Speakers at GOTO Copenhagen 2019

Steve Wozniak

Woz U

Apple Cofounder, Silicon Valley Icon and Philanthropist, Winner of Several Technology Awards

Talks:

Party Keynote

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

#keynote

Jessica Pointing

Stanford

Award-winning quantum computing researcher

Talks:

Quantum Computing

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

#keynote

#quantum computing

#the world around us

Murray Thom

D-Wave

D-Wave's VP of Software and Cloud Services

Talks:

Fueling the Quantum Application Era with the Cloud

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

#quantum computing

#the world around us

#cloud

Christina Boutrup

TV2

China Expert and Author of "The Great Tech Revolution"

Talks:

Extreme Digitalization in China

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

#keynote

#the world around us

Dave Karow

Split

Continuous Delivery Evangelist at Split

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

Chris Philipps

Advisor for Startups and Investors, Interim CTO

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

Michael Brunton-Spall

Independent Cybersecurity Expert

Talks:

Does Agile Make Us Less Secure?

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

#agile

#cyber security

Ron Bodkin

Google Cloud

Technical Director for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Google’s Cloud

Talks:

Responsible AI for Engineers

Masterclasses:

Global Supertrends

#ai ml data science

Adam Tornhill

Empear

Best-selling author of "Your Code as a Crime Scene"

Talks:

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters

Masterclasses:

Code As A Crime Scene: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis

#developer productivity

#programming

#teams

#legacy

Anu Srivastava

Google

Developer Programs Engineer at Google

Talks:

Work Less and Do More: Google Sheets for Developers

#developer productivity

#programming

#observability

#devops

#agile

#ux

Arne Åhlander

Aqqurite

Certified Scrum Trainer

Masterclasses:

2 days: CSPO – Certified Scrum Product Owner

Asim Hussain

Microsoft

EMEA Lead for Developer Relations at Microsoft

Talks:

The Future of Machine Learning & JavaScript

#ai ml data science

#coding user interfaces

#javascript

Bruce Lawson

Author of "Introducing HTML5" and editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 specification

Talks:

HTML: How to Make Loveliness

#frontend

#html

Casey Rosenthal

Verica

CEO / Cofounder of Verica.io

Talks:

Meetup Monday

Deprecating Simplicity 4.0

#chaos engineering

#human side of tech

#teams

#devops

#agile

#developer productivity

Cesario Ramos

AgiliX

Certified LeSS Trainer

Masterclasses:

Certified LeSS Basics

Chris Atherton

Designer and former Neuroscientist

Talks:

Design For The Utopia You Want, Not The Dystopia You're In

White-hat Attention Jacking for Accessibility, Fun and Profit

#keynote

#ux

Dan Callahan

Mozilla

WebAssembly Contributor at Mozilla

Talks:

WebAssembly Beyond the Browser

#webassembly

#javascript

#programming

#frontend

#ux

Daniel H Steinberg

Dim Sum Thinking

Author of the best selling book "A Swift Kickstart"

Talks:

What’s New in Swift

Masterclasses:

SwiftUI and Combine

#swift

#programming

#ios

#mobile

Daniel Stenberg

wolfSSL

Creator of curl and Receiver of the Polhem Prize

Talks:

HTTP/3 is next Generation HTTP. Is it QUIC enough?

#apis

#programming

Darrel Miller

Microsoft

OpenAPI Technical Steering Committee member and spec contributor

Talks:

Building HTTP API SDKs that Really Are a Kit

#apis

#programming

#developer productivity

Dave Farley

Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Continuous delivery and DevOps pioneer, award-winning author, and founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Talks:

Reactive Systems

Meetup Monday

Masterclasses:

2 days: Continuous Delivery

#architecture

#programming

#distributed systems

#event sourcing

Demi Ben-Ari

Panorays

Co-Founder of Panorays and the “Big Things” community

Talks:

Advanced Cloud Cyber Security with Kubernetes

#kubernetes

#cloud

#cyber security

Denis Rosa

Couchbase

Speaker, Developer Advocate at Couchbase

Talks:

The hidden costs of poor database access

#partner

#database

#data

#architecture

Doug Lenat

Cycorp

Award-winning AI pioneer who created the landmark Machine Learning program, AM, in 1976 and CEO of Cycorp

Talks:

The Promise and Limitations of AI

#keynote

#the world around us

#ai ml data science

Eamonn Boyle

Instil

Experienced developer, architect and team lead; highly requested GOTO speaker

Talks:

A Veterans Guide To Transitioning Android Teams Into Kotlin

Masterclasses:

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams

#programming

#android

#kotlin

#mobile

Edward Wilde

Form3

OpenFaaS core team contributor

Talks:

How we moved from JIRA to GitHub for fun and profit using Serverless

#openfaas

#devops

#serverless

#agile

#developer productivity

Eli Schutze Ramirez

Monzo Bank

Web Engineer at Monzo Bank

Talks:

