Open Source North

Aaron Lange, CTO @ Marketing Architects - Stop Piloting AI: Start Running the Business With It

Adam Dehnel, Platform Engineer @ Improving - The Golden Key to Badass Products

Amy Gebhardt, Senior Engineering Manager @ 1Password - Navigating a Season of Change

Ben McHone, Staff Engineering Consultant @ Source Allies - Self-Improving AI Without Fine-Tuning: Patterns That Work

Brian Repko, Bioinformatician / Open Source Developer @ Novartis Oncology Research (retired) - Open Source and the FDA

Chike Okonta, Software Developer @ HealthPartners - Building the future with small language models

Clay Cotter, Director, Information Security Engineering @ Thrivent - Evolving Security:  Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation

Colin Dean, Lead AI Engineer / Managing Director @ Target Corp. / Code & Supply - make python devex: Towards Red-Green-Refactor in 1 Command with an Old Tool

David Norton, President @ Platformers - Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms

Dorothy Toth, Lead User Experience Designer @ BI Worldwide - The Golden Key to Badass Products

Esse Komlanvi, Founder @ Nuse & AI for Financial Inclusion Advocate - Women in AI: Building for Social Good

Gaurav Shekhar, Vice President - Sr Group Applications Manager @ U.S. Bank - From Firewalls to eBPF: How Cloud-Native Security Is Being Rewritten

Hugo Guerrero, Principal Technical Product Lead @ Kong Inc - Leading the Agentic Transformation: A Blueprint for the AI-Native Enterprise

Isaac Johnson, Sr Staff Cloud Architect @ Abbott - Let's make an MCP Server!

Jana Gunn, Sr Director, Advanced Analytics and AI @ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota - Balancing Governance and Innovation: Practical Lessons from Healthcare AI

Jana Schmid, Marketing Director @ CodeWeavers - Brand Voice in Open Source: Staying Human Without Losing Credibility

Jason Scherschligt, Head of Product @ Solution Design Group - Product Rescue: Turning Stalled or Underperforming Products into New Opportunities

Jena Zangs, Chief Data & AI Officer @ University of St. Thomas - Women in AI: Building for Social Good

John Benninghoff, Cybersecurity Consultant @ Security Differently - Insecure at any speed: why Secure by Design is not enough

Justin Castilla, Senior Developer Advocate @ Elastic - Building your own Developer Advocate with Deep Agent!

Justin Grammens, Founder + CEO @ Labs651 - Spec First, Agents Second: Engineering AI Systems with Discipline

Kate Agnew, null @ - Don't Let Users Find Your Outages: Synthetic Monitoring for Kubernetes Platforms

Kelly Calendine, Client Director @ Genesis10 - Building the future with small language models

Kevin Klos, Senior Experience Designer @ Best Buy - Beyoncé, Domino's Pizza, and the Web Accessibility Battlefield: What You Must Know

Levi McCormick, Director of Engineering @ Jamf - Multi-Cloud Without the Marketing or Designing for Multi-Cloud Without Losing Your Mind

Luke Schlangen, Developer Advocate @ Google - Full Stack Improv

Mark Soule, Principal Engineer @ Improving - Data Streaming Platform Playbook

Matt Vincent, Founder @ Source Allies - Self-Improving AI Without Fine-Tuning: Patterns That Work

Meagan Taylor, UX Designer II @ Riot Games - The Myth of the UX/UI Unicorn

Michelle Thorsell, Lead Full Stack Engineer @ Blank Metal - It's Not Too Late: A Beginner's Guide to Claude Code for Developers

Mike Benkovich, Principal Cloud Engineer @ Imagine Technologies, Inc. - Choose your Identity Wisely

Nick Krantz, Senior Software Engineer @ Livefront, Inc. - Humans in the Loop: Hiring Software Engineers in the AI Era

Nick Larson, VP - Technology @ Improving - Data Streaming Platform Playbook

Nick Manor, Sr. Principal @ RBA Consulting - From Coder to Problem Solver: How Developers Stay Indispensable in an AI World

Nick Roseth, Chief Explorer @ Explore Design - The Agentic Enterprise: The Future of Work Inside Agent-Driven Organizations

Niki Anderson, Senior Sales Engineer @ Datadog - Why Did It Say That?! A Guide to LLM Observability with OpenTelemetry

Parker Seaman, Security Engineer @ Samsung Smart Things - All You Need Is Love(and Ublock Origin)

Patrick Burke, Sales Engineer @ Chainguard - Shai-Hulud: What Happened and How Developers Can Protect Themselves

Patrick Kragthorpe-Shirley, Director of Data and AI @ RBA Consulting - From Coder to Problem Solver: How Developers Stay Indispensable in an AI World

Paul DeBettignies, Founder @ Launch Hiring - Maintaining Your Career in an AI World

Paul DeLaria, Principal Solutions Architecture @ AWS - Agentic AI Development: From Prototype to Production with Kiro IDE

Pete Jones, Senior Software Engineer @ Livefront, Inc. - Humans in the Loop: Hiring Software Engineers in the AI Era

Pete Wall , Principal Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs - The observed life: what I learned building dashboards for fun

Rael Rodning, Principal AI Ops Architect @ Evolving Solutions - From Chaos to Clarity: Practical AI Readiness for Modern Operations

Rahul Gauli, Senior Software Engineer @ Thrivent - Evolving Security:  Building Unified tooling to Agentic AI: Autonomous IaC Security Remediation

Sandon Jacobs, Senior Developer Advocate @ Confluent - What Can We Do with an Apache Kafka Queue?

Shannon Seaver, Founder & CEO, Executive Director @ TailorEDU & createMPLS - Women in AI: Building for Social Good

Shaun Jurgemeyer, Principal Engineer @ RB Global - Earning Trust One Metric at a Time

Simba Khadder, Lead, Context Engine @ Redis - Context Engineering 2.0: MCP, Agentic RAG & Memory

Stephen Fluin, VP of Product @ HeroDevs - The Angular Renaissance is here!

Steve Buchanan, Engineering Manager @ Jamf - Multi-Cloud Without the Marketing or Designing for Multi-Cloud Without Losing Your Mind

Stu Keroff, Teacher @ Lake Middle School - Crazy Enough To Think They Can: Students Leading With Linux

Todd H. Gardner, CEO @ TrackJS - Everything you learned about SSL is deprecated

Tom Slattery, Sr. Solutions Architect @ MongoDB - Stateful Agents: Building Production-Grade Memory with MongoDB and Voyage AI

Travis Gosselin, Distinguished Software Engineer @ SPS Commerce - AI Enablement in the SDLC: A Strategy Sampler

Varun Dhawan, Principal Product Manager @ Microsoft - PostgreSQL VS-Code Extension: Practical Workflows for Open Source Developers and DBAs

Zach Tollefson, Software Engineer @ Solution Design Group - Balancing Governance and Innovation: Practical Lessons from Healthcare AI