Keynote Speakers

Anita Sengupta Anita Sengupta
The Human Exploration of Mars
Anita Sengupta Professor of Astronautics, University of Southern California Dr. Sengupta is an aerospace engineer, rocket scientist, and veteran of the space program. She worked for NASA for 16 years where her engineering…
Eric Evans Eric Evans
DDD Immersion
Eric Evans Domain Linguist Eric Evans is the author of "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in Software," Addison-Wesley 2004. Since the early 1990s, he has worked…
Maaret Pyhäjärvi Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Breaking Illusions with Testing
Maaret Pyhäjärvi Feedback Fairy Maaret Pyhäjärvi is feedback fairy with a day job at F-Secure, where she works as Engineering Manager. She identifies as empirical technologist,…



Speakers

Adam Tornhill Adam Tornhill
Code As A Crime Scene: Fix Technical Debt…
Adam Tornhill CTO at Empear Adam Tornhill is a programmer who combines degrees in engineering and psychology. He's the founder of Empear where he designs tools for software…
Alberto Brandolini Alberto Brandolini
Event Storming
Alberto Brandolini Avanscoperta I like to solve problems and to write software that does that. I’ll flood you with sticky notes and call it #EventStorming. I run http://www.avanscoperta.it
Ana Margarita Medina Ana Margarita Medina
Getting Started with Chaos Engineering
Ana Margarita Medina Chaos Engineer at Gremlin Ana is a Software Engineer living in San Francisco. She is currently working as a Chaos Engineer at Gremlin, helping companies avoid outages…
Andrea Goulet Andrea Goulet
Exploring Empathy With Algorithms
Andrea Goulet CEO, Corgibytes Andrea Goulet is the CEO of Corgibytes, a software development shop dedicated to maintaining and modernizing software applications and has been…
Anita Kvamme Anita Kvamme
An Experience Report - Using DDD in a Real…
Anita Kvamme Passionate UX person in love with DDD. Anita is a UX passionate software developer. She has more than 20 years of experience with creating complex business critical applications, mainly…
Anne Landro Anne Landro
Make your tests tell the story of your domain
Anne Landro People > technology As a functional architect and service designer, Anne is always seeking to ask the right questions so we'll make the best IT solutions we possibly…
Barry O'Reilly Barry O'Reilly
Antifragile - Designing the Systems of the…
Barry O'Reilly CEO/Founder at Black Tulip Technology Barry is a CITA-P certified Architect who has held Chief Architect positions at Microsoft and and iDesign. He has also been a startup CTO, the…
Bernd Ruecker Bernd Ruecker
Lost in transaction? Strategies to manage…
Bernd Ruecker Developer Advocate Throughout my 15+ years in software development, I have helped automating highly scalable core workflows at global companies including T-Mobile,…
Bruno Boucard Bruno Boucard
EventStorming and Example Mapping
Bruno Boucard Emancipating Developers Bruno Boucard is developer, trainer, agile coach and speaker. He loves to explain with concrete examples with live-coding, if needed. He is organizer…
Carla Arauco Carla Arauco
A recipe for Model Driven Development
Carla Arauco Specialist in modeling & analysis Carla is a specialist in business modelling and analysis. She is at her best during the analysis of complex organization issues. Born and educated…
Carola Lilienthal Carola Lilienthal
Improving legacy
Carola Lilienthal WPS - Workplace Solutions Dr. Carola Lilienthal is Managing Director of WPS - Workplace Solutions GmbH and has been regularly analysing the future viability of software…
Cyrille Martraire Cyrille Martraire
Bounded Contexts
Cyrille Martraire Deliberate Designer Cyrille Martraire (@cyriux) is CTO and partner at Arolla (@ArollaFr), the founder of the Paris Software Craftsmanship community and a regular…
Dave Snowden Dave Snowden
Complexity-Based Design Thinking
Dave Snowden Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Cognitive Edge Founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex…
david west david west
Essential Practices for Understanding Domains:…
david west provocatuer David West has enjoyed a dual, parallel, career as a professional software developer and academic. His professional career started in 1968 (same…
David Glaubman David Glaubman
Bounding complexity with domain specific…
David Glaubman Grizzled optimist With over 30 years of experience as a professional software developer, I have worked with a number of complex domains, which include: technical…
Dion Stewart Dion Stewart
Driving DDD with User Story Mapping
Dion Stewart Ask me about Dojos Dion Stewart has over twenty-five years experience coaching, teaching, writing, and developing software. He helps organizations adopt Agile and…
Einar Høst Einar Høst
Technical debt isn't technical
Einar Høst Computer at NRK Einar W. Høst is not a software craftsman; he is a genuine, PhD-certified ivory tower zealot. His heretic views include thinking away from the…
Evelyn Van Kelle Evelyn Van Kelle
Socio-technical DDD - Essential social heuristics…
