Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology. He’s always been fascinated by what comes next, and he writes and speaks extensively on a range of subjects. At Battery, he advises the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence.

Before joining Battery, Adrian helped lead Netflix’s migration to a large scale, highly available public-cloud architecture and the open sourcing of the cloud-native NetflixOSS platform. Prior to that at Netflix he managed a team working on personalization algorithms and service-oriented refactoring.

Adrian was a founding member of eBay Research Labs, developing advanced mobile applications and even building his own homebrew phone, years before iPhone and Android launched. As a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems he wrote the best-selling “Sun Performance and Tuning” book and was chief architect for High Performance Technical Computing.

He graduated from The City University, London with a Bsc in Applied Physics and Electronics, and was named one of the top leaders in Cloud Computing in 2011 and 2012 by SearchCloudComputing magazine.

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Dan has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net/blog.

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is the Director of Organizational Performance & Analytics at Chef, a configuration management and IT automation leader. She is an academic partner at the Social Analytics Institute at Clemson University and received her PhD in Management Information Systems and her Masters in Accounting from the University of Arizona.

Prior to her role at Chef, Nicole was an Assistant Professor at Utah State University and Pepperdine University. She is an expert in IT adoption and use, DevOps impacts, and communication and knowledge management practices, particularly among technical professionals. Her background spans analytics, enterprise storage (specializing in RAID performance), cost allocation, user experience, and systems design and development.

She is a featured speaker at industry and academic events and is involved in women in technology initiatives.

Joshua Corman is the Chief Technology Officer for Sonatype. Previously, Corman served as a security researcher and strategist at Akamai Technologies, The 451 Group, and IBM Internet Security Systems.

A respected innovator, he co-founded Rugged Software and IamTheCavalry to encourage new security approaches in response to the world’s increasing dependence on digital infrastructure. Josh's unique approach to security in the context of human factors, adversary motivations and social impact has helped position him as one of the most trusted names in security.

He is also an adjunct faculty for Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, IANS Research, and a Fellow at the Ponemon Institute. Josh received his bachelor's degree in philosophy, graduating summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.

Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology. He’s always been fascinated by what comes next, and he writes and speaks extensively on a range of subjects. At Battery, he advises the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence.

Before joining Battery, Adrian helped lead Netflix’s migration to a large scale, highly available public-cloud architecture and the open sourcing of the cloud-native NetflixOSS platform. Prior to that at Netflix he managed a team working on personalization algorithms and service-oriented refactoring.

Adrian was a founding member of eBay Research Labs, developing advanced mobile applications and even building his own homebrew phone, years before iPhone and Android launched. As a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems he wrote the best-selling “Sun Performance and Tuning” book and was chief architect for High Performance Technical Computing.

He graduated from The City University, London with a Bsc in Applied Physics and Electronics, and was named one of the top leaders in Cloud Computing in 2011 and 2012 by SearchCloudComputing magazine.

Shannon Lietz has over two decades of experience pursuing advanced security defenses and next generation security solutions. Ms. Lietz is currently the DevSecOps Leader for Intuit where she is responsible for setting and driving the company’s cloud security strategy, roadmap and implementation in support of corporate innovation. Previous to joining Intuit, Ms. Lietz worked for ServiceNow where she was responsible for the cloud security engineering efforts. Prior to this, Ms. Lietz worked for Sony where she drove the implementation of a new secure data center and led crisis management for a large-scale security breach. She has founded a metrics company, led major initiatives for hosting organizations as a Master Security Architect, developed security software and consulted for many Fortune 500 organizations. Ms. Lietz holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Mary’s College.

Michael Brunton-Spall is senior technical architect at the Government Digital Service. He travels the country helping government agencies and services embrace the digital now. Previously, Michael worked at the Guardian for six years, helping to build and scale the website, building the API, helping run the platform team, and acting as developer advocate, talking at conferences and events.

James is a leader in the DevOps and InfoSec communities, and most of his research and work is at the intersection of these two communities.

