Information & Communications Technology

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

Chen Shiri

Chen Shiri

Chen Shiri is a cyber security researcher, hacker, known for his research on low-level security and isolation mechanisms. His research has revealed significant flaws within widely-used services and prominent vendors. In addition to its research on Accenture, he published research with early examples of weaknesses in microservices and container-based web apps.

Chen Shiri is a cyber security researcher, hacker, known for his research on low-level security and isolation mechanisms. His research has revealed significant flaws within widely-used services and prominent vendors. In addition to its research on ... Show more

Israel Blancas

Israel Blancas

From Granada (Spain). Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud and GDG Organizer. Always trying to learn and sharing with the community.

I spend my time working on the OpenTelemetry project! Do you want to learn more? Ping me!

From Granada (Spain). Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud and GDG Organizer. Always trying to learn and sharing with the community. I spend my time working on the OpenTelemetry project! Do you want to learn more? Ping me! Show more

Glenn F. Henriksen

Glenn F. Henriksen

Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously exploring new tools, processes and technologies, and improving how he and his fellow developers work with code, tasks and projects. He has been a Microsoft Development MVP, a part of the Microsoft Regional Director program and is an ASP.NET Insider and an Azure Advisor. In the past 25+ years he has co-owned two companies, worked as a consultant, manager, support tech, network admin, developer, architect, technical lead and more, but his favourite things are still swapping code for food and building stuff that makes a difference in people’s lives.

Glenn F. Henriksen is a mentor and developer from Norway. As the co-founder and CTO of Justify, he gets to build new legal tools for everyone to use, helping to create better communication and less conflict in relationships. He's continuously explori... Show more

Indira Bandari

Indira Bandari

With a Master's degree in Statistics and 20+ years of experience architecting data warehouses and analytical solutions, I help organizations turn raw data into real business insight.

I co-organise the NZ Business Intelligence – Power BI User Group and the Auckland Artificial Intelligence Meetup, and regularly speak at conferences and events around the world.

Knowledge-sharing is more than a hobby for me — it's a passion. I teach game development to primary school kids in my spare time, and more recently, I've started introducing 10–15 year old kids to databases and Power BI. Watching their creativity unfold never fails to amaze me — it's a powerful reminder of what the next generation is capable of.

With a Master's degree in Statistics and 20+ years of experience architecting data warehouses and analytical solutions, I help organizations turn raw data into real business insight. I co-organise the NZ Business Intelligence – Power BI User Group... Show more

Tillmann Eitelberg

Tillmann Eitelberg

Tillmann Eitelberg is CEO and co-founder of oh22information services GmbH, which specializes in data management and data governance and offers its own cloud born data quality solution, HEDDA.IO.
Tillmann is a regular speaker at international conferences and an active blogger and podcaster at DECOMPOSE.IO. He has open sourced several SSIS components and is Co-Author of Power BI for Dummies (German Edition). Since 2013 Tillmann is awarded as Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He is a user group leader for the datamonster.io user group Rheinland (Cologne) and was a member of the Microsoft Azure Data Community Advisory Board.

Tillmann Eitelberg is CEO and co-founder of oh22information services GmbH, which specializes in data management and data governance and offers its own cloud born data quality solution, HEDDA.IO. Tillmann is a regular speaker at international confer... Show more

Sebastian Sieber

Sebastian Sieber

For the past decade, Sebastian has been a member of the ISV Solutions team at proMX AG. During this time, proMX’s project and resource management tool, proRM Fast Start, has won numerous awards. Sebastian was one of proMX’s liaisons to Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Project Operations development team, thus gaining exceptionally thorough knowledge of the product almost since its first release. He has proven his Power Platform expertise in several successful implementation projects for proMX's international customers.

In addition to his technical leadership, Sebastian now also orchestrates proMX’s AI and Innovation investments, identifying cutting-edge technologies and turning them into real-world solutions for business impact. His unique blend of hands-on product experience and strategic foresight makes him a preferred speaker at industry events.

For the past decade, Sebastian has been a member of the ISV Solutions team at proMX AG. During this time, proMX’s project and resource management tool, proRM Fast Start, has won numerous awards. Sebastian was one of proMX’s liaisons to Microsoft’s Dy... Show more

Andrew Bibby

Andrew Bibby

Director of Technology for the Private Sector at Kerv Digital and a nine-time Microsoft MVP specialising in Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Copilot Studio. With more than 20 years’ experience, I help organisations connect technology decisions with business needs, combining solution architecture with a practical focus on user adoption and change management.

