2019 Speaker Lineup
Influential technology and business leaders will participate
October 13 - 15
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Ashley McNamara
Developer Advocate
Microsoft
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
Founder
Agile Developer, Inc.
Kent C. Dodds
Creator
TestingJavaScript.com
Tracy Lee
Co-Founder
This Dot Labs
Chris Coyier
Co-Founder
CodePen
Ben Ilegbodu
Principal Frontend Developer
Eventbrite
Emma Wedekind
Software Engineer
LogMeIn
More than 240 speakers from around the world will be featured in 2019
Alex Banks
Software Engineering Instructor
Moon Highway
Ali Spittel
Software Engineer
Dev.to
Matty Stratton
DevOps Advocate
PagerDuty
Sachin Solkhan
Squad Leader
Fidelity Investments
Alolita Sharma
Principal Technologist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jono Bacon
Founder
Jono Bacon Consulting
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Principal Software Engineer
Chef
Steve Pousty
Director Developer Relations
Crunchy Data
Veer Muchandi
Chief Architect - Container Solutions
Red Hat Inc
Vanessa Alvarez
Front End Developer
Alkami Technology
Bermon Painter
Innovation & Strategy Lead
EY Digital
Christian Posta
Global Field CTO
Solo.io
David Grizzanti
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Comcast
Eriol Fox
Product Designer
Ushahidi
More than 250 sessions will be delivered by 2019 speakers
Grant Ingersoll
CTO
Wikimedia Foundation
Jennifer Cloer
Chief Executive Officer
reTHINKit Media
Gabriel Bianconi
Founder
Scalar Research
Dr. Rochelle Newton
Senior Systems and User Services Manager, IT
Duke University School of Law
Christopher Neugebauer
Senior Software Engineer
AlphaSights
Dan Zaratsian
Cloud Engineer
Google
Hayley Denbraver
Developer Advocate
Snyk
Jason Hibbets
Opensource.com Senior Community Architect
Red Hat
Peter Zaitsev
CEO
Percona
Indira Pranabudi
Senior Software Engineer
Vistaprint
Orlando Valdez
Director of Engineering
Red Ventures
Nick Harvey
Lead Developer Advocate
Pachyderm
Mark Halpin
Software Developer
SAS
Michele Titolo
Software Engineer
Square
Sessions will include 15 minute "burst" talks, 45 minute and 1.5 - 3.0 hour workshops
Inayaili de Leon
Senior Designer
Microsoft
Gilles Gravier
Director, Senior Advisor - Open Source and Blockchain
Wipro Technologies
Gordon Haff
Technology Evangelist
Red Hat
Anais Dotis-Georgiou
Developer Advocate
InfluxData
Lin Sun
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM
Tarus Balog
CEO
The OpenNMS Group
Jean Georges Perrin
CEO - Sr. Data Architect
Oplo
John Hammink
Developer Advocate; Technology Evangelist
Aiven.io
Karl Weinmeister
Manager, Cloud AI Advocacy
Google
Rajashree Mandaogane
Software Engineer
Rancher Labs
Venil Noronha
Member of Technical Staff, Open Source Technology Center
VMware, Inc.
