Most Active Speakers 2024

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

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Fouziya Lahjiouj

Fouziya Lahjiouj

Solution Architect specialized on Microsoft technologies

Solution Architect specialized on Microsoft technologies Show more

Ásgeir Gunnarsson

Ásgeir Gunnarsson

Ásgeir brings nearly two decades of experience in designing and implementing scalable data platforms using Microsoft technologies. With deep expertise in data architecture, data engineering, and analytics, he helps organizations turn complex data landscapes into streamlined, high-performing solutions. In addition to hands-on delivery, Ásgeir advises clients on governance, security, and platform strategy.

As a recognized Microsoft Data Platform MVP and active speaker at global data events, he stays ahead of industry trends and brings cutting-edge insights to every project. In addition to speaking at events Ásgeir is a co-organizer of Data Platform Next Step, Power BI Next Step and Power BI Cruise in Denmark.

Ásgeir focuses primarily on the data technologies in the Azure cloud.

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 brings nearly two decades of experience in designing and implementing scalable data platforms using Microsoft technologies. With deep expertise in data architecture, data engineering, and analytics, he helps organizations turn complex data lan... Show more

Jemima Abu

Jemima Abu

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development. Show more

Doug Leal

Doug Leal

Enterprise Architect with 25+ years of experience delivering data-centric solutions, including big data, cloud, analytics, and data engineering strategies in both enterprise and consulting capacities. Proven expertise in AWS, Azure Cloud, Databricks, MLFlow, and Spark, driving scalable and efficient data solutions. A trusted advisor in enterprise data architecture for both existing and new platforms; Databricks Champion for CGI. Passionate about machine learning and leveraging advanced analytics to drive business value.

Enterprise Architect with 25+ years of experience delivering data-centric solutions, including big data, cloud, analytics, and data engineering strategies in both enterprise and consulting capacities. Proven expertise in AWS, Azure Cloud, Databricks,... Show more

Marco Dal Pino

Marco Dal Pino

Marco Dal Pino is working in IT for more than 30 years as Developer, Team Leader, PM and Cloud Architect.
He mostly experienced Microsoft dev Platforms around .NET, for LOB, Desktop, Mobile and embedded apps.
He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Speaker at the main technical conferences all around the world.
He is part of the staff of DotNetToscana a community focused on Microsoft technologies.
He received many awards from IT companies as independent Advisor like:
Microsoft MVP, Intel BlackBelt & Innovator, Nokia DevChamp, Hackster Live Ambassador
He works in Microsoft as a Senior Technical Consultant.

Marco Dal Pino is working in IT for more than 30 years as Developer, Team Leader, PM and Cloud Architect. He mostly experienced Microsoft dev Platforms around .NET, for LOB, Desktop, Mobile and embedded apps. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and... Show more

Gregor Reimling

Gregor Reimling

Gregor is awarded with the Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure and Security.
He works as Chief Azure Technologist for adesso SE and is technical lead for Azure .
His main areas are Microsoft Azure, Enterprise scale architectures, Cloud Security, Governance, Hybrid and Migration.
Gregor is an active member of the global Microsoft community and regularly attends community conferences, runs his own Azure blog (www.reimling.eu) and the Cloud Inspires (www.cloudinspires.me) podcast. He is the founder of the Azure Bonn Meetup with more then 1000 members, a local Azure user group near Cologne and co-founder of the Cloud Identity Summit, an annual conference focusing on identity management and security.
Gregor is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Gregor is awarded with the Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure and Security. He works as Chief Azure Technologist for adesso SE and is technical lead for Azure . His main areas are Microsoft Azure, Enterprise scale architectures, Cloud Security, Go... Show more

Saiyam Pathak

Saiyam Pathak

Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine learning platforms, scaling, multi-cloud, and managed Kubernetes services. He has implemented Kubernetes solutions in various organizations. When not coding, Saiyam contributes to the community by writing blogs and organizing local meetups for Kubernetes and CNCF. He is also a CNCF TAG sustainability lead, runs a YouTube channel, and can be reached on Twitter @saiyampathak

Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of... Show more

Smita Nachan

Smita Nachan

As a M365 Architect, I leverage my 16+ years of experience and multiple certifications to design, implement, and maintain large-scale projects using SharePoint and Office 365. I am a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), a Microsoft MVP in two categories (M365 and AI Platform).

