Bio

Olga is a Lead Software Engineer at Willis Towers Watson with a prior background in infrastructure. She primarily works within the .NET/Azure space and her current focus is to facilitate solutions to developer and platform needs within her organization.

Over the years, Olga has become passionate about community-building and making sure there is a place for marginalized groups within the tech space. To facilitate this, she co-founded, and mentors at, Inclusive Tech Buffalo which is a group that strives to make the tech community more accessible to women and underrepresented individuals in Buffalo. Additionally, she is one of the co-organizers for the DevOpsDays Buffalo conference which focuses on topics ranging from software development to infrastructure and everything in between, while also putting a large emphasis on diversity and inclusion.

During the rest of her time, Olga enjoys photography, aerial acrobatics, reading, and spending time with her elderly ferret. She likes Star Trek.

CEO at DevRain, CTO at DonorUA, Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft I Most Valuable Professional, Microsoft Certified Trainer.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning expert.

Passionate and insightful, I am a speaker that will make you think. I choose topics that make me move, find out what makes them interesting and bring that to the stage. My extensive experience speaking to small and large audiences has taught me the value of preparation and delivery. When it comes to creating content that resonates and delivering a memorable experience, I put in my all.

Nuri Halperin is a software architect, speaker, and author. He helps companies develop scalable systems, websites, and business applications. He's been turning projects into success stories for a variety clients for over 2 decades.

Nuri is an author of several Pluralsight.com courses. He's also a Microsoft MVP alum, a MongoDB Master, and recipient of MongoDB's William Zola Award for Community Excellence. He enjoys tinkering with Arduinos, 3D printing, and mentoring youth robotics teams.

I'm a PM on the .NET team at Microsoft working remotely from Bengaluru, India. I help create Architecture Guides for .NET developers and can deliver talks on Microservices, Containers, Kubernetes, and other Cloud-Native tech. If you don't see something that excites you here: dot.net/architecture, you should let me know.

Microsoft Azure MVP | Hands on Architect with industry experience since 2003 in Finance, Retail and Healthcare domain. Blogger, Speaker, Technical Evangelist. When not thinking or talking about technology, I like watching the game of Cricket.

I am originally from .Net background but over the years have transitioned into open source technologies while working on Big data projects. I can talk about the following topics

Containers on Azure

Modern Data Warehousing with Azure

Event driven autocaling contianers with KEDA

Here are more sessions on Sessionize

https://sessionize.com/nilesh-gule/

Slides from my previous talks/presentations at different events are available at

https://www.slideshare.net/nileshgule

https://speakerdeck.com/nileshgule

Niels Swimberghe is a Belgian Full Stack Web Developer located in NoVA USA, using .NET, modern front-end technologies, and Azure.

You can find Niels' blog at swimburger.net.

I've been in industry for over 20 years, the last 10 running my own hustle as freelance developer / consultant. I'm very passionate about technology and have broad experience and knowledge in all thing DevOps, developer and cloud related.

My primary focus is Microsoft based technologies but take the odd detour if it interests me.

I frequently speak on new and interesting technologies or concepts and spend my spare time playing with IoT and AI.

Beyond developing software for almost 20 years, I teach software engineering at the university. I am seasoned speaker, I have presented in several international conferences. All my talks are based on my experience in the trenches.

Nicola is a passionate Python and C# developer based in Ravenna, Italy. He is the co-founder of CIR2000 where he leads the development of Amica 10, an accounting software for Italian small businesses. He is the creator and maintainer of a number of open source projects such as the Eve REST API Framework (Python), Cerberus Data Validation (Python), FatturaElettronica.NET (C#), and more. Awarded with the Microsoft MVP Award for Development Technologies and MongoDB Master, Nicola is also a Trainer and Speaker. In his free time, he runs the local CoderDojo, a coding club for kids.

Nick currently runs Built to Roam which focuses on building cross platform applications. Nick has been identified as a Microsoft MVP in recognition of his work and expertise with the Microsoft Windows platform and mobile developer technologies. He is an active contributor in the device application development space via his blog at https://nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com. Nick has been invited to present at a variety of events including Tech Ed and Ignite Australia & NZ, DDD and local user groups. He has also authored multiple books with the latest being Professional Visual Studio 2010 and Professional Development for Windows Phone, and helped judge multiple world finals for the Imagine Cup. Nick has worked on numerous mobile applications and has helped hundreds of developers build their own mobile applications. Nick has been involved with applications for well-known brands such as Domain.com.au, ninemsn, AFL, NRL, Qantas, JB Hi-Fi, NAB, Stan and Boost Juice

I am a self taught developer, worked in different industries in few different countries.

I specialise in SaaS and Blockchain, as well I am a very curious person. I love to learn about everything which interest me. As well I can speak 3 different languages (Arabic, French, English) while learning my fourth (Spanish)

I have been speaking on technology topics for more than 15 years, having presented more than 400 sessions in that time. I try and specialize in delivering new technology topics with a practical implementation so that attendees are able to use the things they learn in a session right away, rather than speaking in more generalities that are harder to implement.

I have been a Microsoft MVP for 14 years and am also an ASPInsider.

Speaking History

My website lists some of my speaking history, however, most of my speaking has been on .NET topics including .NET Core, Entity Framework, ASP.NET and associated technologies. However, I can tailor a session to meet the needs of your particular group if needed.

Travel

Assuming no restrictions from COVID-19 or otherwise, I am available to travel within the USA at no cost for a number of events each year, assuming a nearby airport is available. (Does not need to be a major airport, as I fly myself).

Virtual Events

I also have experience with virtual events and can be available on very flexible schedules to accommodate sessions in pretty much any timezone world wide.

.NET and JavaScript software architect employed as a Technical Lead at Seavus.

One of the leaders of the local BLbit Microsoft Community user group and a speaker at dev conferences in Europe.

Mikayla is a PM Architect working on .NET at Microsoft. She's been building .NET developer tools for more than a decade, including Xamarin and Visual Studio for Mac, and is passionate about user experience and inclusivity. In her free time, she enjoys game development and silversmithing.

Senior Program Manager (PM) working on the WinUI product at Microsoft. These days he is leading all the WinUI strategy and execution to make the platform works with the Win32 app model.

Miguel is passionate about teaching, developers' communities and everything related to .Net. Having over 10 years of experience with Microsoft Technologies, he developed many specializations, including C#, F#, Azure, and DevOps practices. He enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog and by presenting at user groups and conferences. He is very involved in the Montréal MSDEVMTL user group, where he is a co-organizer.

Michal – Microsoft MVP AI and Azure, an architect, designer, team leader and trainer. He began programming in the early '90s from Basic and Assembler for 8-bit computers. During most of his career, he was delivering .NET platform targeted application for the world's largest companies. Currently, he is specialising in the development of web applications and Azure environment.

A great enthusiast of software craftsmanship, unit testing, software design and other topics related to software development.

In his free time, when he is not playing with the code, he likes travelling, photography and writing a technical blog (https://www.jankowskimichal.pl/).

Michael Washington is a ASP.NET, C# programmer. He has extensive knowledge in process improvement, billing systems, and student information systems. He is the founder of the AiHelpWebsite.com and the BlazorHelpWebsite.com. He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

Michael is 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 three 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