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 30 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, a company that specializes in distributed data grids for the enterprise. Bill has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. He founded and ran three start-up companies prior to joining Microsoft. He holds several patents in computer architecture and distributed computing.
David Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technologist for SOA, Oracle Corporation
Presenting a Keynote:
The Grid, The Cloud, & The Bus
David Chappell 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, Author, Developing with Google App Engine
Presenting: Mission-Critical Enterprise/Cloud Applications Case Study, JRuby for Mission-Critical Applications Case Study
Moderator:
Integration Platform Panel
Eugene Ciurana is a consultant who specializes in designing and deploying scalable, high availability systems. For the past 18 months, he’s architected and deployed mission-critical applications to cloud providers for both large enterprises and sparky startup companies. Eugene is the author of Developing with Google App Engine.
In his previous role as Director of Systems Infrastructure at LeapFrog Enterprises, the largest educational toy company in the United States, his team deployed a world-class 100% SOA system that handles millions of daily operations from the LearningPath and Connected Products educational systems. Eugene is currently CTO of CIME Software Labs and a contributing editor to TheServerSide.com.
Scott Davis, Author, Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and more
Presenting: Tomorrow's Tech Today: HTML 5 and Hidden Web Services: Microformats and the Semantic Web
Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is the editor-in-chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information website that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. 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 heads up the Boulder Java User Group in Boulder, Colorado.
Jeremy Deane,
Technical Architect, Collaborative Consulting
Presenting: Resource-Oriented Enterprise Service Bus
Jeremy Deane 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 frequent contributor to the SOA Institute.
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’s books on Java component frameworks have become industry standards. 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. He also wrote Google Web Toolkit Solutions.
David 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:
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.
Jeff Genender, Java Open Source Consultant
Presenting: ESB, OSGi, and the Cloud: Making Rain With ServiceMix 4, Getting into Open Source - Everything You Wanted to Know About Open Source that Nobody Told You
Panelist: Integration Platform Panel
Jeff Genender is a Java Champion and Java Open Source consultant specializing in SOA and enterprise service implementations. He is the author of Professional Apache Tomcat 6, Professional Apache Geronimo, and Enterprise Java Servlets as well as an Apache member and committer on several open source projects including ServiceMix, CXF, Geronimo, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, Mina, and Open Terracotta. Jeff serves on the JSR-316 Java EE6 expert group committee.
James Gosling, CTO of Oracle’s (formerly Sun) Client Software Group
Presenting a Keynote: Java Today and Tomorrow
With everyone buzzing about the just-finalized acquisition of Sun by Oracle and what affect it will have on the industry as a whole, we thought what better way to get an inside perspective than by inviting the “father” of Java programming himself, James Gosling, who will deliver our Day 1 Keynote Address appropriately titled, “Java Today and Tomorrow.”
And while most likely everyone knows James Gosling by recognition alone, his official bio includes having received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary followed by a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Best known for the original design of the Java programming language and the implementation of its original compiler and virtual machine, he has also contributed to the Real-Time Specification for Java and was an original researcher at Sun labs where his primary interest was software development tools, prior to becoming Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Developer Products Group and most recently CTO of Sun's Client Software Group when Oracle finalized their acquisition of Sun on January 27, 2010.
One of the computer industry's most noted programmers, he is also the recipient of Software Development's "Programming Excellence Award" in addition to co-authoring such programming bibles including The Java Language Specification and The Java Programming Language.
Andreas Grabner, Technology Strategist, dynaTrace Software
Presenting: Performance Anti-patterns in Ajax Applications
Andreas Grabner has 10 years experience as an architect and developer in the Java and .NET space. In his current role, he works as a Technology Strategist for dynaTrace Software in the Methods and Technology team where he influences the dynaTrace product strategy and works closely with customers in implementing performance management solutions across the entire application lifecycle. Andreas is a frequent speaker at technology conferences on performance and architecture related topics.
