Government, Social Sector & Education

Valued individuals involved in shaping public policies, providing essential services, and promoting education, tirelessly looking to improve society and empower citizens

Amol Agrawal

Amol Agrawal

Amol Omprakash Agrawal is a multi-award-winning educator, AI mentor, and edupreneur with 10+ years of experience spanning student mentorship, skill training, and startup leadership. As the Director of T.I.M.E. Pvt Ltd (Akola) and the visionary behind Shiksha Sahyog, PhD Café & Restro, and Disha Yatra – A Skill Initiative, Amol has trained over 11,500+ students, delivered 90+ expert sessions, and organized impactful outreach in both urban and rural India.

He specializes in AI for Education & Career Counselling, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Azure AI tools, and has built a niche in using emerging technologies to boost learning, mentoring, and productivity. Amol is also a certified career counsellor with iDream Career, a mentor at WE Hub (Govt. of Telangana), MentorX, and a Startup World Cup advisor, guiding youth, women entrepreneurs, and early-stage ventures globally.

A recipient of the AICTE Leadership Excellence Award, Amol has been a speaker at prestigious forums such as the Capital Networking Conference (MAX POG 2025) and Jagriti Yatra 2024, where he spoke on “AI for Nation Building.” He’s also featured on podcasts, national webinars, and mentored hundreds of underprivileged students through leadership and soft skills programs.

Currently pursuing his PhD, and with academic credentials in MBA, LLB, and D.Pharm, Amol blends technology, education, and purpose-led impact—making him a sought-after voice in AI-powered education, youth skilling, and entrepreneurial innovation.

Amol Omprakash Agrawal is a multi-award-winning educator, AI mentor, and edupreneur with 10+ years of experience spanning student mentorship, skill training, and startup leadership. As the Director of T.I.M.E. Pvt Ltd (Akola) and the visionary behind... Show more

Alisson Fernandes

Alisson Fernandes

Innovation, Strategy, and Agility Consultant with 15 years of experience driving organizational and agile transformations across industries, service areas, and teams in over 15 countries.

A recognized trainer and facilitator, I have helped develop thousands of professionals in high-performance leadership, design thinking, agile principles and practices, continuous improvement, Kanban, flow metrics, and customer experience.

As a specialist in performance indicators and business metrics, I have extensive experience implementing KPIs, Balanced Scorecard (BSC), and OKRs, enabling teams to reach new performance levels through data-driven decision-making.

Passionate about mentoring and coaching, I support teams and individuals in open innovation, business agility, agile high-performance teams, continuous improvement, performance management, and value stream optimization.

A community leader and event organizer, I have played key roles in Agile Brazil, Agile Coach Camp, Caipira Ágil, Agile Beer, and Agile Campinas, bringing practitioners together to share knowledge and advance agility. As a speaker and facilitator, I have contributed to global conferences, fostering collaboration and practical learning.

Currently serving as Executive Director at Agile Alliance Brazil, I am dedicated to expanding agile practices and mindset by supporting communities and industry events nationwide.

Innovation, Strategy, and Agility Consultant with 15 years of experience driving organizational and agile transformations across industries, service areas, and teams in over 15 countries. A recognized trainer and facilitator, I have helped develop... Show more

Israel Odeajo

Israel Odeajo

Israel Odeajo is an accomplished professional with over ten years of diverse experience in technology and data science. Currently, he serves as an AI Engineer and Data Coach at Join Momentum in the United Kingdom and as a Machine Learning Engineer at BTC Creative Labs in Germany. His career spans key roles including software engineer, database administrator, team lead, data analyst, data scientist, machine learning engineer, and AI engineer—across multiple sectors such as education, politics, energy, law, fintech, and NGOs.

Israel’s expertise extends to academic contributions, having published approximately five research papers and presented at renowned conferences, including Deep Learning Indaba, ICLR, Data Science Africa, and Data Science Nigeria. As an invited speaker and faculty member, he has shared his insights at various international forums in Africa, Europe, Asia, and America.

In addition to his technical and academic achievements, Israel has served as a facilitator with Techskill, UK, and as a teaching assistant with Neuroscience Academy, where he imparts advanced knowledge in deep learning. His influence in the technology space is further recognized through his ambassadorial roles with Zindi Africa and Data Dev Ambassador for Tableau. Israel is also a certified data trainer with Atlan Turing College, UK, following an intensive eight-week training program.

