Travel & Tourism

Experts in the promotion and management of travel experiences, focusing on leisure, business, and cultural exploration

Bibiana Souza

Bibiana Souza

Bibiana is a Community Manager, software engineer, and entrepreneur with a passion for building inclusive tech ecosystems. Originally from Brazil and now based in Canada, she focuses her work on growing open source and developer communities, supporting DEI initiatives, and strengthening local tech networks in Vancouver. Outside of work, she channels her curiosity and discipline into martial arts, games, weightlifting, and travel.

Bibiana is a Community Manager, software engineer, and entrepreneur with a passion for building inclusive tech ecosystems. Originally from Brazil and now based in Canada, she focuses her work on growing open source and developer communities, supporti... Show more

Louis Japheth Kouassi

Louis Japheth Kouassi

Pasionate about techs

Pasionate about techs Show more

Tatevik Hovakimyan

Tatevik Hovakimyan

I’m a Partner at Civitta and a product leader with over eight years of experience building and scaling digital products across SaaS, event technology, and AI-powered solutions. Throughout my career, I’ve worked on products ranging from event marketing platforms to AI automation tools, including AI Front Desk and several products within the Banzai ecosystem.

My work focuses on translating complex business problems into meaningful, user-centered solutions. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams of product managers, designers, and engineers to turn ideas into products that create real value for users and businesses.

Beyond my professional work, I actively contribute to the product community through research, writing, and speaking. I’ve spoken at events such as the European Product Summit and regularly share insights on product leadership, customer interviews, and collaboration between product and UX teams.

I’m passionate about building products that truly resonate with users and about helping teams create environments where experimentation, learning, and innovation thrive.

I’m a Partner at Civitta and a product leader with over eight years of experience building and scaling digital products across SaaS, event technology, and AI-powered solutions. Throughout my career, I’ve worked on products ranging from event marketin... Show more

Steven Kelly

Steven Kelly

Steven Kelly is a British TV survivalist, resilience speaker, and founder of South West Survival. With 23 years of military service and experience operating in extreme environments around the world, he brings real-world lessons in resilience, leadership, decision-making under pressure, teamwork, and mindset.

Steven is known for appearing on Naked and Afraid, Naked and Afraid: Apocalypse, Naked Alone and Racing to Get Home, and Bear Grylls: Wild Reckoning. He combines survival expertise, operational experience, and television credibility to deliver practical, engaging talks that challenge audiences to think clearly, adapt fast, and perform under pressure.

Through speaking, training, and media work, Steven helps people and teams build resilience, develop a stronger mindset, and apply survival principles to business, leadership, and everyday life.

Steven Kelly is a British TV survivalist, resilience speaker, and founder of South West Survival. With 23 years of military service and experience operating in extreme environments around the world, he brings real-world lessons in resilience, leaders... Show more

Marco Martorana

Marco Martorana

Pragmatic technologist with a background in software development and a focus on systems, automation, and AI. I build practical solutions that improve everyday life.

I believe in leadership driven by responsibility, clarity, and real-world impact. Less hype, more systems that work.

Pragmatic technologist with a background in software development and a focus on systems, automation, and AI. I build practical solutions that improve everyday life. I believe in leadership driven by responsibility, clarity, and real-world impact. ... Show more

Ramakrishna Yekulla

Ramakrishna Yekulla

Ramakrishna Yekulla "Ramky" is a Principal Architect within the Application Developer Business Unit at Red Hat. In this role, he focuses on creating distinctive platform features that enhance developer efficiency, streamline data and application connections, and empower customers with the knowledge and resources to prioritize software supply chain security, minimize technical obligations, and achieve compliance goals. His interests lies in System Design, Functional Programming and Observability

Ramakrishna Yekulla "Ramky" is a Principal Architect within the Application Developer Business Unit at Red Hat. In this role, he focuses on creating distinctive platform features that enhance developer efficiency, streamline data and application conn... Show more

Joseph Vizcarra

Joseph Vizcarra

Bachiller en Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones, con más de 5 años de experiencia en proyectos de TI y Cloud computing. Co-fundador de ApTItud Academy, proyecto de enseñanza gratuita sobre tecnologías de la información. Actualmente desempeñando el rol de Cloud Lead Architect en NTT Data desarrollando proyectos con servicios AWS.

