blis Digital Albert-Jan is responsible for the technical vision and strategy within the low-code practice.
Lyudmyla Baron
Technology Leader @PVH
Lyudmyla Baron is an accomplished technology leader with over two decades of experience in digital transformation and business leadership. In her role as the Head of Marketing Technology at PVH, the multi-billion corporation that powers brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, Lyudmyla is driven by her passion for innovation and growth through the use of cutting-edge technology and value-driven leadership. Her expertise in AI, membership in notable AI Ethics associations, as well as her dedication to promoting diversity and ethical practices within the industry, has led to her involvement as an AI Ethicist and Thought Leader in technology summits and think tanks for industry leaders and regulatory bodies. As a distinguished international speaker, Lyudmyla’s insights on the intersection of technology and society are both thought-provoking and impactful. As a corporate consultant Lyudmyla specializes in enhancing data-driven business strategy through cohesive integration of modern technology and human diversity at every level from datasets and algorithms to boardroom representation.
Harish Kandala
Enterprise Engineer @ Meta
I am a full-stack developer with over 6 years of industry experience in technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Play, Python, Node.js, JavaScript, Angular, and React. I currently work at Meta in Amsterdam, where I contribute to the Helpdesk, an in-house CRM platform for all employees at Meta.
Shivany Powani
Senior Technical Program Manager @C&A
Shivany is a seasoned Senior Technical Program Manager at C&A, situated in the vibrant city of Berlin. With a decade-long career, she has spent the past 7 years immersing herself in the fast-paced world of fintech and payments technology, a domain that continues to both captivate and challenge her on a daily basis. A true advocate for leadership, Shivany derives great satisfaction from cultivating meaningful connections and fostering vibrant communities. Alongside her professional endeavors, she has embraced a new role as a first-time mother to a spirited toddler, firmly upholding the belief that one can harmoniously integrate ambitious professional pursuits with the joys of motherhood.
Jatin Ramanathan
Technical Lead @ Google Wiz Framework
Software Engineer at Google and technical lead of the Wiz Framework. Wiz which runs most of Google's consumer web apps.
Deepu K Sasidharan
Java Champion, JHipster co-lead and Developer Advocate @ Okta
Polyglot developer mainly working with Java, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Kotlin. Dabbling with few other languages occasionally.
Emanuele Mercanti
Machine Learning Engineer @Reddit
I am a software engineer with experience in machine learning, natural language processing and time series. I am passionate about new technologies and entrepreneurship. Love to work in challenging environments which foster growth and where I can learn new skills.
Samantha Greatorex
Technical Architect @Zoom
Samantha will be hosting a workshop which enables developers to work together in teams and set up the Zoom Video SDK within a React Website.
Alexey Soshin
Senior Solutions Architect @AWS
Solutions Architect with 17 years of experience in the industry. Author of "Pragmatic System Design" video course and "Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices" book.
Henk Boelman
Senior Cloud Advocate @Microsoft
As a Cloud AI Advocate at Microsoft, I specialize in Artificial Intelligence and Azure with over 9 years of experience in application development and architecture. I am part of the global cloud advocate team and based in the Netherlands, where I connect with developers and communities to share my passion and knowledge about AI and cloud technologies.
Michiel Hamers
Solution Lead Microsoft Azure Cloud @Ordina
I am a (Azure) cloud specialist and I like to work on complex applications in the cloud. Some statistics: I'm since 2002 a Microsoft Certified Professional and since 2021 a Microsoft Certified Trainer. As a often asked speaker you can have already see one of my sessions at: Developerweek, Global Azure, SharePoint Saturday, MCT Summit, Code&Comedy SDN Days, FutureTech, MS TechDays, etc. And also international as speaker in San Fransisco (USA), Seattle (USA), Hasselt (BE), Munich (GER), Chennai (INDIA)
Laura Begieneman
Solution Engineers Manager Europe @Atlassian
Laura Begieneman is an experienced Presales Manager currently serving as Solutions Engineering Manager at Atlassian. In her role, she leads a team of solutions architects. She collaborates with (prospective) customers through various interactions, including executive meetings, discovery conversations, solution demonstrations, executive presentations, and follow-up discussions. Laura's primary focus is gaining customer acceptance and solving their challenges. Additionally, Laura offers expertise in advising clients on their cybersecurity strategy, defining their data protection journey, and ensuring their safety in the digital era. She specializes in translating technical business requirements into privacy, security, and software solutions, particularly adhering to European data privacy legislation, such as GDPR. Laura's passion lies in collaborating with other IT security professionals and engaging in all aspects of her work. She finds inspiration and motivation in sharing ideas and working together toward innovative solutions. If you want to connect with Laura or discuss IT security matters, she welcomes you to contact or add her to your network.
