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Daniel Sogl is Director of AI Engineering at SHI GmbH. With a background in FinTech and IT consulting, he helps internal teams and enterprise clients put AI to work in two areas: AI-assisted software engineering and Generative AI. He speaks regularly at international conferences and workshops on turning AI tools into measurable gains in developer productivity and code quality.

Julia is a Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft, helping large-scale organizations accelerate dev workflows through pragmatic, end-to-end platform engineering. With a background as a Software Engineer, Dev Lead, and Cloud Solution Architect, she speaks fluent developer and management—and knows how to bridge the gap without losing either side in translation. She’s a big-picture thinker who also loves to understand the details. Web and frontend will always have a place in her ❤️. Outside work, Julia is a gamer, a proud fahrradmaus, and a former quarterback for a women’s American football team (yes, really). On Wednesdays, she smashes the patriarchy.

Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies

AI Architect @ Payoneer

**Dennis Nerush** is the Director of AI at Elementor, where he leads the company's AI strategy and guides teams through the integration of GenAI technologies that enhance productivity while preserving human creativity and accountability. With over 15 years of experience as a developer, manager, director, and adviser across multiple tech companies and startups, Dennis has dedicated his career to building people-first cultures rooted in continuous learning, curiosity, and growth. He believes that when individuals thrive, teams and businesses flourish, a philosophy that has guided him in founding dozens of teams and mentoring over 100 managers. Dennis is a seasoned public speaker and writer who shares his insights on AI integration, leadership, and team performance at international conferences. He's passionate about helping leaders develop the skills and confidence to excel in a world where human leadership and AI collaboration go hand in hand. In his free time, Dennis loves cooking and spending time with his kids. His main goal is to help people reach the next level.

Software Engineer, technical blogger, and speaker with over a decade of experience building modern web applications. Experienced in greenfield development, legacy modernization, and performance optimization. Passionate about JavaScript, modern web technologies, and sharing practical knowledge with the developer community.

Claude Code Templates Creator, AI Tech Lead at Hedgineer.

Juri Strumpflohner is Sr. Director of Developer Experience at Nx, where he works on Nx and Polygraph, and on how teams run AI agents across large codebases. Throughout his career he has worked in various roles from being a software developer, engineering manager as well as a software architect consulting for some of the world's biggest companies. Juri is a Google Developer Expert and international speaker. Find him at juri.dev or @juristr.

I lead the Incubator team at Callstack, where we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with React Native even further. I’m also part of the Microsoft MVP program. I’ve created a couple of libraries used by many React Native developers in their day-to-day work: Rozenite, Harness, and Voltra. Most of my work lives somewhere between developer tooling, React Native internals, and figuring out how to make things work even when they probably shouldn’t.

Author of the "Fluent React" bestselling book, software engineer with 23 years of experience, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast.

Founding Engineering Lead | Software Architect & CTO | AI Infrastructure | Agentic Systems

Dante is a consultant and software crafter, helping companies develop well-crafted software solutions, mainly with .NET and TypeScript. He believes great software is built by collaborative teams where quality, testing, and continuous improvement are part of the culture. As a public speaker, he shares his passion for software craftsmanship with developers who want to sharpen their skills, write high-quality code, and take pride in their work.

Maish Saidel-Keesing is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS with over 20 years of trailblazing IT expertise. His visionary leadership in architecting intricate systems has driven industry evolution, with a keen focus on cloud, automation, and open-source solutions. Maish's mission to unify Developers and Operators has revolutionized operational harmony, erased silos, and mitigated disruptions. As a passionate advocate for automation, he propels efficient architectures, driving progress that enriches both technology and lives.

As a professional question asker and passionate learner, Natalie found that the intersection of AI, code, and security sparks joy. She is an AI Engineer, a former OpenAI Developer Ambassador, and a Google Developer Expert for Go. In addition to teaching DevOps at the university HTW Berlin, she is a public speaker and conference and community organizer in Berlin.

I'm a full-stack engineer at Corsearch with deep proficiency in TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks. I work on building and integrating AI agentic applications in production, from custom AI-powered tools to MCP-based service integrations. I'm passionate about AI-assisted engineering and using it as a practical force multiplier to ship better software, faster.

I’m an AI Agent Developer who has been coding with AI for the past six years,starting from the early days of GitHub Copilot. As one of Copilot and Cursor’s earliest users, I now primarily work on building coding agents and run workshops across different domains and speak frequently on AI productivity, helping developers unlock the full potential of AI-powered tools. My expertise spans the full generative AI pipeline, from fine-tuning models and optimizing prompts to running rigorous evaluations and building scalable agents. Grounded in a strong background in test architecture, I design AI agents that balance complexity with reliability. I focus on constantly refining and optimizing these systems to push the boundaries of what modern AI software can achieve

Eddy is a passionate Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience with a focus on front-end web development, but also expanding in backend, mobile development, and DevOps. Eddy works as a consultant at FrontValue, and he works on SaaS projects on the side.

