Speakers

Glenn is a software engineer and tech speaker who loves building modern web applications with React, TypeScript, and AI. He's passionate about design systems, exploring how AI can enhance interactive experiences, and teaching developers to build better products. Outside of tech, he's either traveling the world, diving underwater, cycling, or making music on his guitar.

Bas Peters is Solutions Engineer at GitHub, where he helps organizations to adopt GitHub to build software in a collaborative way. He has been a software developer and consultant for over 15 years, and is particularly interested in the impact of open source software. Before joining GitHub, he worked for several software companies and business consultancies.

Maartje Keulen is an AI and data expert with over 10 years of hands-on experience implementing AI solutions across manufacturing, finance, and enterprise organizations. As co-founder of CTRL+ALT+LEAD, she helps companies move from AI experiments to production systems that deliver measurable business value. A competitive athlete still performing at the highest level, Maartje applies high-performance sports principles to technology adoption, advocating for learning-by-doing cultures where teams build real AI capability through iteration rather than theory. Based in the Netherlands, she speaks regularly on practical AI implementation, organizational change, and scaling AI beyond IT departments.

Sam is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, where he leads development of the GitHub MCP server. He works on AI developer tools and helps shape agentic workflows at GitHub. In a past life he was also a professional drummer.

Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects. He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms (Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, PHP 4.4/7.4 Release Manager, etc). He is a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.

Tamas Bazsonyi is a member of the Solutions Engineering team at Bitrise working with customers in the EMEA region to implement CI/CD pipelines successfully that help them during their day-to-day jobs. During his career he’s been working as a Full Stack Developer, QA Engineer and also jumping into mobile app development. Some of his favourite topics are Test Automation and Automation in general.

Fleeing the land of Starbucks Coffee and ridiculously-hopped beer (Seattle) with his wife and five cats, Jeff Watkins has found tranquility beside the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland. Together, they have founded Thoughtful Apes — a boutique consultancy dedicated to helping startups thrive. Jeff has been an engineering leader, mentor, and public speaker for more than three decades. He spent ten years at Apple where he worked on core iOS frameworks and apps delivered via the App Store. It’s not his fault Game Center had either green felt or “those bubbles”.

Helvira Goma is a full-stack developer with over six years of experience who loves making technology feel intuitive, meaningful, and a little bit magical. When she’s not deep in code, she’s on stage sharing stories about tech, creativity, and the human side of engineering — or connecting with others through Motiv'Her, her online community that encourages more women to explore and thrive in technology. Whether she’s writing software or speaking to an audience, Helvira brings the same curiosity and care to everything she creates — always aiming to spark inspiration, one line of code (or one talk) at a time.

Susanne (She/Her) is a C# backend engineer in the .NET stack who loves clean, maintainable code, automating the boring stuff, and letting tools like Renovate do the heavy lifting. She started her career as a full-stack developer, but these days she’s all about backend magic—automation, productivity, and building software for critical infrastructure that is reliable, robust, and built to keep things running. As an international conference speaker, Susanne shares clear, relatable stories about building software, working smarter with automation, and boosting developer productivity, all delivered in a practical, approachable, and yes, sometimes fun way. She also champions inclusive, neurodiverse-friendly environments [...]

Amazed by Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, I studied Philology and got a Bachelor's in Finance while working as a construction worker and Political Advisor later. Part of Refugees.com and involved into changing the public administration in Romania through digitalization, I joined the beautiful world of Web Development and, in three years, I grew from scratch to Senior Full Stack Engineer within ING Hubs Romania with the aim of giving to others what I learned along the way. I write about coding stuff on Linkedin and about the books I read on Instagram (@brutalbookvoices).

As a developer I've always been more interested in the process rather than the outcome. I'm intrigued by team dynamics, communication and agile coding. I've worked in small and large teams and explored many different aspects of software development.

Mathias is a Field CTO at Digital.ai, combining deep technological expertise with strategic foresight. With decades of experience in test automation, release orchestration, and hands-on software delivery governance, he supports organizations in building trust in their digital value streams. His focus lies on quality assurance, resilient system architectures, and the practical implementation of governance across the software lifecycle

Software Architect and Security Researcher

Wim Godden has been working with open source technologies since 1997 and has been involved in open source projects such as PHPCompatibility and OpenX. Next to web development, he's worked with a wide range of technologies (from database clusters to Internet backbone design) and focuses a lot of his time on high-scalability projects and on coaching/training web engineers. He's currently the CTO at one of the leading European locker companies for luggage storage and festivals/concerts.

