A Former Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Brandon is a senior member of the Database team for financial company x functioning as a SQL Server Infrastructure Architect/SME. Having worked in data estates of several petabytes across thousands of servers, he puts a high focus on performance tuning and automation at scale. He is a frequent speaker at events like conferences and user groups.

A Former Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Brandon is a senior member of the Database team for financial company x functioning as a SQL Server Infrastructure Architect/SME. Having worked in data estates of several petabytes across thousands of servers, he... Show more

Matteo Emili is the Head of Software Engineering for AMBG at Avanade UK and Ireland, leading the talent in Software Engineering in the Accenture Microsoft Business Group and always looking at new ways of applying technology to solve business problems.

He is a passionate Agile advocate and a technologist at heart, a Cloud Architect who is always driven by using technology as a vehicle for change and continuous improvement.
A Microsoft MVP since 2010 (currently in the Azure DevOps and GitHub category), he enjoys sharing back as much as he can with the worldwide technical communities – especially about Agile and DevOps.

He founded several User Groups around Europe and he is a regular speaker at meetups and conferences.

Matteo Emili is the Head of Software Engineering for AMBG at Avanade UK and Ireland, leading the talent in Software Engineering in the Accenture Microsoft Business Group and always looking at new ways of applying technology to solve business problems... Show more

Budha is the Director of Product Ecosystem at Tyk, where he leads product education, ecosystem expansion, and adoption of open standards. He is the co-creator of the API platform maturity model, course instructor, conference speaker, and host of Tyk's annual LEAP conferences.

As the elected board chair of the OpenAPI Initiative, he is responsible for increasing membership, defining the value proposition, and driving the adoption of OAS, Arazzo, and Overlays.

Part product strategist, part developer advocate, and part storyteller, he’s on a mission to remove friction from API ecosystems by breaking down tech complexities preferably with a great metaphor and a well-placed pun.

Budha is the Director of Product Ecosystem at Tyk, where he leads product education, ecosystem expansion, and adoption of open standards. He is the co-creator of the API platform maturity model, course instructor, conference speaker, and host of Tyk'... Show more

Saeed Esmaeelinejad is a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP based in Leeds, with over 10 years of experience in the .NET ecosystem. He has worked across multiple domains, including banking, VOD platforms, and security, and has led development teams on large-scale systems. Saeed is passionate about new technologies, knowledge sharing, and open-source contributions, and is a member of the .NET Foundation community.

Saeed Esmaeelinejad is a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP based in Leeds, with over 10 years of experience in the .NET ecosystem. He has worked across multiple domains, including banking, VOD platforms, and security, and has led development... Show more

Angel is an energetic and forward-thinking Agile coach specializing in leadership development and organizational agility. His pragmatism and experience in organizational coaching and Business Agility are the driving forces behind his methods. Throughout his 15+ years of hands-on experience as a coach, trainer, and mentor, Angel has provided expert guidance to organizations and Agile leaders in North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Angel’s leadership has been particularly notorious at the ING Group, where he has performed as the first Agile Champion at ING Spain and chairman of the first Global ING Agile Experts Group since 2010. He has also supported companies from more than 40 countries, contributing to the Agile journeys of King, Toyota, Falabella, Banco de Chile, Roche, BBVA, Sunhotels, DEWA, FAB, PZU Group and the Catalan Institute of Oncology.

Angel holds the Scrum Alliance’s highest-level certifications in the field. Being the first Spanish CST (Certified Scrum Trainer), the first Spanish CEC (Certified Enterprise Coach), and the first European CALE (Certified Agile Leadership Educator).

Angel is also a PCC (Certified Professional Coach) by the International Coach Federation, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Certified specialist in team coaching and systemic leadership, Management 3.0 facilitator, Certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP), Certified LargeScaleScrum Practitioner (CLP), Certified SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC), Licensed NLP Practitioner and TTI-certified Behaviour and Motivation Analyst.

In addition, Angel has participated as a speaker and keynote at more than 60 international conferences and Agile events worldwide and has been a significant contributor to the international Agile community since 2009.

