This Year’s Speakers

We’re excited about this awesome group of speakers and sessions for 2025. We’ll update this with the schedule details soon!

AL Rodriguez

Developer, Developer, Developer
AL Rodriguez is a developer, cloud enthusiast, sometimes-blogger, and definitely NOT 3 kids in a tre...

Alex Riviere

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

Amanda Lange

Senior Agile Delivery Lead, NetJets
Scrum master/ Product Owner with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry...

Ash Banaszek

UX Product Lead
Ash Banaszek is a passionate and outspoken UX advocate at Valorem Reply with over a decade of experi...

Barret Blake

#MicrosoftMVP, speaker, husband, father, solutions...
Microsoft MVP, husband, father, speaker, mentor, writer, solutions architect, former manager, develo...

Bob Fornal

Senior Developer with a passion for learning, test...
My focus is on front-end development: JavaScript, CSS, SVG, Angular, React, React-Native, Vue, and I...

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...

Braydon Coyer

Senior Frontend Engineer at LogicGate
Braydon Coyer is a Senior Frontend Engineer at LogicGate, where he plays a key role in developing an...

Brendan Enrick

Mentoring, Training, and Coaching Developers
I've been speaking about coding for over a decade. Everything changes, but everything is the same. ...

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...

Bruce Hubbard

Senior Software Developer at VNDLY
Bruce Hubbard is a Senior Software Developer with VNDLY (a Workday company). He has been developing...

Burton Smith

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

Cameron Presley

Knowledge Sharer and Problem Solver
Cameron Presley is a Consultant for Lean TECHniques (https://leantechniques.com/), a speaker, and a ...

Chad Green

Sr. Systems Architect at Jasper Engines | Cloud Te...
Chad Green is a seasoned Senior Systems Architect at Jasper Engines & Transmissions with a distingui...

Chris Ayers

Senior SRE @ Microsoft
Chris Ayers is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Microsoft’s AzRel Risk SRE team, drawing on yea...

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 - OpenSSF
Christopher Robinson (aka CRob) is the Chief Security Architect for the Open Source Security Foundat...

Cory House

Author / Consultant
Cory is a Pluralsight author, 11 time Microsoft MVP, and international speaker. He is founder of rea...

Dan Keck

Web Application Developer/Digital Accessibility Co...
Dan has been a web application developer for twenty years, mostly using .NET and Microsoft SQL Serve...

David Lucas

Kotlin Server-Side Enthusiast
David Lucas is a software engineer with over 25 years of experience in IT to include Fortune 500 co...

Dev Agrawal

Software Engineer, Smart Data
I build and teach how to build awesome fullstack applications. I work as a software engineer at Smar...

DJ Daugherty

augustwenty, CTO
Ever since DJ decided not to pursue a career as a Jedi (age 12), he has been drawn to making things....

Elena Marquetti-Ali

Marquetti Consulting - President & Lead Consultant
Elena is a highly-rated professional speaker with 20+ years of experience as a leadership coach, gro...

Eric Potter

Director of Technical Education
Eric is the Director of Technical Education for Sweetwater and a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and...

Gene Gotimer

DevSecOps Engineer
Gene Gotimer is a DevSecOps Engineer who loves playing with new tools, focusing on agile processes, ...

Guy Royse

Developer Advocate at Redis
Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software...

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...

Jeff McWherter

Chief Operating Officer at Gravity Works Design
Jeff McWherter is a seasoned business leader and tenacious problem solver with over 26 years in the ...

Jeff Valore

Web dev, JS mentor, Yarn contributor, and teck tin...
Jeff has over 20 years of experience in software development, covering everything from CSS to CDK. H...

Jeffrey T. Fritz

.NET Community Guy and Live Streamer
Jeff Fritz is a principal program manager in Microsoft’s Developer Division on the .NET Community Te...

Jennifer Wadella

VP of Frontend Engineering, Bitovi
Often described as a force of nature, Jennifer is a visionary leader with a proven track record in m...

