Speakers
Ben Adida
Ben Adida is a technologist with extensive experience in secure web architecture. His passion isautonomy, or how to empower individuals on the Internet with secure, private, irrevocable, and efficient access to their data. Specifically, Dr. Adida builds software related to secure and private personal health records, secure web applications, interoperable web-based structured data, and secure voting systems. He has developed extensive free software for close to 15 years. He is a technical advisor to Creative Commons and, in that capacity, chairs a W3C task force on bridging the semantic and clickable webs.
Chris Aniszczyk Red Hat
Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley) book. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are modularity, blogging, tooling and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss open source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.
Joe Athmann
Joe is a software developer for Travelers Insurance in St. Paul, MN where he supports Java web applications. He is very interested in dynamic languages with a particular focus on Ruby and JavaScript and his team was an early adopter of Ajax and dynamic web applications. Recently, Joe helped his team move from home grown JavaScript to Prototype, YUI, and Ext JS. Joe is currently attending the University of Minnesota in pursuit of a Masters in Software Engineering.
Adam Bien adam-bien.com
Consultant and author Adam Bien is an Expert Group member for the Java EE 6 / 7, EJB 3.X, JAX-RS and JPA 2.X JSRs. He has worked with Java technology since JDK 1.0 and with Servlets/EJB 1.0 and is now an architect and developer for Java SE and Java EE projects. He has edited several books about JavaFX, J2EE, and Java EE, and he is the author of Real World Java EE Patterns—Rethinking Best Practices and Real World Java EE Night Hacks. Adam is also a Java Champion and JavaOne 2009 Rock Star.
Sujoe Bose Sabre Inc
Sujoe Bose is currently working as an Applications Architect at Sabre Holdings. He has more than 14 years of Software Design and Development and Enterprise Systems Integration. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests spans across Algorithms, Databases, Programming Languages, Systems Design and Integration.
Ross Boucher 280 North
Ross Boucher is a co-founder of 280 North, which recently launched 280 Slides and will soon be open sourcing the new Cappuccino Framework and Objective-J programming language. Ross is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California and also worked at Apple as an engineer on the iTunes Store.
Ed Burns Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces, a topic on which Ed recently co-authored a book for McGraw Hill. Ed is an experienced international conference speaker, with consistently high attendence numbers and ratings at JavaOne, JAOO, W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and Java and Linux User Groups.
Brian Chan Liferay
Brian Chan, Liferay’s Chief Software Architect, began development on Liferay Portal in 2000 to provide nonprofit organizations with an open source solution to facilitate collaboration on the Internet. He has since steered Liferay to become a leader in innovative open source enterprise solutions. With a strong foundation in software architecture and economics, Brian has solidified open source as a low-cost, high performance solution for the enterprise. His expertise in portal architecture and design has garnered him a seat on the JSR-286 portlet specification committee.
Brian holds a dual B.S. degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago. He has become a sought after speaker at major industry events such as JAX (Asia and Europe) and Community One.
Doug Clarke Oracle
Doug Clarke is a Director of Product Management for Oracle Application Server's Java Persistence solutions and the co-lead of the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink). Doug has extensive enterprise development, consulting, and educational field experience in the areas of object-relational persistence, data access, and systems integration. He brings together concrete experiences from projects of various sizes and industries with a practical approach to design, testing, and performance tuning.
Session and Keynote Speaking experience includes:
* Java One and Sun Tech Days
* Oracle Open World and Oracle Developer Days
* The Server Side: Symposium and Java In Action
* JAOO
* Java Forum, Stuttgart
* JAX
* SpringOne
* Colorado Software Summit
* EclipseWorld
Jim Cook Infragistics
James (Jim) Cook is a seasoned professional with more than 20 years in the Java market. As the Java Product Manager at Infragistics, Jim manages and oversees all aspects of the company’s Java strategy and the NetAdvantage for JSF product. As part of his responsibilities, Jim also works with companies to help them employ JSF as part of their development infrastructure. Prior to joining Infragistics, Jim spent many years as a curriculum developer mastering technology and related tools to a degree not typical of most programmers for LearnQuest. He started his career with Chubb Institute as a Java programmer. Jim holds a BA in Business Administration and Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Douglas Crockford crockford.com
Douglas Crockford was born in the wilds of Minnesota, but left when he was only six months old because it was just too damn cold. He turned his back on a promising career in television when he discovered computers. He has worked in
learning systems, small business systems, office automation, games, interactive music, multimedia, location-based entertainment, social systems, and programming languages. He is the inventor of Tilton, the ugliest programming
language that was not specifically designed to be an ugly programming language. He is best known for having discovered that there are good parts in JavaScript. This was an important and unexpected discovery. He discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He is currently working on making the web a secure and reliable software delivery platform. He has his work cut out for him.
