Fabian Seitz

Head of Digital platforms, Bonnier News

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

Fabian Seitz has been the head of digital platforms at Bonnier News in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2021, having previously been a member of that team since 2017. In his role he leads a team which helps to facilitate a devops philosophy, enabling developers to build cloud infrastructure independently, standardized and with a high degree of automatization. He started out in German public service radio as a web developer and returned to the tech sector in 2013 after finishing his studies in Germany and Sweden. He holds a doctorate in physics and a bachelor's degree in economics.

Niklas Wretstrom

DevOps Specialist, Bonnier News

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

Niklas Wretström has worked at Bonnier News in Stockholm, Sweden as a DevOps specialist for almost three years. He has previously done DevOps and Platform work for a Swedish telemedicine company, and DevOps and SRE for IBM Cloud, where he also was part of developing the first cloud offerings for the big blue. Niklas fell in love with computers as a small child, learning 8 bit assembler by himself, and has a Master in Computer Science.

Matthias Grüter

Infrastructure Engineering Lead, Spotify

Talk: Serving 600M Users: Why Spotify is excited about CDN

Matthias is the engineering lead for Spotify's infrastructure group. His team builds the platform on top of which Spotify delivers its experience. As a manager by trade and engineer by heart, Matthias feels most comfortable in the intersection between leadership and technology.

Christian Ek

Senior Web Developer, Strawberry

Talk: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deploying at the Edge

Christian is a Senior Developer & Site Reliability Engineer at Strawberry. He works with web infrastructure, specializing in edge deployments, and supports teams by building internal prototypes, improving reliability and security, and providing technical guidance. He has been with Strawberry for three years.

Alexander Percivall

Senior Partner Engineer, Google Cloud

Talk: Accelerating AI at the edge with Google and Fastly

As a Senior Partner Engineer, Alexander Percivall operates at the frontier of the Agentic Era. He specializes in spearheading the adoption and implementation of AI Agents, working directly with partners and customers to lead the charge in this rapidly evolving field.

Niklas Gustavsson

Chief Architect and VP Engineering, Spotify

Talk: Pioneers of the Instant Internet: Lessons from Spotify and Fastly

Niklas Gustavsson has a strong background in engineering and system architecture, with experience spanning from technical management to backend engineering. With a Master of Science degree in Biology, Niklas has held various leadership roles at companies such as Spotify, Callista Enterprise, Zystems by Semcon, Zooma by Semcon, and Framfab. Niklas currently serves as the Chief Architect and VP of Engineering at Spotify.

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Artur Bergman

Founder and CTO | Fastly

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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.

Kip Compton

Chief Executive Officer | Fastly

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

Kip Compton is the Chief Executive 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.

Dennis Mårtensson

Senior Director of Engineering | Fastly

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

Dennis Mårtensson is the Senior Director of Engineering for Developer Products at Fastly. With over a decade of experience, Dennis has worked across the spectrum from founding startups to scaling organizations through IPO.

He has led teams building networking technologies, developer products, and distributed systems, with a strong focus on creating high-performing engineering organizations that deliver impact at scale. His leadership philosophy emphasizes empowering experts across the stack and fostering environments where innovation and rapid execution thrive.

At Fastly, Dennis is responsible for guiding the strategy and execution of developer-focused products, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and built to unlock the full potential of Fastly’s edge platform. He oversees the following groups: Storage, Config Delivery, Observability, Fanout, Image optimiser, Geo location and Device Detection.

Kailan Blanks

Sr. Software Engineer | Fastly

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

As part of the Developer Experience team at Fastly, Kailan is responsible for customer-facing tooling and content. His work involves maintaining the Fastly Developer Hub and various open-source projects for Fastly’s serverless compute environment. Outside of work hours, he builds and operates software and hardware for independent music events and indie film.

Nils Boman

Senior Sales Engineer | Fastly

Talk: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deploying at the Edge

As a Senior Sales Engineer at Fastly, Nils Boman works with the entire Fastly technology stack across all of our areas. He has extensive experience in delivery of IT production in on-premise as well as cloud delivery and between. Having worked with most of the enterprises in the Nordics with a strong focus on security and availability with a simplified approach to enable DevOps flows and automation. He has many years of experience of web development by founding an e-commerce company and has throughout his career worked with both web development and enabling web applications to be secure, fast and available.

Noel Penzer

General Manager, SVP EMEA, Fastly

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With over 20 years of leadership experience across technology, media, and content industries, from start-ups to multinational organisations. Noel brings deep expertise in the evolving digital landscape and a strong understanding of customer priorities. His proven track record has earned him “trusted advisor” status among many of Fastly’s customers throughout EMEA.

Since joining Fastly eight years ago, Noel has played a pivotal role in driving regional growth and delivering measurable customer value. Under his leadership, the EMEA business has seen significant revenue expansion, supported by high-performing teams and a clear focus on new growth opportunities.

He remains dedicated to advancing Fastly’s mission: making the internet a better place, where all experiences are fast, safe, and engaging.

Maha Pula

VP, Global Sales Engineering, Fastly

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

Maha Pula is the Vice President of Global Sales Engineering at Fastly, where she leads global teams in shaping technical strategy and delivering customer-centric solutions. A recognized global business executive, Maha brings over 20 years of experience across cloud computing, SaaS, CDN, and cloud security, with a proven track record in driving business transformation and accelerating revenue growth.

Kate Stephens

Key Account Manager, Fastly

Talk: Moderator: Pioneers of the Instant Internet: Lessons from Spotify and Fastly

Kate Stephens is a Key Account Manager at Fastly with over 12 years experience managing large enterprise organisations like Spotify, helping them to drive maximum value from their relationship with Fastly technology.

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Customer Speakers

Fabian Seitz

Niklas Wretstrom

Matthias Grüter

Christian Ek

Alexander Percivall

Niklas Gustavsson

Fastly Speakers

Artur Bergman

Kip Compton

Dennis Mårtensson

Kailan Blanks

Nils Boman

Noel Penzer

Maha Pula

Kate Stephens

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