Fredrik is an UX designer and Fullstack Product Owner who likes to dabble in evil design in an effort to learn more and improve as a user experience designer. Having emigrated to Norway many a moon ago he is now established in this land.

Tale is a technical team lead with the Nordic consultancy Knowit, now working for Entur modernizing sales and ticketing solutions for rail operators in Norway. She has a master’s degree in artificial intelligence and a burning passion for functional programming and anything AI.

John is a Design Lead on IBM Messaging with 9 years experience in Design across a wide range of industries and products. His career has taken him from designing physical products; Anglepoise Lamps, High-end Diamond Jewelry to designing Digital experiences; Watson AI and Enterprise Cloud Applications.

John blogs at https://medium.com/@ux_john

Frontend developer and accessibility advocate. Worked on one of the first major sites going live after the law about universal design went into effect in Norway. Wants accessibility to be considered a first-class priority in any software project.

Stein Inge Morisbak is Manager and Head of Bekk Consulting’s commitment to Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Cloud. He considers himself a cross disciplinary technologist and has 20 years of experience both contributing to and helping others become better at producing excellent software together. He is also an experienced speaker at conferences, organizer of DevOpsDays Oslo and the founder of DevOps Norway Meetup.

Stein Inge blogs at https://medium.com/@steinim

Front-end developer at Bouvet Bergen.
Enjoys colors, shapes, writing CSS, attempting to understand JavaScript, and drinking coffee.

Hulda was introduced to Design Thinking 1.5 years back and it became a life changer. She sees Design Thinking not only as a methodology, but also as a state of mind and an attitude towards problemsolving. She is constantly improving her skills and is very pleased to be able to share her knowledge @BOOSTER.

Monday to Friday she works as a consultant at Accenture.

Architect and developer at Frende Forsikring, a local insurance company. Likes to automate and monitor everything. Still thinks its really fun to build cool stuff, and is working very hard to avoid becoming a PowerPoint based architect.

Originally hailing from London, Catriona left the high-pressure world of financial IT in 2012 to enjoy a more relaxed pace of life in the beautiful, mountainous city of Bergen, Norway, where she took up a new career as a web developer. Since then she has worked with various back-end web technologies before finally landing her dream role as front-end developer, and now spends most of her days wrestling with CSS in an attempt to turn designers’ wishes into reality.

Catriona is passionate about making the web look as beautiful as possible, and adding extra finishing touches to delight her users.

In her free time she enjoys cooking, eating, beer, fancy dress and dogs.

Jeg er en funksjonell arkitekt som er levende opptatt av å stille de riktige spørsmålene slik at vi lager de beste IT-løsningene vi kan. Blir lett engasjert, er vilig til å jobbe hardt for god kvalitet, og syns det er spennende å lære om nye problemstillinger. Hjertesakene mine er å finne frem til de reelle behovene slik at vi løser det riktige problemet og at mennesker og domenet er viktigere enn teknologi.

I love challenges, whether it's solving problems, programming, or climbing mountains. In my day job as software engineer at Archilogic I write server side code in Scala, take care of databases, and automate processes to make my colleagues' lives easier and more efficient. I also make WebXR demos and give talks at conferences because I enjoy teaching others and empowering them to experiment on their own. I'm a huge fan of functional programming and well written documentation.

I am interested in the mysteries of life and the little everyday joys. I am an observer, a participant and a dreamer. Work as a team leader, mother of two, happy and agile.

Steve Klabnik is a Rust core team member, prolific open source
contributor, and author of "The Rust Programming Language", "Rails 4
in Action", and "Designing Hypermedia APIs". He lives in Brooklyn, and
spends far too much time on GitHub.

Steve blogs at http://words.steveklabnik.com/

I’m a simplicity advocate and communicator who just happens to be a designer. I’m currently a Product Design Lead for a team of five designers at IBM Studios in Austin. I work alongside brilliant people—designers, engineers and managers—as we use Design Thinking and research to drive our product strategy and vision in order to create meaningful experience that users enjoy and come back to. I lean toward simplicity over randomness and have little patience for inefficient processes.

Esteban blogs at https://medium.com/@certifyDesign

Lars Hopland Nestås har en master i informatikk fra Universitet i Bergen med spesialisering i sikkerhet. Etter noen 4 år som sikkerhetskonsulent i Bouvet ble han i 2014 ble han ansatt i Skandiabanken (nå Sbanken). I banken har han jobbet som utvikler og sikkerhetsarkitekt, og er i dag leder for avdelingen UX og arkitektur.

Anette has traveled the world and seen almost every bad thing anyone can do to an IT project. Fortunately she has also seen a lot of good, and spend her days trying to increase the good and lessen the bad in every way she can.

Felienne is assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, where she researches programming for everyone, from spreadsheet users to young kids. Felienne’s biggest passions in life is to share her enthusiasm for programming with others. She teaches programming in a community center in Rotterdam every week, she organizes the Joy of Coding conference, a one day developer conference in Rotterdam celebrating the joy and art of programming, and she is a host at SE radio, one of the most popular software engineering podcasts on the web.

If she is not coding, blogging or teaching, she is probably dancing Lindy Hop, running or playing a (board)game.

Felienne blogs at http://www.felienne.com/

Certified electronician, bachelor degree in cognitive science, master in logic and PhD in Algorithms. A Statoil software developer with a passion for open source.

Lisi is a masters student in Multimediatechnology at University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria working on her master thesis on Web Animation. She is researching how native web animation can be used more efficient in combination with Javascript frameworks to enable developers to use animations in a simple way even if they don't work with them on a day to day basis. Previously she worked as a frontend developer in Amsterdam and in her free time she loves to go to conferences and get involved in the community. She also participates in meetups and spoke about web animation there.