Mike has been working in web application development for 15 years, including time as a CTO and startup founder. The journey has taught him a lot about how teams grow together, ways to build resilient software systems, and how we need to understand the impact of what we build on the world around us. He's passionate about sharing this experience with the wider software & business communities, mentoring the next generation of engineers & entrepreneurs. He also has a deep dislike of printers.

Kilian is a front-end developer with over 20 years of experience that switched from building websites to building apps to build websites with. He is interested in modern web development, desktop app development and new technologies, and regularly speaks about topics like responsive websites, accessibility, design systems and Electron. Kilian is a frequent open source contributor.

Sebastian Bergmann is the creator of PHPUnit, the testing framework that set the standard for quality and professionalism in PHP software development. As a founding partner and consultant with The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), he empowers development teams to adopt PHPUnit effectively, elevate their testing strategies, streamline workflows, and build more reliable, testable software.

Jessica is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at DigiCert DNS and has been using PHP for 27 years with 18 years experience in the hosting industry. Alongside this, she also attends far too many LAN parties and works on a number of open source projects for the community. In her remaining spare time she looks after her 2 cats and occasionally goes climbing and sailing.

Between having a family life, colunteering for a radiostation and attending (online) conferences and usergroup meetings, Stefan tries running a company called Ingewikkeld. Having worked with PHP and several of its open source products since the late 90s, he still likes it for getting the job done.

Software engineer at Dawn Technology. 15+ years building web and cloud, trying to keep it user-centered and accessible.

Pieter Jordaan is lead developer at Paqt and already active in PHP for 15 years. Pieter Jordaan worked with many PHP frameworks which gives him a good idea about different perspectives and solutions for handling a problem. The last 2 years he worked silently on his open source library Apie to have better tooling for Domain Objects.

Melinda is an engineering leader and conference speaker with over 10 years experience of working with and managing teams of developers & managers and conference speaking. Since 2014, she has helped engineers, designers and product managers with their public speaking skills, through speaker coaching, workshops and talks about public speaking. She also works together with engineering leaders and engineering managers on how to build up internal employee evangelism & culture within their teams.

Ondřej is a full-time open-source software developer. He likes pointing out mistakes in other people's code so much that he created PHPStan, a popular static analyzer that focuses on finding bugs in code without running it. He shares his experience at conferences across the world, offers his expertise as a consultant, and organizes trainings.

He is a fintech CTO and PHP tinkerer working on payment platforms where correctness is non-negotiable. He specializes in financial systems, transaction integrity, and preventing small rounding mistakes from becoming big problems.

Heather is a Developer Advocate at Gatling where she enjoys building content and community around making performance testing approachable and essential to teams. Her perspective is shaped by four years as a software developer followed by two years advocating for DevOps best practices. She’s an international speaker that enjoys comparing theory with reality of software development lifecycles, using practical examples and analogies. Her goal is to give engineers different perspectives that will build the confidence they need to make performance a core part of their workflow.

Full-stack engineer that went from almost completely back-end to the front-end guy of the team

Sander ten Brinke is a Microsoft MVP and Lead Software Engineer at Arcady, a Dutch IT consultancy firm based in Zwolle. He loves working with .NET, Azure, DevOps and a whole lot more. He always stays up to date with all new technology and loves sharing his knowledge with everyone by speaking, blogging, podcasting and more! Sander is an accomplished speaker, he has spoken at 30+ events, including meetups and big conferences like WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024 (15k attendees), NDC Oslo 2025, FutureTech and more! He was in the top 3% of the most active speakers on the Sessionize Platform [...]

Peter started his career as a full-stack software developer in 2002 and has since progressed to a lead architect role. Over the course of these 20+ years, he has fulfilled many roles in various industries and gained extensive experience with a wide range of technologies such as Java, C#, JavaScript, and others. Nowadays, he leverages his expertise to assist companies, write articles, and speak at conferences. His main focus is on making software development more cost-efficient and future-proofing applications. Additionally, he has picked up making illustrations as a hobby because he is a strong believer in visual communication. There are [...]

