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digital accessibility specialist at the Information and press service of the Luxembourg Government, in charge of monitoring public sector websites and mobile applications, as well as awareness-raising and training within the framework of the Web Accessibility Directive.Alain Vagner participates in various international and national committees: member of the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI JWG eAccessibility committee, which manages the evolutions of the European standard EN 301 549 on digital accessibility.invited expert at W3C and a member of the Mobile Accessibility Task Force.member of the Web Accessibility Directive Experts Group (WADEX) representing Luxembourg.member of the review group for the translation of WCAG 2.2 into French.co-founder of the the FLUPA and COIN associations and previous co-organiser the LuxembourgJS meetup.

Alex Shershebnev is a seasoned Computer Vision and MLOps Engineer with over nine years of experience shaping the future of AI-driven software development. Currently, Alex leads the ML/DevOps team at Zencoder, where he leverages his extensive background in Software Engineering, ML and DevOps to deliver high-quality machine learning solutions. His work spans complex data pipelines, cloud infrastructure management (GCP, Kubernetes), and advanced ML/DevOps pipelines, ensuring scalability and efficiency.

Même s’il est plutôt branché développement back, Alexandre a un faible pour les tableaux dynamiques et les graphes qui en jettent. Pas de panique, il n’est à priori pas venu pour un tuto Excel ni une masterclass PowerPoint, mais il pourrait bien vous transmettre l’envie irrésistible de monitorer tout ce qui bouge pour en faire un Dashboard.Après avoir animé des confs en école et travaillé dans des “grandes” organisations, Alexandre s’est retrouvé clavier en main dans une petite fintech française. Un jour, c’est le drame : la prod tombe sans qu’il puisse savoir pourquoi. C’est comme ça qu’il s’est retrouvé à se rapprocher de la réalité de la prod, et qu’il a plongé dans l’univers fascinant de l’observabilité. Aujourd’hui, il est là pour partager ses découvertes et vous donner quelques outils accessibles pour ne plus jamais être pris au dépourvu.

Infrastructure Engineer/SRE chez Deezer le jour, organisateur du CNCF Bordeaux la nuit, je suis passionné par les technologies Cloud Native et la musique (ça tombe bien). Avec mon sens de l'humour à toute épreuve, j'aime également partager sur des sujets touchant la psychologie ou la science plus généralement.

Alexius is a seasoned Tech Leader and Software Architect with over 20 years of experience in Java/JEE, specializing in the Spring framework and enterprise architecture. He has led mission-critical projects and is an influential speaker at industry conferences. Alexius holds dual Masters in Security & Digital Forensics and in AI (in progress), and his credentials include certifications in Advanced Python for Applied Machine Learning, Data Science Methodology, and AML, among others. He is also the founding member and admin of Greece’s largest Developers and Designers Group, boasting approximately 18,000 members, and is an active contributor to open source projects.

Andrus is a passionate open-source developer and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He started programming in Java back in 1998, and founded a number of open-source projects: Apache Cayenne - a developer-friendly ORM, Bootique.io - a lightweight Java app platform, Agrest.io - a framework for dynamic REST services, and DFLib - DataFrame for Java. In his day job, Andrus is an IT entrepreneur, running a software company called ObjectStyle.

Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, Java Champion and CNCF Ambassador alumni, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. Today he's taking care of developers at TuxCare.

Développeur java du siècle dernier mais toujours intéressé par la veille technologique. Benjamin travaille chez Adelean, société spécialisée dans les moteurs de recherche comme Elasticsearch et Solr.

Fort d'une expérience de plus de 17 ans dans l'IT, Benjamin est un consultant technique spécialisé dans le développement et la personnalisation d'applications Odoo. Fort d'une solide expérience en Python, JavaScript, XML et PostgreSQL, il a également travaillé sur des projets Java avec Angular et Spring, notamment pour des institutions européennes au Luxembourg.

