Laurent works as Senior Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft Azure after almost 10 years spent working for IdentityMine and Valorem, two leading firms in Microsoft technologies. He codes in Azure, .NET, Windows, WPF, Xamarin (iOS and Android), ASP.NET (Core and Classic). On his free time, he writes for technical publications such as MSDN Magazine, publishes technical videos on YouTube and Microsoft Channel 9, and his blog is on blog.galasoft.ch. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, TechEd, VS Live, Techorama and many other international events. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows development from 2007 to 2017, a Microsoft Regional Director from 2013 and a Xamarin Most Valuable Professional from 2015. He is also the author of the well-known open source framework MVVM Light for Windows, WPF and Xamarin.

Adam Cheyer has been a co-founder or founding member of four successful startups, including Siri (sold to Apple, where he led server-side engineering and AI for the Siri assistant), Change.org (the world's largest petition platform with more than 350M members), Viv Labs (sold to Samsung, where as VP R&D, Adam leads product engineering and developer relations for Samsung’s voice assistant), and Sentient (massively distributed machine learning). In addition to his technology work, Adam is an award-winning magician. He has performed in stadiums for thousands, on TV for millions (including on the well-known "Penn and Teller Fool Us" show), entertained heads of state and presidents, and fooled some of the top pros in the business. Adam has authored more than 60 publications and 37 patents. He graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University and received the "Outstanding Masters Student" award from UCLA’s School of Engineering.

Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the regional cloud advocate team in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure. He loves to share his knowledge about topics such as DevOps, Azure and Artificial Intelligence by providing training courses and he is a regular speaker at user groups and international conferences.

Matija Ilijas is a computer science major active in the field of computer vision and machine learning. In 2014 he joined Microblink as a student and has since then helped transform the company into one of the leading providers of data extraction technology powered by AI. Today he is in charge of the company’s AI department that drives research and real-world problem solving.

Dmytro Turchyn leads Microsoft’s AI Product Marketing in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). He is a Data & AI expert and enthusiast with 15 years of experience in IT who has been involved in end-to-end Business Development and Management, as well as Applied Math and Neural Networks. Dmytro helps customer and partner organizations in the CEE region to transform their businesses through the power of AI platforms and tools.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Henri is a freelance developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering and pinches of user experience. When not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, or auditing sites in devtools, Henri can be found contributing back to the community: Toronto Web Performance Group meetup + Jamstack TORONTO organizer + curating conference content or volunteering his time for lunch and learns at various bootcamps. Additionally, you can find him frequenting conferences, and touching base w/ the community - all with a radiant smile. Otherwise, Henri is focusing on running the fastest 5k possible.

Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of all Smashing books (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/books), and a curator of all Smashing Conferences (https://www.smashingconf.com). He currently works as creative lead of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com) and front-end/UX consultant in Europe and abroad, working with European Parliament, Haufe-Lexware, Axel-Springer and a few other companies.

Bolaji is a JAMstack Developer and Technical Writer who currently works in Developer Relations at Hashnode. He's passionate about sharing knowledge, documentation, web engineering, JAMstack, communities, and sustaining FOSS.

Marko has 7+ years of experience in frontend development, specializing in JavaScript and UX. He's passionate about tooling, web performance and Vue.JS.

Ante Tomic is a 26 years old Master of Science in Computing working in Infobip as Software Engineer for the past 4 years. He is a frontend developer focusing on the technical side of Web development. Currently his obsessions are frontend development, application build processes, automations, and project/architecture optimizations. When he is not developing or talking on meetups, you will find him focusing on hobby photography and exploring various places.

