Sophia Drossopoulou is Professor of Programming Languages at Imperial College London and winner of the 2023 Dahl-Nygaard Prize. She works on programming languages, models, and reasoning about programs and algorithms.

William Schor is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, working on online data stores and distributed data systems. He focuses on resilience, high availability, and low-latency serving, helping teams learn how large-scale data infrastructure can stay fast, safe, and reliable.

Anatoliy Bilenko is a Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO at Canonical, where he leads the dqlite team and runs the company’s PerCorr Academy, training engineers and managers in performance analysis and formal verification. Before joining Canonical, he spent a decade at Seagate leading teams working on distributed storage, performance, and transaction management. He holds a PhD from the University of Odessa, where his research focused on performance optimization in reconfigurable systems. Ángel Alberto Carretero is a software engineer at Canonical's Office of the CTO, where he works on dqlite, the distributed SQLite engine used as storage backend for Kubernetes. He studied mathematics and computer science, spent a year at Amazon, and joined Canonical in 2023. He recently wrote about using TLA+ to formally model a 16-year-old SQLite bug.