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Mo Khazali is Group Associate Partner at Theodo. Over the last three years, he has led teams as Head of Mobile and Solutions Architect, helping deliver high-impact products while scaling engineering practices across clients and developer communities. He has spoken at dozens of international conferences, hosted React Native London, and now focuses on how organisations can use AI to migrate between technology stacks in ways that are verifiable, safe, and efficient.

Ohans Emmanuel is the co-founder and CEO of Coldtea.ai and a technical author with more than five published books. Since 2017, he has written extensively about software and product development, with his work reaching more than five million readers. He specialises in turning complex problems into simple, reliable systems and building delightful user interfaces that hold up in the real world.

Jenni Kylmäkoski is an R&D leader at Nokia with experience in agile coaching, training, and product development leadership. Her work focuses on building motivated, high-performing teams and improving large R&D organisations through agile methods, DevOps, coaching leadership, continuous improvement, and collaboration across organisational boundaries.

Dr Muhammad Waseem is the Vice Head of GPT Lab at Tampere University. His research focuses on software engineering, generative AI, software architecture, and AI-assisted software development. He is currently supervising PhD and master’s students and has authored more than 90 research papers published in leading software engineering venues, including JSS, IST, ICSE, ECSA, and others.

Tapio Pitkäranta is Head of AI Development at Siili Solutions and a PhD candidate at Aalto University researching Software Agents and Generative AI. He has over 20 years of AI experience, spanning early semantic-web agent research, healthcare analytics entrepreneurship, and senior technology leadership across retail, healthcare, tax, and HR. He has served as CTO four times, including at RELEX Solutions during its unicorn-scale growth, and now focuses on applying agentic AI, multi-agent systems, and coding agents to real software delivery.

Jussi Hacklin has more than 20 years of experience leading technology and business organisations, creating digital services and products in-house and for clients across multiple industries. His background spans technology business creation, sales, product management, product development, agile transformation, piloting, and software development. He is a co-founder of Mideum, advises selected companies on technology and leadership, and was the first Finnish graduate of the University of Cambridge Judge CTO Programme.

Viljami Kuosmanen is a distinguished engineer and product engineer with more than 15 years of experience. Previously Head of Engineering at epilot, he scaled SaaS teams from early stage to more than 45 engineers while sustaining over 50% year-on-year MRR growth. His work spans SaaS, cloud, and AI, and his open-source libraries have been adopted by companies including AWS, GitHub, SAP, IBM, and Intel. He is the author of the Product Engineer Manifesto, which encourages engineers to move beyond code into end-to-end product ownership.

Sini Tistelgrén is Co-Founder, COO & Tech Lead at Aimbition. She has nearly 15 years of experience in IT, leading teams, shaping strategy, driving AI initiatives, and managing complex multi-vendor projects. Her work focuses on making AI adoption in software engineering practical and human-centred by aligning people, technology, and processes.

Zak Allal is a physician and AI engineer working at the intersection of medicine, advanced technology, strategic intelligence, and the arts. His technical work spans secure AI architectures, full-stack systems engineering, cybersecurity, and applied AI. He is also a pianist and composer who has performed at Carnegie Hall.