Amy wears many hats as a business owner, senior engineer, mentor and conference addict. She regularly shares her knowledge with her peers and the next generation of developers by mentoring, speaking at and organising events as well as mentoring up and coming developers within her business.

Amy can be found volunteering her time with DDD Perth as Vice Chair and Director of Conference Content, organising Perth Azure User Group and mentoring at various SheCodes events. She has been recognised as a Twilio Champion and a Microsoft MVP since 2019 and has been nominated for the WiTWA awards previously.

In her spare time Amy shares her knowledge and experience writing blogs, speaking at conferences and running workshops on a variety of topics across front end development, accessibility, mental health and more. She has previously given keynotes at international events and conferences around the world.

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He is an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, seminars, schools, and community centers around the world on topics including Agile software development, diversity, and leadership. Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

April is a senior cloud developer advocate and the DevOps practice lead at Microsoft, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers plan their journey.

In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons.

David is the founder of Electric Head Software, working as an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.

David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving, and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

You can find his open source projects on NuGet and GitHub, follow him on Twitter @david_whitney, or check out his technical blog at http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog.

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Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.

Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and is known for his live music shows featuring software-themed parodies of classic rock songs. He’s online at dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.

Eli has been in tech for 6 years, working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design; now, they're doing developer advocacy at Scaleway and yelling at the cloud. In their spare time, they like to play video games, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.

Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.

In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.

As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.

In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.

You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.

Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, Software Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer, always in a quest for latest trends and best practices in architecture, .NET and the world around it.

Irina has more than 1000 hours of delivered trainings, workshops, and presentations, being passionate about .NET and the world around it.

She is the founder of DotNet Iasi User Group where she tries to gather people that are willing to share their knowledge with others, and from time to time publishes articles on her blog: http://irina.codes


Jessie Shternshus is the owner and founder of The Improv Effect and is committed to helping individuals, teams, and companies reach their full potential by helping them break free from conformity and adapting to our rapidly changing world. With her interactive and inclusive exercises, Jessie inspires a shift in mindset and creates collaborative environments that empower people to be their best selves.

With a focus on connection, curiosity, trust, and play, Jessie has been a driving force behind internal training and coaching for global organizations such as Netflix, The United Nations, PGATour, Tyson Foods, Ocean Spray, HP, Transferwise, Macy's, The Department of Defense, Getty Images, Adecco, CapitalOne, and many more.

As the co-author of "CTRLShift: 50 Games for 50 *** Days Like Today" and "No More Meetings: Unlearn 'bored room' Practices to Change the Way We Connect," and the co-creator of the game Together To Gather, Jessie is passionate about embracing more effective and engaging ways of working. With her dynamic approach and infectious energy, Jessie has also been a sought-after keynote speaker at conferences worldwide.

Jo is a Developer Advocate at Spotify. She is passionate about the web a better place, developing fun PWAs, building sparkly wearable internet connected tech, and of course writing beautiful CSS. She is a mentor and organiser at codebar.io and at Front End Foxes where she is able to act on her passion not only for teaching good use of the web but also for improving the diversity and inclusivity of the tech industry.

Kesha Williams is an award-winning technology leader teaching others how to transform their lives through technology. She has 25+ years of experience architecting, designing, and building enterprise web applications. Her passions include teaching cloud topics and leading software engineering teams. Kesha holds multiple AWS certifications and is recognized as an AWS Machine Learning Hero, Alexa Champion, AWS Ambassador, and HackerRank All-Star. She currently serves as the Program Director of Slalom's Cloud Residency and on the Board of Directors for Women in Voice.

Laila Bougria is a software engineer at Particular Software, makers of NServiceBus and a Microsoft Azure MVP. She's passionate about software and always looking for patterns, both in code and in yarn. In her free time she loves to knit or crochet and spend time with her kids playing whatever the day brings!

Lars is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Pluralsight, author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Tedx Speaker, Tech Girl Superhero, Microsoftie and one of MCV's 30 Most Influential Women in Games. I am a Microsoft Developer Engagement Lead who acts as an API between technology and the world. I advocate for STEM, the Games Industry and Developers. I present at around 50 Conferences and Events around the world on Azure, Data Science, Responsible AI and Gaming.

Nick is a software engineer and Developer Technologies Microsoft MVP based in London. He is creating educational content on YouTube about everything .NET and C#.

Simon is an independent consultant specialising in software architecture, and the author of “Software Architecture for Developers” (a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility). He is also the creator of the C4 model for visualising software architecture, and the founder of Structurizr. Simon is a regular speaker at international software development conferences, and travels the world to help organisations visualise and document their software architecture.

Steve is working as a developer for Microsoft in the team that brings you the ASP.NET technology stack, IIS, and other web things. Previously he developed .NET software as a contractor/consultant for clients in Bristol and beyond, plus wrote some books for Apress, such as Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. From time to time, he speaks at user groups and conferences, and recently have been running a bunch of training courses on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and of course ASP.NET MVC.

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