Region & Country

Valued speakers who focus on the geopolitical and cultural aspects of different regions and countries, exploring topics like regional development, international relations, and cultural identity

Kamil Karpinski

Kamil Karpinski

Young and passionate developer.
Open minded and willing to get better every day, at what he is doing.
Loves working with Sitecore.

At the beginning of my developer career (not so long ago), I acquired Web Accessibility (A11y) knowledge while working on big projects. Implementing basic accessibility features is relatively simple but has an enormous impact on the usability of the World Wide Web. Therefore it needs to be part of our products.

Currently most of the time working with Sitecore JSS.

I am glad to be part of CAMAO TEC and to have the opportunity to work with very well experienced developers.

Young and passionate developer. Open minded and willing to get better every day, at what he is doing. Loves working with Sitecore. At the beginning of my developer career (not so long ago), I acquired Web Accessibility (A11y) knowledge while wor... Show more

Volker Göbbels

Volker Göbbels

With a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry Volker never worked as chemist but went straight into software development. After writing software for telco providers, airports and federal german police he fell for PHP.
First as a individual contributor, then as a team lead and engineering manager. On this way he also founded two companies and was Head of Department for Digital, Analytics and Connected at an EV manufacturer. But still he couldn’t let go of writing software.

With a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry Volker never worked as chemist but went straight into software development. After writing software for telco providers, airports and federal german police he fell for PHP. First as a individual contributor, then a... Show more

Christopher Quesada

Christopher Quesada

Christopher is a hands-on Executive Director with +14 years of experience leading and creating highly effective teams, leaders, and organizations.

Focused on Leadership, Organizational Culture and Successfully Scaling Technology Companies. I’ve worked and scaled Software Engineering and Delivery organizations on large companies and start-ups. Work with several Fortune 500 brands in USA, LATAM & EMEA.

Christopher is a hands-on Executive Director with +14 years of experience leading and creating highly effective teams, leaders, and organizations. Focused on Leadership, Organizational Culture and Successfully Scaling Technology Companies. I’ve wo... Show more

Artem Seleznev

Artem Seleznev

I am a big data analyst.
I have several years of data analyst experience, mostly coding in python and creating fascinating models.

I am currently working in a company called MegaFon (it is a huge and the best mobile operator in Russia which proves not only fast and quality connection but also has other products from education to space)

I am a big data analyst. I have several years of data analyst experience, mostly coding in python and creating fascinating models. I am currently working in a company called MegaFon (it is a huge and the best mobile operator in Russia which prov... Show more

Romain Huet

Romain Huet

Romain leads global developer relations at Stripe. He joined Stripe from Twitter, where he was a Senior Developer Advocate and the first member of Twitter’s developer relations team outside the US. In 2014, Romain helped launch Fabric, Twitter’s mobile development platform, and Digits, a way for people to securely sign in to apps with their phone number rather than a password. This year alone, Romain’s worldwide developer tour has led him to meet thousands of developers at events and conferences in dozens of cities across the US, Europe and Asia. Most recently, Romain was on stage two weeks ago at Twitter Flight in San Francisco during Jack Dorsey’s keynote, where he performed a live coding demonstration of Twitter’s latest developer products.

Prior to Twitter, Romain was co-founder & CTO Jolicloud, whose free operating system was designed to work on low cost computers and connect them to the cloud. Joli OS was the first operating system based on Linux, Chromium, HTML5 and Open Web technologies, paving the way towards a new generation of browser-based platforms like Chrome OS. In 2010, the Jolibook, a computer running Joli OS, was a finalist for “Netbook of the Year” at Engadget Awards, alongside Google’s first Chromebook.

Previously, Romain worked at Netvibes where he pioneered the Facebook API development with the most popular widget of the personalized start page and helped create UWA, the open source JavaScript engine to make Netvibes apps run everywhere.

Romain has an M.S. in Computer Science from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, France.

Romain leads global developer relations at Stripe. He joined Stripe from Twitter, where he was a Senior Developer Advocate and the first member of Twitter’s developer relations team outside the US. In 2014, Romain helped launch Fabric, Twitter’s mobi... Show more

Daniel Costea

Daniel Costea

Microsoft MVP on .NET and AI
Author | Speaker | Senior AI Software Engineer | Trainer

Daniel Costea is a Senior AI Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in .NET technologies and artificial intelligence. He has been passionate about C# since its release in 2001 and has delivered over 1,200 hours of training in .NET to more than 700 students worldwide. His expertise in AI engineering is recognized through his Microsoft MVP awards in both Developer Technologies (since 2019) and the AI Platform (since 2024), with a focus on Azure AI Services.
As a frequent international speaker, Daniel has presented at major conferences across Europe and the United States for the past eight years. He is the author of *Microsoft Semantic Kernel in Action* (Manning) and a contributor of technical articles on .NET and AI.

