Information & Communications Technology

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

Andy Parkerson

Andy Parkerson

Andy is a seasoned data engineer with over a decade of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in Microsoft Fabric. With a solid background in software development for retail back-end systems, he brings a unique perspective to building scalable, data-driven solutions. Holding an M.S. in Mathematics, Andy combines analytical rigor with practical engineering to deliver reliable, actionable insights.
After transitioning to data engineering, Andy has become a passionate advocate for evidence-based programming and empowering organizations through trustworthy data. He actively contributes to the tech community by organizing and speaking at user groups focused on Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, and analytics.
When he’s not working with data, Andy enjoys grilling and smoking, often spending weekends refurbishing old grills and bringing them back to life for another round of great cooking.

Andy is a seasoned data engineer with over a decade of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in Microsoft Fabric. With a solid background in software development for retail back-end systems, he brings a unique perspective to building sc... Show more

Phil Nash

Phil Nash

Phil is a developer relations engineer for IBM and Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He loves working with JavaScript, TypeScript or Ruby to build web applications and tools to help developers. He once helped build a website that captured the world's favourite sandwich fillings. He has too many GitHub repositories.

Away from the keyboard, Phil listens to ska punk, hangs out with his miniature dachshund (also called Ruby), and is on a mission to discover the world's best beers.

Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online at https://philna.sh.

Phil is a developer relations engineer for IBM and Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He loves working with JavaScript, TypeScript or Ruby to build web applications and tools to help developers. He once helped build a website tha... Show more

Casper Dijkstra

Casper Dijkstra

Hey there, I’m Casper. Passionate cloud-native developer working with .NET, Azure, AI, and Angular. I enjoy crafting elegant solutions that reduce complexity and focus on clarity, maintainability, and real-world impact. Always curious, I love exploring new technologies and figuring out how they fit into our toolkit — from the latest .NET 10 features to emerging AI models. For me, technology is a means to solve meaningful societal challenges.

I’m also the host of the DevTalks podcast at Cloud Republic, where I enjoy sharing knowledge, experiences, and conversations with fellow developers.

Hey there, I’m Casper. Passionate cloud-native developer working with .NET, Azure, AI, and Angular. I enjoy crafting elegant solutions that reduce complexity and focus on clarity, maintainability, and real-world impact. Always curious, I love explori... Show more

Shine Garg

Shine Garg

Shine Garg is a former Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and scaling technical systems at high-growth companies. In her most recent Staff+ role, she led the design and delivery of critical architectural systems that shaped engineering practices for 400+ engineers.

Today, she’s the founder of Uncharted Path Breakthroughs, where she partners with software engineers to navigate inflection points in their careers—from plateaus to promotions to purpose-driven pivots. Her frameworks—like the Five Essential Foundations for Career Advancement™ and the Staff Engineer Excellence Ecosystem—help engineers lead with clarity, influence, and long-term impact.

Shine’s work is shaped by firsthand experience of succeeding in high-stakes roles without a playbook or consistent mentorship—fueling her mission to provide the guidance she once needed. She works with technologists across industries to bring strategy, structure, and self-awareness to the most complex role of all: growing as a senior IC.

Shine Garg is a former Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and scaling technical systems at high-growth companies. In her most recent Staff+ role, she led the design and delivery of critical architectural systems that sh... Show more

Craig White

Craig White

Craig, a Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, has been navigating the Microsoft ecosystem for over 20 years. His passion for automation has led him to work with Visual Basics (VBA), SQL Server, SharePoint On-Prem, Microsoft 365, and since 2016, the Power Platform.

Craig focuses on Power Platform, Copilot Studio & M365 administration, security, governance and enablement. His goal is to inspire organisations to adopt the Power Platform & Copilot tools at scale, fostering a safe and dynamic environment for innovation.

Craig, a Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, has been navigating the Microsoft ecosystem for over 20 years. His passion for automation has led him to work with Visual Basics (VBA), SQL Server, SharePoint On-Prem, Microsoft 365, and since 2016, t... Show more

Graziano Casto

Graziano Casto

Graziano is a DevRel Engineer at Akamas, where he spends his days convincing computers to stop being lazy and start being efficient. A former distributed systems developer and product manager, he’s now on a mission to optimize the entire cloud-native universe, one Pod at a time.