Internationalisation is a Piece of Cake

#javascript

#web

#ux

#human side of tech

#the world around us

Ellen Shapiro

Bakken & Bæck

Mobile Engineer at ApolloGraphQL

Talks:

Kotlin/Native: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

#kotlin

#programming

#mobile

#ios

#android

Em Grasmeder

ThoughtWorks

Code, Anarchy, Witchcraft

Talks:

Thinking Like a Data Scientist

#ai ml data science

#coding user interfaces

#javascript

Eric Johnson

AWS

Highly entertaining serverless fanatic with brilliant insights; Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Serverless

Talks:

Attitude of Iteration

Building a “Backend-less” URL Shortener

Meetup Monday

#human side of tech

#partner talk

#serverless

#live coding

#data

Evan Sutter

Hapzly

Author, consultant and co-founder of Hapzly

Talks:

Is Business The Key To Making The World A Happier Place?

#keynote

#the world around us

#human side of tech

#teams

#agile

Fabio Pereira

Red Hat

TEDx speaker and author of the book “Digital Nudge”

Talks:

#DigitalNudge - The Hidden Forces that Shape our Digital Decisions

#ux

#ai ml data science

#the world around us

Feynman Liang

Labelbox

Creator of BachBot

Talks:

Composing Bach Chorales Using Deep Learning

#keynote

#ai ml data science

#programming

Francesco Romano

Huawei

Talks:

Seamless AI Life

Franziska Hinkelmann

Google

Working on Node.js for Google Cloud

Talks:

Work Less and Do More: Google Sheets for Developers

#developer productivity

#programming

#observability

#devops

#agile

#ux

Garth Gilmour

Instil

Ireland's most experienced software trainer; Kotlin specialist

Talks:

A Veterans Guide To Transitioning Android Teams Into Kotlin

Masterclasses:

Creating a Microservices Architecture with Kotlin, Ktor and Event Streams

#programming

#android

#kotlin

#mobile

Hannah Fry

University College London

Expert of patterns in human behaviour

Talks:

How to Be Human in the Age of The Machine

#keynote

#the world around us

#human side of tech

Henry Coles

Pitest Consulting

Creator of PiTest

Talks:

Making Mutants Work for You

#testing

#qa

#developer productivity

Jacky Zhao

Huawei

Talks:

New Huawei Ecosystem defines the future

#partner

Jacob Ideskog

Curity

Identity Specialist and VP at Curity

Talks:

OAuth Tokens As Your Identity API

Masterclasses:

OAuth and OpenID Connect in Practice

#cyber security

#programming

#oauth

#apis

#kubernetes

Jan Bosch

Chalmers University of Technology

Professor of Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology

Talks:

Why Aren't You A Data-Driven AI Company Yet?

#data

#ai ml data science

#the world around us

#business

Jason Taylor

SSW

Solution Architect at SSW

Talks:

Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 3.0

Masterclasses:

Practical Clean Architecture with .NET Core

#architecture

#.net

#programming

#c#

Jens Østergaard

Scrum Training Institute

Masterclasses:

2 days: CSM - Certified ScrumMaster

John Le Drew

Wise Noodles

Experienced engineer making psychological safety a right for everyone

Talks:

The 5 Pillars of Collaborative Product Ownership

Masterclasses:

2 days: Effective collaboration for world beating teams

#teams

#developer productivity

#human side of tech

#agile

Jon Skeet

Google

+34,000 answers on Stack Overflow

Talks:

Nullable reference types in C# 8

#c#

#programming

#.net

#live coding

José Paumard

Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, Architect, Coach & Trainer

Talks:

The Sincerest Form of Flattery

#java

#programming

#functional programming

Julie Lerman

The Data Farm

Software Coach, Pluralsight Author, .NET & DDD

Talks:

Azure Serverless for Developers

#azure

#serverless

#programming

#live coding

Jørn Larsen

Trifork

Founder of Trifork

Talks:

Conference Opening and Introduction in A1

Ken Mugrage

Thoughtworks

Principal technologist at ThoughtWorks and DevOps expert

Talks:

Modern Continuous Delivery

#architecture

#devops

#cloud

#microservices

Kim Antelo

Scrum.inc

Enabling teams to unleash their power

Talks:

The Incredibles: Creating an Awesome PO Team

#agile

#teams

#ux

Linda Rising

Independent

Queen of Patterns. Author of numerous Books

Talks:

Thinking Fast and Slow

Meetup Monday

Masterclasses:

Tips from Psychology for Problem-solving

#human side of tech

#teams

#agile

#ux

Lorna Jane Mitchell

Developer Advocate at @NexmoDev

Talks:

Introduction to OpenAPI

#apis

#programming

#developer productivity

Margriet Groenendijk

IBM

Data Science & AI Developer Advocate for IBM

Talks:

Trusting machines with robust, unbiased and reproducible AI

#ai ml data science

Markus Wittwer

Coaching Agile Teams to Stay Sane Using Mindfulness

Talks:

Mind as Code - Mindfulness for Developers and Knowledge Workers

#teams

#developer productivity

#human side of tech

#agile

Martin Schwalbe Lohmann

SimCorp

Lead Scrum Master at SimCorp

Talks:

Is Team Self-selection the Obvious Choice?