He is a supporter of the Rugged Software movement and he coined the term Rugged DevOps. Seeing the gap in software testing, James founded an open source project, Gauntlt, to serve as a Rugged Testing Framework. He is the author of the Hands-on Gauntlt book.

He has worked in environments ranging from large, web-scale enterprises to small, rapid-growth startups. He is a dynamic speaker on topics in DevOps, InfoSec, cloud security, security testing and Rugged DevOps.

James is the creator and founder of the Lonestar Application Security Conference (lascon.org), which is the largest annual security conference in Austin, TX. He is a chapter leader for the OWASP Austin chapter and he holds the following security certifications: CISSP, GWAPT, GCFW, GSEC and CCSK and he serves on the GIAC Advisory Board.

In his spare time, he is raising children and trying to learn how to bake bread.

David Etue is vice president of business development for Gemalto's Identity & Data Protection group (which was formed by a combination of SafeNet Data Protection solutions, which was acquired by Gemalto in January 2015, and Gemalto’s eBanking and IdA business groups.

He has global responsibility for product and solution partnerships including strategic alliances, technology partners, OEM sales, cloud service providers and subject matter expert teams.

Prior to this role, he lead corporate development strategy for SafeNet, Inc., and was a member of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) office with focus on market trends, cloud, portfolio strategy and partner integration.

David is also a faculty member with IANS, a leading provider of in-depth security insights. At IANS, David is a part-time faculty member providing subject matter expertise on information protection, security strategy, and network security to provide actionable advice to information security, risk management, and compliance leaders.

Moreover, David has previously wroked as cyber security practice lead at management consultancy PRTM and been Vice President of Products and Markets at Fidelis Security Systems, and Vice President of Marketing at Celcorp and led product management for a variety of technology products and services at Global eXchange Services (GXS).

David is a Certified Information Privacy Professional holding both the CIPP and CIPP/G government privacy extension, and a Certified CISO. He is a top-rated public speaker with experience covering security topics globally. He completed GE's Six Sigma Black Belt Training and is Green Belt Certified. He is also trained in the Pragmatic Marketing Framework.

Moreover, he has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Delaware, where is he a member of the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics Alumni Board and the Executive Mentor Program.

Joshua Corman is the Chief Technology Officer for Sonatype. Previously, Corman served as a security researcher and strategist at Akamai Technologies, The 451 Group, and IBM Internet Security Systems.

A respected innovator, he co-founded Rugged Software and IamTheCavalry to encourage new security approaches in response to the world’s increasing dependence on digital infrastructure. Josh's unique approach to security in the context of human factors, adversary motivations and social impact has helped position him as one of the most trusted names in security.

He is also an adjunct faculty for Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, IANS Research, and a Fellow at the Ponemon Institute. Josh received his bachelor's degree in philosophy, graduating summa cum laude, from the University of New Hampshire.

Adrian is the author of 'The Morning Paper' where he reviews an interesting CS paper every weekday. When he's not writing about distributed systems, he also serves as a Venture Partner for Accel Partners in London and advises a number of Accel's portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Accel, Adrian held CTO roles at Pivotal, VMware, and SpringSource.

Ines Sombra is an Engineer at Fastly, where she spends her time helping the Web go faster. Ines holds an M.S. in Computology with an emphasis on Cheesy 80’s Rock Ballads. She has a fondness for steak, fernet, and a pug named Gordo. In a previous life, she was a Data Engineer.

Barry O'Reilly works with ThoughtWorks, consulting with leading global organizations on continuous improvement using lean and agile practices and principles. He has been an entrepreneur, employee, and consultant. After several startups, his focus shifted towards the enterprise where he has explored the intersection of business model innovation, product development and organisation culture. He is a co-author of Lean Enterprise, the latest edition to the Eric Ries Lean Series with O'Reilly Media.

Website: http://barryoreilly.com/

James Findlay is Chief Information Officer at HS2 Limited and Technology Leader for the Department for Transport. James is an engineer by background and has worked both in the private and public sectors in the UK and overseas for over 25 years, as a systems engineer and programme director delivering national and international IT and communications systems and business change programmes, with significant use of Agile and Lean techniques. He has been a technical committee member for UN and Non-Governmental Organisations developing international standards for systems, and more recently he has sat on the government’s Chief Technology Officer’s committee and now the Technology Leader’s Network developing and supporting the delivery of improved government technology and digital services.

