AMBASSADORS_MEMBERS.json

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    "name": "Quetzalli Writes",
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    "bio": "Quetzalli Writes is an author of the book titled 'Docs-as-Ecosystem', which was published by the Apress Publishing Company. Quetzalli has been in tech for 9 years, working with SEO, Paid Search, Full-Stack development, UX, Developer Relations, and Technical Writing (Engineering Documentation). She's currently a core OSS contributor for Docs, DevRel, and Community Building at AsyncAPI Initiative. She's also a member of the AsyncAPI Technical Steering Committee (TSC).",
    "title": "DevRel & DevDocs @AsyncAPI",
    "github": "quetzalliwrites",
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    "company": "Postman",
    "country": "🇲🇽",
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        "type": "presentation",
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        "type": "workshop",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "October"
        },
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        "type": "article",
        "title": "Change is coming to our AsyncAPI Developer Documentation",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "December"
        },
        "link": "https://www.asyncapi.com/blog/changes-coming-docs"
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        "type": "iniciative_driver",
        "title": "Driver and promoter of Google Season of Docs at AsyncAPI",
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          "year": 2022,
          "month": "December"
        },
        "link": "https://www.asyncapi.com/blog/google-season-of-docs-2022"
      }
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  {
    "name": "Daniel Kocot",
    "img": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/466609?v=4",
    "bio": "Daniel has been part of the codecentric team since October 2016. Since the beginning of 2022 he works as Senior Solution Architect at the Dortmund branch. Starting as a consultant with a focus on application lifecycle management, his focus shifted more and more towards APIs. In addition to numerous customer projects and his involvement in the open source world around APIs, our Head of API Experience & Operations is also a frequent speaker at conferences.",
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    "company": "Codecentric AG",
    "country": "🇩🇪",
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	"type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI - Documentation of event and message-driven architectures",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "September"
        },
        "link": "https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2021/09/asyncapi-documentation-event-message-driven-architectures/?hmsr=joyk.com&utm_source=joyk.com&utm_medium=referral"
      },
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       	"type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI specification updates",
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          "year": 2022,
          "month": "February"
        },
       	"link": "https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2022/02/asyncapi-version-2-3-0-specification-updates/"
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
       	"title": "AsyncAPI 101",
        "date": {
          "year": 2022,
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	},
        "link": "https://www.buildingiot.de/veranstaltung-13856-0-asyncapi-101.html"
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        "type": "presentation",
       	"title": "Adopting AsyncAPI in Enterprisey Contexts, AsyncAPI Conference",
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          "year": 2022,
          "month": "November"
       	},
       	"link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wTcV63jrnU"
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  {
    "name": "Giri Venkatesan",
    "github": "gvensan",
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    "country": "🇮🇳",
    "bio": "Giri Venkatesan, a follower and proponent of AsyncAPI and teams up with companies & SIs to design event-driven architecture and asynchronous APIs. To guide those discussions, I draw upon years of integration and implementation experience, particularly with Solace platforms. I've been a follower of AsyncAPI since 2022, and written blogs and delivered talks at conferences and AsyncAPI confrence tours.",
    "linkedin": "girivenkatesan",
    "company": "Solace",
    "title": "Developer Advocate, Office of the CTO at Solace",
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    "contributions": [
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        "type": "article",
        "title": "Bridging Design and Runtime Gaps: AsyncAPI in Event-Driven Architecture",
        "date": {
          "year": 2024,
          "month": "February"
        },
        "link": "https://www.linux.com/news/bridging-design-and-runtime-gaps-asyncapi-in-event-driven-architecture/"
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Bridging the Gap between Design and Runtime in EDA with AsyncAPI and CI/CD",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "November"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXt-fy82PCk"
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Bridging the Gap between Design and Runtime in EDA with AsyncAPI",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "August"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpADLeLNE4"
      },
      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI + Spring Cloud Stream = Event-Driven Microservices Made Easy",
        "date": {
          "year": 2021,
          "month": "November"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EeMHhbwyOQ&t=4142s"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Hugo Guerrero",
