Speakers - YOW! Sydney 2022

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

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

Adrian Cockcroft

Partner and Analyst OrionX

Adrian’s Greatest Hits, B-Sides and Re-issues

Aino Vonge Corry

Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

[Keynote] What we (should have) learned from Lord of The Rings

Alison Rosewarne

Executive Manager of Architecture, REA Group

Fighting Software entropy

Astrid Atkinson

CEO and Co-Founder, Camus Energy

[Keynote] Building the Self-Driving Grid

Birgitta Böckeler

Technical Principal at Thoughtworks

How Cognitive Biases affect our software architectures

Brendan Gregg

Fellow, Intel Corporation

Visualizing Performance - The Developers’ Guide to Flame Graphs

Catherine Swetel

Director of Engineering, Nubank

Democratizing Strategy: An Intro to Wardley Maps

Christine Seeman

Senior Software Engineer, WP Engine

One Does Not Simply Add MFA

Dave Farley

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

[Keynote] Engineering for Software - How to Amplify Creativity

Dave Thomas

Author of The Pragmatic Programmer

One Rule to Rule Them All

Fred George

Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating MicroServices & Programmer Anarchy

Sabotaging a Transformation

Geeta Schmidt

Co-founder of Humio and VP at CrowdStrike

Trade-Offs in building a Software Company from Startup to Scale Up

James Lewis

Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

Software Architecture, Team Topologies and Complexity Science

Jessica Tai

Engineering Manager, Airbnb

Work Anywhere: Managing Remote Engineering Teams at Airbnb

Julie Amundson

Former Machine Learning Infrastructure Team Leader

How Metaflow became Netflix’s beloved Data Science framework

Katrina Clokie

Making the Most of Your Manager

Lars Klint

Principal Advocate at Arkahna

Turning Dreaming into Doing - A Life Manual for Nerds

Choose your own cloud adventure – knights, fairies, and dragons

Lily Mara

Engineering Manager, OneSignal

A Kafkaesque series of events

Masterclass with...

Liz Fong-Jones

Field CTO, Honeycomb.io

Managing to Your SLO in the Face of Chaos

Masterclass: VIRTUAL - Cloud-Native Observability with OpenTelemetry

Macklin Hartley

Engineering Manager, VGW

Just-in-time Architecture

Matt Ranney

Principal Engineer, DoorDash

Migrations - The hardest actual problem in computer science

Michelle Gleeson

CEO & Co-founder of Kaleida

Sensible Defaults for Tech Management

Peter Sbarski

AWS Serverless Hero and Author of Serverless Architectures on AWS

Dancing with Serverless

Randy Shoup

VP Engineering and Chief Architect, eBay

Minimal Viable Architecture

Improving Software Flow

Rebecca Parsons

CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Principles & Practices

Richard Feldman

Head of Open Source, NoRedInk

Simple Functional Effects with Tag Unions

Sara Achour

Assistant Professor Stanford University

Programming Systems for Analog Hardware

Saša Jurić

The ultimate beacon in the Elixir space; author of one of the most important books, "Elixir in action" #elixir #erlang

BEAM Concurrency in Action

Masterclass with...

Simon Brown

Creator of the famous C4 model, author

C4 models as code

Masterclass: Visualizing software architecture with the C4 model

Stewart Gleadow

Executive Manager of Engineering, REA Group

Fighting Software entropy

Tim McGilchrist

Principal Software Engineer, Tarides

Tim McNamara

Author of "Rust in Action" and Software Consultant and Coach

When to choose Rust

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