Bill is a Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with over 25 years of experience in software design, engineering and project management.

Before becoming a software engineer, Bill was an electrical engineer, and then senior R&D engineer, so he also has considerable knowledge of computer hardware components and how good programming practices can contribute to performance.

As a Senior Master Instructor and Soke-Dai (8th Degree Black Belt) in Bushido Kempo as well as former owner of Wagoner Martial Arts, Bill has taught martial arts for over 35 years to students ranging from six-years-old to a 76-year old grandmother. He has the passion, experience and knowledge to give an impressive talk on multiple subjects from low-level programming to "soft-skills" required for a well-rounded software developer.

Bill is a Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with over 25 years of experience in software design, engineering and project management. Before becoming a software engineer, Bill was an electrical engineer, and the... Show more

Before joining TEALS, Allison taught physics, mathematics and engineering classes at the collegiate level, as well as organizing STEM experiences for local high school students. Allison has a BA in Physics and Mathematics from William Jewell College, a MA in Mathematics, and a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from University of Missouri–Kansas City.

Before joining TEALS, Allison taught physics, mathematics and engineering classes at the collegiate level, as well as organizing STEM experiences for local high school students. Allison has a BA in Physics and Mathematics from William Jewell College,... Show more

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I am a technology enthusiast, with a long background through the various paths of IT. After being a student myself, acquiring knowledge in Software engineering, I became an IT faculty, impacting hundreds of youngsters and adults at all the major tech institutes in Nigeria; KarRox, NIIT and Aptech Worldwide.

From here I moved on to the practical Industry to build real world business applications with IT and telecommunications solutions companies; Alex & Forbes, Eltaj Solutions(Cobranet Ltd. sister company). I am at the moment a consultant with MTNN, IT Dev-Operations.

I am a certified AWS Cloud Architect, Microsoft IT specialist, member of the Microsoft certified professionals and developers worldwide.

I got into Blockchain since 2017, when the crypto world was just getting accepted into our world. I have had various levels of interactions with cryptocurrency and its native technology(blockchain). I have a Blockchain Engineer certificate with Binance.

I am a publicly publishing crypto ideas analyst via Tradingview digital platform weekly. Active article publisher on LinkedIn, and a growing voice in the vast world of blockchain crypto technology.

To conclude this I would like to add I am currently a Student of Social Sciences learning Psychology at one of the foremost Nigerian universities

Hopefully I can do justice to this, I will try my best on it. Awesome! I am a technology enthusiast, with a long background through the various paths of IT. After being a student myself, acquiring knowledge in Software engineering, I became an I... Show more

Dustin services as a Department Manager within the Burns & McDonnell Engineering Water Practice. He brings more than 16 years experience within utility planning and management with a focused effort in water, wastewater and stormwater systems. Dustin provides technical leadership to the practice for services including hydraulic modeling, master planning and development of data driven decision making tools for Utility operations, asset management and program management functions. He received his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville and a Master of Science in Water Resource & Environmental Engineering from Villanova University.

Dustin services as a Department Manager within the Burns & McDonnell Engineering Water Practice. He brings more than 16 years experience within utility planning and management with a focused effort in water, wastewater and stormwater systems. Dustin ... Show more

Utkarsh is presently working as a Consultant Engineer at Cisco and currently based out of India. He is responsible for driving multiple automation initiatives within the organization. He plays a pivotal role in conducting periodic business reviews with customers by defining and tracking the outcome-oriented KPIs and in the planning of the contract renewals and business up-sells. He defines his life motive as, “Karmev Jayate”, which translates into the colloquial version as, ‘Work will always be Victorious’. Utkarsh’s corpus of work extends from the incorporation of Machine learning capabilities in different sectors to Blockchain Evangelism. He also works as a mentor for different developers as well as business communities, and along with all of this, he makes it a point to not miss his social contributions through various outreach initiatives. But what really interests Utkarsh, is the chance to interact with passionate minds from all walks of life, and the opportunity to influence them. As a result, he has delivered various tech-talks on BigData, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain across the globe.

Utkarsh is presently working as a Consultant Engineer at Cisco and currently based out of India. He is responsible for driving multiple automation initiatives within the organization. He plays a pivotal role in conducting periodic business reviews wi... Show more

Bruno is a co-founder, CTO, and frontend developer in Web dev & Digital marketing agency Bamboo Lab. He adores music, dogs, linux, guitar, chess, traveling, festivals, books, ajvar, Rick and Morty. And space.

