Our Speakers

Kerry Oliver (JustPickOneUK)

Content Creator

JustPickOneUk is a YouTube channel made by an almost 40 something looking to have adventures and share them in the hopes of making it a career.

Rachel Adedoyin

Product Strategy and Innovation Professional

Rachel is a Product Strategy and Innovation professional.

Tiago Amoroso

Game Developer

They are a software engineer specializing in data science and game development. They have an upcoming Unity based commercial mobile game release called 'Scrolly Rolly' and a first-class dissertation exploring drone swarm technology for Search & Rescue applications.

Dr Rushan Arshad

Productivity Data Scientist

Dr. Rushan Arshad is a Data Scientist and holds a PhD in Computer Science. They have a passion for solving complex business challenges through data-driven solutions. With extensive experience Rushan specializes in building innovative data products that enhance efficiency in the retail and hospitality industries.

Claudia De Jeu Boronat

Lead AI Engineer

AI Engineering Lead with a strong track record of driving innovation and breaking down complex AI topics into practical, accessible insights. Currently leading the strategy and development of Agentic AI workflows, following a successful demonstration of their potential to senior leaders in the insurance industry. My expertise spans Agentic AI, Generative AI, Drift Detection, and Computer Vision.

Richard Brough

Software Professional (Machine Learning and Applications)

Highly experienced software professional specialising in machine learning and application development.

George Buckingham

Head of Development at Yammayap

As the head of development at Yammayap, I manage a team of developers that create bespoke software solutions that help businesses to grow. I have a passion for developing great software and helping others to do the same.

Stuart Caborn

Distinguished Engineer

A seasoned software engineer with experience of a variety of delivery roles.

Desmond Ezo-Ojile

Senior Software Engineer

As a lead software engineer at Lite Services, I manage a team of five software engineers and coordinate development efforts across multiple projects, using agile methodologies and Jira tools. I collaborate with product management and UX design teams to develop a responsive design system for the company's suite of applications, ensuring a consistent user experience across all products. I also designed the architecture for a social media bot platform, leveraging Docker, AWS, Http Proxies, Nestjs, Nextjs, and Puppeteer technologies.

Maria Gaganova

Digital Transformation Catalyst

Chloe Greenstreet

Graduate Software Engineer

Graduate Software Engineer, working on cloud migration and infrastructure as code in a fast-paced DevOps environment. I recently completed my BSc in Software Engineering with First Class Honours and now, I'm refining my dissertation project privately with the goal of publishing and potentially commercialising it. While I'm not working on any public projects at the moment, I occasionally post personal development work on GitHub: https: //github.com/Choggsy

Dan Lambeth

Technology Lead

As a Cloud & Technology Leader, I specialize in designing and scaling secure, cloud-first infrastructure that helps startups grow with confidence. I've led technology teams at Skyports and 288 group, designing scalable Azure-based cloud platforms, ensuring security compliance with security regulations, and optimizing cloud costs while maintaining high availability.

Dr Sofia Meacham

Principal Academic

Dayton Meyer

Frank Milsom

Retired Lecturer in Software Engineering

Kevin Djabaku Ocansey

AI Engineer

Kevin is a recent Data Science and AI Graduate with a passion for building intelligent systems, primarily with Python. A multiple hackathon winner, he considers himself an AI Engineer at heart, with a strong foundation in both software engineering and data Science. Still exploring where to specialise, Kevin is driven by curiosity and a love for community, most recently volunteering at the Reconnect conference through the Sam and Ray podcast.

Mark Oliver

Principal Software Engineer

Mark Oliver is a seasoned Principal Software Engineer and Team Leader with over 25 years of experience in the software industry. Throughout his career, he has developed multi-million pound software solutions for the aerospace, e-commerce, and telephony sectors. With more than a decade of team leadership, Mark has successfully guided teams of various sizes, leaving a lasting impact on both his colleagues and the projects they have delivered. He is also the founder of the {dev.talk} community.

Oliver Pauffley

Haskell Nerd

Haskell nerd and NixOS fan.

