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

Giles Lindsay

Giles Lindsay

Giles Lindsay is a technology executive, business agility coach, and CEO of Agile Delta. Giles has a track record in driving digital transformation and technological leadership. He has adeptly scaled high-performing delivery teams across various industries, from nimble startups to leading enterprises. His roles, from CTO or CIO to visionary change agent, have always centred on defining overarching technology strategies and aligning them with organizational objectives.

Giles is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (FBCS), and The Institution of Analysts & Programmers (FIAP). His leadership across the UK and global technology companies has consistently fostered innovation, growth, and adept stakeholder management. With a unique ability to demystify intricate technical concepts, he’s enabled better ways of working across organizations.

Giles’ commitment extends to the literary realm with his book: “Clearly Agile: A Leadership Guide to Business Agility”. This comprehensive guide focuses on embracing Agile principles to effect transformative change in organizations. An ardent advocate for continuous improvement and innovation, Giles is unwaveringly dedicated to creating a business world that prioritizes value, inclusivity, and societal advancement.

Giles Lindsay is a technology executive, business agility coach, and CEO of Agile Delta. Giles has a track record in driving digital transformation and technological leadership. He has adeptly scaled high-performing delivery teams across various indu... Show more

Bridget Hilton

Bridget Hilton

Bridget is a leading expert on the art, science, and path to becoming rich in life experiences. Growing up in Flint, MI, she used her love of music as inspiration and hustled her way into the largest record label in the world as a teenager - helping to launch some of today's biggest careers in music. Inspired by a viral video of a deaf woman hearing for the first time, she then founded the first social good electronics company, LSTN Sound Co., sold millions of products, partnered with the likes of Google, Delta Air Lines, and Amazon, was interviewed by Today Show, GMA, NYT, and traveled the world giving over 50,000 people the gift of hearing. Now as a keynote speaker, co-author of the Experiential Billionaire book and Treasure Maps card game, self proclaimed experiential guinea pig, and facilitator of one of the largest surveys on life experiences ever done, she is passionate about helping others improve their mental health and inspiring them to live intentional, regret free lives by going after fulfilling goals.

Bridget is a leading expert on the art, science, and path to becoming rich in life experiences. Growing up in Flint, MI, she used her love of music as inspiration and hustled her way into the largest record label in the world as a teenager - helping ... Show more

Melissa Hill Dees

Melissa Hill Dees

#SalesforceMVP, Melissa Hill Dees, has an MBA in Digital Entrepreneurship and is 10X Salesforce certified. With 15 years of experience as a nonprofit executive and over 10 years leveraging Salesforce, her goal is to automate what can be automated so that humans have more time to do what can’t be automated. She is a Nonprofit Community Group Leader, Dreamforce and Points of Light speaker, Open Source Commons Sprinter, serves on the Board of Amplify, and is the co-founder of Nonprofit Dreamin and #foodforce. Melissa is also a fellow in the SFDO Impact Labs Hunger cohort and the SFDC ISV Partner Advisory Board. She co-hosts Campfire Stories podcast and loves mentoring, especially historically excluded voices. Melissa’s first book, Accelerating Nonprofit Impact with Salesforce, was released in 2022 . In her free time, she advocates for #domoregood, #WiT, #EqualityForAll. Her favorite hobby is traveling!

#SalesforceMVP, Melissa Hill Dees, has an MBA in Digital Entrepreneurship and is 10X Salesforce certified. With 15 years of experience as a nonprofit executive and over 10 years leveraging Salesforce, her goal is to automate what can be automated so... Show more

Hanuma Pedaprolu

Hanuma Pedaprolu

Hanuma is an aspiring polyglot programmer and a learner for life. He likes to talk to fellow developers about various technologies, trends, and their applications to business problems. In his free time, he loves to travel across the country.

Hanuma is an aspiring polyglot programmer and a learner for life. He likes to talk to fellow developers about various technologies, trends, and their applications to business problems. In his free time, he loves to travel across the country. Show more

Adam Chan

Adam Chan

Adam is a tinkerer by nature and an educator at heart. He started out his career creating curriculum on various topics in technology and delivering them to universities, high schools, and libraries through a platform he built called Braincubator. He soon joined the industry as a software engineer at Apple working on developer tools. While building software was exciting, he thoroughly missed education and connecting audiences with new ideas and as a result found Developer Relations Engineer at Google working on Google's suite of Business Communications products. Today, Adam works closely with software engineers around the globe to build epic applications with large language models with vector databases like Weaviate.

