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

Yonghui Li

Yonghui Li

Yonghui is a Software Engineer at Google on the Cloud Storage AI/ML team. He focuses on eliminating data-path and checkpointing bottlenecks across large-scale distributed training frameworks. He is a contributor to FSSpec and PyTorch, focusing on I/O concurrency, stream flushing, and cloud-native training efficiency.

Yonghui is a Software Engineer at Google on the Cloud Storage AI/ML team. He focuses on eliminating data-path and checkpointing bottlenecks across large-scale distributed training frameworks. He is a contributor to FSSpec and PyTorch, focusing on I/O... Show more

Daniël Stegeman

Daniël Stegeman

Daniel is a software engineer specialising in .NET and Azure, with experience spanning DevOps and project teams. A strong advocate for continuous improvement, Daniel is currently focused on agentic development and regularly shares insights through writing and mentoring. Daniel is passionate about software architecture and loves connecting with others who are building the future of intelligent software.

Daniel is a software engineer specialising in .NET and Azure, with experience spanning DevOps and project teams. A strong advocate for continuous improvement, Daniel is currently focused on agentic development and regularly shares insights through wr... Show more

Princess Saven

Princess Saven

Princess is the founder of Poolfi, a platform helping communities across Nigeria coordinate money seamlessly and transparently. Her work sits at the intersection of financial inclusion, product design, and community-rooted fintech, drawing on firsthand field research with communities to understand how money actually moves outside formal banking systems. Trained in Medical Laboratory Science before moving into product design and startup building, she is currently viewing informal financial systems as infrastructure worth building for. She writes and speaks on the data gaps in informal finance, and is currently building toward speaking engagements at forums focused on financial inclusion in emerging markets.

Princess is the founder of Poolfi, a platform helping communities across Nigeria coordinate money seamlessly and transparently. Her work sits at the intersection of financial inclusion, product design, and community-rooted fintech, drawing on firstha... Show more

Vidhya Venkatesan

Vidhya Venkatesan

Helping developer build portfolio website

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David "Davalo" Carmona

David "Davalo" Carmona

David Carmona aka "Davalo"

With a strong background in offensive security, David has spent over 6 years helping organizations across various industries strengthen their defenses through real-world attack simulations. As a penetration tester, he specializes in Active Directory attacks, and post-exploitation techniques, focusing particularly on high-impact vulnerabilities and realistic threat scenarios.

David is also the co-organizer of HackGDL, a prominent cybersecurity conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he connects security professionals to share cutting-edge research and practical techniques.

In his spare time, David develops open-source offensive security automation scripts and mentors aspiring ethical hackers, helping foster the next generation of cybersecurity talent. He holds certifications such as CRTP & OSWA and continues expanding his expertise through hands-on engagements and community involvement.

David Carmona aka "Davalo" With a strong background in offensive security, David has spent over 6 years helping organizations across various industries strengthen their defenses through real-world attack simulations. As a penetration tester, he s... Show more

Ahmed Abdelsalam

Ahmed Abdelsalam

Ahmed Abdelsalam is a Platform Engineer at Vodafone Group in Cairo. He works on TaaZure, the group’s Azure and AKS platform serving more than 13 markets, helping country teams ship on shared cloud infrastructure without giving up local control. He is also co-founder of Fortstak Academy, which trains engineers in DevOps and cloud skills, and he mentors tech professionals through the TAP mentors network. Lately he has been working where platform engineering meets data protection, helping teams turn privacy laws into practical architecture decisions.

Ahmed Abdelsalam is a Platform Engineer at Vodafone Group in Cairo. He works on TaaZure, the group’s Azure and AKS platform serving more than 13 markets, helping country teams ship on shared cloud infrastructure without giving up local control. He is... Show more

Shiva Kalyan Reddy Giri

Shiva Kalyan Reddy Giri

Shiva Kalyan Reddy is a Senior Software Engineer with experience building and modernizing enterprise web and mobile applications, particularly in financial-services environments. His work spans full-stack development, API architecture, cloud platforms, enterprise modernization, and generative AI. He has hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, semantic search, prompt engineering, real-time AI applications, and AI-assisted software development. He is especially interested in production readiness, secure data handling, scalability, maintainability, and ensuring that engineering teams understand and take ownership of the systems they build and operate.