Scott Davis
Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project). Scott's books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work. Scott is the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information website that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. He also writes a regular column for IBM DeveloperWorks -- Mastering Grails. Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.
Linda DeMichiel Oracle
Linda DeMichiel is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle and is specification lead for the Java EE 7 Platform (JSR-342). She is also currently specification lead for Java Persistence 2.1 (JSR-338).
Linda has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, working primarily in the areas of database technologies and middleware, and has been a member of the Java EE architecture team since its inception at Sun. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and lives in the SF Bay area.
Sven Efftinge itemis AG
Sven Efftinge (itemis) works as consultant, coach and developer. He leads the itemis lab in Kiel which focuses on domain-specific modeling, generator development and Eclipse technologies. He is project lead of the Xtext framework at eclipse.org and the original architect of the Xpand language family (a.k.a. openArchitectureWare 4). Sven is also a speaker at software conferences, co-author of a book and writes articles for magazines.
John Fallows Kaazing
John Fallows is considered a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces. John is a co-founder of Kaazing, and in his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing's vision of creating the best real-time Web solution based on the Web standards. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development. Prior to co-founding Kaazing, John served as Architect for Brane Corporation, a startup company based in Redwood City, California. Before joining Brane, he was a Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation. During his last 5 years at Oracle, John focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate Ajax technologies. Originally from Northern Ireland, John received his MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than twelve years. John has written several articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, AjaxWorld Magazine, and JavaMagazine (DE), and is a popular speaker at international conferences. John is co-author of the best-selling book Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, (Apress).
Neal Ford ThoughtWorks
Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books "Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques", "JBuilder 3 Unleashed", and "Art of Java Web Development". Neal has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences.
Andy Frank
Andy Frank is a software engineer at Tridium in Richmond, VA. His focus is user interfaces on both the desktop and the web. Since Summer 2005, he has been co-authoring the Fan Programming Language
with his brother Brian. Fan was publicly unveiled April 2008. Andy
graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in Computer Engineering.
Peter Friese Zühlke Engineering GmbH
Peter Friese is a software engineer with 15+ years hands-on experience in software development, technical writing and public speaking. Peter works as a software engineering consultant at Zühlke Engineering. Having worked on a host of industry projects in diverse domains and being an active committer on a number of open source projects, he has in-depth knowledge in a broad range of technologies. His main areas of expertise are model-driven software development, cross-platform mobile development (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, and mobile web) and Eclipse tooling. Peter blogs at http://www.peterfriese.de and tweets at @peterfriese.
Brian Goetz Oracle
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for more than twenty years. Brian is the author of the very successful 'Java Concurrency in Practice', and has written over 75 articles on Java development. He is one of the primary members of the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities), and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups. Brian is Java Language Architect at Oracle.
Arun Gupta Oracle
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 its 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 a day. He has extensive world-wide speaking experience on multiple technologies.
Stuart Halloway Relevance, Inc.
Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a co-founder of Relevance, Inc. Stuart is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform and Rails for Java Developers. Stuart regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums, the Pragmatic Studio, RubyConf, and RailsConf.
Philippe Hanrigou ThoughtWorks
Philippe Hanrigou has over ten years of experience developing enterprise software and web applications. As a software engineer and ThoughtWorks consultant, he focuses on designing enterprise software — understanding what makes a good design and implementing practices that encourage it. For the last 2 years he has enthusiastically embraced Ruby and used it to deliver large enterprise systems.
Philippe is the author of Troubleshooting Ruby Processes, an Addison-Wesley Ruby Professional Series shortcut, that introduces key system diagnostic tools in the context of Ruby development. Philippe is also the principal developer and author of Selenium Grid, a tool that transparently distribute your web testing infrastructure so that you can run Selenium tests in parallel.
Philippe continually seeks ways to improve the state of the software craft and has found agile methodologies to be especially efficient and rewarding for developing enterprise software. He spends much of his time sharpening his expertise in this area and advocating agile methodologies.
Charles Jolley
Charles Jolley is the CEO of Sproutit and create of the SproutCore JavaScript framework. He has been developing desktop applications for over 10 years and created SproutCore two years ago to bring the desktop-like experience on the web, and has helped Fortune 500 companies develop applications with the new framework.
Khanderao Kand Oracle Corp.
Khanderao Kand is a Lead Architect for Oracle Fusion Middleware at Oracle Corp. He is involved in the development of various Integration SOA and BPM technologies including BPEL and ESB. He has been involved in the development of various industry standards like BPEL 2.0, SCA-Assembly, SCA-BPEL etc. In his two decades of Software Development experience, he played various roles like an Enterprise Architect of Peopletools, an architect in CRM and others. Being a code slinger, he plays around with various emerging tools and technologies. Occasionally he writes in technical magazines like Java Develoeprs Journal, Web Services Journal, SOA World etc.