Ivan Vukman is a computer science major active in the field of web technologies. In 2017. he has joined Pseudocode as a promising young engineer and, since then, has evolved to one of the best engineers in the company. Today he is leading the project of creating a Chrome extension which augments behavior of the Gmail application.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Jen Looper is a Google Developer Expert and a Cloud Developer Advocate Lead at Microsoft on the Academic Team with over 20 years' experience as a web and mobile developer, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile and web apps. She's a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for hardware hacking, mobile apps, Vue.js, machine learning and discovering new things every day. With a PhD in medieval French literature, Jen's area of focus is currently in applied machine learning, applying new techniques to rediscover ancient artifacts. She is the founder and CEO of Vue Vixens, an international nonprofit charity that promotes diversity in the Vue.js community.

Martin Splitt is a developer advocate at Google's search relations team. He strives to help web developers with building successful, discoverable and performant web content. He works with the W3C and WhatWG as well as various open-source projects to keep the web a vibrant, exciting platform for everybody.

Shedrack Akintayo is a software developer and developer advocate from Lagos, Nigeria, who has a love for community building, open source and creating content and tech for the next billion users. He also has a knack for improving developer experience of developer focused products.

Luciano Mammino wrote his first line of code at the age of 12 on his father's old i386. Since then, he has never stopped coding. He is currently working at FabFitFun as Principal Software Engineer where he is building microservices to serve millions of users every day. Luciano is co-author of Node.js Design Patterns (nodejsdp.link) and he runs Fullstack Bulletin (fstack.link), a free weekly newsletter for fullstack developers.

I am a self taught software engineer, 32 years old, working at Barrage for past 4 years. I consider myself a full-stack developer with fear of CSS, working in NodeJs and VueJs, as much as I love working on front-end applications, I mainly focus on the back-end. Building robust and secure applications in NodeJs that are the work horses of projects my team and I develop. I enjoy solving problems and making the development experience simpler and easier by also working on internal Barrage framework called Felony (that we are releasing to public), test and build process automation and optimisation. When I’m not coding I love to hike and ride my bike downhill, and cooking, I looove cooking and eating dishes I prepare.

Originally from Krapina, Filip graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in 2017 and has started his professional career at Infinum as JavaScript Engineer. After practicing some Dark Angular Magic for a while he moved on to become Lead Angular Engineer. His main interests are Gaming, Web Development, Mechanical Keyboards and being cynical.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Ada Rose Cannon, is a developer advocate for the web browser Samsung Internet she is passionate about progressive web apps and web performance, she also is co-chair of the W3C Immersive Web groups which are bringing VR and AR to the web via the WebXR device API.

Patrick has been working on web performance in one form or another for the last 20 years and is currently working on web performance at Facebook. Prior to that he worked at Cloudflare and Google to make Chrome and the web faster. Patrick created the popular open source WebPageTest web performance measurement tool and runs the free instance of it at webpagetest.org.

Mo Hampton is a Software Engineer at GDIT. Her passion for web application development led her to the Open Source community to learn full-stack JavaScript. When not thriving off of coffee, meditation or travel, she builds cost-effective, user-friendly business applications.

I am an electrical engineer with a masters degree and a specialization in automation. One of the top student of my generation (graduated with highest and great honors). Have knowledge and experience in: Application development and design (web applications, web services, windows services, desktop applications ), Programming languages (C#, HTML, javascript, CSS, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, XAML, XML,...), Programming technologies (ASP.NET, jQuery, WCF, WPF, Entity framework, Oracle database, MS SQL,...), Project engineering (complex calculations, AutoCAD, MATLAB, system modeling, simulation and development,...), Embedded systems programming. I am always interested in new and exciting projects and technologies, especially in renewable energy and energy efficiency and am always open for discussion, new ideas and opportunities.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Nicola Corti has been an Android Software Engineer since 2.2, and a Free and Open Source lover for as long as he remembers. He’s currently working as an Android Infrastructure Engineer at Spotify, building the audio experience for millions of Android users worldwide. Nicola usually calls himself a ‘community addict’. He can’t survive without learning every day, sharing knowledge, and having fun with other developers. He’s also currently managing the GDG chapter in Stockholm and the one in Pisa. In his free time, he also loves open-source, photography and running.

