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Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. Mary is the Director of Developer Relations at Camunda, a source-available and developer-friendly product that allows you to design, automate, and improve any process across your organization. She's the author of The Business Value of Developer Relations, founding host of the Community Pulse podcast, former curator of the DevRel Weekly newsletter, and co-creator of the DevRel Collective Slack community.

Mathias (Matt) Biilmann is CEO of Netlify, a company he co-founded in 2014 and today is one of the fastest growing web development platforms. He has been building developer tools, content management systems and web infrastructure for more than 30 years and is recognized for coining the term “Jamstack.” An active participant in open source, Matt has contributed to well-known projects in more than a dozen languages at all layers of the stack. Matt grew up in Denmark, where he trained as a musician and music journalist.

Rizel Scarlett is a Staff Developer Advocate at TBD, Block's newest business unit. With a diverse background spanning GitHub, startups, and non-profit organizations, Rizel has cultivated a passion for utilizing emerging technologies to champion equity within the tech industry. She moonlights as an Advisor at G{Code} House, an organization aimed at teaching women of color and non-binary people of color to code. Rizel believes in leveraging vulnerability, honesty, and kindness as means to educate early-career developers.

Larry's work has empowered 600 development teams to take ownership of the security of their software. He embodies a rare combination of deep cybersecurity background with current software development experience. He was a founding Director at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab and co-led the launch of Build-Security-In initiative but is also the author of a dozen or so open source projects, one of which gets a million downloads per month, and all of which utilize the approach he advocates for.

Brian Rinaldi is a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly with over 20 years experience as a developer for the web. Brian is actively involved in the community running developer meetups via CFE.dev and Orlando Devs. He's the editor of the Jamstacked newsletter and co-author of The Jamstack Book from Manning.

Katie Miller is a Developer Marketing leader and currently advising Data Protocol, after having built and managed developer programs and marketing initiatives for Slack, Asana, and Google. While her career has taken some interesting twists and turns (dental school admissions, cookbook editing to name a few), at its core has been a commitment to creating a better world by empowering people through knowledge and connection.

When not working from her guest room, Katie spends her time running (both competitively and after her kids and cats), volunteering on political campaigns and at the kids' school, and is always on the lookout for the best lavender latte!

Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. After a tenure of eleven years in JFrog DevRel, Baruch is the Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle

Adrienne Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development 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.

Talia Nassi is a Lead Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies and international keynote speaker who delivers content on building in the cloud, testing, and Linode. She enjoys helping developers understand how to build efficient applications in the cloud seamlessly and at scale.

Jeremy is a Developer Relations and Community leader, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and is a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he's a husband and father, and is also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.

Christine Spang is the Co-Founder & CTO of Nylas, where she leads Nylas' engineering and technical strategy along with her focus on building, delivering, and scaling Nylas' services worldwide. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Christine has been recognized for her work with APIs, software development, and the greater technical community and has spoken at numerous events such as Collision, PyCon, Web Summit, and TechCrunch Disrupt. Christine supports numerous organizations and causes that promote diversity and inclusivity within the technology and software development industry. Christine holds a degree in computer science from MIT.

Sean Falconer is Head of Developer Relations at Skyflow. Sean spends his time building, writing, speaking, and connecting with communities about engineering and data privacy. He has a wide range of interests and expertise, including full stack development, developer experience, and API design. Prior to Skyflow, Sean led developer relations for Google's Business Communications product suite and was CTO and founder of a startup focused on mobile hiring tools. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer

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

Alex is an AWS Data Hero, an independent consultant, and the author of The DynamoDB Book, the comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB. He was an early employee at Serverless, Inc., creators of the Serverless Framework, and was an early community member in the serverless space. His consulting and training work focuses on serverless architectures and database optimization. You can find him on Twitter as @alexbdebrie or on his site, alexdebrie.com.

With an education in psychology and social sciences as well as tech industry work experience, Emmy loves to talk about where technology intersects with humanity. Currently, they work as a developer advocate at Wix and love helping and learning from the developer community.

Eric is Chronosphere's Director Evangelism. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author and baseball expert. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with cloud native observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. Follow on https://www.schabell.org.

Emanuel is driving AI innovation at Infobip with a current focus on Generative AI and analyzing the impact of Large Language Models. He joined Infobip after almost a decade working as the Operations Area Manager and Key Researcher of the FAIR AI team at the Know-Center, one of Europe's leading research centers for trustworthy AI, and Graz University of Technology.

He received his PhD in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology and his M.Sc. as well as B.Sc. in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb. He is a former Marshall Plan fellow and has been working as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Akin leads the Site Reliability Engineering and Delivery functions for Nokia's Network Monetization Business. He has been at the forefront of evolving thought leadership around network exposure to ecosystems within Nokia for over 7 years. This passion for digital ecosystems is evidenced in Akin's appreciation for Developer Advocacy and his participation in shaping Nokia's response to the ecosystem's revolution in multiples roles across Nokia. Prior to joining Nokia, Akin spent a few years at Motorola and Jones Lang Laselle and has had an international career spanning across four continents.

Alex Nucci is the VP of Go-To-Market at Very Big Things, an award-winning firm recognized with the Webby Award for Top Technical Achievement and Digiday's Innovation of the Year. Alex is from Miami, where he's been a long time member and contributor to the startup scene, serving as a Venture Partner at Secocha Ventures, and Cofounder and CEO of Blanket.

Mark is the GSMA Technical Director for Cloud Networks. He has been focussing on the GSMA Open Gateway program federating CAMARA APIs and working within GSMA’s Operator Platform Group. Prior to this he worked for Vodafone Group studying public and private MEC and as technical lead in the deployment of AWS Wavelength into the Vodafone Networks. Within Vodafone he held several technical roles including Video and TCP optimisation, the “Enjoy More” program and performance management. Earlier experience was with P3 as a senior consultant and earlier still near the beginning of time with Orange, rolling out and performance management of their UK network.