Conference Speakers

Colin Bell has 30+ years of IT experience. Over the past 18 years he has specialized his skills in Application Security and the deployment of the AppScan portfolio to customers worldwide. His current role is within HCL Software team as the AppScan CTO.Read more

Melissa Benua has worked in nearly every software development role—dev, test, DevOps, and program management—at companies big and small and somewhere in-between. She's created and run high availability, high-quality services for PlayFab, Bing, Cortana, and Xbox One, and now for mParticle's enormous data platform. Melissa discovered her love of massively-scaled...Read more

Susan Brockley worked 28 years with ExxonMobil IT before retiring. Boredom and a passion for test and Quality Assurance brought her out of retirement to work again for ExxonMobil as an Independent Consultant. Susan has a Masters degree in Software Engineering, multiple quality and Agile certifications (CSQA with QAI since...Read more

Alireza Chegini has more than 20 years’ experience in software development. Starting in the customer support department of an Enterprise Application, later he began developing financial applications with the .NET framework and SQL. Since then, he has been involved in many projects, taken different roles, using different programming languages and...Read more

Nate Conroy is a technical leader who builds agile software teams that deliver value to customers early and often. Together with Ken Moser, Nate helped the USCIS CIO develop Management Instructions defining Agile governance and measurement as a contractor with USCIS.Read more

Rob Cuddy is currently a Global Application Security Evangelist for HCL providing thought leadership for the application security space, particularly as it relates to DevOps and DevSecOps initiatives. Prior to this role, Rob was with IBM for 14 years with roles in Application Security Evangelism, Worldwide Sales Enablement, Tiger Teams...Read more

Michelle DeCarlo is Senior Vice President, Technology Enterprise Delivery Practices for Lincoln Financial Group. She is responsible for transformational and delivery management functions within Technology including the Agile and DevOps, Digital Portfolio Management, Continuous Improvement, Quality Engineering and Release Management practices, Strategic Partners and the CIO’s Technology Management Office. Michelle...Read more

Julee Everett is an innovation and agility consultant and professional trainer with more than a decade in the industry. She helps businesses improve their innovation skills and learn how to apply agility to business strategy and problems. Julee specializes in product and portfolio management, design sprints, innovation, and product discovery...Read more

Erik Fogg is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer for ProdPerfect, a leader in autonomous end-to-end (E2E) web application testing. In this role, Erik oversees revenue and growth. Erik is a startup veteran having successfully launched various including DrawTop and ReConsider Media and has held senior posts with Stroud International...Read more

Ann Marie is a DevOps evangelist, software engineer, ops enthusiast, former manager, fixer, and champion of best practices.  She has been a software engineer for 20+ years and a DevOps practitioner for 9 years. She has been DevOps Lead for the IBM.com Commerce Platform since 2018, and Security Lead since...Read more

Shubhra Goyal has 16 Years of software testing experience having core expertise in designing automation solution , framework and defining the QA process for the client (“Big Four American multinational technology company”). She has also published the paper to various QA forums on improving the automation and DevOps process ,...Read more

Steven Granese has been building innovative teams and solutions for his entire nineteen-year career in the technology industry. His expertise lies in transforming organizations to deliver their desired business outcomes by adopting an agile way of working. He holds multiple agile certifications (CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP) and is an avid speaker...Read more

20+ years building software, 10+ years leading dev teams, 5 start-ups, 3 daughters... he doesn't look old enough for any of it! Ask Ariel Illouz what gets him out of bed every morning and he'll give you a long list: his family, working alongside his team, watching customers use his...Read more

Want awesome teams that build great products? Great teams don’t happen by accident. And they don’t have to take a long time to build. In this session, Richard lays out the case for Continuous Teaming. Session participants will join in a flight of fun learning activity-sets. These will give you...Read more

My first experience programming was in Basic. In 1987 I was in 5th grade. My parents bought me a Sinclair Spectrum ZX with 48k RAM. I vividly remember the day I got that machine. A few months later I saw that my friend’s older brother had the same computer. He...Read more

Consultant, Coach, Analyst, and Developer for over 20 years. - DevOps & Agile Engineering Consulting(4years) . DevOps Process/Tool Guide and Adoption . Regacy Code Analysis & Measure SW Metric . Code Review Process Lead . refactoring . Clean Code education - Solution Development Strategy(3years) . Development Methodlogy . ALM Tool...Read more

Patricia Kong is co-author of "The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum" published by Pearson. She is also a public speaker and mentor. Patricia is the Product Owner of the Scrum.org Enterprise Solutions and Leadership Program which focuses on helping organizations thrive in a complex world. Patricia is a people advocate...Read more

Anjali Leon is founder and Principal of PPL Coach, a boutique coaching and consulting practice that offers experiential workshops and programs, innovative consulting solutions, and professional coaching in the areas of Product, People and Personal Leadership.  She brings an authentic hearts and minds approach to helping her clients create value for all their...Read more

Dan here. A few things about me… First of all, the only thing I find more awkward than writing a bio about myself is asking someone else to write one about me. So first person it is! I’m a software engineer at heart. Two years ago I started a company...Read more

Janna Loeffler has more than fifteen years of software quality experience. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's degree in business administration. Working in a variety of software engineering roles, including development, testing, quality assurance, and DevOps, has provided her with a holistic view of software...Read more