Evelyn Van Kelle Trying to make sense of the socio-technical mashup that is called software development Evelyn van Kelle focuses on the interplay between technical issues and social factors. During her MSc study at Tilburg University, Evelyn was…
Gien Verschatse Gien Verschatse
Devils, Wizards and Decision Making Heuristics:…
Gien Verschatse BlunderingGoddess<'T> Gien is a software developer with 9 years of experience, mainly in a .NET environment, who likes to start her day with coffee. She is a strong…
Greg Young Greg Young
DDD The Bad Parts
Greg Young Creator of CQRS Gregory Young coined the term “CQRS” (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and it was instantly picked up by the community who have elaborated…
Henning Schwentner Henning Schwentner
Domain Storytelling
Henning Schwentner Coder, Coach, Consultant Henning loves to code. He follows this passion as a software architect and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions in Hamburg, Germany. His projects…
Jacopo Romei Jacopo Romei
Extreme Contracts
Jacopo Romei Freelance glider pilot In 2003 I spotted new agile ways to develop software and, as a young entrepreneur I gave them a try. I introduced agile in eBay Italia, Siemens…
Jérémie Chassaing Jérémie Chassaing
Information Space-Time: the history behind…
Jérémie Chassaing thinkbeforecoding Jérémie Chassaing has been practicing Domain Driven Design and Continuous Improvement for 10 years as an architect at Availpro, a channel manager…
João Rosa João Rosa
Crunching 'real-life stories' with DDD EventStorming…
João Rosa Software Craftsman João Rosa is a Software Developer, focused on delivering quality software that matters. Believes in the software crafts to provide software in…
John Bywater John Bywater
Events in Software, Process, and Reality
John Bywater Python developer Engineering scientist, background in robotics, working as consultant
Jon Jagger Jon Jagger
Lessons from Jerry Weinberg
Jon Jagger Mr I’m a software consultant specializing in practice, process, test driven development, and complex-adaptive systems-thinking. I’m 33 years old…
Joop Lammerts Joop Lammerts
Explore.Decide.Solutions
Joop Lammerts Scrum developer at Procurios Joop Lammerts has been a webdeveloper since the beginning of web 2.0. After working in solitude for ages he now finds himself surrounded by enthusiastic…
Kenny Baas-Schwegler Kenny Baas-Schwegler
Crunching 'real-life stories' with DDD EventStorming…
Kenny Baas-Schwegler Domain Whisperer and Software Consultant Kenny Baas is a Software Engineer and Consultant focusing on software quality at Xebia. He mentors and coaches teams by using practices and techniques…
Lorraine Steyn Lorraine Steyn
Systems Thinking
Lorraine Steyn Simplifier-in-chief Driven to find better ways of producing code, and then teaching the next generation of developers all our hard-won lessons!
Mads Opheim Mads Opheim
Make your tests tell the story of your domain
Mads Opheim Tech lead Passionate about quality, care and making people awesome. Believe in DDD, TDD and putting pride into our work.
Marco Consolaro Marco Consolaro
Bounded rationality, complex Systems and…
Marco Consolaro Independent senior consultant, director of Alcortech Limited Software craftsman, entrepreneur, system thinker, restless traveler, Agile philosopher - all blended with Venetian humor. I was 9 when I self-learnt…
Marijn Huizendveld Marijn Huizendveld
Collaborative Modeling in Practice
Marijn Huizendveld Chief Experience Distributor: Training, coaching & consulting Marijn teaches people of different backgrounds the skill of doing the things that matter in environments that are critical to performance. Often…
Mathias Verraes Mathias Verraes
Complexity
Mathias Verraes Student of Systems Mathias Verraes advises organisations on designing and modelling software for complex environments, including architecture, analysis, testing,…
Matthew Skelton Matthew Skelton
Better whiteboard sketches for Engineers
Matthew Skelton Head of Consulting, Conflux Matthew Skelton has been building, deploying, and operating commercial software systems since 1998. He specialises in Continuous Delivery and…
Michel Grootjans Michel Grootjans
Visual Notetaking for Beginners
Michel Grootjans Technical Agile Coach Michel Grootjans has been programming since the age of 12. He has programmed strange machines like the TI 99-4A, the Atari 2600, Mac128, HP28,…
Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
Uncompromised Agile is Safer and Better for…
Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Safety-Critical Systems Nancy Van Schooenderwoert does Agile Enterprise coaching— everything from launching new agile technical teams to advising executives on how to…
Nataliya Remez Nataliya Remez
The journey to Outcome Oriented teams
Nataliya Remez Agile Coach at iZettle Engineering Excellence Evangelist passionate about enabling organizations to improve by cultivating a culture of Continuous Improvement at all…
Nick Tune Nick Tune
Devils, Wizards and Decision Making Heuristics:…