    "img": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1001939?v=4",
    "bio": "Hugo Guerrero is a developer advocate for APIs and Event-driven Architecture. He assists organizations in this role by creating, editing, and curating product content shared with the community through webinars, conferences, and other activities. He works on open source software with major private and federal public sector clients looking to connect and extend their system architecture. He has over 20 years of experience as a developer, consultant, architect, and software development manager.",
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    "title": "Chief Software Architect @Red Hat",
    "linkedin": "hugo-guerrero",
    "company": "Red Hat",
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Speed-Up Kafka Delivery with AsyncAPI & Microcks",
        "date": {
          "year": 2021,
          "month": "July"
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Automated Apache Kafka Mocking and Testing with AsyncAPI",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "September"
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Event-driven APIs & Schema governance for Apache Kafka, Apidays LIVE Hong Kong",
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          "month": "August"
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Event-driven APIs & Schema governance for Apache Kafka, API Specification Conference",
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          "month": "August"
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Getting started with Event-Driven APIs, Apidays LIVE Paris",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "December"
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        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kIE-qtpwTA&t=9s"
      }
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  {
    "name": "Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja",
    "github": "ivangsa",
    "twitter": "ivangsa",
    "bio": "Java Architect with a deep understanding of Java, Spring-Boot, Spring-Cloud technologies, specializing in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event-Driven Architectures creating Software Easy to Understand. Building ZenWave 360º. ZenWave 360º is a set of tools built on the foundations of Domain Driven Design and API-First principles for Event-Driven Architectures, to help you create software easy to understand. https://www.zenwave360.io/",
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    "company": "IZERTIS",
    "title": "Java Architect. Speaker. Building ZenWave 360°.",  
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        "type": "iniciative_driver",
        "title": "AsyncAPI Conference On Tour 2023 - Madrid",
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          "month": "October"
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        "type": "iniciative_driver",
        "title": "ZenWave SDK - Code Generator for AsyncAPI with Spring Cloud Streams",
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          "year": 2024,
          "month": "2022"
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "API-First with AsyncAPI",
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          "year": 2023,
          "month": "March"
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        "link": "https://www.zenwave360.io/posts/API-First-with-AsyncAPI-And-ZenWave-SDK/"
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "ZenWave AsyncAPI Code Generator",
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          "year": 2023,
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "Generating AsyncAPI definition files from JDL with ZenWaveSDK",
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          "year": 2023,
          "month": "April"
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "KIT - API-First with AsyncAPI for Event Driven Architectures",
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          "month": "May"
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        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWFZfmspFM"
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Practical Event Storming with AsyncAPI v3 and ZenWave SDK",
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          "year": 2023,
          "month": "October"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHONzz-a6U"
      },
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Code Generation For Enterprise Integration Patterns w/ AsyncAPI & ZenWave SDK",
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          "month": "October"
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        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsoD8RaCuw"
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  {
    "name": "Ludovic Dussart",
    "github": "M3lkior",
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    "bio": "Ludovic is a Solutions Architect, working with his customers to build EDA-oriented digital products wherever possible. His first contributions to AsyncAPI date back to 2020 around the kafka and avro specifications. Since then, Ludovic has been spreading the word about AsyncAPI to companies in Northern France, to accelerate adoption of the initiative.",
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    "title": "Solutions Architect / DevRel",
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "From specification to production, how to provide a living doc of your asynchronous exchanges?",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "November"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhRbvrf6Rs"
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "AsyncApi Conference 2021 - Panel discussion",
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          "year": 2021,
