Venkat Subramaniam

/Founder at Agile Developer

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, co-founder of the devdotnext software conference, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com.

/Talk Java Functional Programming Idioms

Mark Thompson

/Developer Advocate at Google

Mark loves to teach and code. His love for both of these disciplines has led to becoming an award winning university instructor and software engineer. He comes with a passion for creating meaningful learning experiences. With over a decade of developing solutions across the tech stack, Mark likes to use that experience to break down fear of technology and make challenging technical topics more accessible. Lately, Mark has been spending time as a Developer Advocate at Google

/Talk Angular and the Supercharged CLI

Stefan Judis

/Developer Relations at Contentful

Stefan works in Contentful’s Developer Relations and quickly fell in love with web performance, new technologies, and accessibility. He is also a curator of the web performance online resources Perf Tooling and Tiny helpers, contributes to a variety of open source projects, and enjoys sharing nerdy discoveries.

/Talk Did we(b development) lose the right direction?

Caetano D’Araujo

/SRE Engineer at tb.lx by Daimler Trucks & Buses

Caetano has 16 years in the IT industry mainly doing backend and infrastructure.

/Talk GitOps in the field

Adam Bien

/Java Enthusiast at adam-bien

Developer (Architect), Consultant, Author, Podcaster (https://airhacks.fm) and Java enthusiast Adam Bien (https://adambien.blog) uses Java since JDK 1.0 and JavaScript since LiveScript and still enjoys writing code. Adam regularly organizes Java / Web / Architectures online live workshops https://airhacks.live and monthly Q&A live streaming show: https://airhacks.tv

/Talk The Feel of Next Generation Java Cloud Native Runtimes #slideless

Alexey Grigorev

/Lead Data Scientist at OLX Group

Alexey lives in Berlin his wife and son. He is an experienced software engineer with 10 years of experience. In the last 6 years, he focused mainly on different aspects of machine learning.

/Talk What really makes a Senior Developer?

Sara Gorjão

/HR & Talent Manager at tb.lx by Daimler Trucks & Buses

Sara Gorjão is the HR and Talent Manager at tb.lx, a startup within the corporate for Daimler Trucks & Buses. She was responsible for more than doubling the Headcount in the engineering department and developing all the HR processes and best practices. Considered by the community as one of best recruiters in the tech scene, she accumulates more than 8 years of experience, 6 of those working in the IT ecosystem. With a background in Psychology and a Coaching certification, at Sara’s core values are peoples’ happiness and motivation, and she approaches her work with a “people first” mindset. Working at tb.lx allows her to fulfil that goal since the company has a meaningful impact in the sustainable future of transportation. Data is the fuel that drives it, but people are the ones making it possible.

/Talk Answering your Burning Questions during a Job Interview

Nicolas Frankel

/Developer Advocate at Hazelcast

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

/Talk 3 easy improvements in your microservices architecture

Christian Heilmann

/Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Chris Heilmann dedicated the last 20 years of his life to make the web work and thrive. As a lead developer on some of the largest web products he learned that knowledge is not enough without teamwork and good handover. He dedicated most of his time since on educating, writing and sharing, presenting on average at 30 conferences a year. He strives to make code and coders work efficiently. He is the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Evangelism handbook (http://developer-evangelism.com). He is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft working on the current and future developer tools based on Chromium.

/Talk Sharpening the saw… how tooling can make us better developers

Mary Grygleski

/Developer Advocate at IBM

Mary is a Senior Developer Advocate and Software Engineer primarily in the Java, Open Source, and Cloud areas at IBM. She transitioned from Unix/C to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. She considers herself as a polyglot and loves to continue learning new and better ways to solve real-life problems. She is an active tech community builder outside of her day job, and currently the president of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), as well as a co-organizer for several IBM-sponsored meetup groups in the Greater Chicago area.

/Talk A Gentle Introduction to Reactive Java

Alex Lakatos

/Developer Advocate at Fidel

Alex Lakatos is a Developer Relations Manager for Fidel. In his spare time, he is a Mozilla Tech Speaker and has been a contributor to the Mozilla project for the past ten years, based in Bristol. JavaScript developer building on the open web, he has been pushing its boundaries every day. You can check out his GitHub profile or get in touch on Twitter. When he’s not programming, he likes to travel the world, so it’s likely you’ll bump into him in an airport lounge he’s stuck in the house, same as everyone else.

/Talk Hands-on Performance Debugging with the browser DevTools

Leonardo Pittelli

/Web Tech Lead at OLX Group

Software Engineer, based in Lisbon, originally from Buenos Aires. Web tech lead at OLX Group, Google Developer Expert for Cloud and Web. He’s been working on web solutions for many years building products people really like to use. Leading progressive web apps at e-commerce and classifieds companies.

/Talk Defining a Web Performance Strategy for your Project

Edward Ciggaar

/Developer Advocate at IBM

Edward works as developer advocate for IBM and is based in Amsterdam. His passion is to personally interact with developers and to show them the possibilities of our latest technologies. He is always in to build fun demos and sample code that support developer productivity. His focus areas are IBM Cloud, cloud native java and blockchain. In his spare time Edward loves to play soccer, both in real-life as well as online.

/Talk Going Serverless with Java and Quarkus

Ole Reuss

/Servant Leader of Software Development Center Hanoverat Volkswagen AG, Group IT

49 year old Ex TV Director and Executive Producer became accidentally Head of Software Development Center Hannover for Volkswagen. Passion for Mobility and FC St.Pauli.

/Talk We hacked the Company – with happiness

Oliver Schnell

/Employee Experience & Culture Manager, Digital.Lab Berlin at Volkswagen AG, Group IT

Former Software Engineer from Berlin who loves great tech products and currently takes care of composing awesome teams where people love to work while being able to grow.

/Talk We hacked the Company – with happiness

Greg Goorwitch

/Talent & Resourcing Manager – Technology at SpringerNature

Greg Goorwitch is Talent & Resourcing Manager – Technology & Digital at Springer Nature. Greg works globally and is supporting the growth of the new Lisbon IT department. Recruiting Software Developers, Quality Analysts, Business Analysts, Project Managers, UX Designers, Data Scientists and Engineers. Greg has 15 years’ experience Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Specialist finding the best talent across Technology, Media, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation.

/Talk An introduction to SpringerNature Digital in Lisbon

Carlos Esteves

/Global IT Director at SpringerNature

Carlos Esteves is a Global IT Director at Springer Nature, having led the setup and ramp up of the new IT Department in Lisbon during the pandemic. With experience in different industries (media, gambling, telecom, publishing etc.), he joined Springer Nature 6 years ago. He is currently leading an IT Department that is responsible for a strategic transformation programme in the business trying to accelerate agility as SN transitions business models.

/Talk An introduction to SpringerNature Digital in Lisbon

Ana Gaspar

/Ambassador at Volkswagen Digital Solutions

As Ambassador at VWDS, Ana is helping the brand to settle in Portugal. It was through her journey in the Portuguese startups ecosystem that she acquired IT knowledge and experience.

/Talk Recruiting Session – Volkswagen Digital Solutions