• Akula Karthik

    Akula Karthik

    Amazon Web Services, Sr Technical Account MAnager

    Sr Technical Account Manager in AWS

  • Alessandro Zuniga

    Alessandro Zuniga

    The MITRE Corporation, Lead Secure Cloud Engineer with a focus on AI, containerization, microservices, and DevSecOps

    Alessandro Zuniga is a Lead Secure Cloud Engineer with experience in Node.js microservice development, AWS cloud deployments, and secure software delivery, and he enjoys building systems that connect infrastructure, automation, and security. His recent work has explored how LLMs can support cybersecurity analysis and framework mapping, along with Docker-based workflows and cloud-native engineering. Outside of work, Alessandro enjoys spending time with his wife and kids and staying active through running, soccer, weight training, hunting, and fishing.

  • Bodhisattva Das

    Bodhisattva Das

    Security Engineer - RUDRA Cybersecurity

    Bodhisattva Das is a Security Engineer at Rudra Cybersecurity, focused on securing non-human identities, AI agents, and automated workloads across cloud environments. He specialises in open-source threat detection using Wazuh, and builds practical solutions for identity governance and AI-driven security operations. Driven by a passion for digital rights and responsible AI governance, he strives to build secure systems that protect people as technology evolves. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and exchanging ideas with global tech communities.

  • Boomie Odumade

    Boomie Odumade

    Senior Engineering Leader | Career Coach | Speaker & Board Member

    Boomie Odumade is a senior engineering leader and career coach with 20+ years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and systems.

    Through TechBees, she works with companies as a fractional or interim CTO/VPE, bringing clarity to ambiguous situations and building foundations that scale. Recent engagements include stepping in as fractional CTO to stabilize a critical donation-flow failure for a national nonprofit under a two-week deadline.

    Boomie has led engineering organizations at companies including Accenture, NPR, and Capital One, startups, and scale-ups. She also serves as a board trustee for organizations advancing leadership development and STEM education.

    Her talks are grounded in real experience and bring an energetic, practical perspective to engineering leadership, technical strategy, security and DevSecOps, and building healthy, inclusive engineering cultures.

  • Brian Teller

    Brian Teller

    Founder of Teller’s Tech, staff-level DevOps engineer, and podcast host

    Brian Teller is the founder of Teller’s Tech and host of Ship It Weekly, a podcast for practitioners working in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and cloud. He brings real-world experience from staff-level infrastructure work across Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, CI/CD, incident response, and operational guardrails. Brian is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and ITIL Ambassador, and much of his work centers on helping engineers cut through hype, think critically, and make better decisions in production environments.

  • Eric Honour

    Eric Honour

    Solutions Architect, Excella

    Eric Honour is a Solutions Architect at Excella, where he specializes in helping organizations translate their business needs into technical solutions.  In his spare time, he enjoys building things (musical instruments, tents, and communities), as well as mentoring the next generation of technical talent.

  • Isadora Martin-Dye

    Isadora Martin-Dye

    Founder at Isadora $ Co

    Isadora Martin-Dye is the founder of Bloom, a venue intelligence platform for the wedding industry, and the owner-operator of Rixey Manor, a Knot Hall of Fame wedding venue in Rixeyville, Virginia. She runs both - a working venue and a software company - from the same desk.
    A non-engineer by training, she ships production AI through 2,700+ lines of living architecture doctrine, versioned prompts with dual-provider fallback, and a cross-tier audit framework she designed to stress-test her own work. British-born and Virginia-based, she builds for industries where the transaction is irreplaceable, the customer is emotional, and "the model hallucinated" isn't an acceptable answer.

  • Kurtis Kemple

    Kurtis Kemple

    Developer Strategy @ Slack (Frontier AI & Platform XP)

    Kurtis Kemple is a formerly incarcerated tech leader whose extensive experience across software engineering, developer relations, platform experience, and agent design has made him a leading voice in the field. His work is unified by a relentless focus on clarity—whether that means making implicit system dynamics explicit through frameworks and programs, removing friction along the developer journey, or teaching developers, designers, and product managers how to build best-in-class agentic experiences.

    Through his work at Integral Ad Science and Major League Soccer he built deep foundations in real-time analytics, ETL infrastructure, and delivering integrated experiences across digital and physical interfaces. Apollo GraphQL and AWS sharpened his understanding of developer-first product thinking, API infrastructure, and platform engineering at genuine scale. Slack and Salesforce brought it all together—putting him at the center of platform experience and agentic AI at the exact moment they became the most consequential challenges in the industry. Now he's channeling that accumulated expertise into writing as the author of *Effective DevRel*, releasing in May 2026 through Apress, with two more in the works—currently titled *Platform Engineering for AI* and *Agentic Experience Design*.

    Currently Kurtis leads developer strategy for Slack Platform as Sr. Director of Developer Relations, where he focuses on frontier AI and its possible effects on platform and agent experience. Outside of work he pursues independent research at the intersection of mathematics and physical systems, is a gallery-featured street photographer, rides his motorcycle where he shouldn't, and mostly enjoys spending time with his family.

  • Matthew Franz

    Matthew Franz

    Security & Compliance Lead, Pydantic

    Matt Franz recently joined Pydantic as their first security hire, with responsibility for all things security and compliance. With over 25 years of experience in early-stage startups and mature enterprises, Matt blends the strategic perspective of an executive with the hands-on expertise of a builder. His background includes founding the Helix Cloud Operations team at Mandiant/FireEye, serving as VP of Production Engineering at Cofense, and directing global security operations at Ping Identity. A former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst, Matt currently focuses on large-scale data platforms, security analytics, infrastructure automation, and applying generative AI to offensive and defensive use cases. He builds daily in Python and Golang, with a focus on agentic blue team capabilities.

