Information & Communications Technology

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

Bob Walker

Bob Walker

Bob Walker is a Field CTO Octopus Deploy. Bob started as a developer in the early days of .NET when web forms were the hottest new thing, and manual deployments were the norm. After one too many five-hour 2 AM Saturday deployments, he searched for any automation to stop that pain. His original focus was on automating database deployments. Since then, his passion has expanded from writing code to creating full CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevOps practices.

Bob Walker is a Field CTO Octopus Deploy. Bob started as a developer in the early days of .NET when web forms were the hottest new thing, and manual deployments were the norm. After one too many five-hour 2 AM Saturday deployments, he searched for ... 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

Alison Cossette

Alison Cossette

Alison Cossette is a dynamic Data Science Strategist, Educator, and Podcast Host. As CEO of ClariTrace, she brings a wealth of expertise to the field. With her strong technical background and exceptional communication skills, Alison bridges the gap between complex data science concepts and practical applications. Alison’s passion for responsible AI shines through in her work. She actively promotes ethical and transparent AI practices and believes in the transformative potential of responsible AI for industries and society. Through her engagements with industry professionals, policymakers, and the public, she advocates for the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies. She is currently a Volunteer Member of the US Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology's Generative AI Public Working Group Alison’s academic journey includes Masters of Science in Data Science studies, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, at Northwestern University and research with Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Crowd Research Collective. Alison combines academic knowledge with real-world experience. She leverages this expertise to educate and empower individuals and organizations in the field of data science. Overall, Alison Cossette’s multifaceted background, commitment to responsible AI, and expertise in data science make her a respected figure in the field. Through her role as a Developer Advocate at Neo4j and her podcast, she continues to drive innovation, education, and responsible practices in the exciting realm of data science and AI.

Alison Cossette is a dynamic Data Science Strategist, Educator, and Podcast Host. As CEO of ClariTrace, she brings a wealth of expertise to the field. With her strong technical background and exceptional communication skills, Alison bridges the gap b... Show more

Xuan Ahehehinnou

Xuan Ahehehinnou

J'ai toujours évolué dans le domaine des solutions Microsoft, en passant par des expériences professionnelles sur les technologies de gestion des identités et des accès, de messagerie, de communications unifiées, de réseaux et télécoms.

Initié dans le domaine de l'IAM Microsoft depuis la fin des années 90, Active Directory est une de mes passions et occupations quotidiennes depuis sa naissance, puis Azure Active Directory/Entra ID depuis son plus jeune age.
En complément, j'ai débuté sur les communications unifiées avec Live Communications Server et continue d'intervenir sur les communications unifiées avec Teams.

Depuis quelques années, mon expertise porte principalement sur les solutions de cybersécurité des services cloud Microsoft, et sur la téléphonie Teams.

J'ai toujours évolué dans le domaine des solutions Microsoft, en passant par des expériences professionnelles sur les technologies de gestion des identités et des accès, de messagerie, de communications unifiées, de réseaux et télécoms. Initié da... Show more

Joseph Guadagno

Joseph Guadagno

Joe Guadagno has been writing software for over 30 years, has been an active member of the .NET community, formerly serving on the .NET Foundation Board of Directors, as President, and has been a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than 15 years. He has spoken through the United States and international events on topics ranging from Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure, Ionic, Bootstrap, and many others. You can see the complete list at https://www.josephguadagno.net/presentations. When not sitting at a computer, Joe loves to hang out with his family and play games. When not playing games with the family, Joe is checking out the latest in Home Automation. You can connect with Joe on Bluesky at @jguadagno.com, Facebook at JosephGuadagnoNet, and on his blog at https://www.josephguadagno.net

Joe Guadagno has been writing software for over 30 years, has been an active member of the .NET community, formerly serving on the .NET Foundation Board of Directors, as President, and has been a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than 15 years. He has s... Show more

Adam Furmanek

Adam Furmanek

I am an internationally recognized consultant, software architect, and book writer with over 15 years of experience in software architecture and development across a range of domains. In my career, I worked with all layers of the software engineering and multiple types of applications, including logistics, e-commerce, machine learning, data analysis, and database management. I am always interested in digging deeper, exploring machine code, and going through implementation details to better understand the internals of the technologies I use every day. That's why I like debugging, decompiling and disassembling the code to understand memory models, concurrency problems and other details hidden deep inside. In my free time, I play ping-pong, watch Woody Allen's movies and blog stuff at http://blog.adamfurmanek.pl

