I am passionate about empowering Women in Technology, a champion of Neurodiversity, Accessibility, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and improving culture in the workplace. I love supporting women in technology and working towards creating impact and giving back to their communities in a small way.

I am passionate about empowering Women in Technology, a champion of Neurodiversity, Accessibility, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and improving culture in the workplace. I love supporting women in technology and working towards creating impact and gi... Show more

Analista de Sistemas, formado Administrador de Empresas com ênfase em AS. Especialista em Qualidade de Software, com 40 anos de carreira na área de TIC atuando em diversos papéis.

Especialista em Tecnologias na Aprendizagem, praticante e estudioso da heutagogia (auto-aprendizagem), do e-learning e do desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional, com foco em soft skills necessárias à cultura ágil desde 2015. Concluindo especialização em Projetos Sociais e Políticas Públicas.

No Serpro desde 2006. Trabalhou com Garantia da Qualidade, melhoria contínua de processos, sendo professor convidado da pós-graduação em Qualidade de Software da Unisinos de 2011 a 2015.

Atua desde 2019 com cultura organizacional, inicialmente no time Cultura Dides, cuja missão é apoiar a propagação e engajamento na cultura ágil no âmbito da Diretoria de Desenvolvimento de Soluções (DIDES) do Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (Serpro), a partir de maio de 2024 integrando o Departamento de Cultura Organizacional. da Superintendência de Educação, Pessoas e Talentos, na Diretoria de Pessoas, com o desafio de modelar a segmentação dos processos de Cultura Organizacional tanto em termos regionais como nas diversas diretorias.

Autor, ator, cantor (em vias de se tornar produtor musical), e facilitador de debates e painéis. Pai de quatro filhos. Metódico e bem-humorado. Às vezes não. Cri-cri-cri, sempre: crítico, criterioso e criativo. Não cabe em caixa, recomenda-se nem tentar.

Analista de Sistemas, formado Administrador de Empresas com ênfase em AS. Especialista em Qualidade de Software, com 40 anos de carreira na área de TIC atuando em diversos papéis. Especialista em Tecnologias na Aprendizagem, praticante e estudios... Show more

Paul Innella, CEO of TDI, is a globally recognized cybersecurity executive with over 30 years of experience advising critical infrastructure, government, and enterprise organizations. He pioneered Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM), a strategic approach to measuring cybersecurity effectiveness in operational environments. Paul has guided top institutions including DARPA, the U.S. Navy, Deutsche Bank, and the IMF. His insights have appeared in Forbes, Financial Times, CNBC, and ABC News. He holds CISSP-ISSMP, CISM, and NSA IAM certifications and completed executive programs at Cambridge, IMD, and Edinburgh Business School. He also chairs White Hat USA, supporting Children’s National Medical Center.

Paul Innella, CEO of TDI, is a globally recognized cybersecurity executive with over 30 years of experience advising critical infrastructure, government, and enterprise organizations. He pioneered Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM), a strateg... Show more

I’m an expert in team, project and product management, conference speaker, public speaking coach, academic lecturer, book author and TEDx organizer.

I work in the financial sector, leading complex tech projects - including those related to digital identity. My role sits at the crossroads of IT, business and governance, where aligning perspectives is a daily challenge. In the past I’ve built entire DevOps competence center, always with a focus on communication, agility and a solid dose of common sense. I believe in people, collaboration and context-driven decisions.

I speak at conferences across Poland and Europe, running talks and workshops on leadership, agile, communication and teamwork. I also deliver my own trainings based on the LEGO® Serious Play® methodology. I’m mentor for TEDx speakers and organizer or TEDxUniversity of Lodz / TEDxPabianice / TEDxŁódź - events that gathers big audience and strong online engagement.

I hold degrees from the University of Łódź (International Relations and HR Management), MBA from Lodz University of Technology and Illinois State University, and a postgraduate diploma in IT Project Management. Outside of work, I’m a dad of two sons – which is great preparation for agile coaching. I write humorous, educational books for kids and collect the finest corporate memes life has to offer.

I love teaching, creating, connecting – and I always ask one question: “What if we did it differently?”

