Most Active Speakers 2024

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

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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

Leonard Lobel

Leonard Lobel

Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, Data Platform) is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a Microsoft consultant at Ernst & Young.

Programming since 1979, Lenni specializes in Microsoft-based solutions, with experience that spans a variety of business domains, including publishing, financial, wholesale/retail, health care, and e-commerce. Lenni has served as chief architect and lead developer for various organizations, ranging from small shops to high-profile clients. He is also a consultant, trainer, and frequent speaker at local usergroup meetings, VSLive, SQL Bits, and other industry conferences.

Lenni has also authored several MS Press books and Pluralsight courses on SQL Server and Azure Cosmos DB programming.

Leonard Lobel (Microsoft MVP, Data Platform) is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a Microsoft consultant at ... 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, working across the .NET mobile stack and helping bring .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, working across the .NET mobile stack and helping bring .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has bee... Show more

Bousalama Ayoub

Bousalama Ayoub

Convaincu par les valeurs de l'agilité, je suis un agent du changement déterminé au sein des organisations. Mon expertise réside dans la conception, la mise en œuvre et l'amélioration constante de la Transformation Agile & Digital. Mon objectif est de placer l'humain au cœur du développement en mettant l'accent sur la satisfaction des utilisateurs, l'excellence opérationnelle, et en créant une liaison solide entre la production et les objectifs stratégiques de l'entreprise, tout en assurant la livraison de valeur.

Formateur agile depuis 2017 et orateur depuis 2019, je suis spécialiste en transformation Business Agility & AI. J'ai dirigé des projets d'IA complexes, aidant les entreprises à livrer rapidement des solutions à forte valeur. Mon approche se concentre sur l'adaptation, l'amélioration de la collaboration. Passionné par l'innovation, j'aime partager mes connaissances pour inspirer et guider les professionnels dans leur parcours

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Convaincu par les valeurs de l'agilité, je suis un agent du changement déterminé au sein des organisations. Mon expertise réside dans la conception, la mise en œuvre et l'amélioration constante de la Transformation Agile & Digital. Mon objectif est ... 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

Marc Klefter

Marc Klefter

I have an extensive (20+ years) background as an engineer, entrepreneur, consultant, and international speaker in various technical and business domains. As a Senior Solutions Architect at AxonIQ, I help organizations succeed with building mission-critical, event-sourced systems.

I have an extensive (20+ years) background as an engineer, entrepreneur, consultant, and international speaker in various technical and business domains. As a Senior Solutions Architect at AxonIQ, I help organizations succeed with building mission-cr... Show more

Michał Dębski

Michał Dębski

As a co-founder of Astral Forest, I help ambitious BI leaders to get 100% control over the solutions they manage through technical expertise and process know-how advisory. With over 12 years of experience in BI/Data Strategy and Development, I have delivered end-to-end projects for various organizations, using Azure Databricks, SQL, and Big Data tools. I have also created BI roadmaps, designed optimal data architectures, and facilitated digital transformation by implementing agile/right BI development methods.

In addition to running Astral Forest, I am also a guest lecturer at Warsaw University of Technology, where I share my knowledge and insights on BI/Data Change Management with students and professionals. I have a strong background in quantitative methods in economics and information systems.

As a co-founder of Astral Forest, I help ambitious BI leaders to get 100% control over the solutions they manage through technical expertise and process know-how advisory. With over 12 years of experience in BI/Data Strategy and Development, I have d... Show more

John Craddock

John Craddock

John has designed and implemented computing systems ranging from high-speed industrial controllers to distributed IT systems focusing on security and high availability. A key player in many IT projects for industry leaders, including Microsoft, the UK Government and multi-nationals that require optimized IT systems. Developed technical training courses published worldwide, co-authored a highly successful Microsoft Active Directory Internals book, and presented regularly at major international conferences, including TechEd, IT Forum, Ignite, NIC, Techorama, Azure Lowlands, ESPC, WPNinja and more. John runs a deep-dive Microsoft Entra Identity masterclass, https://learn.xtseminars.co.uk. He produces videos for his YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/@john_craddock. John can be booked for speaking engagements through XTSeminars. www.xtseminars.co.uk

