Graeme Rocher is a software engineer and professional open source contributor. He has created several popular open source projects, including Grails (http://grails.org), GORM (http://gorm.grails.org), and Micronaut (http://micronaut.io). Graeme currently leads the development of the Grails and Micronaut frameworks at Object Computing (http://www.ociweb.com) and is the author and/or coauthor of several books, including The Definitive Guide to Grails 2 (Apress). Graeme won the inaugural Oracle Groundbreaker award in 2018.

Ronika Lewis is the CEO and Founder of RLI Consulting, an information technology and management consulting firm founded in 2006. RLI is an Oracle [NYSE:ORCL] World Wide Gold Partner and designs, develops, implements, and supports enterprise cloud applications embedded with technologies like AI, machine learning, blockchain, IoT, and advanced analytics, and focuses heavily on cloud security and identity management. In 2018, Ronika founded RL Empowers, a nonprofit focused on training, educating, and certifying marginalized black 18-25 year olds. The goal is to create an organic pipeline of cloud engineers and technologists into white collar, six-figure salary jobs in STEM doing digital transformations and cloud migrations. RLI also partners with MIT Solve, focusing on economic prosperity and solving the future of work challenges, as part of the United Nations' sustainable development goals.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a coauthor of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on Twitter at @venkat_s.

Alena is a Software Engineer at Rancher Labs, developing infrastructure services for Docker containers and Rancher-Kubernetes integration.