Speakers - YOW! Sydney 2023

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

Masterclass with...

Adam Dymitruk

Author of Event Modeling and Founder & CEO of Adaptech Group

Event Modeling from Beginner to Expert

Masterclass: Hands-On Event Modeling

Masterclass with...

Alexandra Moxin

Chief Strategy Officer at Adaptech Group

Masterclass: Hands-On Event Modeling

Anjali Leon

Principal Agility and Leadership Coach & Consultant of PPL Coach

Creative Stances of Impactful Product Leadership

Anne-Marie Charrett

Group Owner - Developer Experience Automation at Telstra

Riding Waves of Change: From Motorbike Novice to Career Crossroad

Brooklyn Zelenka

Author of numerous libraries including Witchcraft, and founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup.

The Jump to Hyperspace: Light Speed, User Agency, & Moving Past the Cloud

Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe

Head of Data Science at Zoopla & Co-founder of Beautiful Places AI

Unraveling Insights About Places with Deep Learning Computer Vision

Keynote Speaker

Dylan Beattie

Consultant, software developer, creator of the Rockstar programming language

Analogue Evolution, Digital Revolution: Tipping Points in Technology

There's No Such Thing As Plain Text

Erica Pisani

Sr. Software Engineer at Float Financial

Living on the Edge

Erik Meijer

Director of engineering at Facebook; "Think Like A Fundamentalist, Code Like A Hacker"

The Programmer’s Apprentice Season 2: Advancements and Future Directions in AI-assisted Coding

Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimiser

Evgeny Mandrikov

Software Gardener, Language Team Technical Leader

Java, Code Coverage and Their Best Friend — Bytecode: Scandals, Intrigues, Investigations

Fabio Nudge Pereira

Author of the book Digital Nudge, Futurist, TEDx Speaker and Curator

Infobesity - How to Cope with the Overload of Information

Keynote Speaker

Felienne Hermans

Author of “The Programmer’s Brain”, Creator of the Hedy programming language

Hedy: Creating a Programming Language for Everyone

Frank Yu

Director of Engineering at Coinbase

Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems

Georges Saab

Senior Vice President of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle

Java Renaissance

Gregor Hohpe

AWS Senior Principal Evangelist

Build Abstractions Not Illusions

Jake Ginnivan

Principal Consultant at Arkahna

Building Modern Web Applications with Remix

James Lewis

Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

How Flow Works & Other Curiosities

Masterclass with...

Jez Humble

SRE at Google Cloud, Lecturer at UC Berkeley

Why Is My App SLOw? Defining Reliability in Platform Engineering

Masterclass: Building a Metrics-Driven Organisation

Josh Armitage

Senior Engagement Partner at Cognizant Servian

Why Security Initiatives Are Doomed to Fail and What You Can Do About It

José Valim

Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit and Creator of Elixir

Livebook and Elixir: Where AI, Web, and Concurrency Meet

Katie Bell

Freelance Software Developer and Creator of SplootCode

Don't Trust Anything! Real-world Uses For WebAssembly

Laura Bell Main

Co-founder & CEO of SafeStack

So Long, Secure Coding - Shifting from Syntax to Secure Software Development Processes

Lee Campbell

VP of Engineering at VGW and Author of 'Introduction to Rx'

Open Panel: Event sourcing

Layers of Leadership

Lesley Cordero

Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times

Organisational Sustainability with Platform Engineering

Marharyta Nedzelska

Software Engineer at SonarSource

Static Kotlin Bug Hunting

Matt Callanan

Principal Software Development Engineer at Expedia Group

Cloud FinOps and Kubernetes Optimisation at Scale

Nadezhda Belousova

Founder and Strategic Advisor of Evolneo

Creative Stances of Impactful Product Leadership

Naresh Jain

Founder & CEO of Xnsio

Contract-Driven Development - Turn your API Specification into Executable Contracts

Keynote Speaker

Radia Perlman

Fellow at Dell Technologies

The Many Faces of Identity

Ryan Salva

VP of Product at GitHub

Suhail Patel

Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo

The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems

Susanne Kaiser

Independent Tech Consultant

Adaptive Socio-Technical Systems with Architecture for Flow

Tim McGilchrist

Principal Software Engineer, Tarides

OCaml for Fun and Profit: An Experience Report

Tudor Girba

Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenk

Moldable Development with Glamorous Toolkit

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