Most Active Speakers 2023

Sessionize proudly presents the list of the most active speakers in the year 2023!

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Joanne Klein

Joanne Klein

Joanne Klein is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant, a 6-time Microsoft MVP in M365 Apps & Services, and an Advanced Compliance specialist in the Microsoft suite of tools. Joanne works with her customers on planning and implementing information protection and data governance controls across their Microsoft 365 environments to address the unique challenges of today's modern workplace. She’s a firm believer that it’s not all about technology.

Joanne blogs about these areas with a focus on how to secure, protect, and govern information assets while minimizing end-user impact.

Joanne Klein is an independent Microsoft 365 consultant, a 6-time Microsoft MVP in M365 Apps & Services, and an Advanced Compliance specialist in the Microsoft suite of tools. Joanne works with her customers on planning and implementing information p... Show more

Fawaz Ghali

Fawaz Ghali

Fawaz Ghali is Principal Data Science Architect and the Head of Developer Relations at Hazelcast with +22 years of experience in DevRel, cloud, enterprise software development and deployment, ML/AI and real-time intelligent applications, management and leadership. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked in the private sector as well as in academia and research. He has published +45 scientific peer-reviewed papers in the fields of ML/AI, data science and cloud computing on Google Scholar. Fawaz is a renowned expert with +200 talks and presentations at global events and conferences.

Fawaz Ghali is Principal Data Science Architect and the Head of Developer Relations at Hazelcast with +22 years of experience in DevRel, cloud, enterprise software development and deployment, ML/AI and real-time intelligent applications, management a... Show more

Matthew Groves

Matthew Groves

Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn't matter if it's C#, jQuery, or PHP: he'll submit pull requests for anything. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent's pizza shop back in the 90s. He currently works for Couchbase, helping developers in any way he can. His free time is spent with his family, watching the Reds, and getting involved in the developer community. He is the author of AOP in .NET, Pro Microservices in .NET, a Pluralsight author, and a Microsoft MVP.

Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn't matter if it's C#, jQuery, or PHP: he'll submit pull requests for anything. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent's pizza shop ba... Show more

Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan

Sarah brings with her more than 18 years of experience in the software industry, primarily at Boston-based ventures. In addition to her current role as a Sr. Product Manager at TelemetryHub, she is a product strategy consultant for Tapple.io.
Sarah holds a BS in Computer Science from Eckerd College, a Masters of Science in Innovation from Northeastern University, and an MBA also from Northeastern.

Sarah brings with her more than 18 years of experience in the software industry, primarily at Boston-based ventures. In addition to her current role as a Sr. Product Manager at TelemetryHub, she is a product strategy consultant for Tapple.io. Sarah... Show more

Victoria Mutai

Victoria Mutai

Victoria Mutai is a software developer and co-lead Firebase Kenya. She works as a Supplier Intelligence Specialist at Assent Kenya, where she develops python scripts that are used for data analysis and web scraping. She holds a Bsc in Information Technology at Kirinyaga University . Victoria Mutai is passionate on making use of Firebase and implementing it on her projects and day to day job.

In her spare time, Victoria enjoys training people on programming fundamentals in Web development  and volunteering in her community.

Victoria Mutai is a software developer and co-lead Firebase Kenya. She works as a Supplier Intelligence Specialist at Assent Kenya, where she develops python scripts that are used for data analysis and web scraping. She holds a Bsc in Information Tec... Show more

Martin Catherall

Martin Catherall

Martin Catherall is a Data Architect working on Microsoft Data Platform technologies. He is currently based in Brisbane, Australia.

Martin’s career has expanded from the world of SQL Server Administration and T-SQL development to encompass data engineering and architecture on the Microsoft Azure Platform.

He has over 15 years’ experience in the data industry and has been a recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award since 2014

When he is not engaged in data related activities, he can be found exploring the Queensland landscape (he’s recently escaped Melbourne), learning about Minecraft or Super Mario from his kids and learning the guitar – despite being tone deaf!

