Media & Information

Esteemed specialists working in the fields of media education, digital media, multimedia and radio services

Pablo Gonzalez (Sultanovich)

Pablo Gonzalez (Sultanovich)

DevSecOps professional with a strong background in Linux infrastructure and security. Contributor to the Wazuh project, developing solutions for threat detection and compliance in hybrid cloud environments. Committed to the open source ecosystem, he collaborates with the Debian community and free software events in Latin America, promoting security, transparency, and collaboration in technology

DevSecOps professional with a strong background in Linux infrastructure and security. Contributor to the Wazuh project, developing solutions for threat detection and compliance in hybrid cloud environments. Committed to the open source ecosystem, he ... Show more

Johnny Xmas

Johnny Xmas

Johnny Xmas, a prominent figure in the Information Security community since 2002, is a board member of both Chicago's famous BurbSec communit, as well as its BSides312 conference. He's most notably recognized for his pivotal role in exposing the American TSA Master Key leaks (2014-2018), uncovering Venmo stalking vulnerabilities (2018), and being an overall nuisance.

Past experience includes being: Director of Cyber Training at security research firm GRIMM, defending against the automated abuse of web infrastructure with Kasada, and as the Lead Researcher on Uptake's Industrial Cybersecurity Platform. Before this, he spent many years in the field as a penetration tester, security engineer for a global Fortune 500 retail corporation, and Mainframe auditor and Systems Engineer for several IT asset recovery firms.

Today, Johnny continues to shape and elevate the Information Security landscape with his expertise and contributions as the President of the Burbsec Information Security Network and the Head of Offensive Security for a massive, global manufacturing and agriculture corporation.

Johnny Xmas, a prominent figure in the Information Security community since 2002, is a board member of both Chicago's famous BurbSec communit, as well as its BSides312 conference. He's most notably recognized for his pivotal role in exposing the Amer... Show more

Alejo Krismancic

Alejo Krismancic

Passionate about technology and cybersecurity - Experienced IT consultant
un curioso insoportable

Passionate about technology and cybersecurity - Experienced IT consultant un curioso insoportable Show more

Santosh Durgam

Santosh Durgam

Santosh Durgam is a data engineering & analytics leader with 20+ years building governed, high-scale data platforms across retirement/401(k), broader financial services, and healthcare. He leads cross-functional teams that deliver production-grade data lakes, lineage-aware pipelines, and ML-enabled analytics on cloud—translating governance into measurable business outcomes.

Recent speaking includes SQL Saturday Minnesota 2025, where he presented “From Ingestion to Insights: Building Robust Data Pipelines in AWS” to an in-person community audience. He has also contributed to international research forums and science conferences, and is invited to speak at ICDPN-2025 (International Conference on Data Processing & Networking), engaging practitioners and scholars on data engineering, governance, and analytics at scale. Santosh actively publishes/curates work via Google Scholar and shares practical playbooks for data quality, metadata/lineage, and operating models that connect data platforms to financial decisioning.

Beyond delivery, Santosh serves the community as a peer reviewer of scholarly work on data/ML methodologies and as a judge/mentor for select industry and academic competitions, reinforcing peer validation and public recognition. He champions modern data culture—mentoring engineers and product leaders, and advocating automation (incl. AI agents) to elevate reliability, speed, and auditability in regulated environments. Santosh recently completed his Executive MBA, sharpening strategy and value-creation at the intersection of data, risk, and growth

Santosh Durgam is a data engineering & analytics leader with 20+ years building governed, high-scale data platforms across retirement/401(k), broader financial services, and healthcare. He leads cross-functional teams that deliver production-grade da... Show more

Marko Rakar

Marko Rakar

Marko Rakar (1972) is a Chief executive manager of the consulting company MRAK services ltd headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.

Rakar has a lifelong experience in working/writing for media as well as dealing with the media. He combines his media knowledge with new technologies and was one of the earliest internet adopters in Croatia. He is a recognized lecturer and consultant the subjects of organization, internet, new media as well as politics and statistics.

Rakar ran or participated as consultant on a number of successful campaigns and races for organizations, parties and independent candidates on presidential, parliament and municipal elections in Europe, Asia and US.

