YOW! 2024 - Melbourne | YOW! Conferences | 4 December 2024 | Pullman Melbourne Albert Park, 65 Queens Rd, Albert Park VIC 3004, Australia

Join internationally recognized speakers and developers for an in‑depth look at emerging technologies and best practices in the software industry – regardless of technological platform or language — without commercial hype.

• Join the community
We're a passionate community of 700+ professionals from a variety of industries dedicated to improving their abilities, refining their development methodologies and exploring new tools.

• Meet the experts
YOW! has hosted some of the most outstanding minds in software development over the past 15 years, giving Australian attendees the chance to glean valuable insights, strategies and best practices from true luminaries of the field.

• Build connections
Unlock endless possibilities at this event to connect and collaborate with attendees from 120+ leading organizations as an attendee or a sponsor.

2024 Speakers

Adam Langley
CTO, HackingHub; Director, BSides Exeter

Allen Holub
Software Architect, Independent Consultant; Author, Speaker

Andrea Magnorsky
Programmer, Entrepreneur; Founder, Functional Programming Expert

Anton Ball
Front-End Development Team Leader; International Speaker

Ben Sadeghipour
Ethical Hacker, Content Creator, Keynote Speaker (NahamSec)

David Khourshid
Software Engineer, Founder of Stately.ai; Passionate About Animations and User Interfaces

Edith Harbaugh
Co-Founder, LaunchDarkly

Giacomo Cavalieri
Software Developer, Gleam Core Team

Holly Cummins
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Quarkus Team; Java Champion

Joakim Sundén
Consultant, Speaker, Coach, Teacher at Crisp; Ex-Spotify

Johan Janssen
Software Architect, ASML

Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal; Author, Java Champion

Kris Jenkins
Software Developer, Host of Developer Voices Podcast; Former CTO & Co-Founder of Gold Trading Business

Lu Wilson
Software Engineer at tldraw; Host of Future of Coding Podcast; Researcher-in-Residence at Ink and Switch

Marty Pitt
Creator of Taxi and Orbital; CTO, Notional; Developer, Architect, Open Source Contributor

Michelle "MishManners" Duke
Developer Advocate, Entrepreneur, Founder

Nilesh Makwana
Co-Founder & CEO, Illuminance Solutions

Oscar Nierstrasz
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Bern, Founder, Software Composition Group

Patrick Kua
Keynote Speaker, Author, Former CTO and Chief Scientist at N26, Former Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks

Rachel Laycock
CTO, ThoughtWorks, Global Managing Director, Enterprise Modernization, Platforms, and Cloud Service Line

Rasmus Lystrøm
Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Rod Johnson
CEO, Atomist, Creator, Spring Framework, Author and Investor

Rúnar Bjarnason
Software Engineer, Author of Functional Programming in Scala

Steve Smith
Roving Polyglot Developer, DevOps Engineer, Educator

Suz Hinton
Senior Software Engineer, CrowdStrike, Accessibility and Security Advocate

Theodora Bock
Associate Game Director, Level Ex, Video Game Designer

Thomas Vitale
Software Engineer, Systematic, CNCF Ambassador, Author, Cloud Native Spring in Action

Trisha Gee
Software Engineer, Java Champion, Author, Lead Developer Advocate at Gradle

Unmesh Joshi
Technology Leader, Author of Patterns of Distributed Systems

Yan Chernikov
Youtuber, Former Software Engineer at Electronic Arts, C++ and Video Game Development Expert

2024 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Thoughtworks
• Liberty

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Auth0 by Okta
• Datastax

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Culture Amp
• REA Group
• Red Hat