Speakers

Amy Browne

Vice President of IT Innovation

Prime Therapeutics

Driving Change: Prime Therapeutics' Digital Transformation Journey

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Amy Gebhardt

Engineering Leader

Passage by 1Password

Wait. Are passwords like skinny jeans now?

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Andrew Tjossem

Lead DevOps Engineer

BI Worldwide

Running Apps in Kubernetes: I Broke Them So You Don't Have To

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Anitha Perumalla

Vice President, Digital Innovation and Architecture

U.S. Bank

Staying ahead of trends: fostering curiosity for innovation and leadership

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Ashutosh Abhinav

Director of Engineering

Target

Handle Large Data on Edge at Scale

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Ben Spain

Principal Engineer

Thrivent

Building High-Performing Software Engineering Teams

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Bob Longmore

Technical Solutions Architect

World Wide Technology

Automating Toil In Your Day-to-Day Life

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Cameron Lis Marcott

Consultant (ML Engineering)

SDG

Throwback Thursday: Old School Optimization Using Newfangled Machine Learning

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Canceled

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

Chike Okonta

Software Developer

HealthPartners

AI Networks

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Chris Diller

Product Transformation Director

BCBSM

Ready, Set, Go! Launching Product Teams with Facilitated Training, Hypersprints, and Immersive Learning

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Christopher Gerber

Solution Architect

Keyva, Inc.

Thinking DX: Designing platforms developers enjoy

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Clea Ostendorf

CEO & CoFounder

Wolfpack Security

Who Owns Security in DevSecOps?

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Craig Johnson

Vice President of IT Infrastructure & Operations

Prime Therapeutics

Driving Change: Prime Therapeutics' Digital Transformation Journey

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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

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David Wroe

Product Architect & Technology Evangelist

NMDP

Saving Lives with Serverless Technology

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Derek Winters

Sr Principal Software Cloud Engineer

Medtronic

Accelerating Platform Engineering with Internal Developer Portals: Medtronic's Journey

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Erin Verbeck-Lane

Staff Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

Tanium

Open Source Tooling and Best Practices to Improve Vulnerability Management

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Grey Lovelace

Senior Software Consultant, Coach, and GenAI Specialist

Source Allies

Measuring GenAI Solutions

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Jacob Noble

Principal Software Engineer

C.H. Robinson

Beyond the Chatbot: Delivering Business Value with LLMs.

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Jake Durocher

Senior Solutions Engineer

HashiCorp

Embracing a Zero Trust Architecture

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Jake Hookom

EVP of Product

Perforce

How Minnesota Nice is Ruining Your Product

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Jenna Pederson

Staff Developer Advocate

Pinecone

A Conversation with your Architecture

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Jessica Garson

Senior Developer Advocate

Elastic

From Testing to Observing: Synthetic Monitoring Unpacked

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Joel Tosi

Co-Founder

Dojo and Co

Systems Thinking - Visualizing Relationships and Knowing Where to Act

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Juarez Barbosa Junior

Sr. Principal Java Developer Evangelist - DevRel Director

Oracle

Solving Complex Problems with AI Agents Design Patterns Using Spring AI

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Justin Grammens

Founder + CEO

Recursive Awesome

DeepSeek: The Open-Source AI That Changed the Game

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Kassie Gibbons

UX Designer

RBA

Breaking Free from Dark Patterns: Designing User-Centric Experiences

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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

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Kelly Calendine

Client Director

Dev 10

Open Source Tooling and Best Practices to Improve Vulnerability Management

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Kevin Hakanson

Sr. Solutions Architect

AWS

A Conversation with your Architecture

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Kurt Wiersma

Principal Cloud Architect

Punch Through

Using HTMX to make awesome server side web apps

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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

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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

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Matt Rein

Lead Solution Engineer

Dynatrace

Observability for Developers

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Matt Vincent

Founder

Source Allies

Measuring GenAI Solutions

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Meagan Taylor

UX Designer II

Riot Games

Design like a Troll: Navigating the Unhappy Paths

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Mitch Giannini

Principal Software Cloud Engineer

Medtronic

Accelerating Platform Engineering with Internal Developer Portals: Medtronic's Journey

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Nancy King

CTO

RB Global

From Legacy to Leading Edge: How Mid-Sized Companies Can Compete in the Modernization Game

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Nate Miller

Senior Content Creator

Infinite Campus

Using Diataxis to Improve Documentation Clarity and Usability

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Neil Buesing

CTO & Co-founder

Kinetic Edge

Bite Size Streams: Learning Kafka Streams Concepts One Simple Topology at a Time

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Nick Roseth

Chief Explorer

Explore Design

Agentic Ai and the Age of Autonomy

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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%

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PJ Hagerty

Lead, AI Advocacy

IBM

AI & Ethics: what we should be pondering

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Ryan Belgrave

Staff Software Engineer I

Confluent

But we have AWS at home: It runs on optimism, compromises, and open source

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Tiffany Lauria

VP Execution & Value Delivery

BCBSMN

Ready, Set, Go! Launching Product Teams with Facilitated Training, Hypersprints, and Immersive Learning

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Todd Gardner

President

Request Metrics

Does Web Performance Actually Matter for SEO?

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Torey Lomenda

VP - Solution Delivery

Improving MN

Solution Architecture: A Magical Journey from Context to Code

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Travis Gosselin

Distinguished Software Engineer

SPS Commerce

Crafting Consistent APIs at Scale: Embracing Linting & Reusable Models

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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

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Varun Dhawan

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Transform apps with GenAI capabilities for PostgreSQL

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Vivienne Whitfield

Associate Director Product

Best Buy

Feedback Bites: Practical Strategies for Effective Communication (and Sanity)

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Zach Hughes

VP, Information Technology

CHS

Leading and Adapting to Change: Embracing the Future, Managing Doubt, and Cultivating Flexibility

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Zac Skalko

Lead Software Engineer

Cargill

A Fond Farewell to create-react-app: React at work post CRA

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