His professional certifications include credentials as a Google IT Specialist, Google Web/Mobile Specialist, Microsoft Data Scientist, and Microsoft AI Responsible Certified professional, among others. This diverse blend of experience and expertise underscores his commitment to advancing technology and data innovation on a global scale.

Israel Odeajo is an accomplished professional with over ten years of diverse experience in technology and data science. Currently, he serves as an AI Engineer and Data Coach at Join Momentum in the United Kingdom and as a Machine Learning Engineer at... Show more

Astrid Ruppin

Astrid Ruppin

Diplom-Soziologin und Betriebsinformatikerin
2002 - 2014: Consultant für die Bereitstellung von Websites und die Einführung von Intranets und IT-Trainerin
Seit April 2014 bei WBS GRUPPE als Digital Experience Managerin
- Projektteam Einführung eines Social Intranets
- Interne Kommunikation
- Projektleitung Einführung Microsoft 365 im Unternehmen
- Microsoft 365 Cloud Navigator
- SO SharePoint, Teams, Viva Engage u.a. M365-Tools

Diplom-Soziologin und Betriebsinformatikerin 2002 - 2014: Consultant für die Bereitstellung von Websites und die Einführung von Intranets und IT-Trainerin Seit April 2014 bei WBS GRUPPE als Digital Experience Managerin - Projektteam Einführung ein... Show more

Pablo Herrera

Pablo Herrera

Con más de una década en desarrollo y QA Automation, he liderado equipos en sectores como retail, banca y gobierno. Mi expertise abarca Python, JavaScript, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, entre otros. Me apasiona compartir conocimientos sobre lenguajes de programación y pruebas de software para potenciar equipos y fomentar el crecimiento colectivo.

Con más de una década en desarrollo y QA Automation, he liderado equipos en sectores como retail, banca y gobierno. Mi expertise abarca Python, JavaScript, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, entre otros. Me apasiona compartir conocimientos sobre lenguaje... Show more

Cassandra Chin

Cassandra Chin

Cassandra Chin has given keynotes at Devnexus, JFokus, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Morocco, and GIDS. Her latest book, Raising Young Coders, is published by Apress and helps parents to inspire their kids to love technology. She has been teaching technology kids workshops at international conferences since she was 13 years old and is passionate about helping allow women, minorities, and underprivileged students to learn about technology. She is also Content Chair of CNCF Kids Day and is helping to run AI Engineer Kids Day. Her books have been featured at international events like Kubecon + CloudNativeCon and in popular technology shows like theCUBE and Techstrong TV.

Cassandra Chin has given keynotes at Devnexus, JFokus, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Morocco, and GIDS. Her latest book, Raising Young Coders, is published by Apress and helps parents to inspire their kids to love technology. She has been teaching technolog... Show more

Emiel Brok

Emiel Brok

Emiel stands for the open source philosophy. He relies on 'Power of Many' and 'Public Money Public Code' to contribute to a better world.
He works at SUSE as an Open Source Ambassador. Here he draws as much attention as possible to the Open Source products and technologies that SUSE supports.
He is Co-Founder and Board Member of DOSBA (Dutch Open Source Business Alliance).
He lobbies for Open Source Software in the Netherlands, EU and beyond. He is international speaker in the field of Digital Sovereignty, Open Source, NIS-2, CRA, OSPOs and Open Source in Education.
He is active in open source sales and marketing for more than 20 years,

Emiel stands for the open source philosophy. He relies on 'Power of Many' and 'Public Money Public Code' to contribute to a better world. He works at SUSE as an Open Source Ambassador. Here he draws as much attention as possible to the Open Source p... Show more

Charmi Chokshi

Charmi Chokshi

I am an AI Product Manager / Team Lead at Natural Resources Canada working at the intersection of AI and GeoScience. I have a Master’s in Machine Learning from Mila and the University of Montréal, Canada.

