Speakers at GOTO Chicago 2019

Jessica Pointing

Stanford

Award-winning quantum computing researcher

Talks:

Quantum Computing - (Almost) Everything You Need To Know About It

#quantum computing

#keynote

Aaron Bedra

DRW

Security expert and Senior Engineer at DRW

Masterclasses:

Writing secure code (3 hours)

Abdel Dadouche

SAP

Developer Advocate at SAP

Talks:

The Rise of Multi-model Databases

#partner

#database

#data

Aino Vonge Corry

GOTO

Retrospectives Facilitator, Teacher & Technical Conference Editor

Talks:

The Importance of Laughter

Masterclasses:

Advanced Retrospective Facilitation

#human side of tech

#teams

Alex Ellis

Founder of OpenFaaS & CNCF Ambassador

Creator of OpenFaaS, CNCF Ambassador and Author

Talks:

Welcome to Serverless 2.0

Masterclasses:

Serverless Kubernetes with OpenFaaS

#serverless

#cloud native

#kubernetes

#containers

#architecture

Andy Cirillo

Epsilon-Conversant

VP of Engineering at Epsilon-Conversant

Talks:

Data-Driven Engineering

#data driven

#big data

#applications

#partner

#distributed systems

Anjana Vakil

Mapbox

Engineering Learning & Development Lead, Mapbox

Talks:

The Language of Programming

Masterclasses:

First steps into Functional Programming

#programming

Arun Gupta

AWS

Principal Open Source Technologist at AWS and CNCF Board Member

Talks:

Using Kubernetes for Machine Learning Frameworks

#kubernetes

#machine learning

Baruch Sadogursky

JFrog

Head of DevRel at JFrog and CNCF Ambassador

Talks:

Without Data, you're just another Person with Opinions

#devops

#human side of tech

Betty Enyonam Kumahor

The Cobalt Partners

Managing Partner at Cobalt Partners focused on frugal digital innovation

Talks:

Frugal Innovation

#innovation

#keynote

Brian Bouril

Morningstar Inc.

Lead Software Engineer at Morningstar

Talks:

Using Web Components to Build a Framework-agnostic UI Library

#frontend

Bridget Kromhout

Microsoft

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

Talks:

Kubernetes Operability Tooling

#kubernetes

#cloud native

Casey Rosenthal

Verica

CEO / Cofounder of Verica.io

Talks:

Deprecating Simplicity 3.0

#chaos engineering

#devops

#human side of tech

#teams

Cedric Hurst

Spantree

Principal & Lead Software Engineer at Spantree

Talks:

Robot DJs: Better Spotify Playlists through Music Theory and Discrete Optimization

#partner

#architecture

#data science

#python

#kotlin

#typescript

#graphql

#serverless

#polyglot programming

Chris Munns

Amazon

Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless at Amazon Web Services

Masterclasses:

Building your First Serverless Web Application

Chris Richardson

Microservices.io

Creator of the original CloudFoundry.com and author of 'POJOs in Action' and 'Microservices patterns'

Talks:

Not Just Events: Developing Asynchronous Microservices

Masterclasses:

2 days workshop: Developing microservices

#microservices

#apis

#cqrs

#events

Courtney Hemphill

Carbon Five

Leading technical teams for fast-moving companies at scale

Talks:

What Technical Leads Can Learn from Great General Managers Throughout History

#human side of tech

#teams

Dan Ciupuliga

Morningstar Inc

Principal Software Engineer at Morningstar

Talks:

Using Web Components to Build a Framework-agnostic UI Library

#frontend

Danny Lange

Unity Technologies

VP of AI and ML at Unity Technologies and previously led innovative ML teams at Uber, AWS and Microsoft

Talks:

On the Road to Artificial General Intelligence

#machine learning

#ai

#keynote

Dave Karow

Split

Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split

Talks:

Deliver Results, Not Just Releases: Control & Observability in CD

#partner

#continuous delivery

#observability

#experimentation

#data science

#devops

Dave McAllister

Scalyr

Strategic Technologist at Scalyr

Talks:

Observability, Distributed Tracing & the Complex World

#observability

#distributed tracing

#distributed systems

#microservices

#partner

Derek Ferguson

Fitch Solutions

Head of technology for Fitch Solutions

Talks:

Accelerating Machine Learning DevOps with Kubeflow

#devops

#machine learning

Divya Sasidharan

Netlify, Inc

Developer Advocate at Netlify Inc

Talks:

Going Serverless with VueJS

#serverless

#frontend

#vuejs

Doug Lenat

Cycorp

Award-winning AI pioneer who created the landmark Machine Learning program, AM, in 1976 and CEO of Cycorp

Talks:

The Promise and Limitations of AI

#ai

#machine learning

#neural networks

#data

#keynote

Edward Wilde

Form3

OpenFaaS core team contributor

Talks:

Use Terraform to Scale your Team

Masterclasses:

Serverless Kubernetes with OpenFaaS

#security

#terraform

#automation

Eleanor Saitta

International security and privacy researcher

International security researcher and co-founder of open source tool Trike

Talks:

Principles for Developing More Secure Systems

#security

#distributed systems

Eric Johnson

AWS

Highly entertaining serverless fanatic with brilliant insights; Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Serverless

Talks:

What Does THIS Button Do? Serverless and IoT

#serverless

#partner

#iot

Evan Sutter

Hapzly

Author, consultant and co-founder of Hapzly

Talks:

The Happy Movement: How Business Is The Key To Making The World A Happier Place

#human side of tech

#mental health

#teams

Georges Saab

Oracle

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

Talks:

Java Current and Future

#java

#programming

Greg Young

EventStore

Event-sourcing expert who first coined the term CQRS

Talks:

How Does Time Work with an Append-Only Log? A Deep Look Into Time with event sourcing

Masterclasses:

Event Sourcing: The basics of an Event Sourced system and implementation (3 hours)

#events

#cqrs

Guen Prawiroatmodjo

Perfect Day

Quantum Physicist making quantum programming possible

Talks:

Getting Started with Quantum Programming

#quantum computing

#programming languages

Heidi Helfand

Procore Technologies

Director at Procore & Founding Member of GoToMeeting & GoToWebinar

Talks:

Dynamic Reteaming at Fast-Growing Companies

#teams

#human side of tech

Heidi Waterhouse

LaunchDarkly

Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

Talks:

All The World’s A Staging Server

#testing

#architecture

#qa

Hillel Wayne

Ask me about chocolate

Author of Practical TLA+, expert in applying formal methods to real-world problems

Talks:

What We Know We Don't Know: Introduction to Empirical Software Engineering

Masterclasses:

Getting it Right the First Time: An Introduction to Alloy Modeling

#programming

#testing

#qa

Huyen Tue Dao

Trello

Android Developer at Trello & Co-creator of Android Dialogs

Talks:

Kotlin: Dissecting the stdlib

#kotlin

#programming

James Szubryt

Accenture

Senior Manager at Accenture

Talks:

DevSecOps, Containers, and Shift-Left, are those just Buzzwords? And why should we Care?

#devops

#security

#containers

Jeremy Cowan

AWS

Cloud Architect specializing in Containers at AWS

Masterclasses:

Up and Running with Amazon EKS

Jesse Butler

Oracle Cloud

Cloud Native Advocate with Oracle Cloud Native Labs

Talks:

Serverless is the Abstraction We Deserve

#partner

#serverless

#monolith

#microservices

#kubernetes

Jessie Frazelle

One Half of the weirdtrickmafia Podcast

Talks:

Why Open Source Firmware is Important

#leadership

#teams

Jill Wetzler

Lyft

Director of Engineering Leadership Development at Lyft

Talks:

