Linda is a crypto evangelist that wants to improve secure software so that it’s easy for everyone to use. She currently leads the UX team at Tor Project. Inc, which acts as an internal service to other application teams to help with feature ideation, interface design, and user testing. She received her MS in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley, where she researched the intersection of computer security and user research.

Michael Schrenk has developed software that collects and processes information for some of the biggest news agencies in Europe. Additionally, he has lectured at journalism conferences in Belgium, The Netherlands, and created several weekend workshops for The Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Mike has also consulted on information security everywhere from Moscow to Silicon Valley, and most places in between. Along the way, he’s been interviewed by BBC, The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and many others. In addition to his interest in Journalism, Mike conducts a Competitive Intelligence consultancy in Las Vegas and is the author of “Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers” (San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2012). Michael Schrenk is also an eight-time speaker at the notorious DEF CON hacking conference.

Itai Grady is an experienced Security Researcher in Microsoft. Previously, Itai was a member of various research and development teams for 15 years in several companies, including Aorato (acquired by Microsoft) and 8200 intelligence unit. Itai holds a B.Sc degree in Computer Science.

Javier Godinez is a Principal Security Engineer, Red Team Founder and Software Developer at Intuit. He has been working in the Cloud security space for the last five years and has developed a number of applications for testing the security of Cloud deployments and patterns for operating in the Cloud securely. He has previously worked for SAIC and SSC San Diego delivering unique security platforms to support cybersecurity. Javier is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified AWS Solutions Architect.

Stefan started programming 6 years ago and quickly fell in love with web performance, new technologies, and automation.

He worked for several startups in Berlin and recently joined Contentful to tell the world how an API-first CMS can make you a bit happier.

He is also a curator of the web performance online resource Perf Tooling, organizer of the Web Performance Meetup Berlin, contributes to a variety of open source projects and enjoys sharing nerdy discoveries.

Pascal is a web developer by day and a passionate Rust enthusiast and evangelist by night.

Marc Schettke is software engineer and consultant for embedded systems in the pro audio sector, with his main area of interest being real-time audio networks. He is using Rust since 2014 without regrets.