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  • Aaron Lange

    CTO

    Marketing Architects

    Stop Piloting AI: Start Running the Business With It

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  • Adam Dehnel

    Platform Engineer

    Improving

    The Golden Key to Badass Products

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  • Adam Maser

    Senior AI Engineer

    SPS Commerce

    AI Enablement in the SDLC: A Strategy Sampler

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  • Amy Browne

    VP, Software Engineering

    Prime Therapeutics

    The Enterprise AI Journey: ROI, Adoption, and Smarter Build‑vs‑Buy

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  • Amy Gebhardt

    Senior Engineering Manager

    1Password

    Navigating a Season of Change

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  • Angie Schulke

    Chief Product and Technology Officer

    The Minnesota Star Tribune

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  • Anitha Perumalla

    Senior Vice President

    US Bank

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  • Ben McHone

    Staff Engineering Consultant

    Source Allies

    Self-Improving AI Without Fine-Tuning: Patterns That Work

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  • Brian Repko

    Bioinformatician / Open Source Developer

    Novartis Oncology Research (retired)

    Open Source and the FDA

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  • Chike Okonta

    Software Developer

    HealthPartners

    Building the future with small language models

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  • Clay Cotter

    Director, Information Security Engineering

    Thrivent

    Evolving Security:  Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation

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  • Colin Dean

    Lead AI Engineer / Managing Director

    Target Corp. / Code & Supply

    Make python devex: Towards Red-Green-Refactor in 1 Command with an Old Tool

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  • Dale Rodriguez

    Senior Solutions Engineer

    Chainguard

    Shai-Hulud: What Happened and How Developers Can Protect Themselves

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  • David Norton

    President

    Platformers

    Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms

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  • Dorothy Toth

    Lead User Experience Designer

    BI Worldwide

    The Golden Key to Badass Products

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  • Esse Komlanvi

    Founder

    Nuse & AI for Financial Inclusion Advocate

    Women in AI: Building for Social Good

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  • Ewan Ng

    Senior Staff Software Engineer

    RB Global

    Earning Trust One Metric at a Time

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  • Gaurav Shekhar

    Vice President - Sr Group Applications Manager

    U.S. Bank

    From Firewalls to eBPF: How Cloud-Native Security Is Being Rewritten

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  • Hugo Guerrero

    Principal Technical Product Lead

    Kong Inc

    Leading the Agentic Transformation: A Blueprint for the AI-Native Enterprise

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  • Isaac Johnson

    Sr Staff Cloud Architect

    Abbott

    Let's make an MCP Server!

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  • Jana Gunn

    Sr Director, Advanced Analytics and AI

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

    Balancing Governance and Innovation: Practical Lessons from Healthcare AI

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  • Jana Schmid

    Marketing Director

    CodeWeavers

    Brand Voice in Open Source: Staying Human Without Losing Credibility

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  • Jason Scherschligt

    Head of Product

    Solution Design Group

    Product Rescue: Turning Stalled or Underperforming Products into New Opportunities

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  • Jena Zangs

    Chief Data & AI Officer

    University of St. Thomas

    Women in AI: Building for Social Good

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  • Jenna Pederson

    Head of Developer Relations

    Pinecone

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  • John Benninghoff

    Cybersecurity Consultant

    Security Differently

    Insecure at any speed: why Secure by Design is not enough

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  • John Husemoller

    Senior Solutions Architect

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    From Vibe Coding to AI-DLC: Building with AI Agents Using Kiro IDE

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  • Joshua Jenquist

    Principal Engineer

    Target

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  • Justin Castilla

    Senior Developer Advocate

    Elastic

    Building your own Developer Advocate with Deep Agent!

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  • Justin Grammens

    Founder + CEO

    Lab651

    Spec First, Agents Second: Engineering AI Systems with Discipline

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  • Kate Agnew

    Senior Director of Engineering

    Marriott International, Inc.

    Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms

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  • Kelly Calendine

    Client Director

    Genesis10

    Building the future with small language models

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  • Kevin Klos

    UX Architect

    Beyoncé, Domino's Pizza, and the Web Accessibility Battlefield: What You Must Know

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  • Levi McCormick

    Director of Engineering

    Jamf

    Multi-Cloud Without the Marketing or Designing for Multi-Cloud Without Losing Your Mind

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  • Luke Schlangen

    Developer Advocate

    Google

    Full Stack Improv

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  • Mark Soule

    Principal Engineer

    Improving

    Data Streaming Platform Playbook

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  • Matt Rein

    Lead Solutions Engineer

    Dynatrace

    One Agent Is Easy. Fifty Agents at 2 AM Is Not.

