GitHub Universe 2019 | GitHub | 13 November 2019 | Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA

GitHub Universe is our annual marquee product and user conference. The two-day event brings together a global interconnected community of over 1700 developers, industry thought leaders, and executives to hear what's next from GitHub, and learn about the tools and concepts that are pushing the software industry forward.

The conference features over 50 insightful sessions and a dozen workshops from people who are defining the state of open source and the future of software development.

2019 Speakers

Nat Friedman
Chief Executive Officer, GitHub

Clare Liguori
Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Jack Li
Production Engineer, Shopify

Rea Loretta
CEO, Toast

Emma Dickson
Data Scientist/Data Engineer, IBM

Sara Cope
Engineer, Code.gov

Tim Carmean
Central Software Process & Tools Supervisor, Ford

Veronica Young
Brigade Program Manager, Code for America

Tom Erickson
Global Software Tools and Processes, Ford

Andrea Gallego
CTO, BCG GAMMA Global

Ed Huang
Co-founder and CTO, PingCAP

Ada Nduka Oyom
Developer Relations Ecosystem Community Manager, Google

Kay Alave
Consultant / Data Analyst, TD Reply

Samson Goddy
Oversight Board, Sugar Labs

Rachel Potvin
VP of Engineering, GitHub

David Lemayian
Chief Technologist / CTO, Code for Africa

Mariatta Wijaya
Backend Engineer and Python Core Developer, Zapier

Hamel Husain
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GitHub

Stefan Fejes
UI Engineer, 30 Seconds

Tania Allard
Developer Advocate, Microsoft

Ben Greenberg
Developer Advocate, Nexmo

Lunga Mthembu
Software Developer, OpenUp

Stephen Magill
CEO, Muse Dev

Nithya Ruff
Head of Open Source, Comcast

Gene Kim
Author, Researcher & Founder, IT Revolution

Jarryd McCree
Senior Product Manager, GitHub

Justin Hutchings
Senior Product Manager, GitHub

Devon Zuegel
Product Manager of the Open Source Economy Team, GitHub

Abi Noda
Sr. Product Manager, GitHub

Sonia John
Bot & Protocol Developer, Afrolynk

Ryan Nystrom
Sr. Product Manager, GitHub

Rhys Arkins
Director of Product, WhiteSource

Natalie Bradley
Field Architect, GitHub

Jamie Jones
Director of Field Architects, GitHub

Nakeema Stefflbauer
Founder & CEO, FrauenLoop

Venkat Balabhadrapatruni
Architect, Broadcom

Kelly O'Connor
Product Manager, US Digital Service, Veterans Affairs

Philip Holleran
Principal Solutions Engineer, GitHub

Olivia Vereha
Chief Operations Officer, Code for Romania

Tosha Ellison
Director of Member Success, FINOS

Jeff Josephson
Senior Systems Engineer, Expedia

Simina Pasat
Director of Product Management, GitHub

Jagadesh Gadiyaram
Director, Head of Open Source, CapitalOne

Gil Yehuda
Sr. Director of Open Source, Verizon Media

Yanran Zhou
Senior Data Scientist, GitHub

Jeremy Epling
Senior Director of Product Management, GitHub

Jeremy Lewi
Software Engineer, Google

Mala Kumar
Program Manager, Open Source for Good, GitHub

Zach Hill
Principal Architect, Anchore

Stephen O'Grady
Principal Analyst & Co-founder, RedMonk

Michael Glukhovsky
Developer Advocate, Stripe

Gina Assaf
Digital Design and Research Consultant for Social and Global Impact & Good, Independent Consultant

Guillermo Rauch
CEO, ZEIT

Admas Kanyagia
Director, Social Impact, GitHub

Jason Mealins
VP, Platform Engineering, Tanium

Melody Meckfessel
CEO, Observable

Erika Kato
Partner Engineering Manager, GitHub

John Bohannon
Partner Engineer, GitHub

Thomas Hughes
Partner Engineer, GitHub

Philip Bremer
Manager, Software Engineering, Primitives, GitHub

Dr. Claire Knight
Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

Steve Winton
Senior Partner Engineer, GitHub

Chris Patterson
Staff Program Manager, GitHub

Jared Murrell
Services DevOps Engineering Manager, GitHub

Jamie Strusz
Services Implementation Engineer, GitHub

Froilán Irizarry
Services Solutions Architect, GitHub

Rex Mpala
Services Solutions Architect, GitHub

Michael Sainz
Services Solutions Architect, GitHub

Lars Schneider
Services DevOps Engineer, GitHub

Amber Westlund
Student, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

James Garcia
Services Solutions Architect Manager, GitHub

Lucas Gravley
Services DevOps Engineer, GitHub

2019 Sponsors and Partners

• WhiteSource
• Microsoft Azure
• Travis CI
• CircleCI
• SonarSource
• StoryScript
• ZenHub
• Sentry
• CloudBees
• Datree.io
• GitKraken
• Percy
• RapipAPI
• Stack Overflow
• Atomist
• Snyk
• Heroku
• Tidelift
• CodeCov
• JFrog
• Codility
• Code Climate
• BCG Gamma
• SonaType
• MUX
• BugSnag
• Seen
• Algolia
• Tech Target
• Automation Anywhere