Speakers - YOW! Melbourne 2024

We seek the best speakers from around the world and let them shape the agenda — they're the experts after all.

Masterclass with...

Adam Langley

Masterclass: From Dev to Defense: Understanding Server-Side Vulnerabilities

Keynote Speaker

Allen Holub

Widely respected software architect and agile coach with 10 published books and hundreds of articles

Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law

Masterclass: Incremental Architecture: Building Domain-focused Systems that Welcome Change

Masterclass with...

Andrea Magnorsky

Programmer and Creator of Bytesize Architecture Sessions

Thinking about your Systems with Bytesize Architecture Sessions

Masterclass: Learn Modelling by Doing! Bytesize Architecture Sessions and C4 Together

Anton Ball

Dev Team Lead at Doist

Pillars of Async Communication

Keynote Speaker

Ben Sadeghipour

Hacker & Content Creator

AI Powered Bug Hunting

Masterclass: From Dev to Defense: Understanding Server-Side Vulnerabilities

David Khourshid

Founder of Stately.ai

Stop Drawing Pointless Arrows: Taming Complexity with Diagrams

Edith Harbaugh

Co-founder & Executive Chair of LaunchDarkly

All The World Is A Staging Server

Giacomo Cavalieri

Gleam Core Team Member

A Code Centric Journey Into the Gleam Language

Keynote Speaker

Holly Cummins

Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team

The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World

Tradeoffs, Bad Science, and Polar Bears – The World of Java Optimisation

Joakim Sundén

Founding partner at Better Product Work and co-creator of the Spotify model

How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed

Johan Janssen

Software Architect at ASML

Java's Hidden Gems: Tools and Libraries

Josh Long

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

Bootiful Spring Boot: A DOGumentary

Kris Jenkins

Developer Advocate

Side-Effects Are The Complexity Iceberg

Communicating In Types

Lu Wilson

Software Engineer at tldraw

Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas

Marco Celon

Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub

Unlocking the Magic: A Deep Dive into Copilot's Secret Sauce

Marty Pitt

Founder at Orbital

Adaptive Architectures - Building API Layers that Build Themselves

Michelle "MishManners" Duke

Hackathon Queen and AI Founder

Skills for the Age of AI

Keynote Speaker

Nilesh Makwana

CEO at illuminance Solutions, Public Interest Technologist, Social Innovator

Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Inclusive Innovation and Prosperity

Oscar Nierstrasz

Professor Emeritus at U Bern & Soul Polisher at feenk.com

Moldable Development in Practice — Patterns for Legacy Modernization

Masterclass with...

Patrick Kua

Founder of the Tech Lead Academy

Level Up: Choosing The Technical Leadership Path

Masterclass: Technical Leadership Masterclass

Masterclass: Technical Leadership Masterclass

Rachel Laycock

Chief Technology Officer at Thoughtworks

Rasmus Lystrøm

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft

How to Lead your Organisation’s AI-transformation: Strategies, Skills, and Culture

Rod Johnson

Creator of Spring and Co-founder and CEO at Atomist

Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI

Rúnar Bjarnason

Microservices on Unison Cloud: Statically Typed, Dynamically Deployed

Steve Smith

Roving Polyglot Developer

Understanding Rust; Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Borrow-Checker

Suz Hinton

Software Engineer

Ant Farm Entropy: Sugar Powered Encryption

Theodora Bock

Associate Game Director at Level Ex

From Gamepads to Launchpads: What the Tech World Can Learn from Video Game UX

Thomas Vitale

Software Architect, author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action", CNCF Ambassador, Oracle ACE Pro

Concerto for Java and AI - Building Production-Ready LLM Applications

Trisha Gee

Software engineer, Java Champion and Author

Developer Productivity With IntelliJ IDEA

Unmesh Joshi

Understanding Distributed Architectures - The Patterns Approach

Yan Chernikov

Director at Studio Cherno

The Beauty of Simplicity - Making Your Own Technology

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