In the past year, I have won the following awards:

* Winner of the Next Generation Leader of the Year award by The Women in IT Summit & Awards Series
* Rising Star awardee by Womxn in Data Science
* One of the awardees for WeaveSphere Developer 30 Under 30 of Canada
* Runner-up in the ‘Outstanding in AI - Young AI Role Model of the Year' - North America by Women in AI

During my time at Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Textract, I worked on Model-based Noisy Annotation Detection and Correction. Previously, I was a Machine Learning Engineer at a fast-paced startup, Shipmnts. There, in the span of 2.5 years, I built an AI-Powered Document Understanding Platform to automate paperwork involved in global supply chains. Prior to that, I was a Research Trainee at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) where I worked in the Smart-cities Mission of India. I hold a Bachelor’s in Information and Communication Technology from Ahmedabad University, India.

I am passionate about tech & community, and my journey has led me to become an international speaker, one of the youngest Google Developers Experts in AI and GCP around the globe. To date, I have spoken at 30+ conferences and have trained 40k+ professionals and students in ML, DL, TensorFlow, and GCP. I have always been curious about the human brain’s functionality and want to tweak its neural circuits! 🧠 👩‍💻

Talk to me about Technology, Finance, Art, Travel, and Entrepreneurship! 💖

Learn. Apply. Share. Repeat.

I am an AI Product Manager / Team Lead at Natural Resources Canada working at the intersection of AI and GeoScience. I have a Master’s in Machine Learning from Mila and the University of Montréal, Canada. In the past year, I have won the following... Show more

Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani

Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani

Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani is an accomplished Information Technology Security and Cybersecurity Engineer with over nine years of specialized experience designing, implementing, and securing enterprise-scale network infrastructures across on-premises and cloud environments. Based in Dallas, Texas, he has built a distinguished career focused on protecting critical public sector systems and safeguarding sensitive government operations.
Since May 2018, Venkata has served the City of Dallas through KC Synergy Solutions Inc., where he plays a pivotal role in securing vital municipal infrastructure. His responsibilities include comprehensive cybersecurity defense for the Dallas Police Department and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), ensuring the protection of sensitive law enforcement data through multi-layered security controls such as OKTA two-factor authentication, advanced VPN architectures, and strict CJIS compliance. He has engineered secure, disaster-resilient communication channels between CAD911 dispatch systems and the Texas Department of Public Safety, ensuring uninterrupted emergency response coordination statewide.
One of Venkata’s most significant accomplishments is the architecture of a secure, multi-zoned SCADA network for Dallas’s freshwater, wastewater, and stormwater treatment facilities. By implementing air-gapped environments, zero-internet-access zones, and IDS/IPS protections, he has directly safeguarded critical public health infrastructure from cyber threats. His expertise was further demonstrated during a major ransomware incident, where he successfully detected, contained, and eradicated malware by isolating compromised systems and blocking communication with the Royal ransomware group.
Venkata’s technical expertise spans Cisco ASA, Firepower Threat Defense, SD-WAN, Palo Alto firewalls, F5 BIG-IP, and web application firewalls. He has architected secure hybrid cloud environments using AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, and IPSEC tunnels, supported by AWS architect level certifications. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Assurance and maintains advanced certifications, including CJIS Level 4 and Cisco Firepower NGFW, consistently ensuring compliance with NIST and federal cybersecurity standards.

Venkata Kartheek Reddy Somasani is an accomplished Information Technology Security and Cybersecurity Engineer with over nine years of specialized experience designing, implementing, and securing enterprise-scale network infrastructures across on-prem... Show more

Hector Paulo

Hector Paulo

Entusiasta por entender cada vez mais sobre Transformação e Cultura Organizacional.
Motivado por compartilhamento de conhecimentos: treinar, facilitar e também aprender.

Atua como agente de transformação ajudando organizações e times a atingir resultados significativos sempre acreditando que a diferença está nas pessoas.

Mais de 15 anos de experiência atuando com intervenções utilizando abordagens preditivas, adaptativas e híbridas.
Experiência como Agile Coach responsável por transformação ágil de organizações de TI e outside TI.

Doutorando na área de Transformação Digital e Cultura Organizacional e Mestre em Ciências da Computação.
Docente em cursos de MBA e Pós-Graduação de Gestão de Negócios e Gestão Ágil.

