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 serves as principal at Techstrong Research where he is part of a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity, data and AI/ML. In this role, he works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high-impact outcomes. Mitch also serves as Techstrong Group CTO, is in demand as a speaker and is widely followed online on his podcasts, Analyst Corner commentary and interviews on the highly popular Techstrong TV streaming video program where he engages with top digital and tech leaders from across the industry.

Mike Rothman is the GM of Techstrong Research. He brings 30+ years of experience as a research analyst and security leader and is recognized as a voice of reason for business leaders in an often over-hyped and extremely complex security industry. For the past 10 years, his research has focused on cloud security and most recently DevSecOps and securing cloud-native environments, helping organizations navigate this disruptive migration without compromising information and infrastructure protection. Mike also serves as chief strategy officer for Techstrong Group and frequently appears at industry conferences and on the various Techstrong TV streaming video programs.

Bonnie Schneider is a Sustainability and Climate Contributor for Techstrong.tv, Bonnie is the author of the new book, Taking the Heat: How Climate Change is Affecting Your Mind, Body & Spirit, and What You Can Do About It, (Simon & Schuster ) and Weather & Wellness©, successfully launching its original video content focusing on climate change and health. Bonnie has shared her insight and expertise on everything from hurricanes to snowstorms as an on-camera meteorologist for MSNBC, CNN, HLN, Bloomberg TV, and The Weather Channel. Bonnie has over 260k followers on her social platforms.

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director at Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as editor-in-chief at CRN and InfoWorld.

Najib is the founder of DevOps4Me Global and is an expert in DevOps and DevSecOps adoption and pipeline life cycle practices. His focus is not only on technical methods but also applying human-centric approaches. He loves to share insights and expertise and educate people on adopting DevOps culture and methodologies.

José Manuel Ortega is a software engineer who focuses on new technologies, open source, security, and testing. His career target from the beginning has been to specialize in DevOps and security testing projects. Currently, he is working as a security tester engineer and his functions in the project are analysis and testing the security of applications; both web and mobile environments. He has taught at the university level and collaborated with the official school of computer engineers. Conferences and talks related to DevOps and security are available on his personal site: http://jmortega.github.io/. This talk could complement the following books published by the author in 2020 and 2022: "DevOps and Containers Security" - https://bpbonline.com/products/devops-and-containers-security-book-ebook "Implementing DevSecOps with Docker and Kubernetes" - https://bpbonline.com/products/implementing-devsecops-with-docker-and-kubernetes

Trista Pan, an AWS Data Hero, is the CTO and co-founder of SphereEx, an open-source SaaS commercial startup backed by some of the world's top VCs. Previously a senior DBA at JD Technology, she was responsible for the design and development of JD Digital Science and Technology’s intelligent database platform. Trista now focuses on distributed databases and middleware ecosystems and is strongly committed to open source. She serves as an Apache ShardingSphere project management committee member, as well as a mentor for various other Apache incubating projects. Recipient of the 2020 and 2021 "China OSCAR Open Source Pioneer", she is frequently invited to speak at relevant conferences in the fields of database and database architecture - including AWS Summit Shanghai and AWS Dev Days. She loves to encourage more women to pursue careers in technology and regularly shares her empowering journey from open-source contributor to CTO at events such as AWS. She is also praised by students for her mentorship efforts at initiatives such as Google Summer of Code or Anita B. Org's Grace Hopper Celebration.

Sameer Paradkar is a software architect with more than 20 years of diversified experience in the ICT industry including systems integration, advisory and product development roles. He is an Open Group TOGAF, Oracle Master Java EA, TM Forum NGOSS, IBM SOA Solutions, IBM Cloud Solutions, ITIL Foundation V3, COBIT 5, AWS Solution Architect and Azure Cloud certified enterprise architect. He is a subject matter expert on large-scale complex architecture transformation and modernization domains. Sameer has worked on multiple architecture transformations and modernization opportunities that helped clients create a phased transformation roadmap that maximized business value while minimizing costs and risks.