Speakers
We're gathering project and spec leads, go-to bloggers, best-selling authors and industry insiders for 3 days of information sharing. Here are the first 23 experts confirmed to present:
Meet the Experts:
Bill Bain, Founder & CEO, ScaleOut Software
Presenting: Using Java Parallel Method Invocation to Accelerate Data Analysis on a Distributed Data Grid
Bill Bain founded ScaleOut Software in 2003. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Bill founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. In the most recent company, he developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system. Bill holds several patents in computer architecture and distributed computing.
Robert Brewin, CTO and Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Presenting a Keynote: Topic: The Future of Enterprise Java
Robert Brewin is a Sun Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Software at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities include technical leadership for developer products and application platforms, including the Java platform, mobility, enterprise software and business integration products. His key areas of responsibility include Sun's expanding role in the development of Web 2.0 technologies, improving the developer experience, and alignment and integration of Sun platforms, technologies and tools.
Bob brings his extensive customer and developer-focused experience to bear as prior to taking on this new role, he was the chief architect for Sun's developer tools portfolio, where he was a principal driver behind a number of key initiatives and projects. These included strategic enhancements to the award-winning NetBeans IDE, architectural changes and alignment of the Studio family of tools and add-ons with NetBeans and as the visionary behind the design, creation and delivery of the revolutionary Java Studio Creator product.
David Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technologist for SOA, Oracle Corporation
Presenting a Keynote:
Topic: Moving Forward with SOA
David Chappell is Vice President and Chief Technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As author of the O’Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, he has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. Dave has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. His experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.
Eugene Ciurana, Consultant
Presenting: Mission Critical Enterprise/Cloud Applications Case Study
Eugene Ciurana is a consultant who specializes in designing and deploying scalable, high availability systems. As Director of Systems Infrastructure at LeapFrog Enterprises, the largest educational toy company in the United States, he and his team deployed a world-class 100% SOA system that handles millions of daily operations from the LearningPath and Connected Products educational systems. He is currently CTO of CIME Software Labs and a contributing editor to TheServerSide.com.
Jeremy Deane,
Technical Architect, Collaborative Consulting
Presenting: Resource-Oriented Enterprise Service Bus
Jeremy Deane is a Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting and has over 14 years of software engineering experience in leadership positions. His areas of expertise include Enterprise Integration Architecture, Web Application Architecture, and Software Process Improvement. In addition, he is an accomplished speaker and technical author.
David Geary, Author, Graphic Java Swing, Core JSF and more
Presenting: GWT fu: Going places with the Google Web Toolkit and Streamline Web Application Development with JSF2.0
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF), and Google Web Toolkit (GWT). A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David served on the JSTL, JSF 1.0, and JSF 2.0 Expert Groups at Sun, and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He was the second Struts committer and invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments.
Ryan Heaton, Lead Developer, Enunciate, OAuth and OFX4J
Presenting: Practical Web Service Design and Development
Ryan Heaton is a senior software engineer at FamilySearch.org where he is responsible for the design and development of Web service APIs. Ryan is the lead developer of a number of open source Web service projects, including Enunciate, OAuth for Spring Security, and OFX4J.
Eben Hewitt, Author, Java SOA Cookbook
Presenting: Creating an Event Driven SOA
Eben Hewitt is the author of five technical books, including O’Reilly’s Java SOA Cookbook, and a contributor to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. He has spoken on SOA at conferences such as JavaOne and was an invited speaker to the Business Technology Summit in Bangalore. He has been interviewed on SOA by InfoQ, is a TOGAF 8 Certified Architect, a certified Scum Master, and holds several Java certifications.
Hewitt is a software architect at a multi-billion dollar retail company, where he is charged with driving their SOA initiative and architecting large-scale, event-driven applications.
Nikita Ivanov, Founder, GridGain
Presenting: Cloud Computing with Scala and GridGain
Nikita Ivanov has almost 20 years of experience in software development with last 10 years spent developing grid computing and distributed middleware software. In 2005, Nikita founded the GridGain project that has become one of the most rapidly growing Java-based cloud and grid computing software. He is an active member of Java middleware community and is a contributor to Java specifications as a member of JSR-107.
Rod Johnson, Creator, Spring; Author, J2EE Without EJB and more
Presenting on Spring 3.0
Rod Johnson 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 is the founder of the Spring Framework, which began from code published with Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. He continues to lead the development of Spring with Juergen Hueller.
Max Katz, Author, Practical RichFaces
Presenting: Rich Enterprise Applications with JavaFX and
Ajax Applications with RichFaces and JSF 2.0
Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel where he leads their RIA strategy. He is a recognized subject matter expert in the JSF developer community. Max has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past four years, presented at many conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related topics, including Practical RichFaces.
