Speakers
Ben Adida
Ben Adida is a member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School and at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program, as well as a research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society with the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His research is focused on security and privacy of health data, the security of web applications, and the design of secure voting systems.
Dr. Adida completed his PhD at MIT in the Cryptography and Information Security group. He is the Creative Commons representative to the W3C, working on interoperable web data as chair of the RDF-in-HTML task force. Previously, he co-founded two software startups that developed database-backed web application platforms based on free/open-source software.
Chris Aniszczyk Code9
Chris is the technical lead for the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and Principal Consultant at Code 9. 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 and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are blogging, software advocacy, 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
Adam Bien (www.adam-bien.com)is an independent speaker, software architect, developer, consultant, and author. Adam is using Java from the beginning (JDK 1.0) in different large scale projects. He wrote several books about Java and J2EE technology ("J2EE Patterns", "J2EE HotSpots", "Enterprise Java Frameworks", "Struts" and "Enterprise Java Architekturen"). Now he is working on architecture and of course also implementation in several J2EE/MDA-projects. He is also involved in embedded Java and P2P technology.
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 Yahoo! Inc.
Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He is the world's foremost living authority on JavaScript. He is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON, the data interchange standard. He is developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.
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 Specification Lead JSR 220 - Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Sun Microsystems
Linda DeMichiel is the Specification Lead for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 in the Java Community Process. She is a senior architect in the J2EE group at Sun Microsystems and the chief architect for Enterprise JavaBeans. She has more than 15 years experience in the areas of databases, distributed computing, and OO. Prior to her work at Sun, she was also previously a major contributor to the object-relational extensions to DB2 and of SQL99. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Sven Efftinge itemis AG
Sven Efftinge works as consultant, coach and developer and leads the northern branch of itemis AG. His focus is on domain-specific modeling, generator development and Eclipse technologies - Sven has developed the languages and core of openArchitectureWare 4 as well as the Xtext framework. Sven is also a speaker on 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 itemis AG
Peter works as a software architect for itemis AG. He also is a committer on various open source projects, most notably Eclipse.org, openArchitectureWare, FindBugs and AndroMDA. Originally coming from a Delphi background, he has been working on the design and implementation of distributed systems using Java since late 2001. Peter is specializing in model driven development,
Eclipse and Spring.
Brian Goetz Sun Microsystems
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Arun Gupta Sun Microsystems
Arun Gupta is a Technology Evangelist for Web Technologies at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases.
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 is a senior software developer, consultant, and coach. He works for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, where he manages the open-source project Canoo WebTest. He is a committer to the Groovy and Grails projects and writes and speaks about Extreme Programming, automated testing, and Rich Internet Applications. He is lead author of the \"Groovy in Action\" book.
Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Lead
Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. As Vice President Technology of G2One, the company dedicated to the development of Groovy and Grails, he provides professional services around those technologies (training, support, and consulting). Guillaume co-authored Groovy in Action with lead author Dierk König for Manning. You can meet him at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy language, 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
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 software architect 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 OR-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
Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the book POJOs in Action. He runs a consulting and training company that helps customers build better software faster using agile development techniques and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. His technical interests include cloud computing, domain-driven design, aspect-oriented programming and developer testing.
Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems and recently became a Java Champion. Chris holds a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England. He has spoken at various conferences including JavaOne (2006-2008), The Spring Experience, Colorado Software Summit, SpringOne, and Javapolis as well as Java user groups. Chris lives in Oakland, CA where he runs the local Java User Group.
Blog: http://chris-richardson.blog-city.com/
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 Perficient
Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), IBM's largest service partner, where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms.
Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions. He is a former trainer for Rational in OOAD and RUP, and a CORBA Visibroker trainer for Borland. He continues to enjoy providing training and mentoring in all aspects of software development.
Ken has a deep need to be highly diversified. Ken often works with IT executives on high-level strategic roadmaps, currently geared around service oriented architectures (SOA). Ken also likes to keep his hands "dirty" in the code, which has him on a regular basis, pairing or otherwise producing code. Ken is regularly requested by clients that know him to "rescue" projects, either through the streamlining of processes or the rapid production of code.
Ken is a certified JBoss developer and is a frequent participates on open source projects. Ken is currently interested in the growing maturity of SOA solutions in the open source space, such as the ESB solutions like ServiceMix and Mule, or rules engines such as JBossRules.
Brian Sletten Zepheira, LLC
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, 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 and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC , a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by conventional tools and techniques.
Ric Smith Kaazing
Ric is responsible for Kaazing's product strategy. Prior to joining Kaazing, Ric was Principal Product Manager for Oracle Application Development Tools. In his role as Principal Product Manager he was responsible for the evangelism and product direction of Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client as well as Oracle's AJAX and Java EE Web Tier offerings. Prior to joining the application server team, Ric worked for Oracle's consulting business as a Principal Consultant, specializing in Java EE and AJAX development. In addition, Ric is a frequent speaker at International events and has written articles featured in industry publications such as Java Developer's Journal and AJAX World Magazine. Ric is a representative to the OpenAjax Alliance and a graduate of the University of Arizona.
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 Oracle Corporation
Clemens works for the SOA Product Management team at Oracle Headquarters, CA. As a native Austrian, he started his career years back at the local consulting branch, helping customers designing their next generation J2EE and SOA architectures as well as doing crisis management for projects abroad. Since his transfer almost 3 years ago into the Product Management group, Clemens is responsible for cross product integration - and these days the advisor for SOA to Oracle Fusion Applications development as well as an advisory member of the Applications Architecture Board. He is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences (Oracle Open World, JAX, OOP, ODTUG) and published countless articles in known industry journals on SOA and related challenges.
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.