He had worked on projects for various international institutions such as Council of Europe, European Fund for the Balkans, United Nations Development Programme, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), World Bank, Transparency International, U.S. State Department, Olof Palme International Center, Open Government Partnership and the Croatian Government. He has been for several years member of the jury for the Pollies award of the American Association of Political Consultants and a member of the jury for the World eDemocracy awards.

In his work with governments, law enforcement and corporations he worked as a data scientist and architect of advanced statistical, BI and predictive analytics systems designed to predict customer/supplier behavior, increase process efficiencies, find and eliminate hidden costs and simplify decision making, as well as identify, prevent, and/or disrupt criminal, fraudulent and money laundering activities..

Rakar studied Philosophy and Information sciences, University of Zagreb, speaks English fluently and is regular columnist and author to several blogs, web sites, newspapers and magazines in Croatia and internationally.

He is also recognized by World eGovernment forum as one of the "Top 10 who are changing the world of politics on the internet". Marko Rakar is a past president of EAPC (European association of political consultants), current presidento of IAPC (International association of political consultants), "School of politics" alumni and president (by Council of Europe), non-government expert on the subjects of open governance and data transparency, past president of Croatian NGO Vjetrenjača (English: Windmill) which is dedicated to bringing transparency and promoting open governance to Croatian and international public. Marko is a member of international Association of Certified Fraud Examiners as well as secretary of Croatian chapter of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Croatia.

Since 2012. he is also a junior fellow at the World academy of Arts and Science. In 2013. Marko Rakar received „Informatika“ medal awarded by Croatian Information Technology Association. This medal is given to the organizations and individuals for achieved results in expanding and promoting information technologies. Washington DC based COMPOL magazine selected Marko as one of top hundred most influential political professionals of the year 2017.

Marko Rakar (1972) is a Chief executive manager of the consulting company MRAK services ltd headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia. Rakar has a lifelong experience in working/writing for media as well as dealing with the media. He combines his media kno... Show more

Johannes Dumitru

Johannes Dumitru

Johannes is motivational and influential Technical leader working to design, develop, and apply Cloud , AI and Data Driven methodologies to create successful solutions and products for customers the digital economy. At Google I focus on Enterprise Data and AI architecture on distributed and multicloud.
Former researcher (Siemens ) , Lead Enterprise Architect @Oracle, , PM @Microsoft for Azure DevOps & Service Fabric , Lead architect @Swisscom, Lead of Engineering @Volksbank , more than 27 years of experience helping organizations succeed in their digital journey by applying Agile methodologies, architecture best practices, and building the Technical Innovation Pipeline.
Johannes is specialized in the Enterprise Cloud and Data Architecture and integration since cloud are born, high-scale backends with Microservices and distributed data platforms.
Build multiple Patterns and Practices groups and re-usable strategy execution for – Platform Modernization, Cloud native Integration, Data & Ai Platform. Participating in Design and build of multiple Cloud Services and features across multiple hyperscalers .
Creative, strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit and experienced with professional speaking engagements, as author, and results-oriented problem solver with the skills to maintain focus in high-demand situations.
Committed to the development and support of positive team dynamics that lead to the creation of diverse successful products, projects, and multi-cultural groups of people.
Out-of-the-box thinker who believes in digitalization as the key factor to improving quality of life, looking for innovation that generates opportunities to design and build solutions for our environment and our communities.

Johannes is motivational and influential Technical leader working to design, develop, and apply Cloud , AI and Data Driven methodologies to create successful solutions and products for customers the digital economy. At Google I focus on Enterprise D... Show more

Miroslav Grgić

Miroslav Grgić

Designed and implemented web-based full-stack software solutions since 1999 as freelancer for many known German companies.

Moved from developer, team leader, technical lead to software architect over the decades.

Since August 2022 working for OG Consultancy Services as Chief Technology Officer, but still loving to code.

My developer slogan: "Code clean! Sleep well..."

