Most Active Speakers 2024

Sessionize proudly presents the list of the most active speakers in the year 2024!

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Davide Passafaro

Davide Passafaro

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, I lead two developer communities in Rome: GDG Roma Città and Angular Roma. I am passionate about contributing to the tech community as a writer and speaker.

Specializing in Angular, I also have extensive experience in mobile and desktop app development using Capacitor and Electron. Over the years, I’ve built high-performing applications leveraging technologies like Nx, NgRx, and NGXS.

Outside of work, I love playing board games or practicing archery. I’m also a fan of escape rooms and enjoy creating funny memes.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, I lead two developer communities in Rome: GDG Roma Città and Angular Roma. I am passionate about contributing to the tech community as a writer and speaker. Specializing in Angular, I also have extensive experience i... Show more

Olivier Van Steenlandt

Olivier Van Steenlandt

Olivier Van Steenlandt is a Business Intelligence Professional who spent most of his early career assisting retail companies to get more value of their data using the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI).

As his first experience in the field (in Business Intelligence), Olivier worked as a Big Data Analyst using tools such as Hadoop and Spark.

In 2015 the focus changed to traditional data warehousing & reporting using SSIS, SSRS & MicroStrategy. A bit later, around June 2019, the opportunity arose to fill the position of BI Teamlead. In this function he was able to set up a hybrid BI Team (team members in Belgium and Belarus).

Early 2020, Olivier joined the dataMinds crew as a core member, assisting to organise several events.

Around April 2021, Olivier started a new position as BI Teamlead in another Retail Company to support business growth. Besides the challenge to help the BI Team grow and deliver projects on time, he started to use SSAS & Power BI.

In April 2025, Olivier stepped away from internal positions and became an independent consultant.

When Olivier is not working there is a high chance that you find him on a football field, studying (BI Related), playing music (Saxophone / Piano) or cooking.

Olivier Van Steenlandt is a Business Intelligence Professional who spent most of his early career assisting retail companies to get more value of their data using the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI). As his first experience in the ... Show more

Syed Usman Ahmad

Syed Usman Ahmad

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in IT and in Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.

He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events.

In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack. He has over 15 years of experience in IT and in Cloud Support where he served multiple c... Show more

Thomas Künneth

Thomas Künneth

Thomas fell in love with Android in 2009. He has been constantly contributing to the community since then. Thomas loves writing books (four titles, 15 editions) and articles. He enjoys speaking at conferences and meetups. Thomas' first encounter with programming was in the era of home computers during the early 1980s. Later came C, Perl and a few more. During the 90s he wrote a bunch of programs for the Atari ST series. The first decade of Thomas' professional career centered around Java Enterprise. Today it’s all things Android and Kotlin.

Thomas fell in love with Android in 2009. He has been constantly contributing to the community since then. Thomas loves writing books (four titles, 15 editions) and articles. He enjoys speaking at conferences and meetups. Thomas' first encounter with... Show more

Michel Murabito

Michel Murabito

I'm Michel Murabito, Mich to my friends! Born in 1986 in Turin with Sicilian roots, I now live in Milan. My journey in software began at 12, coding for fun. At 18, I started my first job as a software developer and have continuously sought new challenges to grow and learn. Today,

I'm a Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform and a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador, sharing my passion for cloud native technologies with a community of curious minds. I'm also an organizer of the Cloud Native Days Italy (formerly KCD Italy) and KCD San Francisco Bay Area, fostering collaboration and innovation within the cloud native ecosystem.

I'm Michel Murabito, Mich to my friends! Born in 1986 in Turin with Sicilian roots, I now live in Milan. My journey in software began at 12, coding for fun. At 18, I started my first job as a software developer and have continuously sought new challe... Show more

Marjolein Opsteegh

Marjolein Opsteegh

My name is Marjolein Opsteegh, I'm a Power BI enthusiast, living in the Netherlands, who loves to share knowledge, especially about the intersection of Power BI, UI, and UX. As a consultant, I design and build dashboards that are both visually appealing and user-friendly, keeping end-users in mind throughout the process.

In addition to creating dashboards, I enjoy writing about frontend principles and sharing practical tips to help others get the most out of Power BI. I frequently speak at events and host demos, inspiring others to improve their skills and embrace the power of data visualization, both off- and online.

