Lucas is the team lead of the web team at komoot, an app to explore the great outdoors by hiking or cycling. He is working on web development and architecture on the front and back end for almost 20 years now. He programs in Ruby, JavaScript and Go – with Rails being his go-to framework for web applications since 2006.

Tom is a Business Architect at Ørn Software where he is building the bridge between business strategy and development. 

Tom was an early adopter and advocate of Rails, specialising in it since 2006. During his spare time he enjoys travelling, reading and music. One of his adventures led him to Argentina Buenos Aires where he spent a decade, pioneering in remote working and living life as a digital nomad before the term was even coined. There he was the founder of the first Rails conference in the Southern Cone, Locos por Rails 2009. When he is not working on some project he spends his time with his wife and two kids.

The "one and only" Obie Fernandez is an avid writer and technology enthusiast, in addition to achieving worldwide success as an electronic music producer and touring DJ. He is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of AI platform Olympia, and also Partner and Chief Consultant at MagmaLabs, a powerhouse Ruby on Rails consultancy.

Obie has been CTO and co-founder of many startups including Mark Zuckerberg's beloved Andela and Trevor Owen's Lean Startup Machine. His published books include the acclaimed business title The Lean Enterprise. He also founded one of the world's best known Ruby on Rails web design and development agencies, Hashrocket and is author of the bible of Rails development, The Rails Way and series editor for Addison-Wesley's Professional Ruby Series.

On the rare occasion when Obie is not busy building products, consulting clients or writing books, you can find him behind the lens of his camera or DJing in the dust at Burning Man.

Follow @obie on Twitter or email him at obiefernandez@gmail.com