Shiva Kalyan Reddy is a Senior Software Engineer with experience building and modernizing enterprise web and mobile applications, particularly in financial-services environments. His work spans full-stack development, API architecture, cloud platform... Show more

Andrea Iacono

Andrea Iacono

Andrea is a software engineer with a broad experience in several industries ranging from e-commerce to industrial automation, from public administration to Web TV / music. His interests are in algorithms, data and AI.

Andrea is a software engineer with a broad experience in several industries ranging from e-commerce to industrial automation, from public administration to Web TV / music. His interests are in algorithms, data and AI. Show more

Kelly Morrison

Kelly Morrison

Kelly Morrison is a native of Georgia with a BS in mathematics and a PhD in computer engineering. He has over 30 years of software experience in various industries, including the television, education, retail, and agriculture sectors. He also wrote a monthly column for "Digital Output" magazine under the pen name "Armand Tarantino". He is currently employed as a solutions architect at CGI.

Kelly Morrison is a native of Georgia with a BS in mathematics and a PhD in computer engineering. He has over 30 years of software experience in various industries, including the television, education, retail, and agriculture sectors. He also wrote a... Show more

Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju

Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju

Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju
Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju is a dynamic Technical Consultant, Public Speaker, and Author, affiliated with Covenant Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner based in Lagos, Nigeria. With over 25 years of professional experience, he is recognized as a leader in the IT industry, specializing in Microsoft infrastructure, data, and artificial intelligence solutions.

Oluwaseyi is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Office Services & Apps, and the MCT Regional Lead for Nigeria. He also serves as the Manager of Data & AI at Wragby Solutions & Technologies Limited, where he drives cutting-edge innovations in AI, data analytics, and cloud technologies. As a Fellow of the Institute of Information Management Africa (FIIM Africa), he holds one of the highest honors for excellence in data and information management.

At Covenant Technologies, Oluwaseyi plays a pivotal role as a senior consulting partner, helping organizations maximize the value of their Microsoft technologies, including Azure, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and AI-powered solutions. His expertise extends beyond technical implementations, focusing on empowering businesses to leverage IT for strategic growth.

Prior to joining Covenant Technologies, Oluwaseyi was a Senior Technical Consultant and Support Manager at 1st Intellit Solution, where he led outsourcing teams and spearheaded the development of innovative client systems.

Driven by his passion for IT evolution in Africa, Oluwaseyi is a prominent advocate for cloud technologies and modern workplace solutions across West, East, and Central Africa (WECA). His campaigns for adopting tools like SharePoint, Yammer, Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft Teams have significantly influenced medium and large organizations. The growing response from the Nigerian market and beyond highlights the transformative impact of his efforts in fostering a modern IT ecosystem across Africa.

Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju Oluwaseyi Oluwawumiju is a dynamic Technical Consultant, Public Speaker, and Author, affiliated with Covenant Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner based in Lagos, Nigeria. With over 25 years of professional experience, h... Show more

Sarah Rose

Sarah Rose

Leadership Speaker | Author | Executive Leadership Coach | Founder of Fearlessly Unshackled™

Lead with Courage. Live with Purpose. Break Free from What Holds You Back.

Sarah Rose is a dynamic speaker, author, and executive leadership professional with more than 20 years of experience developing leaders, strengthening teams, and transforming organizational cultures. Her passion is helping individuals and organizations break through the barriers that limit their potential so they can lead with confidence, live with purpose, and create lasting impact.

Throughout her executive career, Sarah has led global teams, navigated complex organizational challenges, and helped people recognize that effective leadership is not defined by a title, but by the ability to influence, connect, and bring out the best in others.

But Sarah's message goes beyond leadership strategies.

Through her own journey of overcoming fear, self-doubt, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs, she discovered that some of the greatest barriers to success are not the circumstances around us, but the beliefs we carry within us.

As the founder of Fearlessly Unshackled™, Sarah is passionate about helping people recognize their worth, overcome the fears that hold them back, and step confidently into the purpose they were created to fulfill.

Sarah brings together real-world executive experience, practical leadership principles, personal storytelling, and a passion for transformation. Her engaging and authentic speaking style challenges audiences to examine what is holding them back and equips them with actionable strategies to move forward.