I am an internationally recognized consultant, software architect, and book writer with over 15 years of experience in software architecture and development across a range of domains. In my career, I worked with all layers of the software engineering... Show more

Ruben Pertusa Lopez

Ruben Pertusa Lopez

Ruben is a distinguished leader in the world of Data Analytics and AI, currently holding the position of Global Lead of Data Analytics and AI at Avolta HQ (DUFRY,Autogrill, Hudson & HMS Host) in Switzerland. As the Global Data Lead Architect, he plays a pivotal role in shaping data strategies for this global organization. With a strong commitment to knowledge sharing, Ruben is an active member of the PASS Spanish Group and has taken the initiative to found SQLSaturday events in both Madrid and Barcelona, as well as Power BI Days Spain.
Ruben's expertise is widely recognized, as evidenced by his Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) credentials in SQL Server. His remarkable contributions to the field have earned him the prestigious Microsoft MVP Data Platform award for 10 years in a row.
Ruben regularly takes the stage at SQLSaturday and PowerPlatform events, captivating audiences with his insights and expertise. Events such as the SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2014 Spanish launch event, Power BI Days, Power BI Virtual Conf, PASS BA Chicago, TugaIT, .NetCoreConf, European SharePoint Summit, TechNet Webcasts, Microsoft Partner Program, and SolidQ Summit.

Ruben is a distinguished leader in the world of Data Analytics and AI, currently holding the position of Global Lead of Data Analytics and AI at Avolta HQ (DUFRY,Autogrill, Hudson & HMS Host) in Switzerland. As the Global Data Lead Architect, he play... Show more

Małgorzata Janeczek

Małgorzata Janeczek

Gosia is a full-stack developer specialising in .NET and React, with a knack for test automation, DevOps and building reliable, user-friendly applications. After graduating in Automatic Control and Robotics, she discovered her passion for programming and hasn’t looked back since.

When she’s not coding, Gosia is a mom, a painter, and a piano beginner. She’s a lifelong learner who loves solving problems and sharing her discoveries with others. Whether you know her as a developer, a friend, a colleague, or just “hey, you!”, Gosia brings curiosity and creativity to everything she does.

Gosia is a full-stack developer specialising in .NET and React, with a knack for test automation, DevOps and building reliable, user-friendly applications. After graduating in Automatic Control and Robotics, she discovered her passion for programming... Show more

Iris Dyrmishi

Iris Dyrmishi

I'm an Observability Engineer specializing in architecting and building scalable observability platforms for resilient cloud-native systems.I help teams improve their telemetry signals to ensure operational excellence and system reliability. Beyond engineering, I am a CNCF Ambassador and an organizer for KCD Porto and Cloud Native Porto. I leverage these leadership roles to build spaces and platforms that empower others to connect and share ideas

I'm an Observability Engineer specializing in architecting and building scalable observability platforms for resilient cloud-native systems.I help teams improve their telemetry signals to ensure operational excellence and system reliability. Beyond e... Show more

Dubravko Bogović

Dubravko Bogović

I am an electrical engineer turned programmer. I love new technologies, smart homes and renewable energy as well as Science Fiction and fantasy and board games. I love making quizzes for conventions and playing board game tournaments or just attending a game day.
Also love badminton and everything related to it.

I am an electrical engineer turned programmer. I love new technologies, smart homes and renewable energy as well as Science Fiction and fantasy and board games. I love making quizzes for conventions and playing board game tournaments or just attendin... Show more

Nico Jacobs

Nico Jacobs

Dr. Nico Jacobs started his career as a data mining researcher at the university of Leuven, Belgium. He joined U2U in 2004 as an instructor, author and technology strategist. His current technical expertise focuses on Power BI and Data Engineering/Data Science on Microsoft Azure. As a passionate trainer, Nico likes to inspire his students to gain a thorough knowledge on the subject. Nico regularly speaks at local and international conferences. You can see what he’s up to by following @SqlWaldorf on Twitter .