Camille Nigon is an AI Solutions Architect at Red Hat, specializing in open-source innovation and AI-driven solutions. With a background in data science, she is passionate about leveraging AI to solve complex challenges and driving technological progress through collaboration.She is dedicated to promoting diversity in tech and actively contributes to initiatives that foster inclusive innovation. Combining deep technical expertise with a problem-solving mindset, Camille focuses on building scalable, high-performance solutions across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

Cédric est expert en développement logiciel, coach agile et architecte cloud. CTO chez Agile Partner, il travaille depuis près de 25 ans avec une grande variété de clients, tant dans le secteur public que privé, où il accompagne des équipes sur des sujets comme : architecture logicielle, technical excellence, cloud, agilité, DevOps et FinOps. Curieux et pragmatique, Cédric participe aussi à différentes communautés (Agile, Domain-Driven Design, EventStorming, Sketchnoting) et aime mélanger ces influences pour rassembler différents profils de personnes.Orateur dans différentes conférences internationales (Build Stuff, Voxxed Days, KanDDDinsky, Agile Grenoble, FlowCon, XPDays), Cédric est également le co-fondateur de #play14, un mouvement mondial de personnes qui croient sincèrement que le jeu est la meilleure métaphore d’apprentissage pour découvrir, comprendre et stimuler la créativité.

Christian Heitzmann, MSc ETH CSE, is the founder and owner of SimplexaCode AG, based in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a certified software developer in Java and Python, holding teaching diplomas in both Computer Science and Mathematics, as well as a CAS in Machine Learning. With over 20 years of experience in software development and 12 years of teaching Java, Python, mathematics, and algorithms, Christian is also a regular contributor to IT journals, sharing his expertise in the field.

Christian Schabetsberger, the world's okayest developer, is a Freelance Software Engineer & Architect from Linz, Austria.Having spend half of his life in the .NET ecosystem, he likes to stay on the bleeding edge of technology to become the (tech-savvy) ninja he pretends to be since he is six.

Développeuse backend passionnée depuis 20 ans, actuellement lead developer chez Shine, j'aime la recherche de stabilité et de qualité d'une application. Je me suis spécialisée sur les architectures cloud.

Avec mon frère Mathis et Florent Lefebvre (Flefgraph), j’ai cofondé Agoratlas, une agence et un observatoire spécialisé dans l’analyse à grande échelle des réseaux sociaux. Entre entrepreneuriat et gestion de produit, je m’attache à connecter des outils techniques pointus aux besoins concrets du terrain.Passionné par la transmission des savoirs tech, je m’engage depuis plusieurs années dans le partage des connaissances : à travers le jeu (responsable de CodinGame jusqu'en 2024, organisateur du MDF) ou la formation, en entreprise, à l’université et au lycée.

Clément Hurlin is an experienced engineering leader focused on developer productivity. In his early days, he obtained a PhD on verification of multithreaded programs, but then turned to the software industry. He has worked on a variety of projects, including low-level Linux microkernels, distributed financial systems, and data pipelines. He has experience with JVM-related technologies, functional programming, DevOps and CI/CD systems.As a Director of Engineering at Modus Create, Clément supports its teams on client engagements and help clients succeed. The last years, his focus has been on developer productivity and scalable build systems like Bazel and Buck2.

As the RSSI at Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch, I am responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the health information systems and data of one of the largest hospitals in Luxembourg. With more than 15 years of experience in information security, risk management, and IT audit, I have the skills and knowledge to design, implement, and monitor effective security policies, controls, and measures.I am also a board member of CLUSIL, the Luxembourg Information Security Association, where I contribute to the promotion and development of information security best practices and standards in the country. I hold the CISA, CISM and CISSP certifications which demonstrate my expertise and commitment to the field. My mission is to protect the health data and systems of the hospital and its patients, and to support the advancement of information security in Luxembourg.

digital accessibility @ Information and press service of the Luxembourg Government I am a member of the open data and access to information division of the Government's Information and press service in Luxembourg. I am a digital accessibility specialist, in charge of monitoring public sector websites and mobile applications, as well as awareness-raising and training within the framework of the Web Accessibility DirectiveI am a member of the Web Accessibility Directive Experts Group (WADEX) representing Luxembourg.From 2014 to 2022, I worked as a data journalist. I'm a fan of data visualization and I enjoy popularizing scientific information.

Florian fait partie de ces passionnés pour qui la tech est une aventure qui a commencé dès l'enfance. Ses premiers pas, il les a faits en explorant et personnalisant des distributions Linux comme Arch. Côté études, il a fait ses armes dans le Data Engineering, avant d’intégrer Takima.Aujourd’hui, Florian travaille en tant que DevOps et développeur backend, avec un intérêt marqué pour l’architecture. Ce qui le motive avant tout, c’est d’apprendre en continu et de partager toutes ses trouvailles. Il est déjà impliqué pour donner des cours en école d’ingénieurs et il aime beaucoup accompagner ses étudiants dans leur découverte de la tech.Cette année, il vient parler des grands défis liés à l'observabilité et vulgariser les concepts clés du monitoring.

