Bart Farrell
Host

The one and only Bart Farrell will once again bring his unmatched energy as our charismatic host for an unforgettable Edgecase experience — and this year promises even more.

Dan Acristinii
Product Manager Edge Foundations
at Roche

Dan Acristinii is a Global Product Manager for Kubernetes Edge Infrastructure at Roche. With a background in business, finance, and economics, he combines financial insights with technical expertise in coding and cloud-native solutions. Dan specializes in driving innovation and operational excellence in complex environments, delivering engaging presentations that bridge business strategy with advanced Kubernetes infrastructure solutions.

Niyazi Erdoğan
Experience Lead Edge Foundations
at Roche

Niyazi Erdoğan is an Experience Lead for Edge Foundations and Senior DevOps Engineer at Roche. Passionate about User Experience Design, he views UX as the fundamental core of meaningful technology solutions rather than just a process. Niyazi leads experience initiatives for edge foundations, ensuring complex technical solutions remain user-centered and accessible in our increasingly connected technological landscape.

Justin Garrison
Head of Product 
at Sidero Labs

Justin is an engineer with extensive cloud native and infrastructure experience. He is the author of Cloud Native Infrastructure and has built products used by hundreds of millions of users around the world. He believes deeply in Sidero Labs' mission and the ability to improve infrastructure. If people are still maintaining new servers with SSH, then Sidero Labs still has work to do.

Jonathan Gonzalez
Senior Staff Software Development Engineer 
at EDB

Jonathan Gonzalez is a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer at EDB, a maintainer of the CloudNativePG project, and active open source contributor. Passionate about technology and growth, Jonathan sees himself as a lifelong learner, always exploring new ways to improve and share knowledge. 

Erwin de Keijzer
Principal Consultant
at TrueFullstaq 

By day, Erwin is a Principal Consultant / DevOps Engineer at TrueFullstaq, consulting companies on how to best implement cloud native principles on the public cloud and how to develop applications to fully embrace what new technologies can offer. At night, he turns into a chindōgu engineer (look it up on Wikipedia, it's awesome). Tinkering with stuff like adding music to his home elevator or connecting his garage door to the internet. His presentations always come with a dose of humor and self-deprecation. And if it all works out, you'll learn something too.

Brandt Keller
Software Engineer
at Defense Unicorns 

An engineer obsessed with bringing cloud native best practices to places the cloud can’t always reach? Meet Brandt Keller! At EdgeCase 2025, he'll share how a ‘cloud native-airgap’ mindset flips traditional delivery on its head, hardening the software supply chain, shrinking operational toil, and empowering mission-critical systems to thrive whether they’re in a data center, a desert, or on the deck of a ship. 

Casper Nielsen
DevOps Specialist
at Novo Nordisk

Casper Nielsen is a DevOps Specialist at Novo Nordisk, focusing on implementing Continuous Delivery within pharmaceutical industry compliance constraints. With over 25 years of experience in healthcare technology, telecommunications, and fintech, he has held senior roles at Nets Group, Pentia, and Sitecore. His expertise spans cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and platform architecture. As former CTO at MIRSK, he built IT organizations from scratch and developed systems serving thousands of Danish healthcare professionals, specializing in DevOps practices for highly regulated environments

Emanuela Zaccone
AI for Cybersecurity Staff Product Manager
at Sysdig 

Emanuela Zaccone is a Staff Product Manager in AI for Cybersecurity at Sysdig, leading the development of Sysdig Sage, a generative AI assistant for cloud security. With over a decade in tech innovation, she brings expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and product leadership. A serial entrepreneur, Emanuela co-founded The Liquid Factory startup studio and previously founded TOK.tv (acquired in 2019 after reaching 40 million users) and AIDA Monitoring. She's a Certified Scrum Product Owner, frequent tech speaker, patent holder, and published author who specializes in transforming complex cybersecurity challenges into accessible AI-driven solutions.