Speakers

After 15 years in itsec and 22 in IT Abraham is now the CEO of 7ASecurity (7asecurity.com), a company specializing in penetration testing of web/mobile apps, infrastructure, code reviews and training. Co-Author of the Mobile, Web and Desktop (Electron) app 7ASecurity courses. Security Trainer at Blackhat USA, HITB, OWASP Global AppSec and many other events. Former senior penetration tester / team lead at Cure53 and Version 1. Creator of “Practical Web Defense”, a hands-on eLearnSecurity attack / defense course, OWASP OWTF project leader, an OWASP flagship project (owtf.org), Major degree and Diploma in Computer Science, some certs: CISSP, OSCP, GWEB, [...]

Alex Zhukovich has been developing Android since 2011. Currently, he is working for Backbase. He is a public speaker in Europe and software enthusiast with a passion for technologies, which share thoughts & experiences on the private technical blog (https://alexzh.com/).

Alex Ozun is a software engineer with a decade of experience in mobile applications development. For the last 4 years he's been developing American Express iOS app.

Adi currently working at Microsoft as MEA Developers GTM, responsible for growing Microsoft's influence and contributions to the MEA agnostic and natural developer community. In her previous roles worked at the Microsoft R&D CTO office as strategic innovation PM where she conduct market research required to validate product/market fit and develop the business model for a new tech venture, and collaborate with the Reactor and Microsoft for startup team on activities for the ecosystem. Prior to Microsoft Adi worked as a PM at Over.ai, which was acquired by Vonage. Previously, Adi founded a technological sports venture, managed Ben-Gurion University innovation [...]

Freelance Android and Flutter Developer working on projects like ING banking, Schiphol, SnappCar and Karify. As the resident geek at home I do the occasional web development/server admin for Betty’s Kitchen a food blog which is run by my wife with over a 1300 post and around 100/150k visitors per month.

I am a passionate, iOS developer that loves learning and sharing knowledge. I started doing iOS roughly when Swift was announced and immediately fell in love with it. I wrote three books on iOS development for a publisher, and self-published books on Combine and Core Data.

Duco is a mobile developer and enthusiastic maker who has spent the past years building apps for companies and government organisations. As a special agent (thought leader) at Team Rockstars IT in the Netherlands, he advises clients, speaks at conferences, and writes articles in the field of (mobile) software engineering.

Dennis Hills is a Solutions Architect for Yubico and a University of Washington graduate in Computing Software & Systems. He has nearly two decades of web service experience ranging from client support and networking to software development across various platforms and languages. He has published more than a half dozen mobile iOS apps and is a regular blogger to the mobile dev community. He is passionate about mobile, passwordless authentication, automation, AI, Machine Learning, and serverless cloud computing. When not punching the virtual clock, you can find Dennis running, automating products in the home, testing crazy app ideas on friends [...]

I am 22 years old and working for four years as an iOS developer. I started my career in 2019 at Sportradar after learning to program on my own during high school. In October 2021, I joined Jumio and started to work on their identity verification SDK. Besides working as an iOS developer, I am currently doing my Master's degree at the TU Vienna in Logics and Computation.

Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including the best selling books A Functional Programming Kickstart, A SwiftUI Kickstart, A Swift Kickstart and Dear Elena. Daniel presents iOS, Functional Programming, SwiftUI, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking, baking bread, or hanging out with friends. [...]

Daniel has a degree in computer science, experience as project manager, team leader and CTO, for mobile apps and server based projects, with special focus on statistics, analytics and Big Data.

Dani has his dream job as an iOS Engineer on Spotify’s Accessibility team. He has previously loved working at Skyscanner or the BBC, where he learned a ton about how to make iOS apps more accessible. Sometimes he lets Xcode have a break and spreads the love for accessibility at conferences. Author of the “Developing Accessible iOS Apps” book, he keeps himself busy by writing a daily tweet about accessibility and iOS with the hashtag #365DaysIOSAccessibility.

