Developer and open-data-enthusiast. Worked with open data and information management in Difi (The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment) since june 2015, and with open data a few years before that. Worked with both the national open data portal, data.norge.no, and the data hotel (hotell.difi.no). Recently started a new position in Difi as a developer on the national IT-components (ID-portal, Contact- and reservation-registry ++). In my spare time, I help organize Booster and JavaZone.

Livar blogs at https://medium.com/@livar.bergheim/

I am interested in the mysteries of life and the little everyday joys. I am an observer, a participant and a dreamer. Work as a team leader, mother of two, happy and agile.

Front-end developer at Bouvet Bergen.
Enjoys colors, shapes, writing CSS, attempting to understand JavaScript, and drinking coffee.

Practice lead of Distributed systems, team lead and software developer at BEKK.

Frequent speaker and retired organiser of DevOpsDays Oslo.

Sveinung blogs at https://medium.com/@sdalatun

Certified electronician, bachelor degree in cognitive science, master in logic and PhD in Algorithms. A Statoil software developer with a passion for open source.

I love challenges, whether it's solving problems, programming, or climbing mountains. In my day job as software engineer at Archilogic I write server side code in Scala, take care of databases, and automate processes to make my colleagues' lives easier and more efficient. I also make WebXR demos and give talks at conferences because I enjoy teaching others and empowering them to experiment on their own. I'm a huge fan of functional programming and well written documentation.

Pål Einar works as UX designer and head of user experience at Kantega. His main interests revolve around user research, service design and usability. He has led cross functional design processes across different sectors and projects throughout the last years.

Mario has several years of experience in digital business development, lean-agile transformation and corporate innovation processes. Having worked with digitization at all levels, from business to technology, Mario thinks holistically across business, organisation and technology. Mario is a highly skilled facilitator who is able to create engagement through his diplomatic leadership style combined with broad knowledge and skillset.

Mario holds a Master of Computer Science from NTNU, and a Master of Management from NTNU&NHH.

In addition to being deeply engaged in his profession, Mario is an accomplished music producer and DJ with several releases on small record labels. When Mario is not in the studio, he plays golf in the summer or skis wintertime.

Tor is a senior consultant with Websteps Bergen office. He has worked as project manager, system administrator, team leader and senior developer in Norwegian and international environments. His industry exposure comes from software development in banking, telecommunications and public administration and his focus has been on web applications, web services and background processes.

Ansvarlig tester for navnebytting av nettbanken - Skandiabanken.no til Sbanken.no.
Spesialfelt er testing av betaling i nettbank.
Er også ansvarlig for innføringen av nytt testverktøy, Testrail, i organisasjonen.
Er utdannet bachelor ved Høgskolen på vestlandet.

I’m a simplicity advocate and communicator who just happens to be a designer. I’m currently a Product Design Lead for a team of five designers at IBM Studios in Austin. I work alongside brilliant people—designers, engineers and managers—as we use Design Thinking and research to drive our product strategy and vision in order to create meaningful experience that users enjoy and come back to. I lean toward simplicity over randomness and have little patience for inefficient processes.

Esteban blogs at https://medium.com/@certifyDesign

Olve has 15+ years of full-stack/distributed systems development and has recently joined Disruptive Technologies Research AS - powering the IOT sensor revolution

The last five years he has led the transition of the product line from an on premise model to the use of micro-services with continuous delivery, message queueing and monitoring, to containerization and service discovery, contributed extensively to the migration of the product line from on-premise installations to cloud services, and with optimization and load balancing of live video broadcasts.

Einar W. Høst programs computers at NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster. His heretic views include thinking before programming and making drawings to understand things better. This arrogant mindset no doubt stems from the idle years spent obtaining a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

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

Janniche has been working with User eXperience since the term didn't even exist. She has worked with online banking since last century. Finally we have the tools to measure that UX will pay off 1000 times over, if you just get the chance. She is in a constant battle explaining that design can change revenue, not only the look and feel.

Developer working at Knowit Experience Bergen, primarily on web projects.

Trygve has worked as a consultant at BEKK since graduating in 2016. Specializing in Machine Learning, he has a Master's Degree in Industrial Mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Stein Inge Morisbak is Manager and Head of Bekk Consulting’s commitment to Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Cloud. He considers himself a cross disciplinary technologist and has 20 years of experience both contributing to and helping others become better at producing excellent software together. He is also an experienced speaker at conferences, organizer of DevOpsDays Oslo and the founder of DevOps Norway Meetup.

Stein Inge blogs at https://medium.com/@steinim

Portia is a Personal and Executive coach, Agile coach and play researcher creating transformative change in a range of organisations including the Prime Minister’s Office, the NHS, British Airways and global financial institutions. Portia combines coaching and business strategies with play to bring about positive and enduring change. She is also the founder of The School of Play (www.theschoolofplay.org), dedicated to promoting happier adulthood through lifelong play.

Portia is the author of The Dream Team Nightmare, the first ever Agile novel where your discussions determine the outcome of the story. If you’ve enjoyed the Agile Fairytales, you’ll love this first novel in the Agile Adventure Series created by Portia.

Portia blogs at http://www.selfishprogramming.org

Works as a Front-end developer at Bouvet. Loves working with new CSS-Techniques and accessibility.

