Hi everyone, I am Maarten from the Netherlands. I work in the largest public transit company in our country as Lead Platforms in our commercial department. We're currently transitioning to a platform strategy (so as everyone else) so happy to learn from experts and get to know you.

Hi, I’m Joakim from Sweden. I work in a small platform engineering team as a senior devops engineer at a startup company, ZeroNorth, in Denmark. I have a huge passion for anything cloud native and like to contribute to open source projects during my spare time. You can find my GitHub at https://github.com/joakimhew. Hit me up if you want to chat about anything 🙂

Hi everyone, I'm Jonas from England. I'm pretty new to the platform game, having started about 6-7 months ago as my company is looking to create an IDP. This has exposed me to a lot of amazing technologies already but I'm excited to keep learning! 🙂

Hi everyone, Ivan, from Barcelona in the UK 🇬🇧 I work at Docker doing research on how to reduce complexity in software and in particular, how complexity impacts building platforms.

👋 Hi, I am Martin from Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 being a hands on architecture expert at SAP. Cloud native citizen using heavily K8s :kubernetes: , NATS, Cloud Events, Functions, Istio and looking into Flux, Flagger, Backstage and Crossplane recently. 🚀

Hi there, I'm from Warsaw, Poland. I'm currently massaging Continuous Localization subsystem into Allegro.pl internal platform 🙂

Hi everyone, Benoit from Nantes, France 🇫🇷 , CTO and co-founder of Agorapulse, a social media management platform based in Paris 🇫🇷. Leading an engineering team of around 50 people divided into 7 "Product/Feature" squads and 1 Platform/Dx team, on an AWS + Java/Micronaut + TS/Angular stack.

Hey folks 👋 I’m Vlad, a “_Professional mistake avoider_” AKA an Independent Consultant. As part of my work I do a bunch of Cloud-y DevOps-y Platform-y things and I recently had a surprisingly popular thread about platforms which led to me finding out about this conference. Excited to be here and for all the talks!

Hey there, I am Djalal from France 🇫🇷 , Developer Relations Engineer at artifakt.com 🥑, a PaaS startup based in Paris, for hurry developers to deploy safely on cloud. I have 7 years of DevOps, containers and PlatformCon is the right mix of my current mission and my cloud native background 🙌

Hi all. I am Jeremy, Cloud Adoption Engineering Manager for payments provider Mollie.com in Amsterdam 🇳🇱! My colleagues and I are building the next generation platform for the company as we make the transition from startup to scale up.

Hi everyone, I'm Bryan Finster from DefenseUnicorns.com where we focus on helping people stand up effective delivery platforms in some of the hardest contexts (imagine "water-gapped" delivery). I previously worked for several years as one of the leads on the Walmart CD Platform where we learned many hard lessons about scale. :)

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Aviram, from Tel Aviv, Israel. I’m Co-founder and CPO at Jit, a comprehensive security platform that helps engineers build secure applications from day 1. We do that by orchestrating best-of-breed open source security tools and by that help secure the entire product stack, including the Code, Infrastructure, Runtime Application ,CI/CD pipeline. My talk is “Minimum viable security for cloud native stacks”. Looking forward to interacting with you all.

Hi everyone, Gregor here - author of CloudStrategyBook,com and hopefully Platform Strategy soon 🙂 Day job at AWS

Hi everyone! 👋 Eduardo Ferro (eferro) here. Platform Engineering Manager at ClarityAI. Very interested in Platforms as a Product, Developer Experience, and devops mindset

Hello! I'm Lowe (🇸🇪) a Senior SRE at Spendesk by day and formerly Devopsdays organiser by night and weekend. Extra interested in Platform as Product and DX currently, and always interested in * as code 🙂

Hi all! My name is Stephen. I'm on a DevOps team (working for a medical device manufacturer) that supports a Surgical Robotics group. We maintain the CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure for a networked multi-node embedded device that helps doctors perform arthroscopic surgeries.

Hallo folks. Marco from Italy. I am a small entrepreneur and devops for managed hosting svcs and cloud operations in Italy. W are currently managing medium vsphere workload and beginning to migrate to cloud

Hello friends! I am Noe from the U.S. working in the federal space with platforms. Looking forward to connecting with you all.

Hello, Im Trym, hailing from the frozen north (Norway). System Developer at a Kongsberg Group division. Mainly software development, with some cloud and devOps responsibilities. Excited to learn more about platform as a product.

Hi there! I’m the Product Owner at CyberGRX (out of the US) for two teams that focus on improving our developer experience. Excited to learn more about this space over the next couple days.

Hello everyone, I’m Umang, a Platform Engineer with Quantiphi joining in from Toronto. Excited to engage with all the talented brains at this forum.. Cheers!!

Aloha all! My name is Defines, I'm an Engineering Team Lead at Rev.io with a background in platform architecture and DevOps 👋

Hi everyone, I’m Luthfi, currently working as Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at HappyFresh. I also like to join community and pleased to be selected as one of AWS Community Builder. Nice to e-meet you all🤝

Hi Platform peeps! I’m Alejandro and am a Platform Engineer at Beam Dental check out our blog on medium if you’d like! Great to be here ✌️

Hey folks, Matt with FireHyrdrant here. We help reduce the panic / stress around being on-call and responding to incidents on platforms. - Always looking to learn more and looking forward to the talks today 🤝

Hello everyone. I'm Luis Miguel Serrano and am currently working with Rise.io on a digital advertisements management platform with an emphasize on optimizations and automation 👋

Hi everyone! If you didn’t see me on the US Kickoff, my name is Aeris and I help build the Platform Engineering community with Luca. 😁 Super excited to see all of you here, and would love to network more. Can we get a LinkedIn thread started? 👀

Hello everyone. I am Adi and working as IT Director in the health sector. We are currently transitioning to a product and platform ways of working. Looking forward to learning and interacting with you.

Hi, folks! Glad to be here, I’ve been in Silicon Valley for over 30 years, but my career goes back even further! Spent time @ Apple, Google, Adobe, and more (see http://markie.info/NewResume.html ) Hope to share / learn more here