Entusiasta por entender cada vez mais sobre Transformação e Cultura Organizacional. Motivado por compartilhamento de conhecimentos: treinar, facilitar e também aprender. Atua como agente de transformação ajudando organizações e times a atingir r... Show more

Anton Sokolov

Anton Sokolov

Anton Sokolov is a researcher at Tyche Institute, an Estonian non-profit maintaining open-source infrastructure for verifiable AI-agent attestation, and a PKI engineer in Tallinn. His work spans post-quantum cryptography, MCP, and EU regulation (AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, eIDAS 2.0). He maintains the EATF reference implementation and its public Agent Evidence Package verifier and corpus; EATF runs in Estonian schools (MATx — President of Estonia AI hackathon prize, 2026).

Anton Sokolov is a researcher at Tyche Institute, an Estonian non-profit maintaining open-source infrastructure for verifiable AI-agent attestation, and a PKI engineer in Tallinn. His work spans post-quantum cryptography, MCP, and EU regulation (AI A... Show more

Verónica Mota Galindo

Verónica Mota Galindo

Verónica Mota Galindo is a transdisciplinary researcher and epistemological activist at the Free University of Berlin, focusing on philosophy, gender studies, technoscience and decolonial theory. As a member of the international research project Human-Machine, she is contributing to a forthcoming 2026 volume on artificial intelligence, representing Latin America with a focus on AI in Mexico. She is currently studying for a PhD in Philosophy at FU Berlin and a Master's degree in Technology at TU Berlin. She mentors students from minority backgrounds and has created the “Decolonising AI: Intersectional, Feminist and Ecological Literacy” prototype, which has been selected for integration into the Humboldt University's Gender MINT project this year. Drawing inspiration from Haraway's cyborg, her work blends critical AI pedagogy with inclusive, feminist, and decolonial perspectives.

Verónica Mota Galindo is a transdisciplinary researcher and epistemological activist at the Free University of Berlin, focusing on philosophy, gender studies, technoscience and decolonial theory. As a member of the international research project Huma... Show more

Ceri Newton-Sargunar

Ceri Newton-Sargunar

Ceri is an interactions specialist, chaologist and trainee neuroscientist, adept at helping people at all levels work together more effectively. With a background in teaching, she's poised to make evidence-based research accessible and useful to leaders who care about a more effective approach.

As a qualified coach, and a team dynamics & systemic interventions consultant with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with senior leadership teams in government, large multinational private and public organisations and fledgling start-ups, Ceri is at her best when she's helping you and your people find some calm in the chaos.

Tea in hand, Ceri works globally and is continually delighted to speak with audiences worldwide, mostly about the beautiful intermingling of behavioural science and hopeful future-focused transformation.

She also loves researching and talking about brains - because once a nerd, always a nerd...

Ceri is an interactions specialist, chaologist and trainee neuroscientist, adept at helping people at all levels work together more effectively. With a background in teaching, she's poised to make evidence-based research accessible and useful to lead... Show more

Tabbi Kinion

Tabbi Kinion

Tabbi Kinion transforms overwhelmed, newly minted managers into confident leaders through interactive leadership development training and coaching. Drawing from over two decades of hands-on leadership experience, she delivers practical experiences that unlock potential through powerful conversations and exercises rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.

Tabbi serves as faculty for the Arkansas Public Administration Consortium's Certified Public Manager program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is a National Faculty Member for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Management Assistance Team, helping leaders across sectors create cohesive, high-impact teams without burning out.

Before launching her training and coaching practice in 2024, Tabbi served as Education Division Chief for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission from 2018-2023, leading 80+ staff across multiple facilities and programs, following 13 years as Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Statewide Education Coordinator. Her approach combines real-world leadership expertise with academic excellence, including her Certified Public Manager certification, a Master's of Arts in Biology from Miami University, and a Bachelor's in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University.

Tabbi Kinion transforms overwhelmed, newly minted managers into confident leaders through interactive leadership development training and coaching. Drawing from over two decades of hands-on leadership experience, she delivers practical experiences th... Show more

Mirek Biňas

Mirek Biňas

Works at TUKE.SK, where he (un)successfully tries to deploy containers directly into the process of automated testing of student assignments and into teaching in the field of the Internet of Things. He also regularly trains new DevOps engineers, whom he attempts (with varying degrees of success) to introduce to the world of containers and orchestration. When he’s had enough of everything and everyone, he grabs a container, throws it on his back, and escapes into the wilderness for a few hours, days, or weeks.