Tushar is a software engineer at Abnormal AI, building the next generation lights-on Software Factory and leading the AI transformation initiatives

Tisha Chawla works at the Max-Planck-Institute for Software Systems in the Machine Teaching Group. Previously, she was a Software Engineer at Microsoft within Commerce & Ecosystems where she built agentic systems engineered to run reliably against production data. Her work centers on the structural foundations of agent infrastructure: durable state management, deterministic execution frameworks, and self-healing orchestration layers that scale beyond isolated demos. Alongside Susheem Koul, she is the co-creator of AgentPlane, an open-source infrastructure layer built for teams deploying production-grade agents. Tisha is a published researcher with peer-reviewed papers in applied machine learning across venues like APNET (SIGCOMM) and ASONAM. A frequent speaker on developer productivity and deterministic AI architectures, she recently presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco and regularly delivers deep-dive technical sessions to engineering teams across Microsoft.

Susheem Koul is a Software Engineer at Microsoft with 7+ years of experience in product development, currently focused on designing and building agentic systems. His work spans distributed systems, AI agents, software architecture, and the challenges of bringing AI-powered systems into production. He is particularly interested in the intersection of AI and distributed systems, exploring topics such as agent reliability, observability, token governance, and deterministic execution. He regularly speaks and writes about AI engineering, agentic systems, and software architecture. Susheem presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco and regularly delivers technical sessions to engineering audiences. Outside of work, he writes about the philosophy of learning, software architecture, and technology on his Substack.

Gil Zilberfeld

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Cursor Ambassador • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps. A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications. With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following: - 30,000 LinkedIn connections - 7,000 Medium subscribers - 100,000+ monthly readers - 4 IT books.

I'm a Platform Engineer at Storytel, where I work on building and running AI agentic systems. I've spent the past couple of years working with AI agents, and I hold a master's degree in Neurotechnologies and Software Engineering along with a Solutions Architect certification. I have a natural fascination with the parallels between the human brain and the systems we build. I'm also an active conference speaker, regularly sharing my work on AI agents and platform engineering with the wider tech community.

London, UK

Lorenzo Dal Col is the Vulkan and OpenGL Conformance Test Suite tech lead at Khronos and a software consultant specialising in 3D graphics. Over more than fifteen years he has built high-performance software and led engineering teams. He was product manager for ARM's Mali GPU developer tools and has architected real-time 3D engines for VR and AR. He works across Vulkan, OpenGL and Metal, mobile performance, and computer vision, and now builds development processes around AI agents. He is based in Italy and has spoken at GDC, Google I/O, and Nordic Game.

Olena is a Staff Developer Advocate at Confluent and a recognized expert in data streaming and analytics. With two decades of experience in software engineering, she has built mission-critical applications, led high-performing teams, and driven large-scale technology adoption at industry leaders like Nokia, HERE Technologies, AWS, and Aiven. A passionate advocate for real-time data processing and AI-driven applications, Olena empowers developers and organizations to use the power of streaming data. She is an AWS Community Builder, a dedicated mentor, and a volunteer instructor at a nonprofit tech school, helping to shape the next generation of engineers. As an international speaker and thought leader, Olena regularly presents at top global conferences, sharing deep technical insights and hands-on expertise. Whether through her talks, workshops, or content, she is committed to making complex technologies accessible and inspiring innovation in the developer community.

Dries Samyn is a software engineer with 27 years of experience, currently working on data platform and streaming infrastructure. He spends most of his time on the systems where being subtly wrong is expensive: high-throughput data pipelines, analytical infrastructure, and the tooling around them. He is the creator of Kapper, an open-source Kotlin database library, and writes about critical thinking in AI-assisted engineering at criticalengineer.ai.

Kaan Karakas is an Applied AI Engineer at Delphi, the company's second AI hire. He scaled Delphi from 10k to 100k daily conversations, built agent memory and tool-calling into the production harness, and ships production MCP integrations and voice clones of real people. Previously at Salesforce AI; studied at NYU Courant.

Jakob Heuser is the founder of Taskless, where he's building tooling that generates and enforces code-quality rules so AI coding agents stay aligned with a team's standards. He was part of LinkedIn's web engineering team through its 2007–2013 growth, helping scale the group from roughly 40 to 200 engineers, and later led the Core Experience organization at Pinterest. He's a longtime open-source contributor and writes about engineering at codedrift.com.

Leading the company's infrastructure, backend, frontend and data domains, designing and implementing complex architectures, bringing observability and performance to the top level. Driving the company's AI transformation, reshaping the structure and atmosphere of R&D to make AI a native part of how the team works. Certified AWS Solution Architect & AWS Community Builder with more than 15 years of experience in various software development positions, from team lead to Architect, and today as a CTO. International speaker, blogger, holds Philosophy B.A & M.A degrees, plays the piano and the guitar for relaxation, married and father of two.