Dr. Nico Jacobs started his career as a data mining researcher at the university of Leuven, Belgium. He joined U2U in 2004 as an instructor, author and technology strategist. His current technical expertise focuses on Power BI and Data Engineering/Da... Show more

Jerry Nixon

Jerry Nixon

Jerry Nixon is a Microsoft SQL Server Principal Product Manager on the Developer Experiences team, championing Data API builder. With more than two decades of experience, Jerry is an engineer at heart. He teaches Computer Science at university and speaks at events worldwide. Over the years, he has trained thousands of developers, but today, he focuses on software simplicity, intuitive tooling, and excellence in data-driven apps. You'll find him talking about quantum computing, design patterns, machine learning, and—on occasion—SQL Server, the finest of them all. He lives in Colorado, and while most of his days revolve around Outlook, Visual Studio, and online Docs, what he enjoys most is teaching his three daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.

Jerry Nixon is a Microsoft SQL Server Principal Product Manager on the Developer Experiences team, championing Data API builder. With more than two decades of experience, Jerry is an engineer at heart. He teaches Computer Science at university and sp... Show more

Lara Newsom

Lara Newsom

In addition to the many conference talks I have given online and around the globe, I am an Angular GDE, NX Champion, and a co-host on the Angular Plus Show where we talk about all things Angular and Angular adjacent. During the day, I am a Senior Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco working full time on a large enterprise Angular application using NgRx state management and leveraging Nx Monorepos. I am always energized by sharing my knowledge and being part of the software engineering community. I specialize in talking about cats and random facts but also love talking about software.

In addition to the many conference talks I have given online and around the globe, I am an Angular GDE, NX Champion, and a co-host on the Angular Plus Show where we talk about all things Angular and Angular adjacent. During the day, I am a Senior Sof... Show more

Michael Coté

Michael Coté

Michael Coté studies how large organizations improve how they build software to run and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.

Michael Coté studies how large organizations improve how they build software to run and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedM... Show more

Michael Plettner

Michael Plettner

With more than 2 decades of customer experience, a long history in Microsoft products, Michael is a Cloud Architect who enjoys sharing his experience with the community and help the community grow.
During the last years, Michael was working with customers in Microsoft Teams topics, Microsoft 365 implementations overall and since 2022 he's also working with his customers in different Microsoft Viva projects.
Since more than seven years Michael has its own company, working with the focus on Microsoft topics, Change-Management and Project-Management. He's also a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft 365 Apps and Services since 2021.

With more than 2 decades of customer experience, a long history in Microsoft products, Michael is a Cloud Architect who enjoys sharing his experience with the community and help the community grow. During the last years, Michael was working with cus... Show more

Dean Schuster

Dean Schuster

Dean Schuster has been envisioning and creating human-centered digital products since the advent of the commercial web. He is founder and owner of the user experience strategy firm truematter, leading the team to help national and international organizations change the way they do business online. He travels all over the world to speak and teach, mentoring professionals and challenging teams to a higher standard for digital experiences.

Dean is also an avid ultra-marathoner and trail racer, often found in out-of-the-way places, including Antarctica.

Dean Schuster has been envisioning and creating human-centered digital products since the advent of the commercial web. He is founder and owner of the user experience strategy firm truematter, leading the team to help national and international organ... Show more

Mirco Vanini

Mirco Vanini

Consultant focused on industrial and embedded solutions using .NET and other native SDKs with over 35 years of experience, XeDotNet community co-founder, speaker and Microsoft MVP since 2012. Passionate and curious about everything that revolves around the IoT world.

Consultant focused on industrial and embedded solutions using .NET and other native SDKs with over 35 years of experience, XeDotNet community co-founder, speaker and Microsoft MVP since 2012. Passionate and curious about everything that revolves arou... Show more

Mats Warnolf

Mats Warnolf

I love learning new things and solving old problems. I started my days as an admin back in 1990 and have had many roles since. I became a full time Microsoft Certified Trainer in 1999. Today I work as an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft 365 productivity.
I produce a bi-weekly podcast in Swedish called Office 365-podden.