John has designed and implemented computing systems ranging from high-speed industrial controllers to distributed IT systems focusing on security and high availability. A key player in many IT projects for industry leaders, including Microsoft, the U... 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

Todd Libby

Todd Libby

Hugh McKee

Hugh McKee

Hugh McKee is a skilled back-end developer, and developer advocate with decades of experience building enterprise applications. Specializing in large-scale, cloud-based systems, Hugh is dedicated to learning new technologies and sharing his knowledge with others. As a developer advocate, he speaks at conferences worldwide and is the author of "Designing Reactive Systems: The Role Of Actors In Distributed Architecture." With a passion for teaching and evolving his software engineering skills, Hugh is a valuable contributor to the tech community.

Hugh McKee is a skilled back-end developer, and developer advocate with decades of experience building enterprise applications. Specializing in large-scale, cloud-based systems, Hugh is dedicated to learning new technologies and sharing his knowledge... Show more

Noam Honig

Noam Honig

Coder, open-sourcerer, developer experience enthusiast, software architect, and entrepreneur. At work, I oversee and consult in enterprise legacy systems modernization for fortune 500s to small businesses. Outside work I love helping NGOs as a full-stack developer and mentor.

Coder, open-sourcerer, developer experience enthusiast, software architect, and entrepreneur. At work, I oversee and consult in enterprise legacy systems modernization for fortune 500s to small businesses. Outside work I love helping NGOs as a full-s... Show more

Mathilde Buenerd

Mathilde Buenerd

As a frontend developer and certified web accessibility specialist (IAAP), my expertise lies in creating complex user interfaces that are user-friendly and accessible. Previously, I worked on developing No Code tools at Shopify, empowering millions of merchants to easily customize their Online Store. Now fully dedicated to accessibility, I focus on creating inclusive digital experiences for everybody.

As a frontend developer and certified web accessibility specialist (IAAP), my expertise lies in creating complex user interfaces that are user-friendly and accessible. Previously, I worked on developing No Code tools at Shopify, empowering millions o... Show more

Vaibhav Malik

Vaibhav Malik


Vaibhav Malik is a Global Partner Solution Architect at Cloudflare, where he works with global partners to design and implement effective security solutions for their customers. With over 12 years of experience in networking, security, and cloud technologies, Vaibhav is a recognized industry thought leader and expert in Zero Trust Security Architecture for modern, distributed systems.

Vaibhav Malik is a Global Partner Solution Architect at Cloudflare, where he works with global partners to design and implement effective security solutions for their customers. With over 12 years of experience in networking, security, and cloud te... Show more

Chris Hyde

Chris Hyde

Chris Hyde (he/him) is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He works as an independent SQL Server BI and DBA consultant and is the leader of the Albuquerque local Azure Data Technologies group. He loves loud music and cricket, but not usually at the same time.

Chris Hyde (he/him) is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He works as an independent SQL Server BI and DBA consultant and is the leader of the Albuquerque local Azure Data Technologies group. He loves loud music and cri... Show more

Senthamil (MVP)

Senthamil (MVP)

From Singapore. I work with SharePoint and Power Platform. I'm a Microsoft MVP in Singapore who plans events and is involved in community things. Check me out on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@msisgreat. I'm one of the organizers of the Microsoft Meetup community with over 7500 members islandwide (http://www.meetup.com/mssgug/).

From Singapore. I work with SharePoint and Power Platform. I'm a Microsoft MVP in Singapore who plans events and is involved in community things. Check me out on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@msisgreat. I'm one of the organizers of the Microsof... Show more

Patrick LeBlanc

Patrick LeBlanc

Patrick LeBlanc is a currently a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and a contributing partner to Guy in a Cube. Along with his 15+ years’ experience in IT he holds a Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is the author and co-author of five SQL Server books. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for his contributions to the community. Patrick is a regular speaker at many SQL Server Conferences and Community events.