Angel is an energetic and forward-thinking Agile coach specializing in leadership development and organizational agility. His pragmatism and experience in organizational coaching and Business Agility are the driving forces behind his methods. Through... Show more

Leon Adato is a Developer Relations Advocate and has held multiple industry certifications over his 36 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.

Leon has been speaking, blogging, and creating content in the monitoring and observability space for almost a decade. His expertise in IT began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom training, desktop support, server support, network engineering and systems automation before landing in monitoring and observability over 27 years ago.

Leon Adato is a Developer Relations Advocate and has held multiple industry certifications over his 36 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries. Leon ... Show more

Dr. Siegfried Isele is a Managing Director, senior transformation executive, and board-level
advisor with more than 25 years of international leadership experience across insurance,
financial services, government, logistics, retail, and technology.

He specializes in large-scale modernization and transformation programs, including legacy
system replacement, data migration, AI-enabled automation, and regulated platform
transformation. Dr. Isele has led initiatives involving hundreds of specialists across multiple
continents, operating in highly regulated environments where reliability, compliance, and
governance are mission-critical.

In addition to his executive delivery leadership, he serves as a Senior Security Auditor (ISO/IEC
27001 & OT Security) and trusted advisor on cybersecurity, operational risk, and regulatory
compliance. His board and advisory contributions focus on technology strategy,
transformation governance, risk oversight, and executive decision-making.

Dr. Isele is known for his pragmatic application of agile principles, bridging structured
governance with real-world execution. He holds advanced degrees in economics, law, and
business engineering and has completed executive education at Harvard University, MIT,
Columbia Business School, UC Berkeley, and IIM Bangalore.

He is authorized to work in all Europe (incl. D A CH), the United States, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as he operates internationally.

Dr. Siegfried Isele is a Managing Director, senior transformation executive, and board-level advisor with more than 25 years of international leadership experience across insurance, financial services, government, logistics, retail, and technology.... Show more

Martynas is Data & Analytics Consultant specializing in UX design and visual communication of data.
His quest is to make data-human interaction a thing data humans care about by raising awareness and promoting best-practices.
He occasionally shares his knowledge in conferences, meetups and his personal blog.

Martynas is Data & Analytics Consultant specializing in UX design and visual communication of data. His quest is to make data-human interaction a thing data humans care about by raising awareness and promoting best-practices. He occasionally share... Show more

​Ivan Šarić is a Senior Software Engineer at Revolut working in the Financial Crime Department, where he leads integrations with authorities for branches globally. With over six years of backend and DevOps experience (Java, Spring, Docker), Ivan previously operated as a freelance Technical Architect through his company, Path Variable LLC.​He holds an MA in Political Science and is an active open-source contributor, with recent contributions to the Apache Commons Lang project and the SpaCy NLP library. A fluent speaker of English, Croatian, and German, Ivan combines technical rigor with a deep understanding of governance to solve complex systems problems.

​Ivan Šarić is a Senior Software Engineer at Revolut working in the Financial Crime Department, where he leads integrations with authorities for branches globally. With over six years of backend and DevOps experience (Java, Spring, Docker), Ivan prev... Show more

I am a Principal Solution Architect and Microsoft CX CTO at Capgemini NL, a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, and technology services.

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, I have a strong passion for creating simple solutions for complex problems, using my expertise in generative AI, Power Platform, and cloud technologies.

I helped numerous clients across various sectors improve their operational efficiency, customer experience, and business outcomes, by architecting, implementing, and delivering innovative and scalable solutions.

As a Microsoft MVP, Certified Trainer and a speaker at various events, I also enjoy sharing my knowledge and insights with my colleagues, partners, and the wider community, inspiring them to embrace the power of digital transformation and innovation.

I am a Principal Solution Architect and Microsoft CX CTO at Capgemini NL, a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, and technology services. With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, I have a strong passion for creating sim... Show more

Jonathan Joel Mentor is the CEO & Principal Consultant of Successment and Founder of Digital Nomad Summit, where he designs revenue operating systems and financial-inclusion infrastructure for emerging and frontier markets.

