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Artur Bergman

Founder and CTO, Fastly

Talk: Fastly, Festool and the power of a platform

Artur Bergman is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Fastly. Since co-founding Fastly in 2011, Artur has helped shepherd the company’s evolution in a variety of roles including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Architect, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

Prior to co-founding Fastly, Artur held a number of leadership and management roles, including Chief Technology Officer of Wikia, Inc., a global community knowledge-sharing platform, Engineering Manager for SixApart Ltd., a social networking service, and Fotango, Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Europe.

Kailan Blanks

Sr. Software Engineer, Fastly

Talk: Unlocking developer innovation with the right platform: A Bonnier News success story

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team at Fastly, Kailan is responsible for customer-facing tooling and content. As part of his work, he oversees Fastly Fiddle, our developer documentation, and various open-source projects for our Compute platform. Beyond coding, Kailan hosts the engaging Fastly Developers Live series on our YouTube channel. When he’s not immersed in tech, you might spot him zooming around London on his electric skateboard.

Kip Compton

Chief Product Officer, Fastly

Talk: A platform for innovation: What we’ve been building at Fastly

Kip Compton is the Chief Product Officer of Fastly and brings more than 25 years of senior leadership experience driving innovation in cloud, video, Internet of Things (IoT) and networking.

Prior to joining Fastly, Kip served as the senior vice president of strategy of the Cisco Networking business at Cisco where he led teams responsible for strategy, portfolio management, investments and acquisitions.

Kip holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an MBA degree from the Wharton School. He also holds multiple patents in the areas of digital video, security, and networking.

Jim Hall

Sr. Principal Sales Engineer, Fastly

Talk: Scaling personalisation for premium live events: A Bedrock success story

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Hossein Lotfi

VP of Engineering, Fastly

Talk: Preparing for the unexpected: Fastly’s seven pillars of network resilience

Hossein Lotfi is the VP of Engineering leading Edge Systems Organization at Fastly. Hossein has over 20 years of experience building networks and large-scale systems ranging from startups to hyper-scale cloud infrastructure. He has scaled multiple engineering organizations geared towards rapid development and novel innovations.

He firmly believes in the compounding effect of having experts in every part of the stack working together to build innovative solutions for intricate scalability and efficiency challenges. Hossein’s engineering leadership style is rooted in deep involvement with the state of production systems. At Fastly, Hossein is responsible for building reliable, cost-effective, and low-latency systems at the edge that deliver network services to our customers. He oversees the following engineering groups: Traffic Engineering (Egress and Ingress), Edge Delivery Platform (Varnish, CacheD), Kernel and DataPath (XDP), Edge Protocols (e.g. TLS, QUIC), Layer 7 load balancing (H2O), Hardware Engineering and Network Architecture.

Todd Nightingale

Chief Executive Officer, Fastly

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Todd Nightingale is the Chief Executive Officer of Fastly. He assumed the role of CEO and joined the Fastly Board of Directors in September 2022.

Todd has spent more than 20 years making the internet a better place. He previously served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Networking and Cloud at Cisco Systems, Inc. Todd is known for his passionate technology leadership and his vision of powerful, simple solutions for businesses, schools, and governments.

Prior to Fastly, Todd served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Meraki where his focus on delivering a simple, secure, digital workplace led to the expansion and growth of the Meraki portfolio, making it the largest cloud-managed networking platform in the world at the time.

He previously held engineering and senior management positions at AirDefense, where he was responsible for product development and guided the company through a successful acquisition by Motorola.

Todd holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master's degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kelly Shortridge

VP Product, Security, Fastly

Talk: Application security your developers will actually love!

Kelly Shortridge is VP of Product Management for Fastly's Security business and the author of "Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems" (O'Reilly Media). Best known as a cybersecurity and resilience expert, Shortridge is a frequent industry commentator (BBC News, Business Insider, the Wall Street Journal), keynote speaker at international technology conferences, and published researcher (ACM, HICSS, IEEE, and USENIX).

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Artur Bergman

Kailan Blanks

Kip Compton

Jim Hall

Hossein Lotfi

Todd Nightingale

Kelly Shortridge

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