I am a passionate iOS engineer with more than seven years of experience. I have worked in start-ups and big companies both in Iran and in Denmark, where I am currently based. AI and mobile are my two big passions, and when I get to mix them it is my dream come true. I love sharing knowledge and learning. I am an Engineer by day 👩🏻‍💻 and a movie geek 🎥 by night. And according to Spotify, I listened to 105 different genres last year 🎧

Tom Colvin is CTO of Apptaura, the app development specialists; and Conseal Security, the mobile app security experts. He has been a developer for over 20 years and worked with Android since Cupcake, and is also Google Developer Group lead for Hants & Surrey (UK)

With over 10 years of Android development experience, Zachary moved into DevRel at the start of 2021. While turning to the dark side and moving into management he's still very passionate about Android and all things mobile!

As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote "Getting Started with Varnish Cache" and "Varnish 6 by Example". As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 270 presentations in 20 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP [...]

Between having a family life, doing several radio shows and podcasts for Dutch radiostation KINK and attending (online) conferences and usergroup meetings, Stefan tries running a company called Ingewikkeld. Having worked with PHP and several of its open source products since the late 90s, he still likes it for getting the job done.

Roy is an entrepreneur, speaker and author from The Netherlands and, in his own words, 'wants to make the world a better place through tech'. He has been giving talks and trainings to developers worldwide on technologies like GraphQL, React and TypeScript. Most recently he wrote the book Fullstack GraphQL.

Severn Everett, currently employed as a backend developer at Apiumhub, has spent more than a decade in the software engineering industry and has worked in software development companies in the United States, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. His tech stack repertoire has also varied considerably with the years, with experience in projects that used Java, Kotlin, C++, Python, Ruby, and Go. However, the JVM and Spring Boot ecosystems remain the domains in which he retains the most knowledge and interest.

Sanne is what you would call an enthusiastic and results-oriented mobile developer. She is a true all-rounder who can develop cross-platform using KMM, native iOS and native Android. She always takes a critical look at the chosen architectures and solutions. She is passionate about her profession and enjoys thinking about further developments, choosing the right technology for the customer and figuring out how to improve development speed when scrum is slowing it down. Critically thinking along in how the process can be accelerated is something she is always working on. Her agile mindset, enthusiasm and analytical skills make her indispensable [...]

Robert is an engineer who gets a kick out of starting, building mobile apps and backends for companies that have or want to have a large user base. Works in an agile and lean way to validate and improve future products with users and customers. Conducting research and analysis in order to come up with solutions to business problems and help to introduce these into the organisation.

As a developer I've always been more interested in the process rather than the outcome. I'm intrigued by team dynamics, communication and agile coding. I've worked in small and large teams and explored many different aspects of software development. As CTO of WeDevelop I aim to create the best possible landscape for software development, helping people thrive and develop stories that matter.

As a senior developer advocate on the Firebase team at Google, Peter Friese is dedicated to helping developers build amazing experiences and high-quality apps using Firebase on iOS, Android, and the web. With a passion for empowering developers and fostering innovation, Peter works tirelessly with the Firebase team to make his vision of "cutting short the time to magic" a reality. Peter is also the author of the book Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combine: Functional Programming to Build UIs on Apple Platforms and host of the YouTube show Better Safe than Sorry, which explores best practices for building secure [...]

Mohit Sharma is working as a Developer Advocate at MongoDB, helping developers architect clean and testable app’s. He has been working with Android for more than 10 years, since Android 2.2, previously with OLX group and believes that sharing knowledge is the best way of learning something new.

So far talked at two Docker Community All Hands and a few local meetups. Was awarded the Docker Community Leader award in September 2022. Started programming with C at the age of 13 (2004). Studied Pure Mathematics from 2009 to 2013 (BSc), researched Logic (MSc) until 2015, and worked as a Software Engineer at CafeBazaar (Iran's Google) at the same time. Moved to Geneva to research in Geometry and Physics (2016), then to Germany to study Computer Science, to Amsterdam to work at PicNic, and then back to Germany to work at AppTec GmbH. Now working at Jodel.