Susanna is a Staff Software Engineer passionate about engineering excellence in the adoption of AI. She has been a software developer with experience spanning across multiple industries, from small agile teams in big corporates ( CNN, Toyota Connected, FairFX, McKinsey/QB) to early stage startups, with extensive experience in web development (React, Ember, Angular, PWAs), GraphQL, and all things GenAI. Susanna is currently a Staff engineer at Typeform, working at the realms of building products in cutting edge AI. She is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies, and has spoken at multiple conferences worldwide, including Code Mesh 2017, Full Stack Fest 2018,Full Stack Europe 2019 and React Miami 2022. She currently sits on the Google Developer Advisory Board

Yossi is a Principal Engineer at Incredibuild, where he works on build acceleration and the unified cache layer behind Incredibuild's GitHub Actions runners. He also founded islo.dev: persistent agentic sandboxes on real Linux VMs. His talks focus on the unglamorous parts: caches, compile farms, snapshots, and the plumbing that decides whether agent infrastructure actually scales.

Filip Hric is a DevRel at Replay.io He teaches testers about web development and developers about testing. Filip has a Cypress.io ambassador, leads a “Learn Cypress.io” community on Discord and has a blog at filiphric.com where he publishes Cypress.io tips. He’s an international keynote speaker and leading expert on test automation in Cypress.io. As author and instructor of live Cypress workshop, he has taught hundreds of testers and developers about good practices and advanced concepts for testing in Cypress. Enjoys running, playing guitar and spending time with his wife and four children.

Georgios has spent 16 years building software in startup environments, always the one responsible for making the technology work — and always cleaning up what happens when speed beats judgment. In 2019 he co-founded Zero to MVP, where his team has shipped over 25 products that can pivot and scale. Lately, a new kind of project keeps landing on his desk: vibe-coded products that look great, work on the surface, and are quietly falling apart underneath. He's been untangling AI-generated codebases and figuring out what constraints would have prevented the mess in the first place. He speaks internationally about pragmatic engineering, developer health, and what happens when we hand powerful tools to people without guardrails.

Yomi is a Senior Software Engineer at Polar Signals working on continuous profiling visualization tools. When I'm not coding, I enjoy watching The Office and taking pictures on my analog camera.

Waldemar Neto is co-founder of TechLeads.club, the largest community for senior engineers in Brazil with 3,000+ members, and lead author of the Modular Architectures whitepaper. He spent 15+ years as Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager at companies like Atlassian, ThoughtWorks and Meltwater, designing distributed systems at scale and leading large migrations for products with millions of users. He also runs one of the largest Brazilian YouTube channels on software architecture and AI-assisted development (Waldemar Neto - Dev Lab).

Innokenty Bodrov is a systems analyst, product builder, and creator of AnalystCraft and the open-source TDPD Product Framework. He designs AI-assisted product development workflows that turn project context and user scenarios into executable acceptance criteria before coding agents begin implementation. His current work focuses on agentic development, traceability, and keeping human judgment at the architecture and UAT gates.

Florian is an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in software development and open-source contributions. He has worked across a range of technical roles, contributing to everything from early-stage startups to large-scale cloud platforms. Throughout his career, he’s focused on building scalable systems and leading high-performing teams with a strong emphasis on engineering culture and continuous improvement. He’s also an active open-source contributor, with work spanning tools and ecosystems like the Linux kernel, PHP, Node.js, and npm. Whether experimenting with languages like Go or Common Lisp or building developer-focused tools, Florian enjoys staying close to the code and sharing knowledge with the broader community. Currently, Florian serves as Field CTO at Platform.sh, where he helps connect technical strategy with customer success, bridging the gap between engineering and real-world platform adoption.

Jack Fitzsimons is the Co-Founder and CTO of Oblivious, a Dublin-based technology company building tools that help organisations understand, manage, and improve how AI is used across their engineering workflows. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published at and reviewed for a range of top machine learning and data science conferences including NeurIPS, UAI, Entropy, ECML and others. He has worked on a wide range of data-centric challenges in industry; from topics in computer vision at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to quantitative data analysis at ElectroRoute, the European energy trading subsidiary of Mitsubishi. Jack has been an active member of the UN's Privacy-Preserving Technologies Task Team and a contributor to the NIST Differential Privacy Registry.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I work on OpenShift AI. Most of my recent work has been building CI pipelines that run AI agents against incoming requirements: scoring them, reviewing them from multiple angles, and generating specs before engineers start coding. I also created Upstream Pulse for tracking OSS contributions and cypress-test-explorer for VS Code. I spoke at React Advanced London 2024 (GitNation) on Server-Driven UI.