Bruno is a co-founder, CTO, and frontend developer in Web dev & Digital marketing agency Bamboo Lab. He adores music, dogs, linux, guitar, chess, traveling, festivals, books, ajvar, Rick and Morty. And space. Show more

I currently work as a Bioinformatics Software Developer for Nationwide Children's Hospital and have been since 2017. I have experience in both clinical and research teams. Since I have been here, I have worked on projects including Fullstack web development, database, machine learning, and most recently containerized/serverless compute. CDK is the latest toolkit that we have incorporated for automating our devops.

I currently work as a Bioinformatics Software Developer for Nationwide Children's Hospital and have been since 2017. I have experience in both clinical and research teams. Since I have been here, I have worked on projects including Fullstack web deve... Show more

Phillip Scott Alexander is the director of PR & Marketing at IPMD, Inc. He became a bioinformatician after his father passed away due to renal cell carcinoma. He has done work in the area of drug-drug, drug-protein, and drug-gene expression interaction for curing cancer for the last three years. Phillip has experience with developing effective models for predicting drug efficacy on the lymphoma cancer cell line OIC-Ly3. He has also contributed to the research for models to predict drug induced neuropathy. His latest work is on assistance through developing models to predict drug effectiveness for preventing preterm labor and preeclampsia.

Phillip Scott Alexander is the director of PR & Marketing at IPMD, Inc. He became a bioinformatician after his father passed away due to renal cell carcinoma. He has done work in the area of drug-drug, drug-protein, and drug-gene expression interacti... Show more

Mis orígenes son la Física Experimental, concretamente la Astrofísica. Esta fue mi pasión durante muchos años por lo que cursé estudios de doctorado con la intención de dedicarme a la investigación.

Finalizado este período continué con otra de mis grandes pasiones, la ingeniería de software y datos. En ella he estado desde hace más de 25 años, desempeñando labores principalmente de arquitecto de sistemas y aplicaciones.

En los últimos 11 años tengo el placer de trabajar en un ámbito apasionante y prometedor: las transformaciónes data-driven. En este periodo he estado vinculado a los ecosistemas de innovación y emprendimiento en los que afronté durante 3 años el reto de crear y liderar una startup.

Desde 2015 he desempeñado el role de Head of Data, Analytics & AI en diferentes consultoras globales. En este tiempo he estado trabajando con clientes de múltiples sectores en sus transformaciones data-driven. Además de liderar la práctica he tenido otras responsabilidades como la definición de arquitecturas, offerings, desarrollo de prototipos innovadores y creación de nuevas líneas de trabajo en ámbitos como Hiperautomatización, IoT, Edge Computing y Quantum Machine Learning.

Mis orígenes son la Física Experimental, concretamente la Astrofísica. Esta fue mi pasión durante muchos años por lo que cursé estudios de doctorado con la intención de dedicarme a la investigación. Finalizado este período continué con otra de mi... Show more

Dr. Sarah Kaiser has spent much of her career developing new quantum hardware in the lab, from building satellites to hacking quantum cryptography hardware. Communicating what is so exciting about quantum is her passion, and she loves building new demos and tools to help enable the quantum open source community to grow. When not at the keyboard she loves kayaking, laser cutting everything (safe), and writing books about engineering for all ages.

Dr. Sarah Kaiser has spent much of her career developing new quantum hardware in the lab, from building satellites to hacking quantum cryptography hardware. Communicating what is so exciting about quantum is her passion, and she loves building new de... Show more

I have a background in evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, data science, cancer informatics, NLP and software engineering. I'm now focusing on predicting causal mechanisms using multivariate data and graphs.

