Most Active Speakers 2023

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

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Margarita Naumova

Margarita Naumova

Magi Naumova is an SQL Server Architect and Consultant, speaker and trainer, Microsoft Certified Master, MVP, MCT, Founder of SQL Master Academy, and founder and CEO Of Inspirit Data Platform Consulting Company in Bulgaria and Norway, founder, and the leader of Bulgarian SQL & BI User group and Azure Analytics USer Group BG. She has more than 20 years SQL Server training and consulting experience. Magi is a former member of Microsoft Services Worldwide Technical Leadership Team. Currently she speaks, writes, trains and consults people on SQL Server. She is MVP for 11 years in a row. Her unique SQL Master Academy training program has helped hundreds of specialists to feel knowledgeable in their daily work or to find an inspirational career path in the world of SQL Server.

Magi Naumova is an SQL Server Architect and Consultant, speaker and trainer, Microsoft Certified Master, MVP, MCT, Founder of SQL Master Academy, and founder and CEO Of Inspirit Data Platform Consulting Company in Bulgaria and Norway, founder, and th... 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

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

Eli Holderness

Eli Holderness

Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 7 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 7 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

Fabrice Bloch

Fabrice Bloch

Statisticien public, agiliste militant, formateur en design-thinking et en leadership

Statisticien public, agiliste militant, formateur en design-thinking et en leadership Show more

Brian Alderman

Brian Alderman

Brian Alderman is a six-year Microsoft MVP alumni, twenty-eight consecutive years as an MCT, and seven years as a PMP. Since 1995 he has held several Microsoft certifications that include MCSE for SharePoint, MCSA for Office 365, MCITP for SQL Server(R), and MCSE for Windows Server(R). As a Senior Technical Instructor, and consultant he has over 30 years of experience in networking, SQL Server databases, SharePoint technologies, Microsoft 365, and project management. Brian's publications include Windows 2000 Professional, SQL Server 2000 Administration, SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion and Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Administration Inside Out. He is an active speaker at SharePoint, SQL Server, and Microsoft 365 Industry conferences including SharePoint Saturday's, CollabDays, SPLive, DevIntersection, SharePoint Fest/365 EduCon, North American Collaboration Summit, Microsoft 365 Conference, Microsoft Ignite and several international SharePoint conferences including London, Milan, Dublin, Madrid, and Copenhagen. Brian has a BS and MS in Computer Information Systems where he graduated summa cum laude from Regis University of Colorado Springs and now lives in Scottsdale, AZ where he enjoys playing golf year-round and traveling around the world.

Brian Alderman is a six-year Microsoft MVP alumni, twenty-eight consecutive years as an MCT, and seven years as a PMP. Since 1995 he has held several Microsoft certifications that include MCSE for SharePoint, MCSA for Office 365, MCITP for SQL Server... Show more

Paresh Motiwala

Paresh Motiwala

Paresh Motiwala ​PMP; an Azure enthusiast, a Data Platform Manager has led several large SQL implementations, migrations and upgrades. He was recently selected as a "Speaker Idol" finalist for the PASS Summit 2018. He has managed multi terabyte OLTP databases. He loves learning and talking about Big Data. He has also been a Senior SQL DBA and a Solutions Architect in Fortune 100 companies. He also helps organizing / and speaks at many SQL Saturdays, Azure Bootcamp and User Groups. He is a certified in Big Data Analytics and FinTech(MIT) Project manager, Public Speaker, an avid singer, cook, open networker, and stand-up comedian. He teaches public speaking, debating, interviewing and group discussion skills. He also mentors DBAs in Boston area; and children around the globe via www.circlesofgrowth.com

Paresh Motiwala ​PMP; an Azure enthusiast, a Data Platform Manager has led several large SQL implementations, migrations and upgrades. He was recently selected as a "Speaker Idol" finalist for the PASS Summit 2018. He has managed multi terabyte OLTP ... Show more

Lars Andersen

Lars Andersen

Lars is Program Manager on Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. His passion is helping organizations getting insights out of data. He joined Microsoft in 2014 and has been working with BI solutions since 1999.

Lars is Program Manager on Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. His passion is helping organizations getting insights out of data. He joined Microsoft in 2014 and has been working with BI solutions since 1999. Show more

Mackenzie Jackson

Mackenzie Jackson

Mackenzie is a developer advocate with a passion for DevOps and code security. As the co-founder and former CTO of a health tech startup, he learnt first-hand how critical it is to build secure applications with robust developer operations.
Today as the Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, Mackenzie is able to share his passion for code security with developers and works closely with research teams to show how malicious actors discover and exploit vulnerabilities in code.

Mackenzie is a developer advocate with a passion for DevOps and code security. As the co-founder and former CTO of a health tech startup, he learnt first-hand how critical it is to build secure applications with robust developer operations. Today a... 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

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

Adora Nwodo

Adora Nwodo

Adora Nwodo is a multi-award winning Software Engineer. She currently works at the intersection of Cloud Infrastructure, and Developer Platforms and is passionate about the Cloud and Emerging Technologies. She is also an Advisory Board member for DevNetwork.

