Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel is a political economist and an influential voice for the sustainable transformation of society, working at the intersection of economy, politics, and society. The policy advisor, bestselling author, and sought-after speaker is a professor for sustainability transformation at Leuphana University Lüneburg and founder of “Mission Wertvoll“. She was Director of Research at The New Institute and Secretary-General of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Before that, she headed the Berlin office of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, after having helped set up the World Future Council for six years as Director Future Justice at the Brussels office and as Campaign Manager Climate Energy in Hamburg. Maja Göpel is a member of the Club of Rome, the World Future Council, the Balaton Group, and a co-initiator of the “Scientists for Future” network. She was a member of the Bioeconomy Council of the German Federal Government. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards in Germany, the most recent ones being the Honorary Award of the German Sustainability Award, the myself Award, and the Science Communication Medal.

Randy Shoup is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 30 years of experience building distributed systems and high-performing engineering organizations. Currently the SVP Engineering at Thrive Market, he focuses on scaling technology infrastructures and increasing engineering productivity through DevOps and evolutionary architecture.

Throughout his career, Randy has held executive roles at eBay, Google, and Stitch Fix. He is a frequent keynote speaker and advisor to CTOs, particularly interested in the intersection of people, culture, and technology. Randy is known for sharing practical insights on large-scale systems and the power of simplicity in architecture.

Malte Ubl is the CTO of Vercel, where he leads the development and delivery of the company’s suite of tools and features to enable developers to create at the moment of inspiration. Prior to joining Vercel, Malte was the Principal Engineer for Google Search Rendering and Engineering Director for Google’s Search on Laptops, Tablets, and Desktop. Malte has also created the frontend infrastructure for a number of Google Web Apps and the web at large. He is also the founder and curator of JSConf EU.

Neal is an independent software consultant, best-selling author, and international speaker. He is an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal has authored magazine articles, nine books (and counting), dozens of video presentations, and spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide. His topics include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, cutting edge software engineering, and includes a business-focused book and video on improving technical presentations. He is an innovator in building concrete verification mechanisms for software architecture, for humans or agents. Check out his web site at nealford.com.

Cat Swetel is a technology leader and engineering manager with a profound interest in how digital transformation can foster generative and equitable institutions. Currently serving as Director of Engineering at Nubank, she oversees foundational infrastructure and tooling, ranging from CI/CD and runtime environments to mobile application platforms.

Cat is a frequent speaker at global conferences, known for her expertise in Lean-Agile principles, Wardley Mapping, and socio-technical systems. Beyond her corporate role, she is pursuing a master’s degree in Science and Technology Policy and is dedicated to increasing diversity in STEAM to create a more resilient and inclusive human future.

Diana Montalion is a software engineer, systems architect, author, and speaker working at the intersection of technology architecture and organizational intelligence. For over 20 years, she has designed complex systems for organizations including The Economist, Wikimedia Foundation, Stanford, and startups. She is the author of Learning Systems Thinking (O’Reilly) and the creator of Knowledge Flow, a body of work focused on how systems learn — or fail to — through the flow of knowledge across people and technology. She currently leads architectural strategy at The Athletic, shaping a platform designed to turn sports data, content, and fan interaction into real-time intelligence.

Vlad Khononov is a software architect with extensive industry experience, working for companies large and small in roles ranging from webmaster to chief architect. In 2021, Vlad authored Learning Domain-Driven Design, followed by the publication of his second book, Balancing Coupling in Software Design, in 2024. Currently, Vlad helps companies to make sense of their business domains, untangle monoliths, and tackle complex architectural challenges. He is also a public speaker, presenting on topics such as domain-driven design, distributed systems, software architecture, and how these disciplines evolve in the brave new world of AI-assisted software engineering.

Sam Newman is an independent consultant who loves solving problems with technology. Focusing primarily in the areas of cloud, microservice architecture and continuous delivery, Sam works with companies big and small all over the world. He is also an experienced conference speaker, and author of the O’Reilly books Monolith To Microservices, Building Microservices, and the forthcoming Building Resilient Distributed Systems.

