Speakers - GOTO Chicago 2024

Meet the experts who will cover the latest and greatest in software development.

This year's focus is on Programming, Productivity Tools, Security, AI Development, Frontend, Teams Dynamics, and DevOps.

Keynote Speaker

Kent Beck

Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming

Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design

Keynote Speaker

Ben Sadeghipour

Hacker & Content Creator

AI-Powered Bug Hunting

Keynote Speaker

Andy Greenberg

Author of "Sandworm" and "Tracers in the Dark". Writes about security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture.

Tracers in the Dark

Keynote Speaker

Imran Rashid

Director of Health Innovation

There’s No AI in Human: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Humanity

Keynote Speaker

Venkat Subramaniam

Award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Decision Dials

Masterclass with...

Aaron Parecki

Director of Identity Standards at Okta

A Deep Dive into the Past, Present & Future of OAuth

Masterclass: Introduction to OAuth and OpenID Connect

Anita Malcolm

Principal Software Developer at Parsons Corporation

Chat with your data using Spring AI

Brooklyn Zelenka

Author of numerous libraries including Witchcraft, and founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup.

The Jump to Hyperspace: Light Speed, User Agency & Moving Past the Cloud

Catherine Swetel

Once described as the Altoids of Lean-Agile feminism

Cost vs Stability in a Cloud Environment

Keynote Speaker

Dave Taht

Truly speeding up the Net, one smart ISP at a time

Reducing Latency: Innovations for a Faster Internet

Dave Thomas

Founder, Keynote Speaker, Software Industry Expert

Efficient Reliable Database Migration: A Legacy Innovation Story

Derek Kuc

Principal Software Engineer @ Apollo GraphQL

GraphQL Federation - The @key to Your Platform API Strategy

Desmond Lamptey

Lead Software Engineer @ Capital One

Why Every Engineer Should Learn to Hack

Eric Johnson

Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

Building a Domain Specific GenAI Chatbot with Serverless

Erica Pisani

Sr. Software Engineer at Float Financial

Living on the Edge

Holden Karau

Open Source Engineer at Netflix

Health Insurance Appeals with Generative AI: From Lab to Production

James Ward

Developer Advocate at AWS

Structured Concurrency: Managing the Hierarchical Cancelation & Error Handling

Pkl: Safe and Maintainable Config for Apps and Infrastructure

Jeff Vestal

Principal Customer Enterprise Architect at Elastic

The RAG Really Ties the App Together

Jimmy Scray

Engineer / Technical Lead - ML @ Koch Global

Learn the ASL alphabet with Pyodide, Python, and Mediapipe

John Burns

Sr. Staff Platform Engineer at Grubhub

Spring Funk: The functional approach to Spring Boot

Jonathan Magen

Jonathan is a computer scientist with over 1.5 decades of professional experience

Swimming Through Molasses: How Scale Makes Distributed Systems Slower

Masterclass with...

Julian Wood

Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

Masterclass: Building GenAI applications (Free)

Kasun Indrasiri

Author of "Microservices for the Enterprise"

Kafka Meets Iceberg: Real-Time Data Streaming into Modern Data Lakes and Warehouses

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Using Serverless and ARM64 for Real-Time Observability

Mary Grygleski

AI Practice Lead

Event Streaming for Multi-Agentic Generative AI Workflows

Matt Godbolt

Low-level Latency Geek

What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work

Keynote Speaker

Matt Welsh

Chief Architect at Aryn.ai

How AI Will Bring Computing to Everyone

Maximiliano Firtman

App developer, course instructor, writer, speaker, and workshop trainer.

Vanilla Web: You Don't Need that Library

Michael Feathers

Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

Where AI Meets Code

Masterclass with...

Mike Taylor

Founder, author, prompt engineering expert

Optimizing a Prompt for Production

Masterclass: Building an AI application

Nieky Allen

Senior Software Architect at Slalom Build

deadrop: secret-sharing made easy

Preben Thorö

Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, Group CTO Trifork

An Introduction to Spatial Computing

Quentin Reul

Enabling Digital Transformation through AI

Cracking the AI Black Box: Strategies for Customer-centric Enterprise Excellence

Ryan Dahl

Creator of Node.js JavaScript runtime as well as the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.

Deno 2

Sean Marcia

Founder of Ruby for Good. Community builder.

Get the Most Out of GitHub Copilot

Your First AI-Assisted Pull Request for Good

Tim Nolet

Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist at Checkly

Monitoring as Code: E2E Testing in Production with Playwright

For further questions regarding speakers

Please Contact Us