Dylan Beattie
Creator of the Rockstar programming language
London, United Kingdom
Dylan Beattie is an independent consultant who has been building data-driven web applications since the 1990s. He’s managed teams, taught workshops, and worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s a Microsoft MVP, and he regularly speaks at conferences and user groups all over the world.
Dylan is the creator of the Rockstar programming language, and the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist with The Linebreakers, the world's greatest nerd comedy classic rock disco alt punk covers band.
Topics: .NET, C#, Computer Technology History, Distributed Software Systems, Esoteric Programming Languages, Information Design, JavaScript, Programming Languages and Tools, Software Development, Typography
Talks:
- WhatsApp, Web3, and Wordle: Evolving a Digital Society
- There's No Such Thing As Plain Text
- The Web That Never Was
- The Art of Code
- Open Source, Open Mind: The Cost of Free Software
- How To Be A Rockstar Developer
- From Hot Metal to HTML: The Story of Type
- Fractals, Factories and Fast Food
- Failure is Always an Option
- Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Events: NDC London 2025, Build Stuff 2024 Lithuania, KanDDDinsky 2024, NDC Porto 2024, SI-SE: Will AI Replace Software Engineering?, Copenhagen Developers Festival 2024, NDC Oslo 2024, XPand 2024, NDC London 2024, Build Stuff 2023 Lithuania, NDC Porto 2023, Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023, WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2023, NDC Oslo 2023, DDD South West 2023, Swetugg Stockholm 2023, NDC London 2023, DDD North 2022, Modern Frontends Live! 2022, Build Stuff 2022 Lithuania, Techorama Netherlands 2022, NDC Oslo 2022, NDC London 2022, NDC Porto 2022, NDC Oslo 2021, DDD East Midlands Conference 2021, Techorama 2021 Spring Edition, DDD 2020, NDC Minnesota 2020 - Online Workshop Event, NDC Oslo 2020, Techorama 2020 BE, NDC Porto 2020, NDC London 2020, DDD East Midlands Limited 2019, KanDDDinsky, KCDC 2019, NDC Oslo 2019, Techorama Belgium 2019, NDC Porto 2019, Swetugg 2019, NDC London 2019, NDC Sydney 2018, NDC Oslo 2018, NDC Minnesota 2018
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/dylanbeattie
Heather Downing
International Speaker & Developer Advocate
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Climbing the technology mountain and halfway up the side. Experience in .Net, mobile applications and more recently voice interface development. Dabbles in iOT & AR/VR. Focusing on coding for humans and choosing the right tool for the job.
Heather is a passionate coder and entrepreneur. She has experience working with Fortune 500 companies building enterprise level mobile and .Net applications. She spends her spare time at tech conferences supporting the growth of new developers of all genders, ages and backgrounds. When not coding, Heather spends her time as a competitive equestrian and learning the art of mounted archery.
Topics: .NET, Career Growth, Leadership development, Mobile Apps, OAuth2, Tech Ethics, apis, tech speaker
Talks:
- Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success
- Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant!
- Defensive Coding Bootcamp
- Imposter Syndrome: Overcoming Self-Doubt in Success
- The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers
- The Visible Developer: Why You Shouldn't Blend In
- Drones, RemoteID and the Thrilling Future of UAS Flight
Events: Build Stuff 2024 Lithuania, NDC Porto 2024, Devintersection and next GenAI Conference, Copenhagen Developers Festival 2024, NDC Oslo 2024, NDC Sydney 2024, NDC London 2024, Build Stuff 2023 Lithuania, DevConf 2023, Denver Dev Day | October 2023, Connectaha 2023, NDC Sydney 2022, NDC Oslo 2022, NDC Melbourne 2022, Techorama 2022 BE, NDC London 2022, NDC Porto 2022, NDC Oslo 2021, Build Stuff 2021 Lithuania, The Live Coders International Women's Day Challenge for Women, NDC Oslo 2020, NDC London 2020, AntarctiConf 2020, Live! 360 Orlando 2019, NDC Sydney 2019, CDCD 2019, Techorama Netherlands 2019, Seattle CodeCamp 2019, KCDC 2019, NDC Oslo 2019, Techorama Belgium 2019, CodeStock 2019, Swetugg 2019, KanDDDinsky, Techorama NL 2018, NDC Sydney 2018, KCDC 2018, NDC Oslo 2018, NDC London 2018, NDC Sydney 2017
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/heather-downing
Vagif Abilov
Singing programmer
Oslo, Norway
Vagif works for Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). He has about three decades of programming experience, currently focusing on building systems in F# and C#. Vagif is a frequent speaker at software conferences and contributor to some open source projects. In his free time he plays keyboards in The Linebreakers, teaches his pets programming and rides bikes.
