Most Active Speakers 2024

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

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Barkha Herman

Barkha Herman

Barkha Herman is a technologist, experienced developer advocate, and the founder of WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. With a deep understanding of technology and a love for fostering inclusive and diverse tech communities, Barkha is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Currently, Barkha is thriving as a Developer Advocate at StarTree.ai, where she collaborate with developers, engineers, and product teams to create innovative solutions that streamline development processes and enhance user experiences.

In addition to her work at StarTree.ai, she takes great pride in founding and leading WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. These organizations are committed to empowering women in technology and creating a supportive environment for their professional growth. Through mentorship programs, networking events, and educational initiatives, they strive to break barriers and foster inclusivity in the tech industry.

Barkha Herman is a technologist, experienced developer advocate, and the founder of WiTVoices and South Florida Women in Tech. With a deep understanding of technology and a love for fostering inclusive and diverse tech communities, Barkha is dedicate... 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

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

Aroh Shukla

Aroh Shukla

Aroh works as a Regional Microsoft Cloud Architect Lead, Microsoft MVP (AI) & MCT i& MCT. He is primarily focusing on Azure AI, Power Platform & Microsoft 365 Collaboration suite. He helps customers with their digital transformation journey through cutting-edge Microsoft solutions.

Aroh works as a Regional Microsoft Cloud Architect Lead, Microsoft MVP (AI) & MCT i& MCT. He is primarily focusing on Azure AI, Power Platform & Microsoft 365 Collaboration suite. He helps customers with their digital transformation journey through... Show more

Alejandro Cabrera Martínez

Alejandro Cabrera Martínez

Dedicated to the world of Microsoft solutions with focus on Power Platform and M365. Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. Lover of technology, gaming and cats.

Dedicated to the world of Microsoft solutions with focus on Power Platform and M365. Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. Lover of technology, gaming and cats. Show more

Nico Vermeir

Nico Vermeir

Nico Vermeir is an application architect at Inetum Belgium since 2010, where he has a strong focus on building and architecting modern applications.
Being a strong believer in the importance of communities he tries to share knowledge wherever he can, be it on Twitter, at a user group or conference. He has spoken on many international conferences such as NDC Oslo, NDC Sydney, NDC London, Swetugg, Build Stuff, DotNext.
Nico is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, crew member of Techorama BE and NL and crew member of VISUG, Belgium's largest .NET user group.

In his spare time he enjoys brewing (and tasting) beer, playing the guitar, riding his Harley-Davidson and doing Karate.

Nico Vermeir is an application architect at Inetum Belgium since 2010, where he has a strong focus on building and architecting modern applications. Being a strong believer in the importance of communities he tries to share knowledge wherever he ca... Show more

Fawaz Ghali

Fawaz Ghali

Fawaz Ghali is a technologist specializing in AI, Data Engineering, Open Source, and Developer Relations. Passionate about community-driven innovation, he creates technical content, delivers talks, and engages with developer communities to drive the adoption of modern technologies in a rapidly evolving landscape.

With over two decades of experience and a PhD in Computer Science, Fawaz has published 45+ peer-reviewed papers and delivered 200+ talks worldwide. He is also the author of several books and reports and actively shares insights, empowering developers and data engineers through knowledge-sharing and collaboration.

Fawaz Ghali is a technologist specializing in AI, Data Engineering, Open Source, and Developer Relations. Passionate about community-driven innovation, he creates technical content, delivers talks, and engages with developer communities to drive the ... Show more

Bob Walker

Bob Walker

Bob Walker is a Field CTO Octopus Deploy. Bob started as a developer in the early days of .NET when web forms were the hottest new thing, and manual deployments were the norm. After one too many five-hour 2 AM Saturday deployments, he searched for any automation to stop that pain. His original focus was on automating database deployments. Since then, his passion has expanded from writing code to creating full CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevOps practices.