I’m an expert in team, project and product management, conference speaker, public speaking coach, academic lecturer, book author and TEDx organizer. I work in the financial sector, leading complex tech projects - including those related to digital... Show more

As enthusiastic Agilist, I spent a long time in the world of Agility applied to large industries and I gradually understood why this model was withering away year after year without us accepting the real causes. First as a project player, then as a trainer and finally as a coach, I'm working to ensure that modern Agile models are used less strictly and more respectfully of people.

You can find my work in my book: https://tinyurl.com/darroux

As enthusiastic Agilist, I spent a long time in the world of Agility applied to large industries and I gradually understood why this model was withering away year after year without us accepting the real causes. First as a project player, then as a t... Show more

Dr. Tarek Hussein is a pharmacist-entrepreneur and clinical leader dedicated to building healthcare systems that are faster, safer, and measurably more impactful. With a career spanning acute hospital care, community pharmacy, and digital health, Tarek speaks at the intersection of operational excellence and social health equity.

Speaking & Consulting Expertise:
• Operational Excellence (Lean & Agile): As a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and ICP-ACC Agile Coach, Tarek helps healthcare organizations move beyond traditional silos. He shares frameworks for designing evidence-based systems that reduce waste, improve safety, and empower interprofessional teams.
• Sustainability & Climate Resilience: As a Climate Health Fellow (Harvard Medical School/CHA) and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Prescribing Working Group, Tarek is a leading voice on greening the healthcare supply chain. He provides actionable insights on sustainable prescribing and climate-resilient practice.
• Leadership & Innovation: A Chartered Manager and 2x digital health founder, Tarek speaks on the "builder’s mindset" required to scale innovation. He shares lessons from founding SociaLink Rx (Canada’s first precision social prescribing platform) and MedaKi (e-commerce infrastructure for the pharmacy industry).
• Social Prescribing: Tarek is a published researcher and pioneer in shifting the clinical focus from the "prescription as end-point" to the "prescription as starting point," integrating social determinants of health into standard primary care.
Professional Background:
Tarek is currently a Clinical Pharmacist at Brockville General Hospital and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine. He previously spent 13 years building Weller Pharmacy into Ontario’s first sustainability-certified independent practice and a Living Wage Champion.

Education & Credentials: Tarek holds a BPharm, a PharmD, and an MBA from IE Business School. He is currently pursuing an MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Toronto. His leadership credentials include being a Chartered Manager (C.Mgr), a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM), and a former President of the Board for KEYS Employment & Newcomer Services.

Engagement Style: Tarek combines the rigour of a clinician with the agility of a tech founder. He is known for translating complex systemic challenges—whether they be "leadership debt" or "environmental footprint"—into practical, high-performance strategies for health system leaders, policymakers, and frontline practitioners.**

Dr. Tarek Hussein is a pharmacist-entrepreneur and clinical leader dedicated to building healthcare systems that are faster, safer, and measurably more impactful. With a career spanning acute hospital care, community pharmacy, and digital health, Tar... Show more

Agiliste convaincue, motivée par les petites victoires quotidiennes, émerveillée par la vie, et habitée par les valeurs du manifeste agile centrées sur l'humain, le respect, la bienveillance et l'amélioration continue. Je mets mes compétences et mon expérience au service de ceux qui partagent mon quotidien, mais j'essaye avant tout de leur faire révéler leur propre potentiel, parfois des pépites qu'ils ignorent d'eux-mêmes...

Maman de 3 enfants, neuroatypique, féministe et fresqueuse du climat.

Agiliste convaincue, motivée par les petites victoires quotidiennes, émerveillée par la vie, et habitée par les valeurs du manifeste agile centrées sur l'humain, le respect, la bienveillance et l'amélioration continue. Je mets mes compétences et mon ... Show more

Boomie Odumade is a senior engineering leader and career coach with 20+ years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and systems. Through TechBees, she works with companies as a fractional or interim CTO/VPE, bringing clarity to ambiguous situations and building foundations that scale.