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, particularly for the Java platform. He actively contributes to the effort of making Web services easy to develop and publish while maintaining an acceptable level of interoperability. As part of his contribution to this end, Ryan engineered Enunciate, a Web service deployment framework. Ryan is the lead developer of a number of other open source Web service projects, including 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. Eben has been interviewed on SOA by InfoQ, is a TOGAF 8 Certified Architect, a certified Scum Master, and holds several Java certifications.
Eben 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 spent the last 10 years developing grid computing and distributed middleware software. He founded the GridGain project in 2005, which has become one of the fastest growing Java-based cloud and grid computing platforms. Nikita is an active member of Java middleware community and a contributor to JSR-107, the Java Temporary Caching API specification.
Rod Johnson, Creator, Spring
Presenting a Keynote: What's New in Spring 3.0
Rod Johnson conceived of and initiated the development of Spring and is on the front line of new releases like Spring 3.0. The Spring Portfolio of open source projects was based on the code published in Rod’s best-selling book Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Even after the acquisition of SpringSource by VMWare, Rod continues to be actively involved in guiding the direction of Spring. He now serves as the General Manager of the SpringSource product division. Also, Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is an influential thought leader in the community, an experienced consultant, and open source developer. Rod is a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC). Executive Committee members guide the evolution of the Java technologies by approving and voting on all technology proposals. The latest version of Spring, Spring 3.0 was released in December 2009.
Max Katz, Author, Practical RichFaces
Presenting: Rich Enterprise Applications with JavaFX and
Ajax Applications with RichFaces and JSF 2.0
Max Katz is a recognized subject matter expert in the JavaServer Faces (JSF) developer community. He has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past four years and published several articles on JSF-related topics, including Practical RichFaces (Apress) and coverage of RichFaces/Spring, JSF/Flex, and enterprise RIA tools. Max is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel where he leads their RIA strategy.
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 is one of the core developers of Vaadin, a Java-based framework for building business-oriented Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). 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, where he continues to lead the direction of the Vaadin framework.
Josh Long,
Co-Author, Spring Enterprise Recipes and Spring Web Recipes
Presenting: Getting Started with jBPM4 and Spring
Panelist:
Integration Platform Panel
When enterprise architect, consultant and author Josh Long isn’t hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group. He is a co-author of Spring Enterprise Recipes and Spring Web Recipes from Apress. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His specialties include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems.
George Maggessy, Principal Fusion Middleware Architect, Oracle
Presenting:
Keep Pushing: How We Rebuilt Yahoo! Mail and Facebook Using JSF and Survived with Maiko Rocha
George Maggessy has more than twelve years of experience in consulting, software designing and development team leadership. George helps Oracle developers around the world to implement the new Oracle E2O Fusion Middleware Solution. His specialties include Oracle ADF, WebCenter, and JDeveloper to accelerate J2EE development.
Kito Mann, Author, JavaServer Faces in Action
Presenting: Getting Things Done for Programmers
Kito Mann is editor-in-chief of JSFCentral.com and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action. He is an internationally recognized speaker and a member of several Java Community Process expert groups, including JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Portlets. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua, where he specializes in enterprise application architecture, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy.
Ross Mason, CTO, MuleSource
Presenting: Building Enterprise Mashups with iBeans
Panelist:
Integration Platform Panel
Ross Mason is co-founder and CTO of MuleSource, Inc., the creators of the open source Mule integration platform. Ross founded the Mule project in 2003 and strives to make it a leading Java-based ESB and integration platform. Prior to founding MuleSource, he was CEO of SymphonySoft Limited, an EU-based company providing services and support for large-scale integration projects.
Bob McWhirter, Chief Architect, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Red Hat
Presenting a Keynote:
The Cloud Computing Continuum
Bob McWhirter joined Red Hat in 2007 and is responsible for navigating the cloud as it relates to Red Hat's middleware technologies within the JBoss Community and via JBoss Enterprise Middleware. He leads a team of several engineers that is paving the way for the enterprise cloud computing paradigm shift. He also leads the TorqueBox project, creating a Ruby application server on top of the core JBoss AS.