Patrick LeBlanc is a currently a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft and a contributing partner to Guy in a Cube. Along with his 15+ years’ experience in IT he holds a Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He is the author and... Show more

Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including "Reactive Spring") and numerous best-selling video training (including "Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons" with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Axon, Spring Cloud, Activiti, Vaadin, etc), a Youtuber (Coffee + Software with Josh Long as well as my Spring Tips series ), and a podcaster ("A Bootiful Podcast").

Josh (@starbuxman) has been the first Spring Developer Advocate since 2010. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 7 books (including "Reactive Spring") and numerous best-selling video training (including "Building Microservices with Spring Boot Liveless... 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

Ashish Rana

Ashish Rana

Ashish is a 5 times Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT and Dynamics 365 CE or CRM Solution Architect specialist in delivering CRM and digital transformation projects for various industries. Led teams of solutions architects and Presales consultants.
Speaker to various Communities, Universities Tech talks, and other in-person and virtual events

Ashish is a 5 times Microsoft Business Applications MVP, MCT and Dynamics 365 CE or CRM Solution Architect specialist in delivering CRM and digital transformation projects for various industries. Led teams of solutions architects and Presales consult... Show more

James Crowter

James Crowter

Benefiting from 25 years of experience in implementing, customising and supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and its predecessor Navision and now the rest of the Microsoft Biz Apps stack, I'm passionate about how technology can drive business growth through consistent and efficient processes whilst giving new levels of insight through reporting and AI. Between my day job of leading one of the UK's biggest SME focused Dynamics partners I have the privilege of being Chairmen of Directions, a association of more than 1200 Dynamics partners worldwide and a Microsoft MVP for Business applications.

Benefiting from 25 years of experience in implementing, customising and supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and its predecessor Navision and now the rest of the Microsoft Biz Apps stack, I'm passionate about how technology can drive bu... Show more

Flynn -

Flynn -

Flynn is a technical evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40+ years in software, with a common thread of communications and security throughout, and is a coauthor of Linkerd: Up and Running from O'Reilly, a co-lead of the Gateway API GAMMA initiative, and the original author and longest-serving maintainer of the Emissary-ingress API gateway. He is most easily found as @flynn on the CNCF or Linkerd Slacks.

Flynn is a technical evangelist at Buoyant, educating developers about Linkerd, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development in general. He has spent 40+ years in software, with a common thread of communications and security throughout, and is a coauthor... Show more

Siddharth Vaghasia

Siddharth Vaghasia

As an Independent Consultant with around 16 years of experience, Siddharth has expertise in M365 Development as in SharePoint development, Teams App Development, Power Platform, Azure, and . NET and Integration of M365 with external applications. Siddharth also has vast experience in implementing CMS, collaboration, and communication solutions, wherein he has architected various custom end-to-end solutions. Siddharth has found his passion in sharing his knowledge by writing articles, conducting webinars, organizing various community events, and contributing to the PnP initiative. He also loves to develop reusable solutions, samples, and scripts and contributed to open source repos. He has also been awarded as Microsoft MVP in the 4x M365 Development category and Business Application, and 4 times C# Corner MVP.

I am also a co-founder of Pune Tech Community, where we provide a platform and organize various events M365 Saturday, Global Azure, Global AI BootCamp, Global Power Platform Bootcamp etc..

As an Independent Consultant with around 16 years of experience, Siddharth has expertise in M365 Development as in SharePoint development, Teams App Development, Power Platform, Azure, and . NET and Integration of M365 with external applications. Sid... Show more

Kirti Prajapati

Kirti Prajapati

Kirti is an Office Development MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, has 18+ years of progressive experience in Architect, Designing, Developing, Deployment and Administration of SharePoint Applications and Implementation of business applications in Client/Server and Distributed Environments. Kirti works with clients to develop and deploy comprehensive solutions on SharePoint and Office 365.
Kirti shares his knowledge at https://kirtiprajapati.com/ as he believes that Knowledge is power and sharing knowledge is empowering!

Kirti is an Office Development MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, has 18+ years of progressive experience in Architect, Designing, Developing, Deployment and Administration of SharePoint Applications and Implementation of business applications in C... Show more

Kristen Hosman

Kristen Hosman

With over 20 years in accounting, ERP systems, and Microsoft Dynamics, Kristen Hosman created Mount Evans Consulting to create accounting systems that fit each small business perfectly.

Kristen is a schooled accountant with a diverse background of accounting experience and brings these experiences and knowledge in working with small businesses to provide the solutions to fit their unique accounting needs. In addition, she is extensively involved in the Microsoft Dynamics community and regularly offers her valuable knowledge in open forums, interviews, and conference appearances.

Kristen serves on the advisory committee for Dynamics User Group (DUG). Her services and experience have earned her a renowned name, four consecutive GPUG All-Star nominations, a Granite Award, and Dynamics 365 All Star Award nomination. Kristen has also been recognized as a Microsoft MVP five years in a row, a recognition reserved for top technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. As a Microsoft Certified Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant, she demonstrates a high level of domain expertise and can tackle even the most challenging projects.

With over 20 years in accounting, ERP systems, and Microsoft Dynamics, Kristen Hosman created Mount Evans Consulting to create accounting systems that fit each small business perfectly. Kristen is a schooled accountant with a diverse background o... Show more

Amber Vanderburg

Amber Vanderburg

Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group, which has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused learning journeys. Amber's history in talent development includes authoring top-reviewed online learning courses for platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Lecturio, and PluralSight, acting as Director of a national education leadership company, and coaching with professional sports team academies in Asia. In 2022, she published her first business adventure book "Uniquely Better" about building higher team performance.

Speaking engagements:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMNcx7Jwk9Sp6WxuvrfOOBqdP9440SKl0

Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award winning businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group, which has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused learning... Show more

Jeff Angama

Jeff Angama

With deep expertise in Microsoft solutions and agile methodologies (like Scrum), he has empowered over 70 clients, optimizing daily operations for thousands of employees.

Recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2020 for his expertise and active community engagement as a speaker and conference organizer in Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform.
He has worn multiple hats since 2011—developer, tech lead, pre-sales consultant, trainer, and architect—driving value through M365 applications.

In 2020, he led the Low-Code initiative for a company with 40,000 users, showcasing his leadership in the No Code/Low-Code space.

Currently, as a Solution Engineer at AvePoint, he enables businesses to collaborate with Microsoft 365 securely and efficiently.

With deep expertise in Microsoft solutions and agile methodologies (like Scrum), he has empowered over 70 clients, optimizing daily operations for thousands of employees. Recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2020 for his expertise and active commun... 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

Ayoub Alouane

Ayoub Alouane

I am Ayoub Alouane, working as a CTO Academy at Adservio, Software Engineer & Exec MBA Student, as a Speaker and Author, I'm trying to build a consciousness about AI's Impact in our world.

Book I wrote: https://amzn.com/dp/B0DSM6NFDG

Some Conferences I did: Devoxx France, DevFest Nantes, International JavaScript Munich, DevFest Mons, Devoxx Morocco, DevFest Monastir Tunisie, EpicHey Portugal, FOSDEM, JS World Amsterdam, Web Day 2024 Italy, Devoxx UK, JNation Portugal, JS Nation Amsterdam, DevBcn Barcelona, CodeMotion Madrid, JSConf Budapest, Volcamp, DevCon Bucharest…

I am Ayoub Alouane, working as a CTO Academy at Adservio, Software Engineer & Exec MBA Student, as a Speaker and Author, I'm trying to build a consciousness about AI's Impact in our world. Book I wrote: https://amzn.com/dp/B0DSM6NFDG Some Confe... Show more

Eli Holderness

Eli Holderness

Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 7 years ago. They've spent their time working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design to developer advocacy, continually getting nerd-sniped along the way. These days, they work at the Bennett Institute as a Research Software Advocate, helping to build the next generation of healthcare research tooling. In their spare time, they like to go bouldering, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 7 years ago. They've spent their time working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design to developer advocacy, continually ge... Show more

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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.