Michiel Rook is a very experienced, passionate and pragmatic freelance IT consultant from the Netherlands. Working as a coach, software developer & architect, and a strong leader, he considers it his mission to help companies significantly improve their software quality and delivery process. Currently, he focuses on adopting Continuous Delivery & DevOps principles, culture and tooling, legacy software transformations, and cloud migrations. Michiel is a regular speaker at (international) conferences and events.

Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Lead Developer at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile. Before joining Theodo, Mo was a full-stack developer at Nasdaq. He is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh.

I'm a passionate and experienced software engineer, Google GDE, and Microsoft MVP from Milan, Italy. I've worked as a software engineer and architect for almost ten years in product and consultancy companies, taking the best from both worlds. In 2022, I've published my first book, "Real-World Next.js," where I talk about the web framework that changed forever the way we build web applications. I'm currently working as a Senior Software Architect in NearForm while contributing to many open-source projects in different languages (TypeScript, Haskell, Golang), writing technical articles, and speaking to many international conferences.

Lead Integration Architect at BlueRush, Inventor and UX/architecture Lead Consultant. 26 years of experience in the industry. Product Director at Bciti Principal UX prototype developer for Google / Motorola / Nokia / Amazon during the smartphone development age (2007 to 2011) Founder of TasteFilter (start up attempt) .. and so on ;)

Mobile dev since Cupcake. Android GDE. Kotlin enthusiast. Dogs make me happy.

If I say 'Use', you say 'the Platform' ! Together with his fellow front end developers, Maarten raises iO's HTML, JavaScript and CSS bar to a whole new level. With tools such as Vue.js, Nuxt.js and OpenAPI and many others in his proverbial tool belt, he builds modern web projects that excel in speed and usability. Next to grinding keys, he's also a passionate tattler about how Open Source software should get more recognition, as it is the cornerstone of our current-day digital society.

Lorna is a technology leader, published author, and expert open-source engineer hailing from Yorkshire. She boasts a solid background in software engineering, developer relations, cloud data technology and APIs, and her passion is in improving developer experiences in these areas. Discover more about Lorna on her website https://lornajane.net

Lena is an Android developer with curiosity for iOS. She got interested in mobile development during her computer science degree at TU Dresden and has been creating Android apps ever since. She is currently inspired by Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile and enjoys sharing her experience with it.

 When she's not programming, Lena loves going on adventures, hiking around Europe, surfing, skiing, freediving and regaining strength with the best local cuisine she can find.

I am an iOS developer for more than 7 years. For the last 5 years I have been working for XM, where my main focus is to deliver secure features without complicating the user. In addition, emphasising on creating documentation and knowledge sharing for team growth is something that I enjoy a lot.

Joost van Dijk is a developer advocate at Yubico. He focuses on securing digital identities and accelerating the adoption of open source authentication standards as part of Yubico's developer program.

Joseph Katsioloudes and his team at the GitHub Security Lab work at the forefront of Open Source Security that they shape every day through research and education. Joseph chose this career path because from a very young age, security was his own way to provide ethical and dedicated service to organisations and the society as a whole. He holds two engineering degrees, a Bachelors of Engineering in Computing from Imperial College London and a Masters in Cyber Security Engineering from the University of Warwick. His most recent contributions include video content made specifically for software developers interested in growing their [...]

Jan Jaap has been developing (accessible) apps for 10 years. Since 2018, Jan Jaap has specialized in making apps accessible by supporting accessibility features and assistive technologies. He was the lead accessibility developer for the Dutch COVID-19 apps, which resulted in the first fully accessible government apps in The Netherlands.

Solutions Architect @ AWS, Jerome is also organiser of the Geneva Serverless Meetup. After years of development (mainly backends & APIs), Lambda and serverless in general was a revelation. Now Jerome is helping his customers in their journey to the cloud, with a focus on modern applications and serverless.

