Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor (Indefinite Tenure) of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the co-founder of the OtterTune automated database optimization start-up (https://ottertune.com). He is from the streets.

Nadieh Bremer is a data visualization artist that once graduated as an Astronomer, started working as a data scientist before finding her true passion in the visualization of data. As 2017's "Best Individual" in the Information is Beautiful Awards, and co-writer of "Data Sketches", she focuses on visuals that are uniquely crafted for each specific dataset, often using large and complex datasets while employing vibrant color palettes. She's made visualizations and art for companies such as Google News Lab, Sony Music, UNICEF, the New York Times and UNESCO.

Eva used to be a frontend developer until she uttered the words "I can see myself leading a team in a couple of years ... maybe". A month later she was managing a group of developers and hasn't looked back since. Delving into coaching techniques and communication theory she created an intuitive approach to engineering management to engage with her fully remote team at This Dot. In her free time, she tends to jump from hobby to hobby and enjoys everything from reading to crafting, trying out new sports, and falling down various research rabbit holes.

Santiago is the Director of Computer Vision at Levatas. He has a Master's in Machine Learning from the Georgia Institute of Technology and two decades of experience building software for some of the largest companies in the world. He co-founded bnomial.com, where he publishes daily Machine Learning questions and competitions.

Alex works as both a contributor and end-user of cloud-native technology.
When not working as Kubernetes Engineering Director at Canonical; he contributes to CNCF TAG App Delivery as Tech Lead and to the Open Feature project on the governing board.

Passionate about mentoring, collaboration and cloud-native architecture; he thrives on working together to solve problems and communicating those learnings to others. Speaking where possible and mentoring others to tell their story is a large part of the enjoyment of his professional life.