Donny is a passionate and curious iOS developer, Author and Speaker. Currently he works at Disney Streaming Services on an SDK that powers DIsney+. Donny has written three books on iOS development and delivered talks and workshops all over the world. Next to iOS development he's a huge cat lover and enjoys noodling around on his guitar.

Aman is a Developer Relations professional and an all around engineer. Aman has played with many web and mobile technologies in his career. At different companies, Aman has spread the word among software developers around the world, about building better software with many of his employer's tools, and how to be a productive engineer. He also keeps mentoring many young engineers and students and has mentored many young startups with their mobile strategies. When not coding or speaking with developers, Aman likes to play sports and video games.

Goran is an iOS engineer currently working at Infinum, with experience in developing large scale applications for diverse domestic and international clients. When he's not working on exciting projects, he likes to dive deeper into different Apple-related technologies and then share gathered knowledge through writing articles and talking at mobile meetups/conferences. Since life's not all about tech, he's also a big fan of various sports and living a healthy lifestyle.

Denis is a Master of Information Technologies working in Ars Futura as an Android developer. With 5 years of experience in software development, his focus is on developing and optimising native Android applications, where he also likes to explore and test the latest technologies. In his free time, he spends a lot of time outdoors in nature and he likes to travel and visit new places.

iOS is my primary technology, ever since my first job about 10 years ago. I also worked on Android, Flutter and a few backend/frontend technologies. My previous work include mobile tokens and applications for banks, IOT marketing solutions using BLE and enterprise mobile applications Last few years I got more into architecture, planning, organisation and mentoring. Now I lead a mobile department inside Q company

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Sara is a developer at CodeSandbox. GraphQL and Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker and Airport expert. She's also a fan of horror movies, has talents such as banging sticks into a drum kit and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Joe Karlsson is a software engineer turned Developer Advocate at MongoDB. He comes from the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Minnesota (and yes, it does get really cold here, and no, not everyone here has the accent from the movie, Fargo). Joe has been primarily a Node and JavaScript engineer. He has been writing, teaching, and talking about code his entire career. Sharing what he knows and continuing to learn about programming is truly the thing he loves doing the most.

Glen Maddern is an independent front-end web developer, consultant & educator. He's the co-creator of Frontend Application Bundles, Styled Components & CSS Modules, co-founder of Linc and creator of Frontend Center, and was an organiser of CSSConf AU & JSConf AU.

Domagoj has been in development since 'ancient times' - 2009, and in mobile from Android Cupcake, to iOS 14. He's worked on enterprise apps with millions of users and startup apps with thousands. With extensive native knowledge of both Android and iOS, he's still openly in love with everything ReactNative.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Evangelina Ferreira is a Front-end developer and teacher. She currently works as a UI Developer and has been teaching web technologies at the National Technological University of Argentina for more than five years.Throughout her career Evangelina has been deeply involved in the Argentinian web community. She enjoys giving workshops and talks and since 2015 she has been organizing CSSConf Argentina, an international non-profit event that brings experts from all around the globe to speak about web technologies. In her spare time she loves reading W3C drafts as much as Harry Potter, creating animations and playing with her cats.

With a decade of experience as a UX Designer, Stephanie focuses on building a great user experience for anything from mobile apps to complex dashboard up to responsive websites! She is a Google Dev expert (Web Platform and Product Design) and likes to share her passion for her work. She teaches and talks about UX design patterns, mobile UX design and a few other things like PWAs. Her claim to fame: she once helped redesign monitoring panels for tower cranes. Don't hesitate to reach out to her for questions and advice.

Miriam is a co-founder at OddBird, with 15 years experience as a project manager, user-experience designer, and front-end architect. She’s an Invited Expert with the W3C CSS Working Group; member of the Sass core team; teacher for the Mozilla Developer channel; creator of popular open-source tools like Susy, True, and Herman; author of SitePoint’s Jump Start Sass; and staff-writer for CSS Tricks. Miriam presents at conferences around the world, speaking about art, code, collaboration, and creative process. Miriam also creates music with Teacup Gorilla, theater with Grapefruit Lab, and visual art for albums, book-covers, and galleries. Formerly Artistic Director of New World Arts, and Technical Director of The LIDA Project, she won the 2017 True West Award for the stage adaptation: 10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Products. Miriam is also the author of Riding SideSaddle* and The Post-Obsolete Book – published by SpringGun Press.

