Most Active Speakers 2023

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

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Cecelia Martinez

Cecelia Martinez

Cecelia Martinez is a developer, speaker, writer, and community leader. She is passionate about helping developers improve some of the most frustrating parts of their work – including testing, debugging, mobile app deployments, and fighting with YAML. She is known for her work at companies like Ionic, Replay, and Cypress, as well as her efforts to build inclusive developer communities by volunteering with Atlanta JavaScript, Out in Tech, and Women Who Code Mobile.

Cecelia Martinez is a developer, speaker, writer, and community leader. She is passionate about helping developers improve some of the most frustrating parts of their work – including testing, debugging, mobile app deployments, and fighting with YAML... Show more

Julien Jakubowski

Julien Jakubowski

Julien Jakubowski is a Developer Advocate at StreamNative with over 20+ years of experience as a developer, staff engineer, and consultant. He has built several complex systems with distributed, scalable, and event-driven architecture for various industrial sectors such as retail, finance, and manufacturing.



Julien delivers talks at conferences on software engineering, including Devoxx, JCon, Conf42, VoxxedDays, Berlin Buzzwords, and Java User Groups, among others.


Julien is located in France. He's also one of the founders and leaders of the Ch'ti JUG - Java User Group of Lille, France.

Julien Jakubowski is a Developer Advocate at StreamNative with over 20+ years of experience as a developer, staff engineer, and consultant. He has built several complex systems with distributed, scalable, and event-driven architecture for various ind... Show more

Stefan van der Wiele

Stefan van der Wiele

With over 15 years of experience Stefan has proven himself an expert on all things identity. Thanks to his designing and implementing skills in complex identity solutions he knows how to translate a business case into a technical solution.

Stefan is a speaker at multiple small and big Microsoft and non-Microsoft events focusing on identity and the cloud. He explains to all who need to know how identity works and how and why we need to protect it.

With over 15 years of experience Stefan has proven himself an expert on all things identity. Thanks to his designing and implementing skills in complex identity solutions he knows how to translate a business case into a technical solution. Stefan... Show more

Sebastiano Galazzo

Sebastiano Galazzo

Winner of three AI awards, I’ve been working in AI and machine learning for 25 years, designing and developing AI and computer graphic algorithms.

I’m very passionate about AI, focusing on Audio, Image and Natural Language Processing, and predictive analysis as well.
I received several national and international awards that recognize my work and contributions in these areas.

Microsoft MVP for Artificial Intelligence Category, I have the pleasure of being a guest speaker in national and international events.

Winner of three AI awards, I’ve been working in AI and machine learning for 25 years, designing and developing AI and computer graphic algorithms. I’m very passionate about AI, focusing on Audio, Image and Natural Language Processing, and predicti... Show more

Lesley Cordero

Lesley Cordero

Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups.

In her current role, she is focused on observability, shared platforms, and building excellent teams by setting reliability vision & strategy across The Times, improving our observability footprint, and cultivating culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first. She shows care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea.

Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups. In her current role, she is... Show more

Paulien Buskens

Paulien Buskens

Paulien (a Microsoft 365 cloud Consultant & Business Applications MVP) started her career as a SharePoint developer. When she had to create a Power App for a client she was sold and started working as a Power Platform developer. She now is a Microsoft cloud Consultant at Qubix. Where she can combine her love for Power Platform and development.

Paulien (a Microsoft 365 cloud Consultant & Business Applications MVP) started her career as a SharePoint developer. When she had to create a Power App for a client she was sold and started working as a Power Platform developer. She now is a Microsof... Show more

Eugene Meidinger

Eugene Meidinger

Eugene Meidinger works as a BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and Azure. He has been working with data for 10 years.

Eugene Meidinger works as a BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and Azure. He has been working with data for 10 years. Show more

Bill Wilder

Bill Wilder

Bill is an AI-first consultant with deep background spanning software architecture, Azure, and cybersecurity. Boston Azure AI founder. Microsoft MVP. Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). CISSP.

Bill is an AI-first consultant with deep background spanning software architecture, Azure, and cybersecurity. Boston Azure AI founder. Microsoft MVP. Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). CISSP. Show more

Rustam Mehmandarov

Rustam Mehmandarov

Experienced Software Engineer | Architect | Keynote & Public Speaker | Java Champion | Google Developer Expert for Cloud | Docker Captain | Oracle ACE Pro | Community Leader | Mentor | Ex-leader of JavaZone and Norwegian JUG – javaBin.

