Startup Advocate, Amazon Web Services

Rob De Feo is a startup advocate at Amazon Web Services and host of Startup Engineering Podcast spending his time helping startups in Europe and beyond. He mentors startups CTO’s and founders as they begin their journey, to helping large scale startup leverage technology as they build and scale their businesses. He has helped many of Europe’s largest startups and startup institutions, including Techstars, Deliveroo, Monzo, Skyscanner, and Starling Bank to scale their platforms and meet global demand.

Chief Technology Officer, Scrum.org

Ryan is a technologist with 20+ years of experience leading successful teams, developing quality software, and managing cloud and/or traditional network infrastructure. Ryan started his career in 1999 as a network engineer, and shortly after found an interest in software development where he has been involved in many successful projects, varying in size and complexity. In 2007 Ryan started Mantra Technology, a technology consulting company, where he helped companies like Intel improve their E-Commerce offerings. Ryan began working as a consultant (contracted CTO) with Scrum.org in 2014 and in 2018 joined the company full time as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO of Scrum.org, Ryan is responsible for driving change when looking at ways to improve the use of technology in support of operations, customers, and trainers. Ryan has also been closely involved in his local development community where he has organized, volunteered, and/or spoken at events.

Managing Director, DevelopmentCorporate

John is a 25 year veteran of the enterprise technology market. He has led six global product management organizations for three public companies and three private equity-backed firms. He played a key role in delivering a $115 million dividend for his private equity backers - a 2.8x return in less than three years. He has led five acquisitions for a total consideration of over $175 million. He has led eight divestitures for a total consideration of $24.5 million in cash. John has held executive positions in product management, marketing, sales, development, customer service, and corporate development. John regularly blogs about product management and mergers/acquisitions.

Executive Director, OASIS Open

Guy Martin, the OASIS Executive Director, is responsible for the organization’s overall operation, in addition to helping define its cohesive strategies and policies to deliver the best value to its members. He works closely with OASIS staff and the Board of Directors to help the organization realize the tremendous advantage in integrating the best of open standards and open source communities.

Guy brings a unique blend of 25+ years’ experience as both software engineer and open source strategist to OASIS. He has built open source programs for companies like Red Hat, Samsung and Autodesk and was instrumental in founding the Academy Software Foundation while Director of the Open Source Office at Autodesk. He was also a founding member of the team that built the Open Connectivity Foundation while at Samsung, helping to successfully integrate FRAND standards with open source reference implementations.

He is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology and an accomplished public speaker. An avid, lifelong sports enthusiast, Guy is based near Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A.