Priyanka Chatterjee

Schwarz Digits

Priyanka has been working as a Database engineer for 13 years for several companies. She mainly works on administration, maintenance, innovation of Postgres Databases across platforms: Cloud, On-prem, Containerized environments. Priyanka is an open source enthusiast and enjoys creating secure and efficient database landscapes using everything open source.

Tom Kaltofen

mloda

Tom Kaltofen is a Berlin-based data and AI engineer and the creator of mloda, an open-source (Apache-2.0) Python framework. After years in data and ML plumbing, pipelines, feature stores, RAG, he kept hitting the same blind spot: the data layer every system depends on is the one part of the stack monitoring never reaches. mloda is his attempt to fix that, making data transformations observable and reusable instead of hand-wired.

Aishat Muibudeen

AsyncAPI initiative

Aishat Muibudeen is Design Lead and Social Media Coordinator at AsyncAPI Initiative, where she sits on the Technical Steering Committee and Code of Conduct Committee, maintains three of its repositories, and contributes to the tooling ecosystem that helps developers work with event-driven API specifications. Five years into open source, with past contributions to CHAOSS and Knative, she’s spent that time at the intersection of specification design and the tooling that makes specs usable in practice. She co-founded OpenNest Africa, an initiative making open-source tech tangible for people who’ve never been told they belong in it. She’s spoken at the OpenForum Academy Symposium, AsyncAPI Lagos Conference, PyData Berlin, and PyLadies Con, and is B2 fluent in German, picked up almost entirely off-grid over the past year.

Dominik Schmidle

giantswarm.io

Dominik Schmidle is a Product Lead at Giant Swarm, driving the company’s (agentic) platform strategy. He’s on a mission to simplify developers’ lives through intuitive platforms, built for humans and their agents alike. He’s a published author, CNCF Platform Engineering TCG contributor, and recent speaking highlights include KubeCon EU’s Platform Engineering Day, the WeAreDevelopers World Congress, and Cloud Native Summit Munich.

Soumaya Erradi

Atlantis

Soumaya is an experienced web developer and a passionate IT and electronics trainer, specializing in frontend development and enterprise applications built with Angular. She spends most of her time exploring what’s new in the tech world and helping other developers improve their skills. As a conference speaker, Soumaya brings advanced Angular topics, tips for the integration of smart contracts and best solutions for web3 applications.

Mohamed Elsakhawy

Western University

Mohamed Elsakhawy received his B.Sc. from Alexandria University, Egypt and his M.E.Sc. in Ph.D. in Computer Science from Western University, Canada. He served as the Operational Lead of Compute Canada’s Cloud National Team between 2017 and 2021.
He served as the Vice-Chair/Chair of the OpenStack user committee between 2019 and 2020. Between 2022 and 2023, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Michael Medin

Michael Medin is a senior architect and open source developer and the author of NSClient++. In his not-so-spare time he works as an architect in the R&D department where he tinkers on everything from hardware to cloud software. When he is not working diligently at his computer, he has lately inherited a 100+ years old derelict ghost house in the Swedish countryside he tris to make liveable.