Amanda Lewis is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer on Google’s Builder Relations team, championing engineering culture, developer productivity, and pragmatic AI adoption. Her tech path began coding BASIC on a TRS-80 at age eight, paired with an early foundation in hospitality that honed her emphasis on empathy, communication, and human-centered leadership. A co-author of the DORA AI Capabilities Model Report and co-founder of the DORA Community of Practice, Amanda brings two decades of cross-platform software experience to her current focus on agentic workflows and eliminating developer toil.

Dave Stanke is a Developer Advocate for DORA, a program run by Google Cloud. He specializes in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other flavors of technical relationship therapy. He loves chatting with practitioners: listening to stories, telling stories, sharing a healthy cry. Prior to Google, he was the CTO of OvationTix, a SaaS startup in the performing arts industry, where he specialized in feeding memory to Java servers. He chose on purpose to live in New Jersey, where he enjoys cooking, indie rock, and fatherhood.

Steve Fenton is an Octonaut at Octopus Deploy and a five-time Microsoft MVP with more than two decades of experience in software delivery. He has written books on TypeScript (Apress, InfoQ), Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations. Steve has worked in the role of Software Engineer, SDET, Development Manager, and Director of Product and Data in a range of startups, SMEs, and enterprises.

Denali Lumma is a technology executive with over 20 years experience in startup to public offering, small, midsize and global companies supporting teams responsible for customer-facing product development for B2C, B2B, healthcare and life sciences, and infrastructure teams responsible for technical platforms, security, privacy, compliance, corporate IT, quality, reliability, and availability. She has helped to build multiple unicorns as an early engineer at companies like Netflix, 23andMe, Okta, Salesforce, and Uber. Denali serves on the board for Savage Jazz Dance Company, distinguished by its disciplined dancers and instructors, and its dedication to the exploration of jazz music's range of expression. She is an investor in Steezy, making dance the next big global sport. Denali is Founder and CEO at Doubling, offering technical advisory services to portfolio companies at Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and other venture capital groups. Denali lives in Los Gatos, California with her husband and two children.

Betsalel (Saul) Williamson brings a broad range of experience in DevOps and community development as a Technology and Business Consultant. He is the owner of Williamson Consulting Services and helps companies implement best practices in DevOps and new product development. He is passionate about helping his peers and projects succeed. Saul is committed to community leadership, applying his expertise in market research and event development to engage local communities. This includes his past service on the boards of Pittsburgh's PDMA and IEEE chapters, as well as his current volunteer work for a local LGBT+ non-profit. Saul lives with sensory sensitivities and is a disability and LGBT+ advocate. He promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that supply a healthy environment for everyone to learn and grow! Outside of work, Saul enjoys working on software hobby projects, traveling, and playing classical piano. He lives in Palm Springs, California.