Luca is the founder of Refactoring.fm — a newsletter and community about running better engineering teams, that goes out weekly to more than 170,000 engineers and managers. He has written 300+ articles, and the Refactoring community includes some of the brightest minds in the industry. Before Refactoring, Luca has been Head of Engineering at Translated.com, and co-founder and CTO of Wanderio, where he grew the product from 0 to 25M customers.

Gertrud is the CTO of Scout24 and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. She is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and leads its AI transformation, helping to build innovative, data-driven products and a strong engineering culture. Before joining Scout24, she served as CTO at eyeo, where she led the development of products including Adblock Plus, one of the world’s most widely used browser extensions. Earlier in her career, she held several leadership positions at Axel Springer, including CTO of BILD and Welt, and was part of the team that established Axel Springer National Media & Tech. Gertrud started her career in retail software development, working as a software developer and project manager for national and international clients.

Kevlin Henney is a independent consultant, trainer, technologist, writer and renowned keynote speaker known for his work helping organisations, teams and individuals with their software development practices, processes, architectures and the human side of development. With a career spanning decades, he has become one of the most respected voices in the global developer community, known for his deep insights into code quality and agile processes. A frequent keynote speaker at major international conferences, Kevlin is celebrated for his ability to challenge industry dogmas and his advocacy for 'lean code'. He is a contributor to the Modern Software Engineering YouTube channel, co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know, and has written for many other publications, including O'Reilly Radar and The Register.

Aino Corry, author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns", is a teacher, a technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator. She holds a masters degree and a ph.d. in computer science. She has 12 years of experience with Patterns in Software Development, and 25 years of experience with agile processes in academia and industry (in other words; she is old). She also teaches how to teach Computer Science to teachers, and thus lives up to the name of her company; Metadeveloper. In her spare time, she runs and sings (but not at the same time).

Daniel Terhorst-North invented [Behaviour-Driven Development](/introducing-bdd), co-invented the [build pipeline](https://www.academia.edu/6158670/The_Deployment_Production_Line), and pioneered many of the [Continuous Delivery](https://continuousdelivery.com) practices that software teams now take for granted. These were born out of necessity, on real projects, which is why the ideas stuck. In his thirty-five year career, Daniel has moved from programmer to technical leader to trusted CxO adviser, bridging the worlds of technology and business operations. Since 2012, he has been an independent consultant to organizations from start-ups to household names. A popular keynote speaker at major technology and business conferences worldwide, he has contributed to *The RSpec Book* and *97 Things Every Programmer Should Know*, and blogs at [https://dannorth.net/blog](/blog).

Author of Architecture Modernization (Manning), Curator of legacy-modernization.io and software engineer at PayFit

Emily Bache is an independent consultant, YouTuber and Technical Coach. She works with developers, training and coaching effective agile practices like Refactoring and Test-Driven Development. Emily has written two books about software development and contributed to several others. Emily founded the Samman Technical Coaching Society in order to promote technical excellence and support coaches everywhere.

Russ Miles is on a mission, as an Author, Listener, Speaker and Developer to help people thrive in one of the harshest, and potentially impactful, working environments: software system engineering with AI. As an expert in Platform, Agentic, Chaos & Resilience, and Software Engineering, Russ helps people navigate the complicated and complex to succeed in software through his talks, workshops, consultancy, books, mentorship, open source contributions, his Software Enchiridion blog https://www.softwareenchiridion.com and his daily work. Russ can be reached in email at russ@russmiles.com, at russmiles.com, or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/russmiles/

Susanne Kaiser is an independent tech consultant and former startup CTO with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and software architecture. She works with organizations on building adaptive, socio-technical systems by combining Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies into a holistic approach. Susanne is the author of the book "Architecture for Flow” (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon), 2025).

Dex is currently focused on building AI coding agents that can tackle complex problems in large codebases at HumanLayer. His talk "No Vibes Allowed" from the AIE Code Summit in NYC is in the top-5 most watched AI Engineer videos of all time. He also worked on APIs for agent orchestration and human-in-the-loop systems, and authored the April 2025 essay “12 Factor Agents,” coining the term “Context Engineering.” He has been coding since high school, when he built tools for NASA researchers to navigate the Moon’s south pole, and is an enjoyer of tacos and burpees—though not necessarily in that order.