Martin is the co-host of DataPlatform downunder
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/data-platform-downunder-meetup-group/

Martin Catherall is a Data Architect working on Microsoft Data Platform technologies. He is currently based in Brisbane, Australia. Martin’s career has expanded from the world of SQL Server Administration and T-SQL development to encompass data en... Show more

Robert Mulsow

Robert Mulsow

Rob lives to challenge the status quo, a digital transformer, Microsoft MVP & MCT and Founder of M365 Consulting company SkillBridge. All three roles are focusing on driving business success through modern collaboration solutions and new ways to work. Based on this foundation he's now driving overall IT Strategy as AI Enterprise Architect at q.beyond AG.

With this skillset, Rob supports companies mapping their business processes to modern workplace solutions with an AI-First Approach and make them more successful in migrating the business, driving user adoption and protecting their data.

Ask him anything about AI, Microsoft Viva, Information Governance, Teams Adoption Strategies as well as security topics.

Rob lives to challenge the status quo, a digital transformer, Microsoft MVP & MCT and Founder of M365 Consulting company SkillBridge. All three roles are focusing on driving business success through modern collaboration solutions and new ways to work... Show more

Deepthi Goguri

Deepthi Goguri

Deepthi is a SQL Server Database Administrator with several years of experience in Administering SQL Servers. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Microsoft certified trainer and Microsoft certified professional with an Associate and Expert level Certification on Data Management and Analytics. Deepthi blogs for DBANuggets.com. Deepthi is an Co-Organizer for Microsoft Data and AI South Florida user group and Data Platform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Virtual Group. She is a Volunteer for Data platform Women in Technology user group. She is a Friend of Redgate. Along with this, Deepthi loves arts and crafts. You can contact her on Twitter @dbanuggets.

Deepthi is a SQL Server Database Administrator with several years of experience in Administering SQL Servers. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Microsoft certified trainer and Microsoft certified professional with an Associate and Expert level Ce... Show more

Ásgeir Gunnarsson

Ásgeir Gunnarsson

Ásgeir is a Data Platform MVP and owner of North Insights ApS. He works on Business Intelligence solutions using the whole of the MS BI stack. Ásgeir has been working in BI since 2007 both as a consultant and internal employee. Before turning to BI Ásgeir worked as a technical trainer and currently teaches BI courses at the Continuing Education Department of the University of Iceland.

Ásgeir speaks regularly at events both domestic and internationally and is the group leader of the Icelandic PASS Group as well as the Icelandic Power BI user group.

Ásgeir is the co-author of Pro Power BI Administration from APRESS and the Power BI MVP book

Ásgeir is passionate about data and loves solving problem with BI.

Ásgeir is a Data Platform MVP and owner of North Insights ApS. He works on Business Intelligence solutions using the whole of the MS BI stack. Ásgeir has been working in BI since 2007 both as a consultant and internal employee. Before turning to BI Á... Show more

Eric "waldo" Wauters

Eric "waldo" Wauters

Eric “waldo” Wauters

Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Dynex bv.

With his 21 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams.  As development manager he continually acts upon the technical readiness of iFacto and Dynex.
   
Apart from that, Eric is also very active in BC community, where he tries to solve technical issues and shares his knowledge with other Dynamics enthusiasts. Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric’s posts, which he invariably signs with “waldo”.

Lots of people have been using and even contributing to tools he shares for free on github.

His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).

Eric “waldo” Wauters Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions and Dynex bv. With his 21 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development teams.  As development manager he continually act... Show more

Brandon Minnick

Brandon Minnick

Brandon is a Microsoft MVP and a .NET Developer Advocate at AWS where he gets to work closely with the developer community to help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps.

Brandon previously worked at Xamarin + Microsoft where he focused on creating mobile apps in C# using Xamarin + .NET MAUI.

An avid mobile app developer, Brandon loves to code and has contributed to and published countless apps!

