Speakers - GOTO Chicago 2020

Keynote Speaker

Anita Sengupta

Rocket scientist and expert on the future of transportation; responsible for the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover

Lunch Keynote

Fabio Nudge Pereira

Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator

Jessica Kerr

Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker

Masterclass with...

Mike Amundsen

The ultimate API expert. #api

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay

Richard Feldman

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

Masterclass with...

Adam Tornhill

Founder and CTO at CodeScene Programmer, psychologist, Lisp hacker, speaker and author of several books including "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Masterclass: Code As A Crime Scene: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis

Dean Wampler

Product Engineering Director for Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research.

Lynn Langit

Cloud architect building serverless bioinformatics cloud data pipelines

Visualizing Cloud Systems

Chris Read

DevOpsDays Chicago organizer

Ask Me Anything

Kirk Pepperdine

Kirk knows more about the JVM than most of the engineers that actually build it do. Let him take you to the secrets and dark corners of the JVM. #java

Memory Efficient Java

Stuart Langridge

Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author

Bruce Lawson

Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification

Dave Karow

Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split

Advanced Feature Flagging: It's All About The Data

Masterclass with...

Derek Ferguson

Head of technology for Fitch Solutions

Microservices Out In the Wild

Masterclass: Microservices Out In the Wild

Keynote Speaker

Allen Holub

Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Scrum is Agile

Avdi Grimm

Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award

No Return: Beyond Transactions in Code and Life

Safia Abdalla

Software engineer at Microsoft, author and blogger

Git from the Ground Up

Uri Goldshtein

Founder at The Guild, the largest open source group in the GraphQL ecosystem

Jennifer Davis

Highly requested systems engineer and DevOps author

Ops in the Serverless

Keynote Speaker

Jessica Ellis

Teaching Kids Programming at TKPLabs

Inspiring Experiences Teaching Kids to Code

Jiaqi Liu

Leader in bridging the gap between data science and engineering

Observability for Data Pipelines: Monitoring, Alerting, and Tracing Lineage

Rebecca Miller-Webster

Founder of Write/Speak/Code, educator and director of engineering

Keynote Speaker

Chris Anderson

CEO of 3DR and founder of DIY Drones and DIY Robocars communities

Racing Robocars

Denise Yu

Senior software engineer at GitHub

Why Are Distributed Systems so Hard?

Garrett Smith

Creator of Guild AI and Chicago ML

Keys to Building Machine Learning Systems

Matt Turner

DevOps Leader and Software Engineer at Tetrate

Tod Golding

Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"

Davis Sawyer

Co-founder and chief product officer at AI software startup Deeplite

Small is the New Big: Designing Compact Deep Learning Models

Masterclass with...

Kate Wardin

A waypoint in the ocean of leadership gurus. Kate has brilliant, empirically backed advice to share with you. #teams

Masterclass: Foundations of Tech Leadership

Aaron Parecki

Director of Identity Standards at Okta

How to Hack OAuth

Abubakar Siddiq Ango

Technical Evangelism Program Manager at GitLab

The Asynchronous Enterprise

Alexander Condello

Manager, Applications Development Technology and Tools at D-Wave Systems

Practical Quantum Computing with D-Wave

Angel Rivera

Developer Advocate at CircleCI

Increase App Confidence using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code

Angela Dugan

Solution Director on the Strategic Engagements at 3Cloud Solutions

Ashley Quinto Powell

Speaker, Revenue Consultant, Champion of Moms, Relentless Supporter of Entrepreneurs. A fun person to follow.

Women's Networking Lunch

Austin Parker

Author and Principal Developer Advocate at LightStep

I Can Sell You Observability, But You Can't Buy It

Ayesha Mazumdar

Senior UX Engineer, Optimizely

From Zero to A11Y: Building an Accessibility Culture at Optimizely

Brendan O'Leary

Sr. Developer Evangelist, GitLab

Casey Rosenthal

Deprecating Simplicity and the Rise of CV

Ask Me Anything

Channing Benson

Driving Experimentation Results & Culture

Courtney Hemphill

Leading technical teams for fast-moving companies at scale

Principles of Scale

Daniel Grum

Senior Test Operations Engineer - John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group

Working Remotely

Eric Johnson

Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

Leveraging Serverless in Full-stack Development

Eric Smith

Software Crafter who develops software of the highest quality on numerous platforms and in multiple languages.

Francis Potter

Solutions Architect at GitLab

Application Security at High Velocity

Gwen Shapira

Product Manager at Confluent

Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability

JJ Qi

Senior Software Engineer at Capital One

Server Driven UI on Mobile

Kelley Robinson

Developer Evangelist at Twilio advocating for secure software development

2FA in 2020 and Beyond

Ken Mugrage

Principal technologist at ThoughtWorks and DevOps expert

Modern Continuous Delivery

Kim B. Holmes

Talent Acquisition at Discover

Women's Networking Lunch

Mark Rickmeier

CEO at TXI. Founder of Walkshop.

Markus Wittwer

Agile coach with 15+ years experience and certified mindfulness trainer

Mindful Start Into an Agile Day

Keynote Speaker

Murray Thom

World-leading quantum computing expert at D-Wave

A Guided Tour at D-Wave

Natalie Lund

Community manager, performing artist, traveller, mover, yogini and happy person

Yoga at Your Desk

Nate Barbettini

Co-founder and CTO at Cobbler; OAuth and OpenID expert

OAuth and OpenID Connect in Plain English

Niels Sthen Hansen

Business Unit CTO & Team Lead at Trifork

Niket Patel

Staff Engineer at John Deere's Intelligent Solution Group

Oleg Šelajev

Developer Advocate at Oracle

Maximizing Java Application Performance with GraalVM

Rahul Lahiri

Founder and Head of Product at Mesh Dynamics

High Velocity Development of Microservices

Keynote Speaker

Rajiv Shah

Building AI Applications at Snowflake

Data Science and Expertise: COVID-19

Keynote Speaker

Rebecca Nugent

Professor of Statistics & Data Science

Data Science for Everyone with ISLE: Leveraging Web Technologies to Increase Data Acumen

Ryan Pierce

Android Developer at Capital One

Kotlin Flows and Channels for Android

Sara Caldwell

Sr. Principle Solutions Strategist

Venky Ganti

Founder and CEO of Mesh Dynamics

High Velocity Development of Microservices

Adam Butler

Principal engineer for Intelligent Solution Group's data platform

Batching vs. Streaming - John Deere's Journey to Scale & Process Millions of Measurements a Second

Derek Kuc

Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL

Bootiful GraphQL with Kotlin

Masterclass with...

Matt Jones

Head of product architecture at Fitch Solutions

Microservices Out In the Wild

Masterclass: Microservices Out In the Wild

Masterclass with...

Rashid Mohammad

Senior engineering lead at Fitch Solutions

Microservices Out In the Wild

Masterclass: Microservices Out In the Wild

Yashvier Kosaraju

Product security expert at Twilio Inc.

Practical End-to-End Container Security at Scale