Works at TUKE.SK, where he (un)successfully tries to deploy containers directly into the process of automated testing of student assignments and into teaching in the field of the Internet of Things. He also regularly trains new DevOps engineers, whom... Show more

Dr. June Hall

Dr. June Hall

Dr. June Hall, affectionately known as Dr. June, has been an educator and presenter for over 20 years. She is a TEDx speaker, media personality, author, and speaker. When faced with trials that negatively impacted her life, her faith in God taught her to APT which is to Accentuate Positive Thinking. She then founded Time to APT, facilitating programs to help others personally and professionally. As a speaker she spreads this message of positivity, effective communication, and making lemon pound cake when life gives you lemons. She has been the keynote speaker for the Mental Health Association of Broward, CARE Foundation, Girl Scouts of America, AABE, colleges, churches and more. As a media personality, she is the expert panelist on shows such as NBC Bloom, CBS Great Day Tampa Bay, podcasts and more. She has received the EPIC (Exceptional People Impacting the Community) Award.
With her masters in Mental Health Counseling and her doctorate in Educational Leadership, she bridges her experiences in the corporate/academic world with her background in counseling to strengthen communication skills, reduce stress, and increase retention in schools and at work. Dr. June teaches and implements emotional wellness as she posits "As long as you still have life, each day offers you an opportunity to do something towards your goal. It's Time to APT; It's Time to take ACTION."

Dr. June Hall, affectionately known as Dr. June, has been an educator and presenter for over 20 years. She is a TEDx speaker, media personality, author, and speaker. When faced with trials that negatively impacted her life, her faith in God taught he... Show more

Lea Hildermeier

Lea Hildermeier

Lea Hildermeier ist Projektmanagerin im HFD/CHE und dort u.a. für den Think Tank "Well-Being und Mental Health im digitalen Zeitalter an Hochschulen" zuständig. Zuvor studierte sie Anglistik, Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie an der Universität Bielefeld.
Als DigitalChangeMaker der Kohorte 2024 engagierte sich Lea in den Bereichen studentische Partizipation, Student Wellbeing und dem Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Hochschulbildung. Seit September 2024 engagiert sich Lea im Common Grounds Forum, damit junge Menschen ihre Stimme in bildungs- und digitalpolitischen Anliegen einbringen können.

Lea Hildermeier ist Projektmanagerin im HFD/CHE und dort u.a. für den Think Tank "Well-Being und Mental Health im digitalen Zeitalter an Hochschulen" zuständig. Zuvor studierte sie Anglistik, Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie an der Universität... Show more

Aaron Garth

Aaron Garth

Aaron Garth is CEO of Ultimate Youth Worker, a Melbourne-based social enterprise providing professional supervision, training and consulting to the Australian youth and community sector. He has worked in youth work since 2002 and founded Ultimate Youth Worker in 2012 to professionalise the sector through better training, structured supervision and clearer career pathways.

His work centres on supervision as a genuine space for critical reflection rather than administrative compliance, and on building the workforce capability frameworks that let organisations retain and develop frontline staff. He has designed and delivered accredited training across strengths-based youth work, AOD and dual diagnosis practice, and youth justice contexts, and consults to organisations on psychosocial risk, workforce structure and practice standards.

Aaron is also a PhD candidate at RMIT University researching fathering through a New Materialist theoretical lens, and speaks on the intersection of relational practice, professional identity and sector reform.

Aaron Garth is CEO of Ultimate Youth Worker, a Melbourne-based social enterprise providing professional supervision, training and consulting to the Australian youth and community sector. He has worked in youth work since 2002 and founded Ultimate You... Show more

Eriol Fox

Eriol Fox

Eriol has been working as a designer for 15+ years working in for-profits and then NGO’s and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building, censorship circumvention OSS, Human Rights OSS tools and crisis response technology. Eriol now works at The Open Home Foundation on OSS first smart home technology.

Eriol is part of the core teams at Open Source Design (http://opensourcedesign.net/) Sustain UX & Design working group (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/design-and-ux/) and help hosts podcast about open source and design (https://sosdesign.sustainoss.org/)

Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns.

Eriol was studying a Comp Sci PhD looking at how designers participate in humanitarian and human rights focussed open-source software projects and is looking for a new home for this research.