María Ramiro Martín

Huawei

Talks:

New Huawei Ecosystem defines the future

#partner

Maurice Naftalin

Morningside Light Ltd

Java Champion & Author

Talks:

The Sincerest Form of Flattery

#java

#programming

#functional programming

Nicki Watt

OpenCredo

CTO of OpenCredo, Leading Delivery of Large-scale, Cloud Native Projects

Talks:

Using graph theory and network science to explore your microservices architecture

#microservices

#observability

#architecture

Nicolas Frankel

Hazelcast

Developer Advocate at Hazelcast

Talks:

Securing the JVM

#cyber security

#programming

#java

#live coding

#legacy

Niels Hallenberg

SimCorp

Enterprise Tech Lead at SimCorp

Talks:

Reflections on Re-architecting 2-tier to 3-tier

#architecture

#teams

#partner

Niels Harre

SimCorp

Development Manager at SimCorp

Talks:

Is Team Self-selection the Obvious Choice?

Nikolas Burk

Prisma

Talks:

Boost your API Development with GraphQL & Prisma

#apis

#graphql

#frontend

#live coding

#programming

Phil Winder

Winder Research

Machine Learning whiz and Advocate for DataDevOps

Masterclasses:

Data Science and Machine Learning for Developers (Beginner)

Data Science and Machine Learning for Developers (Intermediate)

Philipp Krenn

Elastic

Infrastructure | Developer Advocate at Elastic

Talks:

Live Kubernetes Debugging with the Elastic Stack

Preben Thorö

Trifork GmbH

Chairman for the GOTO Program Committees, CTO Trifork GmbH

Talks:

Conference Opening and Introduction in A1

Priyanka Vergadia

Google

AI and ML strategist at Google

Talks:

Conversational AI Demystified

#ai ml data science

#cloud

#ux

#live coding

Radek Simko

HashiCorp

Software Engineer at HashiCorp

Talks:

Terraform - The Past, Present (0.12) and Future

#architecture

#devops

#cloud

#microservices

Raul Hernandez Lopez

Twitter

Sr Software Engineer (Android) @ Twitter

Talks:

Pushing Dynamic Features Your Users Want, As Quick As They Want Them

#android

#kotlin

#ux

#programming

#dynamicfeatures

#mobile

Richard Clayton

University of Cambridge

Director, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge

Talks:

A Practical Guide to Cybercrime

#the world around us

#cyber security

#hacking

#ethics

Robert Crowe

Google

TensorFlow Developer Advocate

Talks:

Taking Machine Learning Research to Production: Solving Real Problems

#architecture

#ai ml data science

#distributed systems

#devops

Roy Osherove

Team Agile

Author of "The Art Of Unit Testing" and "Elastic Leadership.Growing self-organizing teams"

Talks:

Lies, Damned Lies, and Metrics

#testing

#qa

#developer productivity

#devops

#observability

#agile

Sam Newman

Independent

Expert in helping people ship software fast and author of “Building Microservices”

Talks:

Why Your Private Cloud is Probably a Bad Idea

Masterclasses:

Monolith to Microservices

Microservice Integration: Events, Sagas and Schemas

#cloud

Saša Jurić

Independent Elixir mentor

Author of "Elixir in Action”

Talks:

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir

#programming

#elixir

#erlang

#distributed systems

#live coding

Stephen Carver

Cranfield University School of Management

Lecturer, consultant & speaker at Cranfield University School of Management

Talks:

Space Shuttle

#keynote

#communication

#teams

#the world around us

#agile

Stuart Langridge

Kryogenix Consulting

Member of the Web Standards Project's DOM Scripting Task Force, podcaster, developer and author

Talks:

You really don't Need all that JavaScript, I Promise

#html

#javascript

#frontend

Thomas Hejlsberg

SimCorp

CTO, Senior Vice President at SimCorp

Talks:

Reflections on Re-architecting 2-tier to 3-tier

#architecture

#teams

#partner

Tim Berglund

Confluent

Senior Director of Developer Experience at Confluent

Talks:

Processing Streaming Data with KSQL

The Database Unbundled: Commit Logs in an Age of Microservices

Masterclasses:

Processing Streaming Data with Apache Kafka and KSQL

#kafka

#programming

#data

#event sourcing

#live coding

#microservices

Tjeerd In't Veen

ING

Author of Swift in Depth

Talks:

Scaling up an iOS Codebase

#swift

#programming

#ios

#mobile

Ulf Wiger

Freelance Consultant

Erlang old-timer and opera singer (tenor)

Talks:

Building a Blockchain in Erlang

#architecture

#erlang

#blockchain

#programming

#distributed systems

Witold Tabaka

Huawei

Talks:

Seamless AI Life

Zoë Rose

Hands-on cyber security specialist & Ethical Hacker

Talks:

The Future of Security

#hacking

#cyber security

#ethics

#the world around us

#ux