Through her signature programs, LEAD FORWARD™, BETTER TOGETHER™, CULTURE THAT KEEPS™, and FEARLESSLY UNSHACKLED™, Sarah delivers powerful messages tailored to corporate organizations, leadership conferences, women's events, and faith-based audiences.

Whether speaking about leadership effectiveness, communication, organizational culture, resilience, personal growth, or faith, Sarah's mission remains the same:

To inspire people to break free from limitations, lead with courage, and become all they were created to be.

Leadership Speaker | Author | Executive Leadership Coach | Founder of Fearlessly Unshackled™ Lead with Courage. Live with Purpose. Break Free from What Holds You Back. Sarah Rose is a dynamic speaker, author, and executive leadership profession... Show more

Roy Vu

Roy Vu

Roy Vũ earned his Ph.D. (2006) in history at the University of Houston. He is now a history professor at Dallas College. Roy volunteers as an advisory board member for the Alliance for Texas History Membership Committee, Foodways Texas, and Keep Irving Beautiful, where he is the 2018 Texas state recipient of the Sadie Ray Graff Education Award. His book, Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Food Gardens, was released in September 2024 by Texas A&M University Press. Additionally, Roy recently co-edited a U.S. Civil Rights history reader with Dr. Darryl Howard titled, A Dream Sustained, Not Deferred: Sustainability Topics in U.S. Southern Civil Rights History, published by Kendall Hunt in August 2026. He is currently co-editing an anthology with Dr. Thao Ha titled, Our Southern Accents: Asian American Voices in the South, to be released by Rutgers University Press in July 2027. He and his wife, Ngọc, live in Irving, Texas.

Roy Vũ earned his Ph.D. (2006) in history at the University of Houston. He is now a history professor at Dallas College. Roy volunteers as an advisory board member for the Alliance for Texas History Membership Committee, Foodways Texas, and Keep Ir... Show more

Annie Hodgkins

Annie Hodgkins

Advisor and thought partner to Heads of Software Engineering and their teams. Passionate about platform engineering, DevOps and software development. Active outdoors enthusiast, skier, and hiker. Avid reader of all genres. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Advisor and thought partner to Heads of Software Engineering and their teams. Passionate about platform engineering, DevOps and software development. Active outdoors enthusiast, skier, and hiker. Avid reader of all genres. Located in Raleigh, North C... Show more

Oluwaseyi Ayodeji

Oluwaseyi Ayodeji

Oluwaseyi (Olu) Ayodeji is an AI infrastructure leader who specializes in the physical and systemic layer of artificial intelligence: the energy grids, hyperscale compute, semiconductor supply chains, and talent pipelines that dictate who controls the global AI economy.
With over two decades in tech, ranging from semiconductor process engineering and server manufacturing automation to cloud logistics, Olu bridges the gap between hardware engineering, enterprise policy, and business execution. At Google Cloud Logistics, he founded GCL University, an enterprise learning framework built on the Kirkpatrick Model that upskills a global organization of 300+ internal employees and an extended workforce in the thousands, all managing machine learning infrastructure deployment from rack to tray.
As the creator of Regal Stack and author of the Stack Sovereignty Test, a six-pillar framework for evaluating national and enterprise compute capacity, Olu provides actionable blueprints for organizations navigating digital sovereignty, infrastructure bottlenecks, and workforce transformation. His commentary on technology policy, data center scale, and emerging compute economies has been featured across TechCabal, ThisDay, The Nation, Nairametrics, and News Central TV.
Based in Dallas–Fort Worth, Olu speaks regularly to enterprise leaders, infrastructure developers, and policymakers on how to build, power, and govern scalable AI capacity.

Oluwaseyi (Olu) Ayodeji is an AI infrastructure leader who specializes in the physical and systemic layer of artificial intelligence: the energy grids, hyperscale compute, semiconductor supply chains, and talent pipelines that dictate who controls th... Show more

Adeola Adesoba

Adeola Adesoba

Adeola is a Cyber AI Solutions Architect in a leading technology company. She has over 5years of experience across various domains having worked on social computation and Network Analysis, accelerated Data Science, Conversational AI, Speech to Text services and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), she is now focused on developing and deploying Cybersecurity AI solutions at scale.