Re-engineering Inclusion

#keynote

#teams

Jim Manico

Manicode Security

OWASP Project Leader, AppSec Enthusiast and Java Champion

Talks:

AppSec: From the OWASP Top Ten(s) to the OWASP ASVS

Masterclasses:

Building Secure API's and Web Applications

#security

#owasp

#privacy

Joern Larsen

Trifork

CEO of Trifork

Talks:

Conference Opening Monday

Conference Opening Tuesday

John Le Drew

Wise Noodles

Experienced engineer making psychological safety a right for everyone

Talks:

Swearing, Nudity and Other Vulnerable Positions

Masterclasses:

Effective collaboration for world beating teams

#human side of tech

#teams

#mental health

John Napier

DRW Trading Group

Works with Developers on Software Fundamentals for DRW

Talks:

Achieving Functional Programming in Java

#java

#functional programming

John Willis

SJ Technologies

Co-author of the "DevOps Handbook"

Talks:

The Divine and Felonious Nature of Cyber Security - A DevSecOps Story

#devops

#security

Josh Humphries

FullStory

Talks:

Adopting gRPC: Overcoming Team and Technical Hurdles

#partner

#programming

#microservices

#apis

#kubernetes

#distributed systems

Josh Long

Pivotal

Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, Java Champion and author of 6 books

Talks:

Reactive Spring

Masterclasses:

Bootiful Reactive Microservices

#microservices

#spring

#programming

Juan Alvarez

Accenture

Enterprise Architect in Accenture

Talks:

DevSecOps, Containers, and Shift-Left, are those just Buzzwords? And why should we Care?

#devops

#security

#containers

Jérôme Petazzoni

Docker

Tinkerer of containers, culture, and tiny shell scripts

Talks:

Depression and Burnout: the Hardest Refactor I’ve ever done

Masterclasses:

Getting started with Kubernetes and container orchestration

#human side of tech

#mental health

Kasun Indrasiri

WSO2

Author of "Microservices for the Enterprise"

Talks:

Role of Application Integration in Cloud Native and Microservices Landscape

#microservices

#enterprise

#partner

Kelley Robinson

Twilio

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Talks:

Practical Cryptography

#cryptography

#privacy

#security

Mark Rickmeier

Table XI

CEO at Table XI and founder of "Walkshop Retreats"

Masterclasses:

Design Thinking masterclass (3 hours)

Matt Danforth

Enova International

Principal User Interface Engineer at Enova International

Talks:

Vue and You

#frontend

#vuejs

Matt Stratton

PagerDuty

Host of the Arrested DevOps podcast and DevOps Evangelist at PagerDuty.

Talks:

The Proactive Approach: Data Driven Observability & Incident Response

Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma

#partner

#observability

#devops

#human side of tech

#teams

#mental health

Michael “Stu” Stewart

Opendoor

ML Engineer at Opendoor and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award winner

Talks:

(Deep) Learn a Neural Net For Greater Good!

#machine learning

#deep learning

#python

#neural networks

Mikael Vidstedt

Oracle

Director of Software Engineering, Java Virtual Machine at Oracle

Talks:

Java Current and Future

#java

#programming

Mike Amundsen

Director of API Architecture

API expert and author of O'Reilly's "RESTful Web Clients"

Talks:

Discovering RESTful Web Microservices: A Traveler's Guide

Masterclasses:

Building Great APIs from the Ground Up

#apis

#rest

#microservices

Murray Thom

D-Wave

D-Wave's VP of Software and Cloud Services

Talks:

Fueling the Quantum Application Era with the Cloud

#quantum computing

#programming

Naomi Ceder

Python Software Foundation

Chair of Python Software Foundation

Talks:

It Really is Easier to Ask for Forgiveness (than Permission)

Masterclasses:

Level Up Your Python

#python

#programming

Nicki Watt

OpenCredo

CTO of OpenCredo, Leading Delivery of Large-scale, Cloud Native Projects

Talks:

Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies

#cloud native

#microservices

#kubernetes

Nicolas Frankel

Hazelcast

Developer Advocate at Hazelcast

Talks:

Securing the JVM

#security

#programming

#java

Nicole Bryan

Tasktop

Vice President of Product at Tasktop Technologies

Talks:

CI/CD is just the Beginning: How to Optimize End-to-end Value Creation with the Flow Framework™

#teams

#devops

PJ Hagerty

DevRelate.io

Developer and Community Relations as a Service at DevRelate.io

Talks:

The Proactive Approach: Data Driven Observability & Incident Response

#partner

#observability

#devops

Peter Piekarczyk

Draftbit

Co-Founder of Draftbit

Talks:

ReasonML: React as a Language and what the Future looks like

#frontend

#react

Phil Winder

Winder Research

Machine Learning whiz and Advocate for DataDevOps

Talks:

Keep it Clean: Why Bad Data Ruins Projects and How to Fix it

Masterclasses:

Data Science and Machine Learning for Developers (Intermediate)

Data Science and Machine Learning for Developers (Beginner)

#data science

#machine learning

Ray Tsang

Google

Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform

Talks:

Troubleshooting & Debugging Microservices in Kubernetes

Making Microservices Micro with Istio and Kubernetes

#microservices

#kubernetes

#containers

#cloud native

Robert Kubis

Google UK

Cloud Developer Advocate at Google UK

Talks:

Troubleshooting & Debugging Microservices in Kubernetes

#microservices

#kubernetes

#containers

#cloud native

Rod Johnson

Atomist

Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist

Talks:

Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine

#productivity

#programming languages

#automation

Roman Elizarov

JetBrains

Kotlin Libraries Team Lead at JetBrains

Talks:

Server-side Kotlin with Coroutines

Masterclasses:

Asynchronous Programming with Kotlin

#kotlin

#programming

Ross Goodwin

Google

Creative technologist at Google exploring the possibilities of AI

Talks:

The Mechanized Pen

#machine learning

#ai

Sandro Mancuso

Codurance

Pioneer of Software Craftsmanship and co-founder of Codurance

Talks:

A Case For Outside-In Design

Masterclasses:

Crafting Code

#ddd

#architecture

#microservices

Saša Jurić

Independent Elixir mentor

Author of "Elixir in Action”

Talks:

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir

#erlang

#elixir

#programming

#distributed systems

Scott M Stark

Red Hat

Senior Director, Software Engineering at Red Hat

Talks:

Supersonic, Subatomic Eclipse MicroProfile

#partner

#microservices

Sean McQuillan

Google

Android Developer Advocate at Google

Talks:

Embracing the Future in a Multi-Platform World: A Kotlin Story

#kotlin

#android

#programming

Seth Thomson

DRW

CIO at DRW and dedicated to teaching kids to code

Talks:

Raising a Coder in an Educational Maelstrom: Advice and Lessons Learned

#keynote

#education

Stephen Magill

MuseDev

World-recognized expert on program analysis

Talks:

Code + AI: Will Robots Take Our Coding Jobs?" Machine Learning Applied to Programming

Disrupting QA – Emerging Trends in Code Quality Automation

#automation

#ai

#programming

#testing

#qa

Stoyan Stefanov

Facebook

Facebook engineer, ex-Yahoo, architect of the YSlow 2.0 performance tool and creator of the smush.it image optimization tool

Talks:

Profiling React Performance

#frontend

#react

#performance

Tilde Ann Thurium

Engineer working on Atom Editor. Destroyer of binaries.

Talks:

Declarative APIs in an Imperative World

#ui

#apis

#react

#programming

#functional programming

Verónica Lopez

Red Hat

Former Physicist and Sr. Software Engineer at Red Hat

Talks:

Go vs. Elixir for Distributed Computing

#go

#elixir

#programming

#distributed systems