Information & Communications Technology

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

Ayca Bas

Ayca Bas

Ayca is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, she focuses on extending Microsoft 365 Copilot and building agents using Azure AI Foundry.

Ayca is a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, she focuses on extending Microsoft 365 Copilot and building agents using Azure AI Foundry. Show more

Zameer Fouzan

Zameer Fouzan

Zameer Fouzan is a Lead Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic with a strong background in full-stack development. He’s passionate about web technologies, cloud-native solutions, open-source software, and observability. Zameer enjoys exploring the latest developer trends and sharing his knowledge to support and empower the developer community.

Zameer Fouzan is a Lead Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic with a strong background in full-stack development. He’s passionate about web technologies, cloud-native solutions, open-source software, and observability. Zameer enjoys exploring the... Show more

Jose Andres Rodriguez Perez

Jose Andres Rodriguez Perez

José Andrés is an Azure Cloud Engineer from Caracas, Venezuela, currently based in London, United Kingdom. His journey began with Microsoft's Power Platform before transitioning to the Azure ecosystem. With a passion for cloud technology, he has worked with clients in the United States and Belgium, helping them maximize the benefits of Azure.

José Andrés is an Azure Cloud Engineer from Caracas, Venezuela, currently based in London, United Kingdom. His journey began with Microsoft's Power Platform before transitioning to the Azure ecosystem. With a passion for cloud technology, he has work... Show more

Elian Van Cutsem

Elian Van Cutsem

Elian Van Cutsem or "ElianCodes" is a full-stack developer, creative technologist, and all-around internet troublemaker based in Belgium. He’s the CTO at Vulpo and works in Developer Relations at React Bricks, focusing on developer experience, documentation, and education. Previously, he was a Software Engineer and core maintainer at Astro.

Elian is also a co-organizer of several major JavaScript communities and events, including BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa.

Alongside his professional work, he creates provocative and experimental AI projects, designed to challenge our assumptions about ethics, automation, and human behavior. His work blends code and commentary, often in ways that are both hilarious and uncomfortably real.

Elian is known for his passion, puns, and offbeat sense of humor. His talks combine technical insight with a strong dose of creative chaos—guaranteed fun on stage.

Elian Van Cutsem or "ElianCodes" is a full-stack developer, creative technologist, and all-around internet troublemaker based in Belgium. He’s the CTO at Vulpo and works in Developer Relations at React Bricks, focusing on developer experience, docume... Show more

John Martin

John Martin

John is an experienced data platform professional having spent over fifteen years working with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, and AWS technologies. Working closely with clients to solve their data platform problems with innovative solutions with a focus on simplicity, maintainability, and automation.

John is an experienced data platform professional having spent over fifteen years working with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, and AWS technologies. Working closely with clients to solve their data platform problems with innovative solutions with a focu... Show more

Daniel Afonso

Daniel Afonso

Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on various projects from IoT to Fraud Detection. He is passionate about learning and teaching and has spoken at multiple conferences around the world about topics he loves. In his free time, when he's not learning new technologies or writing about them, he's probably reading comics or watching superhero movies and shows.

Daniel Afonso is a Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, Instructor at Egghead.io, and Author of State Management with React Query. Daniel has a full-stack background, having worked with different languages and frameworks on... Show more

Sergey Chubarov

Sergey Chubarov

Sergey Chubarov is a Security and Cloud Expert with over 15 years of extensive experience in Microsoft technologies. As an instructor, Sergey is dedicated to guiding companies through the complexities of securely adopting cloud solutions. His consulting experience spans both the red and blue sides.

Certifications and recognitions include Microsoft MVP: Cloud Security, OSCP, OSEP, MCT, MCT Community Lead, EC Council CPENT & LPT, CREST CPSA & CRT, and many more.

Frequent Speaker at Prestigious Conferences: Black Hat, Hacker Halted, DEF CON, Wild West Hackin' Fest, Workplace Ninja Summit, Midwest Management Summit, and many others.

Prefers live demos and cyberattacks simulations.