Adeola is a Cyber AI Solutions Architect in a leading technology company. She has over 5years of experience across various domains having worked on social computation and Network Analysis, accelerated Data Science, Conversational AI, Speech to Text s... Show more

Mike Gifford

Mike Gifford

Mike Gifford is an open standards and practices lead at CivicActions and a thought leader on digital accessibility in the public sector. He is also a W3C Invited Expert and recognized authoring tool accessibility expert.

Previously, he was the Founder and President of OpenConcept Consulting Inc., a web development agency specializing in building open source solutions for the open web. Mike has served as a Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer in 2012.

Mike Gifford is an open standards and practices lead at CivicActions and a thought leader on digital accessibility in the public sector. He is also a W3C Invited Expert and recognized authoring tool accessibility expert. Previously, he was the Fou... Show more

Tabi Enokenwa Nkongho

Tabi Enokenwa Nkongho

Tabi Enokenwa is the Founder and CTO of MedVAULT, an offline-first healthcare technology company building hospital management, EMR, and telemedicine infrastructure for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. Born and raised in the Manyu region of Cameroon, Tabi's path into technology began in an unlikely place: business administration and logistics.

Studied Business Administration and Logistics at Stamford University in Thailand before continuing my education in Mobility and Logistics at Hochschule Rhein-Waal in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. It was there that my interest shifted decisively toward technology, leading me to build a career in database administration and cloud engineering.

Over the years, I have held technical data engineering roles at Hyundai Autoever Europe GmbH, working on enterprise systems in the automotive sector for KIA, Hyundai, Genesis and Hyundai Motor Sports, and at Ecommerceone, where my database and cloud infrastructure expertise is applied to e-commerce platforms automation for sellers in Germany across Amazon, eBay, Otto and top German e-commerce sites. These experiences across automotive and e-commerce technology gave the systems-engineering foundations now applies to healthcare; building MedVAULT into a platform designed to work reliably in the very conditions, patchy connectivity, unreliable infrastructure, that most cloud-first systems fail in.

Based in Germany and operating across Germany and Cameroon, driven by a mission to close the digital health gap for the hospitals and patients his own home region often struggles to reach.

Tabi Enokenwa is the Founder and CTO of MedVAULT, an offline-first healthcare technology company building hospital management, EMR, and telemedicine infrastructure for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. Born and raised in the Manyu region of Cameroon, T... Show more

Sheryl Grant

Sheryl Grant

Sheryl Grant won Ms. Olympia at 55, after three decades as a Silicon Valley leader. Today she helps leaders and organizations build the mental fitness that makes lasting change possible.

Sheryl is the founder and chief architect of the award-winning Kinectdots System™ and creator of Human-Centered Intelligence™. Her FIT Method (Faith, Intuition, Tenacity) builds the inner strength people need to lead through uncertainty, and her C4 Matrix (Communication, Connection, Collaboration, Community) turns that strength into cultures where change sticks.

An award-winning entrepreneur, she has built a global community of women transforming their careers, businesses and lives at every age. She has designed and scaled HR and employee development programs for organizations including Natera, Square, Niantic, TaskRabbit and Dell. As Vice-Chair of the Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce, she helped raise more than $1 million for Black businesses during the pandemic, and through How Women Lead she oversaw programs reaching women entrepreneurs in more than 20 countries.

Sheryl is the author of FIT for Life and holds a Master's in Leadership Development from Saint Mary's College. Audiences leave her keynotes and workshops with practical tools to beat burnout, lead with clarity and build the communities that carry them forward.

Sheryl Grant won Ms. Olympia at 55, after three decades as a Silicon Valley leader. Today she helps leaders and organizations build the mental fitness that makes lasting change possible. Sheryl is the founder and chief architect of the award-winni... Show more

Christopher Nwosu-Madueke

Christopher Nwosu-Madueke

Christopher is a Senior Mobile Engineer with experience building and owning high-traffic banking features at scale. He works across Flutter, Dart, and Go, and has led complex mobile features end to end across multiple companies, from early-stage startups to established fintech products.
He is one of the organizers of FlutterBytes Conference, where he invests in growing the mobile engineering community in Nigeria. Outside his day job, he builds products at the intersection of AI and mobile, and writes about the engineering decisions behind them.
He is drawn to systems problems, the trade-offs that do not have clean answers, and the gap between how APIs are designed and how they are actually consumed in the real world.

