Edith is a trusted advisor to executives and an experienced strategic designer and facilitator. She has successfully guided enterprise leaders and cross-functional teams through digital transformation in the federal and non-profit sectors.

With 25 years of federal consulting experience, Edith has supported a wide range of large, complex civilian agencies. Her expertise spans innovation, Agile methodologies, business and IT integration, information architecture, and digital design.

Jorge Castro is a global transformation leader who drives enterprise agility, DevOps, SRE, and AI innovation across 20+ countries. With 12+ years of experience spanning software delivery, leadership, and coaching, he enables holistic strategies that deliver measurable business impact. A sought-after international speaker, Jorge shares practical insights on testing automation, continuous delivery, and AI adoption. Guided by a people-first philosophy centered on productivity, improvement, innovation, and joy, he inspires organizations to build sustainable cultures of excellence and continuous transformation.

Eduardo is a professional with over 25 years of experience, including the past 15 years serving as a Trusted Advisor, leading digital transformation initiatives and cloud adoption programs for major national and global enterprises across diverse industries such as Finance, Banking, Insurance, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Retail, Government, Healthcare, and the Public Sector. He works directly with C-level executives to propose new business models and technology roadmaps that drive greater efficiency, reliability, and scalability across the organization.

Michel is a technology professional with over 25 years of experience leading engineering, architecture, data, and platform teams. His career includes tenures at prominent companies such as Accenture, Itaú BBA, TOTVS, JSL, Riachuelo, Raízen, Renner, Burger King (Zamp), and Myralis Pharma. As an expert in digital transformation and technical department structuring, he specializes in building scalable, secure solutions that drive business value. He possesses extensive experience in managing CAPEX/OPEX budgets exceeding R$ 20M/year.

Valéria is an Agile Team Coach and IT Project Leader at Bosch Digital with nearly 15 years of experience in international projects, digital products, and agile leadership across the automotive and technology industries. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Engineering, an MBA in Project Management, and a Master’s in Informatics. Her career spans roles at Renault Group, AnyMarket, Volvo Trucks, and Bosch, where she have led multicultural teams, chassis development projects, SAP programs, and digital product initiatives.

Giuliano is a Socio-Technical Architect, Solution, Data and AI. He’s been working in software development since 2001 across desktop, mobile, web, cloud, data, and AI platforms. He’s been studying Team Topologies in depth since 2022. During this time, he’s been publishing on LinkedIn, writing articles on the subject, and eventually has plans to publish a book on socio-technical architecture.

Jason is a software engineering leader with 16 years of experience in software development. Over that time I’ve worked in full-stack, DevOps, backend and architecture. He served as a technical lead and technical director and his core competencies are SOLID software design, cloud and distributed architecture, and automation. These are grounded in systems thinking, continuous improvement, and the Socratic method. He loves solving problems and have a sociotechnical lens with which he's doing it.

Christopher Marsh is a socio-technical consultant who specializes in helping companies develop a culture of continuous improvement. His focus is empowering software engineering teams to produce customer value through the fast flow of software development, and during his own career as a software engineer he has been a longstanding advocate and practitioner of continuous delivery.

Ajay Chankramath is a seasoned technology leader with over three decades of experience in software engineering, platform strategy, and enterprise transformation. Currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer and Global Managing Director for Platform & Products at Brillio, Ajay leads the firm’s efforts to deliver engineering excellence across horizontal capabilities and vertical industry solutions. He has previously held senior leadership roles at globally respected organizations such as Thoughtworks, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Broadridge, and Xilinx, consistently driving innovation in developer experience, cloud-native platforms, and large-scale modernization programs.

As a Technology Director of Architecture and Platform Engineering with over 10 years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams and driving digital transformation initiatives, I am deeply committed to optimizing team structures and fostering collaborative, adaptive environments. Throughout my career, I’ve been focused on building agile, cross-functional teams that deliver innovative solutions while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency. In my role, I also lead the Efficiency program across the Business unit, driving process improvements, collaboration and efficiencies through the organization.

With 20 years of experience leading high-impact projects that improve efficiency and enable fast flow, I have consistently driven successful outcomes across various industry sectors.
I am deeply curious and passionate about learning emerging trends in Software Engineering—a passion that led me to earn a PhD in Computer Science and a Master's in Electrical Engineering.

I am a strong advocate for a sustainable architecture toolkit that bridges the gap between business and technology. My approach includes evaluating core domains and cognitive load, leveraging Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), EventStorming, and Sociotechnical Architecture to drive real evolution—guided by the balance between the architecture we design and the architecture we live.

My expertise spans across Fortune 100 enterprises and pioneering space companies, where I have successfully built and led hardware design teams, and integrated agile practices to enhance project delivery and operational efficiency. My strategic approaches leverage the principles of Team Topologies to optimize team interactions and software delivery processes, significantly enhancing flow and adaptability within these organizations.

With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, Wesley Reisz has chaired more than 16 QCon software conferences across San Francisco, London, and New York, founded the highly respected InfoQ Podcast, and spent over a decade teaching 400-level software architecture and programming courses at the University of Louisville. These experiences have given him deep expertise in software architecture, cloud-native engineering, and platform thinking, alongside a broad knowledge of various software domains.

High-Performance IT Specialist | Helping Product Operations, IT Operations & IT Engineering Teams Make Better Decisions

I am an accomplished leader in delivery management and service excellence, with over 19 years of experience driving transformative programs in dynamic business environments. As the Head of Delivery at CI&T, I am recognized for my strategic vision, innovative approach, and ability to deliver impactful results.

Leading people, teams, and companies is my calling. I thrive on building relationships and cross-org partnerships that calm chaos, ease decision making, carry out change, and elevate performance. It excites me to develop strategies that reimagine how work is performed and unite people to get it done. Throughout my career I have joined organizations that are going through significant people, process, and technology changes. Regardless of the subject matter, my leadership agility becomes the north star that guides people through complex challenges to achievement of enterprise goals.

I have 25 years of experience in IT, working across large organizations with a focus on digitalization, product management and agile delivery. As an Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation Expert, I've had the chance to contribute to some meaningful initiatives, like a multi-year lean-agile transformation and helping to set up a dual operating model. At Roche, I founded the first Global SAFe Community of Practice, where I brought together a passionate team and trained over 500 people in agile methods. Additionally, I’ve enjoyed designing and implementing new team topologies to support high-performing teams and drive lasting, positive change within the organization.

Caco Mafra is a Mentor and Management Expert for tech companies, specializing in enabling fast flow using agile management practices. He is a leading authority on agile management and Kanban in Brazil, with extensive experience at prominent tech companies like RDStation, Totvs, Senior, and ContaAzul. At these companies, Caco successfully implemented management strategies that supported scalable growth, with a focus on results and leadership development. He is the author of three books and a sought-after speaker at major management events in Brazil.

Steve Pereira has spent over two decades improving the flow of work across organizations. His career spans tech support, IT management, build and release engineering, and serving as a founding CTO for enterprise SaaS. Currently, he is the lead consultant for Visible Flow Consulting, a board advisor to the Value Stream Management Consortium, Chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability technical committee, and co-founder of the Flow Collective, which unites flow-focused professionals. Since 2017, he has been developing and facilitating Flow Engineering to make flow improvement in large organizations accessible, collaborative, and actionable.

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is the author of POJOs in Action and the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2.

Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for microservices, and is the author of the book Microservices Patterns. He provides microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the microservice architecture and is working on his Eventuate, an open-source microservices collaboration platform. In his spare time, Chris enjoys cooking, good food and tennis.