Speakers

Adam Cogan
Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET MVC web applications. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director and has traveled the world speaking at major Microsoft events over the last 10 years. Adam has relationships members of the Microsoft teams that build .NET and he often calls of them for advice.

Adam Stephensen
Adam is passionate about building awesome teams and software projects. He loves people, patterns, processes and technology. Adam spent much time this year traveling to all major capital cities in Australia training developers in ASP.NET MVC. He was born to be a Boot Camp mentor.

Jernej Kavka
JK loves working on Angular, .NET Core, and Cognitive Services. His most recent projects have featured Docker, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) and Machine Learning development. He loves containers and Kubernetes and enjoys showing others the immense possibilities that Container technology has to offer.

William Liebenberg
William specializes in Application Modernization to help companies transform and migrate to Azure. William has helped some of Australia's largest software companies and financial institutions through their digital transformation processes to take full advantage of the Cloud.

Patrick Zhao
Patrick is a passionate full stack software engineer with more than 5 years of professional experience in FinTech industry. He joined SSW as a Senior Software Architect with focus on building enterprise web applications utilizing modern technologies such as ASP.NET Core, EF Core, Angular, SignalR, SQL, Machine Learning and Azure DevOps.

Stefano Tempesta
Stefano Tempesta is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP on Azure, AI and Business Applications, and co-founder of 365 Community, a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower communities around the world with better ICT processes for customer relationship management (CRM) and customer service, using modern technology.

Arafat Tehsin
Arafat is Microsoft MVP (AI) and has around 10 years of modern application development experience with the specialization on digital transformation and business automation. He loves to code, write and talk about Microsoft AI & Power Platform. Arafat is passionate about empowering developers of all the stacks with Artificial Intelligence.

Valeriia Savenko
Valeriia is an Azure engineer with background in IoT/Bots/Cog services and an Electrical/Biomedical engineer by degree. She is part of the FastTrack for Azure team at Microsoft, helping customers with rapid and effective design and deployment of cloud solutions.