Boomie has led engineering organizations at companies including Accenture, NPR, and Capital One, startups, and scale-ups. She also serves as a board trustee for organizations advancing leadership development and STEM education.

Her talks are grounded in real experience and bring an energetic, practical perspective to engineering leadership, technical strategy, security and DevSecOps, and building healthy, inclusive engineering cultures.

Boomie Odumade is a senior engineering leader and career coach with 20+ years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and systems. Through TechBees, she works with companies as a fractional or interim CTO/VPE, bringing clarity to ambiguo... Show more

Dr. Jeremy Straub is an associate professor at the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity and AI. He holds two B.S. Degrees (business and IT), two M.S. Degrees (MBA and MS in Computer Systems and Software Design), a Ph.D. in Scientific Computing and Graduate Certificates in Business and Space Studies. He has, previously, been awarded over $7 million in grant and contract funding, much of this as PI. His work has been supported by agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Health, National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation. His work has appeared in national news outlets including CNN, Forbes, USA Today, CBS, Newsweek, Fox News and The Hill.

Dr. Jeremy Straub is an associate professor at the University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity and AI. He holds two B.S. Degrees (business and IT), two M.S. Degrees (MBA and MS in Computer Systems and Software Design), a Ph.D. in Scientific ... Show more

Atuo com TI há 25 anos e já trabalhei nas mais diversas áreas.
Estou há mais de 14 anos na Prodesp e trabalho articulando as áreas da empresa, buscando: comunicação entre as áreas, troca de experiência com outras empresas, estudo de novas tecnologias e assuntos para ampliar o repertório, apoio a líderes e liderados com práticas/treinamentos usando o ágil, o Design Thinking e principalmente, a comunicação.
Também atuo na comissão de inovação da Prodesp e na 1a comunidade dse Design Sprint no Brasil!
Atuei como redatora voluntária pelo IBEGESP - Instituto Brasileiro de Educação em Gestão Pública em 2022, com quatro artigos publicados no https://radar.ibegesp.org.br/
Sou uma mulher guerreira, alegre, a filha mais velha de três irmãos, aquela que tinha que dar o exemplo em casa. Tenho 2 filhas e o meu negócio é gente, é promover desenvolvimento humano. Compartilhar conhecimento e sempre ajudar quem eu puder, como puder.
Que sejamos agentes de mudança!

Atuo com TI há 25 anos e já trabalhei nas mais diversas áreas. Estou há mais de 14 anos na Prodesp e trabalho articulando as áreas da empresa, buscando: comunicação entre as áreas, troca de experiência com outras empresas, estudo de novas tecnologia... Show more

Shenandoah Chefalo is a speaker, author, and trauma-informed workplace consultant who helps organizations build more human-centered systems of care, leadership, and accountability.

As the author of Garbage Bag Suitcase and creator of the Best Bunny children’s book series, Shenandoah brings both lived experience and professional expertise to conversations about foster care, trauma, resilience, organizational culture, workforce burnout, and meaningful systems change. Her work bridges personal story, neuroscience, leadership practice, and implementation strategy to help audiences move beyond awareness and into action.

Through Chefalo Consulting, Shenandoah works with public agencies, courts, schools, healthcare systems, nonprofits, CASA/GAL programs, child welfare organizations, treatment court professionals, and human-service agencies to move trauma-informed principles from concept to daily practice. She has provided speaking, training, and implementation support for state and county CASA organizations, child welfare and foster care audiences, healthcare and human-service systems, education leaders, public-sector teams, and organizations seeking to strengthen workplace culture and workforce wellbeing.

Her sessions are especially relevant for audiences focused on trauma-informed leadership, human-centered workplace culture, burnout prevention, secondary trauma, psychological safety, staff retention, foster care, child welfare, treatment courts, systems change, and implementation.

Learn more about Shenandoah’s speaking and training work through Chefalo Consulting at chefaloconsulting.com, or contact shen@chefaloconsulting.com.