Brandon is a Microsoft MVP and a .NET Developer Advocate at AWS where he gets to work closely with the developer community to help fellow mobile app and cloud developers make 5-star apps. Brandon previously worked at Xamarin + Microsoft where he f... Show more

Cleyra Uzcategui

Cleyra Uzcategui

Cleyra is a Venezuelan Software Engineer based in United Kingdom. Her passion for web development and user experience have led her to focus her career on creating products that are easy to use and accessible to everyone. She is also a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the tech industry and is always looking for ways to promote equal opportunity and representation, in her role as Women Techmakers ambassador, Women Developer Academy Mentor, Google Developers Group organiser and in her role as Affiliate Professor at University of Glasgow.

Cleyra is a Venezuelan Software Engineer based in United Kingdom. Her passion for web development and user experience have led her to focus her career on creating products that are easy to use and accessible to everyone. She is also a promoter of div... Show more

Almudena Vivanco

Almudena Vivanco

Performance engineer with expertise in high availability and scalability systems, focusing in load testing and performance analysis and tuning of services and infrastructures. I have worked with performance testing tools as silkperformer, jmeter, Apache Benchmark, Siege, Tsung, LoadUI, Visual Studio Performance Testing in different technologies such as Websphere, Jboss for Java, NodeJS, Python/Django, and IIS with C#. I have worked with NOSQL platforms as CouchBase, MongoDB, Neo4J and Riak. I consider very importart the expertise in monitoring tools as Nagios, Grafana or Munin in order to validate the results of the performance tests

Performance engineer with expertise in high availability and scalability systems, focusing in load testing and performance analysis and tuning of services and infrastructures. I have worked with performance testing tools as silkperformer, jmeter, Apa... Show more

Pawel Potasinski

Pawel Potasinski

CTO at InfiniteDATA Services, a company specializing in developing state-of-the-art data platforms for large enterprises. In his professional career Pawel has always been associated with data engineering and analytics (SQL, BI, Big Data). Founder of the Polish SQL Server Users Group (PLSSUG), today known as Data Community Poland. Regular speaker at conferences, community events and user groups. Former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

CTO at InfiniteDATA Services, a company specializing in developing state-of-the-art data platforms for large enterprises. In his professional career Pawel has always been associated with data engineering and analytics (SQL, BI, Big Data). Founder of ... Show more

David Ortinau

David Ortinau

David is a Principal Product Manager for .NET at Microsoft, focused on .NET MAUI. A .NET developer since 2002, and versed in a range of programming languages, David has developed web, environmental, and mobile experiences for a wide variety of industries. After several successes with tech startups and running his own software company, David joined Microsoft to follow his passion: crafting tools that help developers create better app experiences. When not at a computer or with his family, David is running through the woods.

David is a Principal Product Manager for .NET at Microsoft, focused on .NET MAUI. A .NET developer since 2002, and versed in a range of programming languages, David has developed web, environmental, and mobile experiences for a wide variety of indust... Show more

Marcelo Adade

Marcelo Adade

Marcelo is a Microsoft Data Platform Lead Database Consultant at The Pythian Group. He has more than 15 years of experience in several Companies from different branches and sizes. Like financial companies, consultant shops, datacenters and e-commerce sites. Currently holds the MCSE, MCT and MCSA Microsoft Certifications and also the Oracle OCP. Loves technology and enjoys sharing his Database knowledge delivering presentations and official Microsoft Training Courses. Currently he is also the co-leader of the SQLMANIACS PASS User Group, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Marcelo is a Microsoft Data Platform Lead Database Consultant at The Pythian Group. He has more than 15 years of experience in several Companies from different branches and sizes. Like financial companies, consultant shops, datacenters and e-commerce... Show more

Dillon White

Dillon White

Microsoft Security evangelist with over twelve years of IT Engineering and Leadership experience. Military veteran with a background in Cloud Security and Virtualization. Now providing Architecture consulting and career transition coaching.

Microsoft Security evangelist with over twelve years of IT Engineering and Leadership experience. Military veteran with a background in Cloud Security and Virtualization. Now providing Architecture consulting and career transition coaching. Show more

Jim Wooley

Jim Wooley

By day, Jim Wooley is a Senior Delivery Principal for Slalom Consulting, In his free time, Jim is a frequent speaker, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since its announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing and speaking at code camps and regional events, including MIX, VS Live, CodeMash, KCDC, That Conference, DevWeek, and CodeStock.