Mike Harris
Lead AR/VR Developer
CrossComm
Klaatu Einzelganger
Tech Writer
Slackermedia
Ju Lim
Consulting Engineer
Red Hat
Diana Hsieh
Director of Product
Timescale
Matthew Burke
Software Engineer
Capital One
Peter Czanik
Evangelist
Balabit
Ryan Michela
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
Mary Grygleski
Developer Advocate
IBM
Mike Herchel
Senior Front-end Developer
Lullabot
John Mertic
Director
The Linux Foundation
Justin Reock
Chief Architect
Rogue Wave Software
Nicole Tibaldi
Engineering Manager
CircleCI
Victor Shinya
Developer Advocate
IBM
Sandi Metz
Rubyist/Author
TorqueForge
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
Sharon Tartarone
Associate Software Engineer
New York Times
Philip Zastrow
Frontend Designer
Sparkbox
Michael Hall
Developer Advocate
Linux Foundation, LF Edge
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
CTO, Co-Founder
Sonatype
Arun Gupta
Principal Open Source Technologist
Amazon
Amal Hussein
Engineering Manager
npm
Chris Krycho
Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn
Brad Topol
Distinguished Engineer
IBM
Michael Laing
Lead Software Engineer
New York Times
Peter Lamar
VP Cloud
Software AG
Nithya Ruff
Head, Open Source Program Office
Comcast
Matt Jarvis
Director of Community
Mesosphere
Romina Suarez
Software developer
Ushahidi
Samuel Taylor
Data Scientist
Indeed
Micah Silverman
Senior Developer Advocate
Okta
Laura Czajkowski
Developer Relations Manager
Nexmo
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 and Open Source
Datadog
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager
Chef Software
Lisa Smith
Founding Director/Engineering Manager
Women Who Code/Spreedly
Matthias Crauwels
Lead Database Consultant
Pythian
Ramu Pulipati
Cofounder
botsplash
Wes Widner
Cloud Engineering Manager
Crowdstrike
Nathan Walls
Senior Software Developer
VitalSource Technologies
Jesse Glick
Principal Software Engineer
CloudBees
Ian Chen
Research Engineer
Open Robotics
Christiana Unaeze
Eric Starr
Senior Principal Engineer
Optum
Cami Kaos
Community Organizer
Automattic
Brandon Satrom
Lead Developer Advocate
Particle
Anthony Garritano
Senior Software Engineer
CrossComm
Guinevere Saenger
Software Engineer
GitHub
David Rogers
Senior Software Engineer
Grove Collaborative
Frank Karlitschek
Founder
Nextcloud
Jory Burson
Open Source Program Manager
OASIS Open Projects
Maria Lamardo
Front End Engineer
Pendo
va barbosa
Developer Advocate
IBM
Piet Kruithof
Sr User Researcher
IBM
Nikema Prophet
CEO/Founder
PopSchools, Inc.
Matthew Groves
Developer Advocate
Couchbase
Leila Alderman
Junior Software Engineer
Spreedly
David Huseby
Security Maven
Linux Foundation - Hyperledger
Bill McFarland
CTO
Plume
Navya Solkhan
Sophmore at Green Level High School
Jocelyn Matthews
Community Manager
Storj Labs
Brittany Glover
Product Management Leader. UI Engineer. Educator
Intersections, A Diversity and Inclusion Company
Adrienne Michelle, LMFT
Therapist. Speaker. Author.
Intersections
James Schweitzer
Senior Software Engineer
IBM
Danese Cooper
Author
Matt Rogers
Designer
WillowTree, Inc.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Chief Technology Officer
CloudBees
Tania Allard
Developer Advocate
Microsoft
Sam Basu
Developer Advocate
Progress Software
Ray Hightower
Software Developer
Bridgetown Partners, LLC
VM Brasseur
Director of Open Source Strategy
Juniper Networks
Mo Hampton
Software Engineer
General Dynamics IT
Michael Ducy
Director of Open Source
Sysdig
Matthew Broberg
Technical Advocate & Editor for Opensource.com
Red Hat
Lee Calcote
Founder
Layer5
Paris Pittman
Kubernetes Contributor Community Manager
Google
Jim Jagielski
Jannaeé Sick
Front End Developer
IBM (formerly at MedThink)
Dave Strebel
Open Source Architect
Microsoft
Burr Sutter
Director of Developer Experience
Red Hat
Adrian P. Dunston
Senior Software Developer
Digital Turbine
Anna Iosif
Software Developer
Ushahidi
Daniel Izquierdo
Chief Data Officer
Bitergia
Henri Helvetica
Freelance dev
Greg Jordan
Founder
Graph Story
Deb Nicholson
Dir. Community
Software Freedom Conservancy
Dave Stokes
MySQL Community Manager
Oracle
Asanka Abeysinghe
Deputy CTO & VP, Architecture - CTO Office
WSO2, Inc
Christopher Waldon
Site Reliability Engineer
IBM
Ilan Rabinovich
VP, Product
Datadog
Jeff Scott Brown
Partner, Grails and Micronaut Practice Lead
Object Computing, Inc
John Wolpert
Executive Director - Web3Studio, Durham
ConsenSys
Jigyasa Grover
Machine Learning Engineer
Twitter, Inc.