Hidde is an Indie App Developer based in Manchester. After working as a Digital Product designer for over a decade, he switched to working full-time on his apps for all Apple platforms. A deep background in design helps him build apps focusing on quality and great simplicity. Outside of tech, he’s a big fan of music. Collecting, Playing (as a DJ or messing with Synths), Listening or dancing to.

Avid learner, passionate about  platforms. Writing mostly Swift code for iOS and macOS and occasionally doing Web Development.

I am a passionate and enthusiastic software engineer who loves to create solutions which are actively used by users to solve real problems. In 2001 I started to create software professionally. Since 2012 I have been designing and implementing back-end and mobile applications for organizations with user bases of several hundred of thousands to millions of users. From high performance back-end systems which run on AWS to native Android apps for consumers. I like a challenge and continuously keep my knowledge up to date and share it with great enthusiasm to the public and with my team. To keep my [...]

Giorgi is a software developer with more than a decade of experience. He works mainly with C#, ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET Core, REST, WCF, Xamarin, Android, iOS, Entity Framework, Azure, SQL Server, and Oracle. Giorgi is an open-source author and contributor on GitHub and a member of the .NET Foundation.

Gijs van Veen is a Senior Developer for Splendo Health, a digital health company based in The Netherlands and USA. He has worked on apps from Takeaway.com, Tacx, Jedlix, X.Bike, and currently the Splendo Health apps. He is a lead architect for Kaluga, an Open-Sourced Kotlin Multiplatform Framework aiming to simplify KMP development for mobile developers.

Filip Babic is a senior Android developer from Croatia, and a Google Developer Expert for Android & Kotlin. He's currently working on building awesome things with Jetpack Compose, teaching people about topics in Android and Kotlin and sharing his knowledge in various types of community engagement. Altruistic when it comes to consulting and mentoring, trying to give help to everyone, whenever possible, motivated by the ideology that the Android ecosystem we live in is only as good as we make it. Writing a large number of articles, tutorials, and guides, both through self-publication on Medium and through the RayWenderlich team. [...]

iOS Engineer, everything-swift lover and design enthusiast | I go by `TheInkedEngineer`, for obvious reasons.

#### Bio Emad is a Lead iOS Engineer at Ministry of Taxation in Denmark and he is always eager to learn new topics. When he’s not in front of a computer he is usually playing board games 🎲 and video games🎮 or watching series 📺. (you won’t believe it) sometimes he is playing some harmonica 🎼. Also, he is an intermediate table tennis player 🏓. Links: https://www.emadgnia.com https://emadgnia.github.io https://twitter.com/emadgnia https://www.linkedin.com/in/emadgnia/ https://github.com/Emadgnia https://www.tryswift.co/world/#emadgnia https://appbuilders.ch/ https://www.kodeco.com/u/emadgnia

Creative Strategist at Move4Mobile with a passion for design and mobile. He helps clients and organisations with growth and product strategy and makes sure we're building the right products.

After years being in the art field, Maike has used technology to design and create projects. The ease in which she adapted new tools and methods came in handy when she decided to learn iOS development to build an app she saw missing in the marketplace. This led to learning many distinctions around programming, version control, frontend, UI and UX Design. Maike spent many Saturdays learning at the Appsterdam MeetUp as a newbie, and has now come to leading them. It was at Appsterdam that Maike connected with and developed mad respect for developers. She loves to be with them, [...]

Currently working on Apollo-Kotlin, the Kotlin SDK for GraphQL, Benoit has been writing software for 20 years, with a focus on Android since its v1. When he’s not coding, you can find him enjoying movies or geocaching.

Fatih has studied Computer Engineering in his bachelor's degree. He got his master's degree in "Natural Language Processing" and he was a research assistant for 2 years. After that, he started working as a freelance mobile developer for 2 years. He joined DNB Bank as a Senior Android Developer and now he is an Android Lead in DNB Bank for Norway's top used finance app "Mobilbank" and the savings app "Spare".

