Ben Davison - Axiologik
Ben Davison
Founder & Director at Axiologik
Ben specialises in helping organisations achieve effective digital at scale via a whole system approach to acceleration. Ben is former delivery head and MD for a global software organisation and has led some of the UK's largest and most complex digital transformations.
Twitter: @axiologik
LinkedIn: bendavison1
Ash Winter - Author of Team Guide to Software Testability
Ash Winter
Author of Team Guide to Software Testability
Ash Winter is an international speaker on testing and the co-author of the Team Guide to Software Testability. He has spoken in Europe, North America and Africa. In 2019, he delivered the keynote address on testability at Romania Testing Conference, plus operability tutorials at various conferences. He co-organises the Leeds Testing Atelier, a free one day testing conference. As well as this he was the resident testability expert on Ministry of Testing's Ask Me Anything and Power Hour sessions. He is an independent consultant who works as an individual contributor on development teams and coach for various clients around Europe.
Twitter: @northern_tester
LinkedIn: ash-winter-7a435614
Matthew Skelton - Conflux
Matthew Skelton
Co-author of Team Topologies and Head of Consulting at Conflux
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. He is Head of Consulting at Conflux and specialises in Continuous Delivery, operability, and organisation dynamics for modern software systems.
Matthew devised and founded SenseConf in late 2019 to meet the growing need for awareness around organisational sensing.
Twitter: @matthewpskelton
LinkedIn: matthewskelton
Sophie Weston - Anaplan
Sophie Weston
Senior Platform Engineer at Anaplan, Ambassador for Women in Tech York, Co-organiser of DevOpsDays London
Sophie has spent over twenty years working in technology as a software engineer and DevOps advocate. Also active in the wider tech community, she is an Ambassador for Women in Tech York and a co-organiser of the DevOpsDays London conference.
Twitter: @srwestons
LinkedIn: srwestons
Victoria Morgan-Smith - FT.com
Victoria Morgan-Smith
Director of Delivery, Financial Times
Victoria has been helping teams succeed at the Financial Times since 2009. She is passionate about collaboration beyond the team, adopting agile principles to get under the skin of what will deliver measurable business value around the organisation.
Twitter: @VictoriaJMS
LinkedIn: victoriamorgansmith
Chris O’Dell - Monzo
Chris O’Dell
Software Engineer at Monzo
Chris works at Monzo helping to build the future of banking. She has spent nearly fourteen years as a backend engineer, primarily with Microsoft technologies, but recently with Go on Monzo’s large microservices platform. She has led teams delivering highly available Web APIs, distributed systems and cloud based services. She has also led teams developing internal build and deployment tooling with the goal of improving the developer’s experience. Chris promotes practices such as Continuous Delivery, including TDD, version control, and Continuous Integration.