Most Active Speakers 2023

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

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Eli Holderness

Eli Holderness

Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 9 years ago. They've spent their time working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design to developer advocacy, continually getting nerd-sniped along the way. These days, they work at the Bennett Institute as a Research Software Advocate, helping to build the next generation of healthcare research tooling. In their spare time, they like to go bouldering, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 9 years ago. They've spent their time working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design to developer advocacy, continually ge... 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

Bobur Umurzokov

Bobur Umurzokov

A co-founder of a UK-based successful startup and Developer Advocate specializing in AI and Data Engineering with 11+ years of experience in tech. Bobur is a Microsoft MVP and loves to develop new open-source projects. He has a proven record of helping early-stage and growth-stage startups scale developer adoption, community engagement, and product visibility.

A co-founder of a UK-based successful startup and Developer Advocate specializing in AI and Data Engineering with 11+ years of experience in tech. Bobur is a Microsoft MVP and loves to develop new open-source projects. He has a proven record of helpi... Show more

Cathrine Wilhelmsen

Cathrine Wilhelmsen

Cathrine loves data and coding, as well as teaching and sharing knowledge 🤓 She is based in Norway and works as a Data & Analytics Principal Consultant in Evidi, focusing on Data Integration and Data Warehousing. Her core skills are Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, SQL Server and T-SQL development, but she enjoys everything from programming to data visualization. Outside of work she’s active in the Azure and Microsoft Data communities as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, international speaker, blogger, organizer, and chronic volunteer. She blogs at cathrinew.net and posts as @cathrinew.net on Bluesky.

Cathrine loves data and coding, as well as teaching and sharing knowledge 🤓 She is based in Norway and works as a Data & Analytics Principal Consultant in Evidi, focusing on Data Integration and Data Warehousing. Her core skills are Microsoft Fabric... Show more

Alessandro Melchiori

Alessandro Melchiori

Software craftsman, husband, father, ex-sportsman and inquiring reader. Since I was young I have loved taking apart and reassembling things to understand how they work. Now, this passion has become my job: the step from Lego® to software development was small.
Finding the best possible solution so that a complex system can work at its best and making it run smoothly are the goals of my work. C# and Azure make up my survival toolkit and help me cruise through distributed systems and enterprise solutions, with ease.
Be it a command or an event, I try to do my best in contributing to the life of the communities that have adopted me, trying to “give back” at least a part of what I have received over these years.

Software craftsman, husband, father, ex-sportsman and inquiring reader. Since I was young I have loved taking apart and reassembling things to understand how they work. Now, this passion has become my job: the step from Lego® to software development ... Show more

María José Vidal Paz

María José Vidal Paz

Licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, después de más de 21 años trabajando con responsable de la contabilidad y los impuestos de una pequeña PYME, en el 2022 da un giro a su trayectoria profesional para sumergirse en el mundo de los datos de la mano de Power BI. En el 2023 se certifica en el PL300 de Microsoft .
Posteriormente participa durante el 2024-2025 en un proyecto, financiado con fondos europeos, para la construcción de Gemelos Digitales para el Turismo. Este nuevo camino le hace adquirir Skills en Python y Machine Learning.

Licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, después de más de 21 años trabajando con responsable de la contabilidad y los impuestos de una pequeña PYME, en el 2022 da un giro a su trayectoria profesional para sumergirse en el mundo de los dato... Show more

Wayne Gakuo

Wayne Gakuo

Wayne Gakuo is a Frontend Engineer who is constantly learning the best practices of architecting software using Angular, while having scalability, maintainability, and user needs in mind. Aside from work, Wayne leads Angular Kenya which trains budding developers to become proficient Angular developers. In his free time, Wayne loves watching documentaries and playing video games, trying to get better at FIFA.

Wayne Gakuo is a Frontend Engineer who is constantly learning the best practices of architecting software using Angular, while having scalability, maintainability, and user needs in mind. Aside from work, Wayne leads Angular Kenya which trains buddin... Show more

Atieno Ouma

Atieno Ouma

She writes logic and ML models for a living. She is also passionate about health informatics,open source sourcery and tech communities.

She writes logic and ML models for a living. She is also passionate about health informatics,open source sourcery and tech communities. Show more

Albane Veyron

Albane Veyron

Ancienne astrophysicienne aujourd’hui coach d'organisation, experte en engagement et coach professionnelle depuis plus de 8 ans. J’interviens auprès des entreprises pour les aider à se transformer et à renforcer l’engagement, tout en accompagnant individuellement dirigeant·es et particuliers dans leurs objectifs personnels et professionnels. TEDx speaker, je crée des conférences interactives en mobilisant les sciences humaines, une approche systémique et des expériences concrètes d’accompagnement en entreprise.
Mon objectif : faire bouger les lignes sur des sujets qui impactent profondément notre quotidien.

Ancienne astrophysicienne aujourd’hui coach d'organisation, experte en engagement et coach professionnelle depuis plus de 8 ans. J’interviens auprès des entreprises pour les aider à se transformer et à renforcer l’engagement, tout en accompagnant ind... Show more

Alexander Klein

Alexander Klein

Alexander Klein is a senior Business Intelligence consultant with more than 20 years of experience. He focuses on Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse projects with Microsoft technologies like SQL Server, Power BI, Azure ML or Cognitive Services.

Since 2008, he has been a self-employed consultant in large and medium-sized projects in all sectors across Europe. He has been visiting SQL Saturdays all over Europe since 2013.Since 2017 Alexander speaks at national and international conferences / user groups about Data Warehouse, BI, Azure and AI.

Alexander Klein is a senior Business Intelligence consultant with more than 20 years of experience. He focuses on Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse projects with Microsoft technologies like SQL Server, Power BI, Azure ML or Cognitive Services.... Show more

Todd Libby

Todd Libby

Ulrika Hedlund

Ulrika Hedlund

Ulrika Hedlund is a Swedish tech entrepreneur with a passion for technology and storytelling. She is the founder and CEO of Storyals, an Ed-Tech company with a mission to revolutionize corporate training on new digital ways of working through video-based storytelling. Ulrika has authored numerous courses, she is a frequent blogger, public speaker, and an active spokesperson for women in IT. She has been identified as a top technology visionary and selected as a trusted advisor to Microsoft as part of their Regional Director Program. Ulrika has an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and an Executive MBA from the London Business School (LBS).

Ulrika Hedlund is a Swedish tech entrepreneur with a passion for technology and storytelling. She is the founder and CEO of Storyals, an Ed-Tech company with a mission to revolutionize corporate training on new digital ways of working through video-b... Show more

Dave McAllister

Dave McAllister

Currently providing technical OSS insights for NGINX, Dave talks about the advantages of open technologies in solving software challenges. Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clouds and containers. Named one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review, having been involved before the phrase "open source" was coined, Dave often speaks on topics associated with emerging software, data and observability and how open source innovations power today's world.

Currently providing technical OSS insights for NGINX, Dave talks about the advantages of open technologies in solving software challenges. Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clo... Show more

Amit Vasu

Amit Vasu

Amit Vasu is Solutions Architect - MS 365, working on SharePoint and related technologies since 2003. For the past 10 years Amit is focusing on creating business process automation with SharePoint and related technologies. He also has several years of experience building BI solutions on SharePoint. Amit is MCSE - SP 2016 and was awarded Microsoft MVP award in 2014. Amit also frequently participates in the SharePoint community events including SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint code camp and local user groups.

Amit Vasu is Solutions Architect - MS 365, working on SharePoint and related technologies since 2003. For the past 10 years Amit is focusing on creating business process automation with SharePoint and related technologies. He also has several years o... Show more

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

Nick Chapsas

Nick Chapsas

Nick is a Content Creator focusing on C# & .NET and an Author and Founder of the educational platform Dometrain.

Nick is a Content Creator focusing on C# & .NET and an Author and Founder of the educational platform Dometrain. Show more

Bart Lannoeye

Bart Lannoeye

Consultant during the day, hobbyist at night.