I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a regular speaker at conferences across the UK, Europe and North America. I help lead the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Group community in the UK.

My sessions draw on real projects, with practical advice on building useful solutions, helping people embrace change and making effective use of AI.

Director of Technology for the Private Sector at Kerv Digital and a nine-time Microsoft MVP specialising in Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Copilot Studio. With more than 20 years’ experience, I help organisations connect technology decisions with b... Show more

Max Körbächer

Max Körbächer

Max is Founder and Chief Technology Advisor at Liquid Reply. He is CNCF and AAIF Ambassador, Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board member and CNCF Governing Board member. Max focuses on building innovative platforms that can handle the zeitgeist of AI and is the author of Platform Engineering for Architects. Besides, Max organizes Cloud Native Summit in Munich and the Kubernetes & Cloud Native Meetup in Munich.

Max is Founder and Chief Technology Advisor at Liquid Reply. He is CNCF and AAIF Ambassador, Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board member and CNCF Governing Board member. Max focuses on building innovative platforms that can handle the zeitgeist of ... Show more

David Pless

David Pless

David Pless is a Principal Program Manager in Azure Data at Microsoft, where he focuses on SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, performance engineering, storage architecture, and Azure Arc. With nearly three decades of experience in the data platform industry and almost twenty years at Microsoft, David has worked across consulting, support, technical sales, and product engineering roles.

A Microsoft Certified Master (MCM), David specializes in SQL Server performance tuning, high availability and disaster recovery, Azure SQL, and cloud modernization. He is a frequent speaker at SQL Saturdays, Microsoft events, industry conferences, and user groups, where he shares practical lessons learned from helping customers run and optimize mission-critical SQL Server workloads at scale.

David Pless is a Principal Program Manager in Azure Data at Microsoft, where he focuses on SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines, performance engineering, storage architecture, and Azure Arc. With nearly three decades of experience in the data platfor... Show more

Daniel Rohregger

Daniel Rohregger

Hi, I'm Daniel from Germany - a dual Microsoft 365 Copilot & Copilot Studio MVP 🔷.
Professionally I'm a AI Cloud Architect at glueckkanja AG, while in my spare time I'm hosting my own podcast called 365 Checkpoint, speaking at Keynotes or help others as Copilot Coach & Trainer at Copilot Coaching to develop their skills.

My goal: Help organizations and people worldwide, to understand, use and work Copilot & Agents on a day-to-day bases. Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host of 365 Checkpoint

Hi, I'm Daniel from Germany - a dual Microsoft 365 Copilot & Copilot Studio MVP 🔷. Professionally I'm a AI Cloud Architect at glueckkanja AG, while in my spare time I'm hosting my own podcast called 365 Checkpoint, speaking at Keynotes or help oth... Show more

Matthew-Hope Eland

Matthew-Hope Eland

An AI Specialist and Wizard at Leading EDJE who is known to teach software engineering, AI, and data science concepts in the most ridiculous ways possible. Matthew-Hope has used machine learning to settle debates over whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, reinforcement learning to drive the behavior of digital squirrels, data analytics to suggest improvements to his favorite TV show, and AI agents to play board games and create an AI agent with the personality of a dog. Matthew-Hope is the author of "Practical C# Projects with .NET", "Refactoring with C#", and "Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks", several entries in the Game AI Uncovered anthology, and a pair of LinkedIn Learning courses. They help organize the Central Ohio .NET Developer Group, run several blogs and a YouTube channel, and hold a Master’s of Science in Data Analytics and a growing number of Microsoft MVP awards.

An AI Specialist and Wizard at Leading EDJE who is known to teach software engineering, AI, and data science concepts in the most ridiculous ways possible. Matthew-Hope has used machine learning to settle debates over whether Die Hard is a Christmas ... Show more

Abhi Jayanty

Abhi Jayanty

I’m a data analytics enthusiast experienced in working with the Azure data platform and Microsoft Fabric. With multiple Azure and Fabric certifications, I’m passionate about sharing knowledge and love presenting on topics like Kusto, Fabric and how they work with the wider Azure ecosystem. I'm also a part of Redgate's Community Ambassadors programme, helping Redgate to support data community events around the world through speaking and content creation.