Sergès Goma is a Paris-based software developer specialized in JavaScript. When she's not fixing codebases, she gives motivational speeches mostly aimed at junior and would-be developers as well as participating in the tech women's empowerment online community Motiv'Her.

Jason is a Senior Software Engineer at Vesper, where he helps build and evolve the company’s Marketplace platform. He works across the entire stack with the aim of bringing value to not just users, but also his colleagues. He’s heavily involved in shaping the platform’s technical direction and architecture, gathering and documenting domain knowledge to ensure clarity between all stakeholders, and anything else the team needs to keep shipping quality software. Jason enjoys tackling complex problems, designing maintainable systems, and sharing practical lessons from real-world engineering challenges.

Dave owns Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He’s been writing software commercially for over 22 years in many languages including C, Python, Java and PHP. Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He speaks at conferences and user groups, and is an organiser of PHP-SW. He is also the author of an open source tool called SARB (static analysis results baseliner) and creator of the PHP Language extension library. When not busy coding Dave enjoys scuba diving and running.

I'm senior developer at Dawn Technology

James is a consultant, trainer and developer at Roave, working in software for over 20 years. His goal is to improve the quality of software products that teams deliver.

Marius' passion is exploring the latest communication technologies – and, even more, sharing his knowledge and learning from others. Originally from the Black Forest in Germany, he started his software development career as a UI developer in Silicon Valley, where he discovered his love for web technologies, especially JavaScript and the entire Node.js ecosystem. After countless creative (and sometimes frustrating) battles with CSS, he relocated to Munich, where he now works as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. In this role, he inspires and empowers developers around the world to build cloud-native apps with outstanding customer engagement. He has also spent [...]

Anuradha is a senior front-end developer, working on making the web more accessible, one website at a time. She is passionate about exploring new technologies and sharing knowledge through tech articles and talks. She has been recognized as GDE, MVP, and WTM Ambassador. As an accessibility advocate, she aims to spread awareness and empower the community toward achieving the common goal of inclusion through technology. When she is not coding, she loves traveling, exploring museums, reading books, and sketching.

Enterprise architect in banking. Eager on learning. Passionate about teaching. Focused on people and processes, quality and effectiveness. Having diverse experiences in multiple roles and sectors and tiny to huge companies. Found best match in holistic understanding. Choose to keep an eye especially on Enterprise and Solution Architecture. In free time mostly passionate about music (singing, playing, dancing) and sports (from martial arts to snowboarding).

When you follow the cables, behind every piece of tech is a person, consumer and creator, and we should never lose sight of this. Lianne is an award-winning digital anthropologist and technologists specialising in software engineering, cybersecurity and AI. Lianne’s speaking specialism is to deliver talks that not only challenge audiences, but change them. She provides strategic consultancy to help organisations build and transform security operations into resilient, forward-thinking teams. As former Head of SecOps for Europe’s largest greenfield technology transformation, she established a cutting-edge security function that set new industry benchmarks through innovation and collaboration. An international keynote speaker, [...]

Johan Janssens is a passionate technologist and open-source advocate with over 25 years of experience in emerging technologies and innovative software architectures. As a Fractional CTO and Chief Architect, he specializes in crafting seamless digital experiences and solving complex challenges with open technologies. A co-founder of Joomla and the lead developer of Joomla 1.5, Johan has played a pivotal role in shaping the open-source landscape. He is deeply committed to digital freedom and building technology that empowers others.

Jeroen has over 25 years experience as a Fullstack Developer, Scrum Master, Software Architect, Team Lead & Change Manager. He has a passion about creating and manage teams of code wizards. The last few years he has focused on AI from a digital transformation (management) as well as from a developer point of view.

Krasimir Tsonev is a coder with over ten years of experience in web development. Author of books on Node.js and React he works at Antidote.me where he helps people reaching clinical trials. Loves React and its ecosystem.

I'm an experienced web developer and a passionate IT and electronics trainer, specializing in frontend development and enterprise applications built with Angular. I spend most of my time exploring what's new in the tech world and helping other developers improve their skills. As a conference speaker, I bring advanced Angular topics, tips for the integration of smart contracts and best solutions for web3 applications.