By day, Jim Wooley is a Senior Delivery Principal for Slalom Consulting, In his free time, Jim is a frequent speaker, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new cha... Show more

Martina Grom

Martina Grom

I am a Principal at atwork currently living in Vienna, Austria. My interests range from technology to travel. I am also interested in science fiction, writing, and innovation. I am recognized as an expert in Microsoft Cloud solutions. Since 2015, I am a Regional Director for Microsoft. My expertise is related to online technologies, and my specialty is in Microsoft Cloud Services like Azure and Microsoft 365. I help with architecture planning companies with cloud solutions, and provide strategy, consulting, governance, security and compliance and architectural planning of cloud projects. In addition, I am one of the organizational heads of cloudusergroup for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. I have authored numerous books, articles and blogs. My passion is online and social media, cloud computing, cybersecurity. I have a Master’s of International Business Administration from the University of Vienna, Austria. Talk to me about: Cloud Computing, Cloud Architecture & Strategy, Change Management, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Enterprise Social.

I am a Principal at atwork currently living in Vienna, Austria. My interests range from technology to travel. I am also interested in science fiction, writing, and innovation. I am recognized as an expert in Microsoft Cloud solutions. Since 2015, I a... Show more

Armando Lacerda

Armando Lacerda

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Bobur Umurzokov

Bobur Umurzokov

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Bobur is a developer advocate and speaker specializing in software and data engineering. With over 10- years of experience in IT, he blogs about open-source technologies and the community around them.

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Bobur works with companies at different scales to build awareness, drive adoption, and engage with the community for developer-targeted products. He also creates inspiring content, design, and code use cases, projects, and demo apps to boost learning products.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 Bobur is a developer advocate and speaker specializing in software and data engineering. With over 10- years of experience in IT, he blogs about open-source technologies and the community around them. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 Bobur wo... Show more

Celeste Tania Sánchez Fresneda

Celeste Tania Sánchez Fresneda

Desarrolladora desde hace 20 años en tecnologías .NET
Consultora Dynamics 365 desde hace 8 años
Consultora Azure desde hace 5 años
Consultora Power Platform desde hace 4 años

Desarrolladora desde hace 20 años en tecnologías .NET Consultora Dynamics 365 desde hace 8 años Consultora Azure desde hace 5 años Consultora Power Platform desde hace 4 años Show more

Alain Delachaux

Alain Delachaux

Je suis tombé dans la marmite Agile en 2018 après 17 ans de vie dans l'IT.
D'abord Product Owner puis Scrum Master. Maintenant j'accompagne les équipes dans leurs découvertes de l'Agilité.
Je suis foncièrement agnostique Agile. Et je défends l'idée que les Frameworks sont des outils qui doivent être compris et utilisés à bon escient affin de servir une démarche respectueuse du manifeste et son esprit tout en tenant compte des impacts sur le vivant.

Je suis tombé dans la marmite Agile en 2018 après 17 ans de vie dans l'IT. D'abord Product Owner puis Scrum Master. Maintenant j'accompagne les équipes dans leurs découvertes de l'Agilité. Je suis foncièrement agnostique Agile. Et je défends l'id... Show more

Jean-Yves Klein

Jean-Yves Klein

Agile Senior Coach, old Dev, became Project manager, CTO, and other stuff....
PMP, DAC and SAFe certified I'm trying to find the best solution, depending of the client, the team, the project....
I have supported agile teams in IT, mechanics, electronics, marketing, legal...
I created several Serious Games in order to make people understand SAFe, DevOps, the roles of PO, Scrum Master...