Eriol has been working as a designer for 15+ years working in for-profits and then NGO’s and open-source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace-building, censorship circumvention OSS, Human Rights OSS... Show more

Dahvid Schloss

Dahvid Schloss

Dahvid is the COO at Suzu Labs with over 15 years of experience in cyberattacks and defense. A former Special Operations communicator and offensive cyber operator, he transitioned from the military to leading international Red Teams for a Big 4 firm. In his subsequent leadership and executive roles, he specialized in enhancing security resilience and maturity across more than 100 clients globally. A DEFCON Black Badge holder and inaugural trainer, Dahvid is a recognized expert in logical, social, and physical infiltration and exploitation, as well as custom malware development. Teaching his clients how to "train how they fight". Grounded in the philosophy that "Leaders Eat Last", he focuses on bridging the gap between high-level business strategy and bespoke, high-value services to build truly resilient organizations.

Dahvid is the COO at Suzu Labs with over 15 years of experience in cyberattacks and defense. A former Special Operations communicator and offensive cyber operator, he transitioned from the military to leading international Red Teams for a Big 4 firm.... Show more

Chanel Power

Chanel Power

Chanel Power doesn't just build technology — she builds the systems that determine who gets to.

A Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Relations leader, and Founder & CEO of Mentor Me Collective, Chanel operates at the intersection of technical excellence and global access. She has shipped production ML systems, advised 30+ early-stage AI product teams annually, and built a global technical institute serving 40K+ developers across 120+ countries, generating $45M+ in career outcomes for 600+ first-generation technologists.

Mentor Me Collective is a Google for Startups partner, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center alumni, and by every measure, a developer relations program at true scale, with enablement programs running at 3x industry engagement benchmarks and partnerships spanning Google Cloud, IBM, and Grow with Google.

Her technical range is matched by her ability to translate it across engineering rooms, executive briefings, and communities the industry too often overlooks.

Chanel works at the frontier of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and accelerated computing. She builds fast, speaks plain, and closes the gap between what's possible and who gets to build it.

She is not building toward legacy. She is already living it.

Chanel Power doesn't just build technology — she builds the systems that determine who gets to. A Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Developer Relations leader, and Founder & CEO of Mentor Me Collective, Chanel operates at the intersection of techn... Show more

Shawnta Hooks

Shawnta Hooks

Equipping leaders to regulate pressure, repair trust, and lead in the age of uncertainty.

Shawntà Hooks is an award-winning global keynote speaker, author, and Leadership & Clarity Strategist known for unlocking clarity in high-pressure cultures. With a background as a former Fortune 100 Vice President of Automation Transformation and Certified Public Accountant, she brings rare executive credibility to the human side of leadership.

Through neuroscience-backed, multisensory experiences — integrating music, movement, mindfulness, and storytelling — Shawntà teaches leaders the bio hacks of presence, regulation, and influence. Her work reveals what’s felt but rarely named in modern organizations: how overstimulation, unregulated pressure, and emotional misalignment quietly erode performance, trust, and decision-making.

She is the founder of The Clarity Lab™ and creator of the Catch → Convert → Create™ system of nervous system regulation.

Equipping leaders to regulate pressure, repair trust, and lead in the age of uncertainty. Shawntà Hooks is an award-winning global keynote speaker, author, and Leadership & Clarity Strategist known for unlocking clarity in high-pressure cultures. ... Show more

Kieran Holmes

Kieran Holmes

Kieran is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Solution Architect with over a decade of Microsoft Business Applications delivery experience across enterprise clients in both the public and private sector.

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Kieran supports organisations through digital transformation and the adoption of new Microsoft technologies, including AI-powered business applications and agents.

Kieran is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Solution Architect with over a decade of Microsoft Business Applications delivery experience across enterprise clients in both the public and private sector. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, K... Show more

Phil Almeroth

Phil Almeroth

Phil leads Business Transformation and guides teams through delivery excellence for Logisolve (a V-Soft Consulting Company), a national consulting firm with a wide variety of practice areas, including Public Sector. He has broad and deep experience in Product, Program, Project, and IT Management and Delivery across Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Agriculture, Retail, and Media for 40+ years. He also mentors business leaders and MBA and undergraduate students in their personal and professional growth.

