Emily is an established Project Manager, Scrum Master and Coach. She's been working in Project Management for over 10 years and is passionate about sharing knowledge with the community and helping others grow and become more effective leaders and managers. She focuses on the 'people' in projects and helps individuals grow and develop their skills. She excels working in international environments and working virtually. Emily is an international speaker who loves connecting and sharing knowledge

Alice has been leading and supporting high performing teams for over 30 years. Alice is a Senior HR Professional (SPHR) and Culture Strategist. Her experience includes 30 years of leadership holding positions of Regional Director, District Manager, Senior HR Market Manager and Senior Manager Labor & Employee Relations. She is a skilled facilitator and content creator and has pioneered multiple innovative concepts and techniques that enhance leadership effectiveness. She is passionately commit... moreted to her work of helping leaders build diverse and inclusive environments where all individuals and groups are free from prejudice; environments where no one culture, race, belief system, age, or gender is superior to another.

Ada started her IT career as a PL/SQL developer for a large engineering company. She transitioned to a hands on Technical Consultancy role on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Architecture for a Big 4. Followed by 5 years as an Entrepreneur. Since 2019 she has rejoined the corporate world. She has experience leading projects, analyzing challenges, and designing technical solutions. Always in pursuit of new knowledge and loves to share breakthroughs with those around her. Ada looks forward ... moreto many years of continued success in developing courses with Pluralsight! She provides her support through individual and team training which have a direct impact on the team performance. Ada has the following certifications: -Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (BB), 2019 -NLP Master level, 2014 -TOGAF EA, 2013 -Trainer, 2013 Given the opportunity, she loves spending time reading, running and dancing tango.

Curtis Webb is Senior Director, Head of Disbursements, Visa Direct North America at Visa. Visa aspires to be the best way to be paid by everyone everywhere. Visa Direct is a service that enables money movement use cases domestic and cross-border. Curtis’ team leads business-funded disbursement use case strategy and product management, including labor and wages payouts, emerging and small and medium businesses. His team is also responsible for established use cases like government, loan disbursem... moreents, and accounts payable/receivable. Curtis’ payments industry areas of focus include acquiring, tokenization, bill payments, and faster payments. In the past, Curtis served in various product management leadership roles at MetaBank/Pathward, Citibank, and Mastercard. Curtis holds a Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Saint Francis University. Curtis is also a licensed Private Pilot with the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Milena Pajic has more than a two-decade-long career in the IT industry, leading distributed teams and managing projects on the international level. Software developer by education, she dug deep into the code, earned significant hands-on experience, and learned the rules of the game. She has been heavily involved in building teams on the basis of self-organization and cross-functionality, spreading her knowledge, and investing in education. Milena is a Master of Computer Science, PMP Certified Pr... moreofessional, Certified Business Analyst, Professional Scrum Master, and Kanban Management Professional. Besides, strong organizational skills led Milena to COO and General Manager positions. She is also a frequent speaker at technical conferences. Milena loves to immerse herself in puzzles and riddles and unlock doors in Escape rooms all around Europe.

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ... morelives in Kennedale, TX with his wife and children.

Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer, and speaker. Currently the CTO of Full Circle Insights, he is the author of numerous books, ebooks, and online courses on various topics (technology and other). His latest book is "Advanced Apex Programming" - advancedapex.com Personal Website http://danappleman.com.