He is the creator of RevOps Science®, ZariOS™, and ZARI Mobility™ — proprietary frameworks and platforms that turn operations, data, capital readiness, and mobility into scalable economic engines.

Jonathan is a contributor to Dominican Today and elDinero, where he publishes on mobility, innovation, venture readiness, and economic visibility across Latin America and the Caribbean.

He was nominated for the United Nations World Summit Award and received ADOEXPO’s National Export Excellence Award for advancing Dominican exports through technology, intellectual property, and professional services.

His work has been featured in Business Insider, Fast Company, Diario Libre, and El Nuevo Diario, with collaborations and ecosystem engagements involving Techstars, Parallel18, MICM, ProDominicana, INDOTEL, PUCMM, UNIBE, and other institutional actors.

Jonathan is building long-term platforms at the intersection of revenue systems, innovation architecture, talent mobility, and economic modernization.

NYC-born | DR-based | Operating globally

Jonathan Joel Mentor is the CEO & Principal Consultant of Successment and Founder of Digital Nomad Summit, where he designs revenue operating systems and financial-inclusion infrastructure for emerging and frontier markets. He is the creator of Re... Show more

Michael serves as the head of the Professional Services organization at NowSecure, which supplies mobile app penetration testing, compliance assessments, security education, automation engineering, security research and consulting to customers in healthcare, financial, state and federal government and other regulated spaces. Michael's background is heavily focused in offensive security testing and security accreditation, having spent much of his career supporting the US Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Using his combined 20+ years security engineering and app development expertise, Michael now focuses his attention on evaluating mobile, medical, automotive, and cloud systems for use in wireless, cellular, and high-threat environments. Michael is also an avid security and privacy standards advocate and has contributed to efforts by OWASP, NIST, App Defense Alliance MASA, and NIAP.

Michael serves as the head of the Professional Services organization at NowSecure, which supplies mobile app penetration testing, compliance assessments, security education, automation engineering, security research and consulting to customers in hea... Show more

Dan Mallott is a Senior Principal at West Monroe based in Chicago, IL, USA. His passion is for distributed architecture, designing and building high performing service layers from the API down to the database.

Prior to returning to West Monroe, Dan spent two years at e-conomic in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the final 15 months as Head of Platform and Infrastructure. Dan was responsible for leading the Platform, SRE, and API teams in building a solid foundation for the e-conomic product. Previously, Dan was focused on leading the Platform Team in improving the cross-cutting concerns in the e-conomic application, including improving security, improving messaging performance, and managing the migration to .NET 6.0.

Before joining e-conomic, Dan was a Senior Principal for West Monroe, based in Chicago, IL, USA. While at West Monroe, Dan's projects included designing high performing architectures for a variety of clients, as well as developing APIs and UIs for healthcare, insurance, and financial services clients. Along the way, Dan worked with .NET Framework, .NET Core, Java/Spring Boot, React, and Angular. He also gained experience with a number of database technologies, including DataStax, Cassandra, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Prior to joining West Monroe, Dan worked for a number of companies, focusing on .NET and Microsoft SQL Server development, including experience as a DBA.

Past speaking engagements have included PASS Summit, NDC London, NDC Melbourne, NDC Sydney, KCDC, Code PaLOUsa, and numerous SQL Saturdays throughout the US. Dan enjoys speaking at both large and small conferences, and values the interactions he gets with attendees and other speakers.

In his spare time, he can be found writing his own software instead of using package solutions or on the ice as an ice hockey player and referee.

Dan Mallott is a Senior Principal at West Monroe based in Chicago, IL, USA. His passion is for distributed architecture, designing and building high performing service layers from the API down to the database. Prior to returning to West Monroe, Da... Show more

Michael is a passionate data analyst with a keen interest in transforming complex data into appealing and easily understandable visualizations.​
​
With his extensive consulting experience across various industries, Michael understands the diverse challenges that companies face. He finds technically innovative solutions to adapt to different situations and deliver real business value.​

His enthusiasm for knowledge sharing is highly evident in the community, where he enjoys sharing expertise with others and addressing new technical topics in realistic and illustrative use cases.

