Advisory Board

Programme Chair

Sebastian Meyen S&S Media

Sebastian is Chief Content Officer at S&S Media. He has actively been involved with the IT industry for more than 10 years. As a journalist he is constantly in touch with thought leaders in software development and architecture. He is editor in chief of the German speaking Java Magazin and program chair of the JAX conferences since 2001. Prior to joining S&S Media, he studied philosophy and anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.

 

Claudia Fröhling S&S Media | Editor JAX Conferences

After studying Multimedia Producing at SAE and Political Science at University of Eichstätt, Claudia worked in several editorial departments as TV and Online editor. In 2008 she joined Software & Support Media and since then manages all Java related projects, including Java Magazin, JAXmag, JAX conference and JAXenter.de.

Track Chairs

Arun Gupta Oracle | Track Chair: Java EE

Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in software industry working in various distributed computing technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE, GlassFish, and related technologies. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since it's inception and since then he has contributed to all Java EE releases. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta. This blog has over 1000 blog entries with frequent vistors from all over the world reaching upto 25,000 hits/day. He has extensive world-wide speaking experience on multiple technologies.

Tobias Kunze-Briseno Red Hat | Track Chair: Cloud Computing Day

As co-founder and former CTO of Makara, Tobias is now driving the technical vision behind Red Hat’s PaaS strategy with his continuing passion for cloud, web development, and high-performance computing. Prior to co-founding Makara, Tobias ran development and operations for Lycos’ price comparison franchise, serving many tier-1 clients such as AOL, Yahoo!, and T-Online. Before that, he served in lead technical roles at many innovative web and media companies.

 

Rod Johnson SpringSource | Track Chair: Spring

Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker. Rod has extensive experience as a consultant in a wide range of industries: principally, finance, media and insurance. He has specialized in server-side Java development since 1996. Prior to that, he worked mainly in C and C++. His experience as a consultant has led him to see problems from a client's perspective as well as a technology perspective, and has driven his influential criticism of bloated, inefficient, orthodox approaches to J2EE architecture, which have delivered very poor results for stakeholders. Rod is the founder of the Spring Framework, which began from code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Along with Juergen Hoeller, he continues to lead the development of Spring. He regularly speaks at conferences in the US, Europe and Asia, including the ServerSide Symposium (2003, 2004 and 2005), JavaPolis (Europe's leading Java conference), and JAOO (2004). Engagements in 2005 include two presentations at JavaOne 2005 and a keynote at the JavaWorld 2005 conference (Tokyo, June). Rod serves in the JCP on the Expert Groups defining the Servlet 2.4 and JDO 2.0 specifications. Rod continues to be actively involved in client projects at Interface21, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.

Brian Sletten Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. | Track Chair: Web Architecture

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies such as network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and lives in Los Angeles, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.

Kito Mann JSFCentral | Track Chair: JSF Summit

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.