Apart from building and advocating for emerging technologies, Adora is a Digital Creator and the Founder of NexaScale, a social enterprise aimed at fostering the growth and development of technology enthusiasts by providing resources and opportunities for project building and work experience - helping them start and scale their careers. She has courses online that teaches people about Infrastructure automation, she has also published multiple articles on Software Engineering, Productivity & Career Growth on her blog, AdoraHack. She also has a YouTube channel (Adora Nwodo TV) where she posts tech content that could be useful to Software Developers. Adora is an alumni of LEAD in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Adora is the Author of the popular book "Cloud Engineering for Beginners". This book is currently helping a lot of people start their career as Cloud Engineers. She is also the author of “Beginning Azure DevOps, ” a book published by Wiley, and "Confident Cloud," a book published by Kogan Page.

Adora spends a lot of her time on Twitter and LinkedIn sharing about her experience as a woman in tech. She is extremely passionate about the developer community and is trying to drive inclusion for women in technology. She co-organizes community events for unStack Africa, contributes to Open Source, and speaks at technology conferences worldwide.

Adora Nwodo is a multi-award winning Software Engineer. She currently works at the intersection of Cloud Infrastructure, and Developer Platforms and is passionate about the Cloud and Emerging Technologies. She is also an Advisory Board member for Dev... 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

Diana Aguilera Reyna

Diana Aguilera Reyna

Consultora y formadora de BI. Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Data Analyst Associate.
Licenciada en Matemáticas. Máster en informática aplicada a la toma de decisiones.

Consultora y formadora de BI. Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Data Analyst Associate. Licenciada en Matemáticas. Máster en informática aplicada a la toma de decisiones. Show more

Gianni Rosa Gallina

Gianni Rosa Gallina

Gianni is a Microsoft MVP for the AI category, former Windows Embedded/Development since 2011, focused on emerging technologies, AI (Deep Learning, Generative AI, Audio, Text, LLMs, Images & Video, MLops, Optimization), 3D, VR/AR/MR apps & experiences, Cloud, Natural User Interfaces since 2013. Currently he is R&D Technical Lead in Deltatre's Innovation Lab, designing and prototyping next generation solutions for sport related experiences and services, from apps, tools and end-to-end cloud architectures. Besides that, he's an active member of the local community “Torino Technologies Group” (TTG), Pluralsight online courses author, writes articles on his blog and he's speaker in national and international tech conferences and events.

Gianni is a Microsoft MVP for the AI category, former Windows Embedded/Development since 2011, focused on emerging technologies, AI (Deep Learning, Generative AI, Audio, Text, LLMs, Images & Video, MLops, Optimization), 3D, VR/AR/MR apps & experience... 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

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

Nicole Enders

Nicole Enders

Nicole Enders is a Modern Workplace and Collaboration Expert and she works at CONET Solutions GmbH as a Managing Consultant. As a MVP for Microsoft 365 she shares her knowledge at many events, on her own blog as well as in her books.

As a consultant and developer, she has been dealing with the requirements for efficient collaboration in companies since more than 15 years. She is convinced of the advantages that Microsoft 365 (especially Microsoft Teams and the Power Platform) offers to improve collaboration.

Together with her customers, she combines proven standard products from this product range and adapts them with the help of various development tools. This creates working environments for social intranet, modern workplace and collaboration that are individually tailored to the customer's needs.

Nicole Enders is a Modern Workplace and Collaboration Expert and she works at CONET Solutions GmbH as a Managing Consultant. As a MVP for Microsoft 365 she shares her knowledge at many events, on her own blog as well as in her books. As a consulta... 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

Clemente Giorio

Clemente Giorio

Passionate about bridging the gap between science, technology, and community engagement. With a knack for Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Mixed Reality, I strive to innovate and contribute to cutting-edge tech projects.

Community involvement:
- Technical Podcast/Webinar/Meetup organizer
- Co-host at DotNetPodcast
- Active member and event organizer at FabLabNapoli, DotNetCampania, and HoloLens Developers
- A regular speaker at tech events, sharing insights on AI, Computer Vision, and the evolving tech landscape.

Passionate about bridging the gap between science, technology, and community engagement. With a knack for Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Mixed Reality, I strive to innovate and contribute to cutting-edge tech projects. Community in... Show more

Aleksandar Nikolić

Aleksandar Nikolić

Aleksandar Nikolić is a Microsoft Azure MVP and a co-founder of PowerShellMagazine.com, the ultimate online source for PowerShell enthusiasts. As a Microsoft Azure Advisor, he provides valuable feedback and insights to the Azure engineering team. With over 18 years of experience in system administration, he is a trusted trainer and speaker who travels the globe to share his knowledge and skills on Azure and PowerShell. He has spoken at prestigious IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, ESPC, NIC, Techorama, PowerShell Conference Europe, NTK, and various others.
You can find him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/alexandair) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandair).