I have a background in evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, data science, cancer informatics, NLP and software engineering. I'm now focusing on predicting causal mechanisms using multivariate data and graphs. Show more

AntiFragile Mindset and Leadership Professional/Adaptive Organisation Design/Brain-Based Learning Expert/Plenary Speaker International Conference Soft Skills Development/ Motivation at Play in Institutional Contexts Author/ EODF member/Community Agile Marketing Italia

AntiFragile Mindset and Leadership Professional/Adaptive Organisation Design/Brain-Based Learning Expert/Plenary Speaker International Conference Soft Skills Development/ Motivation at Play in Institutional Contexts Author/ EODF member/Community Agil... Show more

Joscha Wirtz is project lead of the RRI Hub at the Technical University in Aachen (RWTH). The hub initiates and supports projects in the fields of "social innovation", "impact architectures" and "social responsibility of universities". His research focuses on complex systems engineering and the traceability of digital and non-digital resource flows to accelerate the circular transition on a European level.

Joscha Wirtz is project lead of the RRI Hub at the Technical University in Aachen (RWTH). The hub initiates and supports projects in the fields of "social innovation", "impact architectures" and "social responsibility of universities". His research ... Show more

I was born in North Cyprus and living in Istanbul/Turkey. I have one daughter and one boy. I enjoy taking photos, reading books and cooking.
As a result of being using comupters since I'm 12, I studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and then jumped to SAP Basis area in 1999. Done lots of projects and conducted technical trainings around Europe and Middle East area between 2005-2012.
In 2013, I founded CoreToEdge with 5 consultants to do SAP on Cloud business. For this purpose, we've signed Partnership with SAP, AWS and then Microsoft to do SAP business on Cloud.
We're providing Private Cloud for Global companies (40 companies inc. Apple, Shell, Amazon, Google) since 2013 and also deployed many S/4HANA GreenField or BrownField projects on Private and Public Clouds. Penti Giyim and Mopas are some of our Global Success Stories we deployed in 2018 and still providing Managed SAP and Cloud.
In 2019, my company CoreToEdge is acquired by GlassHouse ( Mediterra Capital PE Company) to accelerate their Cloud and SAP adoption and I'm currently working as a Lead SAP Architect and Business Development Executive at GlassHouse.

I was born in North Cyprus and living in Istanbul/Turkey. I have one daughter and one boy. I enjoy taking photos, reading books and cooking. As a result of being using comupters since I'm 12, I studied Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering a... Show more

Shannon Rollins is a Performance Coach with more than eight years of experience enabling individuals to improve their mental health and physical wellbeing through one-on-one coaching, group wellness programs, corporate workshops, and health education services.

Through her corporate workshops and motivational speaking engagements, companies turn to Rollins to help increase their employee productivity and engagement. With experience developing solutions for thousands of employees nationwide; her end goal is to help individuals live happier, healthier, and more fulfilled lives.

Rollins possesses a Master of Science degree in Health Education & Behavior from the University of Florida. To complement her professional experience, Rollins is a Certified Health Education Specialist, a Master Certified Life Coach, a Certified Integrative Health Coach, and a Certified Career Coach. Rollins currently resides in Orlando, Florida, where she spends her time enjoying the sun, reading books, and developing new wellness programs.

Shannon Rollins is a Performance Coach with more than eight years of experience enabling individuals to improve their mental health and physical wellbeing through one-on-one coaching, group wellness programs, corporate workshops, and health education... Show more

Jannis is a first-year PhD. student jointly between the Computational Systems Biology group at IBM Research in Zurich and the Machine Learning for Computational Biology group at ETH Zurich. His main Ph.D. topic intersects systems biology and drug discovery using deep learning methods. His current research also involves explainable medical image analysis of ultrasound.

He received a BSc. in Cognitive Science and a MSc. in Neural Systems and Computation (both with highest distinction). In 2019, he was awarded the FXH Scientific Excellence Award from Roche, a scientific excellence award about the future of healthcare. He received several scholarships, is an iOS developer and co-founded a summer school in computational neuroscience.

Jannis is a first-year PhD. student jointly between the Computational Systems Biology group at IBM Research in Zurich and the Machine Learning for Computational Biology group at ETH Zurich. His main Ph.D. topic intersects systems biology and drug dis... Show more

Marina Ivasic-Kos is an Associate Professor at the Department of informatics, University of Rijeka. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2012. She was involved in several business and research projects in information and computer science fields as well as several ICT COST and Erasmus+ projects. She is the leader of the research project Automatic recognition of actions and activities in multimedia content from the sports domain and principal researcher at project Knowledge-based approach to crowd analysis in video surveillance both funded by National Research Agency.
Her research interests are focused on artificial intelligence, computer vision, knowledge representation, and soft computing. She is a technical committee member and reviewer for numerous scientific conferences and reviewer for high-cited journals such as Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal (PR), Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA), IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Transactions on Cybernetics, Signal Processing and Access, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, MDPI Sensors, and Entropy.