Josh Berkus
Community Lead
Red Hat
Molly de Blanc
Strategic Initiatives Manager
GNOME Foundation
Nikhil Deshpande
Chief Digital Officer
State of Georgia
Michael Sick
Senior Manager and Big Data Architect
Independent Consultant
Marcus Hellberg
Head of Community
Vaadin
Keith Fiske
Senior Database Engineer
Crunchy Data Solutions, Inc
K.S. Bhaskar
President
YottaDB
Hannah Magnan
Creative & Brand Manager
Bandwidth
Fred Medlin
Mobile Developer
Sittercity
Fatima Naqui
Sr Big Data Engineer
Fidelity Investments
Corey Hulen
Founder and CTO
Mattermost
David Simmons
Senior Developer Evangelist
InfluxData
Cassandra Khaw
Scriptwriter
Ubisoft Montreal
Brian MacDonald
Acquisitions Editor
DigitalOcean
Aaron Aldrich
Community Advocate
Elastic
Angela Chin
Senior Software Engineer
Pivotal
Chris Replogle
Principal Software Developer
SAS Institute Inc.
Camille Acey
Vice President, Customer Success
Nylas
Andrew Grangaard
Chief Ninjaneer
Lemur Labs, Inc
Drew Powers
Front-end Lead
Manifold
Heidi Ellis
Professor
Western New England University
Dani Gellis
Tools Engineer - Open Source Program
Indeed
Chris O’Donnell
Digital Strategist
Promet Source
Edward Pritchard
Accessibility Developer
Promet Source
Jake Dohm
Web Developer
Good Work
Melissa Meingast
UX & HF Research Program Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Mark Voelker
Chief OpenStack Architect
VMware, Inc.
Mike Coleman
Developer Advocate
AWS
Melanie Plageman
Staff Software Engineer
Pivotal
Lance Albertson
Director
OSU Open Source Lab
Jonathan Looney
Engineering Manager
Netflix
Scott Davis
Principal Engineer
ThoughtWorks
Sean Dague
Software Engineer - IBM Q
IBM
Shilla Saebi
Open Source Program Manager
Comcast
Roy Derks
Senior Frontend Developer
City of Amsterdam
Phillip Rhodes
President/CEO
Fogbeam Labs
Veethika Mishra
Interaction Designer
Red Hat
Mifan Careem
Vice President - Solutions Architecture
WSO2
Rob Tompkins
Apache Commons PMC member
Apache Software Foundation
Maria Droujkova
Founding Director
Natural Math
Ken Alger
Developer Advocate
MongoDB
Kevin Sonney
SRE II
Elastic
Justin Scherer
Head of Design
Hover Developer Services Inc.
Bobbie Cochrane
IBM Distinguished Engineer, Blockchain Engagement and Platform Architect
IBM
Christopher Edwards
Software Programmer
YottaDB, LLC
John Coghlan
Evangelist Program Manager
GitLab
Gregory Hislop
Professor
Drexel University
Don Watkins
Community Moderator
Opensource.com
Amin Mehr
Deputy Director, Code.gov
GSA
Josepha Haden Chomphosy
Executive Director
WordPress
Brian Douglas
Developer Advocate
GitHub
Diane Mueller
Director, Community Development, Cloud Platform
Red Hat
Tobie Langel
Principal
UnlockOpen LL
Amanda Brock
European Representative
Open Invention Network
Brent Laster
Director, R&D
SAS
John Joyce
Principal Engineer
Cisco
John Crawford
Co-founder and CTO
ndustrial.io
Jackie Goldschmidt
Data Engineering and Data Science Lead
Terazo
Dmitri Droujkov
Technology Specialist, Co-founder
Natural Math
Sam Handler
Founder and DevOps Engineer
Ponderosa.io
Steven Follis
Solutions Engineering Manager
Docker Inc.
