Brian is a Java Champion and a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping developers get the most out of Azure. Before Joining Microsoft, he was a program manager, evangelist, solution architect, consultant, developer, and author at IBM, Deloitte, and other companies. Find him on Twitter @bbenz. A current list of Brian's talks can be found at https://aka.ms/brianspeaking

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is currently available in early release.

Amy Russ is currently the Vice President of Customer Analytics at Synchrony. She has over 11 years of experience as a data professional, having had the pleasure of seeing data move from being cool in Microsoft Access to the current 4th Industrial Revolution. Additionally, she also excels at being able to explain complex topics to individuals at all levels. Outside of data, Amy enjoys using her hands to create. She is currently exploring pottery (both hand-building and using the wheel) and baking (similar to low-code data analytics/science, minimal ingredient baking recipes are one of her current obsessions).

Ken Kousen is the author of the Pragmatic Programmers books "Mockito Made Clear" and "Help Your Boss Help You", the O'Reilly books "Kotlin Cookbook", "Modern Java Recipes", and "Gradle Recipes for Android", and the Manning book "Making Java Groovy". He is a regular speaker on the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference tour, and has spoken at conferences all over the world. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne Rock Star, and a Devnexus Rock Star. In addition to various industry certifications, he has BS degrees in both Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I.

Jonathan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Moderne, the company that automates mass-scale code refactoring and analysis. Before that, he founded OpenRewrite, every developers open-source auto-refactoring tool, while at Netflix and went on to found the Micrometer project as a member of the Spring Team. He was a Senior Software Engineer at Gradle and a Senior Engineering Manager at Pivotal. Jonathan is a Java Champion as well as the author of “SRE with Java Microservices” and a co-author of “Automated Code Remediation” (both from O’Reilly). Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonkschneider/

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka® . With a rich background in implementing and advocating for distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, Viktor excels in open-source technologies. He is passionate about assisting architects, developers, and operators in crafting systems that are not only low in latency and scalable but also highly available. As a Java Champion and an esteemed speaker, Viktor is known for his insightful presentations at top industry events like JavaOne, Devoxx, Kafka Summit, and QCon. His expertise spans distributed systems, real-time data streaming, JVM, and DevOps. Viktor has co-authored "Enterprise Web Development" from O'Reilly and "Apache Kafka® in Action" from Manning.  Follow Viktor on X - @gamussa to stay updated with Viktor's latest thoughts on technology, his gym and food adventures, and insights into open-source and developer advocacy.