My name is Marjolein Opsteegh, I'm a Power BI enthusiast, living in the Netherlands, who loves to share knowledge, especially about the intersection of Power BI, UI, and UX. As a consultant, I design and build dashboards that are both visually appeal... Show more

David Drever

David Drever

David is an Associate Director with Protiviti Canada and a 9-time Microsoft 365 & Security MVP with 25 years of experience working within information technology. For over 15 years, David has assisted organizations to collaborate efficiently and effectively within SharePoint and Microsoft 365. David assists companies to understand their compliance needs and how to protect their data. He has helped organizations build data protection programs to safeguard their most sensitive information while ensuring the business can collaborate and work with their content. Over the past 20 years, David has built a great deal of experience in a wide variety of areas in IT, ranging from Desktop\Server support to development in C++ and .NET technologies. He has added value to many clients in several sectors, including utilities, government, banking, and agriculture.

David is a knowledgeable and sought-after international speaker within IT circles and is consulted regularly by companies formulating their digital workplace strategies and compliance platforms.

David blogs at http://daviddrever.com

David is an Associate Director with Protiviti Canada and a 9-time Microsoft 365 & Security MVP with 25 years of experience working within information technology. For over 15 years, David has assisted organizations to collaborate efficiently and effec... Show more

Roberth Strand

Roberth Strand

Roberth is a self-proclaimed "cloud automator" and "platform creator". He primarily works on building cloud native platforms, while being an advocate for Platform Engineering and DevOps. He has been awarded the title Microsoft Azure MVP and CNCF Ambassador, and previously HashiCorp Ambassador. As an active speaker for several years, he has been on stage everywhere from small local meetups to KubeCon.

Furthermore, he initiated Cloud Native Norway, which hosts events and supports the cloud native community in Norway. Additionally, he is active in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as maintainer of the OpenGitOps project, previously a co-chair of TAG App Delivery, and founded and lead the Platforms Working Group for several years.

Roberth is a self-proclaimed "cloud automator" and "platform creator". He primarily works on building cloud native platforms, while being an advocate for Platform Engineering and DevOps. He has been awarded the title Microsoft Azure MVP and CNCF Amba... Show more

Rockford Lhotka

Rockford Lhotka

Rockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia. He is the creator of the widely used CSLA .NET open-source software framework, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs. For more information go to https://lhotka.net.

Rockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia. He is the creator of the widely used CSLA .NET open-source software framework, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft... Show more

Janarthanan Selvaraj

Janarthanan Selvaraj

Janarthanan Selvaraj is working as Senior Specialist and Atos Expert AI at Atos. He is an alumni from University of Cambridge for FUEL Leadership flagship program and Professional graduate alumni from Anna University. He have been honored and recognized with the prestigious Microsoft MVP Award in the AI category, specifically recognized for my expertise in Azure OpenAI Service & Azure AI Services. He is recognized as 5 times Microsoft Certified Trainer and C# Corner MVP. He is Microsoft Azure Certified Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty, Developer Associate, and Power BI Data Analyst Associate with a total of 16 Cloud Certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle and Aviatrix cloud. Being Resource Person conducted several meetups', Workshops, FDPs, STTP, Webinars, Knowledge sharing sessions at various levels in the organization and educational institutes. He is an active speaker, mentor, blogger, researcher and Open-source contributor in the field of AI & Cloud where his work has been mentioned across several developer tech communities, conferences and industry conclaves.

Janarthanan Selvaraj is working as Senior Specialist and Atos Expert AI at Atos. He is an alumni from University of Cambridge for FUEL Leadership flagship program and Professional graduate alumni from Anna University. He have been honored and recogni... Show more

Anubhav Singh

Anubhav Singh

A seasoned developer since the pre-Bootstrap era, Anubhav has extensive experience as a freelancer and AI startup founder. He authored "Hands-on Python Deep Learning for Web" and "Mobile Deep Learning with TensorFlow Lite, ML Kit, and Flutter." A Google Developer Expert in ML & GCP, he was a co-organizer for TFUG Kolkata and formerly led the team at GDG Cloud Kolkata. Anubhav is often found discussing System Architecture, Machine Learning, and Web technologies.

A seasoned developer since the pre-Bootstrap era, Anubhav has extensive experience as a freelancer and AI startup founder. He authored "Hands-on Python Deep Learning for Web" and "Mobile Deep Learning with TensorFlow Lite, ML Kit, and Flutter." A Goo... Show more

Torbjörn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden

Torbjörn (Mr T-Bone) Granheden

A Jedi with an amazing ability to solve problems by just being present. Consultant on Microsoft 365, device management, security and compliance. Awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop. Educational Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Invests hard in having expertise in the very latest, Loves to test new products and services that come to market and has been involved in many TAP and Beta programs.