  • Max Kanat-Alexander

    Max Kanat-Alexander

    Executive Distinguished Engineer, Developer Experience at Capital One

    Max is an Executive Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, where he helps set the company’s strategy for AI-assisted software development. Before that, he was the Chief Architect of the Bugzilla Project, then the Tech Lead for Code Health at Google, and then one of the Tech Leads for Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn. He has written two books, Code Simplicity and Understanding Software. He was the primary author of Google’s code review guidelines, as well as the LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework.

  • Melissa M. Reeve

    Melissa M. Reeve

    Founder of HyperadaptiveSolutions, Author of "Hyperadaptive"

    Melissa Reeve brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective shaped by over three decades at the intersection of executive leadership, organizational transformation, and process excellence. Her foundation in the Lean mindset began at Waseda University in Tokyo, where she studied the Toyota Production System and witnessed Hino Motor Company’s Andon cords in action. This early exposure to process excellence informed her pioneering work with Agile marketing from 2011. As the first VP of Marketing at Scaled Agile and thought leader in the SAFe in Marketing space, Melissa immersed herself in systems thinking, Total Quality Management, DevOps, and Lean principles. She went on to co-found the Agile Marketing Alliance, where she built a community of Agile marketing practitioners and gained firsthand insight into the challenges of organizational change. Recognizing the enormous impact of AI with ChatGPT's introduction in November 2022, Melissa dedicated herself to researching AI's organizational impacts. Hyperadaptive represents the culmination of this work, offering a synthesis of process excellence, organizational evolution, and the human side of AI integration that provides leaders with a practical pathway to becoming AI-native enterprises.

  • Mohamed AboElKheir

    Mohamed AboElKheir

    Application Security Engineer - IronClad

    I am currently an Application Security engineer at IronClad, where I am building a new Application Security Program. Before that, I was also an Application Security Engineer at Amazon for ~ 4 years, and during this period, I reviewed and collaborated on 500+ AWS services/features/tools.
    Blog: https://medium.com/@mohamed.osama.aboelkheir
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AppSecUntangled

  • Morgan Fields

    Morgan Fields

    Software Engineer + Developer Success Leader

    Morgan is a Software Engineer and Developer Success Lead who founded Communal Tech, an agency contracting for global tech organizations. She specializes in building reliable AI-powered features for high-stakes user applications, including a mental wellness platform serving guidance to over 500,000 survivors of domestic abuse. Her work focuses on reducing hallucinations, handling sensitive data responsibly, and fine-tuning AI systems to perform reliably where failure carries real consequences.

  • Noble Ackerson

    Noble Ackerson

    Senior Director of AI and Agentic Solutions, Leidos

    Noble Ackerson is Senior Director of AI and Agentic Solutions at Leidos, where he builds and ships production agent systems for federal and enterprise customers.

    He is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud AI/ML, an instructor for the Google Cloud Agent Engineering Nanodegree, and the author of rai-checklist-cli, an open source tool for responsible AI compliance.

    His work focuses on evaluation, governance, and the practical question of how to trust a system you cannot fully specify.

    He last spoke at this conference in 2023, arguing that putting generative AI into production would mean wrapping it in more complexity than anyone wanted to admit.

  • Rajaniesh Kaushikk

    Rajaniesh Kaushikk

    Director Technology | Microsoft MVP | Databricks MVP| Databricks Champion | MCT | Author | Blogger

    Meet Rajaniesh Kaushikk – a Microsoft MVP and TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect with over 22 years of experience in delivering complex software architectures for Fortune 500 companies. Rajaniesh specializes in data integration, governance, and analysis, with a proven track record in defining technical architectures, designing analytic solutions, and developing agile frameworks. His expertise spans Hybrid Cloud, Azure Cloud, Power BI, Kubernetes, Databricks Lakehouse, Snowflake, and more, making him a trusted partner in solving intricate business challenges and driving market growth.

    As a hands-on technical architect, Microsoft Certified Solution Architect, and Databricks Champion, Rajaniesh excels in translating complex concepts into actionable strategies, whether through pre-sales technical presentations or public speaking at Microsoft events. A Microsoft Certified Trainer, he is committed to sharing his knowledge and staying at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring scalable and innovative solutions for modern software architecture needs.

  • Regis Siqueira

    Regis Siqueira

    Software Engineering Manager

    Regis Siqueira is a Software Engineering Manager at Booking.com, where he leads teams building data governance and access management platforms for large-scale data ecosystems. His work focuses on policy enforcement and secure data access across platforms such as Snowflake and AWS S3. He specializes in building scalable systems that enable secure, compliant data access in complex environments.

  • Rita Sabri

    Rita Sabri

    Cybersecurity Educator and Researcher

    Rita Sabri is a cybersecurity educator and applied security researcher working at the intersection of AI agent security and human oversight. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and contributes to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications project. She built the Bank Heist Lab, an open-source prompt injection simulator. Her current research applies pedagogical techniques — comprehension checks, formative assessment, and structured oversight — to the engineering problem of AI agent autonomy.

  • Yamini Pradeepika Rathamsetty

    Yamini Pradeepika Rathamsetty

    AWS Senior Cloud Architect

    As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Yamini is known for her engaging presentations and her ability to simplify complex cloud concepts, making them accessible to audiences of all backgrounds. Her passion for cloud computing and her commitment with a suite of 10 AWS certifications delivering tangible value make her an invaluable asset.

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