Speakers - YOW! Melbourne 2025

Keynote Speaker

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto

Sustainable Augmented Development

Keynote Speaker

Michael Feathers

Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”

Conceptualisation

Masterclass: Forces in Software: Understanding the Physics of Software Evolution

Keynote Speaker

Sam Aaron

Live Coding Musician and Creator of Sonic Pi

Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI

Keynote Speaker

Sarah Meiklejohn

Professor in Cryptography and Security

13 Years of Cryptocurrency De-anonymization (and Counting)

Alexander Chatzizacharias

Software Engineer at JDriven

A Fun and Absurd Introduction to Vector Databases

Andrew Harmel-Law

Tech Principal at Thoughtworks

Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions

Anton Arhipov

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Building AI Agents in Kotlin

Charles Humble

Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Green AI: Making Machine Learning Environmentally Sustainable

Conor Hoekstra

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Enter the Matrix

Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

Senior Developer Advocate at NVIDIA

The Future of AI – Key Trends Shaping What’s Next

Frank Elavsky

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

From Charted to Uncharted Territory: Accessibility and Interactive Data Experiences

Jim Webber

Working on a variety of database research topics with a focus on fault-tolerance at Neo4j

The Pub-Time Parliament

Masterclass with...

Katharine Jarmul

Privacy/Security Expert at Probably Private & O'Reilly Author

Hacking AI Systems: How to (Still) Trick Artificial Intelligence

Masterclass: Building Secure AI Systems

Katie Paxton-Fear

Occasional Bug Bounty Hunter and Educational YouTuber

AI Agents Gone Rogue? Building, Defending and Attacking AI-enabled Apps

Kevin Dubois

Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat

Create (Agentic) AI-infused Apps, the Easy Way

Kevlin Henney

Independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer

The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Platform Engineering Practices for Speedy Delivery

Matt Brunt

Dungeon Master & Team Tinkerer

Dungeons Dragons & Developers

Matthew Keesan

VP & GM at IonQ

After Q-Day: Quantum Applications at Scale

Matthias Haeussler

VP Consulting Expert at CGI

Java Container Mastery: Optimizing Images Across Build Tools

Nada Amin

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEAS

Metaprogramming, Synthesis, and Verification

Masterclass with...

Nicolas Fränkel

Developer and Architect

WebAssembly on Kubernetes

Masterclass: Gain Practical, In-depth Experience with Observability using OpenTelemetry

Masterclass with...

Philippe De Ryck

Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security

Breaking and Securing OAuth 2.0 in Frontends

Masterclass: Bulletproof APIs: Hands-On API Security

Roy van Rijn

Developer and Architect, Robotics Enthusiast, Hobby Mathematician

Pushing Java to the Limits: Processing a Billion Rows in Under 2 Seconds

Masterclass with...

Simon Brown

Creator & Author of "The C4 Model"

The C4 Model - Beyond The Basics

Masterclass: Visualising Software Architecture with The C4 Model

Yao Yue

Founder of IOP Systems

Beyond Line Charts

Amy Kapernick

Front End Engineer at AmysKapers.dev

Front End Testing with GitHub Actions

Derek Bingham

Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

The Continuing Developer Evolution

Paul Roe

Dean Research at James Cook University

A Millenium of Choruses in the Cloud - An Ecoacoustics Odyssey

Rod Johnson

Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel

Why Do We Need An Agent Framework?

Scott Shaw

Crew Lead, GenAI Platform at Commonwealth Bank

Mission-Critical Generative AI in Action: Delivering Safety, Reliability, and Customer Value