Sergey Chubarov is a Security and Cloud Expert with over 15 years of extensive experience in Microsoft technologies. As an instructor, Sergey is dedicated to guiding companies through the complexities of securely adopting cloud solutions. His consult... Show more

Gomolemo Mohapi

Gomolemo Mohapi

Gomolemo is a young South African who is determined to make a long-lasting impact on the world through technology.

A .NET developer with a history of creating written programming tutorials for university students and conducting multiple coding workshops, hackathons and speaking at various conferences across the globe.

Gomolemo eventually fell in love with the Power Platform, because it was a low-code platform which gave way for him to empower and upskill not just those with a technical background, but anyone from any industry who was looking to learn how to build applications.

He has since co-authored a Power Platform Udacity course and is now a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Power Apps and Fusion Development leveraging his love and skill for both traditional and low-code development.

Gomolemo is a young South African who is determined to make a long-lasting impact on the world through technology. A .NET developer with a history of creating written programming tutorials for university students and conducting multiple coding wor... Show more

Yannick Dils

Yannick Dils

Working in IT for over 15 years now, coming from an Infrastructure background. Last couple of years I have been focusing on guiding customers and partners on their cloud journey. Walking them from IaaS to SaaS and helping them make the right choice is what keeps me going day 2 day.

Working in IT for over 15 years now, coming from an Infrastructure background. Last couple of years I have been focusing on guiding customers and partners on their cloud journey. Walking them from IaaS to SaaS and helping them make the right choice i... Show more

Marco Milani

Marco Milani

Sviluppatore .NET con una solida esperienza pluriennale nella progettazione e realizzazione di soluzioni complesse e scalabili, maturata attraverso progetti sfidanti in contesti enterprise. Nel corso della mia carriera ho approfondito l’intero stack Microsoft, acquisendo certificazioni di alto livello come Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer, MCSD Web Applications, Microsoft Specialist in HTML5, JavaScript e CSS3, e Microsoft Certified Professional.
La mia passione per la tecnologia e l’innovazione mi guida nell’esplorare costantemente nuove architetture, con particolare interesse per il cloud computing e i sistemi moderni distribuiti. Credo nel valore della condivisione della conoscenza e nella crescita continua, elementi che cerco di portare in ogni progetto e intervento tecnico.

Sviluppatore .NET con una solida esperienza pluriennale nella progettazione e realizzazione di soluzioni complesse e scalabili, maturata attraverso progetti sfidanti in contesti enterprise. Nel corso della mia carriera ho approfondito l’intero stack ... Show more

Bronwen Zande

Bronwen Zande

Bronwen is a developer based in Brisbane who likes to play with new technology. She is an organiser of DDD Brisbane, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, WTM Ambassador, Coralus (formally SheEO) activator and wildlife carer who loves to travel the world and take photos.

Bronwen is a developer based in Brisbane who likes to play with new technology. She is an organiser of DDD Brisbane, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, WTM Ambassador, Coralus (formally SheEO) activator and wildlife carer who loves to travel the... Show more

Priyank Shankar

Priyank Shankar


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My Socials - GitHub - https://github.com/shankarpriyank LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankarpriyank Twitter - https://twitter.com/priyank312002 Show more

Diego Zapico

Diego Zapico

Solutions Architect at Carglass. Microsoft Azure MVP. ♿🏎️🛫

Solutions Architect at Carglass. Microsoft Azure MVP. ♿🏎️🛫 Show more

Eduard Keilholz

Eduard Keilholz

Eduard Keilholz is a seasoned software developer and cloud architect at 4Dotnet, where he specializes in Microsoft development and cloud technologies. With a passion for helping organizations build highly performant cloud software solutions, Eduard has made significant contributions in the field of cloud architecture.

He is the author of the book Azure Infrastructure as Code, which delves into infrastructure automation using Azure, and is a frequent international conference speaker. Eduard is also the founder of the DotnetFriday meetup platform, a community initiative hosted in the Netherlands that fosters collaboration and learning among .NET professionals.

In addition to his development and community activities, Eduard created SpreaView, a platform designed to give conference organizers and speakers deeper insights into their performance by automating speaker evaluations. His contributions to the Microsoft community have earned him the prestigious title of Microsoft MVP since 2020.