Luka has been working with the web for over 10 years now. For the last 4 years, he has been working as a Frontend Developer in the development agency Locastic based in Split, Croatia. At the moment he is focusing his attention on design systems, performance optimisation and interaction animations.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Kate Edwards is a 27+ year veteran and an outspoken, multiple award-winning advocate of the game industry and the Executive Director of the Global Game Jam, as well as the former Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). She is also a professional geographer and corporate strategist who pioneered and specializes in content culturalization. Following 13 years at Microsoft, she has consulted on many game and non-game projects for BioWare, Ubisoft, LEGO, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and many other companies. She was also profiled in the December 2018 publication Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play.

Mark Mandel is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud for Games and founder of the open source, multiplayer dedicated game server scaling project Agones. Hailing from Australia, but now living in San Francisco, Mark built his career developing backend systems for over 20 years, writing open source software and building infrastructure in the cloud.

Jon has been working at Google since April 2018 as a Google Cloud Developer Advocate and previously was a high school coding instructor and a contractor working on medical software. His love for JRPGs, FPS and tactical games led him to work in Cloud Gaming. He enjoys helping developers integrate Google Cloud APIs easily within Unity and his passions include finding ways to use the cloud to break down barriers in gaming. He is currently working on Open Match, an open-source matchmaking framework. In his spare time, you can find Jon playing Volleyball, Baseball/Softball, working with his CNC and playing multiplayer and board games.

Fernando Reyes Medina is a Game Designer at 343 Industries, designing and creating exciting new multiplayer experiences for the upcoming Halo Infinite. Born and raised in Mexico City, he graduated with a Computer Science degree from Tec de Monterrey. He is currently a board member and the LATAM Director for Latinx in Gaming, a non-profit organization focus on helping members from the Latinx community to succeed in the Gaming Industry. Fernando believes in the true democratization of Gaming, where everyone has a game that talks to them and everyone is empowered to create their own games.

Marta Kunic graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2016., and she’s been working in Nanobit ever since. She’s currently a Senior Game Developer, and has worked on Nanobit’s greatest hits like Hollywood Story and My Story. She also likes to participate in various events for students and junior developers, and has mentored several Juniors in Nanobit as well. In her spare time she is an avid baker and bookworm.

Nenad Vrkic graduated from the Faculty of Engineering Rijeka in 2017, but he had already been working as a system administrator while at university. He’d worked as an AWS developer on several projects, the most famous one probably being his work for Taco Bell. He joined Nanobit in 2019, as a DevOps engineer and has been responsible for maintaining backend architecture for all published mobile games. He feels very lucky to be able to combine his passion for gaming with his professional life.

A biologist and computer scientist by education, a game designer by pure love. Has a fixation on simulating, prototyping, and designing mechanics to invoke emotions. Tried every form of gamedev, from basement indie with 20 players, through a BAFTA nominated game with ~1.5 milion players, up to f2p with ~10 milion players. Has problems with shutting up about design (both during talks and normal human conversation). Recently did society in Frostpunk.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Val Head is a Senior Design Advocate at Adobe, author, and web animation expert. She is the author of Designing Interface Animation on Rosenfeld Media, teaches CSS Animation on lynda.com, and curates the weekly UI Animation Newsletter. Val has been published by Fast Company, A List Apart, and Smashing Magazine, and she’s spoken at dozens of events all over the world including Pixel Up, Web Directions, UX Week and An Event Apart.

