Jefferson Frazer

Director, Cloud Infrastructure, Shutterstock

Talk: Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story

Jefferson Frazer leads the Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering Department at Shutterstock, specializing in Edge Computing, Serverless Infrastructure and large scale Object Storage, Jefferson and the Shutterstock Infrastructure Team manage an ever growing portfolio of media content across more than a dozen brands. With a catalog of more than 120 Petabytes spanning 2000 object stores and multiple public-clouds, Jefferson has an acute appreciation for picking the right cloud resources to solve web scale business problems while remaining performant and cost effective. Jefferson lives in Flemington, NJ and can be found eating ice cream with his daughter in his free time.

Elijah Glover

Principal CDN Engineer, Optus Sports

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Elijah Glover brings over 16 years of experience architecting mission-critical systems. At Optus, he built dedicated streaming infrastructure that powered Women’s World Cup streaming. He also previously designed healthcare platforms for NSW and led mobile digital transformations for Australia’s Big Four banks. Specialising in cloud architecture and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Elijah delivers resilient solutions for enterprises and scale-ups. Join him at Xcelerate Sydney to explore insights on architecting for resilience and innovation in the evolving media industry.

Matt Hope

Principal Engineer, Nine Entertainment

Talk: Thriving amidst tech sprawl: Prioritizing impact in a multi-technology world

Matt is a Principal Engineer at Nine Publishing, the team behind some of Australia’s oldest and most widely read news publications, such as the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Matt has been working with IT Infrastructure for the past twenty years. He has worked on cloud environments, automation, monitoring, web caching and web hosting. More recently, Matt has been building and applying his expertise with Kubernetes at Nine.

Alain Russell

CEO | Blackpepper

Talk: Inside Blackpepper's battle against bad bots with Fastly

Alain is the CEO and Founder of Blackpepper, a specialist eCommerce agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is passionate about performance and works closely with the Blackpepper engineering team to ensure they deliver world-class solutions using the best technology available. In his spare time, Alain is a foodie who enjoys a good red wine and is learning to fly, with the goal of performing aerobatics in the near future.

Mohit Sharma

DevOps Manager, Canstar

Talk: Secure by design: Making security invisible and resilience inevitable

As a DevOps Manager, Mohit leads a team in enhancing operational efficiency through robust DevOps practices. His focus includes Kubernetes optimization, incident management, AI integration, and strategic planning. Mohit drives key projects and ensures effective stakeholder communication, leveraging the latest technologies to achieve organizational goals and continuous improvement. He enjoys golf and tennis, and loves French, Italian, and Indian food.

Darcy Price

Engineering Manager

Talk: Secure by design: Making security invisible and resilience inevitable

As the leader of Linktree's Developer Platform team, Darcy is instrumental in maintaining the cloud foundations and critical services that ensured over 50 million creator profiles remained fast, secure, and available for billions of monthly visitors. Prior to this he developed Linktree's payments, experimentation, and analytics capabilities. Darcy transitioned to engineering after a career in law and holds a Bachelor of Business and Juris Doctor from the University of Sydney. Outside of work, he enjoys tennis and cooking Indian cuisine.

Lluìs Garceso

eCommerce Service Manager, H10 Hotels

Talk: Secure by design: Making security invisible and resilience inevitable

My passion for computers and computing, sparked by the circuits of my Amstrad 8 Bit, became my way of life. To this day, I still treasure that first computer alongside a collection of tech relics from the 80s and 90s. I've dedicated the last 25 years to online production, exploring a wide range of sectors: from the dynamic world of advertising, through insurance and banking, and even training military teams in Strasbourg to build resilient, distributed digital environments. For the past 10 years, I've been at H10 Hotels, diving into the most technical side of eCommerce, where I've directly developed the platform and managed both work teams and providers. I love pushing possibilities to their limits, and I'm currently the eCommerce Service Manager at H10. Our biggest pride, besides our hotels, of course? :) Successfully ensuring the eCommerce platform remains stable and resilient during critical sales periods like Black Friday. Off-screen, I love enjoying good food and traveling. And yes, I'm proud to say I've kept my teenage hobbies intact.

Sergi Bech

CTO, Atrápalo

Talk: End the CAPTCHA nightmare: A bold old new approach to Bot Management

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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.

Guy Brown

Senior Security Strategist, Fastly

Talk: Inside Blackpepper's battle against bad bots with Fastly

Guy Brown is a seasoned security professional with over 20 years of experience in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. As a trusted advisor and thought leader, he engages with senior management and technical teams across diverse industries to develop and implement strategies for protecting digital assets. Guy's expertise spans Application Security, Network Security, Automated Threats, and the DDoS landscape. He has a proven track record of successfully mitigating complex security challenges and fortifying organisations against evolving cyber threats.

Kip Compton

CEO, Fastly

Talk: Reinventing for the AI age with Fastly: A Shutterstock success story

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.

Stephen Gillies

Manager of Sales Engineering, Fastly

Talk: Thriving amidst tech sprawl: Prioritizing impact in a multi-technology world

Over the last 20 years, Stephen has held senior IT positions with security vendors, ISPs, and in the publishing and finance industries. With strong network security and application security experience, he has helped large enterprises, telco, ISPs and federal governments deploy secure, manageable, and business-relevant solutions. At Fastly, he promotes super fast, low latency CDN, DDoS and WAF protection, image optimisation, and bot protection. Stephen is based in Sydney, Australia, and goes by the nickname Max.

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.

Simon Wistow

Co-Founder and VP of Strategic Initiatives and Technology, Fastly

Talk: Delivering the biggest media moments in the world

Simon Wistow is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Co-Founder of Fastly. He oversees the Observability team and plays a key role in corporate development, strategic partnerships, and mergers & acquisitions. Simon has a diverse background, including work in WAP Browsers, game development, and R&D for visual effects in films like Harry Potter and Troy. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering with Honors from Imperial College, London, and has lectured on topics such as Information Architecture and the Psychology of Search. Prior to Fastly, Simon worked at Yahoo!, LiveJournal, SixApart, Scribd, and Zendesk.

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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