Eduard Keilholz is a seasoned software developer and cloud architect at 4Dotnet, where he specializes in Microsoft development and cloud technologies. With a passion for helping organizations build highly performant cloud software solutions, Eduard h... Show more

Eva Ferreira

Eva Ferreira

Eva Ferreira is a Front-end engineer and professor. She currently works as a UI Lead Developer and has been teaching web technologies at the National Technological University of Argentina for more than ten years.

Throughout her career Eva has been deeply involved in the Argentinian web community. She enjoys giving workshops and talks and since 2015 she has been organizing CSSConf Argentina, an international non-profit event that brings experts from all around the globe to speak about web technologies.

In her spare time she loves reading about CSS, creating animations and playing with her cats.

Eva Ferreira is a Front-end engineer and professor. She currently works as a UI Lead Developer and has been teaching web technologies at the National Technological University of Argentina for more than ten years. Throughout her career Eva has been... Show more

Jon Jarvis

Jon Jarvis

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Sessionize Top 3% speaker 2022 & 2023

Jon specialises in Microsoft 365 with over 10 years of experience in consultancy and pre-sales; Jon is passionate about Microsoft products and especially enjoys the Microsoft Defender and Intune suites.

Jon is the co-host of the Microsoft Spotlight podcast, which has over 50 episodes of interviews with Women in Tech about their careers and journeys.

Jon particularly likes discussing Microsoft Security and Windows 365 and holds a Microsoft MVP in Intune and Windows 365.

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Sessionize Top 3% speaker 2022 & 2023 Jon specialises in Microsoft 365 with over 10 years of experience in consultancy and pre-sales; Jon is passionate about Microsoft products and especially enjoys the Microsoft Defender and... Show more

Francesco Ciulla

Francesco Ciulla

Hi, I'm Francesco, based in Rome, Italy. I'm a Computer Scientist, and from 2017 to 2020, I contributed to the European Space Agency's Copernicus project.

I'm an active presence in online developer communities, especially on Twitter, YouTube, and Discord. Recognized as a Docker Captain, I've hosted official Docker events and appeared on their YouTube channel. Professionally, I focus on roles within developer relations, centered around content strategy and community engagement.

Currently, my main creative efforts are directed towards my YouTube channel, where I've interviewed over 250 developers. My content primarily covers Rust, Blockchain technologies, DevOps practices, and Web Development. I also enjoy engaging with the community through live streams

Hi, I'm Francesco, based in Rome, Italy. I'm a Computer Scientist, and from 2017 to 2020, I contributed to the European Space Agency's Copernicus project. I'm an active presence in online developer communities, especially on Twitter, YouTube, and ... Show more

Andy Andrea

Andy Andrea

Andy Andrea has a decade of experience working as a Ruby developer and is currently part of the engineering team at Panorama Education.

He's spent a large portion of his time in the industry acting as both a mentee and mentor including volunteering in the RailsConf scholar program as a guide and as a mentor for several different non-profits. He's also constantly thinking about ways to improve code clarity, maintainability and documentation as well as knowledge sharing across teams and individuals.

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I've spoken at RailsConf 2022-25. See the videos on the Ruby Central YouTube channel, and see my CFPs at Speakerline at https://speakerline.io/speakers/152.

Andy Andrea has a decade of experience working as a Ruby developer and is currently part of the engineering team at Panorama Education. He's spent a large portion of his time in the industry acting as both a mentee and mentor including volunteerin... Show more

Lorraine Steyn

Lorraine Steyn

Lorraine founded the software development company Khanyisa Real Systems (KRS) in 1987. The company now employs around 80 technical staff, and has delivered large bespoke projects for hundreds of clients. Lorraine is a hands-on CEO who spends 3-4 days a week working on production code with her teams, mentoring, assisting with design, and driving quality and learning.

Lorraine has presented on such varied topics as Domain-Driven-Design, compassionate leadership, clean code and refactoring, women in tech, and many Agile topics dear to her heart (often based in XP practices).

