Round 2 speakers announced – 50+ join the 2019 lineup
We couldn’t be more excited to announce the addition of 50+ world-class speakers to the 2019 lineup.
Round 2 features an excellent cross-section of technologists from across the experience and expertise spectrum, and ones from very diverse backgrounds. In addition, one amazing high school freshman is featured who is a Congressional App Challenge Winner and who represented the RTP at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. No doubt all will bring tremendous educational and networking value to attendees.
The 50+ include:
- Sandi Metz – author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP
- Randall Degges – Chief Hacker, Okta
- Shawn Wang – DX Engineer, Netlify
- Sasha Rosenbaum – Azure DevOps Program Manager, Microsoft
- Mike Hartington – Developer Advocate, Ionic
- Jonas Rosland – Open Source Community Manager, VMware
- DeShawn Brown – CEO, Lithios Apps
- Sharon Tartarone – Associate Software Engineer, NY Times
- Philip Zastrow – Frontend Designer, Sparkbox
- Michael Hall – Developer Advocate, EdgeX Foundry
- Lauren Schaefer – Developer Advocate, MongoDB
- Jim Zhang – Co-founder / Head of Protocol, Kaleido
- Jessica Rose – Developer Programs and Product, Mozilla
- Federico Lucifredi – Product Management Director, Red Hat
- Brian Fox – Co-founder & CTO, Sonatype
- Arun Gupta – Principal Open Source technologist, Amazon Web Services
- Amal Hussein – Senior Open Web Engineer, Bocoup
- Chris Krycho – Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
- Amberley Romo – Software Engineer, Gatsby
- Brad Topol – Distinguished Engineer, IBM
- Michael Laing – Lead Software Engineer, NY Times
- Peter Lamar – VP Cloud, Software Ag
- Nithya Ruff – Head, Open Source Program Office, Comcast
- Matt Jarvis – Director of Community, Mesosphere
- Romina Suarez – Software Engineer, Ushahidi
- Samuel Taylor – Data Scientist, Indeed
- Micah Silverman – Senior Developer Advocate, Okta
- Laura Czajkowski – Senior Developer Community Manager, Couchbase
- Jose Miguel Parrella – Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
- Jeremias Rößler – CEO, ReTest GmbH
- DeeDee Lavinder – Software Engineer, Spreedly
- Derek Weeks – Vice President, Sonatype
- Jeremy Garcia – Director of Technical Community & Open Source, DataDog
- Mandi Walls – Technical Community Manager, Chef Software
- Lisa Smith – Founding Director/Engineering Mgr, Women Who Code & Spreedly
- Matthias Crauwels – Lead Database Consultant, Pythian
- Ramu Pulipati – Co-founder, Botsplash
- Wes Widner – Cloud Engineering Mgr, CrowdStrike
- Nathan Walls – Senior Software Developer, VitalSource Technologies
- Jesse Glick – Principal Software Engineer, CloudBees
- Ian Chen – Research Engineer, Open Robotics
- Christiana Unaeze – User Experience Designer
- Eric Starr – Senior Principal Engineer, Optum
- Cami Kaos – Community Organizer, Automattic
- Brandon Satrom – Lead Developer Advocate, Particle
- Anthony Garritano – Senior Software Engineer, CrossComm
- David Rogers – Senior Software Engineer, Grove Collaborative
- Frank Karlitschek – Founder, NextCloud
- Guinevere Saenger – Software Engineer, GitHub
- Jory Burson – Open Source Program Manager, OASIS Open Projects
- Maria Lamardo – Front End Engineer, Pendo
- va barbosa – Developer Advocate, IBM
- Piet Kruithof – Sr User Research, IBM
- Nikema Prophet – CEO/Founder, PopSchools
- Matthew Groves – Developer Advocate, Couchbase
- Leila Alderman – Junior Software Engineer, Spreedly
- David Huseby – Security Maven, Linux Foundation/Hyperledger
- Bill McFarland – CTO, Plume
- Navya Solkhan – Freshman at Panther Creek High School
To see the complete list of the 125+ confirmed speakers please visit the Speakers Page on the website.