Designed and implemented web-based full-stack software solutions since 1999 as freelancer for many known German companies. Moved from developer, team leader, technical lead to software architect over the decades. Since August 2022 working for O... Show more

Emanuel Gawrieh

Emanuel Gawrieh

Emanuel Gawrieh is a Senior Security Engineer, et cetera at Google on the Advanced Threat Protection team, where he specializes in securing workloads in hybrid, distributed architectures for public sector customers and is part of the Secure AI Framework (SAIF) team advising on hardware and infrastructure security for AI Systems.

Emanuel has over 10 years of experience securing high performance workloads with unique hardware and infrastructure requirements across compliance regimes, and - more recently - has been working with the AI Village to prove out hardware and infrastructure configurations aiming at more efficient infrastructure for model serving, red and purple teaming, and acceleration methods best suited to the context.

Emanuel has a background in public policy. He attended Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. after studying Philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Emanuel Gawrieh is a Senior Security Engineer, et cetera at Google on the Advanced Threat Protection team, where he specializes in securing workloads in hybrid, distributed architectures for public sector customers and is part of the Secure AI Framew... Show more

Ko Turk

Ko Turk

Ko Turk is a Software Architect, Java Engineer, and Community Lead with more than 15+ years of experience in development, architecture, speaking, and mentoring.

🦊 Voxxed Days Amsterdam conference organiser
👥 JUGLeader @CodeLabJUG
🫶🏻 JFall Programme Committee Member, DevoxxBE Community reviewer

🧑‍💻 Working @CodeLab, assignment @Rabobank.

🎤 Conference speaker, speaks about everything around Java (ok and Typescript 😄)

✍🏻 Loves to blog, and writing articles for the Dutch Java Magazine.

➡️ Website: http://koturk.nl/

Ko Turk is a Software Architect, Java Engineer, and Community Lead with more than 15+ years of experience in development, architecture, speaking, and mentoring. 🦊 Voxxed Days Amsterdam conference organiser 👥 JUGLeader @CodeLabJUG 🫶🏻 JFall Pr... Show more

Laura Varela Avellanal

Laura Varela Avellanal

Data Solutions Analyst in the Data and Analytics Department at MAPFRE RE and Global Risks.

Previously, I worked as a data and software engineer in the business intelligence and development departments of various companies in the insurance and energy sectors.

Data Solutions Analyst in the Data and Analytics Department at MAPFRE RE and Global Risks. Previously, I worked as a data and software engineer in the business intelligence and development departments of various companies in the insurance and ener... Show more

Sachin Gupta

Sachin Gupta

I am a senior backend and platform engineer at eBay with over 14 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems. I work on large scale billing and financial platforms that demand high reliability, strong security, and precise data correctness. I spend most of my time modernizing legacy architectures, designing cloud ready services, and building APIs and pipelines that hold up under heavy traffic and real world failure modes.

Lately, I have been integrating AI into engineering workflows, focusing on diagnostics, observability, testing, and automation that help teams move faster without sacrificing safety.

On stage, I share field tested patterns and mistakes to avoid, from migrations and cutovers to incident driven design and operational readiness. My goal is to give engineers practical takeaways they can apply immediately when building and modernizing systems at scale.

I am a senior backend and platform engineer at eBay with over 14 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems. I work on large scale billing and financial platforms that demand high reliability, strong security, and precise data co... Show more

Stuart Munton

Stuart Munton

Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values spanning his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate in 2004.

Stuart joined AND Digital as a 10 person start-up in 2014 and led the set-up and evolution of ways of working as they grew to 1000+ consultants. He has honed practices for ~50 clients across various industries - Retail, eCommerce, Insurance, Leisure, Hospitality, Media, Publishing etc.

Currently, as Chief for Group Operations & Technology, Stuart directs AND’s internal technology functions consisting of Information Technology, Software Development, DevSecOps, ISO, and guiding AND’s AI enablement. He also regularly advises on AND’s complex and scaled engagements.

In 2020 Stuart co-founded the Agile Reading meet-up group. He has organised 50+ Agile and Digital external speaker monthly sessions, recently re-launching as FutureSkills:Reading to cover AI, Data, VR / AR, and other technologies.

External public speaker and keynote at international conferences (e.g. Agile on the Beach, ACE Krakow, XP2023, ScanAgile, Global Scrum Gathering, Agile2025 etc.)