Bachiller en Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones, con más de 5 años de experiencia en proyectos de TI y Cloud computing. Co-fundador de ApTItud Academy, proyecto de enseñanza gratuita sobre tecnologías de la información. Actualmente desempeñando el rol ... Show more

Brian McNichols

Brian McNichols

It is safe to say that I have an odd mix of experiences. After graduating from Penn State University, I worked for the federal government for a decade in various analyst roles doing things as mundane as personnel budgeting and as exciting as presenting to the Director of the FBI and testifying as an expert to grand juries.

After leaving civil service, my next decade was spent attempting to perfect theme park vacations by working for TouringPlans.com. We used statistics and lots and lots of research to optimize peoples theme park trips and I assisted in many ways from research tasks and writing to starting a travel agency to filming YouTube videos that have over 1 million views.

Now I am a consultant at Centric Consulting, helping companies rethink their data strategies. I am thrilled to once again share my experiences by speaking about data strategy, project management, consulting, statistics, theme parks and, frankly, anything else.

It is safe to say that I have an odd mix of experiences. After graduating from Penn State University, I worked for the federal government for a decade in various analyst roles doing things as mundane as personnel budgeting and as exciting as presenti... Show more

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champion. His background in accessibility, application development, and applied AI has leaned into enabling applications to do more for people and businesses using scalable architectures and design, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, and TypeScript while building for cross-platform compatibility. You might find him speaking at all sorts of conferences and events around the world, streaming on Twitch, and on Pluralsight.

Outside technology, you can find him playing guitar, working with animal rescue, or exploring the great outdoors.

Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champio... Show more

Shivji Kumar Jha

Shivji Kumar Jha

Shivji Kumar Jha is a Staff Engineer at Nutanix, where he leads the charter for analytics, time-series, and streaming platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He focuses on building scalable ingestion systems and designing high-performance OLAP architectures, with deep hands-on experience extending ClickHouse for production-grade analytics. A contributor to Apache Pulsar, MySQL, and ClickHouse, Shiv approaches distributed systems as a builder—prototyping core components, shaping system design, and driving platform evolution from the ground up.

Beyond engineering, Shiv is an active community leader and speaker. He has delivered 30+ talks at conferences including ApacheCon, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and Postgres community events. He also curates deep-tech meetups in Bangalore, bringing together practitioners passionate about databases, streaming systems, and open-source infrastructure

Shivji Kumar Jha is a Staff Engineer at Nutanix, where he leads the charter for analytics, time-series, and streaming platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He focuses on building scalable ingestion systems and designing high-performance OL... Show more

Rich Young

Rich Young

Dynamic and decisive, I bring intense ingenuity as an AWS cloud trailblazer directing complex initiatives across the tech landscape. By spearheading high-velocity cloud native development leveraging containers, serverless, and microservices, I have led global teams to deploy disruptive AWS solutions, establishing best practices in CI/CD and observability.

Armed with intricate AWS expertise, I accelerate fluid migrations while optimising budgets, performance and reliability. As a change agent driving digital transformation, I prepare organisations for technology leadership, coaching teams through pioneering approaches to realise AWS’s game-changing capabilities.

Dynamic and decisive, I bring intense ingenuity as an AWS cloud trailblazer directing complex initiatives across the tech landscape. By spearheading high-velocity cloud native development leveraging containers, serverless, and microservices, I have l... Show more

Norbert Tschernitschek

Norbert Tschernitschek

Power Platform enthusiast / Co-founder Power Platform Mallorca User Group / Promoter of using humor at work / Optimist

Power Platform enthusiast / Co-founder Power Platform Mallorca User Group / Promoter of using humor at work / Optimist Show more

Milos Marinkovic

Milos Marinkovic

I like to share ideas through presentations and writing. If you see something related to technology, I'll probably like it.
I am a software enthusiast, product developer, technical leader, speaker, event organizer, and avid skier.

