Speakers 2019 Speakers 1 talk + 1 workshop Being cheap with the cloud React Workshop Aaron Powell Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft 1 talk + 1 workshop Wednesday Chinafy your apps + Lessons you can steal from China Adam Cogan Chief Architect at SSW 1 talk Wednesday Internals of Exceptions Adam Furmanek Software Developer at Amazon, Seattle 1 talk Wednesday Safer, Faster, Smarter - Simple patterns for better cloud native applications Adam Stephensen Azure Technical Specialist @ Microsoft 1 talk Friday Introduction to Angular 8 Alain Chautard Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies / Angular 1 talk Wednesday A brief history of Cloud Alex Mackey Principal Consultant @ Telstra Purple , author, speaker, dad. Founded DDDMelbourne conf. 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Amrit Puri Educator | Project Lead (Code Chautari) 1 talk Friday CSS Grid - What is this Magic?! Amy Kapernick Front End Jedi, Evangelist and Dog Lover 1 talk Thursday Access All Areas: Making Accessibility More Accessible André Lemos Product Manager 1 talk Friday Commuting like a developer Anton Ball Fender 1 talk Wednesday Continuous Intelligence: Keeping your AI Application in Production Arif Wider Head of AI, ThoughtWorks Germany 1 talk Friday Trials and Tribulations of a DevOps transformation in a large Company Ashley Noble Engineering Fellow at Honeywell 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Azi Farjad Senior Developer Evangelist, Amazon Alexa 1 talk Friday Opening Doors with JSON Web Tokens Ben Dechrai Developer Evangelist, Auth0 1 talk Friday Testing doesn’t bite, unless it does Blanka Krotilova Developer at rexlabs, organiser of Muses Code JS 1 talk Friday How to put a Penguin in a Cloud: Linux on Azure Brendan Richards Solution Architect at SSW Brisbane 1 talk Thursday Iterative metrics, dashboards and monitors Carmel Hinks Software developer 1 talk Thursday Pragmatic DevOps - How and Why Damian Brady Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft 1 talk 2-Day Workshops Application Building with ASP.NET Core 3.0 Damian Edwards Program Manager at Microsoft 1 workshop Thursday Static Sites, Dynamic microservices, & Azure: How we built Microsoft Docs and Learn Dan Fernandez Principal Group Program Manager - Microsoft 1 talk Thursday Busting the Func'ing Jargon Daniel Chambers Senior Developer at Liberty Financial 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks Dom Wenden Tech Director at Domain.com.au 1 talk Friday F# Code I Love Don Syme Principal Researcher at Microsoft Mobile Tools and Microsoft Research 1 talk Wednesday Building Great Teams Donna Edwards Partner Manager @ Amazon Web Services | CEO @ SHOUTOUT | NFP Committee Member | 40under40 Winner 1 talk Friday Doing Infrastructure as Code? You Can Do Better Effy Elden Technologist 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Emad Alashi Lead Consultant, Telstra Purple 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Understanding Git — Behind the Command Line Build and Deployment Automation for .NET Developers (with C# and Cake) Enrico Campidoglio Freelance Programmer, Speaker and Trainer 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday TypeScript - Beyond the Basics Eric Potter Technical Strategist 1 talk 2 talks Back to Basics: Efficient Async and Await C# 8 and Beyond Filip Ekberg Author. Speaker. Pluralsight author. Microsoft MVP. 2 talks Thursday Lightning Talks Has AlTaiar Solutions Architect 1 talk Wednesday Keynote: The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers Heather Downing Senior Developer Advocate at Okta 1 talk Friday AI in the battle against fakes. Henk Boelman Cloud Advocate at Microsoft 1 talk 2 talks Empower Your Microservices with Istio Service Mesh Secure Your Kubernetes Containers Hossam Barakat Lead Consultant, Telstra Purple 2 talks Wednesday Cognitive biases in software development Ian Hughes Principal Consultant at Telstra Purple 1 talk Thursday Beyond infrastructure as code DSLs Jake Ginnivan Tech Lead at Seven West Media 1 talk Thursday Keeping your builds