Speakers

Dino Esposito authored over 20 books and 1000 articles in a so far 25 years long career. It is commonly recognized that his books and articles helped the professional growth of thousands of .NET and ASP.NET developers and software architects worldwide. Dino started back in 1992 as a C developer and witnessed the debut of .NET, the rise and fall of Silverlight and the ups and downs of various architectural patterns. He ended up leading the team of five dreamers who actually deployed in 1995 a thing today we would call Flickr or iCloud Photos. He now looks ahead to Artificial Intelligence 2.0 and Blockchain and is the author of “The Sabbatical Break”, a theatrical-style work to travel the uncontaminated spaces of imagination hyperlinking software, literature, science, sport, technology, art. The list of Dino's books includes all editions of “Programming ASP.NET MVC” for Microsoft Press since 2003. Other books are the second edition of the best-seller "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" written for Microsoft Press with fellow MVP Andrea Saltarello and "Modern Web Development" which hit bookshelves in March 2016. Latest is "Programming ASP.NET Core" in 2018. Best-selling Pluralsight author (.NET architecture and ASP.NET MVC UI courses), Dino is a JetBrains evangelist and a former member of the team that manages WURFL—the database of mobile devices used by organizations such as Google and Facebook. Currently, Dino is Corporate Digital Strategist at BaxEnergy.

10-time award winner in Artificial Intelligence and Open Source and the co-author of the book 'Sculpting Data For ML', Jigyasa Grover is a powerhouse brimming with passion to make a dent in this world of technology and bridge the gaps. She has 5+ years of ML engineering & Data Science experience in deploying large‐scale systems for monetization on social networking and e‐commerce platforms with a focus on ads prediction, sponsored content ranking, and recommendation. She is also one of the few ML Google Developer Experts globally.Jigyasa is a proud recipient of multiple grants for her research and travels globally from Mitacs Globalink, Linux Foundation, Facebook, European Smalltalk Users Group, Python Software Foundation, Twitter, and many more. She has 150+ media features, keynotes, conference talks, panels, workshops, and podcasts to her name, with renowned entities like Google, United Nations, NTD Business, International Business Times, SiliconAngle, CubeTV, etc. Her love for tinkering has led her to win 5+ hackathons, sponsored by Microsoft, Google, Github, etc. and she now gives back to the community by serving on the judges' panel of hackathons.

Rishabh Misra is a Senior ML Engineer by profession and co-author of the book "Sculpting Data for ML". He developed a passion for identifying and tackling novel and practical problems using Machine Learning during his research internships at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, which he further explored during his Master's in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. He combines his past engineering experiences in designing large-scale systems, working at Amazon and Arcesium (a D.E. Shaw company), and research experiences in Applied Machine Learning to develop distributed Machine Learning relevance systems at Twitter.

I am the CEO of RIGANTI, a software development & consulting company located in the Czech Republic. I am Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 2009, and I was also awarded with Microsoft Regional Director title in 2015 and 2017. I am the author of DotVVM, an open source .NET-based web framework that lets you build web apps using the Model-View-ViewModel pattern. You can find me speaking about .NET and web development, software architecture, cloud computing, and other topics at technical conferences. I am also a founder of Update Conference Prague, the biggest conference for .NET developers in the Czech Republic.

Being here for 24 years, I hold a degree in Mathematics and wrote a couple of books for Microsoft Press: Introducing Machine Learning and Programming ML.net. Generally I live suspended between the depth of advanced mathematics and the intrigue of data science and software engineering. I’m the Head of Engineering & Data at Crionet, where I started writing software and algorithms when I was only 12. As an entrepreneur, I founded Youbiquitous, a data analysis and software factory, and KBMS Data Force a startup in Digital Therapy and intelligent healthcare.

Michal is a .NET developer specializing in architecture and web application development. Occasionally, he also enjoys delving into artificial intelligence and hardware integration. In his free time, he works on the development of DotVVM or tries to share his knowledge at the Brno University of Technology.

Not a pure computer science developer, but graduate of Operations Research and Mathematical Modelling, where when push comes to shove, you must code to get things done. Founder of SolverTech s.r.o , that for 15 years specializes in the implementation of Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization algorithms that aid decision making. Still fascinated by the possibilities of how well we, humans, can plan things and make them so efficient and perplexed how often we choose not to.

I focus on Pro Dev experiences in Power Platform. My projects use both client-side and server-side extensibility of Power Apps, custom connectors, external Azure services, automated testing and all of it delivered through advanced Azure DevOps ALM. My background is in Dataverse, former XRM, .NET and Azure used on wide range of projects.

During his time spent with .NET, Vojtěch has gained a lot of experience in solution architecture design and web application development and so he tries to pass on this knowledge to others. Outside the world of .NET, he is interested in machine learning and AI, which he has been dealing with since his college days.