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  • Matt Vincent

    Founder

    Source Allies

    Self-Improving AI Without Fine-Tuning: Patterns That Work

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  • Meagan Taylor

    UX Designer II

    Riot Games

    The Myth of the UX/UI Unicorn

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  • Michelle Thorsell

    Lead Full Stack Engineer

    Blank Metal

    It's Not Too Late: A Beginner's Guide to Claude Code for Developers

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  • Mike Benkovich

    Principal Cloud Engineer

    Imagine Technologies, Inc.

    Choose your Identity Wisely

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  • Nagapan Narayanan

    Director, Software Engineering

    UnitedHealth Group

    Improving Clinical Documentation with AI‑Driven Anomaly Detection: A Healthcare Case Study

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  • Nick Krantz

    Senior Software Engineer

    Livefront, Inc.

    Humans in the Loop: Hiring Software Engineers in the AI Era

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  • Nick Larson

    VP - Technology

    Improving

    Data Streaming Platform Playbook

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  • Nick Manor

    Sr. Principal

    RBA Consulting

    From Coder to Problem Solver: How Developers Stay Indispensable in an AI World

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  • Nick Roseth

    Chief Explorer

    Adaptive Intelligence

    The Agentic Enterprise: The Future of Work Inside Agent-Driven Organizations

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  • Niki Anderson

    Senior Sales Engineer

    Datadog

    Why Did It Say That?! A Guide to LLM Observability with OpenTelemetry

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  • Parker Seaman

    Security Engineer

    Samsung Smart Things

    All You Need Is Love(and Ublock Origin)

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  • Patrick Kragthorpe-Shirley

    Director of Data and AI

    RBA Consulting

    From Coder to Problem Solver: How Developers Stay Indispensable in an AI World

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  • Paul DeBettignies

    Founder

    Launch Hiring

    Maintaining Your Career in an AI World

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  • Paul DeLaria

    Principal Solutions Architecture

    AWS

    From Vibe Coding to AI-DLC: Building with AI Agents Using Kiro IDE

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  • Pete Jones

    Senior Software Engineer

    Livefront, Inc.

    Humans in the Loop: Hiring Software Engineers in the AI Era

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  • Pete Wall

    Principal Software Engineer

    Grafana Labs

    The observed life: what I learned building dashboards for fun

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  • Rael Rodning

    Principal AI Ops Architect

    Evolving Solutions

    From Chaos to Clarity: Practical AI Readiness for Modern Operations

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  • Rahul Gauli

    Senior Software Engineer

    Thrivent

    Evolving Security:  Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation

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  • Sandon Jacobs

    Senior Developer Advocate

    Confluent

    What Can We Do with an Apache Kafka Queue?

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  • Shannon Seaver

    Founder & CEO

    TailoredU

    Women in AI: Building for Social Good

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  • Shaun Jurgemeyer

    Principal Engineer

    RB Global

    Earning Trust One Metric at a Time

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  • Simba Khadder

    Lead, Context Engine

    Redis

    Context Engineering 2.0: MCP, Agentic RAG & Memory

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  • Stephen Fluin

    VP of Product

    HeroDevs

    The Angular Renaissance is here!

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  • Steve Buchanan

    Engineering Manager

    Jamf

    Multi-Cloud Without the Marketing or Designing for Multi-Cloud Without Losing Your Mind

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  • Steve Massey

    Vice President, Product Engineering

    SPS Commerce

    The Enterprise AI Journey: ROI, Adoption, and Smarter Build‑vs‑Buy

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  • Stu Keroff

    Teacher

    Lake Middle School

    Crazy Enough To Think They Can: Students Leading With Linux

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  • Todd H. Gardner

    CEO

    TrackJS

    Everything you learned about SSL is deprecated

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  • Tom Slattery

    Sr. Solutions Architect

    MongoDB

    Stateful Agents: Building Production-Grade Memory with MongoDB and Voyage AI

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  • Varun Dhawan

    Principal Product Manager

    Microsoft

    PostgreSQL VS-Code Extension: Practical Workflows for Open Source Developers and DBAs

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  • Zach Hughes

    Vice President of IT Infrastructure & Operations

    CHS

    The Enterprise AI Journey: ROI, Adoption, and Smarter Build‑vs‑Buy

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  • Zach Tollefson

    Software Engineer

    Solution Design Group

    Balancing Governance and Innovation: Practical Lessons from Healthcare AI

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