Meet our speakers
These industry experts will share their insights and experiences in the world of cloud native technologies. Get ready to be inspired and learn from the best in the field.

Harald Svendberg & Kenneth Nordum
Platform engineers at Enabler
Harald and Kenneth have built their own company, focusing on Kubernetes and Cloud Native, and wants to be "Everyone's Platform Team”. Both coming from a developer background, they now dedicate themselves to building platforms and platform teams.

Viktor Farcic
Developer Advocate at Upbound
Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

John Kasper Svergja
Tech lead - Statistisk Sentralbyrå
Utvikler og tech lead for team Skyinfrastruktur, som er et av tre team som bygger den nye dataplattformen (DAPLA) hos Statistisk Sentralbyrå.

Thomas Ornell
Cloud Platform Architect @ ABAX AS
Thomas Ornell is the go-to Cloud Architect at ABAX, leading the DevOps / Platform arena and sitting on the architecture council. He’s deeply involved with the company’s newest ventures, known for skilfully pushing Kubernetes beyond its usual limits. Thomas also shapes the system architecture for Fair Car Insurance and iSquared. While he often engages with cutting-edge tech, he approaches it with a healthy scepticism, aware that new solutions can bring complex challenges, and loves it.

Elise Kristiansen
Senior Frontend Developer
Elise is a senior frontend developer at Aplia and has been involved in a diverse range of projects for seven years. As a consultant, she has worked in and out of various teams, experiencing a wide range of team compositions. She enjoys sharing insights about observations in the industry, and in 2022, she was the "Voice of the Year" in kode24, an online newspaper for Norwegian developers.

Tom Stian Berget
Platform Engineer
Well seasoned Platform Engineer having worked on small and large projects, both on-prem and in the cloud. Past consultant, moved in-house. Public speaker infant.

Hans Kristian Flaatten
CNCF Ambassador, GDE, Platforms @ Nav
Experienced SRE- and Platform Engineering Team Lead with proven track record of leading engineering teams that build and operate Cloud Native and Kubernetes-based application platforms for organizations in public government, telecom, banking, retail, and insurance sectors. Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) building the NAIS (https://nais.io) Application Platform, one of the largest of it's kind in Norway, currently hosting 1.600 applications for 200 product teams.

David Flanagan
Rawkode Academy
Founder of the Rawkode Academy, open source contributor, and beloved husband and father to my wife, two amazing kids, and a plethora of animals. David has been developing software professionally for nearly 20 years, starting with embedded systems written in C back in 2004, and has spent that entire time learning the paradigms of different programming languages, including C++, PHP, Java, and Haskell - though more recently preferring to work with Go, Rust, and Pony. As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, containers, and cloud-native technologies. During his time as the Director of Development for a rock and metal media organization called TeamRock (now LouderSound), David was responsible for the software, infrastructure, and website during its biggest test: the unfortunate death of Lemmy Kilmister. Fortunately, due to his desire to experiment and play with new technologies, David and his team had already migrated their slow to provision virtual-machine centric infrastructure to containerised workloads running on Amazon Web Services the year prior, 2014, not long after the public launch of Docker. As much as David enjoys writing software, scaling infrastructure, and leading teams, he quickly realised that his passion was helping others learn and be successful. David started presenting at local user groups in 2016, slowly working up to conferences, before eventually moving into a full-time Developer Advocacy position at InfluxData - where he presented and taught workshops at 42 events in 2019. Outside of technology, David enjoys reading science fiction, drinking craft beer and whisky, and very-very-very slowly learning to play the piano.

William Aass Dahlen
Platform Engineer
William Aass Dahlen is an experienced platform engineer working for Telenor Norway where he is specialized on self-service, automation, and cloud platforms. He started his career as a systems administrator more than 10 years ago and has been working primarily with Public Cloud, Kubernetes, and Platform development.