Bart is technical architect focusing on the Microsoft technology stack, covering anything between cloud and backend services to Windows and mobile, with a strong focus on developer security and productivity. As Head of Engineering he's eager to coach and share knowledge with both his own teams and the community.

Bart keeps a personal blog at http://www.bartlannoeye.com/blog/ on which he describes his discoveries and findings on the problems he encounters during his daily tasks. He's been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for 8 consecutive years.

Consultant during the day, hobbyist at night. Bart is technical architect focusing on the Microsoft technology stack, covering anything between cloud and backend services to Windows and mobile, with a strong focus on developer security and product... Show more

Patricio Vargas

Patricio Vargas

Passionate about helping others, Pato is currently a Lead DevX Engineer and he has become a member of several developer communities like the Google Developer Experts on Angular and Web Technologies, Google Women Techmakers Ambassadors, Microsoft MVP, Auth0 Ambassadors, Media Developer Experts at Cloudinary, Twilio Champ, AWS Community Builder, Postman Supernova and SpringBoard mentor.

Pato has participated in several hackathons and even won two of them. He loves mentoring people in technology, writing articles, contributing to open source, speaking at conferences/tech talks, and advocating technologies that he loves.

Passionate about helping others, Pato is currently a Lead DevX Engineer and he has become a member of several developer communities like the Google Developer Experts on Angular and Web Technologies, Google Women Techmakers Ambassadors, Microsoft MVP,... Show more

Jeferson Fernando

Jeferson Fernando

From humble beginnings in Brazil, Jeferson has reshaped his life via open-source, significantly impacting his family. With 20 years of OSS experience, he advocates for open-source, knowledge-sharing, and community growth. He runs a YouTube channel with 99k subscribers. His initiatives like "Chama as Mina" have trained 4000+ women in tech skills, and another program has empowered 1000+ black individuals with Docker, K8s, and Istio expertise. Jeferson holds CKA, CKAD, and RHCE certifications.

From humble beginnings in Brazil, Jeferson has reshaped his life via open-source, significantly impacting his family. With 20 years of OSS experience, he advocates for open-source, knowledge-sharing, and community growth. He runs a YouTube channel wi... Show more

Martin Ullrich

Martin Ullrich

I am a software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies and iOS/Swift.

I am a technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at our company to make life easier for developers and help deliver high. I was awarded Microsoft MVP for community and open-source work around .NET Core.

I am a software engineer working on diverse tech stacks but focusing mostly on .NET in C#, Web Technologies and iOS/Swift. I am a technology enthusiast who always works on improving development and DevOps processes at our company to make life easi... Show more

Gosia Borzęcka

Gosia Borzęcka

Gosia Borzecka is a Microsoft AI MVP and AI Engineer at Avanade.
She is a full-stack .NET and React developer with Office 365 experience. For the last two years, she has been interested in AI and Machine Learning (and Python!), and during her day job, she helped customers bring AI and ML models into the Modern Workplace.
Gosia is also an international speaker, co-leader of NottsDevWorksop, and co-leader of AI 42, where she organized a few AI/Office 365 Bootcamps and AI/ML-focused meetings.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GosiaBorzecka
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gosia.ai/
Blog: www.gosia.ai

Gosia Borzecka is a Microsoft AI MVP and AI Engineer at Avanade. She is a full-stack .NET and React developer with Office 365 experience. For the last two years, she has been interested in AI and Machine Learning (and Python!), and during her day jo... Show more

Rob Litjens

Rob Litjens

I am a DBA since 1997 and have worked with SQL6, 6,5 and upwards. My interest are merely platform based, but also interested in performance and monitoring. With the requirements changing I am working in DevSEcOps for SQL for my employer. Security is getting more focus. That means I am trying to setup builds that are secure by designed and securely designed. Tools help with that.

I am a DBA since 1997 and have worked with SQL6, 6,5 and upwards. My interest are merely platform based, but also interested in performance and monitoring. With the requirements changing I am working in DevSEcOps for SQL for my employer. Security is ... Show more

Ines Pascual Iglesias

Ines Pascual Iglesias

Computer Engineer. Independent professional. I have more than 20 years dedicated to the world of data as a BI Trainer and Consultant. Currently immersed in the world of Power Platform - Power BI.