Lorraine founded the software development company Khanyisa Real Systems (KRS) in 1987. The company now employs around 80 technical staff, and has delivered large bespoke projects for hundreds of clients. Lorraine is a hands-on CEO who spends 3-4 days... Show more

Engincan Veske

Engincan Veske

Engincan Veske is a Software Engineer (recently became a Developer Advocate) at @Volosoft, where he works on building scalable, modular applications with .NET and contributes actively to the open-source ABP Framework (13k+ stars).

In his role, he has delivered hundreds of hours of hands-on training on the ABP Framework and a wide range of software development topics, including but not limited to modular monolith architecture and microservices—helping development teams upskill and apply modern patterns effectively.

Engincan regularly shares deep-dive technical content on his blog (https://engincanveske.substack.com), covering .NET, distributed systems, software architecture, and AI agents.

He's also the co-host of two Turkish podcasts—dotcode and Sıfırdan Bire—focused on software engineering and career growth.

👉 To explore Engincan’s previous talks and access their slides or resources, visit: https://github.com/EngincanV/presentations

Engincan Veske is a Software Engineer (recently became a Developer Advocate) at @Volosoft, where he works on building scalable, modular applications with .NET and contributes actively to the open-source ABP Framework (13k+ stars). In his role, he ... Show more

Matej Samler

Matej Samler

Hello! My name is Matěj Samler!

I'm a Senior Engineer at NETWORG, focusing on plugins, Power Automate, PCFs, Power Apps and EVERYTHING in between. I've spoken on multiple conferences about extensibility of Power platform from the point of a pro dev.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Hello! My name is Matěj Samler! I'm a Senior Engineer at NETWORG, focusing on plugins, Power Automate, PCFs, Power Apps and EVERYTHING in between. I've spoken on multiple conferences about extensibility of Power platform from the point of a pro de... Show more

Aykut Bulgu

Aykut Bulgu

Aykut Bulgu has ~20 years of experience working as a software engineer, consultant, trainer, and content architect. He has worked on many enterprise projects and is an expert on Apache Kafka, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and Strimzi (Kafka on Kubernetes). Currently, he works as a Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed team, working on AI solutions for Ansible, as a Pythonista and fairly a new Gopher. He is also a Rust newbie who explores new things about the language every day.

Aykut Bulgu has ~20 years of experience working as a software engineer, consultant, trainer, and content architect. He has worked on many enterprise projects and is an expert on Apache Kafka, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and Strimzi (Kafka on Kubernetes). C... Show more

Jimmy Dahlqvist

Jimmy Dahlqvist

Jimmy a developer and architect with a great passion for the Cloud in general and AWS in particular.

He has been working in tech since 2003 and transitioned into cloud and AWS in 2015, and has since then been a true AWS-evangelist, leading to him being recognised as AWS Serverless Hero.
His greatest passion lies in serverless technologies, and he love to share his knowledge with others and think it's really rewarding to see people grow. Every moment of his spare time he spend coding and testing new things, blogging about it on https://jimmydqv.com/
He started https://serverless-handbook.com as the home base of all his serverless adventures.

When he’s not writing about serverless, you will find Jimmy talking about his other passions, IoT and BBQ.

Jimmy a developer and architect with a great passion for the Cloud in general and AWS in particular. He has been working in tech since 2003 and transitioned into cloud and AWS in 2015, and has since then been a true AWS-evangelist, leading to him ... Show more

Daan Humblé

Daan Humblé

My analytics journey started on the business side—as a Power BI consultant and certified trainer—where I helped teams bridge the gap between raw data and real-world impact. In 2023, I joined Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, combining business insight with technical know-how to elevate data strategies across industries. I design scalable analytics solutions, guide migrations to modern platforms, and advocate for best practices at every stage.

As a speaker and trainer, I get a kick out of empowering beginner to intermediate Power BI users through hands-on, engaging sessions. I'm known for breaking down tricky topics—like data modeling, performance tuning, administration, and governance—into clear, actionable steps. My goal? To create an approachable learning experience that builds real confidence and capability.