Marina Ivasic-Kos is an Associate Professor at the Department of informatics, University of Rijeka. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2012. She was involved in several busines... Show more

Calistus Igwilo holds an MSc from the University of Nottingham. He has practical experience in managing cloud infrastructure and deploying apps in Docker containers.

Calistus Igwilo holds an MSc from the University of Nottingham. He has practical experience in managing cloud infrastructure and deploying apps in Docker containers. Show more

Shruti Sharma has been part of the BI team at Ingram for 3 years, where among other things she was involved in designing and execution of a sales and operations reporting dashboard for publishers. She is extending her skill set by doing a Data Science Bootcamp at the Nashville Software School. She also holds a PhD in Cellular Biochemistry from Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany.

Shruti Sharma has been part of the BI team at Ingram for 3 years, where among other things she was involved in designing and execution of a sales and operations reporting dashboard for publishers. She is extending her skill set by doing a Data Scienc... Show more

Chantelle Fitzgerald is the Founder of Mindset Strategies, LLC a leadership development consulting firm that helps to train and support leaders in becoming the best version of themselves. Mindset Strategies, provides training and tangible tools that help with increase of attention, focus, productivity, resiliency and more. Chantelle is a certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence trainer through a program called Search Inside Yourself -- a program founded out of Google that blends mindfulness with emotional intelligence and neuroscience.
Chantelle is also a host of an online TV show called Mindset on RVNTV.TV where she interviews industry leaders to learn about challenges they faced and their “Mindset” to push through.
Prior to starting her own company, Chantelle has had a wealth of experience in the private/corporate, non-profit and higher education sectors, which expands over a 15 years. She has lead business development efforts, sales, marketing, that resulted in being recognized as the top sales rep for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, raised over $1M dollars for the American Heart Association, created international study abroad programs in the midwest for EF Education First and more. Throughout her career and across sectors, Chantelle has seen a need for the enhanced skill set of emotional intelligence and mindfulness in the workplace. Thus, Chantelle is thrilled to provide trainings to leaders companies and organizations.
Chantelle holds a Master’s in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and BA in French with Secondary Certification from Muhlenberg College. She has served as board chair for the Young Professionals Network of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, board member for the International House of Philadelphia, iPraxis and IMPACT Philadelphia. Chantelle also loves to travel internationally, enjoys cooking, reading, meditation and salsa dancing.

Chantelle Fitzgerald is the Founder of Mindset Strategies, LLC a leadership development consulting firm that helps to train and support leaders in becoming the best version of themselves. Mindset Strategies, provides training and tangible tools that ... Show more

Emily Kearney is the Project Director of Tech & Biotech at the Unconscious Bias Project. She is also pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science at UC Berkeley and is passionate about data science, open source, and chocolate pollination.

Emily Kearney is the Project Director of Tech & Biotech at the Unconscious Bias Project. She is also pursuing her PhD in Environmental Science at UC Berkeley and is passionate about data science, open source, and chocolate pollination. Show more

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I am the co-founder of a consulting company helping mid-size companies on the road to AI and IoT. I spend most of my time building products and services using data, advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms.

When I am not creating data solutions, I write code that helps researchers in cell motility to understand how cells move and interact with each other or I blog about data science, machine learning, and other related topics.

I am the co-founder of a consulting company helping mid-size companies on the road to AI and IoT. I spend most of my time building products and services using data, advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms. When I am not creating data so... Show more

Christian is an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Christian's 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for several leading SharePoint ISVs, and he was part of the Microsoft team that launched the hosted SharePoint platform in Office 365. He has worked with some of the world’s largest technology companies to build and deploy social, collaboration, and supply chain solutions, and sold his first software startup to Rational Software in 2001. Co-author of books on both SharePoint and software configuration management (SCM), Christian is one of the most widely published names within the Microsoft ecosystem, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and @buckleyplanet

Christian is an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, and both a Microsoft Regional Director (RD) and Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Christian's 30-year tech career has included Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Evangelist for ... Show more

Vivian Voss is a Microsoft Business Applications and M365 MVP who loves to help organizations transform their processes with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Vivian has around 10 years of experience in creating solutions within the Dynamics 365 suite and extending it with the tools from the Power Platform. She is also a co-organizer of various user groups and a frequent speaker at community events.