Lisi is a masters student in Multimediatechnology at University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria working on her master thesis on Web Animation. She is researching how native web animation can be used more efficient in combination with Javascript frameworks to enable developers to use animations in a simple way even if they don't work with them on a day to day basis. Previously she worked as a frontend developer in Amsterdam and in her free time she loves to go to conferences and get involved in the community. She also participates in meetups and spoke about web animation there.

Lisi blogs at https://lisilinhart.info/writing

Jeg er en funksjonell arkitekt som er levende opptatt av å stille de riktige spørsmålene slik at vi lager de beste IT-løsningene vi kan. Blir lett engasjert, er vilig til å jobbe hardt for god kvalitet, og syns det er spennende å lære om nye problemstillinger. Hjertesakene mine er å finne frem til de reelle behovene slik at vi løser det riktige problemet og at mennesker og domenet er viktigere enn teknologi.

Cecilie is a Test Lead in Computas with a technical background. She's been working with test in the public and private sector and has a special interest in making applications accessible for all.

Fredrik is an UX designer and Fullstack Product Owner who likes to dabble in evil design in an effort to learn more and improve as a user experience designer. Having emigrated to Norway many a moon ago he is now established in this land.

Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if 'cloud' can be considered tangible). After 15 years as an operations engineer, she traded being on call for being on a plane. A frequent speaker and program committee member for tech conferences, she leads the devopsdays organization globally and the devops community at home in Minneapolis. She podcasts with Arrested DevOps, blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.

Bridget blogs at https://bridgetkromhout.com/

19 years experience as a fascilitator, worked as a leader in Kantega for 10 years, responsible for organizational development, developing and implementing more innovative processes. Member in Lean Forum Midt-Norge.

Julia Dellnitz is the co-founder of Learnical and the smidig network. She advises companies who want to become agile beyond software development. Julia blogs and speaks about agile and diversity at international conferences. As a physical oceanographer and business economist she loves doing the maths especially when it comes to really big data.

Julia blogs at https://www.smidig.de/

I have worked with software development since 1996, mostly creating web based systems. During my career I have worked both as a consultant and in product companies, in roles spanning from backend developer to management consultant.

After trying pure non-technical roles I have found that I enjoy the technical part of software development too much to let it go. These days I try in my work to mix programming assignments with coaching and speaking, helping teams improve their processes and programming skills.

I am currently employed as Technical Principal at Valtech Sweden. My job description includes working as a solution architect, training, speaking, helping our sales team with technical sales, and a bit of development.

These days I prefer to program in Clojure, but I’ve also written a lot of Python and Ruby over the last 8 years. And of course, as anyone exposed to web development, I have also written my share of JavaScript.

As I have done quite a lot of server setups, I’ve become quite proficient with DevOps technologies such as Docker, Ansible and Terraform.

I was lucky enough to get started as a Smalltalk developer at IBM, which exposed me early on to what was to be called Agile methodologies. It was only later when I was introduced to Extreme Programming when I realized that we had been doing things differently.

Having started practicing XP in 2001, I have been very involved in the agile community, and was one of the founders of the Agila Sverige conference in 2008. I still believe that agile methodologies are necessary for a successful product development, but I am also quite disillusioned by what the industry has made out of it. After doing a number of consultancy gigs as an agile coach, I now much prefer to work in development teams, and focusing on actually building something.

If given a choice, I like to work with Open Source technologies. I run Linux on all my computers, and prefer Arch Linux on the desktop and Debian on servers.

Marcus blogs at https://www.marcusahnve.org

Tim is a passionate technology leader with a background in engineering, consulting, public speaking and technology training. He works at Confluent as the Senior Director of Developer Experience. He blogs occasionally at http://timberglund.com, and lives in Littleton, CO, USA with the wife of his youth and their youngest child, the other two having mostly grown up.

Tim blogs at http://timberglund.com

Erlend works as a developer and security tester and CTO at Blank AS. One of his main technical interests is how we as developer can teach ourselves to write better and more secure code. He has built open source security tools, and spoken at several developer and security conferences.

I'm a big picture thinker and a professional question asker. I am currently a Design Researcher at IBM in Austin after dabbling in UX, Service, and Industrial Design. The still fledgling Research practice at IBM has allowed me to be on the cutting edge of setting the best practices for one of the largest design organizations in the world.

Oliver Zeigermann is a software developer from Hamburg, Germany. He has developed software in many different languages and technologies over the past couple of decades, including C, C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript.
For the past few years he dived into machine learning and data visualization.

Oliver blogs at http://zeigermann.eu/

I am curious by heart and a strong believer in servant leadership.
I have worked as a project leader and business liaison for many years - both in private and public sector.
My passion is leadership, group dynamics and global networking.

Professor of philosophy at the University of Agder. Einar Duenger Bohn was born (1977) and raised in Vormsund, Norway. He has a BA in psychology and philosophy and an MA in philosophy from the University of Oslo. He got his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2009). His current interest in artificial intelligence (and artificial life) is growing exponentially, and very soon it will be the only thing he is interested in. Right now he is obsessed with the question whether it is possible to create artificial consciousness, and what the answer to that question tells us about our own consciousness and moral thinking. He greatly fears the singularity without the systems being conscious and morally aware. Bohn also has a theory of the meaning of life according to which it's in accordance with the meaning of life to develop as much technology as we can, as long as it's for the better for all. Bohn considers himself a modest transhumanist.

Einar Duenger blogs at http://www.einarduengerbohn.com/edb/