Speakers

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 [...]

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Dimitri has been involved in APIs since the very beginning. After serving as a lead developer and technical architect for several years, he founded his own "API-as-a-Product" company and API consulting firm, helping businesses create API strategies and craft API designs. As an API consultant and advocate for the Dutch government, Dimitri introduced the OpenAPI Specification 3.x to the National Standardization Agency and played an instrumental role in the development of the National API Strategy, which provides best practices and design guidelines for government APIs. Currently, Dimitri is on a [...]

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 [...]

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.

A software architect and developer for the last 20 years, in startups and governments as well. In the last few years investigating the serverless world and apply it whenever possible.

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/).

I’m an experienced Mobile Engineer focusing on Android & Flutter with 4+ years experience on Mobile Apps Development with Flutter. I had a few talk experiences & various project mostly on Flutter and Android development. I also published some apps on Play Store and App Store. I always loved Flutter ever since its beginning because it makes Application Development way easier like it never was.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

He is a software developer with 20 years of experience and has focussed on iOS development for over a decade. At Stream Jeroen and his team work on supporting iOS developers in creating the best possible chat end-user experience with the Stream platform. Next to that Jeroen runs the Dutch CocoaHeads for over 8 years and runs a podcast with a focus on iOS developers called AppForce1.

I have been developing on iOS for last 8 years. I worked for small startups and big companies, developing more apps that I can remember. Currently I work as Senior iOS Developer at Hypermedia. When not busy with mobile projects, I run marathons and collect modern art.

Cesare Rocchi crafts software. He runs Studio Magnolia. Now he is building podrover.com. He blogs at upbeat.it. You can find him on Twitter @_funkyboy.

iOS developer since 2008 and is working at the ING for the past six years. Focusing primarily on getting new innovations into the ​banking app as quickly as possible. Pim is a true mobile and technology enthusiast and is currently working in the ThinkForward team. This team created the ‘Inge’ the virtual assistant that incorporated vocal password in the mobile banking app. as well as the AppleWatch App and TouchID integration”

Marco Kuiper is a mobile lead developer at Info Support. He is incurably optimistic, loves great design and leads the Competence Center Mobile, guiding the company when it comes to mobile app development. He motivates people to share and expand their mobile app development knowledge. Giving presentations excites Marco. He has been talking about mobile on multiple occasions and loves sharing his vision and debating the pro's and con's. To get away from everything related to work, he loves to travel to explore the world.

Jan-Felix works on the Android Developer Relations team at Google. Based in Sydney, he is focussing on Android security and helps Android app developers incorporate the latest best practices in their apps. In the past he has worked on the Google Santa Tracker app, the Google I/O app and testing on Android. He has presented at Google I/O, the Android dev summit and other developer conferences over the years.

Jorge is a freelancer dedicated to mobile development, security, and systems architecture. As a developer he started to work for the M.I.T. in 1993 and since then he has collaborated in many software projects. Most of them were internally for HP where he worked for more than 15 years. Since 2008 he has been working in different aspects of mobile development. After playing with PalmOS, he learned Android programming for the first Android Developer Challenge and immediately started to play with the first iPhone SDK. He often participates as instructor in the best iOS and Android Bootcamps in U.S.A. and [...]

Originally from Brazil and always taking the developing countries market in mind, I have worked developing many big codebases, including the biggest classifieds company in Brazil, Autodesk’s BIM360 app and currently in Berlin’s SoundCloud, focused on improving the media playback experience on Android. With 6 years of experience developing mobile applications, I’m always keen to learn and apply the best software engineering practices, while also sharing the knowledge with the community – speaking is a great way of learning too!

Gergely is building the next generation payments experience at Uber. While working here, he's helped rebuild the Uber app from scratch and with open sourcing RIBs, the native, cross-platform mobile architecture behind it. Gergely has a passion for building products that people love and use every day. Prior to Uber he built a B2B booking tool at Skyscanner, Skype for XBox One and the web at Microsoft, and exotic trading tools at JP Morgan. He previously built a few mobile apps like Cocktail flow and blogs on The Pragmatic Engineer.