green using Docker Jakob Ehn Doing cloudy DevOps things at Active Solution 1 talk Thursday gRPC for ASP.NET Core, a new framework for high performance APIs James Newton-King Developer on the ASP.NET team and author of Json.NET 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 3.0 Mastering Vue.js Jason Taylor Solution Architect @ SSW 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday Handling Angular Forms Without Losing Your Sanity Jennifer Wadella Founder, Kansas City Women in Technology 1 talk Friday Real-time Face Recognition With Microsoft Cognitive Services Jernej Kavka (JK) Senior Software Architect @ SSW 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop DDD really matters! Applying Domain-Driven Design, take two Jimmy Nilsson Author of “Applying DDD & Patterns” 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday Quantum Computing Concepts John Azariah Principal Architect, Microsoft Quantum 1 talk Wednesday Dissecting Kubernetes (K8s) - An Intro to Main Components Joshua Sheppard Machine Learning Manager at C. H. Robinson 1 talk Thursday Innovation and Trends in Cloud Julio Faerman Technical Evangelist at AWS 1 talk Wednesday Async demystified Karel Zikmund .NET team in Microsoft - Software Engineering Manager 1 talk Thursday Getting Started with Apache Spark Kevin Feasel Predictive Analytics Manager @ ChannelAdvisor 1 talk 2 talks + 1 workshop ASP.NET Core 3.0 Panel Modern day C# development in Visual Studio 2019 Application Building with ASP.NET Core 3.0 Kevin Pilch Group Engineering Manager for ASP.NET Core 2 talks + 1 workshop Thursday Bank Grade Security Kieran Jacobsen Head of Information Technology at Telstra Purple 1 talk Wednesday Picking up the pieces - A look at how to run post incident reviews Klee Thomas Pragmatic Agile Clean Code Craftsman 1 talk Friday DesignOps - How to get ideas out faster Kristy Sachse Telstra Purple, Lead Experience Designer 1 talk Friday DataDevOps for the Modern Data Warehouse on Microsoft Azure Lace Lofranco Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft 1 talk Friday Full Stack Accessibility, and the Business Case for being Inclusive Larene Le Gassick Inclusion Engineer 1 talk Thursday A Tale Of Four Startups Liam Westley Head of Engineering at Huddle and loud suit wearer 1 talk Thursday Microservices for building an IDE – The innards of JetBrains Rider Maarten Balliauw .NET and web. Works at JetBrains. 1 talk Thursday Monitoring a Global Multitenant Service Magnus Mårtensson Founder/CEO of Loftysoft 1 talk 2 talks So, you want to be a CTO? Serverless and App Service Security on Azure Mahesh Krishnan AGL Energy 2 talks 1 talk + 1 workshop Repeatable execution From Design Patterns to universal abstractions Mark Seemann Functional Prog., Object- Oriented Dev. & Architecture 1 talk + 1 workshop 2 talks I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Framework - Mastering Shadow DOM Lightning Talks Martine Dowden UX/UI Designer & Developer, GDE, MVP 2 talks 2 talks + 1 workshop Deep Learning with CNTK and F# Dungeons, Dragons and Functions Practical Machine Learning with Functional Programming Mathias Brandewinder Microsoft F# MVP 2 talks + 1 workshop Wednesday Unity for the enterprise developer Matt Ellis Developer Advocate, JetBrains 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Megan Mallin Cloud Advocacy Program Manager @ Microsoft 1 talk Thursday Lightning Talks Michael John Pena Senior Consultant @ Telstra Purple , Blockchain Specialist 1 talk Thursday API team characteristics and best practices Nahid Farrokhi Amazon, Software Architect 1 talk Thursday Lightning Talks Negar Ghanbari Software Developement Team Leader 1 talk 2 talks Thousands of concurrent connections with Azure SignalR Service Lightning Talks Nelly Sattari Lead developer at Challenger / Microsoft Azure MVP 2 talks 1 talk + 1 workshop Using Flutter to develop cloud enabled mobile applications Building Cross-Platform Apps With Flutter Nick Randolph Founder, Built to Roam 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday The future of .NET desktop development