My main interests are organizations, apps, cloud, electronics and smart devices. I also often read or listen about innovation, computer science, and organizational management.

In my spare time, I (try to) travel, speak at conferences, coach, and work on open-source projects.

I like to share ideas through presentations and writing. If you see something related to technology, I'll probably like it. I am a software enthusiast, product developer, technical leader, speaker, event organizer, and avid skier. My main interes... Show more

Dee Bolt

Dee Bolt

I have been in the External Identity and Access Management space since 2020, helping clients architect and implement their Identity solutions and keeping their application secure.

Prior to the identity ecosystem, I was a development consultant in travel and tourism (mainly C#) and a software and database analyst for a training company. My main skillset is around system architecture, identity, C#, and SQL.

Other community contributions include the Azure Technical Contributor Program and Microsoft sponsored Identity discord channel.

I have been in the External Identity and Access Management space since 2020, helping clients architect and implement their Identity solutions and keeping their application secure. Prior to the identity ecosystem, I was a development consultant in... Show more

Jorge Vargas Garcia

Jorge Vargas Garcia

Hello, I'm Jorge Vargas, a seasoned CTO with a proven record of launching successful products and enhancing user experiences. Over my career, I've led high-performing engineering and product teams that consistently met and exceeded our key objectives, all supported by meticulously defined OKRs. My core focus has always been on fostering cross-team collaboration to maximize efficiency and resource optimization.

My expertise extends to forging robust technological and business partnerships, ensuring the unwavering
reliability of our products. When it comes to technology and platform selection, I excel in finding the sweet spot between complexity and simplicity. I firmly believe that balancing scalability with operational growth is paramount. My holistic approach covers all critical facets of the organization, maintaining a 360-degree vision in all my strategic endeavors.

I'm deeply committed to propelling our company to new heights and staying on the cutting edge of
technological innovation. I eagerly anticipate the opportunity to collaborate and collectively elevate our
company's success to the next level.

Hello, I'm Jorge Vargas, a seasoned CTO with a proven record of launching successful products and enhancing user experiences. Over my career, I've led high-performing engineering and product teams that consistently met and exceeded our key objectives... Show more

Abhinav Prabhakar

Abhinav Prabhakar

Abhinav Prabhakar is a Lead SME and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) specialist with over 11 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-scale End User Computing (EUC) and Microsoft Azure solutions. Throughout his career, he has helped global organizations modernize their workplace infrastructure by leading large-scale migrations from Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop, implementing Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID, FSLogix, Nerdio Manager, and Azure-native management solutions.

Currently leading Cloud Operations, Abhinav specializes in Azure Virtual Desktop architecture, enterprise troubleshooting, performance optimization, cost governance, automation, and operational excellence. His hands-on experience spans environments supporting thousands of users across multiple regions, where he focuses on building secure, scalable, and highly available digital workspaces.

Passionate about giving back to the community, Abhinav is the creator of the TechBits Learning YouTube channel, where he simplifies complex cloud technologies into practical, real-world learning for IT professionals. His mission is to bridge the gap between theory and production by sharing implementation strategies, best practices, troubleshooting techniques, and lessons learned from real enterprise deployments.

Abhinav believes the best technical sessions are those that attendees can immediately apply in their own environments. Whether discussing Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Intune, Azure architecture, or cloud modernization, his sessions combine technical depth with practical demonstrations, real customer scenarios, and actionable takeaways.

When he’s not working with Microsoft cloud technologies, you’ll find him creating educational content, mentoring aspiring cloud engineers, and helping professionals transition into Azure and Modern Workplace technologies.