Karen Martin, President of The Karen Martin Group, has a passion for studying and improving businesses. She cut her teeth on process and work systems in her early career where she built and managed several rapid-growth startups. Since then, she has helped organizations in nearly every sector improve their performance, including AT&T, Chevron, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Epson, GlaxoSmithKline, Intel, and the Mayo Clinic. She has a special interest in the development of and proper use of technology.

She’s an ardent believer in Lean management systems. When people express skepticism about operating according to Lean principles, she counters with “why would you not?”

Karen is also a passionate educator. She’s a two-time Shingo Research Award winning author of Value Stream Mapping and The Outstanding Organization. Her first two books continue to shape how companies approach rapid improvement: The Kaizen Event Planner and Metrics-Based Process Mapping. She teaches in the Lean Enterprise program at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as an industry advisor to the University of San Diego’s Industrial and Systems Engineering program. And her popular monthly webinars draw participation from over 30 countries each month.

To learn more, you can visit Karen at www.ksmartin.com.

Coburn leads the Cloud Performance and Reliability Engineering team at Netflix. His teams work to improve the availability of the Netflix streaming service while concurrently optimizing the performance, efficiency, and scalability of one of the worlds largest cloud footprints. Prior to Netflix, he was at Rearden Commerce, HP, and numerous other companies working to improve the performance of large scale distributed systems.

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is the Director of Organizational Performance & Analytics at Chef, a configuration management and IT automation leader. She is an academic partner at the Social Analytics Institute at Clemson University and received her PhD in Management Information Systems and her Masters in Accounting from the University of Arizona.

Prior to her role at Chef, Nicole was an Assistant Professor at Utah State University and Pepperdine University. She is an expert in IT adoption and use, DevOps impacts, and communication and knowledge management practices, particularly among technical professionals. Her background spans analytics, enterprise storage (specializing in RAID performance), cost allocation, user experience, and systems design and development.

She is a featured speaker at industry and academic events and is involved in women in technology initiatives.

Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, and vFabric. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.

Henk is a software engineer in his heart with more than 25 years of experience in programming and designing software. He built his first amplifiers and computers at high school, studied electronics at the University of Twente and started earning money as an independent programmer and coach. Consequently, Henk spent 15 years as a programmer, consultant, architect, business unit manager, and trainer at Ernst & Young Consulting and Capgemini before joining ING as an IT manager to help in it’s agile transformation. As Chief Architect of ING Domestic Bank in the Netherlands, Henk is responsible for designing the bank, setting the context and the standards for over 300 squads in 13 tribes, the IT Academy, and the automation of IT processes causing friction. Henk is committed to lean and agile principles, devops, continuous delivery and making life for developers and ops engineers easier and more fun.

Frank has been CTO at Dexels for many years, and in that role he has specialised in distributed systems and cloud architectures, mostly in Java. In that role he's been at a comfortable distance from hardware, soaring higher and higher on layers of abstractions, until last year. Then he came across the challenge to venture into the world of wearable computers.

Rachel Davies coaches product development teams at Unruly (tech.unruly.co) in London. She is author of “Agile Coaching” and an invited speaker at industry events around the globe. Her mission is to create workplaces where developers enjoy delivering valuable software. Rachel is a strong advocate of XP approaches and an organiser of Extreme Programmers London meet-up.

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Dan has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net/blog.

Rod Johnson is an independent investor, author and coder--most recently, in Scala. He is the creator of the Spring Framework and was co-founder and CEO of SpringSource. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware, he served as SVP, Application Platform at VMware.

He is the author of several popular and influential books on Java and Java EE, including "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" and "J2EE without EJB" (with Juergen Hoeller).

He sits on the board of five prominent open source companies: Neo Technology, elastic, Typesafe, Meteor and Hazelcast.