Stuart lives with his family in Reading Berkshire where he is a coach and semi-retired player at his local rugby club and is a lifelong Leicester Tigers rugby team fan.

Community and Curiosity are Stuart’s core values spanning his 20+ year digital career. Starting with pivotal transformations for major players like ASDA / Walmart and the NHS, he became an agile advocate in 2004. Stuart joined AND Digital as a 10 ... Show more

Joel Silverstone

Joel Silverstone

Joel brings 25 years of global experience, supporting Fortune 500 companies and thousands of participants. He specializes in empowering leaders and teams with effective communication skills, fostering more impactful collaboration and motivation. His expertise lies in enabling individuals to authentically influence others towards deeper business relationships, fostering trust and enhancing engagement.

Joel thrives to lead engaging and interactive sessions based on 'Learn, Laugh, and Do!'

When you communicate effectively, people feel heard, seen, and understood- mutual respect is created, and you start connecting and unlocking the motivators for you and the other.

Drawing from his background as a former professional actor and improviser- Joel brings unique tips and activities for everyone to practice and implement.

You can listen to or watch Joel as the host of "The Great Canadian Leadership" and "This Feels Right" Podcasts and YouTube – interviewing leaders and experts on influencing and communications skills."

Joel brings 25 years of global experience, supporting Fortune 500 companies and thousands of participants. He specializes in empowering leaders and teams with effective communication skills, fostering more impactful collaboration and motivation. His ... Show more

Faith Njah

Faith Njah

Faith Njah is a professional Technology Advocate at Algo Coding Experts, a software company based in Spain. She is also a software engineer with a strong background in building technical solutions and creating impactful content. She excels at breaking down complex technical concepts and making them accessible to diverse audiences, from developers to non-technical users.

Faith has collaborated with international teams, engaging developers, writing technical articles, and delivering insightful presentations on emerging technologies. She continuously bridges the gap between technology and end users through advocacy, documentation, and hands-on demonstrations.

With a keen interest in developing innovative solutions, Faith is committed to driving impact in Technology industry.

Faith Njah is a professional Technology Advocate at Algo Coding Experts, a software company based in Spain. She is also a software engineer with a strong background in building technical solutions and creating impactful content. She excels at breakin... Show more

Emma Ruck

Emma Ruck

Et si la pédagogie ludique rendait notre monde plus habitable ... ✨

Designer pluridisciplaire de formation, je me suis progressivement formée à l’animation d’atelier d’intelligence collective via la facilitation ainsi qu’à la création de serious game, d’atelier ludique et la gamification.
J’associe mes compétences dans l’univers jeu, de la facilitation & du design pour les mettre au service des enjeux des organismes que j’accompagne. J’aime être challengé et nourrir ma curiosité en découvrant sans cesse de nouveaux terrains d'explorations, avec une appétence pour les thématiques autour de l’éducation, la jeunesse, l'alimentation, l’innovation & l’écologie.

Mon crédo aujourd'hui :
Imaginer • Concevoir • Transmettre

🌱Imaginer des expériences ludiques et apprenantes pour tous publics.

🍀Concevoir et réaliser des supports intuitifs & impactant.

🍃Transmettre et animer ces expériences grâce à l'intelligence collective.

Et si la pédagogie ludique rendait notre monde plus habitable ... ✨ Designer pluridisciplaire de formation, je me suis progressivement formée à l’animation d’atelier d’intelligence collective via la facilitation ainsi qu’à la création de serious g... Show more

Harshil Siyani

Harshil Siyani

Harshil Siyani builds production AI systems that non-technical teams depend on daily. He currently works at News Corp Australia's Editorial Innovation team, where he built a multi-agent document processing pipeline from scratch, handling hundreds of large documents monthly. Over 11 architecture iterations the pipeline's completion rate went from 53% to 85%. His work spans the full AI model landscape including Gemini, GPT-4, and Claude, with a focus on making multi-agent orchestration reliable enough for real-world use in domains where accuracy has consequences.