Bas is an iOS and macOS developer with a passion for testability, accessibility and user-centric apps. He cares about communication and collaboration. Likes coffee and watches (a lot).

Michael Flarup is a designer from Denmark. He lives on the island of Zealand in the medieval city of Køge with his wife and two children. He started making things on his computer in his teens in the late 90s and hasn't stopped since. Michael’s career of pursuing fun in what he does has led him to run companies and initiatives that have produced products, apps, services, events and games that have been experienced by millions of people. ‘Just making things that make me happy’ is usually how Michael explains his multidisciplinary career. His signature visual style is best described [...]

What makes Iulia’s heart beat faster? Android. One of these days, she will actually morph into a bugdroid herself; that’s the general prediction around here. The more cool challenges she encounters in developing her native apps, the better.

Mobile architect at the Dutch Tax and Customs office. Working for the Dutch Tax and Customs office over 20 years, started as developer and grown to architect. As architect she is responsible for the development pipeline, application architecture and integration of the mobile apps with backends or other systems within the backoffice.

George Kortsaridis is a Software Developer Engineer for Amazon FireTV. George is a mobile develoVer, who has been developing on the Android and iOS platforms since the early years of Android Eclair and iOS 5. He has worked on and pushed products on various sectors, like security, traveling, VR/AR and most recently big screen TVs."

Started as software tester with a lot of interest and passion for mobile app development. Eventually switched from testing apps to developing apps. When developing I'm always looking for new things to discover and learn.

Rosário P. Fernandes is a Developer Relations Engineer on the Firebase Team, mainly focused on helping developers integrate Firebase into their Android App Development workflows.

Marieke uses a combination of eastern meditation techniques and western psychology which will help you find a calm mind and inner peace. Working with the body and breath she will let you discover ways how to stay connected with the present moment. With her down to earth approach she shows ways to calm your mind, to consciously relax your body and to deal with unpleasant situations and all kinds of stress related problems. Marieke has been working for the wellness and fitness industry for over 10 years. By teaching Yoga, Pilates, Movement, Vipassana meditation and mindfulness she is aiming to [...]

Lonneke Benningshof has 15 years of experience profound coaching and training on a range of issues with personal and professional development, emotional health and wellbeing. She specialized in creating psychologic safety work environments and teaches self-care to IT-students in schools. You can find more information about Lonneke on het her Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lonnekebenningshof/.

Pierre is a 16-year veteran at Google where he has been involved in a variety of projects including AdWords, the Google Play Store, Chromecast, and the Google Smart Home ecosystem. In his current role, Pierre focuses on providing Android developers with a variety of tools within the Google Smart Home ecosystem to help them be successful with the new Matter standard. Pierre holds a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Toronto. He earned his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Université Laval in Québec City.

I've been programming electronic devices since 1992 when I started as a kid toying around with GW-BASIC on my trusty 80286. I graduated a Bachelor of Science (Software Engineering) in 2007 and joined Kabisa straight after that. Over my 15 year tenure with Kabisa I've done many things, from writing super smooth web applications with Ruby on Rails to rock-solid Java Spring Boot back-ends and shiny Flutter mobile and desktop apps. My professional role includes helping business transition to Agile, training people to attain new skills, and lead teams to deliver quality software.

Pascal is currently CTO at Kabisa. In the past he has worked in various positions in software development, cloud and architecture. During his Bacehlor of Science education (Software Engineering) in 2008 Pascal independently developed Pin!, an iOS application to find nearby ATM machines. The app was the number #1 selling application on the Dutch App Store for many weeks.

Grzegorz Lato is a Team Lead for the CHECK24 iOS and Android app. He has been developing iOS and Android apps since 2013 and loves Kotlin as much as Swift. He has a scary enthusiasm for graph theory, can never say no to a good cup of coffee and once had the honor to play drums on the same stage as Nirvana.