A Jedi with an amazing ability to solve problems by just being present. Consultant on Microsoft 365, device management, security and compliance. Awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop. Educational Micr... Show more

Stevan Milovanovic

Stevan Milovanovic

📱 Passionate about Mobile Tech:
Turning innovative ideas into user-friendly mobile apps that people love.

💼 Professional Experience:
With over eight years of experience in both service and product based companies, as well as entrepreneurship, I have acquired enough skills and experience to dive different domains and deliver scalable and maintainable solutions using the latest technology.

📈 Results-Driven:
Committed to delivering measurable results.

📚 Continuous Learner: Staying updated with the latest mobile trends, always looking for opportunities to grow and adapt.

🤝 Open to Collaboration: Excited to connect with fellow developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts. Let's build amazing mobile solutions together!

🌟 Awards & Recognitions:
International awards for scientific work in the field of mobile technologies.

🔗 My showcase projects: https://github.com/stevan-milovanovic

📱 Passionate about Mobile Tech: Turning innovative ideas into user-friendly mobile apps that people love. 💼 Professional Experience: With over eight years of experience in both service and product based companies, as well as entrepreneurship, ... Show more

Alexander Arvidsson

Alexander Arvidsson

Alexander is the chief technology officer at Analytics Masterminds where he spends his days helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of - and make more sense of - their data.
He has spent the last 25 years poking around with data, databases and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world.
He is a long time Data Platform MVP, frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on the Microsoft data platform stack.

Alexander is the chief technology officer at Analytics Masterminds where he spends his days helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of - and make more sense of - their data. He has spent the last 25 years poking around with data,... Show more

Kay Sauter

Kay Sauter

Kay Sauter has been working with SQL Server since 2013. His expertise covers SQL Server, Azure, Data Visualization, and Power BI. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP.
Kay blogs on kayondata.com and is actively involved in various community projects like Data TGIF, databash.live, data-conference.ch, and Data Platform Data Platform DEI Virtual Group.

He is based in Zurich, Switzerland and in his free time, together with his wife, he loves to travel to discover new cultures and perspectives.

Kay Sauter has been working with SQL Server since 2013. His expertise covers SQL Server, Azure, Data Visualization, and Power BI. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Kay blogs on kayondata.com and is actively involved in various community projects ... Show more

Mar Lizana

Mar Lizana

Creo firmemente en el poder de los datos para cambiar realidades y en la importancia de seguir explorando nuevas formas de maximizar su impacto. Si quieres conectar o saber más sobre mi trabajo, puedes visitar mi blog en Medium https://medium.com/@akanemar

Creo firmemente en el poder de los datos para cambiar realidades y en la importancia de seguir explorando nuevas formas de maximizar su impacto. Si quieres conectar o saber más sobre mi trabajo, puedes visitar mi blog en Medium https://medium.com/@ak... Show more

Jason Romans

Jason Romans

Jason Romans is a Business Intelligence engineer in Nashville, TN working with the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Jason is a Microsoft MVP who started his career as a DBA and over the years moved to working in his passion of Business Intelligence and data modeling. His first computer was a Commodore 64 and he's been hooked ever since.

Jason Romans is a Business Intelligence engineer in Nashville, TN working with the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Jason is a Microsoft MVP who started his career as a DBA and over the years moved to working in his passion of Business Intellig... Show more

Vesa Nopanen

Vesa Nopanen

Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen is Principal Consultant for AI-Native Future Work at Sulava Gulf and a Microsoft MVP (AI & Microsoft 365). With 30 years in enterprise IT, he helps organizations create workplaces where people and intelligent agents collaborate seamlessly. Vesku specializes in leveraging Microsoft AI & cloud technologies —Copilot, Azure AI, Teams, Loop, Copilot Studio, and more— into practical platforms for co-creation, pairing deep technical expertise with a passion for technology and better worklife.

He writes the FutureWork.blog, speaks at global conferences, and is an active technology community member and event organizer accelerating the shift towards an AI-Native future.
Recognized as an MVP since 2019, Vesku continues to share insights that trailblaze the Age of AI.

