Speakers

I work on the Go IDE at JetBrains, contributing to Go language support, code insight features, and integrations with Go tooling to improve the overall developer experience.

My primary specialization is static code analysis. I focus on detecting bugs related to nil, such as nil pointer dereferences and panics, and work on interprocedural dataflow analysis that follows values across function boundaries to uncover subtle issues.

Recently, I have been exploring how modern AI coding agents generate Go code and why they often produce outdated patterns. As part of this work, I created the repository https://github.com/JetBrains/go-modern-guidelines, which defines guidelines that help coding agents generate modern, idiomatic Go.

Before working on Go tooling, I developed static analysis tools for C and C++.

David is an open source contributor and project member for the Go programming language. David is a well-respected voice within the tech community, speaking on a variety of topics such as software design, performance, and the Go programming language.

Ellen’s journey with Go started about 6 years ago when she secured an interview with Flybits for her last internship before graduation. At the time, she had never heard of Go... but seeing the beloved mascot was enough to convince Ellen that she was in for a treat. Since then, Ellen is proud to say that she has grown a lot as a Gopher, and is super excited to share a part of her journey with such an amazing community!

Florin Pățan is a Senior Software Engineer at Ardan Labs with over 12 years of Go experience. He's worked across distributed systems, application architecture, observability, and cloud infrastructure — with time spent at fintech, healthcare, and AI companies like Bread Financial, Press Ganey, drand, and PredictionGuard.

He has worked AI startups and enterprise companies where he built the infrastructure from the ground up and designed the systems backend from scratch, taking an early-stage platform to something production teams could actually rely on. Before Ardan Labs, he was at JetBrains as a Developer Advocate for Go — contributing to the Delve debugger and helping make GoLand the IDE that thousands of Go developers use daily.

Masaaki Takasago is an embedded software engineer who works with Go for both professional and hobby projects. A contributor to the TinyGo project and the author of a book on TinyGo, he is the creator of the "TinyGo Keeb Tour," a hands-on workshop that combines hardware soldering with Go firmware development. In 2025, he organized the TinyGo Conference in Japan, actively expanding the Go ecosystem into embedded systems and custom keyboards.

Ron is an award-winning software developer and expert in robotics/IoT/computer vision who is very active in the free and open-source community. He has helped many clients such as AT&T, Intel, Sphero, and Northvolt solve some of their most difficult technical and business problems.

Ron is a code contributor to many open-source hardware/software projects and is one of the maintainers of TinyGo (https://tinygo.org), as well as the creator of the open-source IoT/robotics framework Gobot (https://gobot.io), computer vision framework GoCV (https://gocv.io), and embedded WebAssembly framework Mechanoid (https://mechanoid.io).

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

""Umang Mathur is a Presidential Young Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the FOCS Lab. His research focuses on developing systematic algorithms and tools for program analysis, particularly for concurrent software.

This work is a collaboration with Zheng Shi and Hien Huynh, graduate students in the FOCS Lab and the primary developers of GCT."

Ajey Gore is a veteran technology leader and builder best known for scaling Gojek from a fast-growing startup into one of Southeast Asia’s largest technology platforms. As Group CTO, he led the company’s engineering transformation, growing the organisation to more than 2,000 engineers across the region while building the platform architecture and engineering culture that powered Gojek’s hypergrowth.

Today, Ajey advises startups, institutions, and technology leaders on AI, infrastructure, engineering culture, and organisational transformation. He has held leadership and advisory roles with organisations including Peak XV Partners, DBS Bank, and NUS Enterprise, and is widely respected for his practical, hands-on approach to building teams and systems at scale.

Sam Hon is the CEO and co-founder of CREX, where he is building an AI-native verified context layer for trusted discovery. Previously, he was Director of Engineering at Viki and CTO of Banpu NEXT.

His current work focuses on AI agents, context retrieval systems, and structured knowledge pipelines. Sam is also a BSI-certified ISO/IEC 42001 AI Governance Lead Auditor, and his company was named the top winner of Meta’s first Llama Incubator program.

Winston Teo is Senior Director of Singpass at GovTech Singapore, where he leads Singapore’s national digital identity platform and its evolution as trusted digital infrastructure for the country. His work focuses on trust, security, platform strategy, and building resilient, user-centric public digital services at national scale.

He previously served as Director of Software Engineering Practice under GovTech’s Government Technology Office, where he drove engineering excellence, talent development, modernisation, and responsible AI adoption across teams. Before joining GovTech, Winston led R&D at Shopify Singapore, and has held engineering leadership roles across startups, scale-ups, and large technology organisations.

He is passionate about building high-performing engineering cultures, modernising complex systems, and using technology to deliver meaningful public impact.