Speakers

Marcel Petitpas

CEO & Co-Founder @ Parakeeto

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability. As a speaker, podcast host, and consultant, specializing in Agency Profitability Optimization, he's helped thousands of clients worldwide measure the right metrics and improve their profitability.

Jemima Abu

Senior Product Engineer @ CAIS

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies.

Robert Craven

Director @ Grow Your Digital Agency

Team leader at the GYDA.co. Known for his no-nonsense approach to business growth. Robert runs Mastermind programs across Europe for agency and e-commerce CEOs and provides bespoke consulting programs. Project director in the EMEA region.

Morana Perić

UX, Content and Localization Strategist @ DeepL

Morana is a Croatian-born Berlin-based localization, content and UX professional. She has spent the past 12 years working as a manager and leader in the tech industry, building up localization, content and UX teams and processes, and working on lean and efficient workflows.

Ive Botunac

AI Research Scientist & Engineer @ Alfatec

Director of Research and Development at ALFATEC Group with over 9 years of experience in artificial intelligence and more than 12 years in software development. Developed several successful AI-based solutions. Founder of the startup Sintelly, featuring an AI-driven application focused on mental health.

Marko Velić

Engineering Manager and Machine Learning Researcher @ Google

Marko is an Engineering Manager at Google. Previously he worked at Photomath, Meta (Facebook), Styria, LEGO (as consultant), University of Zagreb and has entrepreneurship experience.

Sanja Karan

Head of People and Culture @ Ars Futura

Sanja studied psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where she developed an interest in organizational psychology. She started her career in FMCG companies, building expertise in HR processes. As the first HR Manager at a creative agency, she established HR systems, later bringing her pioneering approach to Ars Futura.

Adrian Hajdin

CEO & Founder @ JavaScript Mastery

Seasoned software engineer, educator and a GitHub star, passionate about technical education. Adrian enjoys making learning simple through hands-on teaching and a project-based approach.

Hana Limić

Backend Team Lead @ Four of Them

8 years of experience in backend development, specializing in PHP and Symfony. Over the years, Hana has participated in numerous workshops and conferences, sharing knowledge and fostering collaboration within the community. A strong advocate for clear team communication, Hana believes it is the foundation of successful software development.

Mario Blažek

CTO @ Four of Them

Most of the time uses PHP as a language of choice. He promotes open-source software and PHP-related technologies as one of the organizers of Zagreb PHP User Group (ZgPHP). Likes working with Symfony framework and explores the dark sides of it. He is a Symfony and Twig certified developer.

Andreas Hucks

Head of Engineering @ OPEN

A PHP enthusiast and Head of Engineering at OPEN, Andreas has been a Symfony community member for 18 years. As a developer, he was involved in countless Symfony projects. As a trainer, he has 10+ years of experience in running dev workshops.

Marijan Smetko

SWE @ Google

Marijan Smetko is a technology enthusiast from Croatia. As an SWE in Google, he works closely with Gemini LLMs in order to make them explain and teach STEM related topics to all the interested Google users.

Noz Urbina

Founder @ Urbina Consulting

Globally recognized omnichannel content strategist. Pioneer in experience mapping and adaptive content design for personalized, contextually relevant content for omnichannel experiences. Author of the book “Content Strategy: Connecting the dots between business, brand, and benefits”.

Sven Al Hamad

Co-founder & CEO @ Webiny

Worked with the largest media and ecommerce customers in Europe as their trusted advisor on the topics of web performance and architecture. Proven track record of successful delivery of several multi-million dollar projects for large enterprises. An experienced entrepreneur acted as a CTO in 4 different startups.

Tobi Stadelmaier

VP Engineering @ CoreMedia

VP Engineering at CoreMedia GmbH, heading the core product development of a CMS platform that is not legacy, but just successful enough to be around for more than 25 years. Statistics, Machine Learning and AI geek.

Johanna Halfmann

Software Product Design @ CoreMedia

Product Designer at CMS vendor CoreMedia in Hamburg, with a healthy appetite for asking necessary questions, looking at the big picture and occasionally seeing light in the darkness.

Jason Mayes

Web AI Lead @ Google

Jason is the Web AI lead at Google, helping web engineers globally to get productive with machine learning in JavaScript. Jason is the author of the first Web AI course on Google Developers and EdX, that have enabled over 50,000 students start their journey with Machine Learning in the browser.

Davor Runje

CTO @ airt

Davor is a maintainer of AG2 and a former core developer of AutoGen, two prominent AI frameworks. He builds on top of 20 years of experience as a developer, researcher and entrepreneur.

Tamas Piros

Director of Developer Advocacy @ Cloudinary

Tamas is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and a seasoned Developer Evangelist. He is a passionate advocate for modern web technologies, helping people understand and unlock the latest & greatest features of web development.

Tracy Evans

Partner @ Open Strategy Partners

Tracy Evans is a Partner at Open Strategy Partners, where she uses her deep background in marketing and business to give organizations the strategic tools to communicate the value of what they do to the people who need to hear it. Tracy has an MBA from the Mannheim Business School and more than 12 years of strategic marketing, technology, and management experience, helping organizations connect their value propositions to their target audiences.

Jeffrey McGuire

Partner @ Open Strategy Partners

Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire, Partner at Open Strategy Partners GmbH, helps organizations grow at the intersection of open source software, business, and culture. He connects the value of technology to the people who need to know about them through inspiring conversations, keynotes, podcasts, and more.

Nicolas Frizzarin

Developer Advocate @ SFEIR

Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular, also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Nicolas is a French FontEnd specialist and User Interface Designer from Metz, France. He works as a Developer Advocate and Senior Staff Engineer at Sfeir Luxembourg.

Steven Syrek

Engineering Manager @ DeepL

Steven Syrek leads the Experimentation & Product Data Domain teams at DeepL. In his past lives, he was a frontend engineer and an English literature Ph.D. student. He runs a monthly meetup in Berlin to practice collaborative modeling techniques with fellow enthusiasts.

Lucas Rocha

Senior Software Engineer @ Oracle

As a passionate full-stack web developer with a deep enthusiasm for technology, I have cultivated a diverse and extensive skill set in software development, contributing to a variety of projects across different industries. My technical expertise encompasses a wide spectrum of programming languages and solution platforms, making me adept at navigating complex technological landscapes.

Arne Blankerts

Co-Founder @ thePHP.cc

Arne Blankerts has already dealt with computers when networking was still an adventure. As long-standing head of development of an internet agency, he has created solutions far ahead of the times already years ago. As Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), Arne helps his clients to develop software successfully.