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Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen is Principal Consultant for AI-Native Future Work at Sulava Gulf and a Microsoft MVP (AI & Microsoft 365). With 30 years in enterprise IT, he helps organizations create workplaces where people and intelligent agents collaborate s... Show more

Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman

Mihaela Gheorghe-Roman

Mihaela is a Software Architect at Systematic, Romania. Ph.D in artificial neural network algorithms, Assistant Professor at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is a dedicated lead developer and architect who enjoys sharing her knowledge.

In her professional career, spanning over 14+ years, she worked for telecom and defence domains with a focus on Java, Spring Boot, C, C#, Scala and Angular.

Apart from her passion for programming, she loves parrots, she is enthusiastic about traveling the world and doing a lot of sports, from running at marathons, martial arts and to different aerobic trainings.

Mihaela is a Software Architect at Systematic, Romania. Ph.D in artificial neural network algorithms, Assistant Professor at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is a dedicated lead developer and architect who enjoys sharin... Show more

Patty O'Callaghan

Patty O'Callaghan

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director and Head of AI Architecture and Engineering Group at Charles River Laboratories.

Patty is a member of the Google Developer Advisory Board, an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Artificial Intelligence.

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director and Head of AI Architecture and Engineering Group a... Show more

Jon Vöge

Jon Vöge

Jon is a Principal Consultant at Inspari, working with Solution Architecture and delivering Microsoft Fabric, Power BI & Power Platform solutions. He is passionate about Low-code development, and a huge believer in putting data analytics into the hands of the business user.

Jon is a Principal Consultant at Inspari, working with Solution Architecture and delivering Microsoft Fabric, Power BI & Power Platform solutions. He is passionate about Low-code development, and a huge believer in putting data analytics into the han... Show more

Kenneth van Surksum

Kenneth van Surksum

As a Microsoft 365 Modern Workplace consultant I help customers implement modern workplace solutions based on top of their Microsoft 365 licensing, leveraging products like Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Purview. I constantly build solutions which span these products, taking into account Security, Usability and Manageability as main pillars.

Currently I'm also responsible for the delivery of Secure At Work, a product which can automatically provision Microsoft 365 tenants with best practices configuration and once onboarded keeps customers up to date by using regular releases. Each release adds or updates functionality in Microsoft 365 environments based on best practices and lessons learned from implementation feedback. The Secure At Work solution is already running om more than 10K endpoints, making it proven solution and able to cover 80% of business requirements.

With more than 25 years of experience in IT, I managed to get myself Microsoft certified in 1998, eventually becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), en ultimately receiving my first Microsoft MVP award in 2010. Currently I am a proud dual Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Intune and Identity and Access.

In the past I have worked with many products in the Microsoft infrastructure space, like SMS/System Center Configuration Manager, Active Directory, Virtualization (both VMware as Hyper-V), System Center products like SCOM, SCSM, SCVMM, SCDPM among others.

Kenneth regularly shares his knowledge by blogging at https://www.vansurksum.com and by speaking on national and international events.

As a Microsoft 365 Modern Workplace consultant I help customers implement modern workplace solutions based on top of their Microsoft 365 licensing, leveraging products like Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, Exchange Online, Micro... Show more

Florian Salzmann

Florian Salzmann

I'm a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Endpoint & Security Specialist with a strong focus on Intune, Windows 365, and Microsoft Security. I love helping organizations improve security, automate processes, and make device management more efficient.

As a speaker, blogger, and content creator, I share practical insights on Windows security, Intune automation with PowerShell, third-party patching, and Security Copilot. My sessions are hands-on, technical, and full of real-world solutions.

Speaking Experience
I've spoken at major IT and security conferences, including:
✔ MEM Summit Paris (Co-Organizer & Speaker)
✔ NIC Summit Oslo
✔ WP Ninja Summit's
✔ Cloud Technology Town Hall (CTTT)
✔ and many more...

More About Me
📝 Blogger at scloud.work
🎥 Content Creator – Tech demos and automation guides
🛠 Passionate about automation & remediation – Filling gaps in Microsoft Intune

Let’s connect and talk about modern device management, security, and automation!

I'm a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Endpoint & Security Specialist with a strong focus on Intune, Windows 365, and Microsoft Security. I love helping organizations improve security, automate processes, and make device management more efficient. As a... Show more

Jonathan Vila

Jonathan Vila

Java Champion, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG and cofounder of JBCNConf and DevBcn conferences in Barcelona.

Currently working as a Developer Advocate in Java at Sonar (SonarLint,SonarQube), focused on Clean Code & Security.

