Speakers
Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser
Senior Expert Open Source Services at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Lars is a senior consultant for Open Source topics ranging from Open Source strategy and management consulting to development of Open Source software. Prior to this role, Lars worked in several roles within the Bosch Group on eclipse-based products for automotive software development. He got his PhD from the university of Kaiserslautern.
Ivar Grimstad
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation, Sweden
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion, and JUG Leader based in Sweden.
Ivar is the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) and involved in the Jakarta EE Working Group. He is also one of the community representatives in the JCP Executive Committee as well as specification lead for JSR 371 (MVC 1.0).
Ivar is also involved in Eclipse MicroProfile, Apache NetBeans and a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.
Mary Grygleski
Developer Advocate at IBM, United States
Mary is currently a Java Developer Advocate at IBM, specializing in Reactive systems. She started working as a software engineer with C and Unix, and now in Java and Open Source. In her previous incarnations, she worked for several technology product companies in the Route 128 Boston Tech Corridor as well the SF Bay Area. She now resides in the Greater Chicago area, and is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), an active co-organizer for the Big Data, Chicago Cloud, and IBM Cloud Chicago meetup groups.
BJ Hargrave
STSM at IBM, United States
I'm a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM Digital Ecosystem Group. I am currently the CTO at the OSGi Alliance and also a committer on Eclipse Equinox and Bndtools.
Jonas Helming
Software Engineer at EclipseSource, Germany
Dr. Jonas Helming is General Manager of EclipseSource Munich as well as consultant, trainer and software engineer. His focus is on Tools, IDEs, Modeling, web-based Tools and Eclipse 4. Besides many articles he published a book about the Eclipse SDK. Jonas is an active member of the Eclipse community. He has the lead of two Eclipse projects and is involved in many others, such as e4. In 2013, he won the Eclipse Top-Newcomer Evangelist award. He regularly speaks at conferences such as Jax, OOP, WJax and EclipseCon.
Cesar Hernandez
Senior Software Engineer at Tomitribe Corporation, Guatemala
Cesar Hernandez is a Senior Software Engineer at Tomitribe with +10 years of experience in Enterprise Java Applications. He is a Java Champion, Duke's Choice Award winner, Open Source advocate, Eclipse Committer, teacher and public speaker. When César is away from a computer, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling and playing music with the Java Community Band, The Null Pointers.
Jean-François James
Senior Software Architect at Worldline, France
I'm is still enthusiastic about IT after more than 30 years of experience! I'm a DevOps advocate (having worked on both sides on of the “wall of confusion”). I've been appointed as Fellow Expert in my company (Worldline) where I'm in charge of the Expert Community. I'm a "coding software architect" with a particular focus on the Java Ecosystem and a strong background on payment systems. I like to share and challenge my knowledge by speaking, blogging and contributing to Open Source. Married, father of 3, I also like to spend free time in Dojo to do Aikido and Karate.
Emily Jiang
Senior Software Engineer at IBM, United Kingdom
Emily Jiang is Liberty Architect for MicroProfile and CDI in IBM. Based at IBM's Hursley laboratory in the UK, she has worked on the WebSphere Application Server since 2006 and is heavily involved in Java EE implementation in WebSphere Application Server releases. She is a key member of MicroProfile and CDI Expert Group, and leads the specification of MicroProfile Config and Fault Tolerance. Emily is also Config JSR co-spec lead. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as JAX, Voxxed, Devoxx US, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, DevNexus and EclipseCon.
Jan Koehnlein
Co-Founder at TypeFox GmbH, Germany
Dr. Jan Koehnlein is specialized in the development of programming languages and tools. He contributes to open source projects like Xtext, Xtend, FXDiagram, sprotty and Theia. Together with two colleagues he founded the company TypeFox in Kiel (Germany).
Kondal Kolipaka
Principal Software Architect at Espressif Systems, Singapore
Java and Eclipse plugin development architect and having rich experience in developing IDE's and tools.
Philip Langer
Principal Software Architect at EclipseSource, Austria
Philip Langer is a principal architect and general manager of EclipseSource in Vienna. He has many years of experience working with several modeling technologies of the Eclipse ecosystem and is a consultant to customers in this area. His current main focus is the development of domain-specific modeling and engineering tools, including graphical modeling, model diff/merge with Git, as well as web-based modeling tools. He is the project lead of Eclipse Graphical Language Server Platform (GLSP), as well as of EMF.cloud and a committer on EMF Compare, Sprotty, and Papyrus.
Martin Lippert
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Pivotal Software, Inc now under VMWare-April 2020, Germany
Martin works at Pivotal on developer tooling for the Spring framework and cloud platforms. He co-leads the team that ships all the Spring Tools for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Theia, and more, the Cloud Foundry Integration for Eclipse, AJDT, AspectJ, and is researching and implementing future cloud-based developer tooling. He served as member of the program committee for various conferences and gave talks and demos at numerous international conferences.