Pieter Siekerman is CTO at &samhoud creative tech in Amsterdam. For the last 6 years he's made everything AR and VR his speciality, working on many of the largest XR projects within the Netherlands with the &samhoud creative tech team. Before that he spent several years working on mobile apps (at The Saints) and apps for TV platforms (at 24i). With a strong love for breakthrough front-end technologies, he's spent nearly 15 years in tech, building cool digital things for big audiences while having a lot of fun.

Marina worked as a Software Engineer for 8 years, 4 of these years focused on native Android development (using both Java and Kotlin). Currently she is working as a Developer Relations Engineer on the Firebase team. She is also a writer for Medium: https://marinascoelho.medium.com/.

Co founder van Androidworld, een merk moet je bouwen en niet kopen, maakt en produceert podcasts en kan niet stilzitten.  

Krzysztof is a Principal Swift Engineer, currently he is building the Browser of the future, previous he led The New York Times. He's known for creating Sourcery, Objective-C Playgrounds, and Apple's Essential Apps like Foldify and 3D Game Engines. Passionate about writing quality code and helping others do the same. He blogs on merowing.info and open sources tools/libraries at github.com/krzysztofzablocki

Bekend van zijn blogs, video’s en adviezen op maat: in de appwereld kom je ergens in het traject ongetwijfeld David van der Loo tegen. Ruim 10 jaar geleden startte hij met apps maken voor grote bedrijven. Daarbij ontdekte hij al snel waarom veel apps geen succes worden... maar anderen juist wél. Nu is hij niet meer weg te denken als adviseur van iedereen die een app wil (laten) ontwikkelen. Uiteenlopende businessmodellen, marketingtechnieken en innovatieve concepten passeren dagelijks langs zijn kennisplatform: AppSpecialisten.nl. Voor Appril besloot hij een podcast serie te ontwikkelen, samen met Zita Bebenroth. Neem zijn adviezen ter harte en [...]

Met een voorliefde voor radio startte Zita haar carrière bij diverse omroepen in Hilversum en stapte daarna over naar een adviserende rol bij communicatiebureaus. Toen ze in 2015 ging werken bij app agency Yipyip, raakte ze verslingerd aan apps en dook ze 7 jaar lang in de ins & outs van app development. Inmiddels is ze digitaal strateeg bij Bitfactory en adviseert ze allerlei soorten klanten over hun online positie. Een gloednieuwe podcast serie tijdens Appril brengt haar journalistieke hart en digitale specialisme bij elkaar. Voor deze gelegenheid vormt ze een duo met David van der Loo van Appspecialisten

Graham has two decades of experience in software engineering, at small companies, Silicon Valley giants, and in academia. He's also researching how people in universities write software for a PhD. You'll find him in the UK, but also extremely online: his newsletter at https://sicpers.curated.co is for programmers who want to become software engineers.

I started programming in 1983 using BASIC on an Atari 800. Fast forward to the present and I have been developing for mobile platforms for 23 years and counting. Currently I am focused on design systems engineering. I am from the United States but moved to Switzerland in 2017 where I enjoy hiking, skiing, and standup paddling. My hobbies include cooking, playing D&D, and building vintage LEGO sets from the 80's.

A researcher for AI and cognition with a strong affinity to applied, empirical, data-driven work. Asssociate professor at ISEG University of Lisbon, founder of LEYA Lab for Natural Language Processing. Popularizer of science. Co-founder of Creaited Labs.

Like no other engineer in the Netherlands, Johan knows how to integrate accessibility as a starting point in every digital product development. By thinking in terms of opportunities and inclusivity instead of limitations, his work at Dutch tech company Q42 is groundbreaking in many ways. Johan’s main point: not only people with a long-term disability are confronted with situations in which interaction with digital tools is more difficult. Visual and other impairments affect everyone who is confronted with a situation in which they temporarily cannot see, look, use their hands, et cetera. In this way, Johan links accessibility to user-friendliness, [...]

