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I am an Engineering Manager in Fintech at Booking.com, where I lead a high-performing team responsible for payment processing for accommodation partners. My team supports payment operations at a massive scale, serving more than 10 million partners and processing billions of euros every month. Additionally, I am the horizontal owner for Accelerate AI in Fintech, overseeing more than 50+ AI initiatives across the fintech organization. My key objectives include scaling AI efforts across five departments and 1,000+ employees, as well as developing enablement strategies for upskilling teams through an AI Ambassador group. I also mentor senior leadership at Booking.com including VPs, SVPs, senior directors, and directors. and involved in the Super 40 GenAI Trainer program to train Booking Engineers staff on generative AI.

Martin Mladenov is a Front-End Team Lead with more than 7 years in the management of FE teams. With a remarkable background in software development and a deep passion for WordPress, Martin is a true innovator in the tech space. His extensive experience includes leading projects that effectively bridge the gap between complex technology and user-friendly solutions. With a proven track record of leading international teams for prominent Bulgarian and UK-based companies, including GlobalData Plc and New Statesman Media Group. Currently driving the development of a next-generation gaming platform at Sesame Online, combining technical expertise and leadership to deliver innovative and scalable solutions.

Dmitry is a Microsoft veteran, working for more than 13 years. He started as a Technical Evangelist, and in this role presented on numerous conferences, including twice being on stage with Steve Ballmer. He then worked for 2 years as Senior Software Engineer, helping big European companies to start pilot digital transformation projects based on AI and ML. As Cloud Developer Advocate, Dmitry focuses on creating educational content and working with academic and research institutions. He is also an Associate Professor at MIPT, HSE and MAI in Moscow, a big fan of functional programming and F#, and a maintainer/primary developer of mPyPl library. In his spare time, Dmitry explores Science Art and Technological Magic, as well as performs Chinese tea ceremonies. He can be reached at soshnikov.com.

Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Data Science Lead at Applied Materials, leading advanced analytics efforts around computer vision, natural language processing and deep learning. He is also a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. He has also been recently recognized as one of the Top Ten Data Scientists in India, 2020 by Analytics India Magazine & TechGig. Dipanjan has advised and worked with several startups as well as Fortune 500 companies like Intel and Open Source organizations like Red Hat (now IBM). He primarily works on leveraging data science, machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems and evangelizing data science to the community. Dipanjan is also a published author, having authored several books on R, Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning.

Senior Software Engineer at CureApp inc, & CTO at RENDEZ-VOUS.

Christian Sparks is a Systems Engineer working at Cloudflare, primarily focused on Builds and Automation for the developer platform. His work ranges across the stack, from front-end to Golang backends, to bleeding edge Workers-based services. Specifically, he works on the customer-facing build systems for the Pages and Workers CI, helping make the process of deploying applications on Cloudflare easier.

As the Founder and CEO of an edtech startup, I combine my passion for education with my product management experience to create innovative learning solutions that improve soft skills development. Our startup provides learners with engaging tools and resources to practice and master essential soft skills. With a focus on continuous innovation, we're dedicated to transforming the way learners acquire and develop soft skills. Our approach is grounded in the latest research and tailored to meet the needs of our diverse learners. I'm excited to be leading a team that is making a real impact in the edtech industry. If you're interested in learning more about our startup or connecting with me, please feel free to reach out. I'm passionate about education and excited to collaborate with others who share my vision for a better future of learning.

Wowa Effect aka Wowa Barssukov revives the art of creating music with knowledge and analog instruments. His unique tracks originate from a combination of retro synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers. He transcends mood into music, no exact recreation possible when playing live; all sounds originated by hand. His debut performances were underground raves and house parties in 2018. His musical knowledge is based on classical Russian music education. Growing up in Siberia in the ’90s, his childhood was filled with communism, the sense of upheaval, and the upcoming of an underground raver scene. He started his electronic music journey under the name ‘Limpfate’ in 2017 first by creating his tracks with Ableton Live, until growing bored of the unengaging production. He then discovered analog synthesizers and drum machines, which shaped the sound of the electronic music scene in the ’90s, and spent countless hours on mastering the complex devices. This art of performing allows Wowa to explore the vast horizon of electronic music. Therefore his sounds vary from ecstatic electro over the groovy house to deep techno. His tracks take the listeners on journeys through the unknown, full of surprising details. When watching Wowa perform, you will notice a set of blinking lights, cables, and his straight face. When Wowa plays, it’s without exception, live. Wowa now lives in Berlin, close to the pulse of the original German techno scene with its renowned Berghain.

Ilya Pukhalski is a founder and partner at ENDGAME. He spent 20+ years in software engineering, architecture and product development, designing and delivering large transformation programs for IKEA, Primark, Nike, Albert Heijn. He founded ENDGAME on a conviction: software engineering is in a renaissance, and machines amplify great engineering minds rather than replace them. At ENDGAME he builds a dark factory of autonomous agent pipelines, and helps other organizations make the same leap into agentic product development.

