Speakers - YOW! London 2022

Simon Brown

Creator of the famous C4 model, author

C4 Models as Code

Keynote Speaker

Linda Rising

Queen of patterns; author of numerous books

Who Do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain

Clare Sudbery

Specialises in TDD, refactoring, continuous integration and other eXtreme Programming

When Software Delivery Goes Wrong: Why App Stores Could Make You Sad

Daniel Terhorst-North

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & principal at Dan North & Associates

CUPID — For Joyful Coding

Keynote Speaker

Dave Farley

Author of the best-selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” and over 6 million views on his YouTube channel.

Engineering for Software

Patrick Kua

O'Reilly author and technology leader

Fitness Functions: Organising and Governing Evolutionary Architectures

Keynote Speaker

Jessica Kerr

Developer, writer, podcaster and highly requested GOTO speaker

Going Deep on Gamification

Russ Miles

Author, Engineering Manager; Chaos engineering practitioner

Bugs in Collaboration: "Learning from Incidents" Edition

Liz Keogh

Core Member of the BDD Community, Well-known Blogger, Lean & Agile Consultant

Epiphany & Apophany

Adam Day

Data Scientist at SAGE Publishing

Searching for Research Fraud in OpenAlex with Graph Data Science

Adam Jennings

MS, Xoogler, Senior Solutions Architect at DoubleCloud

Most Data Stacks Aren’t Fit For Purpose: The World’ Worst Kept Secret

Adam Tornhill

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

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

What Your Mother Never Told You About Agile Development

Chris Richardson

Creator of the original CloudFoundry.com and author of 'POJOs in Action' and 'Microservices patterns'

Considering Migrating a Monolith to Microservices? A Dark Energy, Dark Matter Perspective

Christian Clausen

Technical Agile Coach, author of "Five Lines of Code"

Five Lines of Code

Keynote Speaker

Dylan Beattie

Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language

Dylan and the Line Breakers concert

The Art of Code

Ebru Cucen

Lead consultant at OpenCredo

Searching for Research Fraud in OpenAlex with Graph Data Science

Francesco Cesarini

O'Reilly Author & Founder of Erlang Solutions

Concurrency Oriented Programming in a Modern World

Gien Verschatse

Senior Consultant at Aardling

Product and Tech: 4 Weddings and a Funeral

Hannes Lowette

Head of learning & development at Axxes and a passionate .NET developer

Build Software Like a Bag of Marbles, Not a Castle of LEGO®

Dylan and the Line Breakers concert

Holly Cummins

Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team

The Importance of Fun in the Workplace

Jeff Williams

CTO & Co-founder at Contrast Security

Using IAST to Unlock the Benefits of DevSecOps

Jesse Anderson

Managing director of Big Data Institute, host of The Data Dream Team podcast

Why Most Data Projects Fail and How to Avoid It

Keynote Speaker

Jonas Mayer

Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting

It's All About AI - Promises and Challenges in Computer Vision and NLP

Lorna Jane Mitchell

Head of Developer Advocate at Aiven, writer for a number of outlets

Engineering Documentation

Maria Hedenborg

Marketing Director at DoubleCloud

Most Data Stacks Aren’t Fit For Purpose: The World’ Worst Kept Secret

Mark Rendle

Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP awards and 30+ years of experience building software

Dylan and the Line Breakers concert

Keynote Speaker

Martin Förtsch

Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Oracle Java Rock Star

It's All About AI - Promises and Challenges in Computer Vision and NLP

Martin Thompson

High-Performance Computing Specialist, Java Champion with 25+ years of experience

Hot Deploying Low-Latency Services for 24/7 Operation

Marty Pitt

Founder of Vyne

Using Semantic Metadata to create an Automated Microservice Data Mesh

Milen Dyankov

Developer Advocate at AxonIQ

Location Transparency

Munnawar Hashim

Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly

Go Faster, Be Safer

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay

Doubling Engineering Productivity at eBay Through DevOps

Robert Virding

Erlang co-inventor, and principal language expert at Erlang Solutions

Concurrency Oriented Programming in a Modern World

Sarah Wells

Independent consultant and author

Paving the Road to Effective Software Development

Keynote Speaker

Thomas Endres

Partner at TNG Technology Consulting, lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Landshut

It's All About AI - Promises and Challenges in Computer Vision and NLP

Vagif Abilov

Senior consultant at Miles with 30+ years of programming experience

Dylan and the Line Breakers concert

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