Francesco Bongiovanni is working at LuxProvide in Luxembourg, where he started as the responsible for the team maintaining MeluXina, Luxembourg's national supercomputer, which was ranked 36th in the Top500 and 4th in the Green500 in June 2021. From January 2021 to February 2023, he led the Compute and Data Services group at LuxProvide, where he was instrumental in setting up MeluXina. He has been involved with the MeluXina project since its very inception in February 2019 while at LIST. Since February 2023, Francesco is leading the Supercomputing Application Services group at LuxProvide, focusing on onboarding customers, managing the MeluXina User Software Environment (MUSE), debugging applications, and porting code to various hardware. His team is also involved in several EU projects, including a Flagship project called DeployAl from the European Commission , EuroHPC-funded project EPICURE, and EuroCC2.Prior to his roles at LuxProvide, Francesco worked at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) for over seven years where he started as a Research and Technology Associate, providing the eScience Unit with Big Data computing capabilities. Later on, he designed and managed the LIST High Performance Computer and provided support to researchers. He also contributed to the design of advanced computing infrastructure across LIST, including the Vizualization Wall cluster, and was involved in the design of the future national Luxembourgish HPC and the NVidia Joint AI Lab with the University of Luxembourg. His background includes experience as an applied researcher and HPC system administrator. He possesses skills in Computer Science, Large Scale Systems, High Performance Computing, and Big Data. Francesco holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from INRIA and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. Francesco's earlier career includes roles as an R&D Engineer/Post-Doc at CNRS and the University of Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, where he worked on simulation platforms for embedded systems and deployment management systems for cloud infrastructures. His Ph.D. research at INRIA focused on the design, formalization, and implementation of overlay networks, with applications to RDF data storage. He also has experience as a Lecturer/Teaching Assistant at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, where he taught courses on Distributed Algorithms and Operating Systems. Additionally, Francesco gained industry experience as a Software Engineering Intern at Amadeus, where he worked on a middleware framework for accessing core business logics, and in R&D Labs at Materne Confilux S.A. He also worked as a Web Application Developer Freelance for Pioneer Software and FTE S.A. Francesco holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, a Master of Science in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, an ECTS Certificate in Software Engineering from Kemi Tornio University of Applied Sciences, and a Bachelor in Computer and Systems, Information Technology specialized in Data Processing from Haute Ecole de Namur (IESN). He is fluent in French, English, Italian and Sicilian, and has intermediate proficiency in Dutch.

Dans mes jeunes années être geek n’était pas un métier et pourtant je suis aujourd’hui développeur depuis 15 ans. Animé par des convictions fortes sur l’impact des développeurs sur le monde, je transmets et j’enseigne dans le cadre d’atelier de code et en vacation en école d’ingénieur. Au-delà de mon métier, c’est aussi une passion : je code pour le plaisir dans des projets personnels et lors de compétition de programmation.

I am a software developer with a passion for front-end. I love sharing thoughts and experiences with the tech community, and that's why I started my speaker journey in 2023.My motto? Understand things, before you do them. And, in case of doubt, don't be afraid to ask for the millionth time!

I am a DevOps and Cloud architect with extensive experience in large-scale microservices environments, CI/CD, automation and enterprise development. My expertise lies in container-based technologies, and I am a Kubestronaut. I am passionate about technology and driven by a commitment to excellence. As an active member and researcher in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I am working on supporting opensource cloud native project towards becoming a CNCF ambassador.

Dr. Heinz Kabutz is a globally recognized Java Champion and the creator of the acclaimed Java Specialists' Newsletter, which has been read by thousands of advanced Java programmers worldwide. With a PhD in Computer Science and decades of hands-on experience, Heinz is renowned for his deep technical insights, particularly in the areas of Java concurrency, performance optimization, and advanced programming techniques. As a sought-after speaker, trainer, and consultant, he has delivered engaging talks and workshops at premier Java conferences and for leading companies around the globe. Heinz's practical, no-nonsense approach to Java programming has made him a trusted authority in the industry. (Wow, thanks ChatGPT!) https://www.javaspecialists.eu

Helder Araujo is a Senior Software Engineering Expert / Architect with nearly 14 years of hands-on experience in software engineering. Passionate about innovation and clean, scalable architectures, he brings expertise in solving enterprise-scale challenges with practical, business-aligned solutions. He has made contributions across various industries, including telecommunications, the private sector, and the public sector. Helder also enjoys sharing knowledge and actively supports the growth of others who are eager to learn and develop their skills.