Microsoft MVP on .NET and AI Author | Speaker | Senior AI Software Engineer | Trainer Daniel Costea is a Senior AI Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in .NET technologies and artificial intelligence. He has been passionate ab... Show more

Marcel de Vries

Marcel de Vries

Marcel is the co-founder and Global MD & CTO Xebia Microsoft Services. Xebia Microsoft Services started as an individual company under the Xebia group in 2014 and provides high-end consulting services to companies on Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Cloud Native Software Development, and Managed Services.

Marcel spends most of his time working with organizations to deliver software to production multiple times a day in a secure and compliant way! He helps organizations and leadership teams move to become high-speed, innovative, and productive while still being secure and compliant.

Marcel loves to learn new technologies and use this to advance his customers. He shares his learnings at conferences and training. Marcel has the conviction the CEO title in technology companies should have a second meaning: Coding Executive Officer. This is driven by his strong belief that great leaders in tech need to be technical! Only by staying on top of technology, you can lead the way going forward.

Marcel is a frequently asked public speaker at well-known industry events like Microsoft //Build, Microsoft Ignite, Azure Lowlands, Visual Studio Live!, Techorama, and KCDC, to name a few.

Marcel is part of the Techorama board and helps organize this event in Europe. In his spare time, he also builds online courses for Pluralsight. You can find his courses here: https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/marcel-devries

Marcel has been awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft MVP award for more than 17 consecutive years and has been a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008. You can always contact him to talk about subjects like Cloud Adoption Strategies, Business Development, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Microservices, Containers, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Marcel is the co-founder and Global MD & CTO Xebia Microsoft Services. Xebia Microsoft Services started as an individual company under the Xebia group in 2014 and provides high-end consulting services to companies on Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Cloud Na... Show more

Brian Pope

Brian Pope

Hi I'm Brian, a Principal UX Design Consultant at DevObsessed in Omaha. I have been working in the software development industry for 15+ years.

Hi I'm Brian, a Principal UX Design Consultant at DevObsessed in Omaha. I have been working in the software development industry for 15+ years. Show more

Christopher May

Christopher May

Christopher has been working in project management for the last 25+ years and in agile coaching for the past 10 years. His passion is transformation; in the past he helped his clients as a consultant in digital and agile transformations. His view is always product and people centric. He loves agility, and teaches agility and project management as well as design-thinking for the past 8 years.
He loves to share his knowledge, teach others and engage with audiences.
He takes on new and interesting challenges and goes a step beyond.
Besides his professional passion in Transformation / consultancy, he is also very passionate about stand-up comedy, which he started 2 years ago, and he is very active in the German and international stand up scene in Berlin.

Christopher has been working in project management for the last 25+ years and in agile coaching for the past 10 years. His passion is transformation; in the past he helped his clients as a consultant in digital and agile transformations. His view is ... Show more

Snigdha Kashyap

Snigdha Kashyap

A Software Development Engineer with over three years of experience specialising in software development (majorly backend) and cloud technology. I have contributed to robust, scalable systems across various tech stacks in previous roles at Freecharge Payments and Airtel Payments Bank. With a zeal for building efficient, user-centric applications. A problem-solver and avid technologist.

A Software Development Engineer with over three years of experience specialising in software development (majorly backend) and cloud technology. I have contributed to robust, scalable systems across various tech stacks in previous roles at Freecharge... Show more

Chris Barber

Chris Barber

Chris Barber is a chartered accountant (ACMA, CGMA), 4 times Microsoft MVP, author of Income Statement Semantic Models, runs StarSchema.co.uk, and has popular YouTube videos (over 100k views) and courses (over 1k participants) on the topic of Profit and Loss (P&L) using Power BI. He also works in the largest Microsoft consultancy globally and thus has experience working across various industries.

