A fantastic line-up

Patrick Debois is a renowned expert in DevOps, DevSecOps, and the interaction with AI. He is a principal product engineer at Humans and code, and the co-author of the DevOps Handbook.

Patrick's work focuses on helping engineering teams become more productive with AI tooling, and delivering AI-powered products with engineering rigor and good practices. He takes a pragmatic approach to his work, grounded in reality and experience.

Patrick is active on social media and can be found on LinkedIn, YouTube, bSky, and X.

Lesley Cordero is currently a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times. She has spent the majority of her career on edtech teams as an engineer, including Google for Education and other edtech startups.

In her current role, she is focused on observability, shared platforms, and building excellent teams by setting reliability vision & strategy across The Times, improving our observability footprint, and cultivating culture that builds with the most vulnerable employees in mind first. She shows care for others by holding them accountable to the best versions of themselves – and by buying them the occasional bubble tea.

Jan Bosch is professor at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden and director of the Software Center (www.software-center.se), a strategic partner-funded collaboration between more than 15 large European companies (including Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo Trucks, Saab Defense, Scania, Siemens and Bosch) and five universities focused on digitalization. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc where he also led Intuit's Open Innovation efforts and headed the central mobile technologies team. Before Intuit, he was vice president and head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Prior to joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden.

His research activities include digitalisation, evidence-based development, business ecosystems, artificial intelligence and machine/deep learning, software architecture,  software product families and software variability management. He is the author of several books including "Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach" published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press) and ÒSpeed, Data and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven WorldÓ published by Taylor and Francis, editor of several books and volumes and author of hundreds of research articles. He is editor for Journal of Systems and Software as well as Science of Computer Programming, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on numerous program committees and organised countless workshops. Jan is a fellow member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science.

Jan serves on the boards of Burt Intelligence, Shelfplanner and Strawberry planet. Earlier he served on the boards of IVER and Peltarion and was chairman of the boards of Auqtus, Fidesmo and Remente. In the startup space, Jan is an angel investor in several startup companies.  He also runs a boutique consulting firm, Boschonian AB, that offers its clients support around the implications of digitalization including the management of R&D and innovation. For more information see his website: www.janbosch.com.

Francesca Salvati has 9 years of experience in the technology sector across two countries, the UK and China. Her roles have encompassed QA engineering, programme management, product ownership, and agile coaching.
Currently, Francesca serves as a Lead Delivery Manager at Just Eat Takeaway, where she leads a team of Agile Delivery Managers and Technical Programme Managers within the CIO org.

Marnie McCormack is a Managing Director in JPMorgan’s Infrastructure Platforms group in
Global Technology. She is Head of Engineering Practices with a focus on quality software
development for the 8000 strong global engineering team who build and manage our critical infrastructure platforms for an audience of 50K engineers firmwide.

Prior to her current role, Marnie was General Manager for JPMorgan’s Enterprise Observability Platforms portfolio, looking after the products used to monitor infrastructure and applications across the firm. She has held prior roles leading Front End Engineering for our strategic firmwide private cloud platforms, heading up Integrated Infrastructure Services with responsibility for infrastructure automation and Infrastructure As Code for compute. She has a background in building Developer Experience solutions, including automated software provisioning and API engineering for self consumption.

Marnie has 25+ years experience developing enterprise software products in complex global
environments. After starting her career at the University of Glasgow as a Programmer on
student management systems, she moved to British Telecom’s Software Engineering division followed by a Machine Learning/Data Mining startup prior to joining JPMorgan as a Java Developer in Investment Bank technology, developing solutions in the Equity Instrument domain before moving on to a range of software engineering and architecture leadership roles across the firm.

Marnie previously led our group Chief Development Office, responsible for driving the evolution of our software engineering programs alongside building tools & platforms for our firmwide application development teams. She has a passion for CX and has transformed her teams’ engineering process to follow user centric agile practices.

Marnie is a member of the Glasgow Technology Site Leadership Team and active across a rangeof firmwide DE&I programs, acting as executive sponsor for our Glasgow Accessibility community. She enjoys speaking at industry conferences and supporting our internal talent development programs.

Anne Currie is a tech veteran who has been a part of the industry as a developer, senior manager, and startup founder for thirty years working on everything from high performance C software in the 90’s, to e-commerce in the 00’s, to modern operations in the 10’s. She is currently a campaigner for future-proof, sustainable systems and regularly writes and speaks on the subject. She is founder of green tech consultancy Strategically Green.
She is also the author of the scifi Panopticon series.