Maria Gutierrez

Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom

Maria is Senior Director of Engineering and Co-Site Lead for Intercom London. She also leads Intercom's global R&D Operations function with a focus on building a more efficient and effective Product and Engineering organisation at scale. With 20 years of experience in the software industry, Maria has previously led globally distributed teams at LivingSocial and FreeAgent.

Han Yuan

Founder and CEO of Post-PC Labs

Han Yuan is the founder and CEO of Post-PC Labs, LLC. Before Post-PC Labs, Han was SVP of Engineering at Upwork, where he led one of the world's most distributed engineering teams: 350+ engineers in 40 countries around the world. Han was part of the leadership team that helped take the company public in 2018. Prior to his time at Upwork, Han was an influential mobile engineering leader, having incubated world-class teams for eBay and Netflix.

Kelly Waters

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at 101 Ways

With 35 years experience in the tech industry, Kelly has a deep understanding of the tech space and what it takes to bring about successful product development and delivery. In 2010, Kelly was recognised for his work by the agile community when he won an award for being the ‘Most Valuable Agile Player in the UK’. In 2016 he also won an award for ‘most popular online contributor’ in the agile community. He started 101 Ways with the aim to improve and enrich people’s lives through technology, by helping technology leaders solve challenging problems and build great digital products. Since then 101 Ways has gone from strength to strength, quickly becoming one of the most sought-after technology consultancies in London.

Charity Majors

CTO of Honeycomb

CTO of Honeycomb, ex-Facebook, ex-Parse, ex-Linden Lab; operations engineer who accidentally ends up in charge of the databases.

Abby Kearns

CTO at Puppet

With nearly twenty years in the tech world, Abby Kearns is a true veteran of the technology industry. Her lengthy career has spanned product marketing, product management and consulting across Fortune 500 companies and startups alike. At Puppet, she will lead the vision and direction of its current and future enterprise product portfolio. Prior to joining Puppet, Abby was the Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation where she focused on driving the Foundation’s vision and growing the open source project. Through her tenure, Abby built an install base that included more than half of the Fortune 500. Abby has deep cloud experience. At Pivotal, she drove the adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and at Verizon, she led the Product Management teams dedicated to the early days of cloud services. Her background also includes operations spanning companies such as Totality, EDS, and Sabre.

James Shore

Principal Consultant

James Shore teaches, writes, and consults on Agile software development. He is a recipient of the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, co-author of The Art of Agile Development, and co-creator of the Agile Fluency® Model.

Rachana Kumar

VP of Engineering at Etsy

Rachana Kumar is an award winning, global minded industry leader with a passion for using innovative technology to help others. In her current role as VP of Engineering at Etsy, she leads several product engineering teams, directing engineering initiatives that impact over 2.3 million creative entrepreneurs and 45 million active buyers.

Matias Woloski

Co-Founder and CTO at Auth0

Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder and CTO at Auth0, where he contributes to the vision and long term innovation of the company. From building teams to building great software, Matias has decades of experience working with everyone from Fortune 500 to start-ups.

Andy Skipper

Founder and Chief Coach at CTO Craft

Andy has led startup engineering teams as CTO since 2006, including Made.com, and was the first CTO at Comic Relief, one of the largest charities in the UK.

He now runs CTO Craft, a mentoring community and coaching practice focused on CTOs and technology leaders, with thousands of members, spanning the globe, where he helps technologists get to grips with senior leadership and management, culture and operations alongside a number of other experienced CTO mentors and strategists.

Johnny Ray Austin

CTO at Till

Johnny is an experienced hands-on engineering executive focused on shipping world-class products. He has built and led high-performing, globally-distributed engineering teams and is a strong advocate for engineering operational excellence. Johnny is also an international public speaker - speaking on topics such as engineering leadership, system design, and the JavaScript programming language.

Pau Minoves

CTO at Typeform

Pau Minoves is a tech leader with a passion for scaling up high performance teams. Currently CTO at Typeform, Pau has been helping organizations manage success in domains as diverse as electronic voting, media and M&A operations.