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.

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. 

Emanuela Zaccone
Staff Product Manager
at Sysdig 

With over ten years of experience driving innovation in tech products, she combines her expertise in AI and security to deliver impactful solutions at scale. Passionate about simplifying complex technology, she's dedicated to shaping the future of cloud security through AI-driven insights. Emanuela also has a background in digital entrepreneurship and is an experienced speaker. She has presented at various tech events (including KCD), hosted webinars on the role of AI in cloud security, and participated as a panelist on topics like women in tech.

Wieneke Keller
CTO
at Aurea Imaging

Wieneke Keller, CTO of Aurea Imaging. I am a pragmatic leader, always aiming to bring innovations quickly to the users to see  real world impact. With a background in data, IT architecture and scaling companies now on a mission to contribute to a sustainable future by unlocking the potential of each apple tree.