Sebas is an Android developer with passion for automated testing, architecture and RxJava. He also writes articles to share his love for Android: Medium, Medium article

Tamzin Taylor is a Partner Development Manager at Google Play. In this role, she helps apps & games businesses from UK and Northern Europe to find success on Android and Google Play. Prior to joining the Google Play team, Tamzin was the Head of Android Partnerships, Australia & New Zealand and a Solutions Architect at Google Australia. Pre-Google, Tamzin worked for TigerSpike, Vodafone Hutchison, Virgin Mobile and CapGemini Ernst & Young in Australia. Tamzin has a BoMM in Manufacturing and an Executive MBA in Business from the University of Technology in Sydney.

Marcin Moskała is an experienced Android developer who is always looking for ways to improve. He has been passionate about Kotlin since its early beta release. He is an author of the book Android Development with Kotlin. He writes articles and speaks at programming conferences. Marcin is active in the programming and open source community and is also passionate about cognitive and data science. You can visit his a (marcinmoskala.com), medium or follow him on GitHub (MarcinMoskala)

James Thomas is a “Developer Advocate” for IBM, helping developers build scalable applications on IBM's cloud platform. Having accepted a summer-long internship with IBM as “something to do” before starting his post-graduate degree, James is still here ten years later. Managing to find his way into the “Emerging Technologies” division, James has been able to work on everything from the largest retail banking site in Europe, been a leading open-source developer for a JavaScript toolkit before working on the first commercial system for IBM Watson as the UI Technical Lead.

Lead iOS Developer at XING SE, a career-oriented social network. Together with his team, he helps others to achieve more with less code.

We have a passion for technology & privacy. Blockchain is an amazing new technology that can help decentralize a lot of applications, and has the potential to really improve the privacy of many people. Within Philips we’re part of the Blockchain Lab, where we create and evaluate blockchain prototypes that could radically change the way we deal with health data. As you’ll (hopefully) notice during our session, we greatly value extreme programming and software craftsmanship.

We have a passion for technology & privacy. Blockchain is an amazing new technology that can help decentralize a lot of applications, and has the potential to really improve the privacy of many people. Within Philips we’re part of the Blockchain Lab, where we create and evaluate blockchain prototypes that could radically change the way we deal with health data. As you’ll (hopefully) notice during our session, we greatly value extreme programming and software craftsmanship.

Panayotis (AKA Darth), is the Intelligence Tech Lead of the X | Lab. The X Lab is a tech tank based on the planet of Mustafar, where crazy people, from scientists to artists, to developers to technologists, share their ideas in order to create moonshots! A moonshot is a radical solution, integrating breakthrough technology with native thinking. More than on projects we are exploring ambitions! Darth is also a Google Developer Expert on Product Design, focusing on AI and human behaviour.

Besides being a GDE (Google Developer Expert) for Android and GDE for Product Design, Wiebe Elsinga is Lead Developer at Egeniq in The Netherlands. He has a passion for UX and Design. He regularly speaks at Mobile Developer conferences, or is giving workshops and tutorials.

Arnaud is co-founder and head of engineering of Impraise by day, and he likes to discover new horizons, tastes and technologies by night.

Guilherme comes from Brazil, he is passionated about beer, movies, Heavy Metal music and software architectures.

Jan has been developing software for well over a decade. Currently he is working at 4DotNet as a Cloud Solution Architect/Developer. His main focus is developing highly performant and scalable solutions using the awesome services provided by the Microsoft Azure platform. Because of his expertise he has been able to help out multiple customers to bring their on-premise solution to the cloud and guide them towards a better software development ecosystem. Whenever Jan finds something interesting to write about, he shares his findings on either his personal blog (https://jan-v.nl) or the 4DotNet blog.