Phil leads Business Transformation and guides teams through delivery excellence for Logisolve (a V-Soft Consulting Company), a national consulting firm with a wide variety of practice areas, including Public Sector. He has broad and deep experience i... Show more

María López Martínez

María López Martínez

Soy ingeniera informática y consultora de Power Platform. Mi experiencia principal está en soluciones low-code con Power Apps, Power Automate y SharePoint, y actualmente estoy especializándome en Data, Microsoft Fabric y Power BI.

Además de mi trabajo técnico, participo activamente en formación, comunidades tecnológicas y asociacionismo juvenil. Soy Directora de Formación en #MurciaTIP, coordinadora del programa #PowerUS, presidenta de INFOMUN y Secretaria General de la Federación de Junior Empresas de la Región de Murcia (FEJERM).

Como ponente, me gusta compartir conocimiento desde un enfoque claro, práctico y cercano, conectando tecnología, datos y personas.

Soy ingeniera informática y consultora de Power Platform. Mi experiencia principal está en soluciones low-code con Power Apps, Power Automate y SharePoint, y actualmente estoy especializándome en Data, Microsoft Fabric y Power BI. Además de mi tra... Show more

Ursula Spencer

Ursula Spencer

Ursula Spencer is an eDiscovery and information governance SME with deep roots in enterprise Microsoft ecosystems. She pioneered and led the Federal Reserve System’s eDiscovery function following the 2008 financial crisis, designing defensible data collection and review workflows across 12 Reserve Banks. Her work supported Congressional investigations, regulatory audits, and high risk litigation, reducing manual processing by over 80 percent while maintaining NIST and FISMA aligned audit readiness. She has since led system wide migrations to Microsoft 365, designed governance ready collaboration environments, and advised public and private sector organizations on secure, people centered M365 adoption.

Today, Ursula designs secure, people centered adoption strategies for public sector, education, and enterprise organizations. She specializes in translating emerging technologies including AI, XR, VR, and AR into governed, scalable solutions that accelerate transformation while protecting data and compliance posture. Her approach blends deep technical expertise with change leadership, helping organizations safely navigate AI’s inflection point.

An award winning technologist, she has spoken at Politico LIVE, Microsoft Elevate and Innovate, BaddieCon, CIAA Tech Summit House, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where she shares practical frameworks for AI readiness, collaboration at scale, and career reinvention in emerging tech.

Ursula Spencer is an eDiscovery and information governance SME with deep roots in enterprise Microsoft ecosystems. She pioneered and led the Federal Reserve System’s eDiscovery function following the 2008 financial crisis, designing defensible data c... Show more

Juan García

Juan García

Diplomado en Ciencias Empresariales y Licenciado en Investigación y Técnicas de Mercado por la Uva. Formador ocupacional acreditado por la Junta de Castilla y León.

12 años de experiencia en el área económico-financiera en empresas de diversos sectores.

Más de 4.000 horas de formación presencial impartidas para empresas y organizaciones como CVE, UPTA, AEMTA, CEOE.

Administración de plataformas de elearning, generación de contenidos y tutorización de cursos online para entidades como Ernest & Young, Radio Televisión Española o la productora, Globomedia, con más de 2.000 horas acreditadas.

Varias participaciones en eventos, cursos y actividades desarrolladas como presentador, conferenciante, organizador y/o dinamizador de actos diversos, entre otros:

- Global Power Platform Bootcamp Valladolid
- PechaKucha Night Valladolid vol.13
- Trainers for the Future ed. 2018. Superpoderes para generar contenidos
- Trainers for the Future ed. 2017. Educación Maker
- InnoBAR EDU Valladolid. Encuentro alternativo de innovación educativa
- InnoBAR EDU Palencia. Encuentro alternativo de innovación educativa
- #Emprendizate. De la idea al negocio. Cámara de Comercio de Ávila

Instructor para el perfeccionamiento y actualización del profesorado de Formación Profesional en el Centro de Formación e Innovación Educativa (CFIE) de la Junta de Castilla de León en “Empresa e iniciativa emprendedora” y "Creatividad y emprendimiento"

Instructor de los espacios CyL Digital para facilitar a PYMES y autónomos su presencia activa en el mundo digital a través de redes sociales: #EstoyenInternet