My analytics journey started on the business side—as a Power BI consultant and certified trainer—where I helped teams bridge the gap between raw data and real-world impact. In 2023, I joined Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect focused on Power BI... Show more

Wilson Mok

Wilson Mok

Wilson Mok is a Microsoft MVP and Databricks Champion passionate about helping others learn and grow in data and AI. As a Senior Data Architect and Advisor, he focuses on driving digital transformation and enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions. He shares practical insights through articles, presentations, and training, contributing to user groups, industry events, and publications. His work emphasizes leadership in creating innovative solutions that leverage modern data platforms to improve operational efficiency and deliver business value. Wilson is dedicated to mentoring professionals and inspiring the next generation to build with confidence in the AI-driven future.

Wilson Mok is a Microsoft MVP and Databricks Champion passionate about helping others learn and grow in data and AI. As a Senior Data Architect and Advisor, he focuses on driving digital transformation and enabling organizations to make data-driven d... Show more

Suvin Nimnaka

Suvin Nimnaka

Suvin is a Senior Software Engineer at WSO2 and an open-source maintainer. Even though his work is more focused on Identity and Access Management in Kubernetes, he enjoys being a developer advocate speaking at events and leading tech communities. He is a Die-Hard fan of JavaScript, IAM, Sci-fi and TBBT. Suvin is known for his community work and in fact, you may meet him at many dev community events around South Asia. If you see him at any of these events, don’t forget to wave and say Hi!

Suvin is a Senior Software Engineer at WSO2 and an open-source maintainer. Even though his work is more focused on Identity and Access Management in Kubernetes, he enjoys being a developer advocate speaking at events and leading tech communities. He ... Show more

Bree Hall

Bree Hall

Bree is a frontend Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate at HubSpot. She has a passion for coding and making technology more accessible to everyone. Bree creates technical content to help developers create and build autonomously. When she isn't working for the Developer Advocacy team at HubSpot, you can find her playing video games, baking, or traveling to magical destinations.

Bree is a frontend Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate at HubSpot. She has a passion for coding and making technology more accessible to everyone. Bree creates technical content to help developers create and build autonomously. When she isn't... Show more

Deepthi Goguri

Deepthi Goguri

Deepthi is a SQL Server Database Administrator with several years of experience in Administering SQL Servers. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Microsoft certified trainer and Microsoft certified professional with an Associate and Expert level Certification in Data Management and Analytics. Deepthi blogs for DBANuggets.com. Deepthi is a Co-Organizer for Microsoft Data and AI South Florida user group, Data TGIF, Cloud Data Driven User Group, Future Data Driven Summit, Databash Conference and Data Platform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Virtual Group. She is also DEI Steering Committee member for PASS Data Community Summit. She is a Redgate Community Ambassador. Along with this, Deepthi loves arts and crafts. You can contact her on Twitter @dbanuggets.

Deepthi is a SQL Server Database Administrator with several years of experience in Administering SQL Servers. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Microsoft certified trainer and Microsoft certified professional with an Associate and Expert level Ce... Show more

Matthew Levy

Matthew Levy

Enterprise Mobility MVP, Microsoft Certified, Messaging, Identity, security and governance principal architect for NBConsult.

Enterprise Mobility MVP, Microsoft Certified, Messaging, Identity, security and governance principal architect for NBConsult. Show more

Bradley Ball

Bradley Ball

Bradley Ball is a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He is a current Microsoft MVP Reconnect member and former MVP. Bradley spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army and The Executive Office of the President of the United States, was the Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, and a Sr. Consultant for Microsoft Premier Support for Developers. He has presented at many SQL Saturdays, for PASS SSUG’s across the US from California to Puerto Rico to New Hampshire, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits 2015, TechReady 24, SQL Live 360 2011-2019, SQL Intersections 2019 - 2021, & the PASS Summit 2011-2015. He wrote Chapter 14 Page & Row Compression for PRO SQL Server 2012 Best Practices, he hosts the Tales from the Field weekly Azure Data Community Round table and technical videos on https://www.youtube.com/@Tales-from-the-Field with his Azure FastTrack PG colleagues, and he can be found blogging on http://www.sqlballs.com about anything else that interests him.

Bradley Ball is a Sr. Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He is a current Microsoft MVP Reconnect member and former MVP. Bradley spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army and The Executive Office of the Pres... Show more

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