Talks:
- Surviving Long Event History
- Stay with C# or switch to F#? Let's fight! Let's vote!
- Reliable messaging in the world of actors
- reF#ACTORing using F# and Actor Model
- Real time event visualization in F# and Fable
- Life after business objects. Confessions of an OOP veteran.
- Instrument your .NET services with OpenTelemetry tracing
- Frontend in F#? Hold my beer!
- Event journal in Azure (no Cosmos inside)
- Akka.NET from Zero to Hero
Events: NDC London 2025, Build Stuff 2024 Lithuania, KanDDDinsky 2024, NDC London 2024, Build Stuff 2023 Lithuania, NDC London 2023, Build Stuff 2022 Lithuania, KanDDDinsky 2022, Re:factor 2022, Build Stuff 2021 Lithuania, Build Stuff 2020 Lithuania, .NET DeveloperDays 2020, NDC London 2020, KCDC 2019, NDC Oslo 2018
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/vagif-abilov
Mark Rendle
Chief Everything Officer
Guildford, United Kingdom
Mark is the founder of RendleLabs, which provides consulting services and workshops to .NET development teams across all industries. His particular obsessions are API design and development, performance, Observability and code-base modernisation. He also uses skills acquired during a few years as a professional stand-up comic to deliver entertaining and informative talks at conferences around the world, and recently learned to play bass so he could join tech parody band The LineBreakers.
Topics: .NET, API Design, ASP.NET Core Web API, Migration and Modernization, Observability and performance
Talks:
- The Worst Programming Language Ever
- How JavaScript Happened: A Short History of Programming Languages
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/mark-rendle
Hannes Lowette
Head of Learning & Development @ Axxes; Microsoft MVP
Mol, Belgium
Hannes is a developer, a coach and a father of 3.
In .NET development, he has always had a passion for performance, databases, distributed systems and large scale applications. But most of all, he likes playing devil’s advocate in technical discussions by drawing the ‘it depends’ card.
As a coach, he is enthousiastic about knowledge sharing, personal growth and building careers. All this while keeping in mind that the pace needs to be sustainable.
In his free time, when he’s not building LEGO® castles with his kids, he likes to spend time building guitars, playing chess or poker, tasting whisky and doing all round geeky stuff.
You can occasionally find him on an afterparty stage at PubConf or with Dylan Beattie & the Linebreakers.
Topics: .net, Akka.net, Entity Framework, GraphQL, LEGO, NServiceBus, WCF
Talks:
- Celebrity Deathmatch: Akka.NET vs Orleans
- (Guitar) strings attached: from UTF-8 to EADGBE
- Actors can rule your DDD world
- The Mario Kart™ guide to building a career
- Stop punching yourself in the face!
- Drinking a river of IoT data with Akka.NET
- Build software like a bag of marbles, not a castle of LEGO®
Events: NDC London 2024, VisugXL 2023, Haxx 2023, Swetugg Gothenburg 2023, NDC Porto 2023, KanDDDinsky 2023, Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023, CNUG - Meetup, DevSum 2023, NDC Oslo 2023, PubConf London 2023, NDC London 2023, YOW! London 2022, PubConf Minnesota 2022, NDC Minnesota 2022, Build Stuff 2022 Lithuania, KanDDDinsky 2022, dotnetdays, Re:factor 2022, Re:factor 2022, Azure Lowlands 2022, GOTO Aarhus 2022, Craft conference, Techorama 2022 BE, DevSum 2022, DevDay Denmark, PubConf London 2022, NDC London 2022, Haxx 2022, NDC Porto 2022, NDC Oslo 2021, VisugXL 2021, Build Stuff 2021 Lithuania, GOTO Copenhagen 2021, Haxx 2021, GOTO Århus 2021, Techorama 2021 Spring Edition, NDC London 2021, Build Stuff 2020 Lithuania, NDC Sydney 2020, NDC Melbourne 2020 - Online Workshop Event, NDC Oslo 2020, DevSum2020, NDC Porto 2020, GOTO Oslo 2020, PubConf London 2020, Build Stuff 2019 Ukraine, Build Stuff 2019, Haxx 2019, PubConf Amsterdam 2019, PubConf Kansas City 2019, KCDC 2019, Techorama Belgium 2019, NDC Porto 2019, Build Stuff 2018
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/hannes-lowette
Eli Holderness
Freelance Geek
Eli has been in tech since being released back into the wild from studying maths at university 7 years ago. They've spent their time working in industries ranging from telecoms to biotech to analog circuit design, continually getting nerd-sniped along the way. These days, they're a freelancer who speaks at conferences, runs workshops, and learns whatever they want. In their spare time, they like to play video games, knit and sew, and hang out with their cat.