Harshil has presented at multiple Google Developer Group events including GDG Melbourne DevFest and GDG Canberra DevFest, and has been a panelist at ACS Canberra on AI capability and rapid prototyping. He won the People's Choice Award at a company-wide hackathon for an AI-powered cybersecurity code scanner. With 5+ years of experience across Python, TypeScript, and React, he specialises in taking AI systems from prototype to production, particularly in environments where the end users aren't engineers and the stakes are real.

Harshil Siyani builds production AI systems that non-technical teams depend on daily. He currently works at News Corp Australia's Editorial Innovation team, where he built a multi-agent document processing pipeline from scratch, handling hundreds of ... Show more

Astrid Pilla

Astrid Pilla

Astrid Pilla is a 7x female founder, CES AI Industry Analyst, Founder of Astrid’s AI Tips for women 50+ empowering women executives and leaders to master AI. She is also a Keynote speaker on Women in AI and was a featured speaker at the UN Science Summit on agentic ai.

Astrid is creator of the viral AI Agent Miku, an AI virtual ambassador for global brands who runs her own social accounts. Miku showcases different use cases of agentic ai for brands, from back-end planning, to front-facing consumer touch-points. Astrid and Miku have participated in fireside chats with Tesla in Washington DC, at SXSW, and NYFW.

She is also Founder & CEO of The Arthur Pilla Research Foundation, a nonprofit honoring her late father, Dr. Arthur Pilla, a pioneer in electrotherapeutics and inventor of the first FDA approved bone-healing device using pulsed electromagnetic fields.
Astrid comes from a background in healthcare and spent 17+ years as co-founder of an orthodontic practice in the highly competitive Washington DC area. Astrid is a Porsche Club of America National DE Instructor Corps member and former SCCA Spec Miata enduro racer.

Astrid Pilla is a 7x female founder, CES AI Industry Analyst, Founder of Astrid’s AI Tips for women 50+ empowering women executives and leaders to master AI. She is also a Keynote speaker on Women in AI and was a featured speaker at the UN Science S... Show more

Boaz Ziniman

Boaz Ziniman

Boaz Ziniman is a Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. He raises customer awareness of AWS services and, in particular, helps customers understand the benefits that the AWS Cloud can deliver. Boaz has many years of experience with web development and operations, architecture, IT management, and cloud. Prior to joining AWS, Boaz worked with a variety of key Israeli startups—managing development and operations teams as well as leading cloud adoption and partnerships with major cloud vendors.

Boaz Ziniman is a Principal Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. He raises customer awareness of AWS services and, in particular, helps customers understand the benefits that the AWS Cloud can deliver. Boaz has many years of experience with web... Show more

Roberto Franchini

Roberto Franchini

Still writing code after all these years

Still writing code after all these years Show more

Patrick Wahlmueller

Patrick Wahlmueller

Patrick Wahlmueller is an IT professional, Microsoft MVP, and Community Organizer of Experts Live Austria, with a strong focus on AI-driven automation and Microsoft cloud technologies. His background spans classic IT operations and service management as well as modern, cloud-native and low-code solutions.

Today, Patrick works primarily with Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and intelligent automation, helping organizations move beyond AI hype toward practical, secure, and responsible implementations. He is especially interested in how large language models can be integrated into existing IT landscapes to simplify processes, improve decision-making, and create measurable value.

Known for his clear, pragmatic approach, Patrick enjoys breaking down complex technical topics and making them accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences. As a long-time community contributor and conference organizer, he strongly believes in knowledge sharing, open discussion, and continuous learning.

Based in Austria, Patrick regularly speaks at events and conferences across Europe, sharing hands-on insights on AI, automation, security, and the future of IT.

Patrick Wahlmueller is an IT professional, Microsoft MVP, and Community Organizer of Experts Live Austria, with a strong focus on AI-driven automation and Microsoft cloud technologies. His background spans classic IT operations and service management... Show more

Warren Parad

Warren Parad

Warren solves application security problems in distributed architectures. He has journeyed through many different locations, technologies, and industries from Health Care IT in Wisconsin to E-Commerce in Switzerland. Now, he is the AppSec specialist and CTO at Authress, building tools for seamless security, authentication, and authorization with a focus on the intersection of business and technology.