Shodipo Ayomide is a Senior Developer Advocate, Software Engineer, Program Manager and Teacher, who also contributes to a lot of open-source projects over on GitHub, he also runs some major communities like unStack, Developers Circles Lagos from Facebook, Open Source Community Africa and NaijaHacks driving Nigeria & Africa forward in Technology, he is an international speaker who has spoken at a lot of conferences over time in various locations, in his free time he loves to, Read, See a Movie and Occasionally play video games, Loves Travelling and Family.

Kene Udeze is a product designer & community organizer currently based in Amsterdam. In his current role @ [Booking.com](http://booking.com/), he works within teams to build systems & tools that empower partners to enable their users to travel & experience the world. Previously, he led design @ Co-creation Hub where he collaborated with organizations across diverse industries to build products & solve business needs. Kene is firmly invested in accelerating Design Education in Africa. Together with some He actively contributes to ForHumansByHumans, Usable, and hosts WhenWeDesign - a podcast exploring how businesses apply design for scale in Africa.

Senior software engineer specializing in development of HTTP proxy servers that optimize web performance. Mainly interested in Web technologies and ways to make them faster. In-depth knowledge of Web browser internals. Blink and WebKit committer. Web standards contributor. Specialties: HTTP, TCP, C/C++, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, DOM

Ivana is now in her fourth year working as a Product Designer at Microblink, an AI-driven computer vision company aiming to revolutionize data entry in mobile and web apps. She is mainly responsible for making complex technology accessible through user-driven design, though her role often involves working at the junction of product development, marketing and business.

I am Christoph, Front-End Engineer, Speaker and wannabe author from Germany. Currently I'm working as a Product Domain Lead @trivago in Düsseldorf. I've learned so much from the community. I'm very grateful for that and like to give back as much as I can. In case you want to get me speaking at your event, do a Skype call or exchange about some topics with me feel free to get in touch.

Neven Vuger is a Senior Product Designer at FIVE located in Zagreb, Croatia. Focused on enabling businesses across the world build better products no matter their size: from startups to large enterprises. Passionate about tackling complex business needs and finding opportunities to create delightful UX solutions.

Jason Pamental is a designer, strategist, tinkerer, and typographer—and Invited Expert on the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. He writes, speaks, and works with teams and brand owners on how to set type better and improve performance on digital platforms. He has spoken with organizations like Adobe, Audible, Condé Nast, GoDaddy, IBM, the Wall Street Journal—and given presentations and workshops and presentations at conferences all over the world. He also publishes a newsletter on web typography, which you can find at https://rwt.io/newsletter . When not carrying on about improper quotation marks or slow font loading, he can usually be found walking the family dogs Tristan and Tillie around Turner Reservoir, riding his bike, or spending time with family.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Nader Dabit is a web and mobile developer, author, open source enthusiast, and Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services.

Spring enthusiast, occasional infrastructure abuser and basically a computer geek

I'm a senior technology leader with more than 20 years of experience managing the development of complex web and mobile applications for domestic and international businesses. I spent my early career running a web development agency, working with more than 200 companies to spec, design, and build custom implementations to help achieve their corporate goals. Later, I moved into executive management roles that focused on product strategy and development, leading cross-functional teams to concept, engineer, and launch consumer-facing and B2B products and platforms. I was the lead architect and developer for hundreds of websites including several ecommerce platforms, custom CRMs, and the F7 CMS, a robust web-based content management system. I’ve worked with big data and complex analytics systems running on leading-edge cloud infrastructures. I’ve managed international development teams, collaborated with strategic partners, co-led the acquisition of a technology company, and worked directly with clients and key stakeholders to build highly-scalable products for web and mobile. Throughout my career I have excelled in strong leadership roles managing employees, development teams, and partnerships. I care deeply about my team members, working side-by-side and one-on-one when necessary to help remove obstacles, provide support and mentorship, and maximize their effectiveness to get things done. As an entrepreneur, I’ve been through the startup cycle multiple times and gained a vast amount of experience in operations, finance, marketing, and management. I’m constantly looking for new challenges and opportunities to revolutionize the way technology helps us communicate and do business.

Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on helping developers with Google Cloud. As a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from the island of Cyprus, he currently lives in Greenwich of London, not too far away from the prime meridian.

