QCon London International Software Development Conference 2027 Exhibitor List

Chief Open Source Officer @Isovalent at Cisco, Ex-Governing Board at CNCF and OpenUK, Emeritus Chair, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, eBPF, Security, Cilium, Cloud Native

Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus Team @IBM, Java Champion, Previously Senior Principal Software Engineer, Quarkus @Red Hat

Technical Lead of Ferrocene @Ferrous Systems, Formerly on the Rust Core Team, and Previous Lead of the Rust Infrastructure Team

Principle Software Engineering Manager @Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer @Fermyon, Kubernetes Maintainer

Julia Lawall is a senior researcher at Inria Paris. Prior to joining Inria, she completed a PhD at Indiana University and was on the faculty at the University of Copenhagen. Her work focuses on issues around the correctness and performance of operating systems. She develops and maintains the Coccinelle program transformation system that has been extensively used on Linux kernel code, and has recently begun investigating the performance impact of the Linux kernel scheduler, as well as exploring formal verification of scheduler properties.

Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom is a senior developer at SpareBank 1 Utvikling, Oslo. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Asgaut has worked as a developer since 2006. He has previously worked in-house at FINN and TietoEVRY, but also worked several years as a consultant - both independently and at Bouvet. He worked 12 years as a founder and developer in a startup European Travel Group, which was later acquired by HotelOnline Inc. Asgaut has been passionate about pair programming and team collaboration throughout his career. He is focused on fast feedback loops, continuous learning, flow, focus, code quality, and eliminating waste in the teams he works in. He also works across the organization with coaching - both technically and in agile efficiency. Asgaut has worked closely with SINTEF Digital in their research of efficient teams. In recent years, Asgaut has given talks both internally and externally, especially around pair programming and frequent deployments to production. Asgaut shares a lot internally within the company he works in and participates in groups trying to improve culture and collaboration. He writes annual articles about his work and how his team is improving in modern software development. Asgaut also works with developers from other organizations to improve his knowledge.

Ola Hast is a senior developer at SB1U, Oslo. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Ola has worked as an architect, developer and tech lead since 2010. He worked as a consultant in both Oslo and Trondheim for several years. In 2018 he joined SB1U. Ola has been a core contributor in both designing and developing some of the most important parts of SB1U´s systems. Ola has worked closely with Asgaut trying to improve culture and collaboration, and done several talks together. Ola believes in simplicity and speed as guiding principles in architecture and software development, which works well with modern software development techniques such as pair programming and CI/CD.

Anne Currie has been passionate about sustainable tech for many years. She is part of the leadership team of the Green Software Foundation and is the co-author of "Building Green Software," O'Reilly's new book on the actions the tech industry needs to take to handle the energy transition. She has long experience as an engineer, senior manager and startup founder and has been speaking and writing on the subject of efficient, futureproof, and sustainable systems since 2006. She is a co-founder of Strategically Green, a coaching and consulting firm driving green tech. She is also the author of the 8 novels in the science fiction Panopticon series.

Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery @Thoughtworks, Software Developer, Architect, and Technical Leader, 20 Years Experience in Technology

Engineering Manager - Platform & Developer Experience @Monzo, Previously @Spotify

Jon Berger is a highly experienced engineering leader. His career in technology has spanned every scale from helping a small tech company specializing in high efficiency networking to grow to capital exit; to holding a senior engineering role at one of the world's largest tech corporations. At Microsoft he played a key part in launching Azure's first 5G offering and his speciality is building technology organisations that deliver high performance and mission critical software. He is a co-founder of Strategically Green, a coaching and consulting firm driving green tech.

Developer Champion and Author of "Head First Java" (3rd Ed), "97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know", and "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"