Yoosuf Maktoum has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Quality Engineering. Expertise in architecting QE platforms, stargazing QE solutions and leading a multinational quality engineering organization. At present, Senior Manager – Quality Engineering in the Business Technology organization at Sysco Corporation, a leader in global...Read more

Alyssa Miller is a hacker, security evangelist, cyber security professional and public speaker with almost 15 years of experience in the security industry. Her experience includes penetration testing, threat modeling and working with business leaders to build enterprise security programs. She speaks internationally at industry, vendor, and leadership conferences on...Read more

Richard Mills has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering with a concentration on pragmatic software process and tools. Rich has a specific focus in Agile development methods and is passionate about DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. As the Solution Architect for DevOps at Coveros, Rich is...Read more

Michael Nir, President Sapir Consulting US, is an executive agile Lean DevOps expert; known for his passion, creativity and innovation; His Masters in Engineering and, training in Gestalt balance his technical know-how with emotional intelligence. Michael inspires people and teams to change, experientially and emotionally, while climbing the hill AND...Read more

Amanda Palovcsik is a Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master, and certified Scaled Agilist. With more than 15 years of project management experience in the broadcast, medical, and financial industries, including an overlap of seven years on Scrum and SAFe implementations in parallel to waterfall, Amanda has a diverse background...Read more

Allison Pollard helps organizations create Agility by building trust between business & IT, leaders & teams, and within teams. As Technical Director for Improving, she is a curator of agile frameworks and change methods who coaches leaders and teams to improve work relationships and enable better delivery. Allison is also a...Read more

Julia Pottinger is a Lead QA Consultant at QualityWorks with expertise in manual, automated and API testing and training which has helped companies enhance the quality of their software through improved test coverage, faster time to market, increased process efficiency and optimized use of resources.

Julia is passionate about sharing her...Read more

Perry Riggs is currently the Director of Agile Practices at SoftPro, the industry leader in providing real estate closing and title insurance software solutions. In this role he guides the transformation of the organization's product development practices to improve value, quality, and throughput. Prior to Softpro Perry was Head of...Read more

Aaron Rinehart has spent his career solving challenging engineering problems for organizations such as the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Defense (DoD). Rinehart has been a featured speaker at several media outlets and conferences, most notably the National...Read more

Michael Robillard has a career in commercial software and organizational development that spans 30 years in industries including security, retail, healthcare, and entertainment. His focus for the last decade has been leading business & product strategy and operational excellence. He also specializes in creating meaningful communication...Read more

Dr. Jeremias Rößler has a PhD in Computer Science fromSaarland University and more than 10 years of experience as a software developer and tester — is the founder and CEO of retest, a German-based-startup that brings AI to test automation. His refreshingly unusual approach to test automation (difference testing)...Read more

Leon Sabarsky excels at building high performing software development teams ‎for all types of organizations. He has 20 years of IT experience and has been an Agilist for the past 10 years, primarily in the health care and government sectors. He initiated the first Agile transition at Blue Cross Blue...Read more

Jason Schreuder is a Certified Team Coach (CTC), one of the Certified Agile Coach designations within the Scrum Alliance. As a guide for Scrum, he helps build agile teams to execute any work. He also teaches and coaches agile principles and values which helps leaders become more responsive and future proof....Read more

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D., is a global thought-leader in Business Agility. He has been at Riot Games for about 5 years where is was the Head of Development Management and is now the the Head of Business Agility. Before Riot, Ahmed was an enterprise agile consultant for a number of Fortune...Read more

Melinda Solomon is an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) specializes in flow, limiting work-in-progress, and visibility. Together with Ken, Melinda was the architect of the USCIS Agile Training Program.Read more

Michael Stahnke is VP, Platform at CircleCI running SRE, Security, and tooling. Prior to this, he worked at Puppet running PE, Platform engineering as well as SRE. He is an established author where he has co-authored two State of DevOps Reports and most recently, a Data-Driven approach to continuous integration....Read more

Tom Stiehm has been developing applications and managing software development teams for over twenty years. As CTO of Coveros, he is responsible for the oversight of all technical projects and integrating new technologies and testing practices into software development projects. Recently, Tom has been focusing on how to incorporate DevSecOps...Read more

During her more than 20 years of experience with financial, health care, and SaaS-based products, Mary Thorn has held VP, director, and manager-level positions in various software development organizations. A seasoned leader and coach in agile and testing methodologies, Mary has direct experience building and...Read more

Kate Wardin is a currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Target Corporation in Minneapolis, MN. She leads a team of amazing engineers who build front end applications for Supply Chain HQ and Field users. Outside of her day job, she enjoys organizing events that enable young women to develop a...Read more

Jeff Williams brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security. He recently authored the DZone DevSecOps, IAST, and RASP refcards and speaks frequently at conferences including JavaOne (Java Rockstar), BlackHat, QCon, RSA, OWASP, Velocity, and PivotalOne. Jeff is also a...Read more

Tyler Yates is a senior software engineer at Indeed.com. He has been at Indeed for over four years and have worked on improving several aspects of the software development lifecycle. Yates' main focus in the past two years has been to automate and gather insights into the various stages of...Read more