Sorrel Harriet
Sorrel is a learning specialist with 15+ years experience supporting learning across the education and technology sectors. She currently operates as a solo consultant, offering ‘Learning as a Service’ - a range of services aimed at enabling the continuous, systemic learning of individuals, teams and whole organisations.
At Conflux she helps to shape and enrich the learning experiences of our clients, advising on all aspects of learning design, from content creation to the way learning is delivered within our engagements. Sorrel is a firm believer that successful transformation hinges on a culture of continuous learning characterised by effective learning behaviours, including reflective practice, collaboration, experimentation and feedback.
Victoria Morgan-Smith
Victoria is an independent consultant with nearly 30 years' experience in the technology industry, 15 of which have been spent operating within organisational leadership. There, she has coached teams and senior leaders to effectively deliver outcomes within a culture of inclusion, collaboration, curiosity and generosity.
Himanshu Swaroop
Himanshu Swaroop is a transformation practitioner. He has more than 15 years of experience leading transformation within enterprise businesses. The impact of his work is based on behaviour and systems change across teams. For example platform teams visualising their work to continuously improve flow of work. Another example is product managers using customer usage data to make product decisions. Another example is product teams aligned on a common product strategy to help customer claims simpler. Other experiments he has used include improvements in team psychological safety; improvements in continuous discovery and continuous delivery.
His transformation outcomes have focussed on customer and employee journeys. These transformation efforts are dependent on the business context at these enterprises. The context is driven by - industry (e.g, pharmaceutical, financial services and telecommunications), size of business (e.g., revenue ranging from $400 million to $50 billion), system and team complexity (e.g, legacy systems, high acquisition activity, high degree of regulation and functional silos).
He is driven by 6 key values of continuous learning, integrity, impact, respect for individuals, bias for action and pride in work.
Thiago de Faria
Thiago is an independent consultant renowned for his data and AI/ML expertise. His empathetic, equitable approach is a hallmark of his leadership, having guided AWS teams and collaborated with startups and prominent names like ASML, KLM, and Nike. Thiago is at the vanguard of integrating fast flow and Team Topologies into data and AI/ML initiatives, emphasizing kindness and empathy in tech management.
His consultancy style blends wit, empathy, and a fair-minded approach, valuing each team's unique context and capabilities. Thiago's recent venture, the Lovelace Series, spotlights the challenges and triumphs of women in tech, addressing critical issues such as micro-aggressions and retention. A regular speaker at European conferences, he shares insights on the confluence of Data Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, DevOps, and Fast Flow, contributing to a more inclusive and forward-thinking tech landscape.
Sarah Wells
Sarah Wells is an experienced technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement and technology strategy. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.
Becky Thorn Sietsma
Becky Thorn Sietsma is an experienced consultant helping teams to align and evolve their organizations so together they can create impact at scale in an ever changing world.
Her consulting focus is business-tech alignment, and she champions the important three-way collaboration between: strategy - team design - tech architecture.