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2025 Speakers
The Open Source North Conference is excited to announce the speakers + presentations! Please note, co-presenters and panelists are listed separately, but they reference the same presentation.
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
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
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
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
Nikhil Barthwal, Consulting Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle - Patterns & Practices for Implementing Machine Learning Systems in Production
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
Shivay Lamba, Senior Software Engineer @ Couchbase - Beginner's Guide to building Autonomous AI Agents with Eliza Framework
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
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The 2025 Open Source North Conference will be back at the University of St. Thomas on Thursday, May 29.
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