Tudor Girba is the CEO of feenk, a company focused on helping organizations leverage their legacy systems. They solve the largest bottleneck, the code reading problem, through Moldable Development, a way of programming through thousands of contextual tools. They build Glamorous Toolkit, a free and open-source moldable development environment to help humans make sense of systems and AI.

Daniel Jones (Deejay to his friends!) started his career as a developer, and has since co-founded, grown and sold cloud native businesses. He's keynoted several tech conferences, appeared in Kerrang! magazine, won national martial arts competitions, and was filmed for Grand Designs. He currently works with re:cinq helping organisations with AI Native transformation, specialising in agentic coding and software factories.

Gergely is a product engineering leader and coach with deep experience in building and scaling engineering organizations. He is a former VP of Engineering at Bitrise and Ustream, and has worked across engineering leadership, product development, organizational design, culture, change management, and coaching. He focuses on helping teams build better systems, improve collaboration, and create environments where people can grow and do their best work. He combines leadership experience with strong technical depth, including hands-on software engineering, architecture, developer tooling, and building systems used at significant scale.

With a background in genetics, a love for mathematics, and a deep fascination with economics, Simon brings a unique lens to understanding complex systems from behavioural patterns to tech infrastructure and everything in between.

- Former CEO
- Advisor to multiple startups
- Fellow of Open Europe
- Twice voted one of the Top 50 Most Influential People in tech in the UK

Gitte Klitgaard is an agile coach, trainer, advisor and mentor solving problems in organisations. She uses strategy, accountability and responsibilty, collaboration, psychological safety, communication, setting good engineering practice, and what ever else is needed. She works with teams, leaders, and individuals on all organisational level. Gitte is authentic, she will cut to the chase, and help people become themselves thereby reaching success.

Gitte knows how combining human skills with good leadership skills is a necessity for an organisation to get stuff done. And getting the right stuff done. Her ability to align the individual well-being and growth together with company objectives is remarkable. One of Gitte’s key strengths is holding people accountable while fostering psychological safety.

Gitte has given talks and keynots at three continents, where she highlights and makes topics like mental health and psychological safety accessible. Other topics include courage, retrospectives, various agile topics, leadership, management, and her personal goal: bringing humanity back in the workplace.

Her community contributions include organizing coach camps for over a decade and actively engaging on social media. She creates safe and respectful environments at work and outside. She listens to and engages the more silent voices and minority groups. Gitte also contributes to the community by writing blogpost and on Bluesky as she shifted away from Twitter. She wrote a section about team safety in "The Art of Agile Development, 2. edition" by James Shore which was published in 2021.

In her spare time, Gitte collects LEGO and Yodas and keeps in touch with friends from all over the globe including some, she considers her second family.

Gitte is owner of Native Wired and has lead change at companies like IBM, LEGO, Spotify, and SVT.

Timo Dufner explores the boundaries of sound, image and computation. Working with real-time audiovisual synthesis, live coding, machine learning and experimental hardware, he develops open systems that generate evolving audiovisual experiences. Glitches, feedback loops and unexpected machine behaviors become creative agents, shaping performances that emerge through the interplay of performer, audience and autonomous digital processes.

Yulia Startsev is a programmer on the SpiderMonkey compiler at Mozilla. She served as a chair for Ecma's TC39, the committee responsible for design and development of the JavaScript language. She initiated and co-facilitates the TC39 research group, which evaluates and applies recent academic research to the development of language features. She is a co-chair of PLSS, a workshop dedicated to exploring scientific research in programming language design and specification. Her work focuses on bringing evidence-based reasoning to technical decision making in language communities.

Michael works as an independent tech consultant with 20+ years of experience specialized in Domain Driven Design, Team Topologies, Software Architecture and Collaborative Modeling. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and an author. Michael is also an INNOQ Fellow and Team Topologies Advocate.

Klaus is an experienced B2B SaaS CPTO with a passion for breaking down silos. As a startup founder and business unit lead, he bridges the gap between technical delivery and agile product strategy. Sometimes, he invests or advises, helping leadership teams build interdisciplinary teams themselves. His philosophy: Move Fast And Break Silos.