Agile Senior Coach, old Dev, became Project manager, CTO, and other stuff.... PMP, DAC and SAFe certified I'm trying to find the best solution, depending of the client, the team, the project.... I have supported agile teams in IT, mechanics, electr... Show more

Dr. Abhilasha Vyas

Dr. Abhilasha Vyas

Dr. Abhilasha Vyas working as Business Unit Head Cloud Security and BI, CloudThat. She is Executive council member, Women in Big Data (WiBD)
India and Core Team member of Women in Tech India. She is Gujarat Chapter
Lead of infosecgirls community. She is also working as Head, Cyber Cell, Suraj
Sansthan, Jaipur. Her research area is Cyber Security and Detection of DDoS
attacks. Dr. Abhilasha is AWS Cloud Solution Architect certified. She has
been invited and honored as keynote speaker, session chair, resource person and
technical committee member of various conferences. Dr. Abhilasha Vyas recognised by The420.in along with Noida-
based NGO Root64 Infosec Research Foundation as CQ100 women as a result of
a pan-India online survey to acknowledge the efforts of women who have made a
difference in the online world and made the digital world safer.

Dr. Abhilasha Vyas working as Business Unit Head Cloud Security and BI, CloudThat. She is Executive council member, Women in Big Data (WiBD) India and Core Team member of Women in Tech India. She is Gujarat Chapter Lead of infosecgirls community. ... Show more

Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino

Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino

Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning Publishing and previously worked at VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.

Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiat... Show more

Rachel Appel

Rachel Appel

Rachel currently works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate. She has been in the business of creating software for over 25 years, as an author, mentor, and speaker at top industry conferences such as Techorama, //build, Øredev, NDC and SDD. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies.

Rachel’s expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, specifically Azure Functions, ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Her hobbies include science, AI, reading, languages, and travel.

Rachel currently works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate. She has been in the business of creating software for over 25 years, as an author, mentor, and speaker at top industry conferences such as Techorama, //build, Øredev, NDC and SDD. During h... Show more

Peter ONeill

Peter ONeill

Peter is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Teleport, specializing in secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure. As an organizer of DevOps Days Rockies and enthusiastic open-source user of projects like OpenTofu and Kubernetes, they are passionate about fostering community and driving innovation. With expertise in Kubernetes, DevOps, and zero-trust architectures, Peter delivers practical insights to help developers secure and optimize their engineering workflows.

Peter is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Teleport, specializing in secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure. As an organizer of DevOps Days Rockies and enthusiastic open-source user of projects like OpenTofu and Kubernetes, they are passionate abo... Show more

Renaud Mathieu

Renaud Mathieu

Organizer GDG Paris Android.

Organizer GDG Paris Android. Show more

Peik Bech-Andersen

Peik Bech-Andersen

Peik Bech-Andersen is a freelance solution architect , consultant, Instructor and developer, Implementing solutions all-over the world. He is specialized in advanced manufacturing combined with master data replication and Intercompany solutions.

He first saw Navision in 1984 at the beta testing program of PcPlus. He started implementing manufacturing solutions in 1983 on IBM S/36 systems. Since the Dynamics NAV manufacturing module was released, he has implemented at least 50 Manufacturing solutions in all kinds of different businesses. Starting as an accountant in a production company and moving on to implementing systems, he has both the accounting, the development and the implementation background.

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he has conducted courses the last 10 years in topics like Dynamics NAV programming, installation, finance, trade, warehouse management and manufacturing. During the many years, he has had countless courses with many participants in 15 countries.

Peik Bech-Andersen is a freelance solution architect , consultant, Instructor and developer, Implementing solutions all-over the world. He is specialized in advanced manufacturing combined with master data replication and Intercompany solutions. H... Show more

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Most Active Speakers 2023

Every year, we put together a list of the most active speakers. This list features the top 3% of speakers who have participated in events using Sessionize during the 2023.

The 3% is calculated from the pool of all speakers that have at least one accepted session in year 2023. We don't include inactive speakers or speakers that had no accepted sessions during the year. There are around 25 thousand unique accepted speakers this year, the 3% is 771. Not all of them have their speaker profiles set as public, and we respect that, so the list doesn't show all of them.

The calculation is based on the number of accepted events, that's the main criteria, but to get more refined results we also look at things like multiple sessions per event, sharing a session with a co-speaker and how big the event is. Number of submissions and declined sessions don't affect the list.

Please note that the count of events and sessions in this list does not represent the number of events and sessions from the year 2023. Instead, it shows the number of events and sessions featured on the speaker's public speaker profile; these numbers have nothing to do with the award itself.