Iustin is an Engineering Manager at Fastned, where he leads core engineering teams and drives pragmatic AI adoption across ways of working and product delivery. He focuses on building strong engineering cultures, aligning teams with business outcomes, and helping organizations adopt AI responsibly and effectively. He is also the founder of DataPrysm, an agentic analytics platform, previously built and scaled Replica AI, and actively invests in early-stage startups - bringing a founder-operator perspective to modern tech leadership.

Eric is a Solutions Engineer at Braintrust, helping engineering teams move AI from experiment to production through evaluation and observability. He previously spent a decade in pre-sales at AI and data startups, including Rasa and OmniSci (formerly MapD), where he was an early sales engineer. Earlier in his career, he designed electronic trading systems for fixed income at Lehman Brothers, and now focuses on turning real-world AI use cases into production systems.

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in software development, QA, and team leadership. Passionate about delivering high-quality products, empowering teams, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous growth. Skilled in engineering management, project execution, and aligning technical excellence with business goals.

Michal Ziso is an Earth & Space architect and systems thinker focused on how humans operate inside complex, high-risk environments. Her work explores responsibility, leadership, and human performance in chaotic systems operating at the edge. She is the founder of theZISO Creative Disruption platform, where she leads design, research, and advisory work that bridges the inherited world and the emerging. She is a global speaker reaching over 200K humans on stages such as TEDx, NASA, Dubai Future Forum, YPO and more.

Performance testing specialist with 7 years of experience delivering reliable and scalable applications. I design and implement performance testing strategies from scratch, identify bottlenecks, and provide actionable insights that improve system stability and user experience. Skilled in JMeter, BlazeMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, Jenkins/TeamCity, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure). Experienced with monitoring and observability tools like Kibana, Telegraf, and Zabbix, enabling proactive issue detection and performance optimization. I help teams ensure their applications handle real-world traffic efficiently, reduce downtime, and meet business performance goals.

Jessie Auguste is an award-winning Software Engineer at CybSafe and co-founder of Glowing in Tech, a community platform empowering underrepresented voices in technology. As a sought-after speaker and conference host, she's delivered talks globally for LeadDev, codebar, Docker, and conferences including React Miami and DevConf South Africa. She's currently completing her Msc in Computer Science at the University of Bath.

Amit Hanoch is a Tech Lead at monday.com with 10 years of experience in software engineering. A graduate of the Mamram unit with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, Amit focuses on navigating complex systems. His work focuses on making large-scale architectural shifts predictable and efficient through automation. In his spare time, Amit creates coffee videos online, where he explores the technical side of brewing the perfect cup.

Jen Person is a developer advocate for Squid Cloud, an enterprise-grade backend-as-a-service that connects to and secures any API or data source. With nearly a decade of experience in developer products, Jen has extensive experience connecting with developers through talks, blogs, events, social media, and videos. She is passionate about creating the best development experiences so devs can focus on creating the best applications.

Software engineer on the React Native core team at Meta particularly working on the developer experience of VR/AR.

I’m Karthick working as a Senior Web Platform developer in Sixt. I spend my time building JavaScript platforms, refining workspace-driven architectures, and designing the infrastructure layers that tie everything together. From Nx/pnpm monorepos to multi-instance microfrontends, I focus on the patterns, boundaries, and shared capabilities that help application teams scale without friction. I love diving into how large JS systems behave in the real world and sharing practical lessons that simplify them.

I'm a seasoned software developer with a passion for creating engaging developer experiences. As a Developer Experience Engineer at Chromatic, I'm dedicated to improving integrations in the Storybook ecosystem, making it easier for developers to build high-quality UIs with confidence. In addition to my technical expertise, I'm an advocate for education and empowering developers to reach their full potential. When I'm not coding, you can find me jamming on my bass or spending quality time with my Great Danes, Zola and Noodles.

Julia is a Software Developer at ec0lint, a tool for frontend developers which mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. Besides, she works as a Software Engineer at Akamai. She is also a laureate of the IT for SHE program. In her free time, Julia practices yoga and makes handcrafted candles.

Javier Alcaide is a mathematician and software developer focused on data science and machine learning. His professional career is based on the use of advanced analytics and big data techniques within the financial sector. His current role is the design and construction of AI models and the analysis of data using ETL processing with Big Data technologies.

Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless. He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014 he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which later was acquired by a networking giant. At this startup he also met Ori Keren and Dan Lines, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering, solving big challenges, and this time he is focusing on the world of Dev Productivity and Experience. He is also the host of the very successful Hebrew Podcast - Dev Interrupted.

Wesley Fuchter is Director of Software Engineering at Modus Create, where he spends his time turning AI coding tool experiments into organization-wide practice. After leading a structured A/B experiment that demonstrated a 40% reduction in development time, his focus shifted to the harder challenge: getting a full engineering team to actually leverage agentic coding. His team built the knowledge-sharing systems, workshops, and practical resource libraries that are driving the shift. With 14+ years in cloud architecture, enterprise modernization, and engineering leadership across healthcare, fintech, and Fortune 100 organizations, Wesley brings a practitioner's perspective, including what didn't work. He holds the AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification and has previously spoken at worldwide tech conferences.