Aleksandar Nikolić is a Microsoft Azure MVP and a co-founder of PowerShellMagazine.com, the ultimate online source for PowerShell enthusiasts. As a Microsoft Azure Advisor, he provides valuable feedback and insights to the Azure engineering team. Wit... Show more

Andrea Tosato

Andrea Tosato

Cloud Solution Architect - Microsoft
ex Microsoft MVP (Azure).
Co-founder in CloudGen Verona.

Cloud Solution Architect - Microsoft ex Microsoft MVP (Azure). Co-founder in CloudGen Verona. Show more

Niels Berglund

Niels Berglund

Niels is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and works as Software Architect Lead at Derivco in Durban, South Africa. He and his team design and develop highly performant iGaming systems.

Apart from being a SQL Server "nerd," Niels now spends a lot of time in the real-time / stream processing world working with Kafka, ksqlDB, Flink, Azure Data Explorer, etc. He is very interested in AI/ML, especially Generative AI, and how to do AI/ML against real-time streaming data. He blogs regularly about these topics at https://nielsberglund.com.

He is a sought-after presenter at technology conferences and has presented at, amongst others, Tech-ED, SQL PASS, DevWeek, SQL Bits, SQL Saturday, etc.

Niels is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and works as Software Architect Lead at Derivco in Durban, South Africa. He and his team design and develop highly performant iGaming systems. Apart from being a SQL Server "nerd," Niels now spends a lot of t... Show more

Andrea Martorana Tusa

Andrea Martorana Tusa

Works for Pandora, a jewelry brand based in Copenhagen (DK).
Product Manager for the common Content Management platform built on Sharepoint.
Co-admin of the company's Power BI tenant with duties of governance, monitoring and auditing.
Solution Owner for the Data Analytics and Identity Access Management Azure platform.

Former Microsoft MVP Data Platform 2018-2024.
Common speaker in events and conferences around Europe (SQL Saturdays, PASS Summit, SQL Nexus, Intelligent Cloud, SQL Konferenz, SQL Day Poland, dataMinds Connect, Power BI Summit, Power Platform Bootcamp, etc).
Speaker for DW/BI and the Italian Virtual Chapter.

Author for sqlservercentral.com, sqlshack.com, UGISS (User Group Italiano SQL Server).

Works for Pandora, a jewelry brand based in Copenhagen (DK). Product Manager for the common Content Management platform built on Sharepoint. Co-admin of the company's Power BI tenant with duties of governance, monitoring and auditing. Solution Own... 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

Jeremy Laplaine

Jeremy Laplaine

I am a #PowerAddict and Microsoft MVP alumni. I started this passion with Excel. I quickly used Power Pivot and Power Query technologies in 2010 and 2013 which led me to take charge of Power BI afterwards. I like to share, so I created the blog http://cooking-excel.com/. Naturally, I discovered the Power Platform and realized how much it would change the lives of companies. Therefore, I co-founded Neoreeds in 2018 to create business intelligence solutions and business applications using Microsoft Power Platform. Then I joined Abalon, a team of Microsoft and Power Platform enthusiasts and experts!

I am a #PowerAddict and Microsoft MVP alumni. I started this passion with Excel. I quickly used Power Pivot and Power Query technologies in 2010 and 2013 which led me to take charge of Power BI afterwards. I like to share, so I created the blog http:... Show more

Alan Kinane

Alan Kinane

Alan has been an IT Professional for over 25 years. Specialising in infrastructure, he has a strong focus on cloud services and in particular with Microsoft Azure which he has been using since 2015. Alan is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He likes to write blogs on Microsoft Azure and participate in community events.

Alan has been an IT Professional for over 25 years. Specialising in infrastructure, he has a strong focus on cloud services and in particular with Microsoft Azure which he has been using since 2015. Alan is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Certified T... 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

Zbyszek Tenerowicz

Zbyszek Tenerowicz

Full-stack developer and technology researcher. Leads the Security Lab at MetaMask working on LavaMoat and Endo. Started using Node.js at v0.8 and never stopped. Enjoys innovating and teaching security, diagnostics and maintainability. One of the oldest members of meet.js Poland community - both as a speaker and organizer.
@naugtur https://naugtur.pl

Full-stack developer and technology researcher. Leads the Security Lab at MetaMask working on LavaMoat and Endo. Started using Node.js at v0.8 and never stopped. Enjoys innovating and teaching security, diagnostics and maintainability. One of the old... Show more

Pau Sempere

Pau Sempere

Global AI & Data Science Lead at Avolta. Master's degree in Computer Science at Universidad of Alicante (2005-2011). Microsoft AI MVP

Global AI & Data Science Lead at Avolta. Master's degree in Computer Science at Universidad of Alicante (2005-2011). Microsoft AI MVP 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.