Shenandoah Chefalo is a speaker, author, and trauma-informed workplace consultant who helps organizations build more human-centered systems of care, leadership, and accountability. As the author of Garbage Bag Suitcase and creator of the Best Bunn... Show more

Leslie Martinich is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, former computer scientist, leadership researcher, and trusted advisor to technical leaders worldwide. After helping pioneer networking software and foundational technologies such as remote procedure calls, she spent more than two decades studying a question that affects every organization: Why do some teams thrive while others struggle despite having equally talented people?

As founder of Competitive Focus, Leslie helps engineers, technical professionals, and executives develop the leadership capabilities needed to navigate increasing organizational complexity. Her work combines research, real-world leadership experience, and practical methods for building trust, improving communication, and creating high-performing teams.

Leslie has worked with organizations on six continents, including NASA, 3M, Samsung, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and the U.S. State Department. In 2012, she was selected as the IEEE-USA Science and Technology Policy Fellow, serving in the U.S. Congress. Through her Executive Simulation Leadership Lab and keynote presentations, she helps organizations strengthen leadership capability, improve retention, and accelerate performance.

Known for her engaging storytelling, humor, and practical insights, Leslie shows leaders how trustworthiness improves information flow, performance, and innovation in an increasingly complex world.

Leslie Martinich is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, former computer scientist, leadership researcher, and trusted advisor to technical leaders worldwide. After helping pioneer networking software and foundational technologies such as remote procedure... Show more

Press: Featured in National Law Review and Atlanta Today, with syndication across the EIN Presswire network of 800+ outlets, and praised by industry analyst Jeff Kagan as "a clear example of how quickly the AI landscape is evolving and new opportunities are emerging" (March 2026).

Wilson Guenther is the Founder, CEO and CTO of Drivia — what Wilson calls "the personalization infrastructure of the AI era." Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, adopted at age 10 by an American family, Wilson arrived in the United States on New Year's Eve 2013. He taught himself to code in college and shipped 1,891+ commits across six live software products from his dorm room — no funding, no co-founders.

Drivia is the Canvas-class adaptive AI platform powering enterprise learning, higher ed, and public-sector workforce training. JAX, Drivia's adaptive AI tutor, runs Q-learning + Bayesian Knowledge Tracing on top of a UCB1 router across six AI models (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Grok, DeepSeek, Groq) with circuit breakers — co-architected with Frank Morales, a Boeing Fellow. Drivia is currently in active multi-million-dollar contract negotiation with TechServ Corporation as channel partner across healthcare, public safety, workforce, and city/county program markets. Accelerators: NVIDIA Inception, AMD Instinct, AWS Activate.

Wilson is also the author of the Drift Thesis — original IP on context decay and adaptive intelligence — and the System Architect newsletter on LinkedIn (16,100% growth in seven days). He has 2.2M+ combined social following (TikTok 1.1M, Instagram 633K, Facebook 471K) with one video at 44 million views, has appeared on Family Feud (Steve Harvey), Rich House Poor House (UK), and KVUE Austin News, and has consulted for Linktree and Beacons.

Wilson speaks on adaptive AI engineering, multi-model routing and inference cost engineering, the Drift Thesis (context decay, hallucination root cause), distribution as a moat for AI builders, and immigrant founder origin.

Press: Featured in National Law Review and Atlanta Today, with syndication across the EIN Presswire network of 800+ outlets, and praised by industry analyst Jeff Kagan as "a clear example of how quickly the AI landscape is evolving and new opportunit... Show more

Most health and longevity speakers offer one of three things: a personal transformation story, a single-discipline expertise, or a wellness philosophy. Dr. Paul Kilgore brings something almost no one else on a stage can: the full vertical stack — from outbreak investigation in the field, to the bench science of clinical trials, to the bedside of 36 years of patient care, to the laptop of every audience member who walks away with working tools they can use that night.