Nico Vermeir Technical consultant at Realdolmen 1 talk Thursday What's going on with Project Fugu? Phil Nash Developer evangelist for Twilio and international beer explorer 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Using Flutter to develop cloud enabled mobile applications Building Cross-Platform Apps With Flutter Pooja Bhaumik Google Developer Expert - Flutter 1 talk + 1 workshop Friday Serverless and App Service Security on Azure Pratik Khasnabis Azure specialist and Solution Architect 1 talk Wednesday Safer, Faster, Smarter - Simple patterns for better cloud native applications Rebecca Lyons Azure Application Development Technical Specialist 1 talk Thursday How to build web apps with Vue.js and friends Richard Banks Principal Consultant for Readify 1 talk 2 talks The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System Building Trust in Teams Richard Campbell Host of .NET Rocks and RunAs Radio 2 talks Wednesday Building a Realtime "Backend in a Box" with PostgreSQL and Vue Rob Conery 1 talk Wednesday GraphQL, gRPC or REST? Resolving the API Developer's Dilemma Rob Crowley Principal Consultant @ Telstra Purple 1 talk 3 talks + 1 workshop Blazor in more depth ASP.NET Core 3.0 Panel The next 5 years of ASP.NET Core + 1 more Ryan Nowak Developer and architect at ASP.NET Core 3 talks + 1 workshop Wednesday Modern JavaScript For Web Dinosaurs Ryan Preece Senior Consultant @ Telstra Purple / Troublemaker 1 talk Friday Tackling Dreaded .Net Cold Starts When Going Serverless Sarjeel Yusuf Associate product manager 1 talk Wednesday Going 0 to 100 with Kubernetes Scott Holden Azure App Dev TSP @ Microsoft 1 talk 2 talks + 1 workshop ASP.NET Core 3.0 Panel Keynote: .NET Core the Free, Open Source Framework for Web, Microservices, Big Data, Machine Learning and Desktop Application Building with ASP.NET Core 3.0 Scott Hunter Director of .NET PM 2 talks + 1 workshop 2 talks + 1 workshop Containers/Docker - what, why and how Kubernetes – going beyond the basics Docker and Kubernetes Workshop Shahid Iqbal Independent consultant 2 talks + 1 workshop Friday Doing Infrastructure as Code? You Can Do Better Shohre Mansouri Senior Developer Consultant, ThoughtWorks 1 talk 2 talks Cloud Governance: Winning the battle between speed and control Service degraded: Tackling burnout in the IT industry Sonia Cuff Cloud Advocate, Microsoft 2 talks Thursday Thousands of concurrent connections with Azure SignalR Service Stafford Williams Lead Consultant @ Telstra Purple 1 talk Friday EVE Online: Defending our players from hackers and the evolution of account security Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson CCP Games 1 talk Wednesday Lightning Talks Stephen Carter Greenleaf Enterprises Director of Technology and Virtual Realist 1 talk 3 talks + 1 workshop Blazor in more depth ASP.NET Core 3.0 Panel Blazor, a new framework for browser-based .NET apps + 1 more Steve Sanderson Microsoft Developer on the ASP.NET Team 3 talks + 1 workshop 1 talk + 1 workshop Getting Started with Cosmos DB + EF Core Mastering Vue.js Thiago Passos Solution Architect 1 talk + 1 workshop Friday Reverse Engineering a Classic Video Game Tim Comport Team Leader, Software Engineer at ANCA Motion 1 talk Friday DevOps for the Commodore 64: so what's your excuse? Todd Whitehead Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft 1 talk 1 talk + 1 workshop Hack to the Future Hack Yourself First: How to go on the Cyber-Offence Troy Hunt Internet Security Specialist 1 talk + 1 workshop Thursday Lightning Talks Vatsalya Goel Senior Developer @ Telstra Purple 1 talk Thursday Best practices for securing CI/CD pipeline Victoria Almazova Cloud Security Architect 1 talk Thursday Apache Kafka Event streaming platform for .NET developers Viktor Gamov Developer Advocate, Confluent 1 talk Thursday How to do in-app chaos testing Wesley Cabus Lead Developer 1 talk Wednesday Azure SpendOps – The Art of Effectively Managing Azure Costs William Liebenberg Solutions Architect at SSW 1 talk Friday Lightning Talks York Wong Senior front-end developer at Honeywell 1 talk