Marit van Dijk has almost 20 years of experience in software development in different roles and companies. She loves building awesome software with amazing people, and is an open source core contributor to Cucumber. She enjoys learning new things, as well as sharing knowledge on test automation, Cucumber/BDD and software engineering and blogs at https://medium.com/@mlvandijk. Marit is currently employed at bol.com.

Marit blogs at https://medium.com/@mlvandijk

Developer at Kraftlauget

Programmer, gamer, father of three kids. Games, Backend, Frontend, AR/VR and IT Consultant. Also a hobby game developer and retro computer enthusiast. =)

Ricki blogs at http://sickenger.com

Passionate people and technology leader with 20+ years of consulting and managerial experience related to business development and innovation, IT management and digitalization, system and software development, R&D and product/service management.

Currently working as Chief Transformation Officer at Mestergruppen, driving digital transformation within one of Scandinavia's leading housebuilders and building material retailers. Prior experience includes roles as CIO for the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV); Deputy Director at Oslo & Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (2011-15); Vice President in Cisco IT (2010-11); CIO in TANDBERG (2007-2010); 2 years in management consulting; and 7 years of experience as co-founder and CTO in a BI/CPM software company.

Spent 15+ years building and changing organizations. Have strong communication skills and relational competence with extensive experience from networked organizations. Also deep understanding of how boarderless networks, cloud computing and unified communication & collaboration are changing the way people work, live, play and learn.

Chris Dale is the Head of Cyber Security at Netsecurity, a mid-sized company based out of Norway. Along with significant security expertise, Chris has a background in System Development, IT-Operations and Security Management. This broad experience in IT is advantageous when managing penetration tests, incidents and while teaching.

Chris is passionate about security -- both physical and in IT, and regularly presents and teaches at conferences and workshops. Chris holds the GCIH, GPEN, GSLC, and GMOB certifications. He also has a B.S in Informatics, with specialization in programming from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He participates in panel debates and is invited to participate in Government related working groups, to recommend and improve the Norwegian private and public sectors.

Interaction Designer with a technical edge. 10 years of experience with designing and coding for the web.

Vegard is an experienced frontend developer that has specialized in accessibility over the last five years. His passion is making good user experience for everyone, not Some User Experience (or SUX, first coined by Billy Gregory). He wants to bring back the "engineering" in software engineering, building software with the same care and intolerance for errors as engineers building bridges and buildings.

After speaking at an increasing number of conferences and meetups, from 2015 until 2019, he did a kind of sabbatical to focus on family and the birth of his second child the last year. He is now back, and probably has enough inspiration to continue speaking throughout the next decade.

Hans Kristian Flaatten is an experienced Platform Engineering Team Lead. He has lead multiple engineering teams that builds and operates Cloud Native and Kubernetes-based application platforms for large government institutions, banking and the insurance sector.

He is a Chief Consultant and DevOps Practice Lead at EVRY where he drives the adoption of DevOps, SRE and Cloud Native practices internally and for customers.

Hans Kristian is an Open Source, DevOps, and Cloud Native evangelist. He is a member of the Node.js Foundation where he manage test and release of official Node.js versions and the official Docker Image for Node.js.

He is an organizer of several local meetups most notably Cloud Native Bergen and GDG Bergen and Co-Organiser of the DevOps Days Oslo Conference. He is a regular speaker at various local, and national, user groups and technology conferences on Open Source, Open Data, Cloud Native, and other new and exciting technologies and practices.

Hans Kristian blogs at https://starefossen.github.io

Erik works as a clojure programmer at Ardoq, a Norwegian startup in the EA-space. He’s a mainly a backend programmer, but tends to work wherever the code is bad enough. Given time he’ll eventually drift into some sort of devops role while trying to figure out how to run the current project even better.

Lately, he's been lurking around open-source Clojure projects looking for easy bugs to fix. This is his way of paying back to the community.

Becca (she/her) has a PhD in Human Factors Psychology and runs the UX consulting company Kennason. She lives in Albany, New York with her husband, four cats, and many shelves of books and records.

Leonard is a Senior Engineer at Computas. He coaches various companies on build automation and plumbing Jenkins pipelines. All things configuration as code and cloud infrastructure are his main interests these days.

Born in Malaysia, had his Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, and worked a couple of different corners of the software engineering area. Claims that he enjoys Norway for its picturesque nature and unpredictable weather, and tries to prove it (and fail) by kayaking in the Norwegian fjords.

Leonard Sheng Sheng blogs at https://sheeeng.github.io/

Lubaba is a senior test engineer at Vizrt Norway. She has been working as a QA expert for companies in Norway and abroad for over a decade. She has a bachelor and master’s in computer science. She is passionate about making technology better for others. She is an avid reader and interested in philosophy, history, and languages. Lubaba is a mother of one and apart from child rearing she likes to spend her time on making music or climbing mountains. She is also interested in data security and trying to find the answer on how can we make the internet secured for our next generation.