Outside of data, I’m an avid fan of football and Formula 1, and I enjoy cooking, whisky, and making plans to travel the world.

I’m a data analytics enthusiast experienced in working with the Azure data platform and Microsoft Fabric. With multiple Azure and Fabric certifications, I’m passionate about sharing knowledge and love presenting on topics like Kusto, Fabric and how t... Show more

Janarthanan Selvaraj

Janarthanan Selvaraj

Janarthanan Selvaraj is a Senior Manager Technology and AI Expert at Atos. He is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge's FUEL Leadership flagship program and a graduate of Anna University. He has been honored with the prestigious Microsoft MVP Award in the AI category, specifically for his expertise in Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Services. Janarthanan is also Microsoft Certified Community Lead , a 6-time Microsoft Certified Trainer, a Microsoft Learn Expert in Data and AI, and a C# Corner MVP. His certifications include Microsoft Azure Certified Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty, Developer Associate, and Power BI Data Analyst Associate, with a total of 17 cloud certifications spanning Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle, and Aviatrix.

As a resource person, Janarthanan has conducted numerous meetups, workshops, faculty development programs (FDPs), short-term training programs (STTPs), webinars, and knowledge-sharing sessions across organizations and educational institutions. He is an active speaker, mentor, blogger, researcher, and open-source contributor in the fields of AI and cloud computing. His work has been featured in various developer tech communities, conferences, and industry conclaves. Additionally, he serves as a mentor and jury member for events such as the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2025 Hackathon, Smart India Hackathon 2023, the Smart India Hackathon 2024, the Bank of Baroda Hackathon, and the Innothon 24 National Level 30-Hour Hackfest.

Janarthanan Selvaraj is a Senior Manager Technology and AI Expert at Atos. He is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge's FUEL Leadership flagship program and a graduate of Anna University. He has been honored with the prestigious Microsoft MVP Aw... Show more

Tomasz Poszytek

Tomasz Poszytek

With a passion for enhancing organizational effectiveness through digitalization and process optimization, Tomasz brings extensive expertise as a seasoned Business Analyst. As a distinguished Microsoft Power Platform expert, recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title and multiple certifications, including Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Tomasz possesses a robust analytical acumen. With proficiency in SharePoint, Nintex, Webcon, and other process implementation tools, Tomasz continuously updates his knowledge to deliver cutting-edge solutions and shares insights with both clients and technical communities.

Renowned for crafting user-friendly business processes and applications, Tomasz prioritizes simplicity and reliability, ensuring seamless adoption and comprehension. As a dedicated co-organizer of community events in Poland and an active blogger, Tomasz contributes actively to the technical community and serves as an esteemed international speaker.

With a passion for enhancing organizational effectiveness through digitalization and process optimization, Tomasz brings extensive expertise as a seasoned Business Analyst. As a distinguished Microsoft Power Platform expert, recognized with the Micro... Show more

Matias Armándola

Matias Armándola

I’m Mati Armándola, an Information Security leader with over 20 years of experience in technology and more than a decade focused on asset protection, regulatory compliance, and organizational culture.

I speak internationally on AI security, risk and governance, offensive security, and awareness, at conferences such as DEF CON, Ekoparty, Nerdearla, and DevOpsDays. In 2026 I was recognized with the Best Talk award at Ekoparty’s AI Resilience Village. I’m also part of the organizing team for DevOpsDays Buenos Aires.

Beyond the stage, I train the next generation of professionals in security, cloud, and leadership across several institutions and educational platforms.

My motto: LEAD – TEACH – PROTECT

I’m Mati Armándola, an Information Security leader with over 20 years of experience in technology and more than a decade focused on asset protection, regulatory compliance, and organizational culture. I speak internationally on AI security, risk a... Show more

Abhilekh Verma

Abhilekh Verma

Abhilekh Verma is a founder, mentor and technical coach who has had a decade of experience in the IT industry working with Sales Teams and Corporate Training Roles. He was a corporate trainer at KPMG Gurugram and KPMG Hyderabad before jumping on the wagon of Entrepreneurship.
He is a mentor at Startupbootcamp, Wadhwani Foundation and runs Microsoft Azure Developer Community, ADP List, Omdena for Hyderabad. He is also a mentor at IIT Guwahati and Microsoft for Founders Hub. He is Microsoft MVP in AI.