His authority is built on a career at the front lines of public health science — much of it conducted on the ground, internationally. Dr. Kilgore lived overseas for 12 years and has conducted clinical work and research across approximately 30 countries, giving him a globally grounded perspective on infectious disease, travel medicine, vaccine policy, and the practical realities of staying healthy across cultures and borders. He is a board-certified internist, physician-epidemiologist, longevity medicine physician, Wayne State University professor, and former CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer — the elite federal corps trained to investigate disease outbreaks in real time, known as the "Disease Detectives." He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications across vaccine science, infectious disease epidemiology, environmental health, travel and global health, and longevity medicine. He has served as a principal investigator on COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, conducted research on the Flint Water Crisis, and advised on global immunization strategy. National media — including CBS News' The Takeout with Major Garrett and WDET's Detroit Today — turn to him when complex health science needs to be made clear, accurate, and actionable for the public.

What makes Dr. Kilgore singular among health and wellness speakers is what he has built outside the lecture hall. At drpaulkilgore.com, he has created one of the most comprehensive evidence-based longevity and wellness ecosystems available directly to the public — a working library of more than 50 physician-designed, trademarked health tools and risk calculators. These tools span the full architecture of personal health: biological age (Phenotypic Age Calculator), cardiovascular risk (CardioGuard HF™, AHA PREVENT CVD Risk), cancer (CancerClarity™), bone health (BoneWise™), cognitive and mental health (MindScreen™), nutrition and supplements (NutriGuard Rx™, SuppleSafe 360™), medication safety (MedCheck Rx™, MedList Pro™), vaccine planning (VaxLife™), travel and global health (TravelGuard™), women's health (OvarySpan™), endurance and athletic readiness (EnduranceReady™, IronReady™), and a full suite of biomarker analyzers covering metabolic, inflammatory, autoimmune, lipid, thyroid, iron, and kidney function. Alongside the tools, he has authored two structured courses — the Health Breakthrough Blueprint and the Personal Health Strategy program — a seven-volume checklist library with 860+ actionable items, 28 printable health-tracking templates, the "Ask Dr. Paul" podcast, and a tiered consultation practice that runs from focused four-session coaching to concierge-level longevity medicine. His content library is also licensed to employers as a turnkey corporate wellness solution covering up to 100 employees.

At the center of it all is the DETECTIVE Method™ — Dr. Kilgore's signature 9-step framework that translates the same evidence-based reasoning he was trained to apply to outbreaks into a personal health strategy anyone can use to live longer and healthier. It is the connective tissue between the science he has produced for three decades and the decisions a listener will make tomorrow morning.

What audiences get: a speaker who has done the science, written the papers, run the trials, sat at the bedside, built the tools, and worked across cultures and continents — and can hand attendees a working library, not a slide deck, the moment the talk ends. Conferences book Dr. Kilgore when they want a health keynote that delivers credibility, clarity, and immediate action — not just inspiration.

His message: you don't need a medical degree to make world-class decisions about your own health. You need the right framework, the right tools, and a physician who has spent 36 years — across more than 30 countries — figuring out how to put both in your hands.

Most health and longevity speakers offer one of three things: a personal transformation story, a single-discipline expertise, or a wellness philosophy. Dr. Paul Kilgore brings something almost no one else on a stage can: the full vertical stack — fro... Show more

Kenya Tyson, JD is a higher education executive, legal and policy strategist, and founder of The Black Massacre Project. She has held senior leadership roles at major universities including Dartmouth College, where she advised on institutional governance, compliance, innovation, and strategic initiatives. A former criminal justice professor and nationally recognized speaker, her work focuses on justice systems, race, institutional power, historical accountability, and public policy.

Kenya Tyson, JD is a higher education executive, legal and policy strategist, and founder of The Black Massacre Project. She has held senior leadership roles at major universities including Dartmouth College, where she advised on institutional govern... Show more

Interviewing persons with low vision for her day job at an Assistive Tech Development company, Laura is learning more about barriers every day. And enthusiastic about sharing it! With a special interest in all things accessibility (both online and offline) she's enthusiastic to talk about braille keyboards, trashcans and bad urban planning, how blindness is a spectum, and most importandly: That web accessibility is a tool to build an inclusive society.