Vivian Voss is a Microsoft Business Applications and M365 MVP who loves to help organizations transform their processes with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Vivian has around 10 years of experience in creating solutions within the Dynamics 365 suite... Show more

Nelson Calero is a senior data engineer with 20+ years of extensive experience in Oracle, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, and other database technologies. A seasoned presenter and community leader, he shares his insight and expertise on database products at various events globally. Nelson works as a Principal Consultant for Pythian - as the last technical team escalation point handling the Pythian client's most challenging and serious database technical problems.

He is an Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Certified Professional, a member of the Board of the Latin American Oracle User Community (LAOUC), and a leader of the Uruguayan Oracle User Group (UYOUG).

Nelson Calero is a senior data engineer with 20+ years of extensive experience in Oracle, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, and other database technologies. A seasoned presenter and community leader, he shares his insight and expertise on database products ... Show more

Daniele Mario Areddu is a Computer Science student at the University of Calabria and a freelance developer. He works on applied Artificial Intelligence projects, focusing on the fine-tuning of language models and the development of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to enable more contextual and intelligent human–machine interactions.
In the field of web development, he builds full-stack applications using Angular for the front-end and Node.js or Python(API REST,Flask etc.etc.) for the back-end, with a strong emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and user experience.
He is also passionate about game development, creating Minecraft plugins and mods in Java, and prototyping games with C++ in Unreal Engine, where he integrates AI-driven NPC behavior and advanced gameplay mechanics.
A tech enthusiast and speaker, Daniele frequently participates in workshops, conferences, and events focused on digital innovation and AI. He is the community lead of Velletri-Dev, organizing meetups and events for students and developers in the Velletri area. He also collaborates with UNIDEA as a Change Model Specialist, promoting digital transformation and a culture of innovation
Since May 2025 he has been collaborating with CaLab.Ia, an innovative company in the world of AI, as Director of the technical department.

Daniele Mario Areddu is a Computer Science student at the University of Calabria and a freelance developer. He works on applied Artificial Intelligence projects, focusing on the fine-tuning of language models and the development of Retrieval-Augmente... Show more

As a Google Developer Expert, I teach and educate minorities and marginalised groups on Data, SQL & Google BigQuery using sports and blockchain data.

As a Google Developer Expert, I teach and educate minorities and marginalised groups on Data, SQL & Google BigQuery using sports and blockchain data. Show more

Elder helps Java developers to build and deliver secure, available, and fast server-side applications. He is a published author of six books and a board member at SouJava, one of the biggest JUGs in the world. As a Developer Advocate, Elder shares experiences and best practices through online content and at international events like JavaOne, The Developers Conference, QCon, Oracle Code One, Campus Party, and Devnexus.

Elder helps Java developers to build and deliver secure, available, and fast server-side applications. He is a published author of six books and a board member at SouJava, one of the biggest JUGs in the world. As a Developer Advocate, Elder shares ex... Show more

Simi Olabisi is a Director, AI Specialist (Global Black Belt Team) at Microsoft responsible for accelerating market adoption of AI and driving some of the most strategic and innovative customer AI projects leveraging Azure AI/ML products and services. She boasts an impressive career in the technology sector. Her journey commenced with notable stints at Cisco, Google (GCP), and Amazon Web Services where she helped customers enable innovative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Simi is the Founder of Project Omoverhi (Featured on ABC News), where she invented an innovative, cost-effective solar powered infant incubator for premature infants in developing countries. She also embarked on a two-year venture in the startup arena, where she dedicated her efforts to empowering African software engineers through training and forging connections to international opportunities in Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Her profound insights and career expertise led to her being featured in Glamour Magazine (print, podcast, and YouTube) as a prominent thought leader, particularly in the realm of women's salary negotiation. Simi's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Santa Clara University. She is currently based in Austin, TX, was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia before moving to the United States.

Simi Olabisi is a Director, AI Specialist (Global Black Belt Team) at Microsoft responsible for accelerating market adoption of AI and driving some of the most strategic and innovative customer AI projects leveraging Azure AI/ML products and services... Show more