Abhilekh Verma is a founder, mentor and technical coach who has had a decade of experience in the IT industry working with Sales Teams and Corporate Training Roles. He was a corporate trainer at KPMG Gurugram and KPMG Hyderabad before jumping on the ... Show more

Maarten Balliauw

Maarten Balliauw

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Head of Customer Success at Duende Software. Creator and maintainer of https://speaker.travel. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Maarten's blog can be found at https://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Head of Customer Success at Duende Software. Creator and maintainer of https://speaker.travel.... Show more

Mey Beisaron

Mey Beisaron

I am a Senior Platform Engineer and AI Leader dedicated to evolving the way we build software.

With over a decade of experience in Kubernetes and CI/CD, I now focus on Context Engineering, forming the needed connections between raw infrastructure and agentic workflows.

Beyond engineering, I’m a keynote and public speaker at global conferences including Devoxx London, KubeCon North America, and DevOpsDays NYC—speaking about developer experience, AI, and Star Wars.
May the Force be with you.

I am a Senior Platform Engineer and AI Leader dedicated to evolving the way we build software. With over a decade of experience in Kubernetes and CI/CD, I now focus on Context Engineering, forming the needed connections between raw infrastructure... Show more

Daniel Sogl

Daniel Sogl

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. With a background in FinTech and IT consulting, he helps internal teams and enterprise clients put AI to work in two areas: AI-assisted software engineering and Generative AI. He speaks regularly at international conferences and workshops on turning AI tools into measurable gains in developer productivity and code quality.

Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. With a background in FinTech and IT consulting, he helps internal teams and enterprise clients put AI to work in two areas: AI-assisted software engineering and Generative AI. He speaks regularly... Show more

Nicola Paro

Nicola Paro

Nicola Paro is a Solution Architect with over 10 years of experience in the industry, with a special focus on the Industrial IoT environment. He is passionate about software development, primarily using .NET, Blazor, and AI technologies.

Nicola Paro is a Solution Architect with over 10 years of experience in the industry, with a special focus on the Industrial IoT environment. He is passionate about software development, primarily using .NET, Blazor, and AI technologies. Show more

Diego Rodríguez Varela

Diego Rodríguez Varela

I am currently a Microsoft MVP (Developer Security) and Software Developer Engineer at Plain Concepts. Over the past 2 years I have had the privilege of speaking in more than 10 events for both Microsoft and Google communities.

In general, I am interested in exploring the methodologies and technologies that allow us to achieve secure systems, and how we can apply these principles in organizations of different sizes. That translates lately into: failsafe use of Generative AI Tools, K8S security, Frontend & Backend frameworks and even Webauthn authentication.

Besides software development, I am passionate about sports, motorbikes and, when I have enough time, travelling.

I am currently a Microsoft MVP (Developer Security) and Software Developer Engineer at Plain Concepts. Over the past 2 years I have had the privilege of speaking in more than 10 events for both Microsoft and Google communities. In general, I am in... Show more

Daniel Raniz Raneland

Daniel Raniz Raneland

Raniz is a programmer, architect, speaker and coach at factor10. He is a problem solver who keeps track of the bigger picture. He is prestigeless, likes to get into new domains, and loves sharing knowledge and ideas. Raniz has worked with system- and software architecture at several companies since 2010 and has been with factor10 since 2021. When not working he's into beer brewing, sourdough bread, 3D printing and triathlons.

Raniz is a programmer, architect, speaker and coach at factor10. He is a problem solver who keeps track of the bigger picture. He is prestigeless, likes to get into new domains, and loves sharing knowledge and ideas. Raniz has worked with system- and... Show more

Saurabh Mishra

Saurabh Mishra

Saurabh Mishra is a Cloud Evangelist and technology enthusiast specializing in cloud architecture, DevOps, automation, and Agentic AI. Through active community engagement, he shares practical knowledge on cloud-native solutions, AI-powered workflows, security best practices, and multi-cloud ecosystems. As a seasoned speaker and mentor, Saurabh has presented at conferences, meetups, and workshops, empowering teams to drive innovation, modernize their platforms, and unlock business value through cloud and AI technologies

Saurabh Mishra is a Cloud Evangelist and technology enthusiast specializing in cloud architecture, DevOps, automation, and Agentic AI. Through active community engagement, he shares practical knowledge on cloud-native solutions, AI-powered workflows,... Show more

Santhoshkumar Anandakrishnan

Santhoshkumar Anandakrishnan

IT professional with 19 years of dedicated experience in Cloud & Infrastructure with globally reputed organisations, backed up by a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering. I specialise in Infrastructure, mainly focusing on public & hybrid cloud, and I work extensively on designing and implementing cloud models that host Business solutions.

