AB Periasamy builds software like an artist builds a masterpiece. By inspiring others to believe in the idea and the design and contribute to it's success.

Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy is a free software contributor, angel investor and an entrepreneur.  AB is one of the founders of Minio, an open source cloud storage server. Prior to Minio, AB co-founded Gluster, an open source distributed filesystem. AB is also on the board of Free Software Foundation - India and has authored GNU FreeIPMI and GNU FreeTalk

Edward Fry advises enterprises on ways to streamline their software development to drive business results.  He has been working with IT for over 20 years and has been passionate about technology all his life.  Edward lives in Oklahoma City with his wife, Linda, and 3 children.

You only have to be gutsy 5 seconds at a time.

How do we come up with a new idea? Gert Garman facilitates brainstorming sessions and uses innovation processes to bring new ideas to light.

Matt LaVoie discusses the differences between developing user interfaces for yourself and being a servant designer, empathizing with customers.

Bill Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Studio in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

Robert Okun is a former hedge fund manager who has turned to a career in technology. Mr. Okun has a BS in Management and Finance from New York University Stern School of Business and an MBA in Finance from Fordham Graduate School of Business. He has over 25 years of experience in trading, sales, Management, Banking and Investment Management at JP Morgan, UBS as well as his own private firm, RORS Management & Research.

John Sonmez was a shy, unathletic kid who one day decided that he could be anyone he wanted to be. With this realization, he began a journey of personal and career growth. Today he teaches software developers how to plan and execute their own journey of increasing their hourly rate, have better relationships and live a healthy lifestyle.

When David Okun's new manager empowered him to take ownership of the mobile application, David took it upon himself to implement a new process across the team. Initially met with a collection of eye-rolling, David ignored the negativity and slowly introduced practices that increased the productivity across the whole organization. His approach included a self-deprecating humor that showed the team that he was an easy-going individual that was open to feedback.

Often technical folks rely on the data and facts and algorithms and technical skill-sets to further them in their career. Lauren Rutledge coaches her candidates that being able to show some emotional intelligence will never have to worry about a job. She sees many hiring managers that would much rather have mid-level skill set with great communication and attitude than a more experienced candidate that doesn't play well with others.