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Elizabet Oliveira
Elastic, Distributed, Portugal
Talk: Designing with Code in Mind
Elizabet is a designer who likes to code. As a ReactJS enthusiast, she built and maintains React-Kawaii. A React library of fun kawaii characters that won "Fun Side Project of the Year" in React Amsterdam Open Source Awards 2018. Besides that, her passion for music and past experience as the first female rapper in Portugal under a major deal, led her to start Cassette Tape. The HTML5 based looper and recorder has granted her a spot in Google I/0 Dublin, in 2016. Also, a big fan of open-source, she has recently released a song for the designer/dev community called "Fork This" (2020).
Elizabet currently works as Senior Product Designer for Elastic. Her mission is to bridge the gap between front-end and design.

Sam Thorogood
Gridcog, Australia
Talk: Ensuring your Users are on the Right Path: the Future of Modals and Focus Management
Sam is a former Googler, and now CTO of an energy startup here in Australia. He has an ongoing interest in web standards, lightweight websites and starting too many side projects.

Anjana Vakil
USA
Talk: Panel Discussion: UX and the Design/Dev Overlap
Anjana suffers from a chronic case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer advocate at Observable, these days she codes & teaches from her home base in San Francisco; in the before-times, you could find her speaking at events around the world. She loves to share the joy of programming and advocate for a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center & Outreachy, she’s an alumna of both!

Maggie Appleton
Ought, UK
Talk: Panel Discussion: UX and the Design/Dev Overlap
Maggie is a designer-developer-anthropologist-hybrid at egghead.io. She spends her time designing visual metaphors for invisible programming concepts, helping developers explain their wildly abstract thoughts, and overanalysing the JavaScript community’s strange cultural beliefs. She's also a digital gardening enthusiast and a Marmite lover.

Toni Petrina
Visma, Denmark
Talk: Asynchronous UX
Tech lead at Visma e-conomic, developer at heart and frequent speaker at conferences, user groups and local events. Started in QBasic, went through C++ to C#, finally settled in...full-stack? He spends most of the time at the keyboard typing yet another demo or application. If you take his keyboard away from him, he will talk endlessly about code...and functional programming. Been coding for over a decade to know if something is a programming fad or not. And no, functional programming is not a fad at all. Strong proponent of Open Source and all things chocolate.

Catalin Miron
Senior Engineer, Czech Republic
Talk: React Native Animations Should Be Fun
I'm a nomad developer, currently living in Prague, Czech Republic.
I love giving life to UI through animations. I'm a speaker, YouTuber, father of 2, React & React Native enthusiast, Open Source contributor and coffee geek. In my free time I help others to succeed.

Sergio Xalambri
Daffy, Perú
Talk: Remixing How We Give
I'm Sergio Xalambrí, an Argentinian web developer living in Perú and working at Daffy.org.
I'm a tech writer at sergiodxa.com and an Open Source author and contributor.
I'm an early supporter and contributor of Remix. Previous contributor of Next.js, SWR, and several other OSS projects.
I’ve also authored Remix Auth, Remix Utils, remix-i18next, useMutation, flagged, and more packages.

Emily Kauffman
Harvie, USA
Talk: Remixing a Symfony
Emily is a lead software engineer based out of Pittsburgh, USA. She's a lifelong learner, adjunct professor, and IoT enthusiast. Emily has a tech background in healthcare, robotics, and more recently, bringing local food to the masses at Harvie. In her spare time, you can find Emily working on her web agency startup, scuba diving, or trying her hand at landscape photography.

Michael Bromley
Vendure, Austria
Talk: The New Frontier: E-Commerce at the Edge
I've been building for the web for over 15 years - mainly focusing on e-commerce applications, content management and open source. Now I'm building Vendure, an open-source headless commerce framework with a focus on developer productivity. I strongly believe in the mission to bring joy through great developer experience and open source tools. I'm originally from England but for the past 8 years I've been based in beautiful Vienna, Austria.