Chris Barber is a chartered accountant (ACMA, CGMA), 4 times Microsoft MVP, author of Income Statement Semantic Models, runs StarSchema.co.uk, and has popular YouTube videos (over 100k views) and courses (over 1k participants) on the topic of Profit ... Show more

Gerrit Tamboer

Gerrit Tamboer

Gerrit Tamboer, Chief Evangelist at TrueFullstaq, CNCF Ambassador and co-founder of (formerly) Fullstaq, brings a strong technical background to his leadership role. With extensive experience in Kubernetes implementations, Gerrit has transitioned from hands-on technical work to strategic oversight, now focusing on spreadsheets and presentations. In addition to his duties as Chief Evangelist, he also serves as a business consultant, guiding clients as they evolve from managing technical logistics to developing strategic initiatives.

Gerrit Tamboer, Chief Evangelist at TrueFullstaq, CNCF Ambassador and co-founder of (formerly) Fullstaq, brings a strong technical background to his leadership role. With extensive experience in Kubernetes implementations, Gerrit has transitioned fro... Show more

Matias Armándola

Matias Armándola

I'm Mati Armándola, an Information Security leader with over 20 years of experience in technology and more than a decade dedicated exclusively to asset protection, regulatory compliance, and organizational culture.

I have led teams and projects in companies with regional reach and have participated as an international speaker at conferences such as Ekoparty, DevOpsDays, Nerdearla, and Argentesting, addressing topics such as offensive security, awareness, applied AI, and governance.

In addition to my work as a teacher at various institutions and educational platforms, training the next generation of professionals in security, cloud computing, and leadership.

My motto is LEAD – TEACH – PROTECT

I'm Mati Armándola, an Information Security leader with over 20 years of experience in technology and more than a decade dedicated exclusively to asset protection, regulatory compliance, and organizational culture. I have led teams and projects in... Show more

Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk

Ryan Ververs-Bijkerk

Ryan is a self-employed Technologist at GO-INIT focused on the EUC and Code area. Ryan is primarily focusing on the user experience in centralized desktop environments. With his development skills, Ryan is capable of adapting quickly to customers’ needs by having an agile mindset. Ryan is a bit lazy, yes lazy but in a good way. Ryan is all about automation as he is not made for repeating tasks.

Community is very important for Ryan as he is an active blogger and has published multiple tools. Next, to his personal blogs and tools, Ryan is also a member of the Remote Display Analyzer team and TeamRGE. Ryan has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor (NGCA), Parallels VIPP and VMware vExpert status.

If you ever meet Ryan you can always do him a pleasure buying a beer because he loves beer.

Ryan is a self-employed Technologist at GO-INIT focused on the EUC and Code area. Ryan is primarily focusing on the user experience in centralized desktop environments. With his development skills, Ryan is capable of adapting quickly to customers’ ne... Show more

Sam Warnaars

Sam Warnaars

Passionated Product Manager shaping products that have impacted millions of lives over the past decade-many of which you likely use daily.

Throughout his career at NOS, Sanoma and Disney, Sam has collaborated with R&D teams from leading tech companies, consumer electronic manufacturers and automotive industry.

Passionated Product Manager shaping products that have impacted millions of lives over the past decade-many of which you likely use daily. Throughout his career at NOS, Sanoma and Disney, Sam has collaborated with R&D teams from leading tech compa... Show more

Marco Gerber

Marco Gerber

Curious potato, keen on Azure and cloud technologies. Mountain climber and photography lover. Proud beer practitioner.

Curious potato, keen on Azure and cloud technologies. Mountain climber and photography lover. Proud beer practitioner. Show more

Angela Trego

Angela Trego

Dr. Angela Trego, PE, PMP inspires, creates, and fosters confidence through her speaking and training, focusing on imposter syndrome and soft-skills development. As a highly successful engineer, Angela held technical and senior leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries and around the globe. An award-winning teacher and mentor, Dr. Trego serves on several technical, non-profit, and executive boards. Angela’s technical expertise combined with leadership experiences offer unique insights to enhance your organization's potential. Above all, Angela is passionate about empowering others with vital skills to help them become more successful. Discover more at: angelatrego.com.

Dr. Angela Trego, PE, PMP inspires, creates, and fosters confidence through her speaking and training, focusing on imposter syndrome and soft-skills development. As a highly successful engineer, Angela held technical and senior leadership roles at Fo... Show more

Jayesh Purswani

Jayesh Purswani

A student tech founder and full-stack engineer specializing in mobile app development, AI automation workflows, and next-gen AI agents.