Abhinav Prabhakar is a Lead SME and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) specialist with over 11 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-scale End User Computing (EUC) and Microsoft Azure solutions. Throughout his career, he has help... Show more

Ruth Samuel

Ruth Samuel

She is a result-driven tech lover, passionate about community building, advocate for women in Information Technology, promoter of gender equality in STEM, Google cloud enthusiast, Program Manager who enjoys traveling and meeting new people, developer advocate in the making and hey! She is a music LOVER.

She is a result-driven tech lover, passionate about community building, advocate for women in Information Technology, promoter of gender equality in STEM, Google cloud enthusiast, Program Manager who enjoys traveling and meeting new people, developer... Show more

Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones is a Customer Experience Program Manager at Microsoft, leading community engagement and storytelling for global events and experiences. As the driving force behind the Microsoft Community Studio, he brings community voices to life through live content, video production, and innovative programming that connects customers at scale.

Passionate about the next generation of creators, Jonathan focuses on how AI is transforming storytelling, empowering communities to share their stories, amplify their impact, and shape the future of collaboration.

Jonathan Jones is a Customer Experience Program Manager at Microsoft, leading community engagement and storytelling for global events and experiences. As the driving force behind the Microsoft Community Studio, he brings community voices to life thro... Show more

Ian Smith

Ian Smith

Ian Smith spent the late 20th century at Georgia Tech in Atlanta GA USA getting a Ph.D. in computer science; he's recovering nicely. Later, he worked at prestigious research labs like Xerox PARC and Intel Research. Recently, he has been working at numerous startups and is currently the CTO and co-founder of LYOS (lyos.com).. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific publications with thousands of citations, and holds more than 10 US patents. He started using go before there was the error interface.

Ian Smith spent the late 20th century at Georgia Tech in Atlanta GA USA getting a Ph.D. in computer science; he's recovering nicely. Later, he worked at prestigious research labs like Xerox PARC and Intel Research. Recently, he has been working a... Show more

Deveesh Shetty

Deveesh Shetty

Full stack developer disguised as Frontend Dev. I build things for fun.

Full stack developer disguised as Frontend Dev. I build things for fun. Show more

Nicolas Bossard

Nicolas Bossard

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Kruthika Gopinathan

Kruthika Gopinathan

Power Platform Developer at Carnival Cruise

Power Platform Developer at Carnival Cruise Show more

Krzysztof Korzela

Krzysztof Korzela

Krzysztof Korzela, Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, supporting customers in their digital transformation through cloud-native solutions and DevSecOps practices. Brings over 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure across banking, telecom, and public sectors. Holds certifications including RHCA, CKA, and AWS Solutions Architect – and many more. Passionate about continuous learning and staying up to date with evolving technologies.
In his free time, he enjoys being active with his family and constantly expands his smart home to create more time for what matters most.

Krzysztof Korzela, Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, supporting customers in their digital transformation through cloud-native solutions and DevSecOps practices. Brings over 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure across banking, telecom, and... Show more

Monty Taylor

Monty Taylor

Monty was part of the team who launched the OpenStack project. He defined the workflows and built the initial developer infrastructure that became Zuul and OpenDev. Many years ago he worked for MySQL, and then was a core dev on Drizzle. These days his hacking is focused on WanderTracks, a travel planning and logging system, and marine automation systems.

Monty was part of the team who launched the OpenStack project. He defined the workflows and built the initial developer infrastructure that became Zuul and OpenDev. Many years ago he worked for MySQL, and then was a core dev on Drizzle. These days hi... Show more

Alfredo Escolar

Alfredo Escolar

Alfredo Escolar es consultor de marketing digital especializado en SEO técnico y GEO. Fundó Evisos en 2004 y dirige Mix Branding. Cuenta con más de 20 años de experiencia en posicionamiento web y combina la consultoría para empresas y medios de noticias con la docencia y la participación en eventos.

