Welcome our Speakers

We are proud to announce the first batch of speakers for WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024.

Scott Hanselman
VP of Developer Community at Microsoft
Scott Farquhar
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Atlassian
Douglas Crockford
Inventor of JSON, JavaScript Author
Thomas Dohmke
CEO, GitHub
Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO of Stack Overflow
Jonas Andrulis
Founder & CEO of Aleph Alpha
Constantijn van Oranje
Special Envoy, Techleap
David Simas
MD at Emerson Collective, Ex CEO of Obama Foundation, White House Political Director
Chris Wysopal
CTO & Co-founder at Veracode
Peter Bosch
CEO at CARIAD
Demetris Cheatham
Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub
Eric Steinberger
Co-founder & CEO at Magic.dev
John Romero
Award-winning Game Creator | Father of FPS | DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein
Brenda Romero
Award-winning Game Designer
Meazza Romero
Community Manager at Romero Games
Christian Heilmann
VP Developer Relations at WeAreDevelopers
Ulrich Irnich
Chief Information Officer at Vodafone Germany
Alex Soto
Director of Developer Experience at Red Hat
Mike Butcher
Editor-at-large at TechCrunch
Madona Wambua
CTO & Founder of Jibu Labs
Gift Egwuenu
Developer Advocate at Cloudflare
Luca Mezzalira
Principal Solutions Architect at AWS | O'Reilly Author | Ex-VP at DAZN
Francesco Ciulla
Developer Advocate at daily.dev | Docker Captain
Matthias Henze
CEO & Founder of Jimdo
Anna J. McDougall
Director of Engineering | TEDx Speaker | Author of “You Belong in Tech” | Google Women Techmakers Ambassador
Maxim Salnikov
Developer Productivity Lead at Microsoft
Martina Kraus
Google Developer Expert Angular at Kraus Consulting IT
Alexandra Waldherr
ML & Quantum Computing Enthusiast
Manfred Steyer
Trainer & Consultant at ANGULARarchitects.io; GDE; Microsoft MVP
Johanna Pirker
Professor at LMU Munich
Emma Britnor
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg | Ex Twitter
Alejandro Saucedo
Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando SE
Antoine Minoux
Principal Product Designer at Yelp

...and while we prepare our next announcements, have a look at our past and regular speakers below - or apply to speak yourself.

WeAreDevelopers Hall of Fame

Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the Web
Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple
Joel Spolsky
Founder of Stack Overflow, Trello, Glitch, and HASH
Stormy Peters
VP of Communities at GitHub | Director, The Linux Foundation
Bjarne Stroustrup
Inventor of C++
Anu Bharadwaj
President of Atlassian
Garry Kasparov
AI Pioneer | World Chess Champion
Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist at Google
Amanda Silver
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Dan Abramov
Software Engineer at Meta
Rasmus Lerdorf
Inventor of PHP
MiĆĄko Hevery
Inventor of Angular/AnuglarJS | CTO at Builder.io
David Singleton
CTO at Stripe
Angie Jones
Head of Developer Relations at Block | Java Champion | GitHub Star
Scott Chacon
Co-founder of GitHub | CEO at GitButler
Flavilla Fongang
Founder of 3 Colours Rule
Jonas Andrulis
Founder & CEO at Aleph Alpha
HĂ„kon Wium Lie
Inventor of CSS | Web Standards Activist
Dylan Beattie
Independent Consultant at dylanbeattie.net
Tanya Janca
Application Security Trainer | Best-selling Author
Jeremy Keith
Founder of Clearleft; Author; Tech Speaker
Kriti Sharma
Founder, AI for Good UK | UN Advisor | CPO at Thomson Reuters
Adam Cheyer
Founder of Siri
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Bitcoin & Open Blockchain Expert
Ire Aderinokun
Cofounder, COO, and VP Engineering at Helicarrier
Tim O'Brien
General Manager AI at Microsoft
David Schwartz
CTO at Ripple
Mate Rimac
CEO & Founder at Rimac
Martin Wezowski
Chief Futurist at SAP
SebastiĂĄn RamĂ­rez
Creator of FastAPI, Staff Software Engineer at Forethought
Laurie Voss
Co-founder of npm | Data Evangelist at Netlify
Tracy Lee
CEO at This Dot
Armin Ronacher
Principal Architect at Sentry
Leah Culver
Co-Author of OAuth & oEmbed
Wei Hu
Senior VP of Research and Development at Oracle
Shirley Wu
Award-winning Creative | Instructor Frontend Masters
Tanmay Bakshi
Best-selling Author | GDE Machine Learning
Bear Douglas
Director Developer Relations at Slack
Eyal Felstaine
CTO at Amdocs