2023 Edition
9,10 & 11 October
About the Event GSAS 2023
GSAS (Global Software Architecture Summit) is a 3-days summit which aims to attract and connect software architecture experts from all over the world as well as all those interested in building working software to improve their skills, share knowledge, and connect.
Become a SponsorPractical Talks and Hands-on workshops
Our speakers are experts in essential practices, innovation, working software and practical solutions. Draw your inspiration and learn to become a better software architect.
01Software Architecture Practices
Our event this year is focused on modern practices in software architecture: how to be more effective, efficient and enjoy what you do.
02Networking
Over 600 software architects will come together for two days to promote quality in the world of software. Don't miss the opportunity to connect with the community.
03Have Fun
In addition to technical talks and hands-on workshops, it will be fun! There will be snacks and beers, opportunity to meet like-minded people and generate discussions.
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Our Expert Speakers
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Countries Present
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Sponsors
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Event Participants
Top Software Experts Speakers Confirmed
Neal Ford
Software Architect & Director at ThoughWorksNeal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd. He is an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal authored magazine articles and authored many books including "Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change", "Functional Thinking: Paradigm Over Syntax", "The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)", "Fundamentals of software architecture", "Software Architecture: the hard parts", "Software Architecture Metrics" and many others, dozens of video presentations, and spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide. His topics include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, cutting edge software innovations, and includes a business-focused book and video in improving technical presentations. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications.
Mark Richards
Co-author of the book "Fundamentals of Software Architecture"Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free resource website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos from O'Reilly, including several books on Microservices, the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series, Enterprise Messaging video series, Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, and a contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Mark has a master’s degree in computer science and numerous architect and developer certifications from IBM, Sun, The Open Group, and Oracle. Mark has been a regular confe has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.
Nathaniel Schutta
Software Architect & Professor at University of MinnesotaNathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect focused on cloud computing and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books and appeared in various videos. Nate is a seasoned speaker regularly presenting at conferences worldwide, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, Nate coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough. Nate recently published Thinking Architecturally available as a free download from Pivotal. Nate’s presentations cover a variety of topics ranging from software architecture, microservices, cloud computing, site reliability engineering and everything in between.
Ben Evans
JVM Technologies Architect at New RelicBen Evans is Observability Lead and Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat Runtimes. Previously he was Lead Architect for Instrumentation at New Relic, and co-founded jClarity, a performance tools startup acquired by Microsoft. He has also worked as Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at Deutsche Bank and as Senior Technical Instructor for Morgan Stanley. He is a Java Champion and served for 6 years on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, helping define new standards for the Java platform. Ben is the author of seven books, including "The Well-Grounded Java Developer", "Optimizing Java" and the new editions of "Java in a Nutshell". His technical articles are read by thousands of developers every month. Ben is a regular speaker and educator on topics such as the Java platform, Observability, systems architecture, performance and concurrency for companies and conferences all over the world.
Jacqui Read
Consultant Software Architect at Read The ArchitectureJacqui Read is a software architect and consultant, internationally recognised in the area of communication of software architecture. She is an experienced software architect, having worked in domains including FinTech and Big Data, with roles including technical architect, solution architect and software developer. Now authoring a book and creating online training courses for O'Reilly Media, she runs training courses and workshops for conferences, companies and individuals. Jacqui led a team to win the O'Reilly Architectural Kata in Autumn 2021 and has had the pleasure of judging the competition since then. Her other interests include architecture characteristics and decisions, NoSQL, and data as a product and first-class citizen.
Daniel Selans
Daniel Selans is the co-founder and CTO of StreamdalDaniel Selans is the co-founder and CTO of Streamdal.com, a streaming data performance monitoring company. Dan previously worked at companies such as InVisionApp, New Relic and DigitalOcean and before that, spent over 10 years doing integration and R&D work at data centers. He has been writing software since the late 90s and since 2014, has been writing exclusively in Go. Dan loves distributed systems and is convinced that the future of high performance is asynchronous. He works primarily in backend, listens to a lot of black metal and prefers Stella's over IPA’s. He resides in Portland, Oregon but is originally from Riga, Latvia.