Prior to joining Red Hat, Bob served as a founding engineer at Radar Networks where he spent nearly two years working on the semantic-web platform, Twine.com. He is also the founder of the Codehaus open-source community.
Ted Neward, Author, Effective Enterprise Java and more
Presenting: Pragmatic Architecture, The Busy Java Developer's Guide to ECMA(Java)Script and
The Busy Developer's Guide to Scala: Patterns
Ted Neward 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 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. Ted 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 leads the Java Connector Architecture (JCA) project within JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is the lead developer for the JBoss Tattletale project, which is a dependency analysis tool. He also heads up several other JBoss projects, including Papaki, an annotation scanner and JBoss Profiler 2, an open source profiler suite.
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, and co-contributor to the successful Java Performance Tuning newsletter, which is widely regarded as the premier resource for Java performance tuning information. Kirk has been heavily involved in application performance since the beginning of his programming career, having tuned applications in a variety of languages: Cray Assembler, C, Smalltalk, and Java technology.
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 A Quick Tour of Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE
Reza Rahman is the author of EJB 3 in Action and a member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups. He is an independent consultant currently focused on the Resin EJB 3.1 Lite/Java EE 6 Web Profile implementation. 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, Flex vs. GWT Smackdown
Moderator:
Integration Platform Panel
Matt Raible is a well-known UI consultant specializing in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. 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. Matt has written two books on Java, including Spring Live and Pro JSP. He’s an active Java open source contributor and recently served as Lead UI Architect for LinkedIn.
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 heads up cloud development at SpringSource and 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 founded Cloud Tools in 2007 as an open source project for automating the deployment of Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2.
Maiko Rocha, Consulting Solutions Architect, Oracle
Presenting:
Keep Pushing: How We Rebuilt Yahoo! Mail and Facebook Using JSF and Survived with George Maggessy
Maiko Rocha has more than fourteen years of consulting and development experience on the Oracle product stack, ranging from the database to application server to development tools. Maiko currently works as a Consulting Solutions Architect, where he advises on both Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications. His specialties include Oracle ADF, WebCenter, and JDeveloper to accelerate J2EE development.
Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago, Inc.
Presenting: A Practical Guide to DSLs for the Java Developer
Jesus Rodriguez is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft BizTalk Server, an Oracle ACE, and one of a few architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. He is the chief architect of Tellago, Inc, an enterprise architecture consulting firm specializing in large-scale service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) projects. Jesus is an active contributor to the Microsoft .NET and J2EE communities, and an internationally recognized author who has written several articles for MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld, and Web Services Journal.
Max Ross, Software Engineer, Google
Presenting:
Google App Engine Persistence: Mapping RDBMS Concepts to The App Engine Datastore
Max Ross is a Software Engineer at Google where he works on the Google App Engine datastore. Max is also the project lead for Hibernate Shards, which is a framework designed to encapsulate and minimize complexity by adding support for horizontal partitioning to Hibernate Core. Prior to joining Google, Max was a software engineer in the supply chain management and travel technology industries.
Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO, GigaSpaces
Presenting: Elastic Data on the Cloud - Hype or Reality?
Having founded GigaSpaces, Nati Shalom is responsible for defining the technology roadmap and the direction of GigaSpaces' products as they relate to standards adaptations, architecture, and product design. He has 10 years of experience with distributed technology and architecture namely CORBA, Jini, J2EE, Grid and SOA. He is also the Head of the Israeli Grid Consortium.
James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe
Presenting: Highly Interactive Software with Java and Flex and Flex vs. GWT Smackdown
James Ward is a self-proclaimed RIA Cowboy. He’s 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, James 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.
Jason Whaley, Independent Consultant
Presenting: Push the Button – Improving the Current Practice of Continuous Integration
Jason Whaley is a freelance developer and consultant specializing in the introduction and improvement of Continuous Integration and automated software deployments for development teams. Previously, Jason worked in multiple roles for both public companies as well as government institutions. Jason’s other specialties include web development, system integration development, and system administration of cloud-based infrastructures.
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