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Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, an consultancy helping teams build front end applications and is focused on changing the ratio in tech. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. She heads up Community Relations at Node Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley and Triangle, and RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet or at http://thisdot.co/labs.

Brian is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Fluree, a distributed ledger and graph database solution geared towards enterprise deployments of blockchain. Brian was an entrepreneur and executive throughout the early internet days and SaaS boom, having founded the popular A-list apart web development community, along with a host of successful SaaS companies. He is now helping companies navigate the complexity of the blockchain enterprise movement, having been invited to speak on the topic at 16 global conferences in 2018 alone. Previous to establishing Fluree, Brian co-founded SilkRoad Technology which grew to over 2,000 customers and 500 employees in 12 global offices.

Wes Widner is a veteran in the threat intelligence industry. His work history includes data engineering and threat modeling with McAfee Labs’s Global Threat Intelligence, building out a large scale malware pipeline with Norse Corporation, and engineering clouds at Crowdstrike. He specializes in building large scale distributed threat intelligence systems that span a range of threat vectors. Wes also enjoys teaching children how to hack, ethically of course.

An experienced project manager, Sarah Sawicki joined Richland Library in 2012 as Virtual Services Project Manager and has been championing the 12-location system ever since. Now serving as Planning and Projects Director, she guides cross-functional teams through human-centered design to plan and execute new and improved products, services and spaces. She advises other staff serving as project managers on strategic initiatives and ensures the use of data to make informed decisions. Outside of the library, she taps her way through life using her project management superpowers to raise teenaged twin girls, a tween boy, and a pre-teen Oktoberfest Columbia.

Rod Cope is the CTO of Rogue Wave Software, which he joined through the acquisition of OpenLogic. He was the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic where he helped enterprises adopt and manage open source software. Previously in his 25+ year software career, he worked at IBM, IBM Global Services, General Electric, and Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield. For over 20 years, he has spoken internationally on technical and business topics in dozens of conferences, including OSCON, JavaOne, Strata/Big Data conference, LinuxCon, and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Rod holds both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Software Engineering from [...]

Ray Gesualdo is a full-stack JavaScript developer, speaker and mentor from Atlanta, GA. He started his career in the e-learning development industry before moving into software engineering with multiple Atlanta-based startups. Currently, he works with an amazing team of UI engineers at SalesLoft. Ray loves working with client- and server-side JavaScript; experimenting with serverless architectures, functional programming and Elixir; and teaching and equipping others in technology.

Phillip serves as the Director of Marketing and Digital Strategy for Richland Library - one of the most progressive, award-winning public libraries in the country. There, he leads a team of developers, marketers and creatives on a mission to deliver and implement innovative strategies that enhance the customer experience while continuously growing the library’s brand. A self-described Agile evangelist, Phillip leads the web development efforts for Richland Library’s website as well as other digital assets, including their new open source event management system known as Intercept. Phillip regularly speaks at events around the country, talking about the work that Richland [...]

Peter co-founded Percona in 2006, assuming the role of CEO. Percona helps companies of all sizes maximize their success with MySQL. Percona was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2013. Peter was an early employee at MySQL AB, eventually leading the company’s High Performance Group. A serial entrepreneur, Peter co-founded his first startup while attending Moscow State University where he majored in Computer Science. As CEO of Percona, Peter enjoys mixing business leadership with hands on technical expertise. Peter is the co-author of High Performance MySQL published by O’Reilly, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter blogs [...]

Marcus is the head of community at Vaadin, helping developers learn about modern web technologies like Web Components and Progressive Web Applications.

John is an Open Source Enterprise Architect on the OpenLogic team at Rogue Wave Software. John has over a decade of experience working in technology, including software development, application security, embedded and real time software, networks and protocols, software architecture, training, R&D, and technical leadership. His most recent focus has been on enterprise Java applications, open source messaging frameworks, and security.