Andrew Poole

Lead Software Engineer

Andrew Poole started writing code for a living in 2005, most recently as a Senior Backend Engineer at Flagstone, and ClearBank before that. He loves solving problems, design and architecture, communicating ideas and the incredible creativity of software engineering, especially now with LLMs and agentic tooling. He's interested in event sourcing, immutable architecture and distributed systems. He also enjoys mentoring others and building great team culture. He has previously been a successful team lead, but what really drives him is striving to write elegant, intentional code which is easy to understand and maintain. He absolutely loves C# and only really dabbles in other languages in order to write better C#. Outside of work Andrew is a husband and father of 2 who enjoys making music, especially playing bass guitar and making things in his shed. Andrew started speaking at meetups and conferences in 2024.

Paul Reardon

Principal Engineer

During my 15+ years in enterprise technology, spanning Australia’s Judicial and London’s FinTech scene, I have woven a tapestry of expertise in: robust software architecture, scalable distributed systems, event driven architecture, security, and cloud infrastructure. Passion fuels my work; I contribute to open-source software and champion DevOps collaboration, believing shared responsibility unlocks the true potential of technology.

Andy Ross

Tech Recruiter

Advised multiple start-ups who achieved successful exits and built teams that serviced the hiring needs of enterprise orgs including Microsoft, Sony PlayStation, Epic Games, Electronic Arts (EA) and Rockstar Games.

Miguel Salvador

Full stack Software Engineer

A Full stack software engineer with more than 3 years of development experience in the industry.

Jamie Savin

Software Architect at Graphnet Health

Adam Scholey

Software Engineer

A highly self-motivated software engineer with a focus on backend microservices and event-driven architecture.

Chris Sherry

Engineering Manager at Passenger

Engineering Manager specialising in web and backend systems, building high-performing, people-first teams with strong commercial focus. Active in the PHP community, I've organised initiatives, spoken at conferences, and lead digital delivery for a charity festival that has raised over £850,000.

Seemin Suleri

VP of Engineering

I help companies navigate cultural transformation through emotionally intelligent strategy, narrative insight, and systemic clarity. My work lives at the intersection of human presence and organizational truth, making culture not just visible, but deeply felt and sustainably changed. The result? Teams shift. Tension softens. Coherence returns. And high performance becomes a natural outcome of alignment not pressure. Some call it magic. I call it what happens when people feel safe enough to show up fully.

Rose T

Founder, LGBTBrickworks

I'm a 22 year old Trans woman and have had an unusual life story - I want to use my skills and platform to educate about Autism & neurodiversity, trans rights and broadly sharing love and respect for each other especially when it comes to mental health.

Ganesh Tambat

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Highly accomplished and results-oriented technology leader with 20+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, consistently driving the conceptualization, architecture, and successful delivery of complex software solutions within the Microsoft .NET/Azure and Salesforce ecosystems. Proven expertise in building and scaling cloud-based automation platforms with a focus on high volume, high availability, and distributed computing on Azure. Deep understanding of Clean Code, Clean Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design principles, coupled with hands-on experience in implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Herve Tribouilly

Solution Architect

Herve brings two decades of hands-on experience building and evolving complex platforms, with a strong focus on eCommerce, React-based frontends, and decoupling legacy systems. They focus on system clarity, performance, and long-term maintainability — not just code delivery

Shalom Vic-Jumbo

Medical Doctor

Liam Westley

Head of Engineering and loud suit wearer

Currently working for Clear.Bank, Liam Westley was previously Head of Engineering at FreemarketFX, a fintech startup specializing in foreign currency trading, with a cloud native platform in Azure, helping expand a single development and QA team from eight people, to five teams, while obtaining an Ireland banking licence and implementing full Azure regional redundancy. Previous to FreemarketFX, Liam worked at Huddle helping the mobile and desktop teams create apps to play nicely with microservices. At Criteria MX, a digital media startup and he has worked as a consultant specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system was used by QVC UK for eight years to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen. Liam is also responsible for the ticketing system for Hat Trick Productions which provides e-tickets to shows such as Have I Got News For You and Room 101. Liam has worked for chellomedia, GMTV, BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems, project managed the launch of the GMTV web site, was key to delivering the first interactive television chat service in the UK for BSkyB and helped launch the first live shopping channel in the Netherlands.