Christopher is a Senior Mobile Engineer with experience building and owning high-traffic banking features at scale. He works across Flutter, Dart, and Go, and has led complex mobile features end to end across multiple companies, from early-stage star... Show more

Dhiraj Sriram

Dhiraj Sriram

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at HelloFresh in Berlin, building the shared React Native modules behind our iOS and Android apps. I care deeply about usability, accessibility, and performance the parts of software people feel but don't notice. I'm currently focused on helping teams adopt AI coding agents safely with the right guardrails to ensure stability.

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at HelloFresh in Berlin, building the shared React Native modules behind our iOS and Android apps. I care deeply about usability, accessibility, and performance the parts of software people feel but don't notice. I'm cur... Show more

Todd Whitehead

Todd Whitehead

Todd Whitehead ((http://www.twitter.com/TodWhitehead)) is the Director of intelligent Apps and Cloud at Nexwave. He has over 20 years’ experience delivering solutions for clients in the travel, banking, retail and government sectors using .Net, Azure and Agile. In his spare time….well he's still waiting for that to happen.

Todd Whitehead ((http://www.twitter.com/TodWhitehead)) is the Director of intelligent Apps and Cloud at Nexwave. He has over 20 years’ experience delivering solutions for clients in the travel, banking, retail and government sectors using .Net, Azure... Show more

Tal Hason

Tal Hason

I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Release Engineering Lead at Red Hat, driving the release lifecycle for OpenShift Virtualization. With over 15 years of experience in IT, I specialize in building automated pipelines, GitOps-driven architectures, and production-ready CI/CD workflows that scale. Passionate about open source, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure, I thrive on solving complex challenges and leading high-impact initiatives. From designing self-healing systems to speaking at global conferences, I turn innovation into real-world solutions and empower teams to deliver faster and smarter.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Release Engineering Lead at Red Hat, driving the release lifecycle for OpenShift Virtualization. With over 15 years of experience in IT, I specialize in building automated pipelines, GitOps-driven architectures, and... 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

Aaron Gross

Aaron Gross

Aaron Gross directs the Center for Food Systems Transformation (CFST) at the University of San Diego, where he is also Founding Faculty in Food Studies and a tenured Professor of Theology and Religious Studies. CFST supports research and practice aimed at equitable, climate-friendly food systems, with a focus on reducing food-related Scope 3 emissions in higher education and closing the gap between institutional values and campus food practices — work that runs through faculty, students, and dining operations alike. Gross is founder and board chair of Farm Forward, whose research and advocacy target factory farming, and co-founder of the Better Food Foundation, which develops and deploys behavioral strategies, including plant-based defaults, to shift institutional procurement and student food choice. He collaborated with Jonathan Safran Foer on Eating Animals and brings more than two decades of work in food ethics and animal agriculture to applied campus change.

Aaron Gross directs the Center for Food Systems Transformation (CFST) at the University of San Diego, where he is also Founding Faculty in Food Studies and a tenured Professor of Theology and Religious Studies. CFST supports research and practice aim... Show more

David Mackey

David Mackey

Dave is interested in search (information retrieval), discovery, and knowledge management. He has worked in IT for 25+ years both on the coding and with system. He currently works primarily in Python and TypeScript with prior experience in (vanilla) JavaScript, PHP, and C#/VB.NET. He loves HTML and tolerates CSS.

Dave is interested in search (information retrieval), discovery, and knowledge management. He has worked in IT for 25+ years both on the coding and with system. He currently works primarily in Python and TypeScript with prior experience in (vanilla) ... Show more

Yaron Flint

Yaron Flint

Yaron Flint is a published author and an accomplished business development and innovation expert with over 20 years of global experience at the intersection of innovation, business development, and networking. He has held senior roles in multinational corporations, global consulting firms, and private equity groups, driving innovation across sectors including Automotive, Industry 4.0, Smart Materials, Environmental, and Construction-tech.

Yaron blends deep cross-cultural and cross-sector expertise with a practical understanding of how organizations can embed innovation and build meaningful, trust-based relationships that enable transformation. His first book: "innovative business development - implementing transformation from within" - explored how corporations can onboard external innovation through a more structured and intentional approach.

A sought-after keynote speaker and strategic advisor, Yaron works with organizations worldwide to help them integrate external innovation and intentional connection into sustainable, high-impact growth.