Warren solves application security problems in distributed architectures. He has journeyed through many different locations, technologies, and industries from Health Care IT in Wisconsin to E-Commerce in Switzerland. Now, he is the AppSec specialist ... Show more

Madhu Akula

Madhu Akula

Madhu Akula is a pragmatic security leader and creator of Kubernetes Goat, an intentionally vulnerable by-design Kubernetes Cluster to learn and practice Kubernetes Security. He is a published author and Cloud Native Security Architect with extensive experience. Also, he is an active member of the international security, DevOps, and Cloud Native communities (null, DevSecOps, AllDayDevOps, AWS, CNCF, USENIX, etc). He holds industry certifications like CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist), OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), etc.

Madhu frequently speaks and runs training sessions at security events and conferences worldwide including DEFCON 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 & 32, BlackHat USA, ASIA, EU (2018, 19, 21, 22, 23 & 24), USENIX LISA 2018, 19 & 21, SANS Cloud Security Summit 2021 & 2022, O’Reilly Velocity EU 2019, Github Satellite 2020, Appsec EU (2018, 19 & 22), All Day DevOps (2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23), DevSecCon (London, Singapore, Boston), DevOpsDays India, c0c0n(2017, 18), Nullcon 2018, 19, 21 & 22, SACON, Serverless Summit, null and multiple others.

His research has identified vulnerabilities in over 200+ companies and organizations including; Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, eBay, AT&T, WordPress, NTOP, Adobe, etc. and is credited with multiple CVEs, Acknowledgements, and rewards. He is co-author of Security Automation with Ansible2 (ISBN-13: 978-1788394512), which is listed as a technical resource by Red Hat Ansible. He is the technical reviewer for Learn Kubernetes Security, and Practical Ansible2 books by Packt Pub. Also won 1st prize for building an Infrastructure Security Monitoring solution at InMobi flagship hackathon among 100+ engineering teams.

Madhu Akula is a pragmatic security leader and creator of Kubernetes Goat, an intentionally vulnerable by-design Kubernetes Cluster to learn and practice Kubernetes Security. He is a published author and Cloud Native Security Architect with extensive... Show more

Victor Aguayo

Victor Aguayo

Víctor Aguayo, Technology Architect en BCP con +20 años en tecnología y miembro de Rust Perú. Diseña plataformas cloud-native en Kubernetes (AKS/ACA) y estandariza microservicios con Dapr (invocación, pub/sub, estado, secretos, observabilidad). Orquesta flujos event-driven con Kafka y Flink e integra agentes de IA (MCP). En BCP lidera POCs, define guías/baselines y optimiza costos. Ex Principal Architect en Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes (AWS). Speaker en Peru Global Azure (PUCP), DevFest 2025 (UPC), miembro de la comunidad Rust Peru.

Víctor Aguayo, Technology Architect en BCP con +20 años en tecnología y miembro de Rust Perú. Diseña plataformas cloud-native en Kubernetes (AKS/ACA) y estandariza microservicios con Dapr (invocación, pub/sub, estado, secretos, observabilidad). Orque... Show more

Barbara Slopko Bekavac

Barbara Slopko Bekavac

I'm a UX researcher and designer specializing in e-commerce optimization and neuroscience-driven user experience. As the founder of Intuera, I combine UX, CRO, and behavioral science to uncover how people actually think, decide, and trust online.
My work explores how design decisions shape user behavior, influence purchase confidence, and reduce friction across the customer journey. By optimizing cognitive load, clarity, and interaction patterns, I helps brands increase conversions while building long-term trust.

I'm a UX researcher and designer specializing in e-commerce optimization and neuroscience-driven user experience. As the founder of Intuera, I combine UX, CRO, and behavioral science to uncover how people actually think, decide, and trust online. M... Show more

Natalie Jenkins

Natalie Jenkins

Natalie Jenkins, a proud Maryland native, is dedicated to building brands—and the people behind them—with joy, amplifying impact on a global scale. As the Founder of StrateJenk, she channels her creative energy into shaping positive perceptions and strengthening brands through brand strategy, strategic communications, and life coaching.