Johan is a passionate mobile software engineer and an enthusiastic and positive team player in general. He likes to work on interesting and challenging projects preferably in an agile setting and with a team of enthusiastic people. Johan has given back to the community by actively organizing meetups for The Dutch Android User Group (https://www.dutchaug.org) which he founded in 2011. Being enthusiastic about Flutter as well he started a new meetup group, Flutter Netherlands (https://flutternl.org) to support and grow the thriving Flutter community in our country. Johan is married, father of Ms 14, Ms 12 and Mr 11. He has [...]

Jordi Bruin is an indie developer for Apple projects who has shipped more than 20 apps over the last two years. His seven most recent apps have all been featured on the App Store. He likes to solve complicated problems in simple ways, for developers, deaf people or people with allergies to name a few.

Lotte Nijland is a Creative Strategist at Move4Mobile. As a Creative Strategist Lotte helps clients of Move4Mobile in defining what they really need to reach their goals instead of what clients want. She is responsible for constantly adding value to several digital solutions.

For 10 years, Alex Glod has been working with leaders, marketers and professionals from the corporate and NGO sector to help them tell their stories with impact, to connect with their audiences, and to provide them with a memorable experience. He has trained over 3800 people on Storytelling, Public Speaking and Leadership and has taught over 42.000 online students through Udemy. He has spoken 3 times on a TEDx stage and has coached several TEDx speakers on the structure and delivery of their talks. Alex has also mentored several startups in pitching their business idea and has moderated over 15 [...]

Michael is a Software Engineer at Google, currently working on the Android Wear Frameworks team where he's working on theming and system integration.

Sonia works at Google in Chromecast team as a Senior Technical Account Manager. Prior to this she has worked on mobile and web domains in Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and a few start-ups, in various capacities, both technical and business centric. She has worked on Android since 2009 and has a few Android applications in Google Play. In the past she has spoken at conferences such as Andevcon, Droidcon, WeConnect, mDevcon, GraceHopper on various Android topics.

Johannes Schickling is a Berlin-based entrepreneur and founder of Graphcool, a flexible backend platform combining GraphQL+ AWS Lambda. He previously founded and sold the VR company “Optonaut”. Johannes studied computer science at KIT and loves cutting-edge mobile/web technologies.

Sérgio Santos is a founder and developer at Bloco, a product studio specialized in Android. After a long time as a full-stack web developer, he decided to switch to mobile development and haven't returned since. Interested in software quality and building great products.

I have been developing on iOS for roughly 5 years. I worked for bigger companies like SAP as well as smaller startups, did freelance projects and worked on some personal apps as well. I attended WWDC 14 on a student scholarship and have been excited about Swift and its functional programming features since. In 2016, I spent half a year in San Francisco to work as an iOS instructor at a tech education startup called Make School. After returning to Germany I joined Graphcool, a Berlin based startup where we build a Backend-as-a-Service based on GraphQL.

Xavier F. Gouchet is an Android architect at Deezer (the music streaming service). There, he focuses on the core architecture of the apps, developer tools, unit tests and administrate the CI systems. He has been dabbling in Android since the Cupcake days and has been working as an Android engineer for 5 years.

Thijs is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience. At Hack The Planet he is using technology to make a positive change in the world. Taking on ecological and humanitarian challenges like wildlife poaching and the online sexual abuse.

Working as the lead mobile engineer at Pusher, I spend most of my days building libraries and SDKs. In my previous life I worked on apps in some way or another for 7 years, focusing on mobile since the early days. My current focus is on finding the best user-centric approach to library and API design, and when I'm not programming I enjoy speaking at conferences, talking public policy, and an occasional pint of IPA.

Mathijs Kadijk creates apps at Q42 and is involved in the development of indoor positioning for Tate Modern, a connected hearing aids project and building sensor support into the Philips Hue app. He also connected the Q42 office door so you can unlock it with your public transport card and is the creator of the open source tool R.swift.