I love learning new things and solving old problems. I started my days as an admin back in 1990 and have had many roles since. I became a full time Microsoft Certified Trainer in 1999. Today I work as an independent consultant specializing in Microso... Show more

Chris Simon

Chris Simon

Chris is a technology coach and advisor helping technology teams drive business success. His focus is on helping startups realise their vision and new CTOs flourish in their roles. He also supports executives & boards with strategic technology advice, and engineering teams with training, mentoring and consulting in architecture, quality, domain-driven design and test driven development.

He is a regular meetup & conference speaker (https://chrissimon.au/speaking/) and to support teams using Domain-Driven Design, he recently launched https://contextive.tech & co-founded the DDD Australia meetup and the ADAConf (https://adaconf.org) conference.

Chris is a technology coach and advisor helping technology teams drive business success. His focus is on helping startups realise their vision and new CTOs flourish in their roles. He also supports executives & boards with strategic technology advice... Show more

Matthias Haeussler

Matthias Haeussler

Matthias Haeussler is VP Expert at CGI, university lecturer for distributed systems, awarded ambassador of Cloud Foundry and the organizer of the Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup. He advises clients on Cloud strategies and supports implementations and migrations. Prior to that he was employed at IBM R&D Germany for more than 15 years. He has teaching experience from lectures at multiple universities in Stuttgart (DHBW, HSE, HfT). Besides that he is frequent speaker at various national and international conferences and meetups. (e.g. Spring One Platform, Open Source Summit, Cloud Foundry Summit, Spring IO, IBM InterConnect, WJAX).

Matthias Haeussler is VP Expert at CGI, university lecturer for distributed systems, awarded ambassador of Cloud Foundry and the organizer of the Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup. He advises clients on Cloud strategies and supports implementations and ... Show more

Ashita Prasad

Ashita Prasad

Ashita is the creator of Flutter Gems (https://fluttergems.dev), a visual package discovery platform that has helped more than 2 million Flutter developers across the globe. She also co-created API Dash (https://github.com/foss42/apidash), an award winning open source AI powered cross-platform API client. She loves helping fellow developers, runs a FOSS developers community and has delivered more than 85+ talks on AI/ML and app development in reputed international conferences such as Cross-platform Mobile Development Summit, React India, Flutter Global Summit, Flutter Vikings, FlutterNinjas Tokyo, etc.

Full list of my past talks with video links - https://ashitaprasad.github.io

Ashita is the creator of Flutter Gems (https://fluttergems.dev), a visual package discovery platform that has helped more than 2 million Flutter developers across the globe. She also co-created API Dash (https://github.com/foss42/apidash), an award w... Show more

Nikola Ilic

Nikola Ilic

I'm making music from the data! Power BI and Microsoft Fabric addict, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Pluralsight Author, O'Reilly Instructor, blogger, speaker...Interested in everything related to data - always eager to extract valuable info from raw data in the most effective way. Multi-year experience working with (predominantly) Microsoft Data Platform (SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and Power BI). Father of 2 and true football (and Barca) fan!

I'm making music from the data! Power BI and Microsoft Fabric addict, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Pluralsight Author, O'Reilly Instructor, blogger, speaker...Interested in everything related to data - always eager to extract valuable info from raw d... Show more

Michael Vitz

Michael Vitz

Michael is Java Champion and Senior Consultant at INNOQ, a software-development and consulting company based in Germany. With over 15 years of professional experience, his expertise ranges from application development with Java and Spring Boot to designing distributed systems and contributing to open-source projects. Lately his interests revolve around observability, containerization and code maintenance. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups and author of popular articles, including a period op-ed for a German magazine.

Michael is Java Champion and Senior Consultant at INNOQ, a software-development and consulting company based in Germany. With over 15 years of professional experience, his expertise ranges from application development with Java and Spring Boot to des... Show more

Julian Rasmussen

Julian Rasmussen

IT Pro working at Point Taken AS. My primary focus is Microsoft Security and IAM. I do migration projects, implementation of new services as well of supporting your organization with best practises within Information Security. I have more than 15 years experience in IT, ranging from support, operations, team management, project management and consulting serivces. I also do publick speaking and blogging.

