Most Active Speakers 2024

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

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Enrico van de Laar

Enrico van de Laar

Enrico has been working with data in all kinds of formats and sizes for over 20 years and has a passion for data privacy. Through his company Privinity he supports organisations with implementing data solutions that respect privacy and avoid unethical or manipulative use of data. Enrico is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has so far written four books on data related technologies and topics.

Enrico has been working with data in all kinds of formats and sizes for over 20 years and has a passion for data privacy. Through his company Privinity he supports organisations with implementing data solutions that respect privacy and avoid unethica... Show more

Weizhou Lan

Weizhou Lan

I currently serve as a Senior Tech Lead at DaoCloud, with over 15 years of engineering experience, including 8 years of Kubernetes expertise. My technical focus spans networking, eBPF, service mesh, AI, and more. I have delivered 5 KubeCon talks and 3 KCD talks, and have served on the KubeCon program committee 4 times. I have incubated 6 cloud-native open-source projects, including one CNCF Sandbox. Over the past three years, I ranked 28th globally in CNCF developer activity contributions.

I currently serve as a Senior Tech Lead at DaoCloud, with over 15 years of engineering experience, including 8 years of Kubernetes expertise. My technical focus spans networking, eBPF, service mesh, AI, and more. I have delivered 5 KubeCon talks and ... Show more

Mesut Durukal

Mesut Durukal

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Nicolas Frizzarin

Nicolas Frizzarin

Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular, also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Nicolas is a French FontEnd specialist and User Interface Designer from Metz, France.

He works as a Developer Advocate and Senior Staff Engineer at Sfeir Luxembourg. Besides that, Nicolas is a speaker, and likes to contribute to the community by giving talks, trainings, writing articles or participating in open source projects like Ng Zorro

Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular, also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Nicolas is a French FontEnd specialist and User Interface Designer from Metz, France. He works as a Developer Advocate and Senior Staff Engineer ... 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

Abby Bangser

Abby Bangser

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, the open-source cloud-native framework for providing the execution later for your internal platforms. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Abby is a CNCF Ambassador, Team Topologies Advocate, emeritus lead of the CNCF Platforms Working Group, and co-host of the #CoffeeOps London meetup.

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, the open-source cloud-native framework for providing the execution later for your internal platforms. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experie... Show more

Sara San Luís Rodríguez

Sara San Luís Rodríguez

Passionate about science since childhood, I studied Mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, I completed these studies with a Master in Statistics and Operational Research. The latter allowed me to enter the world of AI and ML, fields in which I am currently working as AI Team Lead @MDW.

Passionate about science since childhood, I studied Mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, I completed these studies with a Master in Statistics and Operational Research. The latter allowed me to enter the world of AI and ML, fields... Show more

Jim Bugwadia

Jim Bugwadia

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer of Kyverno, the policy engine built for Kubernetes.

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. ... Show more

Paulien Buskens

Paulien Buskens

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

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

Kyle Quest

Kyle Quest

Kyle is the creator of DockerSlim (aka SlimToolkit), a popular tool to inspect, optimize and debug containers. He's the founder/CEO of AutonomousPlane.dev and he's also the founder/CTO of Slim.AI. He's building an AI agent to automatically fix vulnerabilities in cloud native application dependencies. Kyle has been building applications and platforms using many different programming languages since the early days of cloud computing. His "50 Shades of Go" is still one of the popular guides for Go gotchas for many new developers learning the language.

Kyle is the creator of DockerSlim (aka SlimToolkit), a popular tool to inspect, optimize and debug containers. He's the founder/CEO of AutonomousPlane.dev and he's also the founder/CTO of Slim.AI. He's building an AI agent to automatically fix vulner... Show more

Armando Lacerda

Armando Lacerda

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Peter Carson

Peter Carson

Peter is President of Envision IT and Extranet User Manager, a Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP since 2011, and President of the Toronto SharePoint User Group. He has lead his team at Envision IT in the use and deep customization of Microsoft 365 and Azure for over 10 years. He is well recognized as an evangelist in the Microsoft 365 and Azure community, speaking regularly at user group meetings, conferences, and Microsoft events.

Peter is President of Envision IT and Extranet User Manager, a Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP since 2011, and President of the Toronto SharePoint User Group. He has lead his team at Envision IT in the use and deep customization of Microsoft 36... Show more

Muhammad Shahmeer

Muhammad Shahmeer

Shahmeer Amir is a world-renowned Ethical Hacker and the 3rd most accomplished bug hunter who has helped over 400 Fortune companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter, resolve critical security issues in their systems. He has founded multiple entrepreneurial ventures in the field of Cyber Security, and currently leads three startups in four countries.

As the CEO of Younite, Shahmeer's premier company is working on next-generation audio-video communication technologies. He is also the CEO of Veiliux, Asia's first mainstream Cyber Security startup present in the Asia Pacific, UAE, and the UK. Authiun, another startup, is a complete passwordless authentication solution for the 21st century.