Nir Dobovizki is a software architect and a consultant at CodeValue, Nir has been developing software professionally for over two decades and recently started building all sort of robots, both professionally and at home, we can't be sure but we suspect those robots are a part of his master plan for world domination.

Hi, my names Joe. I’m an Android Engineer based in Brighton, UK working on the Android team at Buffer. I’m passionate about coding and love creating robust, polished and exciting projects for mobile, the web, TV, wearables and I’ll probably be toying with whatever the new thing is at the time you’re reading this – I love to be constantly learning.I’m also a keen writer as I love to share my learnings and experiences with others.

Sebastian Witalec is a Technical Evangelist for Progress/Telerik with over 8 years of experience in software engineering and architecture. Sebastian has passion for all types of technologies. However in the last few years his focus shifted towards cross platform Mobile development where he gained experience with Apache Cordova and NativeScript. He is always happy to learn about the new stuff and to pass the knowledge as far as his voice (or the wire) can take him. Sebastian is based in London, UK actively working with various Dev communities in the area. When not acting techie he is a massive football [...]

A mobile developer experimenting with the world of wearables. I believe so much in this field that I organized HackMed Milan, the first Italian hackathon on quantified self, wearables, and human data. Er... I might also have helped launch a couple of life-saving wearable devices in the meantime :)

Mark Allison is a GDE for Android and software engineer with over 30 years' experience. He is passionate about providing the user with the best possible experience. He has developed both server and client side, most commonly Android on the client side, but with also for iOS, HTML5, Symbian, and J2ME. Mark writes a technical blog (http://blog.stylingandroid.com) which focuses on Android UI/UX topics, but often covers more general Android development techniques. When not being geeky, Mark likes to unwind by hurling abuse at football referees, specifically those who are unkind to his beloved Watford FC with whom he holds a [...]

Yoichi is an iOS developer working at Mercari Inc, which provides a marketplace app for anyone to buy and sell items from a mobile device. He is also an open source contributor, and the original author of Swinject, the first and the most popular dependency injection framework written in and for Swift.

Fernando Cejas is a Software Engineer focused on Mobile Platforms. He has worked for several companies in a wide variety of projects in J2ME, C-Sharp, Java, Php and Ruby in different contexts: Social networks, NFC/RFID Hardware Solutions and E-Commerce. He has been involved on Android since its appearance and currently he works at SoundCloud as part of Core Engineering providing tools to other developers in order to facilitate features development.

Wajdi is a computer engineer specialized in mobile technologies (native and hybrid) and parallel realities. He is currently working at SFEIR. He published articles around these subjects either on blogs or in paper magazines (Programmez! Num198). He was also speaker in some events (in France and elsewhere). His main goal is to try to participate in pushing the digital world forward via contributions on Github (Angular2 documentation for example) or via training sessions, workshops, conferences and meetups.

Marcos Placona is a developer evangelist at Twilio, a company founded to disrupt telecommunications. He spends most of his time working with Java and .Net open source projects while equipping and inspiring developers to build killer applications. He’s also a great API enthusiast and believes they bring peace to the Software Engineering world.

Phil is a Developer Advocate for Swift, Objective-C and C++ tools at JetBrains. Prior to that he worked in as diverse fields as: finance, agile coaching and iOS development. A long time C++ developer he also has his feet in C#, F#, Objective-C and Swift - as well as dabbling in other languages. He is the author of several open source projects - most notably Catch: a C++-native test framework, and had an iPhone game in the App Store from the early days.

Rizwan is a User Experience Designer at Launch. He creates persuasive and profitable experiences for global brands such as Netflix, Quicken, PayPal, Allstate, Holland America, and StubHub. He is also a speaker and loves sharing his passion for sketching at meetups and conferences. Rizwan is the creator of the UX Alphabet app, a handy reference app of UX concepts. When he isn’t designing, he is usually at home drawing dinosaurs and cars, dinosaurs in cars, and other combinations of dinosaurs and cars with his twin boys.