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October 15–17, 2025

Berlin

November 3–4, 2025

London

June 2–3, 2026

Brian Pontarelli

FusionAuth founder.

Brian Pontarelli is a technology entrepreneur currently solving login, registration, and user management challenges with FusionAuth. Brian started programming at the age of 8 and studied Computer Engineering at CU Boulder. During his early career, Brian worked as a software engineer at companies such as BEA and Orbitz. He started working on his own products nights and weekends and quit his day job after selling to a few large companies. He bootstrapped the company for 16 years before selling a majority share to Updata Partners. Brian still codes, but spends most of his time focusing on growing FusionAuth and helping customers solve their auth problems.

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