Speakers at GOTO Chicago 2017

Aaron Bedra

Security expert and Senior Engineer at DRW

Adaptive Threat Modelling

Masterclass with...

Adrian Mouat

Author of 'Using Docker'

Masterclass: Container and Microservices Security

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

Monday Morning Welcome & Program Introduction

Tuesday Morning Welcome & Program Introduction

Amanda Rice

Software Engineer at Capital One

Alexa Skills for the Unskilled

Andrew Clay Shafer

Co-founder of Puppet Labs

Old Geeks Yell At Cloud

Chop Wood, Carry Water

Masterclass with...

Andrew Cornell

Full Stack Developer & Course Artisan at Voitanos LLC

Masterclass: Get Up to Speed with Angular 2

Anjana Vakil

Developer Advocate at Observable

Programming Across Paradigms

Anthony Lee

Senior Manager for Platform Engineering at Allstate

Risky Business

Aurelio García-Ribeyro

Director of Product Management at Oracle

Javalution - How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Play Jenga with the entire Software Industry. What could possibly go Wrong?

Bob Paulin

Passionate open source advocate

Current Java News

The Future of Java

Brian Cardarella

CEO of DockYard, Inc

Elixir: The only Sane Choice in an Insane World

Brian Grant

Technology Lead at Morningstar

Why BFF (Backend for Frontend) Is Key to Your Microservices Journey: A Morningstar Case Study

Masterclass with...

Brian Ray

Cognitive Computing Team Lead at Deloitte

Cognitive from the Engineering perspective

Masterclass: Deep Learning with Python and Keras/TensorFlow Workshop

Bridget Kromhout

Co-host of Arrested DevOps Podcast & Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft

Tupperware Party

Go Small or Go Home

Risky Business

Let's Do the DevOps... Again

Old Geeks Yell At Cloud

When the Levee Breaks

Brock Whitten

Creator of Harp, a dead simple publishing platform

Developing a Front-End CLI for fun and profit

Keynote Speaker

Bryan Cantrill

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Oxide Computer Company

Old Geeks Yell At Cloud

Keynote: Debugging Under Fire: Keeping your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind

Charlie Hunt

JVM Engineer at Oracle and lead author of “Java Performance”

Javalution - How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Play Jenga with the entire Software Industry. What could possibly go Wrong?

Chris Heilmann

Author of several JS books. "Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet"

We can’t have a Progressive Web without Embracing it

Chris Munns

Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless at Amazon Web Services

Serverless Chatbots with Amazon Lex & AWS Lambda

Colleen Stock

Software Engineer at Uptake

Reining in Chaos

Daniel Bryant

Director of developer relations at Ambassador Labs

The Seven (More) Deadly Sins of Microservices

Masterclass with...

Daniel Terhorst-North

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & principal at Dan North & Associates

Patterns of Effective Teams

Masterclass: Testing Faster

Daphne Chong

Software Engineer at Amazon

Go Small or Go Home

Video Transcoding at the ABC with Microservices

Dave McAllister

Strategic Technologist at Scalyr

Open Data Movement in IoT

David Giard

Technical Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on open source technologies

Cognitive Services and the HoloLens: adding intelligence to augmented reality

Keynote Speaker

David Nolen

Software Engineer at Cognitect

Keynote: Idée Fixe

Dean Wampler

Head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, O'Reilly author on functional programming and expert in streaming systems

Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications

Ed Burns

Software stylist, speaker, and author, currently working in the server side Java space

The Future of Java

Secrets of the Above Average Programmers

Ensar Basri Kahveci

Ph.D. Candidate, Distributed Systems Engineer at Hazelcast

Distributed Systems Theory for Mere Mortals

Eric Boyd

Cognitive Services and the HoloLens: adding intelligence to augmented reality

Fred George

Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating MicroServices & Programmer Anarchy

Managing Manager‐less Processes

Freddy Guime

Principal Engineer at Expedia and Organizer of Chicago JUG

Current Java News

The Future of Java

How to not ruin your project (and your life) by accident

Gabrielle Crevecoeur

Technical Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on open source technologies

Breaking into Bots

Georges Saab

Vice president of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle

The Future of Java

Javalution - How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Play Jenga with the entire Software Industry. What could possibly go Wrong?

Gwen Shapira

Product Manager at Confluent

Stream All Things - Patterns of Modern Data Integration

Hadi Hariri

Kotlin Expert at JetBrains

Kotlin - Ready for production

Hao Luo

Sr. Technical Evangelist at Microsoft

A Dance With Intelligent Dragon Drones

Holden Karau

Open Source Engineer at Netflix

Apache Spark Beyond Shuffling - Why it isn't Magic - but also where there is some really cool Magic

James Weaver

JavaFXpert

Machine Learning Exposed: A Gentle Introduction

Jamie Grier

Helping people realizing the potential of Flink in their own projects, Director of Applications Engineering at Data Artisans

Apache Flink - The State of the Art in Streaming Computation

Jeff Smith

Author of "All Things Dork" Blog, Manager of Production Operations at Centro

Troubleshooting Tiered Tragedy: A Peek Into Failure

When the Levee Breaks

Jen Looper

Developer Advocate at Progress

Cooking with Jen! The delicious combo of NativeScript, Angular, and Firebase

Jennifer Heckler

Programmer Analyst at Edward Jones

Tupperware Party

Clouds & Containers: Hit the High Points and Give it to Me Straight, What's the Difference & Why Should I Care?