As a Strategic UX Consultant, Vicky Pirker helps companies achieve sustainable business success through user-centered solutions. With the right balance of empathy and strategy, she identifies the real problems, evaluates digital products, and optimizes processes for measurable value. She shares her expertise as an international speaker and advocates for diversity in STEM/tech as a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador and Hacker School Inspirer.

Henning loves programming in high quality. He lives this passion as coder, coach, and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions. There he helps teams to structure their monoliths or to build new systems from the beginning with a sustainable architecture. Microservices or self-contained systems are often the result. Henning is author of “Domain Storytelling” (Addison-Wesley 2022), “Domain-Driven Transformation” (Addison-Wesley 2024) and the www.LeasingNinja.io.

As a seasoned DevOps engineer, I pride myself on ensuring the quality of products by drawing parallels between complex issues and simpler, everyday scenarios. This unique approach aids my team and me in delivering value, ensuring that our products are not only built correctly but also offer the right functionalities.

Indermohan Singh is Lead Developer Advocate working at Dynatrace in Austria. He is Ionic Developer Expert and Auth0 Ambassador and authored Ionic Blueprint 2 and Ionic Cookbook. Before joining Dynatrace, he worked as a JavaScript developer in Austria and India. He loves to do long-distance running, cook Indian food, and sing. When not in front of the computer, he plays his Harmonium or Tanpura and sings Indian songs.

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After working on many sides of tech (as a cloud architect at MSFT, a sales engineer and PMM at Dataiku) I’ve finally found my perfect match as a developer advocate at Elastic - focusing on creating content for, and learning from the tech community. I specialise in data science & AI solutions and love creating videos, blogs, demos and sessions to get people excited about the possibilities of tech. I love to talk about anything NLP, cloud, data science 101, MLOPs, generative AI, and more.

Daniel is a Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate - an open-source vector database. He spends a lot of his time curating music and writing (about) software. He is passionate about creating value through software online and working with developers

Carly is a Principal Developer Advocate & Manager at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a technologist at a large investment bank, specialising in front-end web development and agility. She is a UI developer, who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker and a regular blogger. She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.

Brecht De Ruyte is a self-taught front-end developer located in Belgium with a passion for UX and Design. During the day you can find him working at iO, a full service agency. Besides that, he is also a Google Developer Expert, Smashing Magazine writer and blog owner of utlitybend.com. He also participates in the W3C community: Open UI.

Christian is a freelance fullstack developer and Microsoft MVP writing code in languages like Java, Kotlin, Typescript and Javascript. He's been working as a software engineer since over a decade. He loves learning from others and sharing his knowledge.

Bert is the founder of PowerDNS, software that powers a significant fraction of the Internet. He also did government cybersecurity work, and co-founded a software company in that field. These days Bert does DNA research and until recently was part of the government board that regulates the Dutch intelligence and security agencies. Bert is now a part-time technical advisor at the Dutch Electoral Council ("FEC")

Chapter Lead with extensive experience in building, managing, and optimizing technology solutions. I am passionate about driving innovation, particularly within the realm of software engineering and AI. I have a strong background in building resilient and scalable distributed solutions, ensuring robust architecture and maintainability. My focus on data-driven insights has equipped me to anticipate challenges in system reliability and distributed computing. Currently based in Amsterdam, I lead a talented team, balancing technical excellence and strategic vision to meet the dynamic needs of a fast-paced industry.Together we are building a scalable next-generation contact center solution at ING using Twilio, Google Dialogflow [...]

Fullstack Developer at Medicare && Organizer/Host for LaraconEU

A lifelong technologist, having started coding at the age of six, Jeff has been in the industry for over 25 years. He has a love for CyberSecurity and AI, especially the human elements of both subjects. Working for a consultancy, he's seen the world change to be product- and service-oriented, and bangs the drum for ensuring that everybody is involved in delivering secure and usable offerings. Outside of work, he is co-host of the Compromising Positions podcast, a unique view of cybersecurity from outsiders' perspectives. Publications include: * Wired * Forbes * Raconteur * IT Pro * Business Cloud * [...]