Lisi blogs at https://lisilinhart.info/writing

Håkan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational behavior. He has also taken courses on university level in psychology, interaction design and human-computer interaction. He has 19 years’ experience of software development in various positions such as developer, tester, architect, project manager, scrum master, practice manager and team lead. He has experience from both private and public sector. He focuses on clean code and test-driven development. He has extensive experience in data visualization and GUI development.

Olve has 15+ years of full-stack/distributed systems development and has recently joined Disruptive Technologies Research AS - powering the IOT sensor revolution

The last five years he has led the transition of the product line from an on premise model to the use of micro-services with continuous delivery, message queueing and monitoring, to containerization and service discovery, contributed extensively to the migration of the product line from on-premise installations to cloud services, and with optimization and load balancing of live video broadcasts.

Professor of philosophy at the University of Agder. Einar Duenger Bohn was born (1977) and raised in Vormsund, Norway. He has a BA in psychology and philosophy and an MA in philosophy from the University of Oslo. He got his PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2009). His current interest in artificial intelligence (and artificial life) is growing exponentially, and very soon it will be the only thing he is interested in. Right now he is obsessed with the question whether it is possible to create artificial consciousness, and what the answer to that question tells us about our own consciousness and moral thinking. He greatly fears the singularity without the systems being conscious and morally aware. Bohn also has a theory of the meaning of life according to which it's in accordance with the meaning of life to develop as much technology as we can, as long as it's for the better for all. Bohn considers himself a modest transhumanist.

Einar Duenger blogs at http://www.einarduengerbohn.com/edb/

Mario has several years of experience in digital business development, lean-agile transformation and corporate innovation processes. Having worked with digitization at all levels, from business to technology, Mario thinks holistically across business, organisation and technology. Mario is a highly skilled facilitator who is able to create engagement through his diplomatic leadership style combined with broad knowledge and skillset.

Mario holds a Master of Computer Science from NTNU, and a Master of Management from NTNU&NHH.

In addition to being deeply engaged in his profession, Mario is an accomplished music producer and DJ with several releases on small record labels. When Mario is not in the studio, he plays golf in the summer or skis wintertime.

Blockchainentusiast og konsulent hos Knowit. Bedriver til daglig utvikling på JVMen med Java og Scala i et stort offentlig prosjekt hvor han i tillegg til å være en utvikler fungerer til tider både som team lead og arkitekt. Simen er også interessert i devops, mikrotjenester, cloud og blockchainteknologi, og prøver så godt han kan og holde seg oppdatert på det som skjer i bransjen.

Ansvarlig tester for navnebytting av nettbanken - Skandiabanken.no til Sbanken.no.
Spesialfelt er testing av betaling i nettbank.
Er også ansvarlig for innføringen av nytt testverktøy, Testrail, i organisasjonen.
Er utdannet bachelor ved Høgskolen på vestlandet.

Developer and open-data-enthusiast. Worked with open data and information management in Difi (The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment) since june 2015, and with open data a few years before that. Worked with both the national open data portal, data.norge.no, and the data hotel (hotell.difi.no). Recently started a new position in Difi as a developer on the national IT-components (ID-portal, Contact- and reservation-registry ++). In my spare time, I help organize Booster and JavaZone.

Livar blogs at https://medium.com/@livar.bergheim/

Lei is based in Montreal, Canada and works as developer on the Production Engineering team at Shopify. In her spare time she can be found teaching kids (and adults) how to code, refereeing basketball, or reading in a blanket fort. Her favourite emoji are the potato and the mermaid.

Portia is a Personal and Executive coach, Agile coach and play researcher creating transformative change in a range of organisations including the Prime Minister’s Office, the NHS, British Airways and global financial institutions. Portia combines coaching and business strategies with play to bring about positive and enduring change. She is also the founder of The School of Play (www.theschoolofplay.org), dedicated to promoting happier adulthood through lifelong play.

Portia is the author of The Dream Team Nightmare, the first ever Agile novel where your discussions determine the outcome of the story. If you’ve enjoyed the Agile Fairytales, you’ll love this first novel in the Agile Adventure Series created by Portia.

Portia blogs at http://www.selfishprogramming.org

Tor is a senior consultant with Websteps Bergen office. He has worked as project manager, system administrator, team leader and senior developer in Norwegian and international environments. His industry exposure comes from software development in banking, telecommunications and public administration and his focus has been on web applications, web services and background processes.

Blockchain enthusiast and consultant in Knowit. Tech lead and developer for software related to public transport in Norway. Has a master in machine learning from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, but for now it is blockchain that gets most of the focus.

Full stack developer at Bekk Consulting. Been living in the cloud since '16, and have never looked back!

Practice lead of Distributed systems, team lead and software developer at BEKK.

Frequent speaker and retired organiser of DevOpsDays Oslo.

Sveinung blogs at https://medium.com/@sdalatun

Maxim Salnikov is Oslo-based Web UI Engineer, a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular. He develops complex web applications since the end of the last century and has extensive experience with all aspects of web front-end: UX/UI prototyping, HTML/CSS/JS, main frameworks, progressive web apps.

Maxim is a founder and active contributor to two conferences: Mobile Era and ngVikings - Nordics’ main conferences for mobile and Angular developers respectively. Also, he leads Norway’s largest meetups dedicated to web front-end and mobile: Framsia, Angular Oslo, Mobile Meetup Oslo.

Maxim is passionate about sharing his web front-end experience and knowledge with the community. He travels extensively for visiting developers events and speaking/training at conferences and meetups around the world.

Maxim blogs at https://medium.com/@webmaxru

Erlend works as a developer and security tester and CTO at Blank AS. One of his main technical interests is how we as developer can teach ourselves to write better and more secure code. He has built open source security tools, and spoken at several developer and security conferences.