Information & Communications Technology

Seasoned technologists, digital innovators, and other ICT experts, dedicated to advancing the field of information and communications technology

Anthony D'Atri

Anthony D'Atri

Anthony has run Ceph at scale for over eleven years and one can say that it is literally a part of him - ask him in person and he'll show you why. He is also an observability advocate (SMART!) and contributes daily to Ceph documentation. Anthony is the primary author of the book Learning Ceph, Second Edition.

Anthony has run Ceph at scale for over eleven years and one can say that it is literally a part of him - ask him in person and he'll show you why. He is also an observability advocate (SMART!) and contributes daily to Ceph documentation. Anthony is ... Show more

Charles Sexton

Charles Sexton

Charles helps organisations build scalable Power Platform solutions and implement governance frameworks that reduce risk, improve adoption, and ensure long-term sustainability. Originally a web developer, he now works as a Power Platform Solution Architect for Capgemini. With a passion for UX, UI and Accessibility, he strives to create greater experiences for both users and developers.

One half of the duo behind Power Squared, Charles also publishes videos on his own YouTube channel and owns a website for sharing text snippets (including Canvas App YAML and AI prompts) called Power Snips.

Charles helps organisations build scalable Power Platform solutions and implement governance frameworks that reduce risk, improve adoption, and ensure long-term sustainability. Originally a web developer, he now works as a Power Platform Solution Arc... Show more

Hannah Olukoye

Hannah Olukoye

Hannah is an experienced engineering manager, coming from a software engineering background developing versatile mobile applications on Android. She is a Google Developer Expert for Android who mentors, writes technical articles, and speaks at technical conferences to motivate others to pursue careers in tech.

Hannah is an experienced engineering manager, coming from a software engineering background developing versatile mobile applications on Android. She is a Google Developer Expert for Android who mentors, writes technical articles, and speaks at techni... Show more

Nicholas Chang

Nicholas Chang

Nicholas Chang is a Senior Platform Engineer at Kainos with a deep passion for Microsoft Azure.

With extensive experience in cloud technologies and a focus on Azure, he is the founder of the Microsoft Azure Community User Group, where he fosters knowledge sharing, collaboration, and growth within the tech community.

Nicholas is also the creator and host of the Microsoft Community Insights podcast, where he connects with industry leaders and shares valuable insights about Azure and the broader tech ecosystem.

As a dedicated community advocate, Nicholas contributes by speaking at events and sharing his expertise through his blog, nicholaschangblog.com. You can connect with him on Twitter: @nick_cloudops or visit his blog to learn more.

Nicholas Chang is a Senior Platform Engineer at Kainos with a deep passion for Microsoft Azure. With extensive experience in cloud technologies and a focus on Azure, he is the founder of the Microsoft Azure Community User Group, where he fosters k... Show more

Carlos Javier Sosa Marquina

Carlos Javier Sosa Marquina

Carlos Sosa (@cjsosam) is a technology enthusiast with more than 20 years of experience in development, architecture and administration on SharePoint technologies, and more than 7 in development, architecture and administration on Power Power Platform. He works at knowmad mood (previosly atSistemas) in Barcelona and is an active contributor in communities like Power Platform Barcelona User Group and SUG.CAT

Carlos Sosa (@cjsosam) is a technology enthusiast with more than 20 years of experience in development, architecture and administration on SharePoint technologies, and more than 7 in development, architecture and administration on Power Power Platfor... Show more

Israel Blancas

Israel Blancas

From Granada (Spain). Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud, Google Champion Innovator, Grafana Champion and GDG Organizer.

From Granada (Spain). Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud, Google Champion Innovator, Grafana Champion and GDG Organizer. Show more

Sumaiya Nalukwago

Sumaiya Nalukwago

Sumaiya Nalukwago is an experienced IT Professional currently working with Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Tech Community Lead with over six years of proven success in leveraging technology to drive economic development and nurture innovation across Uganda and beyond.

