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.

Kirill has over 20 years of experience leading product and technology delivery, building strong teams, and helping organizations scale across e-commerce, SaaS, and banking. He works with tech startups and scaleups, as well as larger companies aiming to operate with a startup mindset, to bring clarity, structure, and scalable delivery.

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.

Tom is a product-driven technology leader with over a decade of experience helping organizations improve how they design, build, and operate software at scale. His background spans platform engineering, DevOps, Agile delivery, and operating model design, with hands-on experience in complex enterprise environments across both the public and private sector.

Neil is an engineer and strategist at the intersection of Intelligence, Process and Technology. He is a platform practitioner who turns complex technical ecosystems into practical, scalable developer experiences at the intersection of culture, technology, and creativity. At OTTRA he focuses on CNI integrations and capability discovery signals that surface team maturity and platform health, enabling governance, observability, and AI‑assisted automation. He spent three years at Fujitsu UVANCE leading go‑to‑market for Application Modernisation and Platform Engineering products, delivering transformation outcomes across key verticals.

David holds a Master's degree in Mathematical Engineering from the K.U. Leuven. To this date, he still teaches several courses on cyber security, data, and AI topics at two high schools and a university.

Davide studied linguistics and spent the first few years of his career in product teams working on Natural Language Processing projects at Google.

From there, he moved on to startups and now consulting, leading teams at the intersection of business and technology.

His main focus nowadays is to bring product management principles and practices into the world of data teams.

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.

John is currently a Senior Agile Coach at Booking.com. He is passionate about technical excellence and whole team approaches to ways of working that enable sustainable fast flow of value. Previously, as a Director of Technology for an M&A firm, he defined technology roadmaps for acquired companies, led cloud migration programmes and achieved regulatory compliance in safety-critical industries. His earlier career includes founding a consultancy focused on Extreme Programming and DevOps, and as a developer for one of the largest European aviation maintenance software providers.

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.

Ivan is Director of Engineering at CROZ, author of BizTech Evolution, and host of the 0800-DEVOPS podcast. He has been part of the team that grew CROZ from a small group into a successful BizTech consultancy with over four hundred people, eventually expanding internationally. This journey has given him the opportunity to view software delivery challenges from different perspectives and use this experience to identify and eliminate friction in both internal operations and client collaborations.

Particularly interested in leadership and organizational change, Ivan helps organizations align business and technology, focus their efforts, and work smarter, not harder. His areas of special interest include DevOps culture, the sociotechnical nature of software delivery, and pragmatic AI applications.

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.

Stefania specialises in cultivating clear, effective communication that unites teams and leaders across all levels of an organisation. With a background in security and development, she has led multi-million pound projects and managed diverse, multicultural teams across a range of industries and countries. Her approach breaks down communication barriers, aligns groups, and creates shared understanding - driving collaboration, efficiency, and better decision-making. Stefania helps organisations foster a culture of transparency and trust, enabling teams to work together more effectively and achieve meaningful results.

Durga leads global capabilities across all regions at IG Group, a global leader in online trading and investments. With over 22 years of experience in technology leadership, he has held key roles ranging from transformational lead and architect to delivery manager, across multiple geographies and domains.

Known for implementing innovative, scalable solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth, Durga is a T-shaped professional who brings both depth and breadth of expertise. He believes that leadership in technology goes beyond execution—it's about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, adaptability, and innovation.

I’m the Government Chief Engineer, with over 10 years of experience in technology leadership roles—particularly focused on data analytics and cloud technologies. I’m passionate about using data and cloud to turn information into valuable insights that support critical business needs.

Throughout my career, I’ve taken on a range of roles, including Developer, Scrum Master, Architect, Continuous Improvement Specialist, Product Owner, and Chief Technology Officer. This variety has given me a broad perspective on both technical and organisational challenges, and I’m currently focused on driving both technical and cultural change across engineering teams in the UK Public Sector.

Sonal Premi brings a broad and multidisciplinary background to her work in technology and business transformation. She specialises in helping executives and senior managers understand their key drivers and challenges, shaping technology solutions that create real business value.

Sonal began her career with hands-on experience in safety-critical software systems, and then transitioned into management consulting, where she focussed on business and operational effectiveness, assessing ways of working and recommending structural and process improvements to enhance software delivery.

Sébastien Van De Poel is a technical lead with experience in different roles. He intentionally took a position as a Functional Analyst and also as a Solution Architect because I believe collaboration gets better when you really understand each other's work. “Putting yourself in another's shoes helps create empathy”. Over time, he realized the Solution Architect role was limiting team autonomy. Now, he focuses more on helping teams collaborate, communicate openly, and continuously improve.

Dries Dams is a platform engineer and DevOps consultant with over two decades of hands-on experience helping organizations enhance their IT delivery and team effectiveness.

For 10 years, he worked at the Flemish Parliament, where he supported the full transition from a traditional IT department to a DevOps-driven organization. During this time, he held roles as both a system engineer and Scrum Master, contributing to cultural and technical transformation across teams and platforms.

Pawel Piwosz’s journey started as SysOps, evolved through DevOps, leading to my current role as a DevOps Coach and ...well... influencer. Along the way, I've gained experience as a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, Solution Architect and Developer Advocate.

Now I am a DevOps Manager and I am happy when I can teach others, influence community, or as I'd like to say - serve the community