Luca Versari
Speaker for “High performance code and the cost of safe code”
Luca Versari (he/him) obtained a Ph.D. degree with the University of Pisa, Italy. He is one of the main authors of the JPEG XL format. Other notable contributions are writing the fastest-known PNG and JXL lossless encoders, and contributing to an attempt to port Rust’s lifetime annotations to C++.