I hold a Dual MVP from Microsoft for Azure networking and Cloud Security.

IT professional with 19 years of dedicated experience in Cloud & Infrastructure with globally reputed organisations, backed up by a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering. I specialise in Infrastructure, mainly focusing on public & hybrid ... Show more

Neil Chandler

Neil Chandler

Neil has been working in IT since 1988 when he coded Assembler and Cobol on IBM Mainframes against both hierarchical (NoSQL-ish) and relational databases. He started using Oracle software in 1991. Neil is an Oracle ACE Director and a founding member of the MASH Program. He likes to drink strong smooth Italian coffee, good beer and better whisky, depending upon the time of day.

Neil has been working in IT since 1988 when he coded Assembler and Cobol on IBM Mainframes against both hierarchical (NoSQL-ish) and relational databases. He started using Oracle software in 1991. Neil is an Oracle ACE Director and a founding member ... Show more

Maryleen Amaizu

Maryleen Amaizu

Dr. Maryleen Amaizu is a seasoned machine learning engineer and AI specialist with extensive experience developing privacy-aware AI and data solutions across diverse domains including healthcare, finance, public sector, and beyond. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Leicester, where she focused on privacy-preserving machine learning systems.

At Redgate Software, Maryleen builds privacy-aware AI-integrated software to ensure compliance and safe test data sharing. She has worked on synthetic data generation, text anonymisation, LLM-based masking dataset generation, intelligent PII classification, and privacy evaluation framework.

Her expertise and impact have been recognized with several accolades, including the AI Champion of the Year award by Bupa Everywoman in Technology in 2025 and the Excellence Award in Data Protection and Information Privacy from the Young CISO Network in 2022.

Dr. Maryleen Amaizu is a seasoned machine learning engineer and AI specialist with extensive experience developing privacy-aware AI and data solutions across diverse domains including healthcare, finance, public sector, and beyond. She holds a PhD in... Show more

Stas Lebedenko

Stas Lebedenko

Stas Lebedenko is a full-stack cloud architect and platform engineer at Eficode. He is also a co-organizer of the Odesa Microsoft. NET User Group, a speaker and author, and an active member of the international and Ukraine .NET/Azure/Operations communities. He has been building and designing software for the last twenty years and has been the Microsoft Azure Most Valuable Professional since 2020.

Stas Lebedenko is a full-stack cloud architect and platform engineer at Eficode. He is also a co-organizer of the Odesa Microsoft. NET User Group, a speaker and author, and an active member of the international and Ukraine .NET/Azure/Operations commu... Show more

Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar

I make Microsoft SQL Server go faster. I love teaching, travel, cars, and laughing. Las Vegas, US. He/him.

I make Microsoft SQL Server go faster. I love teaching, travel, cars, and laughing. Las Vegas, US. He/him. Show more

Stefan Pölz

Stefan Pölz

Stefan's passion is to practice Clean Code and test-driven development in order to build maintainable high-performance software in an ever-evolving team, supported by tools from the .NET Ecosystem. He loves to attend and speak at public developer events, co-organize local community gatherings, stream live programming sessions, and author open source projects, complementing his expertise in professional software development. As Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies), JetBrains Community Contributor (.NET) and co-organizer of DotNetDevs.at, it's his ambition to share knowledge about everything C#.

Stefan's passion is to practice Clean Code and test-driven development in order to build maintainable high-performance software in an ever-evolving team, supported by tools from the .NET Ecosystem. He loves to attend and speak at public developer eve... Show more

Dylan Beattie

Dylan Beattie

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist with The Linebreakers, the world's greatest nerd comedy classic rock disco alt punk covers band.

Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microso... Show more

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