Manisha Sahasrabudhe is Senior Director of Product at Harness, leading the development of their Internal Developer Platform (IDP). With over a decade in DevOps and platform engineering, she focuses on building tools that boost developer productivity and streamline cloud-native software delivery.

Prithvi Raj is a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis, working with the Open Source Program Office team. He is a CNCF Ambassador with over 5 years of experience, having helped scale a CNCF-incubating project in LitmusChaos, and runs the Platform & Resilience Engineering Meetup group. He is an active member at SIG Project Reviews and is currently leading the community efforts for the k0s project, k0rdent, OpenSDN, and the other OSS initiatives Mirantis is contributing to.

He is a co-organizer of KCD Bengaluru and has previously organized Chaos Carnival, LitmusChaosCon, and KCD Chennai.
He was previously at Harness, ChaosNative, and MayaData.

As chief product officer at CloudBees, Shawn Ahmed embodies the nexus of product engineering and marketing. With a firm hand on the reins of the CloudBees product portfolio, Shawn meticulously crafts product and solution delivery, pricing, strategic planning, competitive landscape analysis, and market management. Shawn joined CloudBees in 2018 and has held various leadership positions before stepping into the CPO role. Shawn has catalyzed a transformative shift, evolving the company’s culture and operations into a buyer-centric, value-focused DevOps leader.

Ram Iyengar has been breaking and occasionally fixing software for 15 years. As an engineer and educator obsessed with open source and security, he's a perpetual tinkerer, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible (and sometimes what's advisable). He also occasionally emerges from his lab to build communities and share his hard-won wisdom. Approach with caution (and maybe a bug report).

Matt Flug is a research manager within IDC’s Cloud Application Deployment Platforms research practice. Matt’s research focuses on software vendors, cloud providers, and end-customers' software development/deployment plans and experiences. He is responsible for insights and analysis on emerging Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that support developers deploying highly performant, modern, and cloud-native applications.

As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media, Techstrong Live, Techstrong Research, Devops.com, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV, and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation.

With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.

Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, TechStrong TV and Digital Anarchist audio and video appearances are widely followed.

Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.

Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development and IT leader, with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. Mitch comes to The Futurum Group through the acquisition of Techstrong Group (devops.com, securityboulevard.com, and techstrong.tv), where he serves as CTO and founder of Techstrong Research.

As a Chief Technology Advisor, CTO, CIO, and head of engineering, Mitch led the creation of award-winning cybersecurity products utilized in the private and public sectors, including the U.S. Department of Defense and all military branches. Mitch also led managed PKI services for broadband, Wi-Fi, IoT, energy management and 5G industries, product certification test labs, an online SaaS (93m transactions annually), the development of video-on-demand and Internet cable services, and a national broadband network. He began his career creating large banking and telecom applications and building AI expert systems.

Having led his first of three introductions of DevOps in 2014 and the modernization of three IT organizations, Mitch shares his experiences as an analyst, keynote and conference speaker, panelist, host, moderator, and expert interviewer. His talks cover some of the most in-demand topics, including CIO/CTO leadership, product and software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, container orchestration, AI/ML/GenAI, platform engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity. He publishes his research on FuturumGroup.com/ and TechstrongResearch.com/resources. He hosts multiple award-winning video and podcast series, including DevOps Unbound, CISO Talk, and Techstrong Gang.

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Tsvi Korren is the Field CTO at Aqua Security, where he has been driving innovation since joining the company in November 2018. A recognized thought leader in cloud native security, Tsvi has made a lasting impact on the community by educating and inspiring thousands to embrace the possibilities of modern, cloud native technologies.

Josh Bressers is the Vice President of Security at Anchore, where he guides security features and serves as a public evangelist on topics like compliance, open source, and software supply chain security. With a career spanning over 20 years, Josh has a deep-rooted history in the open-source security community. Prior to Anchore, he built the product security team at Elastic and was an early member of the Red Hat Security Response Team, where he later founded the Product Security Team. Josh is a passionate contributor to the security community, he hosts both the "Open Source Security Podcast" and the "Hacker History Podcast." Josh is an active member of the OpenSSF where he also co-leads the SBOM Everywhere project.

Bharath Nallapeta is a seasoned cloud-native engineer with extensive experience in Go, Kubernetes, and Platform Engineering. He has designed and operated scalable Kubernetes infrastructure for both open-source and enterprise environments, focusing on automation, multi-cloud deployments, and cluster management.

Bharath is passionate about integrating AI with cloud-native technologies, building resilient platforms that make running AI/ML workloads seamless and cost-effective. As an advocate for open-source, DevOps best practices, and Kubernetes-first architectures, he helps teams confidently adopt and scale modern cloud solutions.