Jennifer Marsman

Developer Evangelist at Microsoft

A Dance With Intelligent Dragon Drones

Jennifer Peepas

Writer, teacher, filmmaker, social media strategist

Give and Take: Handling Constructive Criticism and Creative Conflict Like A Pro

Jesse Anderson

Managing director of Big Data Institute, host of The Data Dream Team podcast

Processing Data of Any Size with Apache Beam

Jim Clark

Co-Founder at Atomist

Watching Good Ideas Spread and the Benefits of Code as Data

Joe Intrakamhang

Solutions Engineer at Google

Google Cloud Spanner: Worldwide consistent database at scale

Joern Larsen

CEO of Trifork

Tuesday Morning Welcome & Program Introduction

Monday Morning Welcome & Program Introduction

John Steven

Founding Principal at Aedify Security

How I learned to quit piling up bugs and help the developer deploy secure code

Julie Pitt

Machine Intelligence Expert & Co-founder at Order of Magnitude Labs

When and How to Explore: an Engineer's Guide

Masterclass with...

Jérôme Petazzoni

Tinkerer of containers, culture, and tiny shell scripts

Tupperware Party

Masterclass: Container deployment, scaling, and orchestration with Docker Swarm

Kelley Robinson

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Demystifying Scala

Kenny Bastani

Developer Advocate at Pivotal

In the Eventual Consistency of Succeeding at Microservices

Go Small or Go Home

Kevin Johnson

Chief Executive Officer of Secure Ideas

Royal Testing: Purple Teaming to Build & Secure Applications Better!

Kevin Leung

Technical Evangelist, US DX Central at Microsoft

Breaking into Bots

Krishnan Ramanathan

Director of Software Engineering at Morningstar

Why BFF (Backend for Frontend) Is Key to Your Microservices Journey: A Morningstar Case Study

Keynote Speaker

Linda Rising

Queen of patterns; author of numerous books

Keynote: Meeting Resistance and Moving Forward

Masterclass: Decision-making for teams

Llewellyn Falco

Spun Laboratories Inc. and agile coach

Mob Programming

Lorena Mesa

Keeper of Proximate Knowledge aka Platform Engineer, Data at Sprout Social

Predicting free Pizza with Python. Cowabunga Dude!

Marcy Sutton

Web Developer and Accessibility Advocate, Senior Front-End Engineer at Deque Systems, Inc

Automating Peace of Mind with Accessibility Testing and CI

Mark Heckler

Pivotal Principal Technologist & Developer Advocate, conference speaker, published author, & Java Champion

Clouds & Containers: Hit the High Points and Give it to Me Straight, What's the Difference & Why Should I Care?

Tupperware Party

Mark Imbriaco

Helping enterprises modernize tech delivery through DevOps at Pivotal

When the Levee Breaks

Marten Schilstra

Senior engineer at DockYard

Making the web frameworks titans feel tiny

Keynote Speaker

Martin Fowler

Author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development

Keynote: The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture

Matt Curry

Director of Cloud Engineering at Allstate

Risky Business

Matt Stratton

Host of the Arrested DevOps podcast and Director of Developer Relations at Aiven

Go Small or Go Home

Risky Business

When the Levee Breaks

Let's Do the DevOps... Again

Old Geeks Yell At Cloud

Tupperware Party

Michelle Casbon

Director of Data Science at Qordoba, uses machine learning to create better UX and less pain for engineers

Localization with NLP: Global Empire-Building for Fun & Profit

Mike Roberts

Engineering Leader & Co-founder of Symphonia

Serverless + Modern Agile: A Match made in Silicon Heaven

Nicholas Jasieniecki

Sr. Software Engineer at Expedia

How to not ruin your project (and your life) by accident

Nicole Forsgren

CEO & Chief Scientist, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)

Be Awesome With DevOps (Through Data!)

Let's Do the DevOps... Again

Nicole Johnson

Manager, Solution Architects at Chef Software

Automating Security & Compliance (for Fun & Profit)

Risky Business

Peter Sbarski

AWS Serverless Hero and Author of Serverless Architectures on AWS

Serverless: the Future of Software Architecture

Phil Winder

CEO of Winder.AI, author of Reinforcement Learning

Developers _are_ Researchers - Improve the work you love with Research Driven Development

Philipp Bauknecht

Founder & CEO of medialesson

Mixed Reality with Microsoft HoloLens

Pratik Patel

Specializing in large-scale apps for mission-critical and mobile use

Current Java News

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay

Effective Microservices in a Data-Centric World

Richard Feldman

Functional programming language expert & author of “Elm in Action”

Introducing Elm to a JavaScript App

Richard Whaling

Senior Software Engineer at Spantree Technology Group LLC

The Biggest Data of All? A Brief Introduction to Log Analysis

Masterclass with...

Russ Miles

Author, Engineering Manager; Chaos engineering practitioner

Masterclass: DDD, Big Data & Antifragility with Microservices

Masterclass with...

Sam Newman

THE microservices expert. Author of best-selling books "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservice"

Feature Branches And Toggles In A Post-GitHub World

Masterclass: Designing Microservices (Thursday 1-day workshop)

Masterclass: Designing Microservices (Wednesday 1-day workshop)

Sid Anand

Data Architect for Agari, a rising email security company. Committer, Advisor, Speaker. Former LinkedIn, Netflix and eBay

Cloud Native Data Pipelines

Susanne Kaiser

Independent tech consultant, co-organizer of JeffConf

The Journey to Microservices from a Startup Perspective

Thomas Anagrius

One of the very first and early adopters;rocking Elm since 2016; Principal Engineer at Humio

Avoiding the Nightmare on Elm Street

Tim Gross

Product Manager for Joyent

Let's Do the DevOps... Again

Software-Defined Culture

Zhamak Dehghani

Director of Emerging Technologies at Thoughtworks & Author of "Data Mesh"

One Journey, many Paths: A Pragmatic Guide for Migrating to Microservices