Passionate about AI, Platform Engineering, and saving the planet through better code, he’s basically trying to make the cloud faster, greener, and less annoying for everyone.

Graziano is a DevRel Engineer at Akamas, where he spends his days convincing computers to stop being lazy and start being efficient. A former distributed systems developer and product manager, he’s now on a mission to optimize the entire cloud-native... Show more

Roland Guijt

Roland Guijt

Roland is a Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET Insider and Pluralsight author enjoying a constant curiosity around new techniques in software development. His focus is on all things .NET and browser technologies.
As a long-time trainer and speaker, he led many courses on these topics and spoke about these topics at many international conferences. He's currently working with Duende software to help building out their products.

Roland is a Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET Insider and Pluralsight author enjoying a constant curiosity around new techniques in software development. His focus is on all things .NET and browser technologies. As a long-time trainer and speaker, he led many... Show more

Fanny Klauk

Fanny Klauk

Accompagnatrice agile & DevOps chez Apside, co-créatrice de TADx - Tours agile & DevOps eXperience, j'ai parcouru des kilomètres de lignes de développements, d'analyses fonctionnelles et d'architectures orientées données avant de revenir à mes premières amours : le travail d'équipe, dans un cadre motivant et bienveillant, autour de produits utiles et vivants.
C'est donc tout naturellement vers l'agilité et le DevOps que mes dernières missions se sont tournées. Depuis, je glane le meilleur pour alimenter les équipes que j'accompagne au quotidien : mindset DevOps et craftership, outils au service de la qualité et du déploiement, techniques de design thinking pour capter les vrais besoins et l'amélioration continue des produits et des équipes.

Accompagnatrice agile & DevOps chez Apside, co-créatrice de TADx - Tours agile & DevOps eXperience, j'ai parcouru des kilomètres de lignes de développements, d'analyses fonctionnelles et d'architectures orientées données avant de revenir à mes premiè... Show more

Glenn Chia

Glenn Chia

Glenn is a Solutions Architect Specialist at HashiCorp where he focuses on infrastructure lifecycle management. He works closely with enterprise customers to define strategies for operating infrastructure as code at scale and innovates on product integrations across networking, security, Kubernetes, and artificial intelligence domains. Prior to HashiCorp, Glenn worked at AWS in Professional Services, where he helped customers implement generative AI applications, enterprise backup architectures, data lakes, and cloud landing zones. Glenn is passionate about helping organizations optimize their cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows through automation and modern DevOps practices.

Glenn is a Solutions Architect Specialist at HashiCorp where he focuses on infrastructure lifecycle management. He works closely with enterprise customers to define strategies for operating infrastructure as code at scale and innovates on product int... Show more

Andreas Laeubli

Andreas Laeubli

Andreas Läubli is an experienced software developer with 10 years of expertise in the Microsoft stack. He specializes in Microsoft Data Platform with Microsoft Fabric. He shares his knowledge and experience through his blog, offering low-level, easy-to-follow guidance for those interested in learning more about the Microsoft Fabric

Andreas Läubli is an experienced software developer with 10 years of expertise in the Microsoft stack. He specializes in Microsoft Data Platform with Microsoft Fabric. He shares his knowledge and experience through his blog, offering low-level, easy-... Show more

Awar Abdulkarim

Awar Abdulkarim

Working at Sopra Steria Norway as a Senior Engineer and Lead for Cloud Native Competency group.

My experience and expertise covers both technical and non-technical roles and competencies. In terms of technology, working with containerized applications, Kubernetes platforms and whatever is bleeding edge and complex. Working to help people achieve a way of work, strategy and mentality which is DevOps centric. I love sharing my experiences, learning new things and apply what I leaern.

Working at Sopra Steria Norway as a Senior Engineer and Lead for Cloud Native Competency group. My experience and expertise covers both technical and non-technical roles and competencies. In terms of technology, working with containerized applica... Show more

Ram Bansal

Ram Bansal

As Developer Advocate, Ram prioritizes empowering and educating developers on how to use technology to create innovative products, features, and services. Ram can typically be found conversing with the VAST developer community in order to better understand their needs and facilitate product development that helps to maximize their value. Prior to VAST, Ram was a senior developer advocate at Nylas, senior software engineer at Drop and Rangle.io. He holds a degree in engineering.