A recognized voice in the continental tech landscape, Sumaiya has been a dedicated volunteer for PyCon Uganda since its inception and has spoken at major international conferences in Asia, Italy, Germany, Kenya, Rwanda among others. This experience underscores her deep commitment to the open-source movement and her ability to engage diverse global audiences.

As a Community Manager for Google Developer Groups Cloud Mbarara and an Ambassador for Google Women Techmakers (with Technovation), Sumaiya actively skills and mentors thousands of youth and women entrepreneurs in digital literacy, business development, and tech-solution design. She specializes in translating complex technological concepts into accessible, actionable skills, enabling grassroots enterprises to thrive in the digital economy and confidently bridge the digital skills gap.
Sumaiya has also been internationally recognized for her work in tech by the US embassy in Uganda, Women Tech Global Network , Pulse Influencer Awards - Tech category among other platforms,

Sumaiya Nalukwago is an experienced IT Professional currently working with Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Tech Community Lead with over six years of proven success in leveraging technology to drive economic development and nurture... Show more

Roelant Dieben

Roelant Dieben

With over 20 years of experience developing software on the Microsoft stack, Roelant Dieben has a lot to share about stuff that has been obsolete for years. At Sopra Steria he is helping companies with their Azure cloud and AI challenges, he is a Microsoft Azure & AI MVP, and has a passion for machine learning & AI and application lifecycle management.

With over 20 years of experience developing software on the Microsoft stack, Roelant Dieben has a lot to share about stuff that has been obsolete for years. At Sopra Steria he is helping companies with their Azure cloud and AI challenges, he is a Mic... Show more

Yves Habersaat

Yves Habersaat

Yves Habersaat is a Business Applications Consultant and AI Tech Lead at Sword Group in Switzerland, specializing in building applications and solutions with Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, and the Power Platform.

With a strong passion for modern development technologies and application lifecycles, Yves focuses on Microsoft 365 services such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft Copilot. He possesses expertise in modern development tools including SharePoint Framework (SPFx), Teams SDK, Microsoft Graph, Git, TypeScript, React, Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps.

He actively shares his knowledge and experience through speaking engagements and his blog at www.yhabersaat.ch, always ready to support and assist the community.

Yves Habersaat is a Business Applications Consultant and AI Tech Lead at Sword Group in Switzerland, specializing in building applications and solutions with Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, and the Power Platform. With a strong passion for mod... Show more

Mike Irving

Mike Irving

A professional developer for over 20 years, based in Macclesfield.

For the past 10+ years I have been heavily involved in mobile development, and have utilised both Native code (Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java) and Cross-Platform app development systems including Xamarin, .NET MAUI, Uno Platform and Cordova on different projects.

A constant in my journey has been the use of C# / .NET. I also do web development work, and I am equally happy working front-end in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Microsoft MVP. Co-organiser of Dot Net North and Macc Tech.

Regular speaker and presenter.

A professional developer for over 20 years, based in Macclesfield. For the past 10+ years I have been heavily involved in mobile development, and have utilised both Native code (Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java) and Cross-Platform app development... Show more

Mar Lizana

Mar Lizana

Creo firmemente en el poder de los datos para cambiar realidades y en la importancia de seguir explorando nuevas formas de maximizar su impacto. Si quieres conectar o saber más sobre mi trabajo, puedes visitar mi blog en Medium https://medium.com/@akanemar

I firmly believe in the power of data to transform realities and in the importance of continuously exploring new ways to maximize its impact. If you'd like to connect or learn more about my work, feel free to visit my blog on Medium: https://medium.com/@akanemar

Creo firmemente en el poder de los datos para cambiar realidades y en la importancia de seguir explorando nuevas formas de maximizar su impacto. Si quieres conectar o saber más sobre mi trabajo, puedes visitar mi blog en Medium https://medium.com/@ak... Show more

Anjuli Jhakry

Anjuli Jhakry

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A Microsoft MVP and .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a Microsoft Entra ID explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and advocating for the incredible potential of tech to everyone.

Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A Microsoft MVP and .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a Microsoft Entra ID explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and ad... Show more

Just Blindbæk

Just Blindbæk

BI architect with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Fabric and Power BI. Founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk) and Power BI UG Denmark (PowerBI.dk). Is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

BI architect with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Fabric and Power BI. Founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk) and Power BI UG Denmark (PowerBI.d... Show more

Dennis Doomen

Dennis Doomen

Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 29 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise solutions based on .NET as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building, documenting, deploying and maintaining software systems in an agile world. He is the author of several open-source projects, including Fluent Assertions, Pathy, Reflectify, PackageGuard, and several .NET Solution Templates, and has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# since 2001. You can find him on Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky.

Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 29 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise soluti... Show more

Jan Ketil Skanke

Jan Ketil Skanke

Jan Ketil is an Microsoft MVP since 2016 and are working as a COO and Principal Cloud Architect at CloudWay in Norway. He has been working in the industry for Microsoft Partners and Microsoft for more than 25 years. He loves to speak about anything around Endpoint Management, Identity, Security and Automation. He is also the lead for both community conferences Workplace Ninjas Norway and Nordic Virtual Summit. Jan Ketil has presented at large industry conferences like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Inspire, MMS, TechMentor HQ, Experts Live Europe, WPNinja and NIC Conference in Oslo. He is also a regular speaker at various User Group events across Europe.

Jan Ketil is an Microsoft MVP since 2016 and are working as a COO and Principal Cloud Architect at CloudWay in Norway. He has been working in the industry for Microsoft Partners and Microsoft for more than 25 years. He loves to speak about anything a... Show more

Leonardo Montini

Leonardo Montini

Leonardo is a Frontend Engineer, DevRel and Open Source maintainer.
He creates technical and educational content for blogging platforms and YouTube, talking about Open Source, GitHub, AI and Web Development.
He's also maintainer in the TanStack organization and contributor to other open source projects.
Awarded GitHub Star since 2023 and Microsoft MVP since 2024.

Leonardo is a Frontend Engineer, DevRel and Open Source maintainer. He creates technical and educational content for blogging platforms and YouTube, talking about Open Source, GitHub, AI and Web Development. He's also maintainer in the TanStack org... Show more

Chris DeMars

Chris DeMars

Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate with over 20 years of technical experience. He speaks all over the world on web accessibility, feature flags, A/B testing, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Progress Champion and former Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert, Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, and Auth0 Ambassador. When he is not working on making the web great and accessible you can find him fishing, on the paintball field, rating Detroit Style pizza, and looking for UFO's.

Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate with over 20 years of technical experience. He speaks all over the world on web accessibility, feature flags, A/B testing, and CSS. For his community contributions, he holds awards as a Progress Champion an... Show more

Chris Ayers

Chris Ayers

Chris Ayers is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he builds AI-driven tooling to analyze outages and incidents across Azure. His work focuses on improving the way engineers understand failures, uncover risks, and strengthen reliability at cloud scale.

With a background spanning DevOps, cloud architecture, and modern application design, Chris brings both engineering depth and practical experience to the challenge of making large systems more resilient. He’s also a frequent international speaker who loves sharing real-world lessons about developer productivity, reliability, containers, and automation.

Outside of work, Chris is a proud dad, lifelong gamer, avid reader, and unapologetic nerd.

Chris Ayers is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he builds AI-driven tooling to analyze outages and incidents across Azure. His work focuses on improving the way engineers understand failures, uncover risks, and strengthen reliability at... Show more

Nicklas Ahlberg

Nicklas Ahlberg

Nicklas is a Trusted Security Advisor employed at Onevinn, specializing in providing cutting-edge Microsoft security solutions. His primary objective is assisting organisations in navigating the terrain of Intune, ensuring they obtain an optimal and highly secure user experience.

