Speakers - GOTO Chicago 2019

Keynote Speaker

Jessica Pointing

Award-winning quantum computing researcher

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

Masterclass with...

Aaron Bedra

Security expert and Senior Engineer at DRW

Masterclass: Writing secure code (3 hours)

Abdel Dadouche

Developer Advocate at SAP

The Rise of Multi-model Databases

Masterclass with...

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

The Importance of Laughter

Masterclass: Advanced Retrospective Facilitation

Masterclass with...

Alex Ellis

Creator of OpenFaaS, CNCF Ambassador and Author

Welcome to Serverless 2.0

Masterclass: Serverless Kubernetes with OpenFaaS

Andy Cirillo

VP of Engineering at Epsilon-Conversant

Data-Driven Engineering

Masterclass with...

Anjana Vakil

Independent Developer Educator & Software Engineer

The Language of Programming

Masterclass: First steps into Functional Programming

Arun Gupta

Principal Open Source Technologist at AWS and CNCF Board Member

Using Kubernetes for Machine Learning Frameworks

Baruch Sadogursky

Head of DevRel at JFrog and CNCF Ambassador

Without Data, you're just another Person with Opinions

Keynote Speaker

Betty Enyonam Kumahor

Managing Partner at Cobalt Partners focused on frugal digital innovation

Frugal Innovation

Brian Bouril

Lead Software Engineer at Morningstar

Using Web Components to Build a Framework-agnostic UI Library

Bridget Kromhout

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

Kubernetes Operability Tooling

Casey Rosenthal

Deprecating Simplicity and the Rise of CV

Deprecating Simplicity 3.0

Cedric Hurst

Principal & Lead Software Engineer at Spantree

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

Masterclass with...

Chris Munns

Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless at Amazon Web Services

Masterclass: Building your First Serverless Web Application

Masterclass with...

Chris Richardson

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

Not Just Events: Developing Asynchronous Microservices

Masterclass: 2 days workshop: Developing microservices

Courtney Hemphill

Leading technical teams for fast-moving companies at scale

What Technical Leads Can Learn from Great General Managers Throughout History

Dan Ciupuliga

Principal Software Engineer at Morningstar

Using Web Components to Build a Framework-agnostic UI Library

Keynote Speaker

Danny Lange

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

On the Road to Artificial General Intelligence

Dave Karow

Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split

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

Dave McAllister

Sr OSS Technical Evangelist at NGINX

Observability, Distributed Tracing & the Complex World

Derek Ferguson

Head of technology for Fitch Solutions

Accelerating Machine Learning DevOps with Kubeflow

Divya Sasidharan

Developer Advocate at Netlify Inc

Going Serverless with VueJS

Keynote Speaker

Doug Lenat

Award-winning AI pioneer who created the landmark Machine Learning program-AM

The Promise and Limitations of AI

Masterclass with...

Edward Wilde

OpenFaaS core team contributor

Use Terraform to Scale your Team

Masterclass: Serverless Kubernetes with OpenFaaS

Eleanor Saitta

Consulting CISO and Security Architect

Principles for Developing More Secure Systems

Eric Johnson

Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

What Does THIS Button Do? Serverless and IoT

Evan Sutter

Author, consultant and co-founder of Hapzly

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

Georges Saab

Senior Vice President of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle

Java Current and Future

Masterclass with...

Greg Young

Event-sourcing expert who first coined the term CQRS

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

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

Guen Prawiroatmodjo

Quantum Physicist making quantum programming possible

Getting Started with Quantum Programming

Heidi Helfand

SVP of Strategy and Innovation at Artium, Author of Dynamic Reteaming

Dynamic Reteaming at Fast-Growing Companies

Heidi Waterhouse

Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

All The World’s A Staging Server

Masterclass with...

Hillel Wayne

Chief Everything Office at Windy Coast Consulting

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

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

Huyen Tue Dao

Android Developer at Trello & Co-creator of Android Dialogs

Kotlin: Dissecting the stdlib

James Szubryt

Senior Manager at Accenture

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

Masterclass with...

Jeremy Cowan

Cloud Architect specializing in Containers at AWS

Masterclass: Up and Running with Amazon EKS

Jesse Butler

Cloud Native Advocate with Oracle Cloud Native Labs

Serverless is the Abstraction We Deserve

Jessie Frazelle

One Half of the weirdtrickmafia Podcast

Why Open Source Firmware is Important

Keynote Speaker

Jill Wetzler

Director of Engineering Leadership Development at Lyft

Re-engineering Inclusion

Masterclass with...