I have worked as a (paid) developer since the first release of The Secret of Monkey Island, about 30 years ago using Go on Kubernetes for a Service Mesh layer on top of Istio | Java on Kubernetes for K8s Operator, Rest API, using Quarkus, GraalVM, Apache Camel | PHP | VB | Python | Pascal | C

I am very interested in simulated reality, psychology, philosophy, and Java.

Java Champion, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG and cofounder of JBCNConf and DevBcn conferences in Barcelona. Currently working as a Developer Advocate in Java at Sonar (SonarLint,SonarQube), focused on Clean Code & Security. I have worked as a (pai... Show more

Michael Eaton

Michael Eaton

Michael Eaton is a proven technical leader and developer with almost three decades of experience focused almost exclusively on building solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem. He is a blogger and writes about leadership and technology.

Michael Eaton is a proven technical leader and developer with almost three decades of experience focused almost exclusively on building solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem. He is a blogger and writes about leadership and technology. Show more

Luca Del Puppo

Luca Del Puppo

I'm a Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert Codemotion Ambassador and GitKraken Ambassador. I love JavaScript and TypeScript.
In my free time, I love studying new technologies, improving myself, creating YouTube content or writing technical articles. I can’t stay without trail running and love to do it in my love Dolomiti.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert Codemotion Ambassador and GitKraken Ambassador. I love JavaScript and TypeScript. In my free time, I love studying new technologies, improving myself, creating YouTube content or... Show more

Lisa Hoving

Lisa Hoving

Your friendly neighbourhood Data Engineer. My background is in Finance, but I have had the pleasure to be working in IT for the past 8 or so years. In my daily life, I design and build scalable data solutions in the Azure cloud.

Your friendly neighbourhood Data Engineer. My background is in Finance, but I have had the pleasure to be working in IT for the past 8 or so years. In my daily life, I design and build scalable data solutions in the Azure cloud. Show more

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Hi there! 👋

I'm Kateryna Hrytsaienko — a Software Engineering Consultant at Valtech, Google Developer Student Club Mentor, Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, Tech Writer at Baeldung, and a passionate enthusiast of Cloud technologies and CI/CD automation.

I primarily work on E-commerce projects, focusing on developing composable solutions and contributing to reusable libraries used across the company. I share my experience on Medium (https://medium.com/@ekatereanagricaenko) and through articles on the Baeldung platform.

Mentoring and teaching are things I truly enjoy. I'm also a lecturer at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where I run a Java course and help students build real-world, production-ready commerce architectures using Java and Spring Boot.

Thanks for your time — hope to see you soon at the summit. Cheers!

Hi there! 👋 I'm Kateryna Hrytsaienko — a Software Engineering Consultant at Valtech, Google Developer Student Club Mentor, Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, Tech Writer at Baeldung, and a passionate enthusiast of Cloud technologies and CI/CD au... Show more

Hugo Kornelis

Hugo Kornelis

Hugo Kornelis is an established SQL Server community expert who spends a lot of time at various conferences. He is also a blogger, technical editor of a variety of books, and Pluralsight author. He was awarded SQL Server MVP and Data Platform MVP 17 times (2006 - 2016 / 2019 - now).

When not working for the community, he is busy at his day job: freelance database developer/consultant.

Hugo has over 25 years of SQL Server experience in various roles. Starting from a strong database design background, he has spent the last ten years specializing in execution plans and query performance tuning.

Hugo Kornelis is an established SQL Server community expert who spends a lot of time at various conferences. He is also a blogger, technical editor of a variety of books, and Pluralsight author. He was awarded SQL Server MVP and Data Platform MVP 17 ... Show more

Geert van der Cruijsen

Geert van der Cruijsen

Geert van der Cruijsen is the CEO of Zure Netherlands, helping companies improve how they build software by combining strong engineering culture with modern technology. He focuses on DevOps, cloud-native development, architecture and AI, enabling teams to work more autonomously and deliver faster through smart platforms and better ways of working. Geert is a long-time Microsoft MVP and an active member of the tech community, frequently sharing knowledge through talks, content and mentorship.

Geert van der Cruijsen is the CEO of Zure Netherlands, helping companies improve how they build software by combining strong engineering culture with modern technology. He focuses on DevOps, cloud-native development, architecture and AI, enabling tea... Show more

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Most Active Speakers 2024

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 2024.

The 3% is calculated from the pool of all speakers that have at least one accepted session in year 2024. We don't include inactive speakers or speakers that had no accepted sessions during the year. There are around 38,000 unique accepted speakers this year, the 3% is 1036. 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 2024. 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.