          "month": "November"
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        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture - Meetup Ineat",
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          "year": 2022,
          "month": "January"
        },
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      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at AXA",
        "date": {
          "year": 2022,
          "month": "March"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at NoConsulting",
        "date": {
          "year": 2022,
          "month": "March"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Adeo",
        "date": {
          "year": 2022,
          "month": "April"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Decathlon",
        "date": {
          "year": 2022,
          "month": "April"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Sfeir Lille",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "January"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI - Adeo case study",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023
        },
        "link": "https://www.asyncapi.com/casestudies/adeogroup"
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Building the future of Event-Driven Architecture at Sfeir Paris",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "March"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Standardisez votre monde d'événements en documentant vos EDA avec AsyncAPI ! - Cloud Nord 2023",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "October"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMmQVppV6s"
      },
      {
        "type": "special contribution",
        "title": "Stay at API Days AsyncAPI Booth to share with attendees.",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "December"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Quoi de neuf dans AsyncAPI v3 ? Découvrez le en live avec la migration du use-case Adeo",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "December"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCK9_ZDv6K4"
      }
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  {
    "name": "Mete Atamel",
    "github": "meteatamel",
    "twitter": "meteatamel",
    "country": "🇬🇧",
    "bio": "Mete is a Software Engineer and a Developer Advocate with 18+ years of experience. Currently, he works in the Developer Relations team at Google in London. He builds tools, demos, tutorials, and gives talks to educate and help developers to be successful on Google Cloud. As a regular speaker at tech conferences, he has spoken over 345+ events since 2016 on modern application development topics such as Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, serverless, event-driven architectures, and microservice orchestration. Prior to his current role, he was a Software Engineer/Architect/Tech Lead at Nokia, EMC, Adobe, Skype, and Microsoft building various client and server technologies, resulting in multiple patents.",
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    "company": "Google",
    "title": "Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at Google",
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    "contributions": [
      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI Basics",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "May"
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        "link": "https://medium.com/google-cloud/asyncapi-basics-6e6394c9587"
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI Tools",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "May"
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        "link": "https://medium.com/google-cloud/asyncapi-tools-dd59f9236b20"
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "Understanding AsyncAPI’s publish & subscribe semantics with an example",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "May"
        },
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "CloudEvents + AsyncAPI",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "May"
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        "link": "https://medium.com/google-cloud/cloudevents-asyncapi-fa8ef63f28e0"
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      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "Google Cloud Pub/Sub + AsyncAPI",
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          "year": 2023,
          "month": "May"
        },
        "link": "https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-pub-sub-asyncapi-6ea3c1ed3c49"
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "Open standards for building event-driven applications in the cloud",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "June"
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        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Igp4DhK_hE"
      }
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  {
    "name": "Raphael De Lio",
    "github": "raphaeldelio",
    "twitter": "raphaeldelio",
    "linkedin": "raphaeldelio",
    "country": "🇧🇷",
    "bio": "Raphael De Lio is a passionate software engineer who loves to think about solutions and ways to improve anything he touches. He was born in Brazil, lived in Portugal for five years, and now works as a consultant in the Netherlands. In his quest for knowledge, Raphael has always valued learning and sharing insights with others. This pursuit not only led him to Xebia, a place where he found a community of engineers who share his enthusiasm for technology and continuous improvement but also to becoming the co-organizer of the Amsterdam Kotlin MeetUp, where he has been able to enable other speakers to share their knowledge as well.",
    "company": "Xebia",
    "title": "Software Consultant at Xebia",
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    "contributions": [
