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Ignacio Garro, Continental AG. I lead the Systems and Software Engineering Tools team. There we provide several eclipse based engineering tools (some of them developed in our team) to thousands of R&D engineers at Continental. I am also the chairman of the Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group.

The 5 talks I am most excited about:

• An Eclipse true story: Embedded systems design from UML modelling down to system simulation A holistic view in embedded systems development, near to the practical world and from the trenches. A way to see that you can also build with eclipse something that you can touch.
• Components are not enough: Function oriented development for embedded systems An Eclipse true story: Embedded systems design from UML modelling down to system simulation.
• OSLC tool integration tutorial: using linked data to support engineering lifecycle collaboration THE talk (in this case tutorial) I was waiting for. OSLC could make it to be the magic bullet to integrate different best of class tools into complete development solutions that perfectly fit every need.
• The Requirements Modeling Framework - a puzzle piece for Eclipse-based Systems Engineering Requirements Management in general and the proper exchange of requirements between development partners has been one of the hottest topics in the automotive industry for several years now. It is very nice to see the key role that eclipse and the RMF is playing on this topic.
• Tycho: the mandatory tool to build your Eclipse based product Unit testing, continuous integration, gerrit, ... and so many other activities that are dependant on a powerful, reliable and automatable build mechanism.And now, finally, it is there!

Mickael Istria, JBoss by Red Hat. I'm working in the team developing JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio (IDE for modern Mobile and Web applications). In this team, most of my time is dedicated to maintain our build system, set up new tools and processes to ensure good team productivity and efficient development.

5 talks I won't miss (among others):

• Bringing the power of Eclipse to VHDL designers because this is a nice use-case that clearly highlights what Eclipse RCP and Modeling are aimed at providing: good frameworks for new languages, new tools, new domains...
• Scala in Eclipse, Eclipse in Scala is interesting for Scala developers, but what I like most is that we'll be explained how to develop Eclipse plugins with Scala. Although I personally don't use Scala, I'm pretty sure that what I'll learn there will mostly apply to the myriad of other JVM lanaguages (Groovy, Ceylon, Xtend, Golo, Kotlin, JRuby, Jython, Clojue, JavaScript with Rhino...), including the ones i really love.
• It's all about feedback - code review as a great tool in the agile toolbox the "Economics of Software Quality" book measured that Code Review is the best way for a project to achieve good quality. My daily experience with Git, GitHub and (above all) Gerrit makes me agree with it. So I'd like to learn more about those tools to ensure I'll leverage them as well as possible in order to fulfill their promise of better quality.
• Sirius By Example: Build Your Own Diagram, Table and Tree Editors in 20 Minutes Although there has been a (deserved) big trend on Textual DSL for the last few years, Graphical Languages are still widely used and a lot of new use-cases are invented every week. Current status of diagramming at Eclipse relies on efficient but old projects that are often seen with an entry-barrier too high according to adopters. I expect Sirius will have a lower entry barrier to develop tools for Graphical Languages.
• Orion deployed: Orion goes from prototype to production Because the Web and Mobile era is happening right now, and Orion is currently the only Eclipse-based IDE that works on tablets and smartphones.

Read the first EclipseCon France Newsletter here.

The accept/decline emails have been sent by the submission system. By now all submitters have been notified about their proposals.

Here's the link to see the list of accepted talks. It's a great program!

If you submitted a talk but did not receive an email, please let us know at speakers@eclipsecon.org. Thanks again to everyone who sent in a proposal. The schedule will be published soon.