Torsten Grust is a professor of Computer Science at Universität Tübingen, Germany, where he leads the Database Systems research group since 2008. Torsten performs research into the design, compilation, optimization, and evaluation of a variety of database languages. In this work, he often walks the fine line between database query and programming language technology. His group develops techniques that turn relational database systems into scalable processors also for non-relational query and programming languages. Torsten is at his happiest whenever he finds new evidence that database and programming language research can mutually benefit each other.

Henning loves programming in high quality. He lives this passion as coder, coach, and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions. There he helps teams to structure their monoliths or to build new systems from the beginning with a sustainable architecture. Microservices or self-contained systems are often the result. Henning is author of *Domain Storytelling* (Addison-Wesley, 2022), *Domain-Driven Transformation* (O’Reilly, 2026), and the www.LeasingNinja.io.

Vaibhav Gupta is a software engineer and entrepreneur dedicated to bringing engineering rigor to the world of AI agents. As the CEO and Co-founder of BoundaryML, he is one of the creators of BAML, an open-source domain-specific language designed to make Large Language Models (LLMs) more reliable through structured prompting and schema-aligned parsing.

With over a decade of experience in AI performance optimization, Vaibhav has held key roles at Google, Microsoft, and D.E. Shaw. At Google, he led optimization for ARCore and Face ID, while at Microsoft, he worked on real-time 3D reconstruction for HoloLens. A frequent speaker in the MLOps community, Vaibhav advocates for "fault-tolerant AI," helping developers move beyond fragile demos to robust, production-ready applications by treating AI prompts with the same discipline as traditional code.

Oliver Zeigermann ist Softwareentwickler aus Hamburg. Er entwickelt seit über 35 Jahren Software mit unterschiedlichen Ansätzen und Programmiersprachen. In letzter Zeit hat er sich vor allem mit Generativer KI und dessen Kommunikation mit dem Menschen beschäftigt. Oliver arbeitet bei der Techniker Krankenkasse als Machine Learning Engineer.

Als Organisations-Architektin begleite ich Kunden dabei, individuelle Herausforderungen zu schärfen, Kompromisse zu erkennen und Veränderungen aktiv zu gestalten. Mein Schwerpunkt ist die Begleitung von dynamischen Soft- und Hardwareentwicklungsorganisationen, wo ich meine Erfahrung mit meiner Leidenschaft für klare Kommunikation und nachhaltige Lösungen verbinde. Mir ist wichtig, systemische Zusammenhänge sichtbar zu machen und gemeinsam mit meinen Kund:innen die eigenen Hebel zu erkennen und praxisnahe Wege zu entwickeln, die wirklich wirken. Ich arbeite gerne an Schnittstellen – dort, wo Menschen, Strukturen und Ideen zusammenkommen und Neues entstehen kann. Ich bin Sprechdenkerin, kann super bestehende Ansätze kombinieren, auf echte Praxisprobleme operationalisieren und finde eine gute Balance zwischen wirklich zuhören und sagen, was gesagt werden muss.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer is Professor of Applied Machine Learning at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and heads the Data Science and its Applications department at the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). Previously, he conducted research at the University of Oxford and the Alan Turing Institute. Today, he develops agentic AI systems such as BioDisco, which combines knowledge graphs and large language models (LLMs) to enable autonomous hypothesis generation.

Lars is an Evangelist at Giesecke+Devrient, a security technology company. An engineer at heart, they are working to bring modern financial services to people. Lars writes articles and talks about a multitude of topics.

Andreas Rossberg is an independent researcher and engineer. By a few twists of fate, he became one of the designers of WebAssembly, author of its formalisation and specification, and champion of various proposals for enhancements. For a while, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he worked on V8, the JavaScript/Wasm virtual machine, and led V8's language feature team. Before his time in industry he was a post-doc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems after receiving a Dr from Saarland University. His research interests mainly revolve around programming languages, ranging from foundational theory, over design, to implementation, as long as they aren't ugly.

Annette is a professor of Software Technology at the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau. Her research interests include the semantics of concurrent and distributed programming, focusing on replication strategies and synchronization techniques. She is passionate about CRDTs, local-first software, programming languages, verification, and teaching students about all aspects of programming.