Kjetil Melheim
Platformteam leader
Har forvalta og drifta ID-porten og likande løysingar i Digdir i 14 år, dei 2-3 siste åra har eg hatt ansvar for plattformteamet og vore med på reisa over til devOps. Har nettopp skifta jobb og er no Digital Forretningsutvikler i Statkraft med hovudfokus på å gjere produksjonsplanlegginga betre og meir effektiv.

Eline Henriksen
Platform Engineer at Telenor
Eline is a fullstack web developer that has worked in various roles from frontend- and backend engineering, devops and leadership positions. She recently started working at Telenor's platform team after having led the platform team at Kartverket as platform product owner and platform engineer. With over a decade of experience in the tech industry she brings an inquisitive nature, a wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience.

Yusuf Tayman
Lead QA Engineer at OpenPayd
Yusuf is the Lead QA Engineer at OpenPayd, he has been exploring the world of testing for roughly seven years. His niche is in the fascinating fields of observability and automation. He serves as an automation consultant there. He is also in favour of building systems that give them insights into the behaviour of their applications, such as having a superpower to detect and fix problems immediately. When he's not immersed in testing tasks, Yusuf is a lifelong learner who likes to work with others. It's fun to tackle challenges together and share knowledge.

Mohammad Reza Saleh Sedghpour
Team Lead & Senior Cloud-Native Engineer @ Elastisys | CNCF Ambassador
Mohammad Reza Saleh Sedghpour is a cloud engineer and researcher with over 10 years of experience in cloud computing and distributed systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, where he specialized in resiliency patterns for microservices. Mohammad Reza is an active contributor to the open-source community and serves as a CNCF Ambassador. Passionate about sharing knowledge, he regularly publishes research and presents at international conferences. His insights aim to help businesses utilize cloud technologies for optimal performance and resilience.

Carsten Thiel
Tietoevry
Carsten works as Senior Solution Consultant at Tietoevry. As a member of their Platform Engineering Team he helps customers implement their Kubernetes and Cloud Native solutions. Carsten comes with a decade’s worth of experience implementing DevOps across European Research Institutions and has a background in mathematics.

Øystein Blixhavn
Principal Expert and Platform Advocate at Omegapoint Norge
Øystein Blixhavn is an IT consultant and Platform Advocate at Omegapoint Norge. He has over a decade worth of varied experience as a developer, moving from a successful tech startup to consultancy, and from software development to the last four years being a platform engineer. As a speaker, he offers a mix of practical tech expertise and broad insights. His aim is not only to share knowledge but also to stimulate curiosity and holistic thinking in his audience.

Andreas Grabner
DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, DevRel for CNCF Keptn, CNCF Ambassador, PurePerformance Podcast host
I am passionate about all I do in life. Professionally it is helping people write better software. Personally it is Salsa Dancing

Yves Hwang & Hari Ayada
Senior Solution Architect(s)
Yves Hwang Senior Solution Architect at AWS Yves is currently thinking big, inventing and simplifying for my customers as a Senior Solutions Architect in AWS. With a long tenure of working in technologies, from enterprise leadership roles to being a co-founder in my own businesses, I have always been a software engineer at heart. Building products to solve customer problems is my craft. I am equally passionate about creating an innovative, and inclusive culture that is grounded in an unrelenting curious mindset. Hari Ayada Solution Architect at AWS Hari is a part of AWS technical field communities in AWS and is a champion in driving innovation in the CNCF ecosystem with contribution in FLUX and KRO to name a few. Hari is based out of Copenhagen and is a valued and trusted member of our broader containers team here in Scandanavia.

Ole Kristian Pedersen
Senior Consultant, Bekk
I'm a developer and cloud practice lead in Bekk. I'm interested in cloud, platforms and simplifying life in production for product teams 🚀

Bjarte Brandt
Platform Engineer at TV 2

Michel Murabito
Ambassador CNCF & Developer Advocate @Mia-Platform
I'm Michel Murabito, Mich to my friends! Born in 1986 in Turin with Sicilian roots, I now live in Milan. My journey in software began at 12, coding for fun. At 18, I started my first job as a software developer and have continuously sought new challenges to grow and learn. Today, I'm a Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform and a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, sharing my passion for cloud native technologies with a community of curious minds. Additionally, I founded the DevelopersLife community, which has over 800 members, where we discuss our profession and share experiences.