Mike Keith Oracle Corp.
Mike Keith was a co-lead of the EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 specifications in addition to representing Oracle on the Java EE 5 specification expert group. He co-authored the premier JPA reference book called Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API and has over 15 years of teaching, research and development experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He currently works as an architect for Java persistence strategies at Oracle and represents Oracle on the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and Java EE 6 (JSR 316) expert groups. He is a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.
Elisa Kendall Sandpiper Software, Inc.
Ms. Kendall founded Sandpiper Software in October 1995 and has over 25 years professional experience in the design, development and deployment of enterprise information management systems for communications, high technology, and aerospace applications. She supports Sandpiper customers in large-scale, complex taxonomy, ontology and knowledge-based systems development, leads the ontology and policy-based application segment of the DARPA SAPIENT program, and provides information architecture and risk management support for several commercial and government programs, notably the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology.
At the Object Management Group (OMG), she is co-editor of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), co-chair of the Ontology PSIG, and participates in related standards activities. She is an active member of the W3C OWL and Semantic Web Deployment working groups, with a focus on software, ontology engineering, and user support. Ms. Kendall also participates in ISO metadata standards, including ISO 11179 (Metadata Registry), 19763 (Model Registration & Management), 24707 (Common Logic), and others through INCITS L8. She holds an MA in Linguistics from Stanford University and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA.
Mik Kersten Tasktop Technologies
Mik Kersten is the President and CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of Mylyn and member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and Board of Directors. While on the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tool support. He then created Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface during his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Mik likes building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Read Mik's blog at http://tasktop.com/blog
Jan Koehnlein itemis AG
Dr. Jan Köhnlein is working as software architect and consultant for itemis AG in Kiel (Germany). He has earned several years of experience in developing tools for model-driven software development, e.g.
Poseidon for UML and Apollo for Eclipse (both Gentleware AG). He is a committer for the Eclipse Modeling Project and openArchitectureWare.
Dierk König Canoo Engineering AG
Dierk König is Fellow at Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, where he manages the open-source project Canoo WebTest. He is a committer to the Groovy and Grails projects and the GPars project and writes and speaks about modern software development at international conferences. He is lead author of the "Groovy in Action" book.
Guillaume Laforge SpringSource
Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. He co-authored Manning's bestseller "Groovy in Action".
Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, Inc., the Groovy / Grails company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy and Grails, and providing professional services (expertise, consulting, support and training) around those technologies. In November 2008, SpringSource acquired G2One, as Groovy and Grails bring additional weapons to the SpringSource portfolio to fight the war on Enterprise Java complexity.
You can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, domain-specific languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework.
George Malamidis
George is a Lead Consultant and Technical Lead at ThoughtWorks. He has helped deliver critical applications in a variety of domains, from networking
to banking to Web 2.0. His current interests involve scalable architectures for the web, testing and distributed programming.
Ted Neward Neward & Associates
Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.
Michael Plöd Senacor Technologies AG
Michael works as a Principal Architect and Partner at Senacor Technologies, a company focussed on IT-Transformations. His experience in developing and designing distributed server-side Java applications dates back to 2000. Michael is specialized in persistence-related technologies such as O/R Mapping, databases and data access related frameworks. He is regularly publishing and speaking at conferences.
Phil Quitslund Instantiations
Phil Quitslund is an expert in object-oriented programming and is Senior Architect and Team Leader of the WindowTester Pro product team at Instantiations, Inc. (http://www.instantiations.com). Phil has extensive experience in developing Rich Client Platform (RCP) Developer tool products and a large web-service application development IDE, and has worked as a mentor on numerous commercial RCP projects, providing implementation, design and best practice mentoring. An active member of the Eclipse Developer Community for over five years, Phil is an industry and university speaker on Eclipse.
Stefan Reichert Lufthansa Systems
Stefan Reichert works as a software architect for Lufthansa Systems in Hamburg. He has numerous years of experience in developing distributed Java enterprise applications, service oriented architectures, Eclipse and Eclipse RCP. Stefan regularly writes articles for different magazines such as Eclipse Magazine and Java Magazine. He is also committer of several open source projects.
Alois Reitbauer dynaTrace Software
Alois Reitbauer works as a Sr. performance architect for dynaTrace Software. In his role as a member of the R&D department he influences the dynaTrace product strategy and works closely with key customers in implementing performance management solution for the entire application lifecylce. Alois Reitbauer has 10 years experience as architect and developer in the Java and .NET space.
Chris Richardson SpringSource
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and works on enterprise Java cloud technology at SpringSource. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.
Ian Roughley From Down & Around, Inc.