Prof Dr Wilhelm (Willi) Hasselbring holds the Chair of Software Engineering at Kiel University, Germany. He is interested in various areas of software engineering, distributed systems, software architecture, and software performance. Within the German Association of Computer Science (GI), Prof Hasselbring is spokesperson of the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering since 2007, and deputy spokesperson of the Special Interest Group on Research Software Engineering, which he co-founded in 2023. Prof Hasselbring is also an adjunct professor at the School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.

Charles helps teams produce better software for their users and is always exploring new approaches across DDD, architecture, agile, product management, and lean.

Nico Martin is a Machine Learning Engineer with focus on WebML at 🤗 Hugging Face and Google Developer Expert in AI and Web Technologies from Switzerland.

He specializes in making AI accessible through web browsers, developing tools that simplify ML integration for developers. Nico actively shares his expertise through workshops, articles, and conference presentations, bridging the gap between web development and machine learning communities.

Lutz is an independent consultant working at the intersection of software architecture and organizational design, a frequent conference speaker, and a blogger. Until recently, he was Head of Engineering at a FinTech start-up. Previously, he led engineering teams building software for container shipping, online retail, financial institutions, and cruise ship entertainment systems. His current focus is on event-driven architecture for highly available and scalable systems.

Tobias works as a modernization architect at viadee consulting. He supports customers in the modernization of their software architecture and the migration of software systems. His focus sector is insurance and banking. He loves to share his knowledge and experience at international conferences on a regularly basis.

Keren is a senior software developer with over a decade of experience in the industry. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is passionate about React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that supports women in R&D in their professional growth. She instructs and inspires people to write blogs in her tech blogging workshops. Keren has experience as a dev community leader and a co-organizer of meetups and events.

Matthias Niehoff works as Head of Data and Data Architect for codecentric AG and supports customers in the design and implementation of data architectures. His focus is on the necessary infrastructure and organization to help data and ML projects succeed.

Ramona is a software engineer with roots in quality assurance. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers and developers alike, becoming a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Women Techmaker Ambassador, and Cypress ambassador.

Fullstack developer building and operating distributed systems end-to-end. From application code to Kubernetes and observability, he combines development and DevOps practices to create reliable production systems — increasingly enhanced by AI-driven automation.

Nensi Hakobjanyan is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where she supports enterprise Retail & CPG customers in designing and implementing cloud solutions. Alongside her expertise in cloud architecture, she brings extensive experience in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, helping organizations unlock the full potential of data-driven innovation. She is passionate about helping customers with digital transformation and building scalable, future-ready solutions in the cloud.

Richard Gross is an IT archaeologist at MaibornWolff with more than ten years of modernization experience. His focus is on hexagonal architectures, hypermedia APIs, TestDSLs and the expressive and unambiguous modelling of the domain as code. He enjoys mastering TDD, BDD, DDD, decoupled design and even practices that don't include two D's. He also shaped the open source project CodeCharta, which lets even non-developers grasp the quality of their software.

Marco Heimeshoff is a Software Developer, Domain-Driven Design Trainer and EventStorming Facilitator

His current focus is agentic AI development: helping developers and teams move beyond vibe coding and build deliberate, sustainable AI-augmented workflows.

He organizes KanDDDinsky and co-founded the German DDD community and VirtualDDD.com.

His development philosophy centers on lifelong learning, focus on language, and empathy.

Mara Saenger is a Psychologist, AI strategist, and organizational change expert at the intersection of psychology, organizations, and technology. She lectures on AI in HR and AI & Diversity at Leibniz University Hannover, is a certified AI Strategist & Trainer, and has led transformation across public institutions, and private sector clients. As Expert Member of the EU-funded WIDCON programme, she contributes policy recommendations to the European Commission on women shaping the AI economy.

Adriaan is Co-Founder & CTO at anny and passionate talking about Cloud, DevOps culture and privacy protection.

Software developer, IT consultant, and educator with extensive JavaScript experience. Taught thousands of developers online and in person.

I am Platform Lead at encentive, building software that turns industrial energy flexibility into automated optimization. Before that, I led engineering at RECUP, worked as Head of Engineering and architect at SDA Open Industry Solutions, and spent many years at IBM in frontend architecture and digital experience. I enjoy connecting product, architecture and team reality, including aspects that no diagram shows.