Experienced Software Engineer | Architect | Keynote & Public Speaker | Java Champion | Google Developer Expert for Cloud | Docker Captain | Oracle ACE Pro | Community Leader | Mentor | Ex-leader of JavaZone and Norwegian JUG – javaBin. Show more

Sara Alonso Bernardo

Sara Alonso Bernardo

- Asturiana, amante de los 📊y de los 😸.
- Microsoft MVP Data Platform & AI Platform.
- Consultora de Data & IA en Tokiota.
- Además de trabajar en diversos proyectos de Data, IA, y Power Platform también imparto formaciones de Power BI.
- Linkedin Top Data Analysis Voice.

Certificada en Microsoft:
- Power BI Data Analyst Associate.
- Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate.
- Power Platform App Maker Associate.
- Azure AI Fundamentals

Blog: https://medium.com/@salonsobernardo

- Asturiana, amante de los 📊y de los 😸. - Microsoft MVP Data Platform & AI Platform. - Consultora de Data & IA en Tokiota. - Además de trabajar en diversos proyectos de Data, IA, y Power Platform también imparto formaciones de Power BI. - Linke... Show more

Taylor Desseyn

Taylor Desseyn

Taylor is a veteran of the talent world who’s helped over 1,000 developers land game-changing roles and scaled engineering teams across the globe. Now VP of Global Community at Torc, he’s on a mission to make the internet feel like home for developers—one conversation at a time. A dynamic international speaker, he brings bold insights on the future of work, remote culture, and building community that actually connects.

Taylor is a veteran of the talent world who’s helped over 1,000 developers land game-changing roles and scaled engineering teams across the globe. Now VP of Global Community at Torc, he’s on a mission to make the internet feel like home for developer... Show more

Klaus Aschenbrenner

Klaus Aschenbrenner

Klaus Aschenbrenner provides with his company SQLpassion SQL Server consulting & training services across Europe. Klaus works with SQL Server for more than 20 years. Klaus has also written the book Pro SQL Server 2008. In his spare time he loves to do low-level OS development coding in x64 and ARM assembly

Klaus Aschenbrenner provides with his company SQLpassion SQL Server consulting & training services across Europe. Klaus works with SQL Server for more than 20 years. Klaus has also written the book Pro SQL Server 2008. In his spare time he loves to d... Show more

Mark Allibone

Mark Allibone

Mark Allibone serves as a Technical Lead at Rey Technology and a Microsoft MVP. Specializing in aiding prominent companies in their digital transformation journeys across multiple sectors, Mark brings a fervor for creating not just functionally robust applications, but also those that enhance user experience. In addition to his professional endeavors, he co-hosts the Null Pointers podcast. You can find him on most platforms as mallibone.

Mark Allibone serves as a Technical Lead at Rey Technology and a Microsoft MVP. Specializing in aiding prominent companies in their digital transformation journeys across multiple sectors, Mark brings a fervor for creating not just functionally robus... Show more

Uwe Ricken

Uwe Ricken

Uwe Ricken is working with IT systems since the 90’s. The start of experiences with Microsoft SQL Server came with the assignment for development of membership administration software for the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. The software has been distributed to five additional European countries. The primary passion for developments with Microsoft SQL Server expanded in 2007 with his engagement as a DBA for Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main. After 6 years of operational experiences as a DBA and over 14 years as a developer of complex database models he achieved the “Microsoft Certified Master – SQL Server 2008” certification which “was” the highest technical certification. The year 2013 finished with the first MVP award for his support to the Microsoft SQL Server community in Germany and Europe.
To provide his deep knowledge about Microsoft SQL Server to the interested community Uwe Ricken is blogging since 2010 at http://www.sqlmaster.de about his daily experiences with Microsoft SQL Server. His blog posts are in German language only to provide the German speaking SQL community inside views into the technology of Microsoft SQL Server.
Uwe Ricken is a speaker on many international conferences and events and preferred topics are “Database Internals”, “Indexing” and “Development”.

Uwe Ricken is working with IT systems since the 90’s. The start of experiences with Microsoft SQL Server came with the assignment for development of membership administration software for the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. The software has ... 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

Steve Gordon

Steve Gordon

Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic. He is based in the UK. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with .NET for over 20 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve online at his blog, www.stevejgordon.co.uk, and on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon.

Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic. He is based in the UK. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with .NET for over 20 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowle... Show more

Juan Rafael

Juan Rafael

Global MCT | MVP Business Aplications

Leader - Cloud Experts Community (antes PASS LIMA)

Global MCT | MVP Business Aplications Leader - Cloud Experts Community (antes PASS LIMA) Show more

Marco Rocca

Marco Rocca

I'm a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Modern Work and deals mainly (but not only ...) with SharePoint, a product that has been with him for 15 years and has experienced the birth and growth of all the latest versions. Today, however, collaboration is not just SharePoint, but all Microsoft 365 applications that are helping to revolutionize the way we work. Today I support
customers in the migration of products on the cloud and help them to identify the better adoption strategy for new products and technologies. In the last period I'm focusing on Power Platform, Teams. Copilot and Artificial Intelligence. As a speaker I have participated in several conferences as a speaker among which WPC Milan, Scottish Summit, CollabDays, European Collaboration Summit, European Power Platform Conference, Thrive and more.

I'm a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Modern Work and deals mainly (but not only ...) with SharePoint, a product that has been with him for 15 years and has experienced the birth and growth of all the latest versions. Today, however, collaboration... Show more

Alan Ferrandiz

Alan Ferrandiz

https://ferrandiz.pe/about

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Benjamin Kettner

Benjamin Kettner

Dr. Benjamin Kettner is co-founder and CTO of ML!PA Consulting GmbH. Since 2020 he is Microsoft MVP and Friend of Red Gate. He received his doctorate in applied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin in 2012. At the time of his doctorate he was a member of the DFG Research Center Matheon - Mathematics for Key Technologies and a member of the Computational Nano Optics group at the Zuse Institute Berlin.
During his PhD and studies he worked on software development and programming as well as databases and data models. After his PhD he worked as a consultant at a Microsoft BI Partner, where he was technical project manager and also managed the research and development department and worked as a software architect. In 2015 he founded ML!PA Consulting GmbH, a Microsoft partner with a focus on advanced analytics, Internet of Things and cloud solutions. There he works as CTO and software architect and conceives, develops and designs customer solutions. In 2017 ML!PA Consulting GmbH was one of only four Microsoft Partner of the Year finalists in the Internet of Things category. Dr. Benjamin Kettner is active in the Microsoft Data Platform Community, leads the Berlin regional group of PASS Deutschland e.V. and frequently appears as author of blog posts and scientific articles and speaker at technical events.

Dr. Benjamin Kettner is co-founder and CTO of ML!PA Consulting GmbH. Since 2020 he is Microsoft MVP and Friend of Red Gate. He received his doctorate in applied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin in 2012. At the time of his doctorate he was... Show more

Dirk Weil

Dirk Weil

Dirk Weil ist seit 1998 als Berater im Bereich Java tätig. Als Geschäftsführer der GEDOPLAN GmbH in Bielefeld ist er für die Konzeption und Realisierung von Informationssystemen auf Basis von Java / Jakarta EE verantwortlich. Seine langjährige Erfahrung in der Entwicklung anspruchsvoller Unternehmenslösungen machen ihn zu einem kompetenten Ansprechpartner und anerkannten Experten auf dem Gebiet JEE. Er ist Fachbuchautor, schreibt Artikel für Fachmagazine, hält Vorträge und leitet Seminare und Workshops zu diversen Java/JEE-Themen.

Dirk Weil ist seit 1998 als Berater im Bereich Java tätig. Als Geschäftsführer der GEDOPLAN GmbH in Bielefeld ist er für die Konzeption und Realisierung von Informationssystemen auf Basis von Java / Jakarta EE verantwortlich. Seine langjährige Erfahr... Show more

Kathrin Borchert

Kathrin Borchert

Kathrin works and live near Hamburg, Germany. She has many years of experience in Power BI and Power Platform. She is also the organizer of the German PowerBIDays and PowerBreak (powerbidays.com). She shares her knowledge on LinkedIN, Twitter and at yodabi.com.

Kathrin works and live near Hamburg, Germany. She has many years of experience in Power BI and Power Platform. She is also the organizer of the German PowerBIDays and PowerBreak (powerbidays.com). She shares her knowledge on LinkedIN, Twitter and at ... Show more

Teresa wu

Teresa wu

Teresa is a public speaker, Google Developer Expert (GDE), mentor, and software engineer who is passionate about front-end development and Cloud technology. She has been working with many talented developers to craft various apps and projects throughout the years, and she likes to explore the world of multi-platform, the fun of continuous delivery, and seeing through the product from development to release. 

Teresa is a public speaker, Google Developer Expert (GDE), mentor, and software engineer who is passionate about front-end development and Cloud technology. She has been working with many talented developers to craft various apps and projects through... Show more

Vaibhav Malpani

Vaibhav Malpani

I am Google Developer Expert for GCP and Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of expertise working with Cloud Technologies. I work in designing architecture for projects using cloud services. Organizer of GDG Cloud Mumbai.

I am Google Developer Expert for GCP and Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of expertise working with Cloud Technologies. I work in designing architecture for projects using cloud services. Organizer of GDG Cloud Mumbai. Show more

Nadine Farah

Nadine Farah

Nadine Farah leads developer initiatives, focused on companies who are at the seed to series C stage. She's passionate about bridging engineering, product & marketing to help drive product adoption. She previously led Onehouse & Rockset's developer initiatives, focusing on building technical content to drive developer adoption.

Nadine Farah leads developer initiatives, focused on companies who are at the seed to series C stage. She's passionate about bridging engineering, product & marketing to help drive product adoption. She previously led Onehouse & Rockset's developer i... Show more

Josefine Schaefer

Josefine Schaefer

Josefine currently works as an Accessibility Engineer at Storyblok. She is also a Google Developer Expert for Web, ambassador for Women Tech Makers and GirlCode. She cares deeply about DE&I in the tech industry and beyond and is passionate about all things frontend, inclusive communities and web accessibility. She is also an aerial acrobat, dance teacher and cat mom. She is based in Hamburg, Germany, and travels the world talking about Web Accessibility.

Josefine currently works as an Accessibility Engineer at Storyblok. She is also a Google Developer Expert for Web, ambassador for Women Tech Makers and GirlCode. She cares deeply about DE&I in the tech industry and beyond and is passionate about all ... Show more

Oskar Dudycz

Oskar Dudycz

I'm a developer, technical team leader, and architect. I started a career before StackOverflow existed. For over 17 years, I've been creating systems close to the business process. I believe that Event-Driven Architecture and Event Sourcing are great ways to achieve that.

I'm an active open-source developer active especially in the Event Driven space (I was working on tools like Marten, EventStoreDB, and now Emmett). I'm sharing my journey and findings on my blog https://event-driven.io and practical samples at https://github.com/oskardudycz.

I'm a developer, technical team leader, and architect. I started a career before StackOverflow existed. For over 17 years, I've been creating systems close to the business process. I believe that Event-Driven Architecture and Event Sourcing are great... Show more

Nav Singh

Nav Singh

Google Developer Expert for Android, Organizer at GDG-Montreal, and writes articles about Android and Kotlin.

Apart from his day-to-day job, He spends his time learning new technologies/frameworks.

During his free time, he loves to read books, or you can find him at Gym 🚴🏻‍♂️

Google Developer Expert for Android, Organizer at GDG-Montreal, and writes articles about Android and Kotlin. Apart from his day-to-day job, He spends his time learning new technologies/frameworks. During his free time, he loves to read books,... Show more

Buck Woody

Buck Woody

Buck Woody is an Applied Data Scientist working on the Azure Data Services team at Microsoft, and uses data and technology to solve business and science problems. With over 39 years of professional and practical experience in computer technology, he is also a popular speaker at conferences around the world; author of over 700 articles and nine books on databases, machine learning, and R, he also sits on various Data Science Boards at two US Universities and specializes in advanced data analysis techniques. He is passionate about mentoring and growing the next generation of data professionals.
Specialties: Data, Data Science, Databases, Communication, Teaching, Speaking, Writing, Cloud Computing, Security

Clifton's Strengths: Individualization, Learner, Connectedness, Positivity, Achiever, Ideation

Buck Woody is an Applied Data Scientist working on the Azure Data Services team at Microsoft, and uses data and technology to solve business and science problems. With over 39 years of professional and practical experience in computer technology, he ... Show more

Xuan Ahehehinnou

Xuan Ahehehinnou

J'ai toujours évolué dans le domaine des solutions Microsoft, en passant par des expériences professionnelles sur les technologies de gestion des identités et des accès, de messagerie, de communications unifiées, de réseaux et télécoms.

Initié dans le domaine de l'IAM Microsoft depuis la fin des années 90, Active Directory est une de mes passions et occupations quotidiennes depuis sa naissance, puis Azure Active Directory/Entra ID depuis son plus jeune age.
En complément, j'ai débuté sur les communications unifiées avec Live Communications Server et continue d'intervenir sur les communications unifiées avec Teams.

Depuis quelques années, mon expertise porte principalement sur les solutions de cybersécurité des services cloud Microsoft, et sur la téléphonie Teams.

J'ai toujours évolué dans le domaine des solutions Microsoft, en passant par des expériences professionnelles sur les technologies de gestion des identités et des accès, de messagerie, de communications unifiées, de réseaux et télécoms. Initié da... 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.