<Meet the first speakers>

We’re excited to introduce the first confirmed speakers for DevSum 2026.
More speakers and sessions will be announced soon.

<Speakers at DevSum 2026>

Alan Smith

AI Developer, Active Solution

Anders Abel

Sustainsys

Anders Norås

Entertainer

Andrew Poole

Senior Backend Engineer @ Flagstone, ex-ClearBank, speaker, musician

Arthur Doler

Senior Software Developer and Community and Culture Steward at Aviture

Chris Ayers

Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Chris Klug

Developer Badass-as-a-Service

Christian Kuhn

Bridging Human Needs and AI Capability through Behaviorally Informed UX Design

Christian Woerz

Senior Fullstack Developer

Daniel Raniz Raneland

Sourceror @ factor10

Dante De Ruwe

Consultant & Software Crafter

Dave Platt

Rolling Thunder Computing, Supreme and Exalted Dictator-for-Life

David Neal

Ambassador of Awesome

David Whitney

Converting rum into code

Debbie O'Brien

Senior Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Applied AI at Block

Dennis Doomen

Hands-on architect in the .NET space with 29 years of experience on an everlasting quest for knowledge to build the right software the right way at the right time

Edwin van Wijk

Principal Solution Architect / Managing Consultant at Info Support & Microsoft MVP

Eric Boyd

Founder & CEO, responsiveX, Azure MVP, Microsoft RD

Erwin Staal

Independent Solution Architect, Author of 'Azure Infrastructure as Code'

Esteban Garcia

Head of GitHub AI Solutions - Lantern

Filip Ekberg

Author. Speaker. Pluralsight author. 11 x Microsoft MVP.

Fredrik Carleson

Computer-Strategy nerd who likes philosophy

Gerald Versluis

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Gill Cleeren

CTO Xpirit Belgium

Glenn F. Henriksen

Cloud wizard, CTO and teacher

Jakob Ehn

Azure MVP - Doing cloudy DevOps things at Active Solution

Jeff Prosise

Wintellect Cofounder and InRule CAIO

Jim Counts

Cloud/DevOps Architect

Jimmy Bogard

Independent Consultant

Jocelynn Hartwig

AI Solution Engineer - Microsoft

Johan Smarius

Software Solutions & Lead Microsoft Development Consultant @ Bergler

John Alexander

Strategist. Teacher. Leader. Advocate.

Karl-Henrik Nilsson

Senior Technical Architect at GAC

Kilian Valkhof

Founder at Polypane browser for developers

Kyle Kotowick

Founder & CEO @ Invicton Labs

Laila Bougria

Solutions Architect at Particular Software, speaker and knitting addict.

Lemon 🍋

Does things to the internet. The internet does things to him as well.

Maarten Balliauw

.NET and web. Works at Duende Software.

Marc Duiker

I ♥ Event-driven, Dev Communities, & Creative Coding

Matheus Albuquerque

Staff SWE, Front-End @ Medallia • Google Developer Expert • International Speaker

Michele Leroux Bustamante

CEO, Solliance Inc; Founder PolicyServer; Cloud / Security Architect; Microsoft RD

Niall Merrigan

Security Tech Person

Oliver Sturm

DevExpress Training Director, Software Architect, Consultant, Trainer, Developer, Author, Docker Captain

Richard Campbell

Host of .NET Rocks, RunAs Radio and Windows Weekly

Rob Bos

DevOps Consultant | GitHub Trainer @ Xebia

Robert Folkesson

Consultant, Solution architect, Marketing Manager & Head of Cyber security at Active Solution

Rockford Lhotka

Author, Speaker, OSS creator

Roger Johansson

Founder at Asynkron

Roland Guijt

Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, ASP.NET insider

Ronald Harmsen

Empowering Code with Security, Sustainability, and Speed

Sander Hoogendoorn

Tools do not solve problems, Thinking does.

Shahab Ganji

Lead Coding Architect, SQUER Solutions GmbH

Shawn Wildermuth

Microsoft MVP, Speaker and Pluralsight Author

Simon Brown

Independent Consultant

Simona Toader

Global Black Belt @Microsoft

Suzi Edwards-Alexander

People-first provocateur with 30 years in tech

Wesley Cabus

Customer Success Engineer at Duende Software. Coffee Enthusiast.

Yuri Diogenes

Principal PM Manager

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