Adam is a tinkerer by nature and an educator at heart. He started out his career creating curriculum on various topics in technology and delivering them to universities, high schools, and libraries through a platform he built called Braincubator. He ... Show more

Michelle Peterson Clark

Michelle Peterson Clark

Michelle is a speaker, author, content marketer, historian and mother of 3 boys.

As the Content Marketing Queen for the past 13 years, she has helped countless small businesses understand and develop their content strategies and focus on a customer first approach.

In 2017, Michelle and her husband John entered the world of ‘crypto’ and they have been involved with a number of Web3 companies including, Bolt.Global, Switcheo, Quantstamp, Emsany and she was the Head of Marketing for GhostMarket.io.

Michelle is a co-host of the Web3 By Three Podcast a weekly show that discusses NFT & Web3 news. https://www.youtube.com/@web3byThree/streams

Michelle has created the first History/Travel Newsletter on Paragraph and Mirror xyz, where customers can collect NFTs of her weekly editions. https://paragraph.xyz/@savvytravelhistorian

Michelle is a speaker, author, content marketer, historian and mother of 3 boys. As the Content Marketing Queen for the past 13 years, she has helped countless small businesses understand and develop their content strategies and focus on a custome... Show more

Brian Bell

Brian Bell

Open Source and Open Standard Evangelist

Open Source and Open Standard Evangelist Show more

Stuart Cooper

Stuart Cooper

Since 2014, Stuart Cooper has had the privilege of working for 3 of the top ranked IT Managed Service Providers, according to CRN, ChannelE2E, and MSPmentor, including the number one Healthcare Managed Services Provider, globally.

With around 50,000 hours of sales and business development experience, Stuart has had some interesting experiences. In his business development efforts for high growth companies over the years, Stuart has become skilled at M&A conversations, initiating several discussions about mergers and acquisitions and in one case, brokering a sizable company acquisition.

Stuart is a life-long learner and has traveled to Egypt, Turkey, Ephesus, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Venezuela, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Canada, Brazil and other countries. He has worked with Australians, New Zealanders, and folks from all over the world.

Stuart has an Executive (Pro) MBA from the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was awarded the Marketplace Masters Award. He has a Bachelors degree in Speech Communications from that same University.

Stuart and his wife, Jenny, have four children and live in Franklin.

Stuart is the identical twin brother of Craig Allen Cooper, author of “Glad You’re Hear”, with country music star, Walker Hayes.

You can follow Stuart at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartcooper2

Since 2014, Stuart Cooper has had the privilege of working for 3 of the top ranked IT Managed Service Providers, according to CRN, ChannelE2E, and MSPmentor, including the number one Healthcare Managed Services Provider, globally. With around 50,... Show more

Sebastian Daschner

Sebastian Daschner

Sebastian Daschner is a self-employed Java consultant, author and trainer and is enthusiastic about programming and Java. He is the author of the book “Architecting Modern Java EE Applications”. Sebastian is participating in open source standardization processes such as the JCP or the Eclipse Foundation, helping forming the future standards of Enterprise Java, and collaborating on various open source projects. For his contributions in the Java community and ecosystem he was recognized as a Java Champion, Oracle Developer Champion, and JavaOne Rockstar. Besides Java, Sebastian is a heavy user of cloud native technologies and anything related to enterprise software. He evangelizes computer science practices on https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com, his newsletter, and on Twitter via @DaschnerS. Sebastian kickstarted the JOnsen and jSpirit unconferences that connect Java developers throughout the globe. When not working with technology, he also loves to travel the world.

Sebastian Daschner is a self-employed Java consultant, author and trainer and is enthusiastic about programming and Java. He is the author of the book “Architecting Modern Java EE Applications”. Sebastian is participating in open source standardizati... Show more

Julie Heckman

Julie Heckman

Julie Heckman has channeled a love for math that began with high school algebra and calculus into a career converting data into opportunities for insurance, healthcare, and financial services clients. With a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Idaho, and earlier a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Math Education from the University of Missouri, she initially taught high school math. Spurred by an interest in the financial markets, she then joined an equities firm and later became a software developer who used Big Data to help stock traders evaluate their strategies, facilitating millions of stock trades annually.

Julie later worked for agriculture and financial technology startups where she used Big Data, streaming and traditional databases to find, identify, and manage data, making it useful and actionable for peers and leaders. But as she also learned, working at a startup becomes less about discovery — and more about production and implementation — as the company scales and matures.