As Developer Advocate, Ram prioritizes empowering and educating developers on how to use technology to create innovative products, features, and services. Ram can typically be found conversing with the VAST developer community in order to better unde... Show more

Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira

Currently, Sandro is working as Integration Team Lead at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premise and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size and criticality, using Microsoft Azure (API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, PowerApps, Flow, …), Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO and so on.
Sandro is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger at his blog (https://blog.sandropereira.com), as a member and a moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, a TechNet Wiki author, GitHub contributor, a member of the several Integration communities, guest author at BizTalk360 (https://blogs.biztalk360.com/author/sandro) and Serverless360 (https://www.serverless360.com/blog/author/sandro), public speaker and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices” (https://www.biztalk360.com/biztalk-mapping-patterns).
He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since January 2011 for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community (https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4030655) and currently holds MCTS: BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010 certifications.
You can contact Sandro at sandro-pereira@live.com.pt (Twitter: @sandro_asp)

Currently, Sandro is working as Integration Team Lead at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premise and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a tec... Show more

Sigal Shaharabani

Sigal Shaharabani

Sigal Shaharabani is a Technical Leader and a Group Leader in Tikal and a Couchbase ambassador, with a great passion for backend and data systems. She started her technological career way back in 1996, working for the government, a variety of corporations, and small start-ups. Her favorite programming language is Kotlin, and will love any excuse to talk about it. In her spare time she enjoys swimming and Israeli folk dancing.

Sigal Shaharabani is a Technical Leader and a Group Leader in Tikal and a Couchbase ambassador, with a great passion for backend and data systems. She started her technological career way back in 1996, working for the government, a variety of corpora... Show more

Alex Rostan

Alex Rostan

Microsoft Bizz Apps MVP and seasoned technology leader with over 16 years of global experience designing and delivering intelligent solutions across diverse industries. As an AI Solutions Specialist and Power Platform Architect, Alex has been at the forefront of integrating Cognitive Services, developing enterprise-grade chatbots and Copilot solutions, and driving automation through RPA and low-code platforms. His expertise spans cloud architecture on Azure and Microsoft 365, with a strong focus on empowering organizations through innovation, scalability, and user-centric design. A passionate advocate for digital transformation, Alex combines technical excellence with a deep understanding of business needs to create impactful solutions that bridge people and technology.

AI Solutions Specialist / Cognitive Services Integration / ChatBots / Copilot / Power Platform Architect / RPA / Cloud Architect / Azure / M365

Microsoft Bizz Apps MVP and seasoned technology leader with over 16 years of global experience designing and delivering intelligent solutions across diverse industries. As an AI Solutions Specialist and Power Platform Architect, Alex has been at the ... Show more

Jon Unzueta Rueda

Jon Unzueta Rueda

Arquitecto de soluciones de Power platform con 4 años de experiencia haciendo desarrollos en Power Platform

Arquitecto de soluciones de Power platform con 4 años de experiencia haciendo desarrollos en Power Platform Show more

Saeed Esmaeelinejad

Saeed Esmaeelinejad

Hey, my name is Saeed. I am a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP living in Leeds. My focus is mainly on the .NET ecosystem with +9 years of experience. I am very passionate about new technologies and like to share and gain knowledge. I like to contribute to Open Source Projects and I am also a member of the .NET Foundation group.
I worked in different domains from Banking, VOD platforms, and also in the security area.
I also had the chance to lead developer teams.

Hey, my name is Saeed. I am a Senior Software Engineer and Microsoft MVP living in Leeds. My focus is mainly on the .NET ecosystem with +9 years of experience. I am very passionate about new technologies and like to share and gain knowledge. I like t... Show more

Leslie Welch

Leslie Welch

Leslie Welch is the Principal Architect, Data & AI at SHI with over 18 years of experience in automation, data analysis and visualization, and strengthening organizations’ knowledge of data. Leslie is a Microsoft MVP and has worked end-to-end in the data arena from capture and ETL to database design/engineering to analysis and dashboard design to ML use cases with a focus on improving productivity, performance, and data quality. She has extensive experience in enterprise deployment of Power BI, both as an admin and Power BI architect, and as a trainer and technical community organizer. She is passionate about data governance, truth-telling in data, and creating collaborative environments across data practitioners and the numerous data stakeholders.

