Brian is a Java Champion and a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping developers get the most out of Azure. Before Joining Microsoft, he was a program manager, evangelist, solution architect, consultant, developer, and author at IBM, Deloitte, and other companies. Find him on Twitter @bbenz. A current list of Brian's talks can be found at https://aka.ms/brianspeaking

Frank is a senior technology consultant and enterprise architect working on cloud and AI/ML tools for developers. He is a Java Champion, Chairman of the NYJavaSIG (first JUG ever), and runs the International Machine Learning for the Enterprise conference in Europe. Co-author of JSR 381 Visual Recognition for Java API standard and strong advocate for Java and Machine Learning. Member of the NullPointers. #STEAMnotSTEM

Justine is a researcher in the field of machine learning for code (ML4Code) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). She obtained her master’s from McGill and Mila where her research focused on generating code under challenging circumstances such as library-specific code. Presently, Justine is a research engineer at Moderne, focusing on leveraging AI for large-scale code refactoring and impact analysis. She also oversees Moderne's partnership with Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Theo Lebrun is a seasoned Data Engineer and Technology Consultant at Ippon Technologies with a vast experience in cloud computing, databases, and software development. With expertise in a range of tools and technologies including AWS, Kafka, Databricks, and Python, Theo has helped numerous clients optimize their data pipelines meeting and exceeding their goals. Theo's technical expertise are matched by his passion for sharing his knowledge with others. He has authored multiple blog posts covering and breaking down technical topics such as high-scaled streaming development with Kafka or Databricks Tips and Tricks. He has also presented in multiple conferences such as DevNexus and RVATech Data Summit.

Dr Mo Haghighi is distinguished engineer/director for Cloud Platform and Infrastructure at Discover Financial Services. His current focus is hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, application modernisation and automating application/workload migration across public and private clouds. Previously, he held various leadership positions as a program director at IBM, where he led Developer Ecosystem and Cloud Engineering teams in 27 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to IBM, he was a research scientist at Intel and a Java developer at Sun Microsystems/Oracle. Mo obtained a PhD in computer science, and his primary areas of expertise are distributed and edge computing, cloud native, IoT and AI, with several publications and patents in those areas. Mo is a regular keynote/speaker at major developer conferences including DevOpsCon, Java/Code One, Codemotion, DevRelCon, O’Reilly, The Next Web, DevNexus, IEEE/ACM, ODSC, AiWorld, CloudConf and Pycon.

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O'Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.

Cecelia Martinez is a developer, speaker, writer, and community leader. She is passionate about helping developers improve some of the most frustrating parts of their work – including testing, debugging, mobile app deployments, and fighting with YAML. She is known for her work at companies like Ionic, Replay, and Cypress, as well as her efforts to build inclusive developer communities by volunteering with Atlanta JavaScript, Out in Tech, and Women Who Code Mobile.

Guy works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for learning—and for sharing what he has learned—Guy explores interesting topics and spreads the knowledge he has gained around developer communities worldwide. Teaching and community have long been a focus for Guy. He runs his local JavaScript meetup in Ohio and has served on the selection committees of numerous conferences. He'll happily speak anywhere that will have him and has even has helped teach programming at a prison in central Ohio. In his personal life, Guy is a hard-boiled geek interested in role-playing games, science fiction, and technology. He also has a slightly less geeky interest in history and linguistics. In his spare time he likes to camp and studies history and linguistics. Guy lives in Ohio with his wife, his sons, and an entire wall of board and role-playing games.

Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building cloud-native apps and serverless ob Kubernetes ecosystems. He's also contributing to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating DevOps adoption in enterprises. He's speaking at lots of technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers & DevOps teams.

Eric Deandrea is a Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He is a contributor to various OSS projects, including Quarkus, Spring, LangChain4j, WireMock, and Microcks, as well as a speaker at many public events and user groups around the world. Eric recently put his Quarkus and Spring knowledge to use by publishing his first book, “Quarkus for Spring Developers (https://red.ht/quarkus-spring-devs).” Outside of work, Eric enjoys boating on the lakes of New Hampshire, ice hockey, and martial arts, in which he holds a black belt in Kempo Karate.

Technology evangelist, teacher, learner, author, dedicated to open source and open computing. I work at Red Hat as a product marketing director for Red Hat's portfolio of open source products and love what we do and learning from others, and occasionally teaching at conferences.

Dr. Mark Pollack has been involved with the Spring framework since 2003, contributing core JMS functionality. He is currently leading the Spring AI project, which provides enterprise-ready abstractions for AI integration in Java applications. His Spring journey includes founding and leading several projects: Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring XD, Spring Data, Spring Shell, Spring AMQP, and Spring.NET. Before his work with Spring, Mark was a post-doctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he developed systems for storing and analyzing petabyte-scale datasets in high-energy nuclear physics.

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal. Josh is a Java Champion, author of 5 books (including O'Reilly's upcoming Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry) and 3 best-selling video trainings (including Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons with Spring Boot co-founder Phil Webb), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin). He is a huge Kotlin-fan, too.

Bouke Nijhuis is the CTO at CINQ ICT. He likes to learn new things and he loves to live code on the stage. Furthermore he is an international speaker and a committer of open source projects. You can reach him on Twitter at @BoukeNijhuis.

Nikhil currently works as a Principal Engineer at Amazon. Prior to working at Amazon, Nikhil worked in the financial sector designing and developing mission critical applications. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune, and a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in robotics and controls from the University of Utah. He has always been passionate about open-source software, and is the active project lead of the open-source Eclipse Collections library. He has hosted workshops and talks revolving around the theme of robotics, data structures, and introductory talks to share his enthusiasm about different technologies. He is a regular speaker at technical conferences worldwide. Nikhil has contributed to 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know (O’Reilly) and 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know(O’Reilly). In 2018, Nikhil was selected as a Java Champion. He enjoys cooking with his family, hiking, skiing, reading, and working with animal rescue and relief organizations.

Garry Galinsky has over 20 years of progressive high tech experience in the Telecommunications, Local Search, Internet, and Financial industries. During his career, Garry has successfully designed, developed, delivered, and evangelized multiple Internet, web 2.0, local & social search, and mobile solutions to small, medium, and large corporate customers in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.