A student tech founder and full-stack engineer specializing in mobile app development, AI automation workflows, and next-gen AI agents. Show more

Francis Akol

Francis Akol

Francis Akol is a passionate software engineer and Lead for the GDG Jinja community. With a deep understanding of Angular's architecture and functionalities, WordPress, i leverage my expertise to build robust and scalable web applications. currently working in the gaming and lottery industry and fintech

Francis Akol is a passionate software engineer and Lead for the GDG Jinja community. With a deep understanding of Angular's architecture and functionalities, WordPress, i leverage my expertise to build robust and scalable web applications. currently ... Show more

Ted Neward

Ted Neward

Ted is a big geek. See http://www.newardassociates.com/#/bio for more

Ted is a big geek. See http://www.newardassociates.com/#/bio for more Show more

Mohammed Aboullaite

Mohammed Aboullaite

Mohammed is a community catalyst, a true open source believer, Java Champion and one of Google developer expert.

Mohammed is a community catalyst, a true open source believer, Java Champion and one of Google developer expert. Show more

Pritvi Jheengut

Pritvi Jheengut

geek@FLOSS.Slackware

Experienced Telecommunications Technician with a demonstrated history of working in the computer hardware industry. Skilled in Linux System Administration, Storage, Bash, and Event Management. Strong professional with a Diploma In Physics from University of Mauritius.

geek@FLOSS.Slackware Experienced Telecommunications Technician with a demonstrated history of working in the computer hardware industry. Skilled in Linux System Administration, Storage, Bash, and Event Management. Strong professional with a Dipl... Show more

Rodney Wormsbecher

Rodney Wormsbecher

Rodney is an experienced Senior Software Engineer, teacher, and JavaScript evangelist with nearly a decade of experience. He demonstrates a profound interest in solving complex problems focusing mainly on front-end and cloud technologies. In his spare times he spend most of his time with his kids, games, tinkering with the latest tech and observing modern user interfaces.

Rodney is an experienced Senior Software Engineer, teacher, and JavaScript evangelist with nearly a decade of experience. He demonstrates a profound interest in solving complex problems focusing mainly on front-end and cloud technologies. In his spar... Show more

Bojan Smudja

Bojan Smudja

As an Agile Coach, I apply my 18 years of work experience in various industries, such as fintech, mobility, blockchain, airline, and travel, to help teams and organizations achieve their goals. I am a Profesional Certified Coach (PCC-ICF) and hold multiple certifications, such as PMI-ACP, CSP-SM, A-CSM, CSM, CSPO, ICP-ACC, ICP-LEA, ICP-BAF, and SAFe.

My mission is to build positive relationships with all and enable teams and organizations to achieve agility and innovation with my coaching and facilitation skills. I help teams raise awareness about how they work, identify meaningful goals, create plans for their fulfillment, and hold them accountable for following through. I also advocate agile in the whole organization and spotlight waste. Previously, I worked on the discovery of a new standard team operating model in medicines research (vaccines) with the aim of prototyping new organizational models to shorten research cycles. I have also collaborated with other coaches, leaders, and stakeholders in big organizations, propagated success through the organization, learned from failures, and raised teams' capability.

As an Agile Coach, I apply my 18 years of work experience in various industries, such as fintech, mobility, blockchain, airline, and travel, to help teams and organizations achieve their goals. I am a Profesional Certified Coach (PCC-ICF) and hold mu... Show more

Thomas Jouffroy

Thomas Jouffroy

I’m a Platform Engineer at Sopra Steria with over 12 years of experience in DevOps and Middleware.

My work focuses on building resilient, secure, and scalable platforms, with a strong emphasis on automation and industrialization.

I’m passionate about sharing real-world insights and lessons learned from deploying Kubernetes in critical environments.

Expertise:
* Design, audit, hardening, and build of Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
* Deployment in both cloud and on-premises environments, including secure infrastructures like OVH SecNumCloud.

CI/CD & Tooling:
* Implementation of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab-CI.
* Platform and application managment OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD)
* Integration of tools such as Helm, Terraform, Dynatrace, and Kasten K10 for observability and backup.

Cloud & Virtualization:
* Management of complex OpenShift migrations (from 3.x to 4.x).
* Cluster deployments on vSphere, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualisation, AWS or Azure Stack.
* Extensive work with virtualization technologies like OpenShift Virtualisation and vSphere.

I’m a Platform Engineer at Sopra Steria with over 12 years of experience in DevOps and Middleware. My work focuses on building resilient, secure, and scalable platforms, with a strong emphasis on automation and industrialization. I’m passionate... Show more

Ricardo Magalhães

Ricardo Magalhães

Ricardo Magalhães is a DevOps Engineer at xgeeks. He is responsible for driving the infrastructure for one of the top automotive companies in today's world. Always striving for bigger and better, Ricardo has an unmatched will to take projects to the next level and of course, make a great story along the way. Because everything is better with a good story.

