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Ingerid designs slim and fun user experiences through adequate methodology. She believes that selecting the right techniques is one of the keys to a successful result. In her current position as Interaction designer in DNB, she helps the bank to rule digital banking. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the University in Bergen, and has a long and various experience within interaction design for different domains. Her background also includes software development, university teaching, academic paper writing, prototyping management, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics. Her background includes university teaching and software development in a number of different domains. She has authored four books and numerous articles and is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process.
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@mattbarcomb
Matt Barcomb is passionate about building collaborative, cross-functional teams; enjoys being out-of-doors; loves punning; and thrives on guiding organizations towards holistic, sustainable, emergent improvement. Matt started programming as a wee lad and eventually wound up getting paid for it. It took him nearly 10 years before he realized that the "people problem" was the biggest issue facing most software development. Since then he has spent his time and energy trying to find interesting ways of making the business-software universe a better place to work, play and do business. Matt currently resides in Cleveland and is employed with LeanDog where he keeps especially busy with organizational transformations, and shares his insights on his blog http://blog.risingtideharbor.com/.
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@lanettecream
Lanette Creamer likes testing software even more than Diet Coke and cats. After working for a decade at Adobe, including leading coordinated testing across products on the Creative Suites, Lanette jumped into independent consulting. Throughout her career, Lanette has evangelized advancement of real-time human thought over process solutions in software quality. Testing should be customized, using a context appropriate balance of automation and tool-assisted creative techniques to achieve effective coverage. Advocating collaboration, Lanette believes it is a powerful solution when facing complex technical challenges. Find Lanette on her well-known TestyRedhead blog, on Twitter, and occasionally in industry magazines and technical papers.
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@OlafLewitz
Olaf is an agile42 Coach, Lean Procrastinator and Linchpin. He's passionate about making business better instead of busier. “Prepare to be surprised” is a motto he lives and works by (and it goes both ways!). As a coach, his motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go." You can find him on Twitter as @OlafLewitz. He blogs at http://hhgttg.de/blog/.
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@fgeorge52
Fred George is a consultant with over 44 years experience in the industry including over twenty years doing object programming and over a dozen years doing Agile/XP. He counts at least 70 languages with which he has written code. He gave the first Agile/XP experience report at OOPSLA in 1999 about an embedded system done in Java, and has mentored many clients in use of objects in Java under an XP process. He has shared the stage at JavaOne with Martin Fowler, acting as his foil, and assisted in XP Immersion sessions with Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, and Robert Martin. Fred joined ThoughtWorks in 2003, delivering yet more projects using agile processes. In 2007, he joined the London Internet advertising firm, Forward, bringing Agile practices to all aspects of the business, leaving to pursue industry change at the end of 2011. He has been writing about the post-agile work at Forward under the moniker of Programmer Anarchy. He believes in objects, Lean processes, fun in programming, and the client's successes. Oh, and he still writes code!
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@KevlinHenney
Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He helps teams and individuals adopt techniques and improve their software development practice through training, mentoring and reviewing. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites. Kevlin is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know site and book.
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@objo
Joe is a father, business owner, speaker and developer. In 2006 he co-founded EdgeCase, a leading Ruby and Ruby on Rails training and consulting company. They have had a tremendous amount of success helping companies as large as Ingersoll Rand, GAP and AT&T Interactive as well as those startups still in the inception stage. Through a partnership he has been giving training for well over three years on testing and development with Ruby on Rails. He is a speaker and has spoken at conferences ranging from RailsConf to numerous regional conferences and countless user groups.
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@ivanagancheva
Ivana has experience as an Agile developer and change agent. She is a leader and a community contributor. She is a relentless critical thinker who likes to listen between the lines. She strives for continuous improvement, inspires and links people. She lives in Trondheim, and adores rollerblading.
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@abdullin
Rinat Abdullin is passionate about practical simplicity and pushing state of the art in development. During the day he works as Technology Leader at Lokad.com - small French company (delivering forecasts as a service), winner of the Windows Azure Partner Award 2010 by Microsoft. Rinat enjoys travelling, continuous learning and sharing with the community via his blog (http://abdullin.com), Lokad.CQRS sample project (http://lokad.github.com/lokad-cqrs/) and by co-hosting “Distributed Podcast” (http://distributedpodcast.com). Rinat is also a co-founder in My Dream City charity for kids without parents (http://mydreamcity.org/).
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@felixge
Felix Geisendörfer is a node.js core developer and has experienced it’s strength and shortcomings first-hand while building transloadit.com. When not event-looping, he loves going street unicycling and watching squirrels.
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@jasongorman
Jason Gorman of Codemanship is a software development practitioner, trainer, coach and author based in London with two decades’ experience working with teams in a wide range of industries. He chairs the Software Craftsmanship conference in the UK, and is a contributor to other conferences including QCon, Software Practice Advancement, XPDay, Agile Finland, JAX London and CITCON Europe. Jason is a patron of the Bletchley Park Trust and a campaigner for getting more children programming.
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Martin is an independent security consultant and owner of PervaSec (http://www.pervasec.nl). His main working area is (software) security in general, from awareness to implementation. In his daily work, Martin is responsible for education in application security matters, advise and implementation of application security measures. Further, he is involved in OWASP as member of the Dutch chapter board and chair of the Global Education Committee. Next to this he contributes to several projects as the OWASP Education Project and the OWASP Academy Portal.
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