Steve Smith has worked at Atlassian for over 8 years and in 3 countries, both as a sysadmin and a developer. Prior to that he worked on tanks and radars in the Outer Hebrides, telecoms systems in Hong Kong, and in startups in Australia. He now works out of Atlassian's UK offices, focusing on high-availability, continuous-deployment, and devops technologies.

Seth Vargo has been a member of the DevOps community for about five years. He is a polyglot software engineer and open source advocate at at HashiCorp. Previously, Seth worked at Chef (Opscode), CustomInk, and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. He is a co-author of O'Reilly's "Learning Chef" and is passionate about eliminating inequality in technology and organizational culture.

When he is not writing software or working on open source, Seth enjoys speaking at local user groups and conferences He is a co-organizer for DevOps Days Pittsburgh and loves all things bacon. You can find him on the Internet under the single moniker "sethvargo".

Nick Galbreath is CTO and Founder of Signal Sciences, a new company focusing on web application defense and security monitoring.  Over the last 20 years, Nick has held leadership positions in number of online advertising, e-commerce and social media companies, including IPONWEB, Etsy, Right Media, UPromise, Friendster, and Open Market, and has consulted for many more.

He is the author of "Cryptography for Internet and Database Applications"  (Wiley), and was awarded a number of patents in the area of social networking.  He holds a master's degree in mathematics from Boston University and currently resides in Los Angeles, California

Patrick Kua is author of “The Retrospective Handbook: A guide for agile teams” and "Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners". Patrick brings harmony to technical and non-technical realms, leading teams and writing software for production systems in .Net, Java and Ruby. He is passionate about working closely with teams, helping them grow and learn with sustainable and long-term change, and sometimes facilitating situations beyond adversity. Moreover, he relies on retrospectives as a basis for improving teams, and is passionate about helping people achieve maximum value from the retrospective practice. You can learn more on his blog.

Laura Paterson has been leading teams for several years in various industries: from banking to television, publishing to local government. She started her career as a developer, growing her leadership skills through observing disparate projects and leadership styles and experimenting within her key leadership philosophy: “Create the conditions for a team to be great”. She is deeply interested in how teams work together, and helping teams become more than the sum of their parts.

Bryan Hunt has been writing software for and running Linux since the late 90’s. His career has spanned consultancy, leadership, and development across a wide spectrum of platforms, including but not limited to, Python, Java, Scala, and now Erlang. He now helps Basho’s customers to achieve their dreams of low latency, high availability nirvana.

London-based hacker Ellie has a passion for the esoteric corners of programming stretching back to her misspent teenage years. During the course of her career she's worked on mission critical systems ranging from avionics to banking security and now devotes her time to writing digital romances in Ruby and Go.

As a responsible parent she enjoys polyhedral dice, home brewing and gothic music.

For the past 20 years Tiberiu 'Tibi' Covaci lived with his family in various exotic places like Sweden, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Romania , and Tenerife. In 2003 he founded Many-core, a company that trained and mentored developers and architects around the world to understand web technologies. He works closely with Microsoft as member of the Developer Guidance Council, as course Author, and as Technology Reviewer for the Microsoft .NET Official Curriculum courses.

Today he lives in London where he works as a Director of Cloud Technology for Aditi Technologies, where he helps customers on their journey to the cloud. He is a member of the Azure Insiders, ASP Insiders and Telerik Insiders groups, IASA Speaker & Trainer, INETA Speaker and Country Lead, founding member of IASA Sweden and IASA Romania, and former member of the MCT Advisory Council. For his passion and contributions Microsoft presented Tibi with the MVP award 6 times.

Based in London, Mandy is a Developer Advocate at Google specializing in Cloud technologies, specifically managed infrastructure and container orchestration. One of her main aims in life is to make the world a better place for developers building applications and microservices in the Cloud. In her spare time Mandy is learning Japanese in the hope of living and working there someday, and she alos likes to play the guitar.

Chris Swan is CTO at Cohesive Networks, a cloud networking and security company founded in 2006 that he joined in early 2013. He previously worked in financial services at UBS, CapitalSCF and Credit Suisse, alternating between being a technologist to bankers and banker to technologists. Prior to the world of financial services Chris was a Combat Systems Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy. He has an MBA from OUBS and a BEng in Electronics Engineering from the University of York.