Bob Walker is a Field CTO Octopus Deploy. Bob started as a developer in the early days of .NET when web forms were the hottest new thing, and manual deployments were the norm. After one too many five-hour 2 AM Saturday deployments, he searched for ... Show more

Daniel Rohregger

Daniel Rohregger

Daniel is a international Speaker covering topic all around Microsoft 365. With a big focus on Copilot, Adoption and Modern Workplace he loves what he does. With large to medium Enterprises from EMEA he get's experience from the real world and combines that with the passion for technology.

💼 M365 Copilot MVP
💼 AI, Hybrid Work, Teams and Modern Work-Freak
💼 Speaker and Instructor for Microsoft 365 Services
🎓 Certified ScrumMaster, Bachelor Professional for Project Organisation (CCI)

🌇 Regensburg, Germany near Munich area

Daniel is a international Speaker covering topic all around Microsoft 365. With a big focus on Copilot, Adoption and Modern Workplace he loves what he does. With large to medium Enterprises from EMEA he get's experience from the real world and combin... Show more

Eberhard Wolff

Eberhard Wolff

Eberhard Wolff has 20+ years of experience as an architect and consultant - often on the intersection of business and technology. He is Head of Architecture at SWAGLab. As a speaker, he has given talks at international conferences and as an author, he has written more than 100 articles and books e.g. about Microservices and Continuous Delivery. His technological focus is on modern architectures – often involving Cloud, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Microservices or NoSQL.

Eberhard Wolff has 20+ years of experience as an architect and consultant - often on the intersection of business and technology. He is Head of Architecture at SWAGLab. As a speaker, he has given talks at international conferences and as an author, h... Show more

Alaa Bitar

Alaa Bitar

SharePoint Addict since 2007
aMP community member

SharePoint Addict since 2007 aMP community member Show more

Lucrecia Krause  MVP

Lucrecia Krause MVP

Lucrecia Krause, works for Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the NonStop business, is a mentor, speaker and Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and Business Intelligence Power BI, is co-leader of the Orlando Power BI and Power BI Women user groups.

Lucrecia Krause, works for Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the NonStop business, is a mentor, speaker and Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and Business Intelligence Power BI, is co-leader of the Orlando Power BI and Power BI Women user groups. Show more

Jens Vestergaard

Jens Vestergaard

Jens is hands-on partner at CatMan Solution, driving the BI as a Service team as well as custom build & deliver projects.
The tech stack is wide, as Jens has a couple of decades in the industry, focusing on mainly Business Intelligence tools, but is also keen on Powershell, C#, Azure and Microsoft Fabric in general.
Jens is 8 years in a row Microsoft Data Platform MVP and a frequent speaker at both local and international events.

Jens is hands-on partner at CatMan Solution, driving the BI as a Service team as well as custom build & deliver projects. The tech stack is wide, as Jens has a couple of decades in the industry, focusing on mainly Business Intelligence tools, but is... Show more

Paul Swider

Paul Swider

For over two decades, I've dedicated my career to architecting innovative AI-driven solutions for complex healthcare challenges. Starting in 1998, I led critical healthcare projects on Y2K mitigation and medical device compliance. In 2001, I pioneered one of the earliest mission-critical AI applications for same-day surgery triage, integrating insights from Dr. Michael Roizen’s "RealAge" series with cutting-edge Microsoft tech and the industry's earliest Wi-Fi networks and AI frameworks.

Additional Career Highlights:

==Taught thousands of programmers mission-critical .NET (2001-2007).

==Architected an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for a major Ivy hospital (2007).

==Developed algorithms using AHFS codes and AI to reduce medication overdose (2008).

==Built specialized pain management platforms improving patient care and SF-x scores (2009).

==Engineered a Shared Decision-Making platform, empowering patient healthcare engagement (2011).

==Led technical engineering for Activity Reporting, a compliance platform essential to CMS regulatory adherence, foundational to RealActivity's advanced AI copilots (2008).