Shahmeer is the Cyber Security Advisor to the Ministry of Finance Government of Pakistan, involved in multiple projects regarding Deep Sea Tracking, Digital Transformation of Legislation, and Digitization of Pakistani Cultural Content. He is also a member of Forbes Technology Council.

As an Engineer and a Cyber Security professional with relevant certifications from renowned organizations like EC-Council, Mile2, SANS, etc., Shahmeer is currently looking at the Blockchain technology for his doctorate. He has authored three books, including Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials, and a dozen research papers.

Shahmeer is a highly sought-after keynote speaker on Cyber Security, Blockchain, and other technologies, having been invited to over 80 conferences globally. including Blackhat, GiSec, FIC, AEC Alberta, Hackfest and many more. He has also been accepted at multiple prestigious academic institutions in their entrepreneurship programs, including Stanford. As a CTO of companies, Shahmeer has learned to code in 25 languages and read code in 35, making him an expert in multiple technologies.

Shahmeer Amir is a world-renowned Ethical Hacker and the 3rd most accomplished bug hunter who has helped over 400 Fortune companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter, resolve critical security issues in their systems. He has founded ... Show more

Nav Singh

Nav Singh

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

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

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

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

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

Maddy Montaquila

Maddy Montaquila

Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018 - before Aspire, she worked across the .NET stack and brought .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has been obsessed with making developers’ lives easier ever since her first dev tools internship, where she realized it perfectly combined her tech background with her passion for product development.

These days, she’s focused on making modern distributed app development suck a whole lot less. Maddy’s an experienced speaker who’s presented everywhere from local user groups to major keynotes, known for bringing great energy and a genuine love for dev tools to every talk.

You can find her on Bluesky and GitHub at @maddymontaquila!

Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018 - before Aspire, she worked across the .NET stack and brought .NET MAUI to life. Maddy h... Show more

Liran Tal

Liran Tal

Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.

Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosy... Show more

Barry O'Reilly

Barry O'Reilly

Barry is a veteran Architect who has held Chief Architect positions at Microsoft among others. He has also been a startup CTO, the Worldwide Lead for the Solutions Architecture Community at Microsoft, and founder of the Swedish Azure User Group. He is also a PhD candidate in software design and complexity science.

Barry is a veteran Architect who has held Chief Architect positions at Microsoft among others. He has also been a startup CTO, the Worldwide Lead for the Solutions Architecture Community at Microsoft, and founder of the Swedish Azure User Group. He i... Show more

Ume Habiba

Ume Habiba

Hey hey! 👋🏽

My name is Ume, and I’m a first-gen immigrant + college grad (from UMD!), a fashion x tech creator, entrepreneur, speaker, & activist!

I’ve worked as a software engineering intern across various industries including luxury beauty, Big Tech, and finance. I absolutely love combining coding with education to create inclusive curriculums that are both accessible and fun! I’ve dabbled a bit into consulting through various projects with local organizations to big defense companies, and hold experience within marketing and social media as well!

Featured on:
TED, Business Insider, Times Square, MSN, and recognized as one of WayUp’s top interns for 2024

I am very much people centered, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. I love thinking on my feet and being challenged in my everyday life! — I also love boba 🧋, barre 🩰, and capturing content! 📸

Hey hey! 👋🏽 My name is Ume, and I’m a first-gen immigrant + college grad (from UMD!), a fashion x tech creator, entrepreneur, speaker, & activist! I’ve worked as a software engineering intern across various industries including luxury beauty... Show more

Sarah Young

Sarah Young

Once described on Reddit as “technically challenged”, Sarah is a Principal Security Advocate working at Microsoft. She has lived all over the place but currently calls Melbourne home.

Sarah has been working in cyber security since before it was cool, has previously spoken at many security conferences including Black Hat and has co-authored a few Microsoft Press technical books. She is an active supporter of security communities across the globe and a co-host of the Microsoft Azure Security Podcast.

Sarah spends most of her spare time gaming, taking part in Melbourne's official sport of brunching, taking high tea and spending a disproportionate amount of her income on her dogs.

Once described on Reddit as “technically challenged”, Sarah is a Principal Security Advocate working at Microsoft. She has lived all over the place but currently calls Melbourne home. Sarah has been working in cyber security since before it was co... Show more

Eddie Zaneski

Eddie Zaneski

Eddie lives in Denver, CO with his wife and dog. He loves open source and works on the Kubernetes project. When not hacking on random things you'll most likely find him climbing rocks somewhere.

Eddie lives in Denver, CO with his wife and dog. He loves open source and works on the Kubernetes project. When not hacking on random things you'll most likely find him climbing rocks somewhere. Show more

Denis Magda

Denis Magda

Denis Magda has spent half of his career working on distributed systems, applications, and databases. His experience spans from the development of distributed database engines and high-performance applications to training and education on the topic of distributed and cloud computing. Presently, Denis runs the Developer Relations team at Yugabyte and serves a PMC Member for Apache Ignite. He started his professional career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he led a Java development group and worked on evangelism efforts.