In his spare time Chris is a keen maker and hacker taking an active role in the London and Brighton communities for Open Source Hardware, Raspberry Pi and the Internet of Things. He is one of the cloud editors at InfoQ, and an advisor to a sovereign wealth fund and a number of tech and fintech startups.

Peter Rodgers is the architect of NetKernel and the father of Resource Oriented Computing. Peter started his research into ROC at Hewlett Packard Labs. When trying to build very large scale software solutions, he discovered that he could afford to "build-one" but the long-tail cost of software dwarves the headline costs.

Martin is the CTO for IBM's Mobile business in the UK and Ireland, setting the technical direction for IBM's go-to-market in mobile, and engaging with clients to ensure they benefit from the full range of IBM's offerings. Martin's career has been spent absorbing new technology and taking it to market, starting with some of IBM's first e-commerce projects in the late '90s and more recently with mobile apps developed in IBM's partnership with Apple.

Andrew is the technical lead for the IBM Cloud Software Services Mobile Practice Europe, working with IBM customers on mobile technologies, especially the IBM MobileFirst platform. He presents extensively on Mobile, and runs the IBM Mobile Tips 'n' Tricks blog, which he co-founded.

Barak Michener is a backend Go developer working on etcd for CoreOS and lead maintainer of Cayley, an open source graph database.

Barak previously worked at Google through the acquisition of Metaweb. At Metaweb he focused on the graph database behind freebase.com. While at Google he worked on structured search using structured data to improve Google Search after some time focusing on music research and multi-model machine learning algorithms. He is inspired by the straightforward energy in New York City.

As a people lead at Zalando, Bhuvaneswary Vijayan guides members of the company's technology team on their personal Tours of Mastery: individualized tracks incorporating skills acquisition and other professional development opportunities. Prior to becoming a People Lead, she built testing strategies for the company's many multidisciplinary projects. Bhuvana joined Zalando from Google, where she was a product specialist for test engineering; she has also worked at Nik Software, Aztecsoft and HP.

Dave Farley is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general.

He is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book 'Continuous Delivery' a regular conference speaker and blogger and one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto.

Dave has been having fun with computers for over 30 years. During that period he has worked on most types of software, from firmware, through tinkering with operating systems and device drivers, to writing games, and commercial applications of all shapes and sizes. He started working in large scale distributed systems about 25 years ago, doing research into the development of loose-coupled, message-based systems - a forerunner of MicroService architectures.

Dave has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, both large and small, in the UK and USA. Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s.

Dave is the former Head of Software development at LMAX Ltd, home of the OSS Disruptor, a company that are well known for the excellence of their code and the exemplary nature of their development process.

Dave is now an independent software developer and consultant, and founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Blog: davefarley.net

Andy Bennett is CTO at Skipjaq, a cloud optimisation and performance management company. After graduating from Imperial College with a degree in Electronic & Electrical Engineering he joined Access Devices Digital Limited where he designed software and FPGAs for the UK's first Dual Tuner Personal Video Recorders. He continued working on Advanced Product Development at Pace Micro Technology before leaving to build distributed database engines at GenieDB. In 2011 he founded Knodium where he applied his finely honed ability to produce software on a shoestring.

Andy is a Technologist that likes to inhabit the void between hardware and the software that runs on it. In his spare time he likes to embark on ambitious projects from scratch: in between prototyping designs for his own handheld computer, digital watch and bluetooth headset, he's currently building a two wheeled, actively balanced, robot.

Allan Kelly advises teams from many different companies and domains on adopting and deepening Agile practices and development in general. He specialises in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy. When he is not with clients he writes far too much.

He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - team centric Agile Software Development" (https://leanpub.com/xanpan), "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (http://www.dialoguesheets.com) and a regular conference speaker. He can be found on Twitter as @allankellynet (http://twitter.com/allankellynet) and blogs (http://blog.allankelly.net).

Eoin Woods is CTO at Endava, the European IT services company. He is an author, a conference speaker and an active member of the London software engineering community. His main technical interests are software architecture, distributed systems and computer security.