Nicklas is a dual Microsoft MVP:
* Security (Microsoft Intune)
* Windows and Devices (Windows)

He has spoken at events such as:
* Workplace Ninjas Virtual Event (21)
* HTMD (21)
* TechMentor Orlando (22)
* Live 360 Orlando (22)
* MMUGSE, (23,24,25)
* NIC (23,25)
* India Cloud Security Summit (23,25)
* Experts Live Denmark (24,25)
* AVD Tech Fest (24)
* MEM Summit (22,23,24,25)
* Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn (25)
* Workplace Ninjas NL Connect (25)
* MC2MC Connect (25)
* MMSMOA (25)
* Experts Live NL (25)
* Workplace Ninjas NO (25)
* Workplace Ninjas UK (25)
* Workplace Ninjas Summit (25)

Nicklas is a Trusted Security Advisor employed at Onevinn, specializing in providing cutting-edge Microsoft security solutions. His primary objective is assisting organisations in navigating the terrain of Intune, ensuring they obtain an optimal and ... Show more

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Hi there! 👋

I'm Kateryna Hrytsaienko — a Software Engineering Consultant at Valtech, Co-founder and Lead of GDG Kyiv, Women Techmakers Ambassador, and Lector at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Kyiv School of Economics. And I'm also quite passionate about Cloud technologies and CI/CD automation :)

I primarily work on E-commerce projects, focusing on developing composable solutions and contributing to reusable libraries used across the company. I share my experience on Medium (https://medium.com/@ekatereanagricaenko) and through articles on the Baeldung platform.

Mentoring and teaching are things I truly enjoy. I'm also a lecturer at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and KSE, where I run a Java course and help students build real-world, production-ready commerce architectures using Java and Spring Boot.

Thanks for your time — hope to see you soon at the summit. Cheers!

Hi there! 👋 I'm Kateryna Hrytsaienko — a Software Engineering Consultant at Valtech, Co-founder and Lead of GDG Kyiv, Women Techmakers Ambassador, and Lector at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Kyiv School of Economics. And I'm also quite passionat... Show more

Myron Helgering

Myron Helgering

Myron works for one of the leading IT-service providers in the Netherlands called Pink Elephant. His primary focus is developing security products and services based on Microsoft technology. The unique selling point of these offerings is to make work environments safe and, more importantly, keep them safe.

As a Microsoft Security MVP, he enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others by writing blog posts, speaking at events and conferences, and co-organizing the monthly Dutch Microsoft Security Meetup with 2000+ members.

Besides Microsoft Security, he lives happily in the Netherlands with his wife. In his free time, he enjoys snowboarding and geeky activities like reading fantasy/sci-fi books or playing board games or video games.

Myron works for one of the leading IT-service providers in the Netherlands called Pink Elephant. His primary focus is developing security products and services based on Microsoft technology. The unique selling point of these offerings is to make work... Show more

Somesh Pathak

Somesh Pathak

Somesh is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility, boasting over 17 years of experience in IT infrastructure and endpoint management. Currently, he works as Manager, Modern Workplace Engineering at Avanade, Netherlands. His profound expertise in Apple technologies has established him as a sought-after consultant and a respected voice in the tech community.

He has a solid history of designing and implementing cutting-edge workplace solutions for a diverse range of global clients. His work spans end-to-end client management, administration, security, and automation. Somesh is particularly skilled in leveraging Microsoft Intune for efficient mobile device management, ensuring that organizations transition smoothly into more agile and effective operational frameworks. Beyond his technical endeavors, Somesh is dedicated to disseminating his knowledge across various technical communities through social media and his personal blog. Additionally, he is an active and engaging speaker.

Somesh is a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Mobility, boasting over 17 years of experience in IT infrastructure and endpoint management. Currently, he works as Manager, Modern Workplace Engineering at Avanade, Netherlands. His profound expertise in Apple... Show more

Tatu Seppälä

Tatu Seppälä

Tech explorer & lifetime learner. Deep experience in consultancy, advisory and architectural roles in the Microsoft cloud tech space. Special focus areas include (but are not limited to) insider risk, compliance and data security.