Martin, ein erfahrener Softwareentwickler, Architekt und Tech-Lead für OTTO.de, bringt seine umfangreiche Expertise in die Welt des eCommerce ein. Sein Engagement geht über die Technik hinaus. Als Tech-Lead ist er auch ein versierter People Manager, der die Teamdynamik und die individuelle Entwicklung seiner Teammitglieder fördert. Mit seiner Leidenschaft ist er ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie Tech Leads und Architekten nicht nur die Technik und Innovationen, sondern auch die Menschen hinter d...

Anita Schüttler is a computer scientist and expert in digital sustainability and Green Software. As the Head of IT Sustainability of neuland, Bremen, and Co-Chair of the Bundesverband Green Software she works on advancing digital sustainability in her company and the wider IT industry.

Technical Coach and Merciless Refactorer from Vienna. All about software craft: baby steps, TDD, refactoring, whole-team programming. I maintain mob.sh (listed in ThoughtWorks Technology Radar). Recently my focus has turned to AI-augmented coding: teaching coding agents a software crafter's approach. Software craft has always been about context and clarity.

Marinus is an experienced professional with a strong passion for designing and building data-driven AI solutions. He currently partners with clients across various industries to bring predictive and agentic AI systems into production on Google Cloud.

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Raniz is a programmer, architect, speaker and coach at factor10. He is a problem solver who keeps track of the bigger picture. He is prestigeless, likes to get into new domains, and loves sharing knowledge and ideas. Raniz has worked with system- and software architecture at several companies since 2010 and has been with factor10 since 2021. When not working, he's into beer brewing, sourdough bread, 3D printing and triathlons.

Marcel is a software architect, author, and trainer who builds bridges between people and technology. He and his team help enterprises build robust systems and modernize legacy architectures using Rust, TypeScript, Flutter, and Java. Believing that software quality is shaped by communication quality, he also coaches development teams in Nonviolent Communication and Transactional Analysis. Marcel is a frequent speaker, podcast guest, and co-author of a Rust book (dpunkt).

Marc Brehmer has worked as a Software Engineer since 2013. Today, he's a full-stack developer fascinated by software design, Domain-Driven Design, and clean architecture. He sees programming as a tool for great product engineering and enjoys exploring paradigms like functional programming. Marc strongly believes in sharing what he's learned. He speaks at conferences and mentors colleagues, finding helping others grow as rewarding as solving technical problems.

Johannes Behr is a systemic coach, hypnotherapist, stand-up comedian and organizational developer with ~10 years of experience guiding companies through change. He combines comedy stagecraft with coaching practice to create formats that shift mindsets — not just stack methods. As a certified coach trainer, he knows that learning which moves people is learning that sticks. Humor isn't the warm-up. It's the method.

Matthias Lau is developer and founder of the technology studio Heureka Labs with a passion for software development and innovative digital products. He loves coding, awesome AI concepts, federated learning, Docker, the Apple Multi-Touch Trackpad, Bouldering, Wikipedia and Espresso. As an expert in optimizing AI applications he released tools like airouter.io to help companies to efficiently use LLMs.

Brazilian security professional based in France, Julio Araujo is currently a Director of Security at Rocket.Chat. With over 6 years of experience in the offensive and application security spaces, his current challenge revolves around securing an open-source project that is used in critical industries.

Joshua Töpfer is a Senior Consultant at INNOQ. He’s been working exclusively in an ensemble for over four years, focusing on user-centered product development, data-driven decisions, and how collaboration helps teams grow beyond just shipping code.

Yevgen Nebesov is a systems architect based in Bruchsal, Germany. He provides consultancy services to companies across various sectors, including railways, defence, logistics, medical devices, and retail.

Yevgen is the author of two frameworks:

- “Sociotechnical Engineering” — an approach that applies Systems Engineering principles to sociotechnical systems.

- “The Architecture of Power” — a framework for structural change designed for people with or without formal authority.

Malte Burkert co-founded WAPP in 2012, growing it into a 20-person digital agency in Bielefeld and Dortmund with 100+ projects for clients like Häcker Küchen and German federal authorities. In 2024 he co-founded CAST ME, a casting platform connecting ~20,000 talents and producers. In February 2025 he launched ProduQt, WAPP's first SaaS product. Since Claude Code went public in early 2025, he's been rewiring how his team builds software around agentic workflows.