Naveen VK, Technical Director at nvisia, has 25+ years of professional experience developing bespoke applications both on-premises and in the cloud. She is now deeply passionate about AI and ML. She enjoys sharing her technical expertise and insights at meetups and conferences. She is the organizer for GDG Madison, a WTM Ambassador and a co-organizer for Madison Women In Tech.

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveenvkm/
https://www.facebook.com/naveen.vk
https://twitter.com/navnoon

Company website:

https://www.nvisia.com/

After a long and storied career as a violinist, Elspeth Stalter-Clouse dove headfirst into the world of software development and never looked back. She has always been passionate about learning and making useful things in service of a better world, and is fortunate to be achieving both goals as a full-stack developer at Forj. A perennial wearer of many hand-knitted hats, Elspeth enjoys building accessible UIs just as much as she loves designing backend architecture or shepherding small fleets of microservices in the cloud.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elspeth-stalter-clouse/

Jill Kelly is a Principal Operations Manager at Zendesk, seeing the startup’s growth firsthand in the early days before the opening of the Madison, WI office in 2013. She serves on the Forward Fest, Doyenne, and Madison Public Library Foundation Boards and enjoys working with organizations focused on civil and human rights, economic empowerment, and advancing diversity in STEAM fields and entrepreneurship.

Hilary Stohs-Krause is a senior software engineer at Red Canary, and focuses on the intersection of tech, entrepreneurship, and social good. She co-runs Madison Women in Tech and is a Forward Fest board member.

She’ll read any fantasy or sci-fi she can get her hands on.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilarysk/

Caden Howell wrote his first lines of code on a TI-99/4A as a kid. Since then, he's built backend systems and data pipelines for nonprofits, public institutions, and tech companies, always with a focus on practical impact and long-term maintainability. He's currently a Technical Architect at nvisia. Outside of work, he's trying his hand at raising oak seedlings from a 150-year-old tree in his yard, and he and his partner share their home with three senior dogs.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chowell/

Ryan Etten is a Senior Architect and Team Lead at Red Hat, guiding the West North America Sales & Adoption Launch team. He shapes industry best practices through active roles with OpenGitOps, CNCF TAG Security, and the Cloud Security Alliance, and is the Founder & Chair of the Red Hat Cloud Native Security Community of Practice.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanetten/