Real Estate & Architecture

Experts in the design, construction, and management of buildings and structures, as well as professionals involved in the buying, selling, and development of real estate properties

Jens Weymann

Jens Weymann

Jens is an energy engineer and sustainability strategist who speaks in front of real estate and investor audiences to answer the common question: How will we get through this time of uncertainty?
His take is: We cannot fix our societies by focussing on just one discipline. Hence, he brings insights from engineering and investing to business leaders and change makers across multiple industries.
As Head of Sustainability & ESG he works with real estate investors to make decarbonization an actionable strategy. 
Jens believes in progress by combining three worlds: the space between regulation, technical reality, and business innovation.

Jens is an energy engineer and sustainability strategist who speaks in front of real estate and investor audiences to answer the common question: How will we get through this time of uncertainty? His take is: We cannot fix our societies by focussin... Show more

Joseph Assaf

Joseph Assaf

Creative Leader | Advanced SAFe® Practice Consultant (ASPC) | Agile Trainer | Supporting leaders to iterate deliveries at scale.

Creative Leader | Advanced SAFe® Practice Consultant (ASPC) | Agile Trainer | Supporting leaders to iterate deliveries at scale. Show more

Sergio Macías

Sergio Macías

I really enjoy helping organizations grow their business with solutions based on more than 12 years of experience. Passionate about helping other professionals and exchanging ideas and practices. Experience in SMEs and business organizations with more than 400 users, presenter in local user groups for Dynamics, founder of Empowering-U, an organization that brings technology to students from different universities with free talks and workshops.

I really enjoy helping organizations grow their business with solutions based on more than 12 years of experience. Passionate about helping other professionals and exchanging ideas and practices. Experience in SMEs and business organizations with mor... Show more

Angela Virtudazo

Angela Virtudazo

Angela Virtudazo is a learning strategist and consultant with 14 years of experience designing and delivering training across industries, roles, and every stage of a career. She's the author of the upcoming book Start With Done: Plan Backwards. Finish Everything. — a backward-planning framework built for the complexity of real life, not just the workplace.

A TEDx facilitation coach and Navy spouse, Angela brings structured thinking to the places it's needed most: the messy, deadline-driven, deeply human work of running your life.

She is based in St. Louis.

Angela Virtudazo is a learning strategist and consultant with 14 years of experience designing and delivering training across industries, roles, and every stage of a career. She's the author of the upcoming book Start With Done: Plan Backwards. Finis... Show more

Renette Ros

Renette Ros

Renette is a technical lead at Entelect with degrees in BIS Multimedia and BSc (Hons) Computer Science from the University of Pretoria. She specializes in backend Java and Kotlin development, with extensive experience in Spring Boot projects. Renette is passionate about resilience engineering—ensuring production systems stay up even in challenging situations—and is dedicated to elevating the women around her and within her teams. She thrives on sharing knowledge, mentoring others, and fostering growth within her teams. When she's not engineering solutions, Renette enjoys diving into fantasy novels and exploring board games.

Renette is a technical lead at Entelect with degrees in BIS Multimedia and BSc (Hons) Computer Science from the University of Pretoria. She specializes in backend Java and Kotlin development, with extensive experience in Spring Boot projects. Renette... Show more

Antonio Lorente Redondo

Antonio Lorente Redondo

Industrial Engineer by profession with a Master’s in Project Management, and a firm believer in optimal project management and Agile methodologies. Since beginning my career in 2010, I have participated in various international projects, with three years in Panama as the most significant experience, along with shorter assignments in Latin America and Mauritania. Whether applying PMI® or Agile methodologies, depending on client needs, my blended profile grants me a comprehensive view of each framework, enabling the optimization of their use and drawing insights on what works best in different sectors and industries.

In addition to my Master’s in Project Management, I hold the following certifications, which support my candidacy as a speaker:

• SAFe® 6 Release Train Engineer (2024)
• Certified Blockchain Expert (2023)
• SAFe® 5 Product Manager / Product Owner (2022)
• SAFe® 5 Scrum Master (2020)
• Agile Coach Profesional Certificate (CertiProf®) (2019)
• DevOps Culture Certified Trainer (2019)
• Product Owner Profesional Certificate (CertiProf®) (2017)
• Scrum Master Profesional Certificate (CertiProf®) (2016)
• Project Manager Professional (PMI®) (2012)

Industrial Engineer by profession with a Master’s in Project Management, and a firm believer in optimal project management and Agile methodologies. Since beginning my career in 2010, I have participated in various international projects, with three y... Show more

Yulia Kosarenko

Yulia Kosarenko

Yulia Kosarenko is the author of the books "Business Analyst: A Profession and a Mindset" and "Foundations of Business Analytics", speaker, consultant, and corporate trainer.
As the owner of Why Change Consulting Inc., she helps her clients grow mature enterprise architecture and business analysis practices, and plan and execute digital transformation programs.
As the Professor of Business Analytics at Humber College, she encourages her students to look for ways to solve business problems using analytics.
As a business analysis mentor, she leads the BA Mindset Mentorship Circle and encourages business analysts to learn, adapt, and thrive.
Yulia is active in the business analysis, architecture, and analytics communities, publishing articles and videos, joining podcasts, and advocating for applying common sense and critical thinking in all business endeavours.

Yulia Kosarenko is the author of the books "Business Analyst: A Profession and a Mindset" and "Foundations of Business Analytics", speaker, consultant, and corporate trainer. As the owner of Why Change Consulting Inc., she helps her clients grow ma... Show more

Martin Chaov

Martin Chaov

Hi, I'm Martin, a seasoned software architect with over 15 years in the IT industry, currently at DraftKings. My expertise spans large-scale, real-time systems, and I'm behind some of the award-winning software solutions in the iGaming industry. I regularly share my knowledge on software design, distributed systems, AI tools, and software economics through public speaking and my blog.

You can often find me speaking about:

- Software architecture
- CI/CD
- Effective teams
- Testing and quality assurance of software systems
- Performance of software systems

Hi, I'm Martin, a seasoned software architect with over 15 years in the IT industry, currently at DraftKings. My expertise spans large-scale, real-time systems, and I'm behind some of the award-winning software solutions in the iGaming industry. I re... Show more

Amanda Perkins

Amanda Perkins

With 10 years in the field, Amanda Perkins is a Quality Architect for Rocket Homes. She focuses on not only improving the quality of software but the quality of interactions between team members. By combining her background in customer service, retail sales, music, and leadership, she brings a creative and unique high-quality approach to QA. Amanda lives near Kansas City, MO with her husband, two kids, cat, and dog.

With 10 years in the field, Amanda Perkins is a Quality Architect for Rocket Homes. She focuses on not only improving the quality of software but the quality of interactions between team members. By combining her background in customer service, retai... Show more

Joel Hammond-Turner

Joel Hammond-Turner

I've a very broad experience of software development over 20 years and a passion for both technology and elegance in my solutions that make me an extremely capable Software and Solutions Architect.

Personable and professional, I revel in complex challenges, but always make time to coach and mentor team members.

I've a very broad experience of software development over 20 years and a passion for both technology and elegance in my solutions that make me an extremely capable Software and Solutions Architect. Personable and professional, I revel in complex c... Show more

Sanjana Arun

Sanjana Arun

Sanjana Arun is a Product Lead at eBay, where she leads AI-powered Search and Advertising systems that determine how visibility, relevance, and monetization are allocated across large-scale marketplaces. Her work focuses on translating machine learning innovations in ranking, retrieval, and personalization into trusted, high-impact experiences for buyers and sellers.

She specializes in designing AI systems as decision engines, where models, data, and feedback loops shape user behavior and marketplace dynamics. Sanjana serves as an Ambassador for Product-Led Alliance leading panels, speaking and writing about AI. She is also an active speaker on Grace Hopper, Women In Tech, ProductWorld, AI Dev Summit among others. Her work has been published on Mind the Product and CMSWire websites.

Sanjana Arun is a Product Lead at eBay, where she leads AI-powered Search and Advertising systems that determine how visibility, relevance, and monetization are allocated across large-scale marketplaces. Her work focuses on translating machine learni... Show more

Kandasamy Sellappan

Kandasamy Sellappan

Kandasamy Sellappan is a seasoned IT and Program Management professional with nearly two decades of experience leading enterprise-scale software development and digital transformation initiatives across the retail, banking, finance, and telecommunications sectors. He has built a distinguished career delivering large-scale technology solutions by combining deep technical expertise with strategic leadership and program management capabilities.
Currently serving as a Program Manager at The Home Depot in Atlanta, Georgia, Kandasamy leads complex enterprise programs focused on Salesforce CRM implementation, cloud transformation, and scalable application modernization. He has played a pivotal role in the development and deployment of the Unified Pro CRM platform, a centralized marketing, sales enablement, and customer support system supporting more than 1,500 sales associates across multiple business functions. In this role, he has directed the complete lifecycle of Salesforce Sales Cloud implementations, managed Agile delivery teams, and overseen integrations involving Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, enterprise data warehouses, and legacy systems. His leadership contributed to measurable business improvements, including a 20% increase in sales productivity and a 25% improvement in system response time through API optimization and cloud-native architecture enhancements.
Kandasamy has also led enterprise cloud migration initiatives, including the migration of critical financial applications from on-premise infrastructure to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). Through these initiatives, he successfully improved deployment agility, introduced CI/CD automation pipelines, and optimized application performance for global enterprise environments.
Before joining The Home Depot, Kandasamy served as Program Manager at Vantiv Inc., where he led the design, development, and support of enterprise payment processing platforms. He collaborated closely with business, quality assurance, and development teams to drive Agile delivery cycles and improve platform reliability using advanced monitoring and performance tools.
Earlier in his career, he held technical leadership and software engineering roles at Citibank, Telstra, Symcor Inc., and Zion’s Bancorporation. Across these organizations, he contributed to the development of financial systems, enterprise government portals, risk grading platforms, and cheque processing solutions, gaining extensive experience in Java/J2EE technologies, web services, enterprise integrations, and performance optimization.
Kandasamy possesses strong expertise in Salesforce CRM, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Java/J2EE technologies, Spring Boot, microservices, Kubernetes, REST, and SOAP web services, and enterprise DevOps practices. He is also experienced in stakeholder management, team leadership, vendor coordination, risk management, and strategic program delivery.

Kandasamy Sellappan is a seasoned IT and Program Management professional with nearly two decades of experience leading enterprise-scale software development and digital transformation initiatives across the retail, banking, finance, and telecommunica... Show more

Ayokunle Olowoniwa

Ayokunle Olowoniwa

As an accomplished senior software developer with a passion for cybersecurity and fintech products, I bring a wealth of experience and dedication to technology. With over 5 years of expertise in software development and architecture, my adaptability and problem-solving skills have made me an invaluable asset to various high-profile projects.

Having honed my skills in the UK with Rewards4, I played a pivotal role in building their data processing platform as a .NET developer. Currently, I am an integral part of the Zoopla team, a leading Tech Company, where I focus on mortgage automations.

My commitment to professional growth is evident in my mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers, as well as my contributions to improving revenue and transaction processing times. My technical prowess spans an impressive range of programming languages, frameworks, databases, and tools, with a particular emphasis on cybersecurity and fintech innovations.

A true advocate for knowledge sharing, I have shared my insights as a speaker at numerous international tech conferences. I hold a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Ilorin in Nigeria and am a certified Cisco CyberOps and Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional.

As an accomplished senior software developer with a passion for cybersecurity and fintech products, I bring a wealth of experience and dedication to technology. With over 5 years of expertise in software development and architecture, my adaptability ... Show more

Haibin Zhang

Haibin Zhang

Alibaba Cloud technical expert, currently responsible for application observability-related technology research and development work in the Alibaba Cloud observability team. He has 10 years of work experience in service governance, service mesh and other technology research and development.

Alibaba Cloud technical expert, currently responsible for application observability-related technology research and development work in the Alibaba Cloud observability team. He has 10 years of work experience in service governance, service mesh and o... Show more

Jason Jessico

Jason Jessico

Jason is a 20+ year veteran of the IT industry with a career spanning network operations, system administration, unified communications, contact centers, cloud, and AI platforms.

Jason is a 20+ year veteran of the IT industry with a career spanning network operations, system administration, unified communications, contact centers, cloud, and AI platforms. Show more

Denise Beaupre

Denise Beaupre

Denise Beaupré is a Business & Growth Mentor, keynote speaker, and two-time best-selling author who brings more than 25 years of real-world business experience to the stage.

She built and led a transportation company that grew from one truck and less than $100,000 in annual revenue to 30 trucks, 40 employees, and nearly $10 million in annual revenue. Before that, Denise built a successful real estate career, selling 742 homes and more than $100 million in real estate.

Today, Denise works with entrepreneurs and leadership teams to strengthen leadership, improve financial clarity, navigate growth, and build businesses that do not depend entirely on the owner. Her direct, practical approach challenges people to think differently, take responsibility, and recognize that lasting business growth begins with leadership.

She is the author of Rise Above: Create the Abundant Life You Desire and Your Legacy Journal: A Gift for Your Loved Ones.

Denise Beaupré is a Business & Growth Mentor, keynote speaker, and two-time best-selling author who brings more than 25 years of real-world business experience to the stage. She built and led a transportation company that grew from one truck and l... Show more

Adela Jablonska

Adela Jablonska

UXer especializada en contenido, producto y colaboración entre equipos de diseño, tecnología y negocio. Con más de 7 años de experiencia, ayuda a startups y empresas a traducir necesidades complejas en experiencias claras, útiles y sostenibles.
Sin importar la industria, trabaja de forma iterativa, alineando visión, priorizando con foco y convirtiendo conversaciones vagas en decisiones concretas, para que los equipos dejen de dudar y empiecen a construir.

UXer especializada en contenido, producto y colaboración entre equipos de diseño, tecnología y negocio. Con más de 7 años de experiencia, ayuda a startups y empresas a traducir necesidades complejas en experiencias claras, útiles y sostenibles. Sin ... Show more

Rohit Alekar

Rohit Alekar

Rohit Alekar is a Software Engineer with deep expertise in machine learning infrastructure, large-scale data systems, and distributed platforms. He currently works at Meta, where he plays a key role in building and scaling infrastructure that powers feature engineering for ad ranking systems across major products. His work focuses on improving system reliability, enabling efficient feature generation, and supporting large-scale machine learning pipelines that drive critical business outcomes. He has contributed to infrastructure initiatives that enhance scalability, operational efficiency, and the overall performance of data-driven systems serving billions of users.
Prior to Meta, Rohit worked at Pinterest, where he contributed to machine learning infrastructure for ads targeting and shopping platforms. He developed and optimized large-scale data pipelines, improved system responsiveness, and enabled more effective targeting and indexing capabilities. His work supported scalable model deployment and reliable content processing systems essential to Pinterest’s advertising ecosystem.
Earlier in his career, Rohit held engineering roles at Samsung and Shutterfly, where he built foundational systems for machine learning workflows, real-time data processing, and payments infrastructure. He focused on improving standardization, scalability, and production readiness across complex engineering environments. Rohit began his professional journey in database administration, developing strong expertise in data management, system optimization, and performance engineering.
He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Pune.

Rohit Alekar is a Software Engineer with deep expertise in machine learning infrastructure, large-scale data systems, and distributed platforms. He currently works at Meta, where he plays a key role in building and scaling infrastructure that powers ... Show more

Dana Lee

Dana Lee

I am a Software Engineer based in Berlin. I'm currently working as full-stack freelance software engineer working primarily on Typescript and Python projects.

I studied Computer Science at New York University where I earned a Bachelor's in Arts and Sciences. I interned for Spotify as a Backend Engineer working in Java and Adobe-Behance as a Front-End Engineer working in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. I also worked at NYU's Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) working on an open source library called Librosa.