==Directed teams migrating critical healthcare workloads to Azure Cloud (2010-2020).

==Collaborated with Microsoft Healthcare & HLS team, creating and delivering architect-level courseware for Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Partners (2022).

==Founded Boston Healthcare Cloud and AI Community, advancing global AI healthcare innovation.

==Earned multiple enterprise certifications from Microsoft: Azure MVP (2019), Azure Most Influential (2020).

==Currently Chief AI Officer & Philanthropy Lead at RealActivity, a Microsoft Founders Hub Level 4 member, dedicated to ethical, secure, transformative AI solutions.

**Global speaker, ranked in top 3% on Sessionize, having presented across 115+ countries.**

Global citizen, based in Boston. Passionate about Sicilian bakeries, lemon cakes, sailing, snowboarding, diving, adventure travel, and family time.

For over two decades, I've dedicated my career to architecting innovative AI-driven solutions for complex healthcare challenges. Starting in 1998, I led critical healthcare projects on Y2K mitigation and medical device compliance. In 2001, I pioneere... Show more

Yannick Reekmans

Yannick Reekmans

Yannick (a Microsoft 365 & Business Applications MVP) was born and raised in SharePoint, starting his career in 2011 when SharePoint 2010 was still new and shiny. The changing reality of the cloud made him expand his knowledge to the whole of Microsoft 365, Azure, and Power Platform. He is a Managing Partner and Cloud Solution Architect at Qubix, a Belgium-based consultancy firm, responsible for the technical underpinnings of products and solutions. Problem-solving and development are his passions, and he is still working day-to-day with code. He always asks the important questions: How does it work? What do you want to achieve? Does it have an API? Do we really need development for this? Where's the coffee?

Yannick (a Microsoft 365 & Business Applications MVP) was born and raised in SharePoint, starting his career in 2011 when SharePoint 2010 was still new and shiny. The changing reality of the cloud made him expand his knowledge to the whole of Microso... Show more

Falk Sippach

Falk Sippach

As a software architect, consultant and trainer at embarc Software Consulting GmbH, Falk Sippach is always on the lookout for that spark of passion that he can ignite in his participants, customers and colleagues. He has been supporting mostly agile software development projects in the Java environment for over 20 years. As an active part of the community (co-organizer of the JUG Darmstadt and Java Champion) he also likes to share his knowledge in articles, blog posts, as well as in presentations at conferences or user group meetings and supports the organization of various professional events.

As a software architect, consultant and trainer at embarc Software Consulting GmbH, Falk Sippach is always on the lookout for that spark of passion that he can ignite in his participants, customers and colleagues. He has been supporting mostly agile ... Show more

Kenny Baas-Schwegler

Kenny Baas-Schwegler

I believe in collaborative software design where *‘every voice shapes the software’*. Leveraging a domain-driven design approach with Team Topologies, I facilitate clearer communication between stakeholders and software creators by collaborative modelling and deep democracy, decoding complexities, resolving conflicts and ensuring software remains agile to business demands.

As an independent software consultant and trainer, I specialise in technical leadership, software architecture, and sociotechnical system design. I work with organisations and teams to design and build sustainable and resilient software architecture.

I believe in collaborative software design where *‘every voice shapes the software’*. Leveraging a domain-driven design approach with Team Topologies, I facilitate clearer communication between stakeholders and software creators by collaborative mod... Show more

Chris Perko

Chris Perko

Chris is an Atlanta based senior software engineer at HeroDevs and a Google Developer Expert in Angular. Chris has worked in several industries and helped build full-stack web applications, but has a passion for front-end development, with a focus on Angular. Outside of code, he enjoys craft beer, hiking, camping, and playing with his toddler.

Chris is an Atlanta based senior software engineer at HeroDevs and a Google Developer Expert in Angular. Chris has worked in several industries and helped build full-stack web applications, but has a passion for front-end development, with a focus on... Show more

Indira Bandari

Indira Bandari

I have a Masters degree in Statistics and have over 20 years of experience in designing and developing datawarehouses and analytical solutions.