My mission is to help clients achieve their business goals and optimize their digital transformation journey using the latest technologies and best practices. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and expertise with the community, and I frequently speak at various events, such as SPS, Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Global Power Platform Bootcamp. I am also an author, speaker, and organizer of several books, blogs, podcasts, and webinars on M365 topics.

As a M365 Architect, I leverage my 16+ years of experience and multiple certifications to design, implement, and maintain large-scale projects using SharePoint and Office 365. I am a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), a Microsoft MVP in two categories (M36... Show more

Glenn F. Henriksen

Glenn F. Henriksen

Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously exploring new tools, processes and technologies, and improving how he and his fellow developers work with code, tasks and projects. He has been a Microsoft Development MVP, a part of the Microsoft Regional Director program and is an ASP.NET Insider and an Azure Advisor. In the past 25+ years he has co-owned two companies, worked as a consultant, manager, support tech, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favorite things are still swapping code for food and building stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives.

Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously explori... Show more

Tim te Beek

Tim te Beek

Tim te Beek is a staff software engineer at Moderne, which automates software refactoring at scale. He has extensive experience contributing to and presenting on Open Source software within the Java ecosystem. Previously he worked as a consultant specializing in migration engineering and developer productivity.

Tim te Beek is a staff software engineer at Moderne, which automates software refactoring at scale. He has extensive experience contributing to and presenting on Open Source software within the Java ecosystem. Previously he worked as a consultant spe... Show more

Andy Cutler

Andy Cutler

I am an Azure Data Platform professional working predominantly with Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL Pools), Data Factory, SQL Server and Power BI. I hold an MSc in Business Intelligence and Data Mining. I am a current Microsoft Data Platform MVP.

I am an Azure Data Platform professional working predominantly with Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL Pools), Data Factory, SQL Server and Power BI. I hold an MSc in Business Intelligence and Data Mining. I am a current Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Show more

Clarissa Rodrigues

Clarissa Rodrigues

Clarissa Rodrigues is graduated by University of Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), specialist in Software Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and master student in Applied Computing by UNISINOS. With more than 10 years of IT experience, she has been working in different roles and companies, such as a Business Analyst at SISPRO, ADP, SAP and most current Technical Quality & Program Manager at Uber. On her journey, she has been advocated for quality inside QAs work to make sure goods and services are designed, developed, and made to meet or exceed customers’ expectations and requirements.

Clarissa Rodrigues is graduated by University of Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), specialist in Software Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and master student in Applied Computing by UNISINOS. With more than 10 years of IT exper... Show more

Edward Pollack

Edward Pollack

Ed Pollack is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a passion for learning how Data Platforms work and sharing that knowledge with the community. His experiences in data architecture, database design, performance optimization, and data security are motivation for public speaking, writing, coding, and other community activities.

Ed has spoken at SQL Saturday events, SQL Bits, PASS Summit, EightKB, and many other regional and international events. Ed is the organizer of the Capital Area SQL Server Group and SQL Saturday Albany, as well as a co-organizer of SQL Saturday New York City, and Future Data Driven. He has published a number of books, including "Dynamic SQL: Applications, Performance, and Security in Microsoft SQL Server", "Expert Performance Indexing in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022", and "Analytics Optimization with Columnstore Indexes in Microsoft SQL Server: Optimizing OLAP Workloads". Ed is also an active contributor of content to SimpleTalk.

In his free time, Ed enjoys video games, traveling, cooking exceptionally spicy foods, and hanging out with his amazing wife and sons.

Ed Pollack is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a passion for learning how Data Platforms work and sharing that knowledge with the community. His experiences in data architecture, database design, performance optimization, and data security are mot... Show more

Bülent Altinsoy

Bülent Altinsoy

Bülent works at Avanade since over a decade and as global Business Applications Portfolio Lead.

He is a Microsoft Business Applications & Power Platform Specialist with over a decade of experience. His passion is to share his knowledge and learnings around Power Platform & Dynamics 365. Bülent is a Microsoft MVP since 2025 and an MCT since 2021.

Bülent works at Avanade since over a decade and as global Business Applications Portfolio Lead. He is a Microsoft Business Applications & Power Platform Specialist with over a decade of experience. His passion is to share his knowledge and learni... Show more

Alex Merced

Alex Merced

Alex Merced is Head of DevRel for Dremio and co-author of "Apache Iceberg: The definitive guide" from O'reilly and has worked as a developer and instructor for companies like GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard and General Assembly.
Alex is passionate about technology and has put out tech content on outlets such as blogs, videos and his podcasts Datanation and Web Dev 101. Alex Merced has contributed a variety of libraries in the Javascript & Python worlds including SencilloDB, CoquitoJS, dremio-simple-query and more.