Denis Magda has spent half of his career working on distributed systems, applications, and databases. His experience spans from the development of distributed database engines and high-performance applications to training and education on the topic o... Show more

Sohan Kunkerkar

Sohan Kunkerkar

Sohan Kunkerkar is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, bringing expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and containers. His active contributions extend to CRI-O, a container runtime engine, and various sub-projects within the Kubernetes Sig-Node community. Sohan has a robust background, having worked on impactful projects such as Kubefed and Fedora CoreOS.

Sohan Kunkerkar is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, bringing expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and containers. His active contributions extend to CRI-O, a container runtime engine, and various sub-projects within the Kubern... Show more

Warren Sifre

Warren Sifre

Warren Sifre has been in the IT community since 1998 and has worked in a variety of industries deploying solutions utilizing a variety of technologies. Currently, leading efforts at Crosswave Solutions Inc. He is responsible for Data Solutions Architecture and the mentorship of organizations going through the journey of adopting a Data and Analytic Strategy. He has been a SQLSaturday Speaker since 2012, PASS Summit Speaker, Azure Bootcamps, and frequent presenter for user groups around the world. He is Indy's BI user group Chapter leader.

Warren Sifre has been in the IT community since 1998 and has worked in a variety of industries deploying solutions utilizing a variety of technologies. Currently, leading efforts at Crosswave Solutions Inc. He is responsible for Data Solutions Arch... Show more

Alejandro Mercado

Alejandro Mercado

Alex is CTO in KMMX,an IT Training and Certification company located at Mexico City .
Web & Mobile Developer with more than 20 years of experience. Recently doing DevOps functions.

Technical Writer and International Speaker.

Proudly member of the following programs: GitHub Campus Advisor, GitKraken Ambassador, Progress NativeScript Developer Experts ,Auth0 Ambassador. Uno Platform Evangelist and GitLab Heroe.

Alex is CTO in KMMX,an IT Training and Certification company located at Mexico City . Web & Mobile Developer with more than 20 years of experience. Recently doing DevOps functions. Technical Writer and International Speaker. Proudly member o... Show more

Vukasin Terzic

Vukasin Terzic

Vukasin is a digital nomad and Microsoft Azure MVP, currently working as a Senior Cloud Architect, with a specialization in Microsoft Azure and Hyper-Converged Infrastructures. Father, rescue scuba diver, and public speaker.

Vukasin is a digital nomad and Microsoft Azure MVP, currently working as a Senior Cloud Architect, with a specialization in Microsoft Azure and Hyper-Converged Infrastructures. Father, rescue scuba diver, and public speaker. 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

Nicki Borell

Nicki Borell

Nicki is the founder and the head behind the label "Xperts At Work" and co-founder of Experts Inside.
He worked for many years in Microsoft enterprise environments and also as a trainer and consultant for SharePoint and Office 365 & Azure. His expertise extends from technical and strategic consulting all the way to project management, with his core competencies covering SMB, enterprise environments and government data management. Nicki is Microsoft MVP for Office Servers & Services, Microsoft Regional Director and professional Member of German Speaker Association e.V.
https://rd.microsoft.com/en-us/nicki-borell
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5000242

Nicki is the founder and the head behind the label "Xperts At Work" and co-founder of Experts Inside. He worked for many years in Microsoft enterprise environments and also as a trainer and consultant for SharePoint and Office 365 & Azure. His exper... Show more

Luciano Mammino

Luciano Mammino

Luciano is an AWS Serverless Hero who was born in 1987, the same year Super Mario Bros was released in Europe, which, by chance is his favorite game! He started coding at the age of 12, hacking away with his father's old i386 armed only with MS-DOS and the QBasic interpreter and since then he has been professionally a software developer for more than 14 years. He is currently a senior Architect at fourTheorem where he is helping companies to get the best of the cloud, AWS, and serverless. He loves the full-stack web, Node.js & Serverless and co-authored "Node.js design patterns" (https://www.nodejsdesignpatterns.com), maintains https://fstack.link and co-hosts https://awsbites.com

Luciano is an AWS Serverless Hero who was born in 1987, the same year Super Mario Bros was released in Europe, which, by chance is his favorite game! He started coding at the age of 12, hacking away with his father's old i386 armed only with MS-DOS a... Show more

Marcus Hellberg

Marcus Hellberg

Marcus has spent the past 20+ years combining modern web technologies and Java. More recently, he's been exploring how AI is changing the way we interact with computers. Marcus is always curious to learn new things and loves helping developers learn new things. Marcus is a Java Champion and currently works as the VP of AI Research at Vaadin.

Marcus has spent the past 20+ years combining modern web technologies and Java. More recently, he's been exploring how AI is changing the way we interact with computers. Marcus is always curious to learn new things and loves helping developers learn ... 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.