I've been working as a .NET developer for over 16 years now in a variety of industries including government, retail and manufacturing. But I've been hacking around with computer code since I was old enough to read my Dad's copy of the ZX Spectrum BASIC coders manual. I've been speaking about Functional C# at various user groups and conferences around the UK, USA, Europe and Australia and am particularly interested in seeing just how far we can push C# without breaking it. In 2023 I released my first technical book: "Functional Programming with C#", published by O'Reilly Media. When I'm [...]

Sasha is an experienced software developer with a rich background, in IT for more than 20 years. He worked with different stacks in backend, frontend and mobile fields, but since 2018 his main interest is Flutter. Sasha also has deep expertise in Firebase and Generative AI area, enhancing his capabilities to create robust, intelligent, and scalable applications. Sasha is a Chief Software Engineer and Head of Flutter Discipline in EPAM. Also, he is Flutter and Dart GDE and Co-Organizer of Flutter Berlin community.

I've been a backend developer for around twelve years, first in Java, then PHP and more recently in Go. I've worked in companies of all sizes: from a 400-person company to a 15-person startup, then scale-ups like Lydia, Ornikar and now NIQ.

Nic Wortel is an independent software consultant and trainer. After working as a software engineer for over 10 years, he started to offer consulting and training workshops to help other teams improve their software development processes. From time to time, he speaks at meetups and events about Agile software development, DevOps, and related topics.

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 360 presentations in 25 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP [...]

I'm a software developer with over 20 years of experience working with PHP and web technologies. I'm interested in web publishing, content extraction and conversion, and the web standards, technologies, and formats related to those areas.

20+ years of architecture and development experience. Serverless Freak and AWS Community Builder.

As CTO of Square1, a leading digital agency in Dublin, I bring 20+ years of experience building high-traffic applications across Europe. I’ve led teams, shaped products, and navigated the challenges of transitioning from developer to manager. An international speaker, I’m passionate about sharing insights on technical leadership and the evolving world of software development.

Hugo Hamon is a PHP and Symfony certified developer. He worked nine years for SensioLabs, the creators of Symfony, as a Web developer, head of training and software architect. He joined Dayuse.com as a backend lead developer between 2018 and 2020. He's now a full time freelance PHP developer at his own company KODERO

Alexandre is a Symfony Lead Developer and Developer Advocate based in Lyon, France. As well as giving talks at official Symfony events, Pimcore, PHPers and Malt Academy, Alexandre's involvement in the PHP world was strengthened by contributing to PHP and Symfony's source code and documentation. He then continued this dynamic by joining Sensiolabs (the company that created Symfony), as well as writing his first book, "Clean Code in PHP" in October 2022.

My career has taken me through a diverse journey, spanning roles that include full-stack developer, business analyst, IT manager, and now thriving in cybersecurity. Throughout this journey, my deep passion for technology has remained a constant driving force. For me, security resembles solving a 10,000-piece puzzle that's been turned upside down. You understand the end goal, yet you're uncertain about where each piece belongs. Achieving this requires close collaboration with developers, business stakeholders, and others, necessitating me to consistently bridge different disciplines within technology. Whether it's simplifying intricate development concepts for security and business professionals or vice versa, every piece [...]

Running web applications should be simpler. I work on open-source projects like Bref, courses like Serverless Visually Explained, as well as tools making serverless more accessible. I also help dev teams and startups looking to build a scalable and robust infrastructure.

I'm Max. I live in Yerevan, Armenia, but I'll be relocating to Barcelona, Spain, by the time of the conference. I have decades of experience in IT, primarily focused on programming in PHP and running Unix servers. For the past six years, I've been working at Manychat, a leading chat-marketing platform, where I combine the roles of an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, and developer, optimizing our systems and ensuring reliability. Manychat sponsors the PHP Foundation and plays an active role in driving the local PHP community in Barcelona.

When not working on clubzero.co, smartmessages.net, supporting 1CRM at syniah.com, writing & pentesting for Radically Open Security, or acting as a DPO, I'm the maintainer of PHPMailer, a top-10 PHP project on GitHub, and probably the world's most popular email sending code. I'm a contributor to many other open-source projects, and I wrote the HTML5 email address spec. I'm an accomplished PHP coder, Linux sysadmin, technical writer, and MySQL DBA. I'm a strong advocate of digital rights and privacy - I love GDPR! I've been speaking at technical conferences in Europe and around the world since 2006. I live in [...]