Alex Merced is Head of DevRel for Dremio and co-author of "Apache Iceberg: The definitive guide" from O'reilly and has worked as a developer and instructor for companies like GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard and General Assembly. Alex ... Show more

Ignat Korchagin

Ignat Korchagin

Ignat is a systems engineer at Cloudflare working mostly on Linux, platforms and hardware security. Ignat’s interests are cryptography, hacking, and low-level programming. Before Cloudflare, Ignat worked as a senior security engineer for Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Communications Division. His solutions may be found in many older Samsung smart phones and tablets. Ignat started his career as a security researcher in the Ukrainian government’s communications services.

Ignat is a systems engineer at Cloudflare working mostly on Linux, platforms and hardware security. Ignat’s interests are cryptography, hacking, and low-level programming. Before Cloudflare, Ignat worked as a senior security engineer for Samsung Elec... Show more

Stalin Ponnusamy

Stalin Ponnusamy

I am the Application Modernization Practice Lead at Protiviti, with over 22 years of experience helping organizations enhance productivity, improve efficiency, and optimize CRM systems. My extensive background in delivering programs and architecture has allowed me to work successfully with multiple clients.

In 2022, I was promoted to Associate Director after serving as a Senior Manager, marking two promotions within the last six years.

I effectively engage with all organizational levels to drive success. Early in my career, I contributed to the growth of an emerging company's IT department, leading a team of developers and designing innovative solutions. This unique professional experience continues to inform my work today.

RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
* Led the development of industry-focused solutions as the program manager.
* Hired, developed, and mentored eight technical engineering resources, successfully placing them on various projects.
* As an engagement manager, contributed to securing large enterprise sales deals and agreement renewals, resulting in multi-million-dollar contracts with several prominent industry accounts.

SPECIALITIES:
Engagement Manager, Solution Delivery, Program Management, Architect in Dynamics 365 CE, Azure Cloud, DevOps, Power Platform, and Domain Expertise.

I am the Application Modernization Practice Lead at Protiviti, with over 22 years of experience helping organizations enhance productivity, improve efficiency, and optimize CRM systems. My extensive background in delivering programs and architecture ... 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 nine 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 nine years of experience in both service and product based companies, as well as entrepreneurship, I... Show more

Ram Iyengar

Ram Iyengar

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent of community-first product development.

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creati... Show more

Angel Ramirez

Angel Ramirez

Angel Ramirez is a technology leader and entrepreneur with expertise in software product development, cloud-native technologies, and Kubernetes (Kubestronaut). As CEO of Cuemby, he develops innovative solutions that align technical concepts with business goals. A CNCF and TODO OSPO Ambassador, Angel is recognized for his public speaking abilities, making complex ideas easy to understand. His approach integrates technology and business strategy, helping organizations achieve scalable solutions while fostering ongoing learning and community engagement.

Angel Ramirez is a technology leader and entrepreneur with expertise in software product development, cloud-native technologies, and Kubernetes (Kubestronaut). As CEO of Cuemby, he develops innovative solutions that align technical concepts with busi... Show more

Sandra Ahlgrimm

Sandra Ahlgrimm

Sandra Ahlgrimm is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, specializing in supporting Java Developers. With over a decade of experience as a Java developer, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her role. Sandra is passionate about containers and has recently learned to love AI.

As a leader in the tech community, Sandra actively contributes to the Berlin Java User Group (JUG) and the Berlin Docker MeetUp. Her expertise extends beyond coding; she focuses on LangChain4j integrations and serves as the primary point of contact for developer feedback related to Java in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and the Azure toolkit integration in IntelliJ. Additionally, her interest in performance and event-driven architectures led to her involvement with native images. Therefore, Sandra represents Microsoft on the GraalVM Program Advisory Board.

Sandra’s commitment to empowering fellow developers and fostering collaboration makes her an invaluable asset to the software development ecosystem.

Sandra Ahlgrimm is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, specializing in supporting Java Developers. With over a decade of experience as a Java developer, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her role. Sandra is passionate about containers and has rec... Show more

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

As a Data Analytics and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) Specialist, my mission is to break down complex concepts into easily understandable terms. I strive to develop innovative solutions that tackle real-world challenges effectively. By sharing my knowledge and experience through conferences and educational resources, I aim to empower developers in expanding their skill sets and achieving their professional goals.