My work experience includes being a Backend Engineer at Meetup working in Java and occassionally Scala. Afterwards, I relocated to Berlin to work for Ableton. I first worked in Developer Tools working on CI/CD Pipelines and Cloud Computing. Following this, I worked on the Live team working on prototyping for MIDI clip generation and pushing software improvements for musicians. I also worked at n8n where I worked as a Fullstack Engineer on projects related to AI, Community Nodes, and Form improvements.

Lately, I've been working with pre-seed to Series A startups in both Europe and the United States to launch, scale, and improve internal systems using LLMs, agents, and Claude.

I'm passionate about delivering high quality and well-written software and creating an empathetic and healthy team environment.

Outside of tech, I enjoy making ambient music, photography, food, and nonalcoholics.

I am a Software Engineer based in Berlin. I'm currently working as full-stack freelance software engineer working primarily on Typescript and Python projects. I studied Computer Science at New York University where I earned a Bachelor's in Arts a... Show more

Alejandro Lazaro

Alejandro Lazaro

I am a Cloud Architect specialised in AWS, I have been working with AWS for 6 years and I have 7 AWS certifications: the 2 professional, the 3 associate and the Security and the Data Analytics Specialties. I am also AWS Community Builder and AWS Ambassador in my company.

I started as a developer but evolved to a software architect first and finally to a cloud architect. Now with more than 10 years of experience, I have been involved with different clients in all phases of software development and have worked with all types of architectures: monolithic, microservices, event-driven, SOA (service-oriented), serverless, cloud-native... I have also worked on modernisation projects and DevOps transformations. I often teach my co-workers about AWS and I like to collaborate on anything AWS-related that I can help with.

I love serverless, event-driven architectures, DevOps, CDK and new technology challenges!

I am a Cloud Architect specialised in AWS, I have been working with AWS for 6 years and I have 7 AWS certifications: the 2 professional, the 3 associate and the Security and the Data Analytics Specialties. I am also AWS Community Builder and AWS Amba... Show more

Andy Clifton

Andy Clifton

Andy is a cloud consultant at RawWorks B.V. with over 10 years of experience in the Azure space. He works daily with Azure infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and platform engineering, with a strong focus on Azure Arc and Azure Local. He helps organizations design and manage scalable Azure environments, covering everything from identity and access management to networking and governance. His talks dive into how Azure Arc and Azure Local can be used to bring on premises and edge workloads seamlessly into Azure, including the real world challenges that come with it. Andy previously spoke at RawGenius, RawWorks' internal knowledge sharing event, and is excited to bring that experience to a wider audience. Outside of Azure, he can be found coaching youth football on the sidelines.

Andy is a cloud consultant at RawWorks B.V. with over 10 years of experience in the Azure space. He works daily with Azure infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and platform engineering, with a strong focus on Azure Arc and Azure Local. He helps organization... Show more

Marcelina Szwed-Ziemichód

Marcelina Szwed-Ziemichód

Tax advisor and advocate based in Poland (EU) specialising in tax advisory for innovative companies, mainly in FinTech, IT (Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and GameDev sector) and real estate.

Tax advisor and advocate based in Poland (EU) specialising in tax advisory for innovative companies, mainly in FinTech, IT (Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and GameDev sector) and real estate. Show more

Jack Arens

Jack Arens

Jack is the Lead Software Architect at Layer, where he builds the technical foundation for a platform that connects building data to Building Information Models (BIM). A Nebraska native and graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Raikes School, Jack combines a lifelong passion for solving complex problems with deep technical expertise to help the architecture, engineering, and construction industries work smarter.

Jack is the Lead Software Architect at Layer, where he builds the technical foundation for a platform that connects building data to Building Information Models (BIM). A Nebraska native and graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Raikes Scho... Show more

Oliver De Vijt

Oliver De Vijt

Oliver is a data engineer working at AE. He helps organizations build robust, scalable, and future-proof data platforms in the cloud. With a strong focus on metadata-driven design and cloud architecture, Oliver creates data solutions that are secure, maintainable, and aligned with business needs. He regularly shares his experiences and insights through blog posts on Medium, writing about practical patterns and lessons learned from the field.

Oliver is a data engineer working at AE. He helps organizations build robust, scalable, and future-proof data platforms in the cloud. With a strong focus on metadata-driven design and cloud architecture, Oliver creates data solutions that are secure,... Show more

Iryna Yurchenko

Iryna Yurchenko

Iryna Yurchenko is co-founder of DestiLabs, an AI agency building custom agents for healthcare, real estate, manufacturing and e-commerce, and of Voxletic, one AI layer for clinic booking, reminders and recalls. Ex-partnerships lead at Hostinger. She speaks about measuring AI results, where AI isn't needed, and how to ship it without raising a round to cover your token bill.

Outside work she runs, never from production bugs, travels, and drinks more coffee than is defensible :)

Iryna Yurchenko is co-founder of DestiLabs, an AI agency building custom agents for healthcare, real estate, manufacturing and e-commerce, and of Voxletic, one AI layer for clinic booking, reminders and recalls. Ex-partnerships lead at Hostinger. She... Show more

Anthony Onyeneke

Anthony Onyeneke

Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years supporting enterprise systems across banking, fintech, and telecom. Strong in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, incident response, CloudWatch observability, Python automation, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and database migrations (DMS for PostgreSQL/MySQL). Delivered 35% cost reduction, improved uptime and incident recovery through monitoring, automation, and operational hardening.

Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years supporting enterprise systems across banking, fintech, and telecom. Strong in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, incident response, CloudWatch observability, Python automation, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation),... Show more

Alex Archibold

Alex Archibold

I lead cloud and AI projects across Central America and the Caribbean, helping organizations in financial services, logistics, and retail turn business challenges into secure, scalable architectures on AWS. My work spans the full journey — from understanding business requirements to designing infrastructure, security, and AI governance strategies that actually make it to production.

I've spoken at Banking Summit Panama 2025, AgentCon Panama, AWS Community Day Panama across multiple editions, and regional technology events in Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad & Tobago — always focused on how security, governance, and data strategy are the foundation that makes AI solutions production-ready, not just demo-ready.

Building AI agents for regulated industries taught me that the hard part isn't making them smart — it's making them safe. That's the perspective I bring to this talk.

I lead cloud and AI projects across Central America and the Caribbean, helping organizations in financial services, logistics, and retail turn business challenges into secure, scalable architectures on AWS. My work spans the full journey — from under... Show more

SKi Sankhe

SKi Sankhe

Polymath with a passion for emerging technologies & improving Developer Productivity.

Polymath with a passion for emerging technologies & improving Developer Productivity. Show more

Ben Gittins

Ben Gittins

Ben is the Security Engineering Lead at Zepto, he has an extensive background in security and tech more broadly with over 10 years of experience in various positions from DevOps to Security across companies from startup to enterprise.

Ben is the Security Engineering Lead at Zepto, he has an extensive background in security and tech more broadly with over 10 years of experience in various positions from DevOps to Security across companies from startup to enterprise. Show more

Michael Renna

Michael Renna

Michael Renna is an enterprise technology and Lean-Agile transformation leader with years of experience leading technology delivery in Fortune 500 environments. He helps executives and delivery organizations connect strategy, product, architecture, governance, and team execution so work moves from intent to measurable business outcomes.

His work sits at the intersection of Lean-Agile transformation, technology leadership, and practical AI adoption. Michael focuses on the operating systems behind successful change: value streams, portfolio flow, decision rights, delivery governance, metrics, and the leadership behaviors needed to improve performance at scale.

As a speaker, Michael brings a practical, executive-ready perspective shaped by real-world delivery constraints — not theory, hype, or ceremony for its own sake. His sessions help leaders see where transformation efforts stall, how to improve flow across complex organizations, and how to use AI as part of a disciplined operating model rather than another disconnected initiative.

Michael Renna is an enterprise technology and Lean-Agile transformation leader with years of experience leading technology delivery in Fortune 500 environments. He helps executives and delivery organizations connect strategy, product, architecture, g... Show more

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