Interviewing persons with low vision for her day job at an Assistive Tech Development company, Laura is learning more about barriers every day. And enthusiastic about sharing it! With a special interest in all things accessibility (both online and of... Show more

After a decade in social work, Magali decided to change course and became a web developper. She tries to find a delicate balance between the technical aspects of the job (fun !), the creativity (fun too !) and trying to follow her ethics and change the culture of the industry (the less fun aspects of it anyway) by being an advocate and an activist. She recently chose to specialize in web accessibility by joining Access42.

She is co-founder and president of Compositech, an organization advocating for the inclusion of women and non-binary people in tech. She also is the founder and president of La Première Ligne, a feminist magazine created by tech women and non-binary people. She has a dog, Trufa and talks either way too much about her (according to people) or way not enough (according to herself).

After a decade in social work, Magali decided to change course and became a web developper. She tries to find a delicate balance between the technical aspects of the job (fun !), the creativity (fun too !) and trying to follow her ethics and change t... Show more

Staff Engineer at AXA France, specialized in front-end development, I aim to solve problems before they even arise!
Passionate about new technologies and debate, I host the podcast "C'est Pas Le Sujet" ("That’s Not the Point").
I constantly try to share my knowledge and challenge it by speaking at numerous events (keynotes, conferences, meetups, etc.) and teaching in several engineering schools.

Staff Engineer at AXA France, specialized in front-end development, I aim to solve problems before they even arise! Passionate about new technologies and debate, I host the podcast "C'est Pas Le Sujet" ("That’s Not the Point"). I constantly try to ... Show more

Meet a seasoned professional known in the digital realm as @tekNorah. With over 15+ years of experience in software development and continuous process improvement, they are a strategic technical leader in the digital agency space. Hailing from Mokena, IL, @tekNorah brings a wealth of expertise primarily serving the education, government, and legal industries.

As a seasoned community leader, @tekNorah is deeply ingrained in the tech community, contributing to Drupal and Open Source Software, and serving on the leadership team for MidCamp. Their knack for organic collaboration and ideation has led to significant organizational performance improvements, making them a sought-after figure in the industry.

With a passion for innovation and a commitment to best practices, @tekNorah’s approach to systems design and change management is both meticulous and forward-thinking. Whether it's crafting tailor-designed solutions from concept to launch or coordinating intern and onboarding programs, their dedication to excellence shines through in every endeavor.

Connect with @tekNorah to tap into their expertise and collaborate on your next project. Driving innovation and efficiency gains, @tekNorah is your go-to partner for transformative solutions in the digital landscape.

Meet a seasoned professional known in the digital realm as @tekNorah. With over 15+ years of experience in software development and continuous process improvement, they are a strategic technical leader in the digital agency space. Hailing from Mokena... Show more

Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting data-driven decision-making through scalable analytics and enterprise level reporting solutions. Proven ability to transform complex datasets into actionable insights that improve operational efficiency, support strategic planning, and enhance organizational effectiveness. Experienced in SQL, Python, Power BI, QlikView, Tableau and Azure, with strong expertise in data management, validation, and dashboard development across integrated data systems.

Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting data-driven decision-making through scalable analytics and enterprise level reporting solutions. Proven ability to transform complex datasets into actionable insights that improve operational effic... Show more

I’m a strategist and systems thinker who helps organizations rethink how they build and live with technology, bridging the gap between innovation and execution with clarity, purpose, and just enough rebellion. My work focuses less on tools and more on how people and organizations think, especially as AI reshapes how work gets done.

I’ve led digital transformation and AI initiatives across government, healthcare, education, and enterprise environments, often in moments of ambiguity, constraint, and rapid change. I specialize in untangling complexity, surfacing hidden assumptions, and helping organizations design systems that can adapt, rather than break, the moment priorities shift.

In my talks, I blend systems strategy, organizational insight, and storytelling to challenge how we define “future-ready” technology. Because the real challenge with AI isn’t capability, it’s whether the systems we build can move with change, and whether humans are still allowed room for judgment, context, and evolution inside them.