Jeg elsker utvikling (bør gå klart frem av tittelen). Utvikling for meg er å løse problemer gjennom å tenke sammen med andre. Noen ganger, og det er kanskje de artigste tilfellene, så skriver vi kode for å løse problemet.
I SpareBank 1 Utvikling er jeg leder for de ca. 60 herlige utviklere. Målet er fortsatt å kode hver dag. Jeg er derfor også del av teamet som lager mobilbanken vår. Som faglig leder for utviklerene har jeg blant annet et ansvar for å sikre at vi får mest mulig ut av fagdagen vår. Hver torsdag forlater alle utviklerene teamet sitt og samles rundt andre problemstillinger. Problemstillinger vi mener må løses nå. Dette gjør vi hver torsdag. På dagtid. Ikke kveldstid!
Og ja, jeg elsker å lese. Favoritter nå er Accelerate, The Unicorn Project og Deep Work

Stian blogs at https://medium.com/@conradsen

Kristian is a passionate developer that always strives to make things easier and safer for users and developers.
He is a co-owner and developer in Kantega that has spent the last few years working with authentication and bank APIs.

Originally educated in arts and design, Anders has spent the last twenty years writing code. He has presented at conferences worldwide on various technical topics throughout the years. With this talk, he goes back to his musical roots and combines them with his experiences as a programmer.

Anders blogs at http://andersnoras.com

Ketil has 16 years of experience from the media- and media tech sectors. He is a product leader in Vimond Media Solutions, where he is responsible for their editorial products. In his spare time, Ketil coordinates The Things Network Community in Bergen.

Ketil Moland blogs at https://ketilmo.no/

Mileha Soneji, a renowned TED Speaker, believes that having empathy and being able to put yourself in another person's shoes is what makes for great human centered design.

Mileha Soneji is a trained strategic product designer, originally hailing from the city of Pune in India. She currently works at ASML in the Netherlands as a Senior User eXperience researcher & designer. Her work entails combining the fuzzy front-end of the design process with emerging technologies to answer the question of what needs to be designed in the future. Even as a child, Mileha had a keen interest in (re)designing things around her, even though she had little knowledge about the field of design. Her passions are inclusive design and traveling. Her TED talk is now more than 1 million views and counting.

Mileha blogs at http://milehasoneji.com/

I work comfortably "across the stack", doing everything from server provisioning, to optimizing SQL queries, to web development and animating with css. I also have experience with project management, user experience design and business development. What we build needs to solve real needs for real people, today and in the future.

Open sourcerer of packages, IndieWeb proponent, feminist.

Nils Norman blogs at https://nilsnh.no/

Erik Vetle Larsen works as a penetration tester at Netsecurity's Red Team, and is a part of Netsecurity's Incident Response Team. Alongside his employment at Netsecurity he is also doing a masters degree in computer security at the University of Bergen.
Erik Vetle is passionate about ethical hacking, incident response and social engineering, and holds talks and workshops within these fields.
In addition to a bachelor and soon master degree in computer security, he holds the GCIH certification.

Erik Vetle blogs at https://vetle.io

Work mostly with turning carbohydrates, fat, and protein into compiler error messages.

Psychologist (Cand. Psychol) and Registered EuroPsy Psycologist. Specialist in organizational psychology with experience in leadership development, management, organizational development, Google Design Sprint, business consulting, project management and change initiatives.

Johannes is a front end developer who works for the nordic consultancy company Knowit. Currently he helps Entur develop their customer support application. Entur is a large project asked with creating a common system for public transportation in Norway across operators.

Outside of work Johannes is passionate about everything football related, gaming and also playing and creating music.

Designgeek med hjerte for gode og enkle brukeropplevelser. Liker å gi omsorg til de små detaljene samtidig som helheten er ivaretatt.
Å gjøre er en ting, å gjøre det riktig er en annen.

Hans-Jørgen blogs at https://blogg.kantega.no/endring-gjor-vondt/

Einar W. Høst is a computer at NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster. He thinks that programs should be written for people to read and also for machines to laugh at.

Einar blogs at https://einarwh.wordpress.com

Eirik has worked at Knowit Objectnet for two years. Before that, he studied computer science at NTNU in Trondheim. In addition to programming, he has also dabbled in playwriting, acting, journalism and music.

People > technology

Kjetil blogs at https://generated.space

Web developer with a love for breaking things apart and putting it back together, just to get a sense of how everything works.

Thorstein has been working at Skatteetaten for the last two years, implementing a new national registry for the citizens of Norway. After work he seeks out the norwegian nature, by ski or foot.

Musician in a former life. Currently studying programming and data visualisation.

As an IT Project Manager/team coach Maja is known for her exceptional team-building skills, her caring and compassionate way of relating to others, and her engaging way of inspiring her co-workers.

She thinks the magic lies in the teams ability to cooperate and feel safe with each other and is eager to facilitate this whenever she gets the opportunity to do so.

She is an avid supporter of the idea that the client/supplier relationship greatly benefits a partner mindset where both parties share risk and trust.

She has played different roles in the project management universe and worked in many different types of projects, with many different types of clients. She works daily as a head of department in Kantega and thrives when she can see other people succeed.