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Samuel Bottum
Samuel Bottum built a marketing career around a practical idea: a durable brand begins with the people who know the work. At Snap-on, that has meant linking product innovation, customer insight and technical education across one unusually varied career.
Maria Popo
Maria Popo is the president and CEO of SCTE, a subsidiary of CableLabs, and the first woman to hold the top job at the cable industry's standards and training body. A self-described lifelong learner who started as a customer service rep and trained at a trade school, she rose through technical and executive roles at 3M, 3Com, Ambit Microsystems, Foxconn and Ubee Interactive - where she helped bring the first generations of cable modems to market - before earning a master's in Learning Design and Technology at Stanford. She now runs SCTE's global network of 60-plus chapters, retooling how the broadband industry trains and certifies its workforce for the AI era.
Alex Xu & Sahn Lam
Alex Xu and Sahn Lam are the co-founders of ByteByteGo, the premier technical education platform for system design. Together they built a newsletter with 1M+ subscribers, a YouTube channel with 500K+ subscribers, a GitHub repo with 82K+ stars, and a bestselling book series used by engineers at every major tech company to crack system design interviews. Alex, a CMU grad and former engineer at Twitter, Apple, and Zynga, handles the newsletter, books, and social media. Sahn, a UC Berkeley EECS grad and 25-year veteran of NetApp, Zynga, Ubiquity6, and Discord, leads YouTube content creation. Together they've turned a niche interview-prep subject into a global movement.
Delba de Oliveira
Delba de Oliveira is a Staff Developer Advocate and DX Engineer at Vercel who built Next.js Docs and the Next.js Learn platform, teaching millions of developers about React and Next.js. She transitioned from medicine and customer service into engineering, famously entering tech when a colleague asked her to 'open a GitHub issue.' Known for her visually rich educational content, conference keynotes at Next.js Conf, and her hobby as a videographer, she combines technical depth with storytelling instinct - bridging complex concepts and accessible learning in the React ecosystem.