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Distinguished speakers
Over the event’s 8-year history, we’ve had close to 1,000 speakers on our stages. Here we present a selection from the last two editions.
Vint Cerf
The creator of the Internet shares its origins and the current status of the Interplanetary Internet Project.
Alan Kay
Father of OOP and the laptop reflects on where really good ideas come from and how we can start generating more.
Brian Kernighan
We’ll dive into the history of the UNIX revolution, how it started, how it grew, and the impact it has had on humanity.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Author of the C++ programming language walks us through its fundamental pillars and twenty years of evolution.
Deb Goodkin
Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation talks about the project’s unique community and collaboration culture.
Ali Spittel
As IT professionals we are constantly learning new things. In this talk Ali will guide us through teaching others.
Milecia McGregor
Milecia McGregor started Flipped Coding in 2017 to help people learn web development with real-world projects.
John Romero
We had a live fireside chat with John Romero, co-creator of legendary videogames such as Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
Jon ‘maddog’ Hall
“The ten reasons I do not use Free Software, and the ten reasons why those ten
reasons are false.”
Cory Doctorow
Writer and journalist Cory Doctorow presents his latest white paper: Privacy
Without Monopoly.
Claire Charles
At only 12 years old, Nerdearla’s youngest speaker ever, encourages attendees to contribute to Open Source.
Allie Mellen
Security expert Allie Mellen presents evidence of cyber warfare during elections and how governments fought back.
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