Andrew Lombardi is a veteran entrepreneur and software developer. His parents taught him to code while barely able to read on an Apple ][ he still wishes he had. He invented Nutella and the Internet (suck it Al Gore) while drinking straight coffee and staring off into space. He’s been running the consulting firm Mystic Coders for 22 years, authored a kick-ass book on Spring for Apress and WebSocket for O’Reilly, coding, speaking internationally and offering technical guidance to companies as large as Walmart and companies with problems as interesting as helicopter simulation. He firmly believes that the best thing he’s done so far, is being a great dad.

Wajdi is a computer engineer wizard, specializing in mobile technologies and parallel realities. He has published articles around these subjects in multiple blogs and magazines.

He is also a speaker at many international events. His main goal is to push the digital world forward via contributions on open source projects or via training sessions and workshops.

And just to top off his professional experience, he has worked with multiple companies like Orange, Sfeir, Twitter and many others, as a mobile team leader (with an experience in other fields like devops and web).

Wajdi is a renowned speaker presented at conferences like: Google DevFest, Appdevcon, Appbuilders, AndroidMakers/DroidCon, CodeMonsters, Mixit, etc.
He is also a bestselling author.

Alexander Schwartz is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He helps organizations and teams to make architecture decisions that match their needs. To build their software in a maintainable way, he empowers them with best practices, tools and libraries. He leads by example to adopt true agile processes and to stay curious. Ideas spark when sharing thoughts with others. Finding out if an idea works requires experimenting with code and UX. Measurable results of the experiment show if the idea worked out, and might lead to new experiments.

Radoslaw is a Senior Product Manager for Dynatrace Managed with more than 12 years of experience in APM and observability domain as a software developer and leader. He’s an Agile product development enthusiast who is always happy to help those in need. Outside of work, Radoslaw as an ex-handball player, loves sport activities and is passionate about self-development.

Kalina is an aspiring HR professional with BA in Business Management and Organizational Psychology. She has devoted their educational and professional career to the discovery of the practices that help professionals of all seniorities develop their full potential. She is currently part of the Recruitment Team in Endava Bulgaria, learning from experts in the IT field, and has worked on developing and applying effective practices for proactive talent acquisition. In addition, Kalina has also worked on and managed the internal internship programs at Endava.

Irina Marudina (@imarudina) is a software architect at DXC Technology with 20+ years of professional experience. Her project portfolio includes configurable product lines, web portals and information systems aiming zero coding effort during new client onboarding, Identity Management and Single-Sign On modules, scalable Akka Actor systems for graph data processing. Irina is a regular visitor on IT conferences and likes learning in her free time. She enjoys mentoring young developers on their way to mastery, teaching them to care for code quality and clean design.

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