This Year’s Speakers

We’re excited about this awesome group of speakers and sessions for 2024. We’ll update this with the schedule details soon!

Abbey Perini

Web Developer | Technical Blogger
Abbey Perini is many things - a metro Atlanta native, a person of many hobbies, and a full-stack web...

Adrienne Braganza Tacke

Senior Developer Advocate at Cisco
Adrienne is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, author of the best-selling book Coding fo...

Aldo Socarras

Android Engineer at Square
Aldo Socarras is a Cuban-born software engineer and content creator based in Miami, Florida. With ex...

Alex Riviere

Co-Organizer for Atlanta Vue.js Meetup and Co-Orga...
Alex Riviere is a Senior Frontend Developer for Nexcor Technologies and the Co-Organizer for the Atl...

Anthony Russell

Software Engineer
Anthony Russell, is a software engineer with over 11 years of professional experience. He has a focu...

Ashley Holcomb

Software engineer at JPMorgan Chase, lead instruct...
Ashley Holcomb is a native of the greater St. Louis area (Go Blues!) who landed in Columbus, OH afte...

Benjamin Winkler

Privacy Attorney and Software Developer
Benjamin Winkler is a software developer and privacy attorney in Columbus.

Brandon Bruno

Solution Engineer at Sitecore, Inc.
Brandon has been hacking away at code since a dusty Commodore 64 appeared from his parents' attic in...

Brian McKeiver

Microsoft Azure MVP; Co-Owner at BizStream
Brian McKeiver is Co-Owner at BizStream, digital agency in Allendale, MI. At BizStream he is a solut...

Brian Meeker

Senior Engineer at GetThru
Brian Meeker is a full stack engineer who occasionally leaves his basement in Indiana. Currently, he...

Burton Smith

Technical Lead at Microsoft
I am a technical lead at Microsoft working with design systems and web components. I am also the ...

Carey Payette

Trillium Innovations
Carey Payette is a Senior Software Engineer with Trillium Innovations (a Solliance partner), an ASPI...

Chris Gardner

Senior Products and Platform Engineering Manager f...
Chris Gardner is a Senior Products and Platform Engineering Manager for Accenture, the Chairman of t...

Chris Nelson

Co-Founder and Principal Engineer
Chris Nelson is a Co-Founder of Launch Scout. He created the company’s apprenticeship program, mento...

Christopher Robinson

Security Lorax, Open Source Cat Herder
Christopher Robinson (aka CRob) is the Director of Security Communications at Intel Product Assuranc...

David Neal

Ambassador of Awesome
David is a family man, software developer, musician, illustrator, and Microsoft MVP living in North ...

Dennis Dunn

Serial Hobbyist
As a retired dark-matter hacker, Dennis has written code for academia, state government, and the pri...

Dev Agrawal

Developer Advocate at Clerk
I am a full time Developer Advocate at Clerk and I make content on Twitch on YouTube regarding softw...

Drake Lundstrom

Cloud Consultant and Lifetime Learner at Neudesic
Drake is a lifelong learner, and he became a software developer so there would always be more to lea...

Glenn Harmon Jr.

VP Engineering Decision Desk HQ
I'm a Father, Husband, Cyclist, VP Engineering, and Champion of Tough Conversations.

Haley Hendershot Malone

User Experience Research Lead, Cardinal Health
Haley has over 8 years of industry experience helping clients uncover their true customer needs and ...

Henry Berson Saint-Juste

The Solutions Architect
Henry Saint-Juste is a solution architect at NetJets, based out of Columbus, Ohio. Henry has a decad...

Jay Harris

Problem Solver at Arana Software
Jay is a speaker, software consultant, and owner of Arana Software. He has been developing on the we...

Jeffrey Miller

Technologist, Speaker, Author
Jeffrey Miller is a Senior Consultant at Manifest Solutions in Columbus, Ohio. Jeffrey has over two ...

Jonathan Knapp

Programmer / Consultant at Coffee and Code
An experienced independent contractor who has helped companies successfully plan and implement techn...

Jonathan "J." Tower

Partner & Principal Consultant, Trailhead Technolo...
Jonathan, or J as he's known to friends, is a husband, a father, and the owner of Trailhead Technolo...

Jordan Thayer

AI Practice Lead for SEP
Jordan Thayer received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2012 from the University of New Hampshi...

Kathryn Grayson Nanz

UI Designer & Front-end Developer
In 2013, I graduated with a BFA and took my first job as a Junior Graphic Designer at a small, bouti...

Kevin Griffin

Owner of Swift Kick, Microsoft MVP
Kevin Griffin is an author, teacher, mentor, and consultant focusing in software development. He is...

Kevin Mireles

Creator Minimum Viable Replacement & Uncertainty, ...
Kevin Mireles has a BA in BS and a PhD from the school of Hard Knocks, which he earned after success...

Kyle Jenkins

Trust Changes Everything
Kyle Jenkins is driven to help you ease the pain of work, whether it’s technology bleeding resources...

Lino Tadros

Technical Fellow and Distinguished Executive
Distinguished executive leader and renowned technical expert in AI, Machine Learning, and IoT. Leads...

Liz Johnson

Staff Software Engineer at Silicon Hemisphere
Liz is a Full Stack software engineer with Sillicon Hemisphere - a software consultancy. She has bui...

Matt Eland

Microsoft MVP & AI Specialist at Leading EDJE
Matt Eland is a software engineering leader and data scientist who has served as a senior engineer, ...

Matt "Kelly" Williams

Founder of Making Software Greener, Mentor, Public...
Matt "Kelly" Williams is the founder of Making Software Greener, the creator of the Sustainable IT M...

Michael Eaton

Principal Consultant at Improving
Michael Eaton is a proven technical leader and developer with almost three decades of experience foc...

Michael Gregory

Site Reliability Engineer at OverDrive
Michael Gregory started his career as a full-stack web developer, but has gradually moved deeper int...

Mike Hand

on the web. in the cloud.
Mike has been in software development for over 12 years, working everywhere from top 10 defense cont...

Natalie Hylton

Technology Talent Development, Vice President, JPM...
Meet Natalie, an impostor extraordinaire who came to banking infrastructure technology with a degree...

Rachel Gregory

User Experience Director at Great American Insuran...
Rachel Gregory has over 10 years of industry experience helping companies become more user centered ...

Robert Herbig

AI Practice Lead at SEP
Robert Herbig is passionate about leading teams to deliver products users love. He is a Lead Soft...

Sam Basu

Developer Advocate
Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget-lover and Developer Advocate at P...

Samuel Gomez

Microsoft MVP and Tech Lead at Geneca
I've worked in software development for 15+ years (mostly Microsoft technologies) and love the probl...

Scott McAllister

Developer Advocate at ngrok
Scott McAllister is a Developer Advocate for ngrok. He has been building web applications in several...

Sean Wedig

Principal Software Engineer and Mustache-wielder a...
Sean Wedig is a Principal Software Engineer, tech talk organizer, mustache-wielder, and general loud...

Shawn Wildermuth

Microsoft MVP, Speaker and Pluralsight Author
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the ea...

Simon MacDonald

Head of Developer Experience at Begin
Simon has over twenty years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects, inclu...

Steve Smith

I Help Teams Deliver Better Software
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality...

zoe Steinkamp

Developer Advocate InfluxDB
I'm Zoe Steinkamp, a Developer Advocate for InfluxData with a background in front-end software engin...