Nick Tune Sociotechnical Thinker Nick is a product-focused technical leader. He has helped teams in a variety of organisations to achieve continuous delivery and high alignment,…
Nicole Rauch Nicole Rauch
Event-Storming for Domain-Driven Design
Nicole Rauch Software Developer and Development Coach Nicole Rauch is an independent software developer and development coach with a solid background in compiler construction and formal methods.…
Oana Juncu Oana Juncu
Design Ecological Communication
Oana Juncu Agile Business DJ @ cOemerge Oana works with people willing to transform to a more thriving version of their organisations and their products . iShe likes to describe herself…
Pim Elshoff Pim Elshoff
Explore.Decide.Solutions
Pim Elshoff Scrum developer Like you, Pim is on a quest to do things a little bit better every time. As a scrum developer, he has extensive experience with solid coding,…
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Agile Architecting: A Pragmatic Approach
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock heuristics hunter and Driven-Design meme inventor I'm best known as the "design geek" who invented Responsibility-Driven Design and the xDriven meme (think TDD, BDD, DDD..). I'm keen on learning…
Sabrina Leandro Sabrina Leandro
How to rewrite, a bit at a time
Sabrina Leandro Technical leadership consultant Sabrina is a technical leader with strong experience in product development process, systems design, and management. She enjoys working with…
Scott Millett Scott Millett
Technology Strategy: What is it and why do…
Scott Millett Director of get it done Scott Millett is the Director of IT for Iglu.com, and has been working with .NET since version 1.0. He was awarded the ASP.NET MVP in 2010 and…
Scott Wlaschin Scott Wlaschin
Domain Modeling Made Functional
Scott Wlaschin Developer, architect and author Scott Wlaschin is a developer, architect and author. He is the author of the popular F# site fsharpforfunandprofit.com, and the book "Domain…
Stefan Hofer Stefan Hofer
Domain Storytelling
Stefan Hofer WPS – Workplace Solutions GmbH Stefan is bad at drawing stuff. However, he thinks he can acquire domain knowledge by drawing Domain Stories. Stefan studied Software Engineering…
Steph Locke Steph Locke
Anchor Modelling - agile databases
Steph Locke Locke Data Steph Locke leads a life of data, coffee, books and board games. During the day, Steph runs her own consultancy helping people start doing data…
Thomas Coopman Thomas Coopman
Exploring domain properties
Thomas Coopman Software Consultant Thomas Coopman has been fascinated with computers since he was a kid. Playing around at first, became programming later and after learning some…
Thomas PIERRAIN Thomas PIERRAIN
EventStorming and Example Mapping
Thomas PIERRAIN Use case driven Co-organizer of the DDD Paris user group and co-founder of 42skillz, Thomas is an eXtreme Programmer & technical architect obsessed by use cases…
Thomas Ploch Thomas Ploch
Sociotechnical
Thomas Ploch Infinite State Machine @ FlixBus I am Thomas, and I design systems for people and computers for fun and profit! My career has navigated me through various industries like…
Tobias Goeschel Tobias Goeschel
Exploring your Design with Domain Prototyping
Tobias Goeschel Consultant, crafter and coach at codecentric When it comes to "paint-drip people", Tobias is a good example: After a moderately successful attempt at becoming a professional rock musician,…
Wassel ALAZHAR Wassel ALAZHAR
Real world Evolutionary Design
Wassel ALAZHAR Software craftsmanship symmathesist Wassel Alazhar is a consultant at Octo Technology and an active member of the software craftsmanship community in Paris. In the business for…
Wim Debreuck Wim Debreuck
Old School System Dynamics in a Data Science…
Wim Debreuck Mission: To explore strange new Behavior - To seek out new Specification and new Business Value - To boldly Design New Systems where it matters Business Analist and founder of software engineering company Debreuck Neirynck. We construct niche systems involving complex planning & calculation…
Woody Zuill Woody Zuill
Estimates or No Estimates, Let's explore…
Woody Zuill Agile Guide Woody Zuill is an independent Agile Guide and Coach and has been programming computers for 35+ years. He is a pioneer of the Mob Programming…
yvan phelizot yvan phelizot
Crafting Secure Software
yvan phelizot Arolla Craftsman developer, I love domains like security, artificial intelligence, electronic, serious games and craft! And I have a passion for dark…
Yves Reynhout Yves Reynhout
Domain Modelling
Yves Reynhout The Journeylist He's a very passionate human being, passionate about what he does and how he lives his life. Apart from the constant improvement of his skillset,…
Zsófia Herendi Zsófia Herendi
Modelling Investment Banking, Hands-on
Zsófia Herendi flow addict PO Zsófia is a certified product owner who has spent more than 14 years bringing developers and business people together, 10+ years working on…

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