Ricardo Magalhães is a DevOps Engineer at xgeeks. He is responsible for driving the infrastructure for one of the top automotive companies in today's world. Always striving for bigger and better, Ricardo has an unmatched will to take projects to the ... Show more

Francis Onukwu

Francis Onukwu

Francis Onukwu is a skilled software developer crafting innovative Web2 and Web3 solutions, with a strong focus on Rust and TypeScript. As co-founder of Open Source Nest, he drives Africa’s vibrant open-source movement, empowering beginners and pros through engaging workshops, AMAs, and community outreaches. Previously, as a former GDG On Campus Lead and past NACOS Director, he sparked student tech enthusiasm and leadership at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he earned his BSc in Computer Science. With a passion for accessible tech, Francis leverages certifications in NVIDIA Deep Learning and Google Cloud to inspire inclusive innovation.

Francis Onukwu is a skilled software developer crafting innovative Web2 and Web3 solutions, with a strong focus on Rust and TypeScript. As co-founder of Open Source Nest, he drives Africa’s vibrant open-source movement, empowering beginners and pros ... Show more

Krishnan Raghavan

Krishnan Raghavan

Krishnan Raghavan is a backend engineer specializing in Go, cloud-native development, security, and applied AI. He works at the intersection of backend systems and emerging AI technologies, exploring how tools like Gemini can make applications faster, smarter, and more secure. Krishnan is also a cybersecurity enthusiast and a freelance backend developer who enjoys turning complex ideas—embeddings, vector search, secure LLM usage—into practical solutions developers can use immediately. He has previously spoken about prompt injection attacks and secure AI development, and he brings a hands-on, real-world approach to every session he delivers.

Krishnan Raghavan is a backend engineer specializing in Go, cloud-native development, security, and applied AI. He works at the intersection of backend systems and emerging AI technologies, exploring how tools like Gemini can make applications faster... Show more

Andrew Crotty

Andrew Crotty

Andy Crotty is a TS/SCI-cleared cybersecurity professional with over a decade of experience in cyber threat detection, incident response, and security engineering across federal, financial, and enterprise environments. He currently serves as a Cyber Network Defense Analyst 3 with Leidos, supporting the Department of Homeland Security in a 24x7x365 NOSC environment. In this role, Andy leads high-impact investigations, develops and optimizes detection logic aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, and mentors junior analysts to strengthen operational readiness and cyber defense capabilities.

A U.S. Army Warrant Officer with over 15 years of military service, Andy has led teams in advanced persistent threat (APT) analysis, cyber threat hunting, and defensive operations for the Department of Defense. His civilian career includes senior roles in security operations for Wells Fargo and the State of Arizona Department of Homeland Security, where he enhanced detection strategies, streamlined incident response workflows, and strengthened enterprise security postures.

Beyond his operational work, Andy is passionate about cybersecurity community engagement and mentorship. At DEFCON 33, he served as a staff member for Noob Village, where he coordinated community-focused activities including volunteer outreach, CTF raffle setup, and securing sponsors to provide prizes. Through his YouTube channel GingerHacker and mentorship initiatives, Andy continues to guide aspiring cybersecurity professionals, sharing practical insights on breaking into the field, building technical skills, and navigating a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

Andy Crotty is a TS/SCI-cleared cybersecurity professional with over a decade of experience in cyber threat detection, incident response, and security engineering across federal, financial, and enterprise environments. He currently serves as a Cyber ... Show more

Fisnik Doko

Fisnik Doko

Fisnik Doko is a Senior Azure AI & Cloud Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer with deep expertise in building production-ready AI systems using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Multi-Agent architectures, and secure cloud-native platforms. With 35+ Microsoft certifications and a PhD in Data Science, he has spent more than a decade helping enterprises modernize with AI, distributed systems, and cloud governance.

As a trainer and community contributor, Fisnik has delivered hundreds of sessions across Europe on Azure AI, agentic workflows, Kubernetes, DevOps, and AI governance. His work spans both industry and academia—mentoring students, training professionals, and guiding organizations through responsible AI adoption.

Passionate about sharing real-world best practices, he focuses on practical AI engineering, secure deployments, and helping teams succeed in the new era of agent-driven applications. Fisnik is actively contributing to the Azure and AI community.

Fisnik Doko is a Senior Azure AI & Cloud Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer with deep expertise in building production-ready AI systems using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Multi-Agent architectures, and secure cloud-native platforms. With 35... Show more

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