Duane O’Brien
Head of Open Source
Indeed
Tom Wilson
Chief Technology Officer
Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc
Lee Faus
Sr. DevOps Automation Specialist
Armory.io
Rosemary Wang
Developer Advocate
HashiCorp
Ben Sloane
Systems Engineer
SAS
Dmitry Vinnik
Independent
Sriram Ramkrishna
Member of Engagement Committee
GNOME Foundation
Jared Sprague
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
Nick Craver
Architecture Lead
Stack Overflow
Coco Tang
Director of Product
Helium
Kim Maida
Head of Developer Relations
Auth0
Cami Williams
Developer Advocate
Facebook
Mark Heid
Vice President FCAT Incubator
Fidelity Investments
Jesse White
CTO
The OpenNMS Group Canada Inc.
Andy Hunt
Publisher
Pragmatic Programmers
Erica Stanley
Engineering Manager, Analytics and Integrations
SalesLoft
Jerry Cuomo
IBM Fellow, VP Blockchain Technology
IBM
Heikki Nousiainen
CTO and Co-founder
Aiven
Jerome Nilmeier
Data Science and Engineering at Enterprise Scale with ApacheSpark
IBM
Laslo Pastor
Associate Director/Solutions Architect
WSO2
Glenn Bernstein
Leader, Analytics Technology
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC)
Robert Emerson
Vice President and Head of Strategic Data Management
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC)
Mike Erwin
Toolsmith and CEO
Gawain Industries
John Anderson
VP, Technology
Infinity Interactive
Lori Wachter
Director, Data Science
Advance Auto Parts
Devin Shackle
Subject Matter Expert: Hacking Risk
Anthony Burchell
WordPress Developer
WP Engine
Katherine Johnson
Vice President of Compliance
Storj Labs
Kevin Feeney
CEO
DataChemist
Jerod Santo
Managing Editor
Changelog Media
Gabriele Columbro
Founder & Executive Director
FINOS
Ari Zitin
Analytical Training Consultant
SAS
Robert Blanchard
Analytical Training Consultant
SAS
Peter Broadhurst
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering
Kaleido
Tori Hall
Developer Evangelist
commercetools
Jim Salter
Technology Reporter
Ars Technica
Alejandra Novack
AWS Developer Relations
AWS
Chris Wright
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Red Hat
Brandon Herrington
GIS Engineer
Wake County, NC GIS
Saron Yitbarek
CEO and Founder
CodeNewbie
Joe Lubin
Co-Founder
Ethereum
Austin Gonyou
Principal Solutions Engineer
Couchbase
Haley Creech
Software Engineer
Terazo
Tyler Bell
Open Source Program Office
Capital One
Daniel Ryan
Senior Network and Development Operations Engineer
ProcessMaker
Brenden Matthews
CTO and Cofounder
Umpyre
Gary Hutchins
Senior Sales Engineer
Sysdig
James Luterek
Solution Architect
commercetools
Andrew Grimes BS, MIS, tMBA
Regional Manager of SE
Cohesity
Steven Huels
Director of the Red Hat AI Center of Excellence
Red Hat
Bryan Harris
Sr. Vice President, Engineering
SAS
Gleb Bahmutov
VP of Engineering
Cypress.io
Richard Elberger
Principal Solutions Architect – Iot
Amazon Web Services
Isaac Murchie
Head of Open Source
Sauce Labs
Matt Grogan
Senior Solutions Architect
MongoDB
Rob Ocel
Senior Software Engineer
This Dot Labs