IT Pro working at Point Taken AS. My primary focus is Microsoft Security and IAM. I do migration projects, implementation of new services as well of supporting your organization with best practises within Information Security. I have more than 15 yea... Show more

Marco Minerva

Marco Minerva

Marco Minerva has been using .NET since its first introduction. Today he proudly lives in Taggia, Italy, works as a freelance consultant and is involved in designing and developing solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem. His greatest expertise is backend development as a software architect. He holds training courses. He is a speaker at technical events, writes books and articles about developing and regularly makes live streaming about coding on Twitch. He is a Microsoft MVP since 2013.

Marco Minerva has been using .NET since its first introduction. Today he proudly lives in Taggia, Italy, works as a freelance consultant and is involved in designing and developing solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem. His greatest expertise is back... Show more

Silvano Coriani

Silvano Coriani

Silvano Coriani is a Program Manager in Azure Database for PostgreSQL team at Microsoft. He has over 25 years of experience in application development and database design, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. He is specialised in data access libraries, query optimisation, and distributed system design. He is also an author and speaker in many international industry conferences.

Silvano Coriani is a Program Manager in Azure Database for PostgreSQL team at Microsoft. He has over 25 years of experience in application development and database design, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. He is specialised in data access libr... Show more

James McGillivray

James McGillivray

James McGillivray, Data Management and Analytics MCSE, has been working in Business Intelligence for over a decade. He spends his working hours building solutions that allow people to make informed decisions. quickly and accurately. He is a Director at South African Data Consultancy, Cobalt Analytics.

Before his career in data, James was an avid musical theatre student and musician. This love for performance has developed into a passion for developing and delivering presentations that are informative and enjoyable. James speaks frequently at Data Community Events, and has presented at some of the most well-known Data Events around the globe, including PASS Summit, SQL Bits and the Power BI World Tour.

James McGillivray, Data Management and Analytics MCSE, has been working in Business Intelligence for over a decade. He spends his working hours building solutions that allow people to make informed decisions. quickly and accurately. He is a Director ... Show more

Ed Holloway-George

Ed Holloway-George

Ed Holloway-George is an Android Developer and Google Developer Expert originally from Oxford, UK but now currently residing in Nottingham, UK.

An Android developer for over 10 years; Ed now works for ASOS as a Lead Developer having previously worked on well-known applications such as National Trust, My Oxfam, Snoop, Carling Tap and many more.

In his spare time, Ed can be found playing trading card games and posting pictures of his dog.

Ed Holloway-George is an Android Developer and Google Developer Expert originally from Oxford, UK but now currently residing in Nottingham, UK. An Android developer for over 10 years; Ed now works for ASOS as a Lead Developer having previously wor... Show more

Valarie Regas

Valarie Regas

Valarie Regas is a DevOps fanatic, a Georgia Tech coding bootcamp graduate, and a veteran mommy. She holds a BA in Psychology and currently works in Computer Science education. After years being a stay-at-home mom, she decided to change her life by entering tech, and has learned a lot along the way. Outside of work, she enjoys mixed martial arts fighting, table-top role playing games, public speaking, creating tiny humans, and activism of all sorts.

Valarie Regas is a DevOps fanatic, a Georgia Tech coding bootcamp graduate, and a veteran mommy. She holds a BA in Psychology and currently works in Computer Science education. After years being a stay-at-home mom, she decided to change her life by e... Show more

John White

John White

John P White is the CTO of tyGraph and Evangelist at AvePoint. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Guelph and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2010 and a dual MVP since 2018 in both Microsoft Apps and Services and Data Platform.  He has spent far too long (since 1990) in the Information Technology space, and possesses a skill set that spans both architecture and development. He has been instrumental in delivering projects and applications that have been recognized with both local and global awards from Microsoft and IBM.
 John has accumulated a plethora of legacy technologies over the years like Novell, Lotus Notes and Java, and of course Microsoft technologies. This experience has proven invaluable when architecting systems. Over the past decade, he has been focused on the Microsoft collaborative and data platforms and is a frequent speaker on these topics.
 He blogs as actively as possible at the White Pages and is the co-host of the weekly https://bifocal.show/ which covers the Microsoft business intelligence space. John lives in the country just outside of Guelph, Canada. He is a father to 5, is an avid scuba diver, gardener, and photographer, both under and above the water (but mostly under).

John P White is the CTO of tyGraph and Evangelist at AvePoint. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Guelph and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2010 and a dual MVP since 2018 in both Microsoft Apps and Services and Data Plat... Show more

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