Speakers

The most essential part of every conference are its speakers. Hence we take special care to gather the best possible lineup from industry experts, practitioners, leaders and enthusiast.

Confirmed speakers

Rinaldo Ugrina

UX & Product Strategist @ Baymard Institute

Rinaldo Ugrina is a UX expert at Baymard Institute, where he has helped some of the world's leading e-commerce companies, such as Nike, Etsy, and Amazon, improve their website UX. He is an expert on Baymard Institute’s more than 200,000 hours of large-scale User Experience testing

Marija Milošević

Product & Growth Advisor @ Buildthat.tech & Ambassador @ Lovable

As part of Lovable’s selective global Ambassador Program, Marija represent the company by leading workshops and bootcamps, and helping creators build their first AI apps, collaborate on educational content, support community-led initiatives, and bring vibe coding into universities, events, and early-stage startups.

Sebastian Bergmann

Created PHPUnit & Co-Founded thePHPcc

Sebastian Bergmann is the creator of PHPUnit, the testing framework that set the standard for quality and professionalism in PHP software development. As a founding partner and consultant with The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), he empowers development teams to adopt PHPUnit effectively and build more reliable, testable software.

Tejas Kumar

Developer Advocate @ IBM

Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker with over 20 years of engineering experience. Today, he speaks at conferences aiming to equip, empower, and encourage developers about the best ways to build software worldwide.

Luka Riester

Senior Solution Architect @ AWS

Before joining AWS 4 years ago where Luka worked as a senior solutions architect and an analytics specialist he spent almost 15 years in technical consulting implementing and architecting data and analytics products for various organizations.

Janusz Stabik

Managing Partner, GYDA / Agency Growth Advisor

With over 15 years of hands-on experience founding, scaling, and helping digital agencies, Janusz now dedicates his time to helping agency leaders unlock the next level of growth. He’s guided more than 400 agencies across various growth stages - from early scaling to mature exit planning - and led growth programs in partnership with Google and other major platforms.

Nikola Pavešić

Director of Investor Relations and Strategic Partnerships @ Orqa FPV

Nikola Pavešić is the Director of Investor Relations and Strategic Partnerships at Orqa, where he leverages his extensive background in global tech ecosystems to scale the company’s presence in the drone and FPV sectors. Before joining Orqa, he played a pivotal role at the Croatian unicorn Infobip as the Director of DevEx and Startups, spanning leadership roles at Nikkei in Tokyo, etc.

Mark Edmondson

AI Platform Engineer & GDE

Mark is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud, an O'Reilly published author on analytics, and the creator of AILANG, a functional programming language for AI-assisted development. He speaks internationally about AI engineering patterns, agent protocols, and the practical transition from chatbots to agentic systems. Based in Denmark.

Grace Ableidinger

AI Engineer and Developer Advocate @ Red Hat

Grace Ableidinger is an AI Engineer and Developer Advocate at Red Hat based in Raleigh, NC. She is passionate about making AI accessible to everyone and exploring how open-source projects, like vLLM and llm-d, can drive real-world impact. She is dedicated to building communities and resources that empower people to use AI to build a better world.

Mihaela Draghici

Product Leader & Ambassador for UXDX in Lisbon

Mihaela is a product leader with 15 years experience in building B2C and B2B global products and leading product teams in various industries, from education, e-commerce, to affiliate marketing and automotive. She's led and scaled cross-functional teams, launched new products, and worked closely with business, design, engineering, and leadership teams in complex environments, while shifting away from a project mindset and towards a user-centric and outcome-oriented approach.

Kristian Susnic

CEO @ Coretrek

30 years of CEO experience across Norway and international markets.
For the past 15 years, served as CEO of Coretrek, a web development company that has achieved 5× growth over the last 12 years. Experienced ERP consultant and solution architect with a strong track record of delivering scalable, effective solutions.

Mateja Terek

People & Communication Manager @ Netgen

People & Communication Manager at Netgen, with a strong background in PR, internal communication and strategic consulting. Currently focused on organisational growth, personal development programs, feedback culture, and employer branding. Committed to building authentic communication and cultures where people and business grow together.

Edita Angyalová

Founder & CEO @ Terzos

Founder and CEO of Terzos, which aims to help dev studios get beyond the standard project-to-project business. Working as a CEO for 17 years, Edita has led teams of 50 to 180 people. She went through dozens of M&A processes and saw firsthand why some studios get much better exit pricing than others. After leaving her corporate career, she founded a consultancy that helps dev studio founders boost cashflow, stay profitable while scaling, build their own products and IP, and maximize value for exit.

Petra Grundler Glavica

HR Consultant, Trainer & Coach @ Strive

Petra Grundler Glavica has built a successful career over 15 years in global companies like Carlsberg and A1. Her expertise lies in organizational design, performance management, people and leadership development, employer branding, and talent management. She is a psychologist, an EMCC Accredited Coach at Practitioner level and holds certifications as an SDI and DISC Flow facilitator and AOPL practitioner.

Marin Niehues

Founder & Principal Consultant

Marin Niehues is an independent consultant with a track record of over 20 client projects and two startups of his own. He works with VC-backed scaleups and DAX40 companies alike, advising on organizational design, operational performance, and management structures that actually scale. In the past three years, Marin has been a featured speaker at conferences in more than ten countries across three continents - including repeated invitations from Google and Microsoft.

Dan Neciu

Lead Engineer @ Rover.com

Dan is a software engineer, focusing mostly on the Frontend and in a love-love relationship with Javascript. Dan has worked professionally on all Big Three Frameworks.
He says he is forever trying to strike a balance between his desire to ship stunning UI and deliver fast and great value from a product perspective, while also trying to merge the cleanest, easiest-to-maintain code he can possibly write.

Arne Blankerts

Co-Founder of 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 their time years ago. As a Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), Arne helps his clients to develop software successfully. He is an author and maintainer of various Open Source development tools, and is a regular presenter at conferences. In his free time, he reads fantasy novels and likes to cook.

Martina Zrnec

Co-founder, CTO @ Stacklist

Martina is the CTO and co-founder of Stacklist, an online curation platform helping users organize and save their favourite places. With a background in full-stack development, engineering leadership, and product strategy, she has built and scaled remote technical teams while navigating the complexities of startup growth. Before Stacklist, she held leadership roles at Toptal, working with high-performing distributed teams. Passionate about mentoring, Martina also guides aspiring developers in breaking into tech.

Alex Dziewulska

Product Expert, CEO @ House of Product

Alex Dziewulska is a product expert with 20+ years of experience in design, research, and strategy. As the founder of House of Product, Poland’s first product studio, she offers consulting across research, design, product management, and strategy. She is also president of Destare Foundation, teaches product management at SWPS University, and mentors professionals at all career stages. Through her Substack newsletters and mastermind groups, she shares insights and helps teams turn ideas into actionable results.

Lukas Vileikis

Founder of BreachDirectory.com

Lukas is a database engineer, ethical hacker, speaker, and the author of the book "Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case."
Lukas runs one of the biggest & fastest data breach search engines in the world - BreachDirectory.com - and frequently speaks at conferences, educating developers on why and how best to optimise their databases and secure their applications.

Track moderators

Igor Vrdoljak

Managing Partner @ Netgen

With over 20 years of experience in web development, I am a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Netgen, a company that specializes in developing complex digital solutions. I am passionate about creating innovative and user-friendly products that solve real-world problems and deliver value to the end-users and stakeholders.

Janus Boye

Boye & Co, Denmark

Working on steering large, complex and critical digital projects through to successful completion. He chairs the internationally recognized Boye Conferences since 2005.