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.

Masterclass with...

Aaron Parecki

Identity Standards Architect at Okta

Aaron Parecki

Masterclass: Introduction to OAuth and OpenID Connect

Alfredo Deza

Author, Olympian, Adjunct Professor at Duke

Building Robust AI Applications

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

Anjana Vakil

Independent Developer Educator & Software Engineer

Anjana Vakil

Keynote Speaker

Ben Sadeghipour

Hacker & Content Creator

Ben Sadeghipour

Keynote Speaker

Betty Enyonam Kumahor

Managing Partner at Cobalt Partners focused on frugal digital innovation

Betty Enyonam Kumahor

Brooklyn Zelenka

Co-founder and CTO of FISSION

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

Cassidy Williams

Developer advocate

Cassidy Williams

Catherine Swetel

Once described as the Altoids of Lean-Agile feminism

Cost Versus Stability in a Cloud Environment

Keynote Speaker

Dave Taht

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

Dave Taht

Dave Thomas

Founder, Keynote Speaker, Software Industry Expert

Dave Thomas

Eric Johnson

Principal Developer Advocate at AWS

Eric Johnson

Erica Pisani

Senior Software Engineer at Netlify

Living on the Edge

Garth Gilmour

Delivered over 1,000 masterclasses & author of 40+ training courses; Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Garth Gilmour

Holden Karau

Open Source Engineer at Netflix

Holden Karau

Keynote Speaker

Imran Rashid

Director of Health Innovation

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

James Ward

Developer Advocate at AWS

Structured Concurrency: Managing the Hierarchical Cancelation and Error Handling

Pkl: Safe and Maintainable Config for Apps and Infrastructure

Julian Wood

Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

Kasun Indrasiri

Author of "Microservices for the Enterprise"

Kasun Indrasiri

Kent Beck

Software engineer and the creator of Extreme Programming

Kyle Kingsbury

Author of Riemann monitoring system and Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness

Ten to the Ninth: Performance Techniques in Jepsen

Lesley Cordero

Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times

Organisational Sustainability with Platform Engineering

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Using Serverless and ARM64 for Real-Time Observability

Luxshan Ratnaravi

Exposing what happens when agility meets reality through #ComicAgile

What Happens When Agile Meets Reality – Told Through a Comic Strip

Learn to Storytell Your Agile Pains as Humorous Comic Agilé Strips

Mary Grygleski

Streaming Developer Advocate

Mary Grygleski

Matt Godbolt

Low-level Latency Geek

What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work

Keynote Speaker

Matt Welsh

AI startup founder and Level 9 Artificer

How AI Will Bring Computing to Everyone

Masterclass with...

Maximiliano Firtman

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

Vanilla Web: You Don't Need that Library

Masterclass: Vanilla JavaScript Web App Development

Michael Feathers

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

Ryan Dahl

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

Leveling Up JavaScript

Sean Marcia

Founder of Ruby for Good. Community builder.

Your First AI-Assisted Pull Request for Good

Sean Marcia

Keynote Speaker

Venkat Subramaniam

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

Decision Dials

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