I am a co-organiser of the NZ Business Intelligence - Power BI User Group and Auckland Artificial Intelligence Meetups. I am also an international Speaker at various events and conferences.

Volunteering and sharing my knowledge is my passion. In my pass time I teach game development for primary school kids. I have started teaching about databases and Power BI to 10 -15 year old kids and amaze myself at the creativity the younger generation is capable of

I have a Masters degree in Statistics and have over 20 years of experience in designing and developing datawarehouses and analytical solutions. I am a co-organiser of the NZ Business Intelligence - Power BI User Group and Auckland Artificial In... 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

Clemens Vasters

Clemens Vasters

Clemens Vasters is Lead Architect in Microsoft’s Azure Messaging team that builds and operates a fleet of hyper-scale messaging services, including Event Grid, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics and Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams. Clemens represents Microsoft in messaging standardisation in OASIS (AMQP, MQTT) and CNCF (CloudEvents, xRegistry) and writes too much code for being an "Architect". He looks back at nearly 30 years in professional software development and has seen the same fashion come and go a few times.

Clemens Vasters is Lead Architect in Microsoft’s Azure Messaging team that builds and operates a fleet of hyper-scale messaging services, including Event Grid, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics and Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams. Clemens repre... Show more

Jean-Yves Klein

Jean-Yves Klein

Senior Agile Coach, old Dev, became Project manager, CTO, and other stuff....
PMP, DAC and SAFe certified I'm trying to find the best solution, depending of clients, teams, projects....
I have supported agile teams in IT, mechanics, electronics, marketing, legal...
I created several Serious Games in order to make people understand SAFe, DevOps, the roles of PO, Scrum Master...

Senior Agile Coach, old Dev, became Project manager, CTO, and other stuff.... PMP, DAC and SAFe certified I'm trying to find the best solution, depending of clients, teams, projects.... I have supported agile teams in IT, mechanics, electronics, ma... Show more

Andrea Ceroni

Andrea Ceroni

Senior software architect, R&D team @Elfo.
I started my career working for advertising and cinema companies, using Maya and Python.
I have been working in .NET C# for more than ten years, with special interest in Azure cloud architectures, Infrastructure as Code, mobile applications, async/concurrent code and functional programming.
I'm a proud Microsoft MVP and I do my best to support communities.
Mountains and MTB enthusiast!
Married with Federica, we have a golden retriever, Mila.

Senior software architect, R&D team @Elfo. I started my career working for advertising and cinema companies, using Maya and Python. I have been working in .NET C# for more than ten years, with special interest in Azure cloud architectures, Infrastr... 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

Abhijeet Jadhav

Abhijeet Jadhav

Microsoft MVP in Microsoft 365 Development since year 2020. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Architect, Blogger, Speaker, PMP Certified Professional with 20+ years of experience. He loves exploring and sharing knowledge in MS Azure, Office 365 development, and the modern digital workplace. Specialized to utilize modern technologies in building customized business solutions and have been instrumental in multiple Enterprise solutions.

A Technology evangelist who is keen to learn new technologies and believes in the power of sharing the knowledge achieved by contributing through multiple mediums. He has also validated his knowledge by following certifications:

AZ-300 ,AZ-301, MCP in C#, PMP, 70-346, 70-332, 70-667, 70-573, 70-542, 70-630, 70-631
An active member of Global Power Rangers Community (2652 Members) to empower Citizen developers
An active contributor of C# corner community

Has participated in a large number of globally distributed projects, accompanying top Pharma companies in their digital transformation process, performing and leading Modern Workplace implementations and integration projects. His transparency and clarity on topics have helped him resolve complex business problems with a simple approach. His creativity, automation, and perspectives have helped clients to be more agile, responsive, and competitive.