As a Data Analytics and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) Specialist, my mission is to break down complex concepts into easily understandable terms. I strive to develop innovative solutions that tackle real-world challenges effectively... Show more

Patrick Guimonet

Patrick Guimonet

Patrick has 20+ years of experience as an Enterprise Solutions Architect. He has a successful track record of technical expertise for Office 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Oracle RDBMS. He is a former Microsoft employee in France. He worked 14 years to develop his own company Abalon, created in 2011. Abalon is dedicated to supporting customers on getting real business benefits with Microsoft collaborative platform.
After selling it, he created a new one called AURA specialized on Microsoft licensing optimization.

He has been speaker and organizer of 100+ Microsoft 365 and Power Platform events like SharePoint Saturdays Paris, Monaco, Dubai, Netherlands, Barcelona, Helsinki, ..., European SharePoint Conference, European Collaboration Summit, MS TechDays Paris, Modern Workplace Conference Paris and Power Platform French Summit...
He has spoken on the 5 continents, on more than 50 countries. More details here: http://bit.ly/eventsPGU2

He leads aMP Community. More details here: http://bit.ly/aMSPrez

Patrick has 20+ years of experience as an Enterprise Solutions Architect. He has a successful track record of technical expertise for Office 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, and Oracle RDBMS. He is a former Microsoft employee in France. He worked 14 year... Show more

John Kerski

John Kerski

John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a high rate of return when looking to invest in Microsoft solutions.

John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a h... Show more

Martin Thwaites

Martin Thwaites

Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.

Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and produc... Show more

Paula García Esteban

Paula García Esteban

💫📊 Freelance: data visualization and AI training
🧑‍🏫🤖 IA/ML Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning
🎨🚀 #PBICoreVisuals Community Representative
🙆🏻‍♀️💡 Top LinkedIn Data Visualization Voice
🏅💻 Microsoft MVP Data Platform & AI Platform

I trust the power of data and persuasive communication.

💫📊 Freelance: data visualization and AI training 🧑‍🏫🤖 IA/ML Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning 🎨🚀 #PBICoreVisuals Community Representative 🙆🏻‍♀️💡 Top LinkedIn Data Visualization Voice 🏅💻 Microsoft MVP Data Platform & AI Platform I trus... Show more

Dylan Beattie

Dylan Beattie

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist with The Linebreakers, the world's greatest nerd comedy classic rock disco alt punk covers band.

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microso... Show more

Magnus Ahlkvist

Magnus Ahlkvist

Magnus works as an independent SQL Server consultant at his company Transmokopter SQL AB, with everything from on-premise to cloud databases, from database design and T-SQL programming to infrastructure planning and administration, from transaction intensive databases to data warehousing workloads.
When paid work stops, community work starts. Magnus is a long time co-leader for SQL Server User Group Sweden, he's organising SQL Friday every Friday noon and he's speaking and volunteering on data events, small and large. In October 2020, Magnus was awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award.

Magnus works as an independent SQL Server consultant at his company Transmokopter SQL AB, with everything from on-premise to cloud databases, from database design and T-SQL programming to infrastructure planning and administration, from transaction i... Show more

Jakub Scholz

Jakub Scholz

Jakub works at Red Hat as Senior Principal Software Engineer. He has long-term experience with messaging and currently focuses mainly on Apache Kafka and its integration with Kubernetes. He is one of the maintainers of the Strimzi project which provides tooling for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes. Before joining Red Hat he worked as messaging and solution architect in the financial industry.

Jakub works at Red Hat as Senior Principal Software Engineer. He has long-term experience with messaging and currently focuses mainly on Apache Kafka and its integration with Kubernetes. He is one of the maintainers of the Strimzi project which provi... Show more

Javier Villegas

Javier Villegas

Javier Villegas is IT Director (DBA & BI Services) at Mediterranean Shipping Company with 30 years of experience working with SQL Server, Including Azure SQL.
His specialization is Administration, Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
Javier is a Microsoft MVP Data Platform since 2016 and MCT
He is a frequent speaker in technical conferences and events such as SQL Saturdays, PASS Virtual Groups, PASS Marathons, 24 Hours SQL PASS , vOpen , GroupBy , Data Saturdays and Azure Global Bootcamps.
He is one of the group leaders of SQL Argentina Community and former Microsoft Azure Data Advisory Board Member

Javier Villegas is IT Director (DBA & BI Services) at Mediterranean Shipping Company with 30 years of experience working with SQL Server, Including Azure SQL. His specialization is Administration, Performance Tuning, High Availability and Disaster ... 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.