Leslie co-organizes Power BI DC and frequently attends and speaks at data community meetups in the DC metro area, including but not limited to Data Viz DC, Data Science DC, Women Who Code DC, Washington DC Power Platform User Group, and Generative AI DC. Leslie was recognized as a 2023 New Power Woman in Tech by DCA Live, and on the RealLIST Engineers 2024 as one of 15 technologists helping the DMV ecosystem grow.

Leslie Welch is the Principal Architect, Data & AI at SHI with over 18 years of experience in automation, data analysis and visualization, and strengthening organizations’ knowledge of data. Leslie is a Microsoft MVP and has worked end-to-end in the ... Show more

Paul Andrew

Paul Andrew

Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.

Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, su... Show more

John Kerski

John Kerski

John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a high rate of return when looking to invest in Microsoft solutions.

John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a h... Show more

Madona Wambua

Madona Wambua

Madona S. Wambua is a Google Developer Expert for Android, an Author, and a Keynote Speaker with over a decade of experience in software engineering. She also serves as a Women Techmakers Ambassador and AnitaB.org Co-Chair, where she advocates for diversity and inclusion in technology. Madona hosts the podcast Tech Talks with Madona and is passionate about sharing her Android expertise, teaching others how to build impactful mobile applications, and inspiring the next generation of developers.

Madona S. Wambua is a Google Developer Expert for Android, an Author, and a Keynote Speaker with over a decade of experience in software engineering. She also serves as a Women Techmakers Ambassador and AnitaB.org Co-Chair, where she advocates for di... Show more

Rob Bos

Rob Bos

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or training environments. Additionally, Rob focuses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers. A lot of focus goes to GitHub and GitHub Actions, improving the security of applications and DevOps pipelines.

Rob is a Trainer (Azure + GitHub), Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star and LinkedIn Learning Instructor.

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless o... Show more

Magnus Ahlkvist

Magnus Ahlkvist

Magnus works as an independent SQL Server consultant at his company Transmokopter SQL AB, with everything from on-premise to cloud databases, from database design and T-SQL programming to infrastructure planning and administration, from transaction intensive databases to data warehousing workloads.
When paid work stops, community work starts. Magnus is a long time co-leader for SQL Server User Group Sweden, he's organising SQL Friday every Friday noon and he's speaking and volunteering on data events, small and large. In October 2020, Magnus was awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award.

Magnus works as an independent SQL Server consultant at his company Transmokopter SQL AB, with everything from on-premise to cloud databases, from database design and T-SQL programming to infrastructure planning and administration, from transaction i... Show more

Sam Vanhoutte

Sam Vanhoutte

Sam is a Microsoft Azure MVP. As a technical advisor and investor at several cloud start-ups, he is involved in cloud-native architectures and focuses on Serverless technologies, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence.
While he is currently technical lead and founder at a SaaS-startup, called Sfinx, he has been working as CTO at Codit, one of the leading European Microsoft cloud partners. In working together with Microsoft, Sam has extensive experience in building data-driven, integrated cloud-based solutions.
Sam has been involved in several industrial IoT projects and has been contributing to the open-source Arcus project, focusing on the Machine Learning aspects.

Sam is a frequent speaker at international events and is active in the Belgian and European Microsoft communities.

Sam is a Microsoft Azure MVP. As a technical advisor and investor at several cloud start-ups, he is involved in cloud-native architectures and focuses on Serverless technologies, the Internet of Things, and Artificial Intelligence. While he is cu... Show more

Mitchel Sellers

Mitchel Sellers

Mitchel Sellers is globally known as a 17-time Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, a DNN MVP, is an MCP (Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET and SQL Server), and CEO of IowaComputerGurus Inc. Sellers has a deep understanding of software development and when speaking focuses on proper architecture standards, performance, stability, security, and overall cost-effectiveness of delivered solutions. This message and his abilities resonate in the technical war room as well as the executive board room.