Ever curious, Julie came to Right Triangle Consulting in 2020 and now has years of experience using proven data engineering expertise to help clients modernize their data architecture's and move to the cloud where they can spend more time using the data rather than managing servers that house it.

Julie enjoys working with a variety of client types to help them solve business problems. Often, she works with legacy data that needs to be cultivated for a specific purpose. For example, she and a peer collaborated with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and healthcare technology provider Vantage Technology, using their proprietary software combined with Azure Data Factory and Power BI. Working remotely, they gathered and analyzed data to help a nonprofit more efficiently deploy messaging designed to increase COVID-19 testing and vaccinations among residents in traditionally underserved communities.

Recently, and as more consultants have joined Right Triangle, she’s taken her passion for discovery to a new level by seeking, finding, and testing emerging technologies to see if they’ll meet clients’ needs or complement modern powerhouse tools like Snowflake. Increasingly, that includes reviewing new cloud-based and server-less solutions that stream, model, govern and transform data.

Typical of Julie’s passion for precision is her zeal for math, budgeting, and recipes used in baking. A voracious reader, she devours thrillers and mysteries. Driven by a natural curiosity for numbers and analysis, Julie is bullish about the future of data management and the emerging technologies that can best serve Right Triangle’s clients.

Julie Heckman has channeled a love for math that began with high school algebra and calculus into a career converting data into opportunities for insurance, healthcare, and financial services clients. With a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from ... Show more

Ian Bourne

Ian Bourne

My company, Cloud2020, is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform consultancy based in Gloucestershire, that operates across the UK and Ireland - we focus on the SMB market, helping to build their businesses through innovation.

I started out as a ship's navigator with Cunard before various roles in the navy, merchant navy, and Ministry of Defence, both in command and ultimately as an Admiralty Pilot serving in the UK and Gibraltar. After I came 'ashore' I ran companies in Hampshire and London, and the Careers Service National Association before starting my own business selling software at discount into the charity and education sector.

When the cloud came on the scene I quickly saw this was the way ahead and initially set up a business to deliver Office365. When Dynamics became a SaaS product I realised this was the product that most motivated my team, and also gave our customers some serious business advantages, so I moved the company to focus entirely to Dynamics 365.

I live with my wife in Gloucestershire along with our two horses, two goats, thirteen ducks, eight hens, three beehives and dog.

I love to spend my holidays yacht sailing, skiing or travelling and for relaxation I play saxophone and guitar in a band. On occasions you will also find me on the bridge of s.s. Shieldhall navigating this amazing ship around the Solent (https://ss-shieldhall.co.uk/)

My company, Cloud2020, is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform consultancy based in Gloucestershire, that operates across the UK and Ireland - we focus on the SMB market, helping to build their businesses through innovation. I started out a... Show more

Fred Brandon

Fred Brandon

Fred is a SharePoint Solutions Architect and Microsoft Certified Professional. With over 20 years of IT experience, he has developed solutions for clients across the globe. He's been a part of the SharePoint community since 2007 and enjoys using his creativity to solve problems. He's a visionary, world traveler, author, and avid Blockchain enthusiast.

Fred is a SharePoint Solutions Architect and Microsoft Certified Professional. With over 20 years of IT experience, he has developed solutions for clients across the globe. He's been a part of the SharePoint community since 2007 and enjoys using his ... Show more

Atulpriya Sharma

Atulpriya Sharma

Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.

In addition, I'm also a CNCF Ambassador and the organizer of CNCF Hyderabad. When I am not working, I’m a food & travel blogger & love exploring eateries & going on road trips. You can find me at @TheTechMaharaj on Twitter.

Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.... Show more

Paweł Siwek

Paweł Siwek

Pawel Siwek has been working in it for more than 20 years in many roles: architect, devops, .NET developer and even CTO in fin-tech startup for 2+ years. For the last 4 years Product Architect, fucing on making life easier for people who want to leverage AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud observability signals in Dynatrace. In my free time, I enjoy house-keeping: both traditional (garden & likes) and digital (home-assistant automations).
If there is still free time after all that: I love traveling, further.. better. :)

Pawel Siwek has been working in it for more than 20 years in many roles: architect, devops, .NET developer and even CTO in fin-tech startup for 2+ years. For the last 4 years Product Architect, fucing on making life easier for people who want to leve... Show more

Ayobami Olawale

Ayobami Olawale

Anything tech....