Emrah Şamdan is the VP of Product at Thundra, a tool to provide observability and security for serverless and containerized workloads. Being one of the organizers of ServerlessDays Istanbul and ServerlessDays Virtual, speaking in many conferences about serverless, he’s a lot into the serverless community. He tries to evangelize the serverless applications with his talks about serverless observability, serverless cost optimization, and chaos engineering.

Ariya's life is centered around technical leadership, developer communities, and free/open-source software. His daily job involves running start-up engineering teams (twice already, with an exit, and now on the third run) building enterprise products. During his spare time, he focuses his passion to energize the developer communities by sharing his insights & learning on his blog, speaking at meetups and events, running a non-profit foundation, advising early-stage startups, as well as contributing and maintaining various free/open-source software (FOSS).

Seb is writing code since he first touched a Commodore 64 in the mid-eighties. He is inspiring builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. His interests are about software architectures, developer tools and mobile computing. Seb is a blogger on AWS News Blog (aka Jeff’s blog), a regular speaker at conferences, the host of the official AWS 🇫🇷 Podcast, the AWS Video Channel in french, and a regular contributor to Les technos 🇧🇪 podcast (in french). Before joining the AWS Evangelist team, Seb built & lead the AWS technical training team in EMEA, and the Alexa solution architecture team in UK, France, Italy and Spain.

Tomislav Nikolic is a software developer at venITure and for the last 2 years he has been focusing on developing viable and complete IT solutions to the Atlassian marketplace. Aside from the Atlassian Ecosystem, his interests are occupied by streamlining and optimizing software, as well as the processes within his development team. When not deep inside Jira's source code, you'll find him gaming, or browsing and discussing the latest news from the tech world.

Aman Jain is an engineering lead at Facebook's innovation lab called New Product Experimentation (NPE). Previously, Aman was part of the founding team that built WhatsApp Business API; the first backend engineer on Instagram Live; and a technical lead / pre-IPO hire on Twitter Ads. He is currently building a product that will allow the underemployed to earn money by providing online experiences. Aman is also a licensed private pilot and enjoys flying planes in and around California.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Craig McLuckie is the Vice President of research and development at VMware, working in the Modern Applications Platform business unit. He arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a company he co-founded and led as CEO. Previously, Craig co-founded the Kubernetes project, created and chaired the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and was the original product lead for Google Compute Engine.

Chris Riley (@hoardinginfo) is obsessed with bringing modern technologies to those who need to solve real-world problems, going from unicorn to reality. Chris speaks and engages with end-users regularly in the areas of DevOps, SecOps, and App Dev. He works for Splunk as a Tech Advocate and is a regular contributor to industry blogs such as ContainerJournal.com, DevOps.com and Sweetcode.io. He is also the host of the podcast, Developers Eating the World. As a bad-coder-turned-technology-advocate, Chris understands the challenges and needs of modern engineers, as well as how technology fits into the broader business goals of companies in a demanding high-tech world.

Platform Architect and Evangelist working for Autodesk Research. Blogs and tweets about developing with Forge, AutoCAD and other Autodesk technology, especially with respect to IoT, Generative Design and XR.

Ben Hale leads Pivotal’s Java Cloud Foundry efforts including being a founding member of the Cloud Native Buildpacks CNCF Sandbox project and leading the Cloud Foundry Java Buildpack. In addition to this work, he’s very involved in the Reactive Programming scene founding the Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) project, being a spec lead and committer on the RSocket Reactive networking protocol, and being a long-time contributor to Project Reactor. In what little spare time he has left, Ben loves riding his bike, especially in the high mountains of the Italian Dolomites.

Eric is Red Hat’s Portfolio Architect Director. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, and baseball expert. In his current role allows him to share his knowledge of Red Hat’s open source technologies and cloud computing. 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.