Albert Brand
Solution Architect @Xebia
Albert Brand brings over 20 years of expertise in software architecture, cloud native development and web technology. He is skilled to create high-performing software from scratch and elevate existing legacy systems.
Emma Bostian
Engineering Manager @Spotify
Emma is a US-American who moved to Stockholm, Sweden 3.5 years ago. She's an Engineer turned Manager at Spotify. She's a LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters instructor and in her free time enjoys reading books and playing with her daughter, Freja.
Scott Stroz
MySQL Developer Advocate @ Oracle
Scott is a developer with over 20 years of experience in several languages. In those years, MySQL was the only constant in his development stack. He is passionate about sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes.
Raluca Ionescu
Multi Solution Architect @adobe
Over the past 10+ years, Raluca successfully delivered high quality digital solutions across diverse industry sectors such as Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Banking and Government just to name a few. Her level of technical knowledge and understanding of implementation challenges and how to proactively mitigate them has made her be known as “Swiss Army Knives” among her colleagues. Raluca is a self-starter and earned her MSc in Electronic Engineering and Intelligent Systems from University of Pitesti (Romania) where she graduated 1st in class. She and her husband share a passion for LEGO, while their son didn’t really have a choice.
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.
Kevin Dubois
Principal Developer Advocate
Kevin is a software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java (Quarkus), and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and improving the developer experience. He previously worked as a (Lead) Software Engineer at a variety of organizations across the world ranging from small startups to large enterprises and even government agencies. Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop); and as a member of the Belgian CNCF chapter as well as the Belgian Java User Group. Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently and is currently based in Belgium, having lived in Italy and the USA as well. In his free time you can find Kevin somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding or packrafting.
Iulia Feroli
Senior Developer Advocate @Elastic
After working on many sides of tech (as a cloud architect at MSFT, a sales engineer and PMM at Dataiku) Iulia finally found her perfect match as a developer advocate at Elastic - focusing on creating content for, and learning from the tech community. She specialises in data science & AI solutions and loves creating videos, blogs, demos and sessions to get people excited about the possibilities of tech. Iulia loves to talk about anything NLP, cloud, data science 101, MLOPs, generative AI, and more.
Sanne Kalkman
Senior Software Engineer @CodeSandbox
Sanne is a Senior Software Engineer at CodeSandbox, where she is one of two engineers responsible for the application backend. At work, she is happily specialised in Elixir, but outside of tech she has way too many hobbies and a growing collection of art supplies.
Daniel Oh
Java Champion & Sr Principal Dev Advocate @ Red Hat
Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat. He works to evangelize building cloud-native microservices and serverless functions with cloud-native runtimes to developers. He also continues to contribute to various open-source cloud projects and ecosystems as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador for accelerating hybrid cloud platform adoption in a variety of enterprises. Daniel also speaks at technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers, SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams.
Cornelia Schaurecker
Visionary AI and Data Leader, Global Advisor, former AI+Data global Leader Vodafone Group
With Cornelia‘s 10 years background of building Applied AI in large corporations in the Automotive and Telecommunications Industries, she will describe typical AI and data use cases they build and scale fast for products, services and entire value chains.
Alina Dima
Senior Developer Advocate @ AWS IoT
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 Embeded World, DevCon, Highload, re:Invent, AWS Summits and online Webinars.
Rachel Nabors
Software Developer
Rachel Nabors has spear headed developer education at FAANG companies like Amazon and startups like Clerk and participated web standards and opensource with Mozilla, the W3C, Microsoft. They have built award winning dev portals for React and React Native with the core teams at Meta. They are currently roaming the world, working on opensource projects that teach the world to code from their homebase in London.
Liliana Bermudes
Chief Strategy Officer @ CodeYourFuture
Liliana Bermudes is the Chief Strategy Officer at CodeYourFuture (CYF), a UK-based community that trains low-income groups to become web developers. Previously, Liliana served as CYF's Programme Innovation and Community Leadership Director.
Kirill Gamazenkov
Director of Products @Xsolla
As an experienced product leader, I have spent over a decade building and managing high-performing teams to deliver successful B2B platforms, games, and software solutions.
Maximilian Werk
Head of Engineering @Jin AI
I enjoy bringing machine learning into production at Jina.ai. The combination of high quality engineering, digging into data & algorithms and solving real-world problems thrills me.
Masterclasses
Included in your ticket 2 hour Masterclasses on topics like reverse engineering and a runtime manipulation of an iOS application, Blockchain, Playfull Programming and more!
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Make Professional Connections for Life whilst bonding with your whole engineering Team at our Daily Networking Areas, Mixers and Meetups throughout Amsterdam.
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23,000 sqm of Exhibition with the Latest Gadgets in Tech. A disneyland for Developers with Dota & CS Tournaments, Coding Challenges, 3D Printing, Arcade, iOT, Formule 1 Racing and more!
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