Ian Roughley is a speaker, author, and consultant. For more than 10 years he has been helping clients ranging in size from Fortune 10 companies to start-ups. Focused on a pragmatic and results-based approach, he is a proponent for open source, as well as process and quality improvements through agile development techniques. Ian is a Java editor for InfoQ.com community web site; contributor to the “No Fluff Just Stuff 2006 Anthology”, and author of “Starting Struts2” and “Practical Apache Struts 2 Web 2.0 Projects.” He is also a committer to the XWork and WebWork project; member of the Apache Struts project; and regularly speakers at conferences in the United States and abroad.
Frank Salim
Frank Salim is a polyglot programmer with a keen interest in making life easier for his fellow coders. Frank leads WebSocket development at Kaazing and is the front man for Kaazing’s open source project at kaazing.org . He is an open source advocate and a commiter in several open source projects. Frank is a regular author and contributor to the online tech magazine Comet Daily.
Nathaniel T. Schutta Speaker, Writer, Polyglott Programmer
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages.
Neville Roy Singham Thoughtworks
Neville Roy SinghamRoy Singham is founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks, Inc. With more than 20 years of technology and executive management experience, Roy is a globally-renowned information technology thought leader. He has authored technology-related columns in various industry publications, and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide. Roy and ThoughtWorks are recognized experts in Enterprise Architecture, Agile development, large scale software development including highly distributed teams, Open Source Software, Ruby, .NET and Web Services. During the last five years, Roy has provided management services to clients in the insurance, mortgage, energy, leasing, retail and software development industries. He has also directed multi-million dollar projects at clients including Caterpillar Financial Services, Dixons Group, Progressive Insurance and Transamerica. Roy's management style combines comprehensive study of emerging technologies, the ability to build highly motivated teams, strong personal determination and innovative flair. One of Roy's passions is evolving cultural and organisational patterns to create the most advanced internally and externally socially networked Consultancies in the industry. Roy studies and drives the innovative cultural changes that enable ThoughtWorks to remain the world's most influential company in the arena of bespoke business software development.
Ken Sipe Gradleware
Ken Sipe is the CTO of Gradleware, Inc. (gradleware.com). With the co-founders Hans Dockter and Adam Murdoch, Ken helps companies of all sizes adopt agile practices and automate their enterprise systems enabling faster time to market and higher quality.
Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.
Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.
Brian Sletten Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
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.
Shaun Smith Oracle
Shaun Smith is a product manager for Oracle TopLink and an active member of the Eclipse community. He's Ecosystem Development Lead for the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipeLink), a committer on the Eclipse EMFT Teneo, and co-lead of the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence Tools. Prior to joining the TopLink team at Oracle, Shaun was a consultant specializing in application architecture and an agile software development coach with a particular focus on developing enterprise applications using test-driven design. He’s a frequent conference presenter on the topic of object persistence.
Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
Clemens Utschig-Utschig Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Clemens works for Boehringer-Ingelheim's Global Business Services (GBS) as Chief Architect, helping to establish GBS' next gen' business architecture based on service orientation. Before joining BI he worked at the Oracle Headquarters in the United States as platform architect, working with the Fusion Applications development as advisor and supported customers all around the world on their journey towards implementing enterprise-wide SOA. During his platform engineering years, Clemens was responsible for cross product integration, strategic standards as well as a member to the Oracle's SOA platform steering committee, and served on the OASIS TC for Service Component Architecture (SCA).
In 2006 Clemens co-founded the "Masons-of-SOA", an inter-company network founded by architects of Oracle Germany, Opitz, SOPEra (Eclipse Project Swordfish founders) and EDS, with the mission of spreading knowledge, fostering discussion and supporting SOA programs across companies and borders. After 14 articles on advanced SOA topics in the german Java Magazin, a three patterns in Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns catalogue, they are currently working on "Next Generation SOA" - slated to release as part of the Service Oriented Computing Series of Prentice Hall for late 2010. Clemens is also a co-author of the SOA Manifesto.
Jason Weathersby Actuate
Jason Weathersby is the BIRT Evangelist at Actuate Corporation and a member of the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Project Management Committee (PMC). Jason has over 15 years experience in the software development field, ranging from real time process control to business intelligence software. At Actuate, Jason is currently responsible for educating the open source community on BIRT and encouraging its adoption.
David Wood Zepheira
David Wood is a software engineer and entrepreneur specializing in disruptive technologies. He is a Partner in Zepheira (http://zepheira.com/). David was previously entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Maryland's MIND Lab, and was co-founder and CTO of Tucana Technologies. He has been actively involved with the standardization of Semantic Web technologies at the World Wide Web Consortium. David has been a founding member of several Open Source Software projects, including the Kowari Metastore, the Mulgara Semantic Store and the recently re-architected Persistent URL service.
Alexander von Zitzewitz hello2morrow Inc.
Alexander v. Zitzewitz is one of the founders of hello2morrow and has more than 20 years of experience with object-oriented software development and software architecture in general. Currently he is leading the North American operations of hello2morrow.