Keynote Speakers
Keynote 1: Dr Rosemary Francis
Entrepreneur, Engineer, and Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Dr Rosemary Francis is an entrepreneur and Computer Scientist. Following a PhD in Computer Architecture at the Computer Science department at Cambridge University she founded Ellexus, the I/O profiling company. Ellexus made software that monitored and profiled high performance applications on supercomputers. She ran Ellexus for ten years before selling the company to Altair where she took on the role of Chief Scientist for High Performance Computing. She is a member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, an educational charity that promotes access to technology education and digital making and a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering.
How energy is going to define the technology breakthroughs of tomorrow.
Keynote 2: Prof. Felienne Hermans
Professor, Researcher, and Educator in Computer Science Education
Felienne is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Lyceum Kralingen in the Codasium program. Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching.She is the author of “The Programmer’s Brain“, a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research. She also has a weekly column on BNR, a Dutch radio station.
