Anshuman Bhartiya has been in the IT industry for about 10 years and has had the opportunity to wear multiple hats. Anshuman has been a web developer, cloud consultant, systems engineer and security engineer to name a few. Anshuman has a varied skillset and he likes to tinker with the latest technology coming up with innovative solutions for difficult and challenging problems. Security, Automation and Innovation are some things he is really passionate about and he firmly believes in sharing knowledge and the Open Source community. You can find some of Anshuman’s work at his Github here.

I’ve been working the last decade building Java enterprise applications for large companies and researching about new and trending topics on how to improve the way the software is made, especially focusing on REST web services and securing them. I’m MVB on Dzone, member of the Oracle JCP JSR 367, Auth0 Ambassador, and I’ve started my speaker career at my native city Medellin 2 years ago, currently, I’m working as a Consultant at Backbase and I’m always sharing thoughts and ideas on my website andrespedes.com, on medium as @andrespedes and on Twitter as well.

Nikolas is a polyglot developer and GraphQL enthusiast. He graduated from university with a Master’s degree in Management of Information System and has worked as an iOS developer for bigger companies like SAP, smaller startups and as a freelancer. He loves to share his knowledge and has worked as an iOS Instructor at the Make School Product College in San Francisco before he joined Graphcool in January.

Oracle Certified Java Expert. Contributes as a speaker on meet-ups, communities and conferences, mentors colleagues, has deep experience in telecom area and likes ham radio beyond programming. Roman is the most concentrated on topics about Spring, JVM performance, security, distributed systems, microservices and docker.

Organizer of Lohika’s Java community – weekly meetings with live coding session, new framework investigation, sharing experience.

Program committee member of morning@lohika community – monthly meet-up events for developers.

Itai Grady is an experienced Security Researcher in Microsoft. Previously, Itai was a member of various research and development teams for 15 years in several companies, including Aorato (acquired by Microsoft) and 8200 intelligence unit. Itai holds a B.Sc degree in Computer Science.

Alvaro Muñoz works as Principal Software Security Researcher with Microfocus, Software Security Research (SSR). His research focuses on different programming languages and web application frameworks searching for vulnerabilities or unsafe uses of APIs. Before joining the research team, he worked as an Application Security Consultant helping enterprises to deploy their application security programs. Muñoz has presented at many Security conferences including BlackHat, Defcon, RSA, AppSecEU, AppSecUSA, Protect, DISCCON, etc and holds several infosec certifications, including OSCP, GWAPT and CISSP, and is a proud member of int3pids CTF team. He blogs at http://www.pwntester.com.

Laszlo Boa is an IBM Cloud Architect (Bluemix) for Central and Eastern Europe at IBM.

Karolina bridges the technology, business innovation and psychology worlds. She acts as technical executive and a catalyst fostering curiosity to help lead the adaptation to rapidly changing IT environments and to drive organizational agility. Karolina has been supporting companies in driving complex digital transformations, building and executing high growth strategies, introducing emerging technologies, innovative products and services for global international brands as well as hacking growth with startups around the world.
Recognized in 2017, as one of top 20 Women in #fintech.

Karolina is guest speaker at global focus conferences, and universities; author of many publications and books.

Linda is a crypto evangelist that wants to improve secure software so that it’s easy for everyone to use. She currently leads the UX team at Tor Project. Inc, which acts as an internal service to other application teams to help with feature ideation, interface design, and user testing. She received her MS in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley, where she researched the intersection of computer security and user research.

Mladen Jovanovski is a Client Technical Specialist in IBM focused on both traditional data processing technologies and leveraging potential of new Big Data processing technologies. His main areas of expertise are overall solution architecture, data integration, storing data and subsequent data analysis in both on-premise and Cloud environments.