Michael is a passionate data analyst with a keen interest in transforming complex data into appealing and easily understandable visualizations.​ ​ With his extensive consulting experience across various industries, Michael understands the diverse c... Show more

A technical leader with over 15 years of experience in high-stakes banking and non-profit digital transformation. Currently, he is architecting the "Exit Strategy" for some of the largest data volumes in European banking, moving billions of records to the cloud. When he isn't re-architecting legacy systems, he organizes the Czech Java User Group and contributes to Česko.Digital to help NPOs change lives through technology.

A technical leader with over 15 years of experience in high-stakes banking and non-profit digital transformation. Currently, he is architecting the "Exit Strategy" for some of the largest data volumes in European banking, moving billions of records t... Show more

Olufemi Olamoyegun is a Microsoft Certified Data & Analytics practitioner with over 10 years of experience designing governed, scalable analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and modern data platforms.

He is recognized as a Microsoft Fabric Super User, an award from Microsoft for outstanding technical contributions and community impact within the Fabric ecosystem. He has authored 106 verified solutions in the Microsoft Fabric Community as a Solution Sage and contributed 21 solutions in Microsoft Community Hub for Excel as an Advanced Solver and Steel Contributor.

Olufemi is an active community speaker and technical educator, sharing practical knowledge on data architecture, analytics engineering, governance, and AI-enabled analytics. He has been selected to speak at international community events including the AI Community Conference Toronto 2026, Global Power Platform & Agent Bootcamp 2026, and Global Fabric Community Tunisia 2026.

His work focuses on Microsoft Fabric architecture, OneLake design patterns, enterprise data governance, and building trusted analytics platforms that help organizations turn data into actionable business insights.

He holds Microsoft certifications including PL-300, DP-600, and DP-700 and is passionate about helping teams design modern analytics solutions that are scalable, governed, and ready for AI workloads.

Olufemi Olamoyegun is a Microsoft Certified Data & Analytics practitioner with over 10 years of experience designing governed, scalable analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and modern data platforms. He is recognized as a Microsof... Show more

Seyfallah Tagrerout, 12 years of Experience – CEO at STC Consulting SARL Switzerland | Team Lead | Cloud and Security Architect, Microsoft Regional Director | Microsoft MVP Security since 2015, Speaker and book Author.

He is extremely highly and well skilled on all news features from Microsoft Azure / M365 technologies and security (Zero Trust, Azure Data Center , Identity , SecOps and Modern Workplace). He loves using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra and many other solutions of the Microsoft Security stack.

Microsoft MVP since 9 years, I am a Book author, international speaker and Microsoft technologies trainer. As a speaker, I deliver over 30 technical sessions annually, in both online and in-person formats, in both French and English.

Seyfallah Tagrerout, 12 years of Experience – CEO at STC Consulting SARL Switzerland | Team Lead | Cloud and Security Architect, Microsoft Regional Director | Microsoft MVP Security since 2015, Speaker and book Author. He is extremely highly and... Show more

A strategic partner to senior leadership and Human and Organizational Development (HOD), Luiz C. Parzianello acts as an executive advisor focused on bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Rather than delivering purely conceptual training, he rolls up his sleeves alongside C-level executives and middle management to develop leaders with a business owner mindset (Business Owners) and to structure a high-performance, collaborative governance capable of turning intent into real results.

A pioneer of agile thinking in Brazil and a national benchmark in Business Agility, Luiz has accumulated over 30 years of hands-on experience—developing an exclusive, highly specialized intervention capability that traditional consultancies simply cannot replicate. Creator of the Framework for Agile Business Ownership, his work blends strategic design, dynamic governance, and the development of business leaders equipped to manage today's market complexity. He is the author of the book Evolutionary Leadership (Liderança Evolucionária) and international co-author of the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide.