Kristijan grew up in Germany and has over 10+ years experience in the area of agile software development. Currently he is managing director of venITure, a company with subsidiaries in Germany, Turkey and Croatia. venITure is an Infobip partner and one of the fastest growing Atlassian Platinum Enterprise Solution Partners around the globe. In his free-time Kristijan is passionate about sports.

Juarez has +20 years of experience in several IT-related roles throughout his career, currently working for Microsoft as the Azure Developer Engagement Lead in Ireland. Previously, he's worked as a Principal Developer Advocate - Blockchain at Oracle as well as a Thought Leader and Technical Evangelist at IBM. He's passionate about engaging developers and communities to present and discuss the latest technologies related to all things Blockchain, IoT, Cloud Native, and cloud, with a particular focus and interest on Microsoft Azure.

Spring enthusiast, occasional infrastructure abuser and basically a computer geek.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked as a lawyer and in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived to Japan in 2011. He subsequently switched to the private sector working for startups and now for Nikkei. Graduate of University of Bologna and Newcastle University has a special focus on public-private partnerships in tech, regulatory solutions and policy implementation. Nik, as he likes to be called by people who can't get the accent right on Nìkola, has worked in tech for a number of years and is leading the partnership efforts for Nikkei in terms of startups, VCs and corporates.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.

Luka is a computer science major working in Ars Futura as a data scientist and software engineer. He developed his passion for machine learning during his studies where he was a part of the TakeLab research lab. Luka worked as a software engineer on various major international projects, most recently he’s been focusing on data science projects. In his free time, he likes to workout and enjoy the music.

Mr.sc Helena Librenjak holds 17 years of experience in financial and IT industry, working in different areas from R&D, project management to business strategy. Her wide knowledge has been gained through different roles that she hold during her career as well as specific education at Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge and University of Paderborn. She is certified Atos Expert in Data Intelligence domain and active member of Atos Scientific Community, group of 150 scientist, engineers and visionaries who’s role is to create changes in Atos as well as on global IT scene. Her area of interest is developing data driven solutions and implementation of AI and it’s implication on society. Especially she is interested in developing Ethical and Explainable intelligent systems.

Matija Ilijas is a computer science major active in the field of computer vision and machine learning. In 2014 he joined Microblink as a student and has since then helped transform the company into one of the leading providers of data extraction technology powered by AI. Today he is in charge of the company’s AI department that drives research and real-world problem solving.

Dr. Victor Lee is Head of Product Strategy and Developer Relations at TigerGraph. He brings a strong academic background, decades of industry experience, and a commitment to quality and service to his work. Victor was a circuit designer and technology transfer manager at Rambus, before returning to school for his computer science PhD, focusing on graph data mining. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and PhD in Computer Science from Kent State University.

Design and development of Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Data Integration, Big Data and Expert systems. DWH/BI/Data Integration/Database Expert with strong expertise in all phases of data-related projects: Project Management & Team Leadership, Business Requirements Analysis, Preparing Functional & Technical Specifications, Data Model Design & Documentation, Design & Implementation of ETL/Database Jobs, Testing & Documenting ETL/Database Jobs, Maintaining & Optimizing & Redesign of ETL/Database Jobs/Systems, Solution Architecture & Enterprise Architecture, Coaching & Implementing Best Practices.

Born and raised in NW London of mixed-ethnic background, following an MA in Theology from the University of Cambridge Bilal moved into a career in Youth Engagement, public speaking and facilitation and has delivered hundreds of speeches and workshops around social justice, enterprise and diversity and inclusion as a result. Currently working as a freelance facilitator, infrequent radio Breakfast Show Host and host of Over The Bridge Podcast, Bilal spends much of his time engaging audiences in critical thinking to understand the root causes of oppression and has subsequently written articles for the BBC . As a host, Bilal has had the privilege to work in multiple countries around the world with clients in both charitable and corporate sector industries and has spoken in venues such as the SSE Arena Wembley.

Ivan is the founder of the Shift Conference. Alongside this he co-founded Codeanywhere, the first cross platform Cloud IDE, which now has over a million users worldwide.