Mitchel is a prolific public speaker, presenting more than 400 sessions at user groups and conferences globally, such as DevUp, SDN, and Code PaLOUsa. Sellers has been the author of multiple books and a regular blogger on technology topics.

When Mitchel is not working in technology, you will find him flying his airplane, teaching others how to fly, or spending time with his family He is also actively involved in the Open Source Community working diligently to further the movement. Find out more about Sellers at his website http://www.mitchelsellers.com.

Mitchel Sellers is globally known as a 17-time Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, a DNN MVP, is an MCP (Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET and SQL Server), and CEO of IowaComputerGurus Inc. Sellers has a deep understanding of software development and when speaking f... Show more

Vaibhav Malpani

Vaibhav Malpani

I’m Vaibhav Malpani — a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud with 9+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing and deploying scalable cloud solutions.

I thrive at the intersection of code and architecture: writing clean Python, mobilising cloud services (GCP, serverless, containers), and turning complex problems into elegant, high-impact applications.

Beyond the console, I’m passionate about mentoring developers, speaking at tech events and sharing what I learn — because community growth fuels innovation.

If you’re looking to collaborate on AI-driven cloud applications, serverless infrastructures, or community-led dev & open-source initiatives — let’s connect.

I’m Vaibhav Malpani — a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Google Cloud with 9+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing and deploying scalable cloud solutions. I thrive at the intersection of code and architecture: writing clean Pytho... Show more

James Dales

James Dales

Having previously led the Power BI and Microsoft Fabric capabilities at both UK and global level for a large multi-national Microsoft consultancy, in 2024 James established an ambitious geospatial data company Tekantis, to focus on geospatial analytics and data products.

James is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and is the co-leader of the London Fabric and Power BI user group. In 2019 he became the first member of the Power BI Contributors Program, working alongside the Microsoft engineering team to build new functionality into the Power BI product codebase. He has a keen interest in geospatial and real-time analytics and is the author of the Icon Map visuals for Power BI.

Having previously led the Power BI and Microsoft Fabric capabilities at both UK and global level for a large multi-national Microsoft consultancy, in 2024 James established an ambitious geospatial data company Tekantis, to focus on geospatial analyti... Show more

Alex Thissen

Alex Thissen

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies since 2007. In his spare time Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport, and loves playing and programming new and retro video games.

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development... Show more

Patricia Rodríguez Vaquero

Patricia Rodríguez Vaquero

🚀 Welcome to my profile!

I'm Patricia Rodríguez Vaquero 😊, a certified Azure Data Engineer 💻☁️. With 5 years of experience in Microsoft Azure services (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, ADF, Azure Databricks, Python, T-SQL, Spark, etc), I bring passion, dedication, and a drive to master Microsoft technologies.

Beyond work, I consider myself honest, perseverant, curious, and a committed lifelong learner💡.
I’m an animal and nature lover 🐾🌿, an avid traveler ✈️, and an active participant in community events 🤝.

💬 Hablo español
💬 I speak English
💬 Parlo italiano

✨ ATTITUDE IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS! ✨

📩 Want to connect? Reach me at: pati.rvaquero@gmail.com

🚀 Welcome to my profile! I'm Patricia Rodríguez Vaquero 😊, a certified Azure Data Engineer 💻☁️. With 5 years of experience in Microsoft Azure services (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, ADF, Azure Databricks, Python, T-SQL, Spark, etc... Show more

Alpa Buddhabhatti

Alpa Buddhabhatti

Alpa is an Azure Data Engineer with a passion for data and technology. She is Microsoft Certified Trainer and certified in Azure Data engineer and Azure Data Science. She is working on Azure services such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Key Vault , Azure , Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage and Azure Data Lake .

Alpa is an Azure Data Engineer with a passion for data and technology. She is Microsoft Certified Trainer and certified in Azure Data engineer and Azure Data Science. She is working on Azure services such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Key Vau... Show more

Please note that Sessionize is not responsible for the accuracy or validity of the data provided by speakers.

Join Speakers Directory

Join our Speakers Directory today and amplify your reach! Showcase your expertise to a global audience hungry for your insights. Let your voice be heard!

Create Profile