A strategic partner to senior leadership and Human and Organizational Development (HOD), Luiz C. Parzianello acts as an executive advisor focused on bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Rather than delivering purely conceptual training, h... Show more

Rijo is a software developer and public speaker based in the Netherlands. He possesses extensive experience building applications in the payments and credit sector of the banking domain.
Outside of work, he’s usually on his bike trying to beat his cycling buddies.

Rijo is a software developer and public speaker based in the Netherlands. He possesses extensive experience building applications in the payments and credit sector of the banking domain. Outside of work, he’s usually on his bike trying to beat his ... Show more

Elena is a data-driven Director of Product at Payoneer, with a powerful track record of leading AI and machine learning products to success. Over her 16-year career, including 9 years dedicated to this field, she has honed the skill of taking products from a raw idea to a market-leading solution. She brings a rare blend of technical expertise and business acumen to her work, a skillset she built on her B.A. in Management with a specialization in Computer Science. Driven to give back, Elena is a dedicated mentor to product professionals and a fierce advocate for women in tech.

Elena is a data-driven Director of Product at Payoneer, with a powerful track record of leading AI and machine learning products to success. Over her 16-year career, including 9 years dedicated to this field, she has honed the skill of taking product... Show more

Computer Engineer and Technology Consultant specializing in Enterprise Architecture, integrations, IA, and data governance within the financial sector. Former IBM developer and business analyst at Grupo Carso, currently working on large-scale architecture and integration projects. Passionate about cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and empowering the next generation of women in STEM.

Computer Engineer and Technology Consultant specializing in Enterprise Architecture, integrations, IA, and data governance within the financial sector. Former IBM developer and business analyst at Grupo Carso, currently working on large-scale archite... Show more

William is a CNCF Ambassador and Linkerd Ambassador currently working at Mirantis as Global Field CTO. He’s focused on helping customers designing, building, and running their initiatives on Edge, AI and Platform Engineering. He wore many hats in the IT world, Engineering, Pre-Post sales, Product Owner and Consulting. from HPC, Storage to Distributed Systems.
William enjoys volunteering in several Cloud Native groups and organizing the KCD Netherlands events.

William is a CNCF Ambassador and Linkerd Ambassador currently working at Mirantis as Global Field CTO. He’s focused on helping customers designing, building, and running their initiatives on Edge, AI and Platform Engineering. He wore many hats in the... Show more

Varun Kulkarni is an AI Product Leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling AI platforms, Business AI applications, and agentic AI ecosystems across Microsoft, Cisco, and Deloitte. He has launched 10+ 0–1 products reaching 1B+ users and driving $200M+ in revenue. At Microsoft, he leads multiple agentic AI ecosystem initiatives across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, including partner incubation and forward-deployed engineering to help enterprises and AI Startups deploy and scale Modern Work agents with measurable adoption and business impact. Previously at Cisco, he built and launched AI agent platform capabilities for Webex across global markets, and earlier at Deloitte he led cross-functional teams and go-to-market execution for enterprise AI platforms and customer implementations.

Varun is a recognized industry expert speaker and is also officially an Executive Briefing Center Speaker at Microsoft.

Varun is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and serves on the AI Advisory Board at Northwestern University. He also advises AI initiatives and startups through advisory roles with the University of Toronto and the University of Washington.

He holds an M.S. and an MBA from Northwestern University, and is an invited keynote speaker at multiple conferences where he shares insights on AI Agents, Agentic AI Ecosystems, Enterprise AI Transformation, AI Trust and Evaluation, Scaling Developer and Partner Ecosystems, GTM and Business Development

Varun Kulkarni is an AI Product Leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling AI platforms, Business AI applications, and agentic AI ecosystems across Microsoft, Cisco, and Deloitte. He has launched 10+ 0–1 products reaching 1B+ users and ... Show more

Blaize is a Microsoft MVP and has been interested in software development since childhood and wrote his first software while still in high school. Since that time, Blaize has had broad experience in all things IT ranging from a network administrator to a software architect and everything in between.