      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI — A standard specification for documenting Event-Driven Applications",
        "date": {
          "year": 2024,
          "month": "February"
        },
        "link": "https://medium.com/@raphaeldelio/asyncapi-a-standard-for-documenting-event-driven-applications-8ff657119036"
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      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "AsyncAPI & Springwolf - Automated documentation (and more)",
        "date": {
          "year": 2024,
          "month": "May"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DylvTW_ia4Y"
      }
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  {
    "name": "Hari Krishnan",
    "github": "harikrishnan83",
    "twitter": "harikrishnan83",
    "linkedin": "harikrishnan83",
    "country": "🇮🇳",
    "bio": "Co-creator of Specmatic and Perfiz. I also advise organizations, both large and small, on their transformation journey. Apart from bringing ideas to life as working software products, I coach developers, project managers, product owners, and engineering leaders. I have spoken at several conferences, including AACoT 2023, API Specification Conference (#ASC2022), API World, SeleniumConf, Agile2021, Agile India, TestingUY 2021, SREConf, PyCon Singapore, RubyConf India. My areas of interest include distributed systems, concurrency, high-performance application architecture, coaching, and training.",
    "company": "Specmatic and Polarizer Technologies",
    "title": "Co-founder and CTO at Specmatic, Founder, and CEO at Polarizer Technologies",
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    "contributions": [
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Kafka and JMS Mocking with AsyncAPI",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "November"
        },
        "link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yRf75p_kTU"
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Unshackling Your System Under Test: Shift-Left Testing Through Dependency Isolation (Kafka Mocks with AsyncAPI specification)",
        "date": {
          "year": 2024,
          "month": "June"
        },
        "link": "https://confengine.com/conferences/selenium-conf-2024/proposal/20021/unshackling-your-system-under-test-shift-left-testing-through-dependency-isolation"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Manuel Ottlik",
    "github": "manuelottlik",
    "twitter": "",
    "linkedin": "manuelottlik",
    "country": "🇩🇪",
    "bio": "Manuel is the Product Owner of the Global Integration Platform at HDI Global SE. He sold his first software at the age of thirteen and has been developing software ever since. After graduating, he joined the financial industry in API management and eventually moved to HDI Global SE to merge a service bus, API management and an event broker into an integration platform for the cloud division. In addition to his work at HDI Global SE, he is co-founder of a small company in the education software sector and freelance writer for heise.de and its magazines.",
    "company": "HDI Global SE",
    "title": "Product Owner Integration Platform & PBAC Platform",
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      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Event-Driven Architecture und REST-APIs: Es gibt keine Konkurrenz!",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "April"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Event-driven Architecture and REST-APIs: It's not a competition",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "May"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Event-driven Architecture and REST-APIs: It's not a competition",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "September"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Event-Driven Architecture und REST-APIs: Es gibt keine Konkurrenz!",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "October"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Event-driven Architecture and REST-APIs: It's not a competition",
        "date": {
          "year": 2023,
          "month": "December"
        },
        "link": "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KN-iuw0P4nOYNhnT15RQvgq5YqGy4ECC/view?usp=sharing"
      },
      {
        "type": "talk",
        "title": "Eine Registry, sie alle zu knechten: Schemata von Entitäten mit xRegistry für alle Integrationsprodukte zentralisieren",
        "date": {
          "year": 2024,
          "month": "April"
        },
        "link": ""
      },
      {
        "type": "article",
        "title": "AsyncAPI - HDI Global SE Case Study",
        "date": {
          "year": 2024,
          "month": "July"
        },
        "link": "https://www.asyncapi.com/casestudies/hdiglobal"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Lorna Mitchell",
    "bio": "Lorna is based in Yorkshire, UK; she is a technology leader and expert in developer experience, passionate about enhancing APIs and developer tools. In her day job as VP of Developer Experience at Redocly, she works on API and documentation tools for technical teams. Lorna is a published author and a regular speaker at conferences, sharing her insights on a variety of tech-related topics. Lorna serves on the OpenUK board, is on the Technical Steering Committee for OpenAPI specification, and maintains open source projects. To learn more about Lorna's activities, visit her website at https://lornajane.net.",
    "title": "APIs and Open Source",
    "img": "https://lornajane.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/IMG_9410-smaller.jpg",
    "github": "lornajane",
    "twitter": "lornajane",
    "linkedin": "lornajane",
    "company": "Redocly",
    "country": "UK",
    "contributions": [
      {
        "type": "presentation",
        "title": "API Governance for AsyncAPI",
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