Sus temas de trabajo incluyen SEO para medios, visibilidad en buscadores con IA e inteligencia artificial aplicada al marketing.

Alfredo Escolar es consultor de marketing digital especializado en SEO técnico y GEO. Fundó Evisos en 2004 y dirige Mix Branding. Cuenta con más de 20 años de experiencia en posicionamiento web y combina la consultoría para empresas y medios de notic... Show more

Tom Tiggeloven

Tom Tiggeloven

A passionate software professional who likes to write code that does what is expected of it. He does this by always wanting to understand why something is being asked and by asking critical questions about it. With this information, Tom seeks to identify improvements in the process and to document them in an understandable way. He then ensures that this expectation is actually met through automated testing. He is always ready to help people and share his experiences from his work as a senior software engineer at Yuma and his own personal project DitEtenWe.

A passionate software professional who likes to write code that does what is expected of it. He does this by always wanting to understand why something is being asked and by asking critical questions about it. With this information, Tom seeks to iden... Show more

Ankshita Maunthrooa

Ankshita Maunthrooa

Ankshita is currently working as a security engineer and has previously worked as a cybersecurity consultant in the paradise island of Mauritius, helping the biggest firms around the world implement strategic cybersecurity best practices and comply with the required standards. Before joining consultancy, she has worked in cybersecurity for approximately two years as a SOC analyst, thus gathering a rich hands-on experience on blue teaming tools and practices.

Ankshita has presented her cyber blue teaming skills at the DevCon2023, the biggest developers' conference of Mauritius organized by the MSCC and GDG Mauritius. She recently also spoke at the DevFest 2023 about introducing Golang to students.

Coming from a diverse background in Information Technology, Ankshita is familiar with development and programming in Java, Python, Javascript and Solidity. Her latest passion for learning narrows down to Golang which can be very effectively implemented in the field of cybersecurity as well.

During university years, Ankshita has also represented the Google Developers Student Clubs on her campus at the University of Mauritius and she had also been elected as the Huawei Campus Ambassador.

Ankshita is currently working as a security engineer and has previously worked as a cybersecurity consultant in the paradise island of Mauritius, helping the biggest firms around the world implement strategic cybersecurity best practices and comply w... Show more

Enzo Carlettini

Enzo Carlettini

IT Manager & Cloud Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing and managing IT infrastructures and cloud solutions. Specialized in Google Cloud Platform migrations, scalable and secure architectures, containerization and IaC. Active member of GDG Pescara.

IT Manager & Cloud Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing and managing IT infrastructures and cloud solutions. Specialized in Google Cloud Platform migrations, scalable and secure architectures, containerization and IaC. Active membe... Show more

Luis Alfredo Porras Páez

Luis Alfredo Porras Páez

Ingeniero de Sistemas colombiano apasionado por desarrollar soluciones que causen un impacto en la vida cotidiana de las personas. Sus lenguajes de programación favoritos son Ruby y Javascript.

A participado como organizador y como charlista en diferentes eventos realizados en distintas ciudades de Chile y tuvo la oportunidad de participar como conferencista en la JSConf Colombia 2015, con una charla sobre aplicaciones de BitTorrent

Además le encanta el Karaoke y es un cristiano comprometido con su Iglesia.

Ingeniero de Sistemas colombiano apasionado por desarrollar soluciones que causen un impacto en la vida cotidiana de las personas. Sus lenguajes de programación favoritos son Ruby y Javascript. A participado como organizador y como charlista en di... Show more

Malav Vyas

Malav Vyas

I am a security researcher with experience in Exploit Development and Vulnerability research. I mostly dabble around with Windows and IoT software environment to find vulnerabilities and develop exploits. I also contribute my time with infosec communities such as Null, Bsides, OWASP

I am a security researcher with experience in Exploit Development and Vulnerability research. I mostly dabble around with Windows and IoT software environment to find vulnerabilities and develop exploits. I also contribute my time with infosec commun... Show more

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