Computer Engineer. Independent professional. I have more than 20 years dedicated to the world of data as a BI Trainer and Consultant. Currently immersed in the world of Power Platform - Power BI. Show more

Jackie Moraa

Jackie Moraa

Jackie Moraa is a software engineer and team lead at Living Goods. She has extensive experience in developing innovative software solutions and leading cross-functional teams to success. Her expertise lies in various programming languages and frameworks, with a particular focus on Flutter, where she has become an ardent enthusiast.

In addition to her technical skills, Jackie is a dedicated mentor and advocate for women in technology. As a Women TechMakers (WTM) Ambassador, she actively supports and encourages women to pursue careers in STEM fields. She believes in the power of mentorship and uses her expertise to guide aspiring professionals through their career journeys.Her passion for sharing knowledge extends beyond mentoring. She is also a prolific technical writer, contributing to industry publications and platforms. Her articles and tutorials are renowned for their clarity and accessibility, making complex concepts easily understandable for readers of all levels of experience.

In her spare time, Jackie actively immerses herself in learning Spanish, buying (and reading) books, and playing board games/puzzles. Random fact: She is yet to be defeated in Monopoly :)

Jackie Moraa is a software engineer and team lead at Living Goods. She has extensive experience in developing innovative software solutions and leading cross-functional teams to success. Her expertise lies in various programming languages and framewo... 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

Susan Hanley

Susan Hanley

Susan Hanley is an information architect and business analyst specializing in intranets and collaboration solutions. She is a recognized expert in the field of intranets, knowledge management, collaboration, and information architecture and has helped organizations of all sizes to optimize their use of the Microsoft 365 platform. Susan's expertise has earned her the coveted Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft 365, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the Microsoft community. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, where she shares her insights and best practices on how organizations can build and manage intranets and knowledge management solutions.

Susan Hanley is an information architect and business analyst specializing in intranets and collaboration solutions. She is a recognized expert in the field of intranets, knowledge management, collaboration, and information architecture and has helpe... Show more

Rick Lowe

Rick Lowe

Rick is a Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server and independent contractor/consultant specializing in performance and query tuning. He began his career as a system programmer, before transitioning through database development positions to eventually focus on performance issues as well as acting as a bridge between DBA and developer teams.

Rick is a Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server and independent contractor/consultant specializing in performance and query tuning. He began his career as a system programmer, before transitioning through database development positions to eventua... Show more

Edyta Gorzon

Edyta Gorzon

Edyta’s story with Microsoft technology has started in 2013. She helps organizations with digital transformation by developing change management strategies, guiding companies through the entire process, and training end-users on the practical use of Microsoft 365. She believes technology should be helpful to all users, regardless of their role in the organization or their technical abilities. Only then we can talk about the success of digitization. In addition to that Edyta is an active Microsoft Community Enthusiast. Since 2015 she organizes SharePoint Saturday Warsaw, now CollabDays Poland, co-hosts ACM Teams Europe, and speaks at Microsoft Community conferences.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional M365 Apps & Services since 2019.

In her spare time, you can meet her reading a book, running, caring for friends, or with a suitcase at the airport. An empathetic extrovert by nature. 😉

Edyta’s story with Microsoft technology has started in 2013. She helps organizations with digital transformation by developing change management strategies, guiding companies through the entire process, and training end-users on the practical use of ... Show more

David Frappart

David Frappart

IT guy since 2004
Cloud architect, (mainly on Azure) since 2015
Still exploring the Cloud platform capabilities (which get new stuff all the time)
Breath IaC and Automation (but more Hashicorp stuff than other ^^)
Still struggles in the K8S landscape
MVP Azure since 2019
MCT since 2020

https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-frappart-66625627/
https://blog.teknews.cloud

IT guy since 2004 Cloud architect, (mainly on Azure) since 2015 Still exploring the Cloud platform capabilities (which get new stuff all the time) Breath IaC and Automation (but more Hashicorp stuff than other ^^) Still struggles in the K8S lands... 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.