With over eight years of experience, her work has always been rooted in the belief that when brands look, feel, and sound their best, they’re empowered to make a greater difference in the world. A graduate of Drexel University, Natalie has worked with a diverse range of clients, including large organizations, small businesses, and nonprofits. Regardless of the size or sector, her commitment to empowering brands through storytelling and execution remains steadfast. In every role, she brings a unique blend of strategic insight and heartfelt passion to help brands elevate their communications and achieve meaningful impact.

Natalie also holds a certification as a Social and Community Manager, and is also a certified life coach.

When she’s not leading the transformation of her clients’ communications, Natalie can be found exploring new cities, diving into great books, enjoying hearty laughs, and nurturing her faith and family—values that ground her in both her personal and professional life.

Natalie Jenkins, a proud Maryland native, is dedicated to building brands—and the people behind them—with joy, amplifying impact on a global scale. As the Founder of StrateJenk, she channels her creative energy into shaping positive perceptions and s... Show more

Saeed Salehi

Saeed Salehi

I am the Tech Lead for the Identity team at RTL, I’ve spent the last decade building .NET systems and microservices.
My day job is to making sure people can access data safely, but my current focus is solving that same problem for AI agents.

I’m also a top mentor on MentorCruise, helping people move from junior to senior roles. I’m a big believer in clean code and simple solutions, whether I’m architecting a system for a major media company or showing a developer how to secure their first AI agent. I like to keep things practical, skip the hype, and focus on building stuff that actually works in production.

I am the Tech Lead for the Identity team at RTL, I’ve spent the last decade building .NET systems and microservices. My day job is to making sure people can access data safely, but my current focus is solving that same problem for AI agents. I’m... Show more

Alessandro Allegretti

Alessandro Allegretti

Mobile engineer with end-to-end experience building Android SDKs and native apps across fintech, insurance, and enterprise.
Currently designing and developing a native Android SDK for biometric/graphometric signing, dematerialization, and onboarding/KYC, plus full apps in Jetpack Compose and client-specific customizations.
Previously delivered SDK leveraging smartphone sensors and Bluetooth integrations for auto-insurance services.
Earlier contributed to Android front-end for fintech products.
Strong focus on Kotlin, clean architectures, performance, and code quality.

Mobile engineer with end-to-end experience building Android SDKs and native apps across fintech, insurance, and enterprise. Currently designing and developing a native Android SDK for biometric/graphometric signing, dematerialization, and onboardin... Show more

Shantha Kumar

Shantha Kumar

Meet Shantha Kumar, the visionary CTO at SharePoint Designs, driven by a passion for exploring cutting-edge technologies across diverse platforms. With over a decade of experience in OnPremise development, Cloud, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform, he continuously pushes the boundaries of innovation. Now, Shantha is empowering clients with low code solutions, shaping the future of application development. Based in India, he balances his professional pursuits with cherished family moments and active involvement in technical communities. Join Shantha on his journey of innovation and collaboration! #CTO #Innovation #SharePoint #TechCommunity 🚀🌐

Meet Shantha Kumar, the visionary CTO at SharePoint Designs, driven by a passion for exploring cutting-edge technologies across diverse platforms. With over a decade of experience in OnPremise development, Cloud, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform, he... Show more

Roberto Tejero

Roberto Tejero

Padre de los tres mosqueteros, esposo, y espíritu errante. Azure, Servicios de Infraestructura, Seguridad, Office 365. Atrévete a saber, huye de la ignorancia e hipocresia.

Padre de los tres mosqueteros, esposo, y espíritu errante. Azure, Servicios de Infraestructura, Seguridad, Office 365. Atrévete a saber, huye de la ignorancia e hipocresia. Show more

Ulf-Daniel Ehlers

Ulf-Daniel Ehlers

Ulf is founder of mindful-leaders.net, serial entrepreneur, and full Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University. In 2011 the Ministry of Higher Education called him to spearhead the launch of Germany’s first Cooperative University as Vice-President, a large scale initiative, with today 35 thousand students. In 2017, he launched NextEducation, an international boutique-research group focussing on Future Skills, Microcredentials & digital transformation in higher education. Just recently he was appointed as Scientific Director at the Future Learning Laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Ulf is founder of mindful-leaders.net, serial entrepreneur, and full Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University. In 2011 the Ministry of Higher Education called him to spearhead th... Show more

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