Speakers
Adam Cogan
Microsoft Regional Director and CEO at SSW
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
Azure Specialist at Microsoft
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
Microsoft AI MVP and Solution Architect at SSW
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.
Patrick Zhao
Solution Architect at McMillan Shakespeare (MMSG)
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.
William Liebenberg
Solution Architect at SSW
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.
Stefano Tempesta
CTO at SXiQ
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
Senior Manager (Digital Emerging Tech) at EY
Arafat is a Solution Architect at EY and Microsoft MVP (AI). He has been working with major partners of Microsoft and developing some next-gen solutions using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. Arafat co-founded Global AI - The Podcast, which talks about everything around Microsoft AI. He's also an active contributor to the community and co-founded the Bot Builder Community Project on GitHub. He loves to code/write/speak about Microsoft Azure AI, .NET and Power Platform.
Valeriia Savenko
Microsoft, FastTrack Engineer (Focus areas IoT/Dev)
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.
Somy Ayazi
Engineering Manager - Atlassian
Somy is Microsoft AI MVP and one of the Global AI - The Podcast co-hosts. She has a development background and has worked across multiple organisations and projects. She is passionate about AI and keen to explore areas where AI can improve and make our lives easier.
Nick Curran
Software Engineer at SSW
Nick is a Software Engineer with a Master of Computer Science from the University of Queensland, who enjoys writing and talking about software. He has experience working with a variety of programming languages and environments, and has written websites, desktop applications and embedded software. He is currently studying to become an AI Engineer.
Michelle (MishManners) Duke
Senior Developer Advocate at SSW
Mish is the Senior Developer Advocate at SSW, coming to you from the Melbourne office. She loves creating content and connecting with the developer community. Mish has worked in the technology space for the last decade, and has a tonne of experience in developer advocacy, community management, innovation, and content creation.