Tech explorer & lifetime learner. Deep experience in consultancy, advisory and architectural roles in the Microsoft cloud tech space. Special focus areas include (but are not limited to) insider risk, compliance and data security. Show more

Mabrouk Mahdhi

Mabrouk Mahdhi

Mabrouk is a Principal Software Engineer @ Xebia Germany and a Microsoft MVP. He specializes in .NET technologies including Blazor, ASP.NET, and .NET MAUI. His expertise extends to developing powerful web applications, APIs, and robust databases. Mabrouk is the founder of Tunisia Dev Days, one of the largest .NET conferences in North Africa. His prior book, Laughing at Null: A Humorous Guide to Software Life, offers a lighthearted yet insightful look into the world of software development.

Mabrouk is a Principal Software Engineer @ Xebia Germany and a Microsoft MVP. He specializes in .NET technologies including Blazor, ASP.NET, and .NET MAUI. His expertise extends to developing powerful web applications, APIs, and robust databases. Mab... Show more

Syed Usman Ahmad

Syed Usman Ahmad

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in IT and in Cloud Stack where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.

He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events.

In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack. He has over 15 years of experience in IT and in Cloud Stack where he served multiple cus... Show more

Andrea Chiarelli

Andrea Chiarelli

I have over 25 years of experience as a software engineer and technical author. Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to use a variety of programming languages and technologies on many different projects. In the last few years, I've been focusing on simplifying the developer experience with Identity and related topics as a Developer Advocate at Auth0.

I have over 25 years of experience as a software engineer and technical author. Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to use a variety of programming languages and technologies on many different projects. In the last few years, I've been foc... Show more

Achraf Ben Alaya

Achraf Ben Alaya

Hey there, I'm Achraf Ben Alaya! I wear many hats in the tech world. I'm a MVP , Microsoft Certified Trainer, Azure architect, and a DevSecOps engineer. I've got a solid background as a full-stack developer in .NET and Xamarin. But what really gets me going is sharing my passion for Azure, cloud, and DevOps. If you're into the latest in tech, you're in the right place!

I'm an ambitious person who decided to be a lifelong learner with the belief in sharing
his knowledge with all the world.

Website : achrafbenalaya.com
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/AchrafBenAlaya/

Hey there, I'm Achraf Ben Alaya! I wear many hats in the tech world. I'm a MVP , Microsoft Certified Trainer, Azure architect, and a DevSecOps engineer. I've got a solid background as a full-stack developer in .NET and Xamarin. But what really gets m... Show more

Florian Lenz

Florian Lenz

Florian Lenz is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Cloud Architect with over 10 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure. He specializes in Azure Landing Zones, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native architectures, and has worked across industries including energy, finance, retail, and software.
As a speaker, author, and content creator, Florian shares practical lessons from real-world projects through conference talks, articles, and his YouTube channel—helping engineers and teams design systems that are secure, maintainable, and built for long-term success.

Florian Lenz is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Cloud Architect with over 10 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure. He specializes in Azure Landing Zones, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native archit... Show more

Julien Topçu

Julien Topçu

Julien is a hands-on CTO with 15 years of experience, specializing in Domain-Driven Design (#DDD). His expertise lies in helping organizations build systems that deliver high business value. Julien focuses on aligning organizational structure, architecture and software practices with business objectives. As a member of the OWASP foundation, he actively promotes application security best practices. An international speaker, Julien enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.

Julien is a hands-on CTO with 15 years of experience, specializing in Domain-Driven Design (#DDD). His expertise lies in helping organizations build systems that deliver high business value. Julien focuses on aligning organizational structure, archit... Show more

Mr T-Bone Granheden

Mr T-Bone Granheden

A Jedi with an amazing ability to solve problems by just being present. Consultant on Microsoft 365, device management, security and compliance. Awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop. Educational Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Invests hard in having expertise in the very latest, Loves to test new products and services that come to market and has been involved in many TAP and Beta programs.

A Jedi with an amazing ability to solve problems by just being present. Consultant on Microsoft 365, device management, security and compliance. Awarded Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Microsoft Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop. Educational Micr... Show more

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