Edvin Norling
Platform engineer
Cloud Native Nordics, Gothenburg organizer working with Kubernetes for the 5+ years, a grafana-operator maintainer and a big GitOps believer.

Eirik Håland Berglund
Developer
As an economist turned developer - I started with a masters degree from the Norwegian School of Economics. A new found interest in technical aspects led me to a Computer Engineering degree at HVL. For 7 years I worked at Stacc Escali AS - first as a consultant and later as a developer creating financial software. Having fully migrated to the developer side of operations - last year I joined my own company together with two friends. In my current role I am primarily responsible for architecture and backend development. I am also responsible for our DevOps and deployment - where we mostly use Microsoft Azure.

Hari C. Ayada and Matteo R. Luzzi
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Hari Charan Ayada Currently flywheeeeeeeeling on Containerization and Cloud Technologies as a solution architect at AWS. I thrive in the exciting realms of containerization, architecture, DevOps, and cloud technologies. I’m passionate about sharing insights that not only inform but inspire fellow tech aficionados. My superpower lies in cultivating an inclusive and curious environment where teams can big-up their creativity, push boundaries, and embark on a journey of continuous learning. Matteo Remo Luzzi Software engineer with strong technical knowledge in distributed systems focusing into designing, developing and maintaining system architectures able to serve millions of concurrent requests. Experienced also in DevOps and SRE methodologies with focus on automation, load testing, disaster recovery, system resiliency and availability.Software engineer with strong technical knowledge in distributed systems focusing into designing, developing and maintaining system architectures able to serve millions of concurrent requests. Experienced also in DevOps and SRE methodologies with focus on automation, load testing, disaster recovery, system resiliency and availability.

Joakim Moss Grutle
Senior Software Engineer, Capgemini Bergen
Erfaring som backend utvikler og techlead, med teknologisk base i C#, .NET og Azure. Liker å prate om egne erfaringer og læringspunkter som har vært nyttige for meg som utvikler.

Håvard Elnan
Senior systemingeniør - Norsk Helsenett SF
Håvard er den onde hjernen bak Norsk helsenetts multi-kluster management system ROR, han er også ansvarlig for tooling og deployment av nye og eksisterende kluster.

Ole-M. Sæther & Vegar Andersen
Plattform @ Kartverket
Ole-Magnus Sæther Platform Engineer at Norwegian Mapping Authority Vegar Andersen Sjefsarkitekt Kartverket - Teknisk områdeleder plattform

Roberth Strand
Principal Cloud Native Architect @ Sopra Steria, CNCF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP

Rustam Mehmandarov
Chief Engineer | Java Champion | Google Developer Expert for Cloud
Passionate computer scientist. Java Champion and Google Developers Expert for Cloud. Public speaker. Mentor. Community builder.

Emil Albrektsson
AppSec Developer @ NAV
AppSec developer & security champion advocate at NAV.

Alfred Tovsen Mo
Platform Engineer @ Intility
Alfred is a Platform Engineer at Intility responsible for the Container Platform and Developer Infrastructure. He works daily with technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure, and Crossplane. Intility Container Platform main goal is to help developers spend more time on development and less time on everything else.

Philip Laine
Independant
Philip has been writing software in some way or another for the last 13 years. During that time he has worked on everything from iOS applications to developing application platforms for the automotive industry. Philip is a active open source contributor within the Kubernetes ecosystem. He used to work on Flux as a maintainer but has since moved on. Currently his main focus is working on Spegel.

Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
Tietoevry
Kent Inge har ~20 års erfaring med programvareutvikling. Han har også bagrunn innen formelle metoder og modellering.