Blaize is a Microsoft MVP and has been interested in software development since childhood and wrote his first software while still in high school. Since that time, Blaize has had broad experience in all things IT ranging from a network administrator ... Show more

Dan has spent more than 30 years as a software engineer and technical leader, learning better ways to ship and get feedback the team needs.

He's been the Dev in Ops teams, built new paved paths, guided engineering groups to better security, and trained folk in Agile engineering.

He uses his experience in people and coaching to lead and guide teams, strengthen technical excellence and grow technical leadership.

Dan has spent more than 30 years as a software engineer and technical leader, learning better ways to ship and get feedback the team needs. He's been the Dev in Ops teams, built new paved paths, guided engineering groups to better security, and tr... Show more

Mihaly Kavasi is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Fast Track Recognised Solution Architect for Power BI, and Founder of OneDayBI — a UK consultancy helping small and mid-sized businesses turn data into daily decisions.

Over a decade of enterprise data work, most recently as Group Manager Delivery Lead and Trainer at Avanade (Microsoft's largest global partner), shapes how he speaks: practical, jargon-free, and grounded in what actually ships. He has spoken at Data Scotland, Budapest BI Forum, and runs selfservicebi.co.uk — a blog read by data analysts and decision makers on AI-assisted report development, governance, and what it really takes to make Self-Service BI work in practice.

Recent talks cover building context for AI agents in Power BI, sub-agent architectures for report development, and the operational realities of governance at SME scale.

Mihaly Kavasi is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Fast Track Recognised Solution Architect for Power BI, and Founder of OneDayBI — a UK consultancy helping small and mid-sized businesses turn data into daily decisions. Over a decade of enterprise da... Show more

As an analytical bridge between Business and IT, I translate your requirements into the data solution that are being build. Making you happy as a business user is my passion and bringing the people to the next level is my drive!
With more than 10 years-experience in the field of Business Intelligence, Data, Analytics & Engineering, I am the analytical bridge between business & IT. I'll now focus on using Fabric in the best way possible to deliver value and sharing these experiences with, collegues, clients and partners.

As an analytical bridge between Business and IT, I translate your requirements into the data solution that are being build. Making you happy as a business user is my passion and bringing the people to the next level is my drive! With more than 10 y... Show more

Ben Gamble is a engineering leader and self-described technology sommelier — his real skill is pairing the right technologies together, and knowing which cheese goes with them. He's spent his career in open source and data streaming, building the fast, real systems underneath logistics platforms, multiplayer worlds, and real-time data pipelines. The brief never changes: make it fast, make it real, and make it solve the actual problem in front of the user.  Off the clock, he builds video games, collects trading cards, and is reliably outnumbered by his children and his ducks.

Ben Gamble is a engineering leader and self-described technology sommelier — his real skill is pairing the right technologies together, and knowing which cheese goes with them. He's spent his career in open source and data streaming, building the fas... Show more

Boris Martinović is a lead software engineer in Euroherc Insurance and a PhD student of Information Management. Most the time, he is developing apps using various tech stacks. Besides that, Boris enjoys teaching and sharing knowledge so it's not a surprise that he is not only a lecturer at Algebra, covering Frontend technologies, but also an active member of the local developer community in Zagreb, while also finding time to conduct research for his PhD studies.

Boris Martinović is a lead software engineer in Euroherc Insurance and a PhD student of Information Management. Most the time, he is developing apps using various tech stacks. Besides that, Boris enjoys teaching and sharing knowledge so it's not a su... Show more

Software Engineer with proven years of experience in the industry. Currently, contributing to the design and building of software financial solutions at Devexperts. Antonio Pedro is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India. With a strong interest in distributed systems, cloud-native and related technologies, Antonio is also an LFX mentorship graduate contributing to Strimzi, a CNCF's incubating project. Apart from coding contributions, Antonio runs the Angola Open-source Community, a non-profit organisation that aims to promote the adoption and development of FOSS in Angola.

Software Engineer with proven years of experience in the industry. Currently, contributing to the design and building of software financial solutions at Devexperts. Antonio Pedro is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from Indraprastha Instit... Show more