Anything tech.... Show more

Sash Ghosh

Sash Ghosh

Growth & Partnerships

Growth & Partnerships Show more

David Aronchick

David Aronchick

I am CEO and co-founder of Expanso, the company behind the distributed compute platform Bacalhau. This means I spend most of my time helping humans to convince machines to be smarter. I am only moderately successful at this.

Previously, I led product management for Kubernetes on behalf of Google, launched Google Kubernetes Engine, and co-founded the Kubeflow project, and led Open Source Machine Learning Strategy at Azure. I have also worked at Protocol Labs, Amazon and Chef and co-founded three startups.

When not spending too much time in service of electrons, I can be found on a mountain (on skis), traveling the world (via restaurants) or participating in kid activities, of which there are a lot more than I remember than when I was that age.

I am CEO and co-founder of Expanso, the company behind the distributed compute platform Bacalhau. This means I spend most of my time helping humans to convince machines to be smarter. I am only moderately successful at this. Previously, I led prod... Show more

Willonius Hatcher

Willonius Hatcher

Willonius Hatcher's journey began with a burning passion for creativity and technology, sparking an insatiable curiosity that would lead him into uncharted territories. Driven by innovation, he quickly became an award-winning Digital Strategist, AI expert, and Comedian, a modern renaissance man unafraid to break boundaries.

On Clubhouse, he took a daring leap, creating the first live serialized audio drama, the critically acclaimed soap opera, 'The Young and The Thirsty.' This bold endeavor was more than a creative feat; it marked a groundbreaking frontier in interactive entertainment.

Hatcher's technological prowess and artistic flair have reached beyond the expected. He's guided world-renowned brands like Samsung and Google to transformative marketing success, and his vibrant community on Clubhouse, the largest comedy community on the platform with over 250,000 members, stands as a testament to his ability to engage, entertain, and inspire.

His innovations have not only been celebrated on esteemed platforms like CNN and MTV but have also earned him speaker roles at Art Basel, Tedx, EthDenver, SXSW, and MIT Reality Hack. As the visionary founder of Blerd Factory, Hatcher's disruptive approach continues to reshape conventional strategies, reflecting his commitment to creative excellence and diverse voices.

But what truly sets Hatcher apart is not just his professional acumen. He's a man guided by the stars, finding joy in stargazing and constant learning. Whether performing stand-up comedy in the Metaverse using virtual reality or watching YouTube videos at double speed to fuel his relentless curiosity, Hatcher's life is a blend of creativity, technology, and joyous exploration.

A Fellow of prestigious programs and a beacon for diverse voices, Hatcher's story is one of continual growth, laughter, and unparalleled achievement. His tale paints the portrait of a man ever ready to explore, learn, and create, driven by a deep-seated mission to inspire others through his unique blend of humor and innovation.

Willonius Hatcher's journey began with a burning passion for creativity and technology, sparking an insatiable curiosity that would lead him into uncharted territories. Driven by innovation, he quickly became an award-winning Digital Strategist, AI e... Show more

Richard Harding

Richard Harding

A Digital forensics student at the University of South Wales.

A Digital forensics student at the University of South Wales. Show more

Daniel Carril

Daniel Carril

Ex-amazonian, I use my secret knowledge to solve problems and make life easier for those working with me.

Ex-amazonian, I use my secret knowledge to solve problems and make life easier for those working with me. Show more

Natalie Crüe

Natalie Crüe

Natalie Crüe is a cultural producer, consultant, Global Hip-Hop connoisseur, and activist. Natalie sees arts and culture as a vehicle for social change - spearheading various cultural, brand, and social impact initiatives around the globe that aim to foster civic engagement, spark dialogue, and amplify communities.

She co-developed the Metaverse Music Festival aka MVMF, the first global music festival rooted in the metaverse; Co-produces Huellas Festival in Southern Spain; and contributes to a number of DAOs and creative communities in the Web3 ecosystem. Recently, she founded Web3 Uncut -- a dynamic tech lab building micro experiments to support creators on chain and a newsletter centering Web3 arts & culture.

You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @NatalieCrue.

Natalie Crüe is a cultural producer, consultant, Global Hip-Hop connoisseur, and activist. Natalie sees arts and culture as a vehicle for social change - spearheading various cultural, brand, and social impact initiatives around the globe that aim to... Show more

Ritvi Mishra

Ritvi Mishra

A person who loves making things and then talking about the !