Jeremy Clark

Developer Betterer
Jeremy helps developers by sharing his own struggles, mostly in technology, but also with being more...

Jerry Nixon

Microsoft SQL Server, Product Manager
Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft Product Manager for SQL Server, focusing on SQL Developer Experiences and D...

Jon Fazzaro

I help people make software cheaper to change.
Jon is a Product Engineering Leader, Coach, Intrapreneur, and Benevolent Cage-Rattler. He has been a...

Jonathan Peppers

Engineer, .NET for Android, Microsoft
I used to build apps in C#. Now I build *tools* to build apps in C#. Engineer on the .NET Android / ...

Jordan Thayer

AI Strategist 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...

Kelly Morrison

Solutions Architect at Daugherty Business Solution...
Kelly Morrison is a native of Georgia with a BS in mathematics and a PhD in computer engineering. He...

Lance Finney

Angular Developer and Instructor
After more than a decade focused on the Java desktop world, I've been in the Angular/JavaScript/Type...

Lindsay Knoll

Advancement - IT Digital Accessibility at The Ohio...
Lindsay Knoll is a Digital Accessibility Coordinator at Ohio State University. Lindsay is a form...

Mark Tinderholt

Microsoft Azure, Principal Architect (aka "The Azu...
An experienced tech professional with a broad journey, Mark began in application development, evolvi...

Matt Eland

AI Specialist & Wizard at Leading EDJE
An AI Specialist and Wizard at Leading EDJE who is known to teach software engineering, AI, and data...

Matt Righter

augustwenty - Solutions Consultant
Matt is a lifelong learner who finds inspiration in the experiences of the people using the products...

Mike Benkovich

Exploring the possible
A developer, business owner, consultant, cloud architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an online instruct...

Mitchel Sellers

Flying Code Ninja!
Mitchel Sellers is globally known as a 16-time Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, a DNN MVP, is an MCP (M...

Natalie Hylton

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

Nicole Hoying

Senior Solutions Engineer - Leading EDJE
Nicole Hoying is a Senior Solutions Engineer with Leading EDJE. She has more than 15 years of develo...

Randy Pagels

DevOps Architect and GitHub Trainer at Xebia USA |...
I am a seasoned DevOps Architect and GitHub Trainer at Xebia USA, with over three decades of experie...

Richard Dudley

Senior Data Engineer
With over 20 years of technology experience, Rich is a seasoned data professional and a practiced cl...

Robert Herbig

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

Ryan Albertsun

Co-Founder @ Buttons
Hi I’m Ryan Albertson, I design software, I draw, I paint, I sculpt, I play games, I even code. I ru...

Ryan Booz

Developer Advocate at Redgate
Ryan is an Advocate at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL. Ryan has been working as a PostgreSQL advocat...

Ryan Carroll

Sr Software Engineer - CoverMyMeds
Ryan loves putting software and technology to work solving fun and interesting problems both at work...

Sam Basu

Developer Advocate
Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP and a Developer Advocacy Manager at Progr...

Sandi Barr

Front-end Architect
Sandi Barr is a Front-end Architect at RAZR Marketing where she collaborates with teams of engineers...

Seth Petry-Johnson

Pointy-haired boss by day, coder by night
Seth spent 21 years as a professional developer/architect before finally joining the dark side of ma...

Stephanie Wightman

Senior Software Engineer
A seasoned tech leader with over 15 years of experience, Stephanie has worn many hats, from founding...

Stephen Shary

Principal Engineer at ACV Auctions
I am a full-stack developer and technical lead that uses Python, JVM languages and Javacript. I enj...

Tasha Penwell

Pretty Nerdy, Founder/Developer
Tasha Penwell is the founder and developer of Pretty Nerdy where she provides digital marketing serv...

Taylor Desseyn

vp of global community @ torc.dev
Taylor is a skilled people connector, dedicated to helping individuals find their perfect career fit...

Tristan Chiappisi

Principal Data Architect - Cetera
With over a decade and a half of programming and working with data, I have a passion for anything re...