Ana Hevesi has stewarded some of the largest technical communities on the internet, acquired plenty of scars, and figured out how to reliably build networks of developers who champion an organization while minimizing risks and downsides. She may be known for overhauling Stack Overflow’s game mechanics, running go-to-market (GTM) for the first Node.js hosting platform, or creating the community-to-product feedback pipeline for hardware designers at Shapeways.
Hazel Weakly spends her days building out teams of humans as well as the systems and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. Hazel currently serves as a Director on the board of the Haskell Foundation, as a Fellow of the Nivenly Foundation, and is fondly known as the Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm (a popular Mastodon instance). She also created the first official Haskell “setup” Github Action and helped turn it into an active community-maintained project. She enjoys traveling to speak at conferences, appearing on podcasts, mentoring others, and sharing what she’s learned with the world.
Charity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io. She pioneered the concept of modern Observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse (acquired by Facebook), Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O’Reilly). She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.
Twenty years ago Sue Smith took a free computer science course in a desperate bid to escape a decade of low paid service jobs, and discovered she was quite good at writing code. This had such a life-changing effect that she focused the rest of her career on enabling people to learn skills that might in turn connect them to similar opportunities.
Leading education strategy at Postman and then developer experience at community platform Glitch, Sue has developed a niche for creating experiences that support learning.
Adrian Cockcroft is a technology strategy advisor and partner at OrionX.net (ex Amazon Sustainability, AWS, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun Microsystems, CCL).
You might have heard of him.
Danilo Campos works at Posthog doing AI stuff. He developed an early fascination with the strategic landscape of technology, seeing the rise of microprocessors as a high-stakes “chess game” played by the architects of the future. This lifelong obsession, fueled by everything from industry legal sagas to online flamewars, formed the foundation of his career. He spent time in Silicon Valley, building software at the height of the last technology cycle, and has since focused on demystifying computing through education.
Chad Metcalfe is CEO of Continue. Previously head of strategy at Daytona, he also worked at Arch Rock, Cloudera, WibiData, Puppet, Docker, and Gitpod. His career, marked by versatility, has spanned software engineering, sales leadership, and forging strategic alliances.
Monki Gras 