Open Source North

Amy Browne, Vice President of IT Innovation @ Prime Therapeutics - Driving Change: Prime Therapeutics' Digital Transformation Journey

Amy Gebhardt, Engineering Leader @ Passage by 1Password - Wait. Are passwords like skinny jeans now?

Andrew Tjossem, Lead DevOps Engineer @ BI Worldwide - Running Apps in Kubernetes: I Broke Them So You Don't Have To

Anitha Perumalla , Vice President, Digital Innovation and Architecture @ U.S. Bank - Staying ahead of trends: fostering curiosity for innovation and leadership

Ashutosh Abhinav, Director of Engineering @ Target - Handle Large Data on Edge at Scale

Ben Spain, Principal Engineer @ Thrivent - Building High-Performing Software Engineering Teams

Bob Longmore, Technical Solutions Architect @ World Wide Technology - Automating Toil In Your Day-to-Day Life

Cameron Lis Marcott, Consultant (ML Engineering) @ SDG - Throwback Thursday: Old School Optimization Using Newfangled Machine Learning

Canceled, null @ null - Canceled - Beginner's Guide to building Autonomous AI Agents with Eliza Framework

Chike Okonta, Software Developer @ HealthPartners - AI Networks

Chris Diller, Product Transformation Director @ BCBSM - Ready, Set, Go! Launching Product Teams with Facilitated Training, Hypersprints, and Immersive Learning

Christopher Gerber, Solution Architect @ Keyva, Inc. - Thinking DX: Designing platforms developers enjoy

Clea Ostendorf, CEO & CoFounder @ Wolfpack Security - Who Owns Security in DevSecOps?

Craig Johnson, Vice President of IT Infrastructure & Operations @ Prime Therapeutics - Driving Change: Prime Therapeutics' Digital Transformation Journey

Dan Bliss, Principal Trainer @ BCBSMN - Ready, Set, Go! Launching Product Teams with Facilitated Training, Hypersprints, and Immersive Learning

Dane Dunham, Lead Accessibility Specialists @ Digital Accessibility by WeCo - What You Don't Know Hurts Your Users: Filling the Accessibility Knowledge Gap in the OS Community

David Laribee, CEO & Cofounder @ Nerd/Noir - From Technical Debt to Product Investment: A Playbook for Sustainable Software Development

David Wroe, Product Architect & Technology Evangelist @ NMDP - Saving Lives with Serverless Technology

Derek Winters, Sr Principal Software Cloud Engineer @ Medtronic - Accelerating Platform Engineering with Internal Developer Portals: Medtronic's Journey

Erin Verbeck-Lane, Staff Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer @ Tanium - Open Source Tooling and Best Practices to Improve Vulnerability Management

Grey Lovelace, Senior Software Consultant, Coach, and GenAI Specialist @ Source Allies - Measuring GenAI Solutions

Jacob Noble, Principal Software Engineer @ C.H. Robinson - Beyond the Chatbot: Delivering Business Value with LLMs.

Jake Durocher, Senior Solutions Engineer @ HashiCorp - Embracing a Zero Trust Architecture

Jake Hookom, EVP of Product @ Perforce - How Minnesota Nice is Ruining Your Product

Jenna Pederson, Staff Developer Advocate @ Pinecone - A Conversation with your Architecture

Jessica Garson, Senior Developer Advocate @ Elastic - From Testing to Observing: Synthetic Monitoring Unpacked

Joel Tosi, Co-Founder @ Dojo and Co - Systems Thinking - Visualizing Relationships and Knowing Where to Act

Juarez Barbosa Junior, Sr. Principal Java Developer Evangelist - DevRel Director @ Oracle - Solving Complex Problems with AI Agents Design Patterns Using Spring AI

Justin Grammens, Founder + CEO @ Recursive Awesome - DeepSeek: The Open-Source AI That Changed the Game

Kassie Gibbons, UX Designer @ RBA - Breaking Free from Dark Patterns: Designing User-Centric Experiences

Katie Pimlott, Senior Content Creator @ Infinite Campus - Using Diataxis to Improve Documentation Clarity and Usability

Kelby Stine, Tech Lead @ Sovos, Inc. - Building a Test Automation Framework From The Test Upward

Kelly Calendine, Client Director @ Dev 10 - Open Source Tooling and Best Practices to Improve Vulnerability Management

Kevin Hakanson, Sr. Solutions Architect @ AWS - A Conversation with your Architecture

Kurt Wiersma, Principal Cloud Architect @ Punch Through - Using HTMX to make awesome server side web apps

Lanna Niemeyer, Vice President of Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, Agile Center of Excellence, and IT Portfolio @ Prime Therapeutics - Driving Change: Prime Therapeutics' Digital Transformation Journey

Luke Schlangen, Developer Advocate @ Google - Full Stack Improv

Lynn Wehrman, Founder/President @ Digital Accessibility by WeCo - What You Don't Know Hurts Your Users: Filling the Accessibility Knowledge Gap in the OS Community

Matt Rein, Lead Solution Engineer @ Dynatrace - Observability for Developers

Matt Vincent, Founder @ Source Allies - Measuring GenAI Solutions

Meagan Taylor, UX Designer II @ Riot Games - Design like a Troll: Navigating the Unhappy Paths

Mitch Giannini, Principal Software Cloud Engineer @ Medtronic - Accelerating Platform Engineering with Internal Developer Portals: Medtronic's Journey

Nancy King, CTO @ RB Global - From Legacy to Leading Edge: How Mid-Sized Companies Can Compete in the Modernization Game

Nate Miller, Senior Content Creator @ Infinite Campus - Using Diataxis to Improve Documentation Clarity and Usability

Neil Buesing, CTO & Co-founder @ Kinetic Edge - Bite Size Streams: Learning Kafka Streams Concepts One Simple Topology at a Time

Nick Roseth, Chief Explorer @ Explore Design - Agentic Ai and the Age of Autonomy

Paul DeBettignies, Founder @ Launch Hiring, LLC - Managing Your Tech Career - 2025

Pete Wall, Staff Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs - User-centric Helm chart design: Cutting the values.yaml file by 90%

PJ Hagerty, Lead, AI Advocacy @ IBM - AI & Ethics: what we should be pondering

Ryan Belgrave, Staff Software Engineer I @ Confluent - But we have AWS at home: It runs on optimism, compromises, and open source

Tiffany Lauria, VP Execution & Value Delivery @ BCBSMN - Ready, Set, Go! Launching Product Teams with Facilitated Training, Hypersprints, and Immersive Learning

Todd Gardner, President @ Request Metrics - Does Web Performance Actually Matter for SEO?

Torey Lomenda, VP - Solution Delivery @ Improving MN - Solution Architecture: A Magical Journey from Context to Code

Travis Gosselin, Distinguished Software Engineer @ SPS Commerce - Crafting Consistent APIs at Scale: Embracing Linting & Reusable Models

Tyler Melone, Lead Accessibility Specialist @ Digital Accessibility by WeCo - What You Don't Know Hurts Your Users: Filling the Accessibility Knowledge Gap in the OS Community

Varun Dhawan, Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft - Transform apps with GenAI capabilities for PostgreSQL

Vivienne Whitfield, Associate Director Product @ Best Buy - Feedback Bites: Practical Strategies for Effective Communication (and Sanity)

Zach Hughes, VP, Information Technology @ CHS - Leading and Adapting to Change: Embracing the Future, Managing Doubt, and Cultivating Flexibility

Zac Skalko, Lead Software Engineer @ Cargill - A Fond Farewell to create-react-app: React at work post CRA