A person who loves making things and then talking about the ! Show more

Jayashree Venkatesh

Jayashree Venkatesh

Jayashree Venkatesh has 25 plus years experience leading Data projects at multiple corporates and has deep understanding of data platforms and common concerns and challenges faced by many corporates. Jayashree in her current role at Onix is a data migration and analytics partner to lead large scale data migrations and Data/ AI solutions for 20+ Fortune 100 customers. She is well aware of common issues and concerns faced by customers with their data footprint and their futuristic data goals and can share ideas on some futuristic design practices and functionalities to leverage to avoid landing on the same age old data challenges. Jayashree is a sought after speaker at many Chicago land IT and AI conventions and is a certified Fabric Analytics Engineer. She has a masters in Business and Technology management from DePaul university and has completed a leadership and communication program from Harvard University. Jayashree follows the mindful approach to life and likes to embrace the same on her corporate endeavors too.

Jayashree Venkatesh has 25 plus years experience leading Data projects at multiple corporates and has deep understanding of data platforms and common concerns and challenges faced by many corporates. Jayashree in her current role at Onix is a data m... Show more

Stu Waldron

Stu Waldron

44 years in travel IT. From Mainframes in the 70s to microservices and cloud exploitation. Recently a VP of architecture for a major travel IT provider.

44 years in travel IT. From Mainframes in the 70s to microservices and cloud exploitation. Recently a VP of architecture for a major travel IT provider. Show more

Carsten Lill

Carsten Lill

Carsten interessiert sich für das Finden und Umsetzen von smarten Lösungen für die Softwareentwicklung in komplexen Umgebungen. Dabei setzt er auf agile Ansätze und umfangreiche Kollaboration mit allen Stakeholdern für die Anforderungsermittlung. Eine seiner Lieblingsdomänen ist Aviation.

Carsten interessiert sich für das Finden und Umsetzen von smarten Lösungen für die Softwareentwicklung in komplexen Umgebungen. Dabei setzt er auf agile Ansätze und umfangreiche Kollaboration mit allen Stakeholdern für die Anforderungsermittlung. Ein... Show more

Shalon Busingye

Shalon Busingye

Former student at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Offered a bachelor's degree of Information and Technology. Innovator and business woman. Enthusiastic student!

Former student at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Offered a bachelor's degree of Information and Technology. Innovator and business woman. Enthusiastic student! Show more

Laila Eddaris

Laila Eddaris

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Sanika Kotgire

Sanika Kotgire

I'm a dedicated cloud enthusiast with certifications in AWS and GCP, and the published author of "Soaring Brimstone's Flight." Currently pursuing a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering at MITADT University, I also serve as the Chapter Lead for both the GeeksforGeeks and Microsoft Learn clubs. Additionally, I am a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, technical writer, blogger, and proficient public speaker. I actively engage in community-driven events, including Devfest by Google Developers Groups, Google Cloud Community Day by GDG Cloud, AWS Community Day, and Cloud Native Day.

I'm a dedicated cloud enthusiast with certifications in AWS and GCP, and the published author of "Soaring Brimstone's Flight." Currently pursuing a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering at MITADT University, I also serve as the Chapter Lead for b... Show more

Philip Riecks

Philip Riecks

Philip is enabling developers to frequently deliver software with more confidence through actionable tech content and hands-on consulting.

He's an indie hacker, frequent Southeast Asia traveler, squash player, padel newbie, and enjoys jogging in nature.

Philip is enabling developers to frequently deliver software with more confidence through actionable tech content and hands-on consulting. He's an indie hacker, frequent Southeast Asia traveler, squash player, padel newbie, and enjoys jogging in n... Show more

Manfred Wolff

Manfred Wolff

see https://www.xing.com/profile/Manfred_Wolff/cv?sc_o=mxb_p

bis 1992 Anwendungsprogrammierer im Bereich SPS
1992 - 1998 Studium der Informatik, Abschluss Diplom
ab 1996 Freiberuflicher Entwickler, Architekt, agile Coach ....
ab 2014 Technical Senior Consultant bei team neusta in Bremen
ab 2019 Professional Coach, agiler Coach

see https://www.xing.com/profile/Manfred_Wolff/cv?sc_o=mxb_p bis 1992 Anwendungsprogrammierer im Bereich SPS 1992 - 1998 Studium der Informatik, Abschluss Diplom ab 1996 Freiberuflicher Entwickler, Architekt, agile Coach .... ab 2014 Technical ... Show more

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