Jim Manico

OWASP Project Leader, AppSec Enthusiast and Java Champion

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

Masterclass: Building Secure API's and Web Applications

Masterclass with...

John Le Drew

Coach, consultant, trainer, experienced engineer and international keynote speaker; founder of Wise Noodles

Swearing, Nudity and Other Vulnerable Positions

Masterclass: Effective collaboration for world beating teams

John Napier

Works with Developers on Software Fundamentals for DRW

Achieving Functional Programming in Java

John Willis

Co-author of the "DevOps Handbook"

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

Jorn Larsen (Judge)

Founder and CEO, Trifork

Josh Humphries

Adopting gRPC: Overcoming Team and Technical Hurdles

Masterclass with...

Josh Long

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

Reactive Spring

Masterclass: Bootiful Reactive Microservices

Juan Alvarez

Enterprise Architect in Accenture

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

Masterclass with...

Jérôme Petazzoni

Tinkerer of containers, culture, and tiny shell scripts

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

Masterclass: Getting started with Kubernetes and container orchestration

Kasun Indrasiri

Author of "Microservices for the Enterprise"

Role of Application Integration in Cloud Native and Microservices Landscape

Kelley Robinson

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

Practical Cryptography

Masterclass with...

Mark Rickmeier

CEO at TXI. Founder of Walkshop.

Masterclass: Design Thinking masterclass (3 hours)

Matt Danforth

Principal User Interface Engineer at Enova International

Vue and You

Matt Stratton

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

Michael “Stu” Stewart

ML Engineer at Opendoor and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award winner

(Deep) Learn a Neural Net For Greater Good!

Mikael Vidstedt

Director of Software Engineering, Java Virtual Machine at Oracle

Java Current and Future

Masterclass with...

Mike Amundsen

The ultimate API expert. #api

Discovering RESTful Web Microservices: A Traveler's Guide

Masterclass: Building Great APIs from the Ground Up

Murray Thom

World-leading quantum computing expert at D-Wave

Fueling the Quantum Application Era with the Cloud

Masterclass with...

Naomi Ceder

Chair of Python Software Foundation

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

Masterclass: Level Up Your Python

Nicki Watt

CEO/CTO at OpenCredo

Journeys To Cloud Native Architecture: Sun, Sea And Emergencies

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer Advocate for Loft Labs

Securing the JVM

Nicole Bryan

Vice President of Product at Tasktop Technologies

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

PJ Hagerty

Developer advocate at Mattermost and a board member of Open Sourcing Mental Illness

The Proactive Approach: Data Driven Observability & Incident Response

Peter Piekarczyk

Co-Founder of Draftbit

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

Masterclass with...

Phil Winder

CEO of Winder.AI, author of "Reinforcement Learning"

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

Ray Tsang

Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform

Robert Kubis

Cloud Developer Advocate at Google UK

Troubleshooting & Debugging Microservices in Kubernetes

Rod Johnson

Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist

Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine

Masterclass with...

Roman Elizarov

Kotlin Libraries Team Lead at JetBrains

Server-side Kotlin with Coroutines

Masterclass: Asynchronous Programming with Kotlin

Ross Goodwin

Creative technologist at Google exploring the possibilities of AI

The Mechanized Pen

Masterclass with...

Sandro Mancuso

Pioneer of Software Craftsmanship and co-founder of Codurance

A Case For Outside-In Design

Masterclass: Crafting Code

Saša Jurić

The ultimate beacon in the Elixir space; author of one of the most important books, "Elixir in action" #elixir #erlang

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir

Scott M Stark

Senior Director, Software Engineering at Red Hat

Supersonic, Subatomic Eclipse MicroProfile

Sean McQuillan

Android Developer Advocate at Google

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

Keynote Speaker

Seth Thomson

CIO at DRW and dedicated to teaching kids to code

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

Stephen Magill

World-recognized expert on program analysis

Stoyan Stefanov

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

Profiling React Performance

Tilde Ann Thurium

Engineer working on Atom Editor. Destroyer of binaries.

Declarative APIs in an Imperative World

Verónica Lopez

Former Physicist and Sr. Software Engineer at Red Hat

Go vs. Elixir for Distributed Computing