Speakers - YOW! Brisbane 2026

Keynote Speaker

Lu Wilson

Software Engineer at tldraw

Jam-oriented programming: Bringing improvizational jazz to engineering

Keynote Speaker

Tim Berglund

VP Developer Relations at IBM

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

Masterclass with...

Allen Holub

Authority. When Allen speaks the world listens

AI-Friendly Architecture

Masterclass: Domain-Focused Component Architecture for AI-Assisted Development: A Hands-on Workshop

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions

Residuality: Real World Comparative Case Studies

Annie Vella

Engineering Leader and Researcher

TBC

Artie Shevchenko

Lecturer at ITMO University, author of Code Health Guardian, and ex-Googler

Code Health Guardian: Rigorous yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era

Masterclass with...

Ben Evans

Author of "Optimizing Java" and leader in high-performance, scalable systems

The Evolution of Java Program Execution

Masterclass: Java Performance: Beyond Witchcraft, Pseudoscience, and Folklore

Chris Henry

Technology Executive & Enterprise AI Strategist

The Model Is Not the Product: What a Breast Cancer Lab Workflow Taught Me About AI Architecture

Christopher Simon

Technology Coach & Advisor

Residuality: Real World Comparative Case Studies

Masterclass with...

Jeremy D. Miller

Owner at JasperFX Software

Making an Application Framework AI Friendly

Masterclass: Event Sourcing & CQRS for .NET: Building Production Systems with the Critter Stack

Johan Janssen

Software Architect at ASML

Keeping Your Code, Dependencies, and Runtime Up to Date

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal, Java Champion and author of 6 books

Bootiful Spring AI

Kasper Borg Nissen

Director DevRel @ Dash0, CNCF Ambassador, Author

Rethinking Observability as a Platform Product

Niko Matsakis

Sr. Principal Engineer at Amazon

Rust in the Age of Agents

Phil Nash

Developer Experience Engineer for Resend

The evolution of MCP

Philippe Noël

Co-founder & CEO at ParadeDB

TBC

Priya Wadhwa

Director of Engineering at Chainguard

TBC

Randy Shoup

SVP of Engineering at CircleCI

We Doubled Engineering Productivity at eBay, but Couldn't Change Culture

Simon White

Chairman of TOCICO and Senior Program Manager at WTG

Your Teams Aren’t the Problem - Your System Is: Why Most Software Leaders Optimise the Wrong Things

Sonya Natanzon

Independent Architect

The Key to the Prisoner's Dilemma

Tyler McMullen

Co-Founder and Fellow at Fastly

TBC

Vilhelm von Ehrenheim

Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at QA.tech

Quality Engineering for the Software Factory

Vlad Khononov

Founding Engineer at nekuda

TBC

Wes Reisz

Technical Principal at Thoughtworks

TBC