As Product Delivery Lead at Nexthink. Oriol is a driving force in helping redefine the digital employee experience with a cloud-native technology platform. Prior to his current mission he led a strategic AI innovation initiative at Cisco and held engineering roles at SpotMe and Nagra. Now a resident of Lausanne, Oriol originally hails from Catalonia and is still working on actively forgiving Neymar for his relocation to the French capital.

I’m a Senior PHP Developer with over 12 years of experience in delivering exceptional software solutions. I am passionate about clean code, design patterns, and performance. With a strong background in software architecture, optimization, refactoring, microservices, and message systems, I am proficient in Laravel, Symfony, Git, MySQL, AWS, Docker, and Unit Tests. I have since worked with prominent companies such as Ubisoft, MindGeek, and Three Ireland, making significant contributions to high-scale and high-availability systems. Currently based in Dublin, Ireland

Developer advocate at ING with more than 15 years of experience designing, developing and maintaining Android, Java SE/EE and Spring applications. Strong focus on getting things done with the Agile mindset. Love to share knowledge on the latest Java language, EE and Spring improvements by giving workshops and talks as well as participating in them.

Prashanth is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses.

Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.

Gabby Austen-Browne is a diversity and inclusion expert, delivering consultancy, education andtraining to the events and hospitality sectors in her role as founder & director of Diversity Alliance (andformally Diversity Ally) Gabby brings her breadth of experience as an events professional producingand delivering B2C events, managing venue operations and developing sales strategies for premiumhospitality venues, to inform, support and advise on D&I strategies that are relevant to the sector.Before moving to events, Gabrielle was a professional dance artist gaining a Masters in CommunityDance from Laban, focussing on delivering creative activities to marginalised communities, givingaccess to dance and performance to underrepresented groups including those with physical andlearning disabilities, older people, young people in pupil referral units and refugees.She worked with the Chickenshed Theatre Co. where she completed their diversity and inclusiontraining and went on to deliver workshops and facilitate sessions for practitioners on deliveringinclusive performance sessions and teaching performance in an inclusive way.Gabrielle has written about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for industry publications, guest lectured onDiversity & Inclusion in events and has appeared on many panels speaking about racial inequalityand diversity in the events industry. This led her to co-founding a Diverse Speaker Bureau,dedicated to nurturing and elevating the voices of people from underrepresented groups andsupporting businesses and organisations to diversify their speaker panels at events, ultimatelycontributing to the wider mission for equality, inclusion and representation. Gabrielle has writtenabout Diversity & Inclusion for industry publications and has appeared on many panels speakingabout racial inequality and diversity in the sector. She is also a judge for the C&IT awards 2022,CN Agency Awards 2022 and M&IT’s Tomorrow's Talent award 2022Currently a DEI committee member at Eventwell, in 2020 she was also made an ambassador for theFast Forward 15 mentorship programme, with the aim to encourage applications from more diversementees and mentors, specifically from underrepresented communities. Gabby is also co-founder ofthe REACH Scholarship programme working with Universities, to support Black, Asian and EthnicMinority events management students with living costs, to directly improve representation andaddress the talent pipeline at a grassroots level and is a Member of the MMU Events Connect AdvisoryGroup.All her work is underpinned by her experience and expertise in the health and wellbeing space.Gabrielle is a qualified yoga, meditation and breathwork teacher who brings these skills to createmindful, accessible and inclusive environments, when working with clients.