Marcelo is an open-source developer who has made significant contributions to the FastAPI community. He maintains Starlette, a critical dependency of FastAPI, and Uvicorn, a high-performance web server that powers FastAPI applications. His invaluable contributions led to his hiring as a senior software engineer by Pydantic, a widely used library for data validation and serialization. Apart from software development, Marcelo enjoys fitness, soccer, photography, and dancing. He's a well-rounded individual who's always eager to learn and grow.

Jan-Hein is a software engineer who witnessed Python’s first baby steps up very close, and loves programming in Python since then. While he worked in different software development roles, he always kept an eye on its development. After he has founded a dedicated Python software unit within Ordina, the company he works for, he’s now back at the work that leaves him with a positive energy balance at the end of the day: programming in Python!

Marc-Andre is the CEO and founder of eGenix.com, a Python-focused project and consulting company based in Germany, specializing in the data, finance and database space. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Düsseldorf. His work with and for Python started in 1994. He is a Python Core Developer, designed and implemented the Unicode support in Python, and author of several open source libraries and tools (e.g. the mx Extensions mxDateTime and mxODBC). Marc-Andre is a EuroPython Society (EPS) Fellow, a Python Software Foundation (PSF) founding Fellow and co-founded a local Python meeting in Düsseldorf (PyDDF). He served on the board of the PSF and EPS for many years and loves to contribute to the growth of Python wherever he can.

Laís Carvalho is an active member of the Python community, being the first black female board member of Python Ireland, an organiser of the EuroPython Conference and HumbleData events, a non-profit organisation focused on mentoring underrepresented minorities on Python and Data Science. Lais is an experienced developer advocate and speaker who is passionate about leadership and volunteering. She now works as a Software Developer building monitoring tools at Workday Inc. Lais is excited about food, documentation, and communication. Her main core values are courage and kindness.

Dr. Jodie Burchell is the Developer Advocate in Data Science at JetBrains, and was previously a Lead Data Scientist at Verve Group Europe. She completed a PhD in clinical psychology and a postdoc in biostatistics, before leaving academia for a data science career. She has worked for 7 years as a data scientist in both Australia and Germany, developing a range of products including recommendation systems, analysis platforms, search engine improvements and audience profiling. She has held a broad range of responsibilities in her career, doing everything from data analytics to maintaining machine learning solutions in production. She is a long time content creator in data science, across conference and user group presentations, books, webinars, and posts on both her own and JetBrain's blogs.

Sebastiaan is a senior software engineer for the Ordina Pythoneers and a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of Python Discord and an organiser of EuroPython. Sebastiaan frequently speaks at conferences all around the world, including PyCon US, EuroPython, PyCon APAC, and various regional PyCons.