Heath Kesler, Open Source Software Evangelist
Presenting:
Mix it Up in the Cloud: ServiceMix Solution for SaaS
Heath Kesler is an open source software evangelist, developer and architect; he has created Java architectures for large scalable, high transaction load systems for such companies as Health Language, LeapFrog Enterprises, AT&T, Timera, and IBM. Heath has been a team lead in many project recovery implementations and was recently involved with the implementation of the customer account creation and third-party integration of mission-critical systems for the largest educational products provider in the United States.
Joonas Lehtinen, Founder, IT Mill; Core Developer, Vaadin
Presenting: Vaadin - Rich Web Applications in Server-side Java without Plug-ins or JavaScript
Joonas Lehtinen has a PhD in computer science and is one of the core developers of Vaadin, a Java-based framework for building business-oriented Rich Internet Applications. Joonas has been developing applications for the web since 1995 with a strong focus on Ajax and Java. He is the founder and CEO of ITMill, the company behind the Vaadin framework.
Josh Long,
Co-Author, Spring Enterprise Recipes and Spring Web Recipes
Presenting: Getting Started with jBPM4 and Spring and Getting Started with Spring Integration
Josh Long is an enterprise architect, consultant, and author. When he's not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He is a co-author of Spring Enterprise Recipes and Spring Web Recipes from Apress.
Ted Neward, Author, Effective Enterprise Java and more
Presenting on Languages
Ted Neward is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, a worldwide consultancy, and specializes 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, back-end enterprise software systems, languages, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Effective Enterprise Java, F# In a Nutshell, Language-Oriented Programming in .NET, C# In a Nutshell, SSCLI Essentials, Server-Based Java Programming, and a contributor to several technology journals.
Jesper Pedersen, Lead Developer, JBoss Tattletale project
Presenting: Software Quality: The Quest for the Holy Grail?
Jesper Pedersen works as a Principal Software Engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is the lead for the JBoss Tattletale project which focuses on software quality. Jesper received his MS in computer science from University of Southern Denmark.
Kirk Pepperdine, Java Performance Tuning Expert
Presenting: Just Tune It and Hunting Memory Leaks
Kirk Pepperdine is a recognized expert in Java Performance Tuning, Sun Java Champion, international speaker, trainer and co-contributor to the successful Java Performance Tuning Newsletter. Kirk has more than 10 years of experience in OO technologies. In addition to his work in the area of performance tuning, Kirk has focused on building middleware for distributed applications.
William Martinez Pomares, R&D Manager and Architect, Avantica Technologies
Presenting:
Testing Scripts and DSLs: A Practical Use of JSR-223
William Martinez Pomares is an architect and Research and Development director from Avantica Technologies where he works with several clients on high-end evaluations, white papers and state-of-the-art SOA technologies. He is a REST evangelist and is currently writing a book on the subject. Previously, William founded the ACM Sistemas company, a development and consulting company. He also co-founded the Costa Rican Computing Academy (Academia Costarricense de Computación).
Reza Rahman, Author, EJB 3 in Action; Member, Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups
Presenting: Java EE 6 Overview and Using EJB3 on Tomcat
Reza Rahman is an independent consultant currently focused on the Resin EJB 3.1 Lite/Java EE 6 Web Profile implementation. He is the author of EJB 3 in Action and a member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups. Reza is a frequent speaker at seminars, conferences and Java user groups as well as an avid contributor to TheServerSide.com.
Matt Raible,
UI Consultant, Open Source Web Frameworks
Presenting: The Future of Web Frameworks
Matt Raible is a consultant specializing in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. He is the author of Spring Live and Pro JSP, Third Edition, and an active Java open-source contributor and blogger on http://raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project.
Chris Richardson, Head of Cloud Development, SpringSource
Presenting: Running Java and Grails Applications on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and
Developing with Amazon WS – Highly Scalable Services that are Someone Else’s Headache to Maintain and Develop
Chris Richardson is Head of Cloud Development at SpringSource. He was previously CEO and Founder of Cloud Foundry, which SpringSource acquired in August 2009. Cloud Foundry is built on the innovative open-source Cloud Tools project and extends SpringSource’s solutions for building, deploying and managing Java applications to take full advantage of the power of elastic cloud computing.
Chris is a developer and architect with more than 20 years of experience and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. He has been a technical leader at Insignia, BEA, and elsewhere and recently was nominated a Sun Java Champion.
Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago, Inc.
Presenting: A Practical Guide to DSLs for the Java Developer
Jesus Rodriguez is the Chief Architect of Tellago, Inc. He's also a Microsoft MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. Jesus is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities and an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include several articles for various publications including MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal.
James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe
Presenting: Highly Interactive Software with Java and Flex
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR-286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains, he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early ’90s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid ’90s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late ’90s. Today James primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends.
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