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Backend Team Leader and Branch manager @Netgen. PHP/Symfony developer, graduated Informatics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek. Doing web stuff for 6 years. Slavonia evangelist.

Developer Advocate, author of stitcher.io, host of PHP Annotated, creator of Tempest.

Solutions Architect working on large-scale AWS deployments, while maintaining a Wordpress site on the cheapest shared hosting I could find.

Florian is married with five kids and he likes to play table tennis 🏓, table football ⚽, chess ♟️, and MTG. He is also a software engineer and builds a PHP profiler at Datadog. He started writing small software on an IBM PS/2 30 286 in GW-BASIC back in 1993, throughout the 90s he learned HTML, JavaScript, Perl, C, and a bit of Assembler. It was September 2000 when he was introduced to PHP and he thought nobody would ever need it, but boy he was wrong. In his spare time (and with five kids you do not have that [...]

I am Mathieu Lamiot, a France-based tech-enthusiast engineer passionate about system design and bringing brilliant individuals together as a team. I dedicate myself to Tech & Engineering management, leading teams to make an impact, deliver value and accomplish great things.

Fabrizio is an Italian freelance software developer living in Spain. With 25 years of experience he has a long history of participation in the PHP open source world, as a contributor, maintainer, advocate and speaker. Mostly active in the Magento ecosystem (one of the most known ecommerce plaftorm) he was speaker in many tech conferences around Europe and maintainer of OpenMage (community fork of Magento1) and now founder of MahoCommerce.

Peter Eijgermans is a long-time software developer and an adventurous and passionate CodeSmith Frontend at Sopra Steria. He likes to travel around the world with his bike. Always seeking for the unexpected and unknown. For his job he tries out the latest techniques and frameworks. He loves to share his experience by speaking at conferences all over the World and writing for the Dutch Java magazine, Medium and DZone. He believes that you as the front-end developer are the spider in the web to bring the user, the team and the product together.

Danny is a Technical Lead at Infi, a digital agency based in Utrecht. He loves building PHP applications and delivering value to clients with his team. In addition to client work, he enjoys contributing to and maintaining open source software.

Damien Seguy CTO at Exakat SAS., a company specialized in PHP code quality solutions for the industry. He leads the development of the exakat PHP static analysis engine, that automatically audit code for version compatibility, security and dead code. Since last millenium, Damien has contributed to PHP, as documentation author, elephpant breeder, conference UFO on all continents. He also enjoys machine learning, gremlin, 狮子头 and camembert.

Daniel has been developing with PHP in a large variety of projects for around 20 years during which time he created PHPBench and the Phpactor Language Server. He cycled over most of the EU, plays the piano badly and writes bad TUI applications in Rust.

Passionate about mathematics and logic, I am a backend developer with a Computer Science Engineering degree and international speaker since 2020. Argentinian and Spanish, I lived in many countries and speak five languages. I strongly believe in diversity in tech and started giving conferences to act as a role model for women. Outside work, I love dancing, and travelling and have two wonderful cats. I have been giving conferences since 2020 in French and English (but also speak Spanish and Portuguese). I have been to major events like SymfonyCon, SymfonyLive, ForumPHP among others. Check my personal blog for full references [...]

Arne Blankerts has already dealt with computers when networking was still an adventure. As long-standing head of development of an internet agency, he has created solutions far ahead of the times already years ago. As Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), Arne helps his clients to develop software successfully. He is author and maintainer of various Open Source development tools, and is a regular presenter at conferences. In his free time he reads fantasy novels and likes to cook.

Chris is an experienced software engineer and architect who works as a consultant for a variety of clients. He also works on open source projects such as the Dagger PHP SDK and PHP OpenAPI tools. Chris has been speaking at conferences for 10 years including organising the PHP Yorkshire conference in the UK.

Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile and web developer, trainer, speaker, and author of 14 books, including latest titles "Hacking Web Performance" (O'Reilly Media) and "Learn PWA!" (Google). A frequent speaker at international conferences, he's a recognized figure in the mobile and web community. Maximiliano has created over 35 web and app development courses for platforms like Frontend Masters, Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, and teaches workshops on a range of topics including mobile (Android, iOS), web app development, performance, and applied AI.

As a digital consultant, Willem focuses on understanding end user behavior in combination with complex business processes to find suitable digital solutions. With his studies in Statistics & Data Science, the theory behind Machine Learning helps in spotting opportunities and choosing the appropriate model for any situation.

Vladas Diržys has worked at Sportradar for 14 years, specializing in Live Data. He started as a tech and team leader and now serves as a Tribe Architect. Professionally, Vladas is interested in topics like Domain Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, Event Sourcing, Java, and Kotlin.

Like you, Pim is on a quest to do things a little bit better every time. As a scrum developer, he has extensive experience with solid coding, patient mentoring and tackling big projects using Domain Driven Design. Presentations by Pim are always fun, engaging and conversational. But don't fret; if you just want to listen and let others speak, it *will* be worth your time. Pim has joined Superscript in 2022 where the complexities of tech and insurance meet each other in the <3 of software.

I'm a front-end developer from Amsterdam, NL. I am currently working for ABN AMRO. I'm also accessibility lead, leading a guild of 20 FE developers helping everyone create accessible web applications. Qualifications: 10 years+ as front-end developer, BA in Computer Science, Vue.js certified, CPACC certified.

Toni Van de Voorde has over 20 years of experience in web development. For the past 5 years, he has specialised in serverless development, leveraging TypeScript and AWS to build scalable, cloud-native solutions. He has contributed to projects like The Content Exchange and played a key role in the digital transformation of GLS Belgium, utilising serverless architectures to drive innovation. As a Lead Developer and SRE at Ibuildings, he is responsible for evolving and maintaining the company’s cloud infrastructure while promoting best practices in development. He is also a proud crew member of the Dutch PHP Conference, where he has [...]

Ramona is a software engineer and public speaker with a passion for creating inclusive and accessible applications. She likes to spread awareness about this topic and hopes to inspire people both in her daily work and by taking the stage whenever she gets the chance.

Neel is a tech enthusiast, blogger, writer, speaker, and solutions architect. He has 10 years of professional experience. Apart from being a developer, he is an award-winning tech blogger. He likes to stay up-to-date with the latest technology stack, and he likes to share his knowledge with the community. He often arranges RTL meetups to share knowledge. He is a DZone MVB and Top 4% overall on the StackOverflow site. You can find him at his site: https://neelbhatt.com

Kræn is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB, building developer tools, such as Compass and the mongosh CLI. Previously contributing primarily to Atlas Device SDKs (formerly Realm) and its related packages (combined ~60K weekly downloads on NPM). He holds a masters degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark and has built and maintained multiple TypeScript libraries and React apps. Kræn lives 30 minutes west of Copenhagen, with his wife, their 6-yo twin girls and 2-yo baby girl.

Josefine currently works as an Accessibility Engineer at Storyblok. She is also a Google Developer Expert for Web, ambassador for Women Tech Makers and GirlCode. She cares deeply about DE&I in the tech industry and beyond and is passionate about all things frontend, inclusive communities and web accessibility. She is also an aerial acrobat, dance teacher and cat mom. She is based in Hamburg, Germany, and travels the world talking about Web Accessibility.

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Creative developer Jorrik bridges the gap between design and functionality. With 8+ years in front-end, he's now exploring AI's potential. At Sopra Steria, he builds innovative web solutions and shares his tech journey through public speaking.

Joralf is a member of the management team and a (technical) project manager at Infi, a digital agency based in Utrecht. He loves building self-managing teams in which business and developers work together in harmony. In his spare time he's one of the organizers of the DomCode meetup, a cross-language user group for web developers in the Utrecht area.

After working on many sides of tech (as a cloud architect at MSFT, a sales engineer and PMM at Dataiku) I’ve finally found my perfect match as a developer advocate at Elastic - focusing on creating content for, and learning from the tech community. I specialise in data science & AI solutions and love creating videos, blogs, demos and sessions to get people excited about the possibilities of tech. I love to talk about anything NLP, cloud, data science 101, MLOPs, generative AI, and more.