Dave Dame is the Director of Accessibility at Microsoft. He is passionate about designing and developing hardware and software for users of all abilities and has extensive experience in design thinking, product management, and agile delivery. Dave is a champion for accessibility (a11y) and builds high-performing teams fostering cognitive diversity and inclusion. He’s led a number of large-scale agile transformations and specializes in creating a workforce that is engaged in what and how they are driving long-term sustainability and efficiency of releasing software.

Alicia Jarvis is a diversity, equity & Inclusion researcher and strategist. She is a creative force for change and thought-leader, offering a positive perspective and innovative solutions to complex problems relating to universal usability. By day, you’ll find Alicia enabling and empowering teams at Scotia Digital. She solves problems at the intersection where business goals, human needs, & technology meet. Alicia is IAAP certified in Accessibility Core Competencies and also a Certified Scrum Master.

Jimmy Judd is a passionate, full-stack software engineer with decades of experience. He is always up for a new challenge, most recently learning more about DevOps practices and tooling including Spinnaker, Kubernetes, etc. In addition to being an accomplished developer, Jimmy is a generous teammate who spends a great deal of his time mentoring junior devs, and driving partnerships across teams. In his spare time, Jimmy enjoys drinking a lot of coffee, reading about physics, and trying out new restaurants around the Seattle area.

Alexandre Freire specializes in building awesome teams, teaching modern agile software engineering as a developer, agile coach, manager, and executive. Working with companies like Locaweb, GE, HP, GM, IBM, Ford, Yahoo, and Netflix, he’s improved the team’s performance and business outcomes. Recently he helped Nubank, the largest fintech in the world outside Asia, scale from 100 to 1000 engineers as Sr. Director of Engineering. He also led their Diversity and Inclusion working group, helping the company attract, hire and include people from underrepresented populations.