Prairie Dev Con 2026

Adam Krieger

Adam Krieger is a Principal Security Consultant with Online Business Systems. With a background in software development at cloud architecture, and distributed systems, and a certified CISSP, CSSLP, and CISA, he is driven to improve the way we build confidentiality, integrity, availability, and privacy into our applications. He works with teams and organizations of vastly different sizes to design, build, and verify security quality into their products.

Adam L Barrett

Adam L Barrett is a JavaScript Consultant / Developer with a love for front-end and the mobile web. His job is helping developers improve their JavaScript skills and write better front-end code. When he's not discussing prototypal inheritance or which framework is better at Adam is always up for a board game or a talk about movies.

Alex Drenea

Well-rounded Solution Architect with over 10 years of hands-on experience in all areas of Software Development Lifecycle (Back-end at Cloud, Database, DevOps, Mobile, Desktop, Web)

A N M Bazlur Rahman

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer at Java Champion, Author, Blogger, and Speaker. He has more than a decade of experience in the software industry, primarily with Java and Java-related technologies.

Ashleigh Lodge

Ashleigh is the Leader of the Product Team at Neovation Learning Solutions in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She manages a team of over 30 developers, UX designers and QA analysts who work to maintain and grow two separate products.

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Cameron McKay

Cameron McKay is a Microsoft Azure Integration MVP with a strong background in web, integration, and business analysis. Cameron is a thought leader in Azure integration services and has spoken at numerous conferences on topics related to Microsoft Azure. Cameron has blended his expertise in software development and business analysis to deliver a variety of enterprise web, integrations and cloud applications using the Microsoft technology stack. Cameron spends his off-hours as a tabletop board game enthusiast, cooking up delicious meals, watching anime and playing with his two husky dogs.

Chris Ayers

Chris is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the AzRel team at Microsoft. He has a focus in modern applications built with DevOps, microservices, containers, Single Page Apps, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies following agile practices. In his free time, Chris is a speaker at numerous meetups, an avid reader and a gamer.

Christopher Usick

I am a maker. My drive to create change through tech has taken me from programming as a teenager to freelancing at web dev, DevOps, backend software engineering, machine learning, business, physics, and epistemology. I have led and participated in teams solving a broad range of problems including application migrations, platform engineering, and app dev.

Conner Schiissler

I am an IT generalist with a diverse background spanning platform engineering, data engineering, software development, and cybersecurity. Passionate about leveraging technology to drive business value, I thrive at the intersection of innovation and practical solutions.

Dale Birtch

Dale is a classically trained Sys Admin who has worked through the transition from physical servers at P2V lift and shift virtualization, native virtualization, hosting in private data centers, and delivering applications on the public cloud. He's introduced and led SRE in multiple organizations, has extensive experience on the modern cloud stack, and loves to talk about cost and architecture considerations.

Darryl Shpak

I've been a professional software developer for over twenty years (and an unprofessional one longer than that), and for the last five years I've been working at Conquest Planning developing the next generation of financial planning software. I tend not to write the code that ends up on a product's feature list; instead, I enjoy writing the code that helps the *rest* of the team deliver, and solving the knotty technical roadblocks that are getting in their way.