I’m a strategist and systems thinker who helps organizations rethink how they build and live with technology, bridging the gap between innovation and execution with clarity, purpose, and just enough rebellion. My work focuses less on tools and more o... Show more

Uloma Okoro is the Africa Lead at the Aula Fellowship for AI, where she supports regional engagement, policy dialogue, research, and partnerships across Africa’s AI governance community. She is an AI governance researcher , with research focused on institutional AI readiness, responsible governance, comparative regulation, and practical policy frameworks for developing economies. Uloma has spoken at legal and professional forums, including the Legal Gorilla Virtual Conference, and has delivered responsible AI training to journalists and other professional groups. She is also a senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 20 years of experience and currently heads Legal Services and Compliance in the fintech and payments sector. Her work connects AI policy with institutional governance, regulatory compliance, technology contracts, and accountability.

Uloma Okoro is the Africa Lead at the Aula Fellowship for AI, where she supports regional engagement, policy dialogue, research, and partnerships across Africa’s AI governance community. She is an AI governance researcher , with research focused on i... Show more

Nicolas, Lean addict, coauteur de "Culture Kaizen", ex Scrum Master, ex Chef de projet, ex développeur.
J'oppose l'agilité aux méthodes agiles.
Ma vision de l'agilité, c'est le Lean.

Nicolas, Lean addict, coauteur de "Culture Kaizen", ex Scrum Master, ex Chef de projet, ex développeur. J'oppose l'agilité aux méthodes agiles. Ma vision de l'agilité, c'est le Lean. Show more

I am a Power Platform Solutions Architect with over two decades of experience in the federal government sector. My passion lies in building innovative solutions that streamline operations, improve efficiency, and drive digital transformation. Specializing in Microsoft Power Platform and O365, I help organizations both in government and commercial spaces—leverage low-code technology to overcome traditional development barriers and accelerate solution delivery.

Through my work, I focus on simplifying complex processes, enabling automation, and fostering agility in decision-making. I also share insights and practical strategies for maximizing the Power Platform on my blog, Automate the Mundane, where I write about Power Apps, Power Automate, and other tools that make work easier.

I am a Power Platform Solutions Architect with over two decades of experience in the federal government sector. My passion lies in building innovative solutions that streamline operations, improve efficiency, and drive digital transformation. Special... Show more

Dr. Kenisha Coon-Santiago is a nationally recognized leadership strategist, keynote speaker, systems change consultant, and author with over 15 years of experience advancing equity-centered transformation across child welfare, government, nonprofit, and organizational leadership spaces. Known for her dynamic storytelling, powerful stage presence, and ability to connect lived experience with actionable leadership strategies, she has become a sought-after voice on resilience, workplace culture, transformational leadership, and sustainable systems change.

Dr. Coon-Santiago specializes in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), leadership development, organizational culture transformation, and evidence-based coaching. She partners with organizations nationwide to help leaders move beyond performative change and build human-centered systems rooted in accountability, belonging, and measurable impact.

As the founder of Kenisha Coon Consulting, she has facilitated leadership trainings, keynote presentations, and systems transformation initiatives for national conferences, executive leadership teams, universities, nonprofit organizations, and public sector agencies. Her work focuses heavily on racial equity, leadership accountability, lived expertise, workforce culture, and advancing equitable outcomes for historically marginalized communities.

Dr. Coon-Santiago recently completed her PhD focused on evidence-based coaching, decision-making, and cultural responsiveness within child welfare systems. Her research explored how coaching and transformational leadership influence equitable decision-making and organizational change.

She is also the author of the memoir And Then She Persisted, a deeply personal and empowering reflection on trauma, resilience, identity, advocacy, and breaking generational cycles. Through both her writing and speaking, Dr. Coon-Santiago challenges audiences to rethink leadership, embrace authenticity, and lead with courage in complex systems.

Her signature presentations explore topics including:
• Equity-Centered Leadership and Organizational Transformation
• Women in Leadership and Breaking Systemic Barriers
• Resilience, Burnout, and Sustainable Leadership
• The Power of Lived Expertise in Systems Change
• Antiracist Leadership in Action
• Human-Centered Workplace Culture and Belonging
• Transformational Leadership Through Storytelling and Vulnerability

Whether speaking to executives, frontline professionals, emerging leaders, or national audiences, Dr. Coon-Santiago delivers experiences that are inspiring, practical, emotionally impactful, and rooted in real-world systems transformation.