Talks:
- Opening Keynote: Language Games
- You Shall Not Password: Modern Authentication for Web Apps
- User testing in production: how to run a public beta
- A Brief History of Data Storage
- Asymmetric Encryption: A Deep Dive
Events: NDC London 2024, Build Stuff 2023 Lithuania, NDC Porto 2023, DDD East Midlands Conference 2023, Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023, NDC Oslo 2023, DDD South West 2023, NDC London 2023, DDD North 2022, NDC Sydney 2022, WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2022, NDC London 2022
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/eli-holderness
Kevlin Henney
Thought Provoker
Bristol, United Kingdom
Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.
Talks:
- What Do You Mean?
- The Architecture of Uncertainty
- The Data Abstraction Talk
- The Case for Technical Excellence
- The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages
- Technical Neglect
- Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases
- Six Impossible Things
- Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait
- Program with GUTs
Events: NDC London 2025, Build Stuff 2024 Lithuania, Nerdearla 2024, Craft 2024, Newcrafts Paris 2024, DDD South West 2024, ACCU 2024, Jfokus 2024, NDC London 2024, Build Stuff 2023 Lithuania, Meeting C++ 2023, Agile meets Architecture 2023, KanDDDinsky 2023, Craft 2023, KotlinConf 2023, Build Stuff 2022 Lithuania, NDC Oslo 2022, Craft 2022, NDC London 2022, iSAQB Software Architecture Gathering 2021, Build Stuff 2020 Lithuania, Dev Around The Sun, NDC London 2020, NDC London 2019, KanDDDinsky
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/kevlin/
Max Arshinov
Solution Architect at EPAM Spain
Málaga, Spain
For over 15 years, I've worn multiple hats in IT: developer, manager, head of QA, CTO, and even a university lecturer. Currently shaping solutions as an architect at EPAM, Spain, I'm dedicated to harmonizing business and technological objectives. Away from the screen, you'll find me with a guitar in hand or journeying to unexplored destinations.
Topics: .NET, ASP.NET Core, Architecture of Web-Apps, CQRS & Event Sourcing, DDD, GraphQL, microfrontends, microservices
Talks:
- The Epic Battle of Kotlin and C#
- Stay with C# or switch to F#? Let's fight! Let's vote!
- Beyond LINQ: Using Expression Trees in .NET
- Federations Strike Back
- Are Anemic Domain Models really considered harmful?
- Web Application Factory Or Real HTTP Client - Take Two
- Decoding Distributed Applications Deployment Dilemmas
- The Team Lead's Cookbook
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/max-arshinov
Alex Dunn
Founder and CEO of Cephable, Forbes 30u30 Boston, Microsoft MVP
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alex Dunn is the founder of Cephable - the platform that empowers people to control their digital world in ways that work best for them. He's also an inductee of The Game Awards Future Class, Forbes 30u30 in Boston, Microsoft MVP, and PubConf Champion. His background in accessibility, application development, and applied AI has leaned into enabling applications to do more for people and businesses using scalable architectures and design, distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and innovative edge technologies. Alex does his best to remain platform agnostic in his practices and development with specialties in C#, Kotlin, and TypeScript while building for cross-platform compatibility. You might find him speaking at all sorts of conferences and events around the world, streaming on Twitch, and on Pluralsight.
Outside technology, you can find him playing guitar, working with animal rescue, or exploring the great outdoors.
Topics: .NET, AI, Alexa, Android, Bixby, C#, Google Assistant, Kotlin, Mobile, Software Architecture, iOS
Talks:
- Kotlin for C# Developers
- Building for a Million Daily Users
- Making Technology More Accessible with .NET and AI
- Build Yourself by Building the Community
- Fluxing Up Your .NET Apps
Events: NDC Oslo 2022, NDC Melbourne 2022, NDC Porto 2022, DeveloperWeek 2022, KCDC 2021, NDC Oslo 2020, NDC Porto 2020, NDC London 2020, CodeMash 2020, Granite State Code Camp 2019, Techorama Netherlands 2019, NDC Oslo 2019, NDC London 2019, Granite State Code Camp 2018
Full Speaker Profile: https://sessionize.com/alex-dunn