Nick Tune
Author of the Book "Architecture Modernization"Nick is a Principal Consultant at Empathy Software. Working with technology leaders to map strategy, model domains, and build continuous delivery teams. Author of Architecture Modernization (Manning), and Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wrox).
Sandro Mancuso
Author of the book "The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride"Software craftsman, author, and founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but only started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for startups, software houses, product companies, international consultancy companies, and investment banks. During his career Sandro had the opportunity to work in a good variety of projects, with different languages, technologies, and across many different industries. Sandro has a lot of experience in bringing the Software Craftsmanship ideology and Extreme Programming practices to organisations of all sizes. Sandro is internationally renowned by his work on evolving and spreading Software Craftsmanship and is frequently invited to speak in many conferences around the world. His professional aspiration is to raise the bar of the software industry by helping developers become better at and care more about their craft.
Eoin Woods
Co-author of the book "Software Systems Architecture" & "Software Architecture Metrics"Eoin Woods is the CTO of Endava where he is responsible for capability development, innovation and emerging technologies. In previous professional lives he has developed databases, created security software and designed way too many systems to move money around. Outside his day job he is interested in software architecture, software security, DevOps and software energy efficiency. He is a regular conference speaker, has co-authored a three books on software architecture and was the recipient of the 2018 Linda Northrup Award for Software Architecture, from the Software Engineering Institute at CMU. His web site is www.eoinwoods.info.
Diana Montalion
Co-founder of Mentrix GroupIf you’ve read The Economist, donated to Wikipedia, or contributed to The World Monuments Fund, you’ve interacted with systems that Diana helped to architect. She has 18+ years experience delivering initiatives, independently or as part of a professional services group, to clients including Stanford, The Gates Foundation and Teach For All. She is co-founder of Mentrix Group, a consultancy providing enterprise systems architecture, technology strategy, team leadership and systems development. She also teaches courses on writing as thinking.
Amal Tahri
Passionate sociotechnical system thinker, eager to learn all architecture and design aspects, focus on the implication of organization and people interactions on architecture decisions. Problem solver enthusiast. Leveraging communication to build a positive and collaborative working environment.
Sonya Natanzon
Sonya Natanzon is an engineering leader and software architect with many years of experience. Software engineer by training, she’s worked in a number of different industries. Healthcare engagements were most rewarding in her career and frequently appear in her portfolio. She started focusing her career path on software engineering and architecture in healthcare. She now leads enterprise software development at Guardant Health.
Vlad Knononov
Vladik (Vlad) Khononov is a software engineer with over 15 years of industry experience, during which he has worked for companies large and small in roles ranging from webmaster to chief architect. Vlad is a long-time proponent of domain-driven design and evolutionary architecture and currently helps companies make sense of their business domains, untangle monoliths, and tackle complex architectural challenges. Vlad maintains an active media career as a public speaker and blogger. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences — including O’Reilly Software Architecture, DDD Europe, and NDC — about subjects such as domain-driven design, microservices, and software architecture in general. In addition to his media work, he co-organizes the Domain-Driven Design Israel and Tel Aviv Software Architecture meetup groups.
Andrea Magnorsky
Andrea Magnorsky is a programmer and entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom. She is a founder and is well-known in the programming community for her contributions to functional programming and software architecture. Magnorsky has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has spoken at many international conferences and events on topics such as game development, functional programming, and software architecture. She is the creator or Bytesize Architecture Sessions.
Severn Everett
Severn Everett, currently employed as a backend developer at Apiumhub, has spent more than a decade in the software engineering industry and has worked in software development companies in the United States, India, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. His tech stack repertoire has also varied considerably with the years, with experience in projects that used Java, Kotlin, C++, Python, Ruby, and Go. However, the JVM and Spring Boot ecosystems remain the domains in which he retains the most knowledge and interest.