Yaron Flint is a published author and an accomplished business development and innovation expert with over 20 years of global experience at the intersection of innovation, business development, and networking. He has held senior roles in multinationa... Show more

Rakesh Darge

Rakesh Darge

Rakesh is an accomplished technologist and leader with over 24 years' experience in building & architecting modular Cloud ERP experiences. He is a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications and 4th time Fasttrack Recognized Solutions Architect. This is a testament to his expertise and contributions to the community in the field of business applications and low-code & no-code.

Rakesh is a Global Customer Success Architect at Tata Consultancy Services (Business Applications + Generative AI). He is responsible for designing Dynamics 365 Finance & SCM ERP, and leveraging Gen AI. He has expertise in a wide range of technologies, including Bizapps, Power Apps, and Azure.

Rakesh is passionate about leveraging Generative AI & Autonomous Agents for business applications that enhance business growth and innovation. He strongly believes in giving back to the community. He frequently shares his insights and expertise through speaking engagements, blogs, and community involvement. With his passion for empowering others, Rakesh has mentored and empowered many learners.

Rakesh is an accomplished technologist and leader with over 24 years' experience in building & architecting modular Cloud ERP experiences. He is a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications and 4th time Fasttrack Recognized Solutions Architect. This is a... Show more

Riccardo Binetti

Riccardo Binetti

Riccardo started his career as an embedded developer, but switched to backend development as soon as he discovered (and fell in love with) Elixir.

He enjoys dad jokes, yak shaving, good coffee, and making music both in usual and strange ways (from Game Boys to live coding).

Riccardo started his career as an embedded developer, but switched to backend development as soon as he discovered (and fell in love with) Elixir. He enjoys dad jokes, yak shaving, good coffee, and making music both in usual and strange ways (from... Show more

Puspanjali Sarma

Puspanjali Sarma

I’ve spent 15+ years building data and AI systems—and what keeps me motivated is simple: turning ambitious ideas into dependable, production-ready capabilities that teams can trust.

Today, I’m a 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 at 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗡𝗼𝘄, leading AI platform innovations across Machine Learning, Generative AI, and data engineering. I enjoy the end-to-end work: aligning to business outcomes, designing the architecture, and partnering with teams to ship high-quality solutions. I’ve worked across Fortune 500 enterprises and global startups, and I’ve learned one pattern repeatedly—AI doesn’t scale because of a great model; it scales because the system around it is designed and operated well.

That belief is what led me to write my published book, 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮—a practical playbook on building strong data foundations, responsible AI governance, and leadership habits that make AI durable, not fragile.

I was recognized among 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗔𝗜𝗠 𝟰𝟬 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝟰𝟬 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱), and I’ve helped deliver scalable AI frameworks across BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, and Manufacturing. Mentorship is also important to me—I support communities such as WEHUB and women-in-tech networks, and I write and speak about ethical AI and inclusive team building.

I’m a 𝗗𝗘𝗜 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 because inclusion isn’t a statement—it’s a daily leadership practice. I care about building teams where people feel safe to contribute, grow, and lead.

If you’d like to exchange ideas on scaling AI responsibly, building data platforms, or making GenAI work in real enterprise environments—reach out. I’m always happy to connect.

I’ve spent 15+ years building data and AI systems—and what keeps me motivated is simple: turning ambitious ideas into dependable, production-ready capabilities that teams can trust. Today, I’m a 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 at 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗡𝗼𝘄,... Show more

Adrian Capitanu

Adrian Capitanu

Adrian Capitanu is an Autonomous Database Black Belt at Oracle, advising customers on the successful adoption of Oracle Autonomous Database, from onboarding and capacity planning to pre-go-live validation and post-go-live support. Adrian also works closely with Oracle Product Management, bringing field experience and customer feedback into discussions around ADB adoption, architecture decisions, operational readiness, and the prioritization of new features based on customer needs. With over 20 years of Oracle experience across DBA, Support Engineering, Sales, and Pre-Sales roles, he brings a practical, customer-focused perspective as a trusted advisor for database modernization and cloud adoption.

Adrian Capitanu is an Autonomous Database Black Belt at Oracle, advising customers on the successful adoption of Oracle Autonomous Database, from onboarding and capacity planning to pre-go-live validation and post-go-live support. Adrian also works c... Show more

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