Dr. Kenisha Coon-Santiago is a nationally recognized leadership strategist, keynote speaker, systems change consultant, and author with over 15 years of experience advancing equity-centered transformation across child welfare, government, nonprofit, ... Show more

Vikingur Saemundsson is an Azure cloud architect at Avanade, based in Gothenburg. He has 15 years in the field, the last five spent entirely in regulated industries: banking, insurance, and currently as lead architect for a sovereign public cloud platform for a Nordic government.

He came up through DevOps and automation, and his core belief is that controls should be built into the platform and the pipeline, not bolted on around them. Director-Driven Development, the way of working he created for AI coding agents, applies that same idea: rules enforced by the build, not suggested in a prompt.

What he enjoys most is making complex things legible, whether he's mentoring engineers, teaching, or explaining a platform to the people who have to approve it.

Vikingur Saemundsson is an Azure cloud architect at Avanade, based in Gothenburg. He has 15 years in the field, the last five spent entirely in regulated industries: banking, insurance, and currently as lead architect for a sovereign public cloud pla... Show more

Soy desarrollador de software y trabajo con inteligencia artificial. Soy ex cofundador de Coderhouse, una plataforma de educación online de Latinoamérica donde fui CTO, Staff Engineer y después BDR. Hoy mentoreo a emprendedores y doy charlas sobre emprendimiento, empleabilidad, educación y tecnología. Estudié la maestría en administración de empresas (MBA) en UCEMA. En nahuellema.xyz están mis charlas, podcasts, entrevistas y artículos.

Soy desarrollador de software y trabajo con inteligencia artificial. Soy ex cofundador de Coderhouse, una plataforma de educación online de Latinoamérica donde fui CTO, Staff Engineer y después BDR. Hoy mentoreo a emprendedores y doy charlas sobre em... Show more

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

Daniel Soriano leads the Offensive Security Research Team at Scitum, where he researches offensive techniques, defense evasion, adversary emulation, and AI/LLM security. He has more than 10 years of experience across cybersecurity, cyber threat intelligence, and adversary profiling.

Earlier in his career, he spent five years in Mexico’s public security sector, participating in national security and counterintelligence investigations. He later led Cyber Threat Intelligence & Research at Scitum, where his team identified and tracked malware families, campaigns, and threat actors operating across Latin America. He also participated in Scitum’s technical collaboration with INTERPOL during the investigation of the Grandoreiro banking trojan.

His research has resulted in multiple CVEs, contributions to MITRE ATT&CK, recognition in the ASUS Security Hall of Fame, and acknowledgements from Cisco. He holds the GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) certification and won first place in CCN-CERT’s Atenea CTF.

In the field of artificial intelligence, he created Kyojitsu, an open-source project for adversarial testing of LLM guardrails through automated attack generation and fuzzing.

As a regular cybersecurity speaker, he has presented research on malware, offensive security, identity security, and AI security at conferences including 8.8 Computer Security Conference, BSides CDMX, BugCON, PumaHAT, and HackGDL.

He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN).

Daniel Soriano leads the Offensive Security Research Team at Scitum, where he researches offensive techniques, defense evasion, adversary emulation, and AI/LLM security. He has more than 10 years of experience across cybersecurity, cyber threat intel... Show more

Thomas de Klerk works as a learning consultant and trainer at Info Support, where he spends much of his time helping people make sense of complex technology — including AI.
His background is not purely technical. Early in his career he trained as a teacher at university level, later specialising in Human Resource Development. That combination still shapes how he looks at technology today: not just in terms of what it can do, but how people think, learn and make decisions around it.
His work now sits somewhere between training, facilitation and experimentation. He designs workshops, learning journeys and the occasional escape room to explore how people actually work with tools like AI in practice.
He uses AI himself, daily — which is exactly why he keeps questioning what it does to his own thinking.

Thomas de Klerk works as a learning consultant and trainer at Info Support, where he spends much of his time helping people make sense of complex technology — including AI. His background is not purely technical. Early in his career he trained as a ... Show more