Diseño y dinamización de Living Lab

Organizador #InnoBAR Valladolid (www.innobar.net)

Lema: No hay preguntas tontas, sólo tont@s que no preguntan

Diplomado en Ciencias Empresariales y Licenciado en Investigación y Técnicas de Mercado por la Uva. Formador ocupacional acreditado por la Junta de Castilla y León. 12 años de experiencia en el área económico-financiera en empresas de diversos sec... Show more

Adelegan Oluseyi Abiodun

Adelegan Oluseyi Abiodun

I am a Senior Full-Stack Web Developer and CTO based in Lagos, Nigeria, with 13+ years of experience building enterprise-grade Drupal applications for government, healthcare, NGO, and commercial sectors.

My Drupal work includes:

- HEFAMAA — Health Facility Monitoring & Accreditation System for Lagos State government, monitoring 4,000+ healthcare facilities across Lagos State

- LASAMBUS — Emergency Management Data Capture Portal for Lagos State Ambulance Service, processing 10,000+ emergency calls

- ZODML E-Library & Poetry Prize Platform — digital infrastructure for one of Nigeria's leading literary non-profits, serving 10,000+ library patrons and 60,000+ e-resources

- West Africa College of Physicians (WACP) Portal — membership and dues management for 4,000+ medical professionals across West Africa

- Koha Library Management System — implementation and customisation with OPAC integration for ZODML

I have been part of the Nigerian Drupal community since the 2015 revival. I organised and participated in DrupalCamp Nigeria 2015, 2016 and 2017. I attended DrupalCon Vienna 2025, was a nominated speaker at DrupalCon Chicago 2026, spoke at Drupal Camp Burkina Faso 2026, and am on the waitlist for DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026.

I am currently working to rebuild the Drupal Nigeria community through the Drupal Nigeria Association — a structured effort to reconnect Nigerian developers, recruit young talent through universities, and deliver open source projects of genuine public benefit.

Technology stack: Drupal 7–10, PHP, Laravel, React.js, React Native, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Docker, Azure, Git/GitHub.

I am a Senior Full-Stack Web Developer and CTO based in Lagos, Nigeria, with 13+ years of experience building enterprise-grade Drupal applications for government, healthcare, NGO, and commercial sectors. My Drupal work includes: - HEFAMAA — Hea... Show more

Sofia Maiolo

Sofia Maiolo

I'm a Computer Engineer and MSc in Computer Science with over 13 years at the intersection of technology, innovation, and people empowerment. From technical support to executive leadership, I've built a 360° perspective on how technology creates meaningful impact in business, education, and society.

I currently lead the R&D&I team at Ceibal, Uruguay's national center for educational innovation, driving research and diversity-driven innovation in public education, with AI at the core. Previously as CCO at WorkWithPlus, I led commercial strategies across 35+ countries.

A Cultural Awareness certification from MIT and ongoing Innovation Management studies allow me to navigate both the strategic and technical dimensions of innovation with equal confidence.

As a Santander W50 Leader and Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, I am committed to multicultural leadership and gender equity in STEAM, and a frequent speaker on technology, inclusive leadership, and the power of diverse teams.

I'm a Computer Engineer and MSc in Computer Science with over 13 years at the intersection of technology, innovation, and people empowerment. From technical support to executive leadership, I've built a 360° perspective on how technology creates mean... Show more

Moritz Schmid

Moritz Schmid

Moritz Schmid studiert Politikwissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Regensburg. Seit April 2026 ist er Sprecher des Bayerischen Landesstudierendenrats und vertritt die über 400.000 Studierenden in Bayern. In dieser Funktion sind seine Schwerpunkte Künstliche Intelligenz, Nachhaltigkeit und die Zukunft der Lehre. Darüber hinaus engagiert er sich als Mitglied der Steuerungsgruppe des Zentrums Hochschule und Nachhaltigkeit Bayern (BayZen) – und hat mit CampusCar eine Carpooling-Plattform mitinitiiert, um Pendleremissionen an Hochschulen zu reduzieren.

Moritz Schmid studiert Politikwissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Regensburg. Seit April 2026 ist er Sprecher des Bayerischen Landesstudierendenrats und vertritt die über 400.000 Studierenden in Bayern. In dieser Funktion sind s... Show more

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