Speakers

Brian Repko

Bioinformatician / Open Source Developer

Novartis Oncology Research (retired)

Open Source and the FDA

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Clay Cotter

Director, Information Security Engineering

Thrivent

Evolving Security:  Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation

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David Norton

President

Platformers

Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms

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Esse Komlanvi

Founder

Nuse & AI for Financial Inclusion Advocate

Women in AI: Building for Social Good

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Isaac Johnson

Sr Staff Cloud Architect

Abbott

Let's make an MCP Server!

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Jena Zangs

Chief Data & AI Officer

University of St. Thomas

Women in AI: Building for Social Good

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Justin Castilla

Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic

Building your own Developer Advocate with Deep Agent!

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Kate Agnew

Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms

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Kevin Klos

Senior Experience Designer

Best Buy

Beyoncé, Domino's Pizza, and the Web Accessibility Battlefield: What You Must Know

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Mark Soule

Principal Engineer

Improving

Data Streaming Platform Playbook

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Meagan Taylor

UX Designer II

Riot Games

The Myth of the UX/UI Unicorn

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Michelle Thorsell

Lead Full Stack Engineer

Blank Metal

It's Not Too Late: A Beginner's Guide to Claude Code for Developers

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Nick Larson

VP - Technology

Improving

Data Streaming Platform Playbook

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Rahul Gauli

Senior Software Engineer

Thrivent

Evolving Security:  Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation

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Sandon Jacobs

Senior Developer Advocate

Confluent

What Can We Do with an Apache Kafka Queue?

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Shannon Seaver

Founder & CEO, Executive Director

TailorEDU & createMPLS

Women in AI: Building for Social Good

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Simba Khadder

Lead, Context Engine

Redis

Context Engineering 2.0: MCP, Agentic RAG & Memory

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