I am an iOS developer at funda, the largest real estate website in The Netherlands. I loves voicing my opinions on iOS architecture and best practises, all while furiously trying to avoid doing the wrong thing myself (sometimes in vain). In my spare time I play the drums and percussion. I live in Leiden with my wife and two cats.

Android enthusiast. Developer. Design fanboy. Blogger at http://www.androiduipatterns.com/ Android GDE. Android Lead and founder at SnappMobile

A Product Designer who likes to bring new products to life through a user-centred approach. Based in Berlin, he has been working for different product companies like Kuponjo and Onefootball. He's currently tackling new challenges @ Snapp Mobile Germany.

Engineer & Nerd. I took master degree in computer Engineering with thesis in Artificial Intelligence at Polytechnic University of Bari in 2007. I worked for several years in ICT companies in the south of Italy as developer. I attended the Mind The Bridge startup school in San Francisco in 2011. Back in Italy I started working on my own companies. I'm the founder and the current community lead of GDG Bari. Now, I'm the CTO of Wideverse, a spin-off of Polytechnic University of Bari that works on VR/AR/MR technologies. I'm an Android and backend developer.

Passionate geek for all areas of technology with a strong love for Android and embedded devices. Been working with technology for the last 14 years, where 3 have been with embedded devices and 8 have been with Android, due to that, is really favoring the Android things, that connect the cloud to these two technologies. GDE for IoT. Passionate geek for all areas of technology with a strong love for Android and embedded devices. Been working with technology for the last 14 years, where 3 have been with embedded devices and 8 have been with Android, due to that, is [...]

I'm a developer for the Vapor web framework and spend countless hours optimising APIs readability and performance. I'm maximising quality and readability of code and am particularly interested in developing Swift libraries using my standards and do so on a daily basis.

Laurent is a developer passionate about software, hardware, science, and everything shaping the future. In a past life, he worked on educational solutions, pioneered the ebook industry, and co-founded Bookeen. Launching 24/7 digital platforms made him appreciate how much cloud technologies are developer superpowers. Laurent works at Google Paris and enjoys exploring, learning, and sharing the world of possibilities.

Marcus is the Mobile Lead at Buffer and based in Munich, Germany. He is passionate about building effective teams and great products in the Mobile Area. Constantly learning and reading you can find him in different traveling around tasting all the different coffees there are in the world ?

Rowdy Rabouw is a webdeveloper with over 20 years’ experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. He's been working as a freelancer since 2004 and has been employed by the Dutch insurance company Nationale-Nederlanden since 1992. Currently he is working on various JavaScript and NativeScript projects as Senior Engineer. Rowdy started developing NativeScript apps with Angular in 2016 and running the NativeScript NL website; a curated list of courses, tools and tips to help people code awesome apps with NativeScript. Since 2017 he is a Telerik Developer Expert for NativeScript and spreading his love for {N}.

Ewa and Aleksander are both working at Allegro in the same team. Ewa is a senior iOS engineer in tests and Aleksander is an iOS engineer. We are passionate about our work and we strive for the highest quality product. We want to share our experience with testing an iOS app at scale and give you a little bit of insight of how we do it in a large team that’s distributed through couple of cities in Poland.

Ewa and Aleksander are both working at Allegro in the same team. Ewa is a senior iOS engineer in tests and Aleksander is an iOS engineer. We are passionate about our work and we strive for the highest quality product. We want to share our experience with testing an iOS app at scale and give you a little bit of insight of how we do it in a large team that’s distributed through couple of cities in Poland.

Ash Furrow is a Canadian iOS developer and author, currently working at Artsy. He has published a number of books, built many apps, and is a contributor to the open source community. On his blog, he writes about a range of topics, from interesting programming to explorations of music and analogue film photography.

Sebastiaan de With is an ex-Apple designer that has recently designed Halide, a new take on an iOS camera app. When he isn't designing Halide, he does contract work for Google, Mozilla, Sony and Apple.

Android Learner for >4.5+ years. Currently helping millions of people in a comfortable ride hailing experience with passenger-android app