Meet the first three speakers for Leetspeak 2017

After nearly five months of intense work the Leetspeak speaker’s committee have looked over and searched for speakers for Leetspeak 2017. We have worked hard to make sure to select speakers of relevance for this year’s theme, Build for the Globe, but also to select speakers with diverse backgrounds and different views on technology.

We are now ready and proud to announce the first three speakers for Leetspeak 2017 in Stockholm. We would hereby like to present David Yahalomi, Jack Langworthy & Tess Ferrandez.

David Yahalomi is a GraphQL enthusiast and the organizer of the GraphQL TLV community. He is part of a group of freelancers called The Guild and a contributor to Apollo’s graphql-subscriptions project.

This year we will also have Jack Langworthy joining us. In 2009, Jack moved from his home in Los Angeles to a remote Tanzanian village to teach mathematics as a Peace Corps Volunteer. In the village he became obsessed with agriculture, as everyone farmed for a living and seemed stuck in a cycle of poverty. After reading Peter Thiel’s book Zero to One, Jack became convinced that software could innovate African agriculture at scale. Together with his colleague, Magnus Kerker, he built an online trading platform so remote farmers could access buyers outside of their villages and get their food to market at a better price: for consumers and farmers.

The third speaker for Leetspeak 2017 is Tess Ferrandez. Tess is a full stack developer on the Microsoft Platform. Over the course of her career she has done everything from soldering circuit boards, burning EEPROMs, debugging nasty hangs and crashes, to developing apps and working with UX. She is equally passionate about beautiful algorithms as she is about beautiful User Interfaces and awesome User Experiences.