Naren is a seasoned Engineer and Architect with over 20 years of experience, passionate about identifying the right problems to solve and designing lasting, effective solutions. His consulting career has spanned a wide array of industries—from Mining and Fintech to Insurance, Media, and M&A—giving him a unique perspective on diverse business and technical challenges.

I am a motivated professional and Subject Matter Expert in the Observability domain, known for my ability to structure business problems effectively and resolve cases quickly and diligently. With strong technical skills and extensive experience working with international teams, I remain focused on achieving goals and consistently strive to exceed project milestones and expectations.

With an unconventional background in Digital Arts, Malte Fiala brings 21 years of experience in the IT industry. Over the past seven years, he has honed his expertise in enterprise architecture (EA), with a specialization in socio-technical architecture, data architecture, and DevOps/cloud-native solutions. Currently, Malte focuses on AI strategy consulting through his firm, Spacelike AI GmbH.

At my core, I am an engineer. As a business and technology enabler, I bring decades of experience in building distributed systems, adopting modern technologies for faster flow, and growing high-performing, autonomous teams. Throughout my extensive career, I’ve worked with enterprises of various scales, actively sharing knowledge through writing and public speaking. My current focus lies in cloud technologies, AWS, and serverless architecture. As an AWS Hero, I have the opportunity to reach a global audience, assisting them on their cloud and serverless journeys.

Thomas is a long time engineer and tech lead who has transitioned into an interim engineering manager and consultant role. As an early adopter of DevOps, including DevOps Topologies (which later evolved into Team Topologies), he possesses a deep understanding of Platform Engineering and product thinking. He has successfully led multiple enabling teams in initiatives such as architecture modernization and reliability engineering practices.

Throughout my career, I have successfully facilitated organizational change by introducing Lean and Agile practices tailored to cloud-native environments. I have led cross-functional teams in designing technical solutions that balance operational efficiency, scalability, and resilience. Before joining Red Hat, I held various leadership roles at OCTO Technology, where I advanced Agile and DevOps adoption within large-scale programs. My deep understanding of value streams and team topologies enables me to align technical and organizational strategies, driving sustainable success in the digital age.

As a Global Solution Architect, I serve as the lead technical orchestrator for the partnership between Red Hat and our customers. In this role, customer success and the effective adoption of products and cloud services within the ecosystem are essential to achieving positive business outcomes for all parties involved.

Team Topologies is an integral part of my approach, supporting and guiding many of the conversations I have, specifically regarding the people and process aspects of the organizational operating system. This advocacy enables me to drive meaningful change and empower teams to perform at their best.

Serving as the Sr. Product Manager, passionately dedicated to advancing organizational effectiveness throughout her career journey. Acknowledged with the Agile and Digital Transformation Award in 2017, she views accolades as collaborative achievements.

Since her career's inception - 2009, Semen has immersed herself in Open Source, Agile, and Lean practices. Over the past decade, she has quietly evolved into a prolific speaker, sharing insights through more than 25 presentations at respected conferences such as Agile Alliance XP, SPM, TopConf etc.

Ryan has 25 years of experience in various roles, including Operator, Architect, and CTO. With 15 years of banking and payments experience and 10 years in the security realm, Ryan enjoys solving complex problems in organizations across EMEA. A seasoned public speaker on security, DevOps, transformation, and team-focused sessions, Ryan is passionate about team cultures and communications.

With a background as a developer, Truls, as a principal engineer, strives to balance his time between writing software in teams and building a team-first, product-oriented organization. He believes that creating a sustainable, adaptable organization is essential for teams to develop services that can evolve over time. As the first official in-house developer at NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) in 2016, Truls has played a central role in transforming and modernizing digitalization efforts.

For the last seven years I have worked at NAV, the central organization in the Norwegian welfare state. We are undertaking a major modernisation, writing our way out of 40 year old legacy systems, and creating a modern organization that can work for the next 40 years.

My main interest is flow, and my main tools to increase flow in teams has been platform engineering. I have been a part of teams that have created the nais.io platform, that has increased flow for NAV, and soon other governmental organizations in Norway.

With over 15 years of experience in software engineering, Anna brings her technical program management expertise to her role as a Product Delivery Coach at Stellafai. She is passionate about empowering product teams to deliver impactful solutions that leverage technology to drive positive change.

Anna fosters cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire product lifecycle, from strategy to execution. She blends Agile, Lean, DevOps, Team Topologies, and Design Thinking to achieve successful, product-oriented outcomes for customers.

Jonny Williams is a Platform Specialist at Red Hat and author of "Delivery Management: Enabling Teams to Deliver Value". Prior to joining Red Hat, he was Head of Delivery at Homes England. Jonny also provides coaching at DeliverValue.uk

Having enabled teams to deliver value for over ten years, he now supports organisations to uncover effective modern approaches to work and understand the impact of Open Source technology.

Joep has been deeply influenced by the concepts of flow, toil, and handovers since learning about LEAN in 2009. He quickly realized that organizational challenges cannot be solved with more technology alone. This understanding led him to appreciate Team Topologies, which connects the dots between organizational flow and happy engineers. Joep now leads a "DevOps culture but for Data" initiative at Helixiora, integrating technology, organizational flow, and culture for clients. Additionally, he works as an independent contractor, focusing on marketing messaging and positioning for technology vendors in the cloud and infrastructure space. Joep co-organizes DevOpsDays in the Netherlands and the Fast Flow NL meetup.

Cansu is a Solution Architect at Red Hat. She works with organizations to bring people, processes, and technology together in the most efficient way to solve complex business problems. Specifically, she collaborates organizations to build internal platforms tailored to their needs and forms high-performing platform teams. Cansu provides technical leadership in platform services to simplify stream-aligned teams' entry into the ecosystem and supports business stakeholders in understanding high-level strategies for their platforms and applications.

Joris Swinnen is a member of The Flow Hive, a collective of independent Team Topologies enthusiasts. As an enterprise agility coach, trainer in facilitative leadership, and expert in Learning & Development and Organization Design, he combines learning agility acceleration with Solution-Focused coaching.

With over a decade of experience as a creative management consultant working with many blue-chip product and service organizations, Joris fosters innovation by improving team effectiveness. He is framework-agnostic, direct, provocative yet empathetic, and has supported and held similar organizations accountable.

Krzysztof Hałasa is a management advisor specializing in IT operating models and platform engineering. With over 10 years of experience in various roles including developer, architect, manager, and consultant, he has primarily worked in the banking sector.