Damian is a Developer Advocate at GitHub and loves all things DevOps.

Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for 4 years, and prior to that a dev at Octopus Deploy (https://octopus.com) and a Microsoft MVP, Damian has a 20+ year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries.
Damian regularly speak sat conferences, User Groups, and other events around the world.
 
Most of the time you'll find Damian talking to developers, IT Pros, and data scientists to help them get the most out of their DevOps and MLOps strategies.

Donna has been enabling teams in the IT industry for over twenty years. She is passionate about helping businesses scale and creating inclusive workplaces where people can thrive. 

Donna works for Amazon Web Services, leading the Training and Certification scale team, creating and running innovative training programs across Australia and New Zealand. She was previously the State Delivery Manager at Readify (aka Telstra Purple), leading a team of 80 consultants. She is also the CEO of startup SHOUTOUT - a recognition platform designed to help companies create a culture of gratitude. 

An international conference and keynote speaker, Donna is passionate about the community and is involved with a multitude of not-for-profit groups; Women in Technology WA, Muses Code JS, Tech Girls Movement, Women who Code and the Beacon Foundation. Donna was recognised for her contribution to Professional Services and Community with a 40 under 40 Award in 2019.

Filip is the author of C# Smorgasbord and a handful of Pluralsight courses, speaker at events and user groups around the globe, Microsoft and Xamarin MVP. He loves teaching fellow developers how to master C# by understanding important concepts such asynchronous programming, MSIL and much more.

Polyglot Coding Architect in London, founder of #ldnug, speaker, tabletop gamer, geek. Tattooed, pierced, and bearded. The 'guv' on @BrighterCommand

Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He is also an investor/advisor for Nucleus Security, BitDiscovery, SecureCircle, and Inspectiv. Jim is a frequent speaker on software security practices, is a member of the Java Champion community, and is the author of "Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications" from Oracle Press. Jim also volunteers for the OWASP foundation as the project lead for the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard and the OWASP Cheatsheet Series. For more information, see 

Jimmy is the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR. Jimmy is an independent consultant, and the chief architect at Headspring (part of Accenture), a custom software consultancy based in Austin, TX. Jimmy has received the "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) award every year since 2009.

Joe Albahari is an O'Reilly author and the inventor of LINQPad. His books include "C# 10 in a Nutshell", "C# Pocket Reference" and "LINQ Pocket Reference". He speaks regularly at conferences and user groups, and has been a C# MVP for twelve years running.

With over twenty years of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell specialises in bringing cyber security into organisations of every shape and size.

, a community-centric online education platform giving developers, testers and architects around the world the skills they need to build high-quality, secure software at speed.

Laura is an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member, and has spoken at a range of events such as BlackHat USA, Velocity, and OSCON on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, agile cyber security, and cyber security mindset.

Martin is a front-end geek, data architect, and software engineer with multi-year experience helping companies around the world. He enjoys solving problems by coding in creative ways and actively participates in multiple open-source projects.

Michael is a member of the GraphQL technical steering committee, a Microsoft MVP, and the author of the Hot Chocolate project (https://github.com/ChilliCream/hotchocolate), a platform for building GraphQL servers and clients in .NET. For the last couple of years, this open-source project is his main focus. 

Apart from his work in the open-source community, Michael works as a consultant to help companies to move to GraphQL. You can read about the Hot Chocolate project on his blog https://chillicream.com/blog/.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michael_staib
GitHub: https://github.com/michaelstaib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-staib-31519571/
MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003672

Nick Chapsas is an educator and content creator for C# and .NET, course author and Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies with years of experience in micro-services, high-scale distributed system and solution architecture.

Richard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry both on the hardware and software sides, development and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013 and was on the board of directors of Telerik which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a public charity that builds open source software for disaster relief. Richard is also the host of two podcasts: .NET Rocks! (www.dotnetrocks.com) for .NET developers and RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com) for IT Professionals.

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.

NDC { Sydney }

Speakers

Damian Brady

Donna Edwards

Filip Ekberg

Ian Cooper

Jim Manico

Jimmy Bogard

Joe Albahari

Laura Bell

Martin Artola

Michael Staib

Nick Chapsas

Richard Campbell

Steve Sanderson