Microsoft MVP in Microsoft 365 Development since year 2020. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Architect, Blogger, Speaker, PMP Certified Professional with 20+ years of experience. He loves exploring and sharing knowledge in MS Azure, Office 365 devel... Show more

Karoliina Kettukari

Karoliina Kettukari

Karoliina is the Head of Modern Work at OP Financial Group, the largest financial services group in Finland. She has over ten years of experience in developing teamwork and internal communications with modern digital tools and leading long-term change in organisations. Karoliina is a Microsoft MVP and a multi-awarded role model for her enthusiasm, knowledge-sharing, and community leadership. She is an experienced and inspiring speaker at international conferences, and she co-organizes the Finnish M365 Copilot User Group and CollabDays Finland Conference 💜 Community rocks!

Karoliina is the Head of Modern Work at OP Financial Group, the largest financial services group in Finland. She has over ten years of experience in developing teamwork and internal communications with modern digital tools and leading long-term chang... Show more

André Melancia

André Melancia

Developer / DBA / Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) focusing on Microsoft's Data Platform, AI, Azure, IoT and Security.
Developing information and multimedia systems, DBA, project and IT management, for over 25 years.
Speaker with over 290 sessions delivered since 2015 at international conferences and community events (mostly in-person before pandemic times) on multiple technologies, Internet Governance and Human Rights, as well as volunteer and moderator.
Organiser and founder at technical communities: IT Pro Portugal, PowerShell Portugal, Data Community Portugal, and multiple other online communities such as IPv6 Portugal, DNSSEC Portugal, etc.
Organiser of technical events: Global AI Bootcamp Lisboa, Global Power Platform Bootcamp Lisboa, Global Diversity CFP Day Lisboa, Power BI Roadshow Lisboa, Programar Saturday, Ctrl-Alt-Shell, Community Evenings, etc.
Go to https://Andy.PT and you'll know the same as the NSA...

Developer / DBA / Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) focusing on Microsoft's Data Platform, AI, Azure, IoT and Security. Developing information and multimedia systems, DBA, project and IT management, for over 25 years. Speaker with over 290 sessions... Show more

Tori Tompkins

Tori Tompkins

Tori is a Senior AI Consultant at Advancing Analytics and Microsoft AI MVP. Specialising in MLOps and LLMOps, Tori has worked on many ML and data science projects with Azure and Databricks at all stages of the ML Lifecycle. She is a co-presenter of the Data & AI podcast, Totally Skewed, founder of Girls Code Too UK and regular contributor with Girls in Data.

Tori is a Senior AI Consultant at Advancing Analytics and Microsoft AI MVP. Specialising in MLOps and LLMOps, Tori has worked on many ML and data science projects with Azure and Databricks at all stages of the ML Lifecycle. She is a co-presenter of t... Show more

Lewis Prince

Lewis Prince

Started his data journey through his masters degree in Statistics and Computational Biology, which lead him to spending 4 years in various roles in the Life and Insurance sector where before he joined Purple Frog Systems he was working as a Quantitative Analyst.

Started his data journey through his masters degree in Statistics and Computational Biology, which lead him to spending 4 years in various roles in the Life and Insurance sector where before he joined Purple Frog Systems he was working as a Quantitat... Show more

Hugo Bernier

Hugo Bernier

Hugo is the world's laziest developer. He will always look for the easiest way to solve a problem.

He is also a member of the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team.

As a former MVP and McKinsey & Company consultant, Hugo combines his love of technology and his management consulting experience to help organizations solve business problems quickly using enabling Microsoft technologies.

Hugo worked in Canada, the United States, Germany, Finland, Singapore, Hungary, France, and the United Kingdom, where he consumed vast amounts of coffee.

Hugo is the world's laziest developer. He will always look for the easiest way to solve a problem. He is also a member of the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices (PnP) team. As a former MVP and McKinsey & Company consultant, Hugo combines hi... 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.