Speakers
Dirk Fauth
Research Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Dirk Fauth is a Research Engineer for Development Tooling working for the ETAS GmbH which is a 100% susidiary of the Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart and a lecturer in Java basics for the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW). He is active in developing, teaching and talking about Eclipse RCP applications and Eclipse related technologies. He is project lead of the Nebula NatTable project, Eclipse Platform committer and also a committer and contributor to several other Eclipse projects.
Thomas Fleischmann
Head of Application FW & IoT / Manager T1-27 at CARIAD SE, Germany
Husband, Father, Diploma in Compouter Science, former developer, former Product Manager, in embedded automotive since 2003, AWS keys from October 2005 still in use, Manager at CARAID, Member of CCC, VDI.
Wolfgang Gehring
FOSS Ambassador at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH, Germany
Inspired by the Inner Source movement more than five years ago, Dr. Wolfgang Gehring turned into an ambassador for Inner and Open Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz and its IT-subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He leads Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation's FOSS Competence Group, is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence, and a Director of the Eclipse Foundation.
Leif Geiger
Yatta Solutions GmbH, Germany
Dr. Leif Geiger is Package Maintainer for the Eclipse Java IDE and leads the Marketplace Client project. He has been involved with the Eclipse Community for many years. Next to his open-source activities, Leif is also co-founder and shareholder of Yatta. With a PhD in Software Engineering, he is Product Manager on the Yatta platform team where he orchestrates tools that have thousands of users.
A technical expert, Leif brings more than 15 years of experience as a software architect and engineer to his work with Eclipse. Leif is married, a proud father and passionate mountain biker.
Simon Graband
Software Engineer at EclipseSource, Germany
Simon Graband is a software engineer at EclipseSource. His focus is on web-based Tools and IDEs, as well as on Modeling. Simon is an active member of the Eclipse community and regularly contributes to Eclipse projects such as Eclipse Theia, Theia Cloud, EMF.cloud and Eclipse GLSP.
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.
Rich Hagarty
Software Developer/Developer Advocate at IBM, United States
Rich Hagarty is a Developer Advocate at IBM, currently focusing on Java and Open Source related technologies. Based in Austin, TX, Rich has been active in the developer advocacy community for the past 6 years, working on cloud computing and AI technologies. He has created numerous learning paths, code patterns, articles, and videos - all to help developers understand and utilize IBM services, such as Watson Discovery and Assistant, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, as well as Red Hat OpenShift container security and deployment.
Jonas Helming
CEO / Principal Software Architect at EclipseSource, Germany
Dr. Jonas Helming is CEO of EclipseSource as well as consultant, trainer and software engineer. His focus is on Tools, IDEs, Modeling and web-based Tools. Jonas is an active member of the Eclipse community. He has the lead of three Eclipse projects, including Eclipse Theia and is involved in many others. Jonas is the chair of the marketing committee in the Eclipse Cloud Development working group. In 2013 and 2021, he won the Eclipse Top-Newcomer Evangelist award. He regularly publishes articles and speaks at conferences such as Jax, OOP, WJax and EclipseCon.
Thomas Irawan
ETAS GmbH, Germany
Grace Jansen
Developer Advocate at IBM, United Kingdom
Grace is a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at IBM working with Cloud-Native Java technologies. She joined IBM after graduating from a Biology degree. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns/architectures. As a dev advocate, Grace builds POC’s, demos and sample apps, and writes guides and tutorials. She is a regular presenter at international dev conferences and recently authored a book on reactive systems. Grace is also passionate about encouraging more women into STEM.
Sven Erik Jeroschewski
Software Developer at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Sven Erik Jeroschewski is software engineer with Bosch.IO. As member of the Expert Squad - Open Source he applies and extends Open Source cloud technologies, especially from the Eclipse IoT working group, in a technically sound and compliant manner to the connected driving and industrial automation domains. Sven studied Computer Engineering at the TU Berlin and the University of Oklahoma. He is committer with Eclipse Kuksa and has speaking experiences from Open Source and academic conferences like the EclipseCon Europe and the FOSDEM.
Emily Jiang
Cloud Native Architect and Advocate at IBM, United Kingdom
Emily Jiang is a Java Champion. As MicroProfile & Jakarta EE Architect and Advocate in IBM, she has worked on WebSphere Application Server in the UK since 2006 and currently works on Liberty development. She is an active committer in MicroProfile and Jakarta EE communities, and co-leads Jakarta Config Specification. She serves at Eclipse Architect Board.
She is passionate about MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as Code One, DevNexus, JAX, Voxxed, Devoxx, EclipseCon, QCon, GeeCon, JFokus, etc. Follow her on Twitter @emilyfhjiang, LinkedIn (emilyfhjiang).
Kenji Kazumura
Senior Professional Engineer at Fujitsu Limited, Japan
Kenji Kazumura is Senior Architect at Fujitsu Limited.
He is responsible for developing Interstage Application Server which has been widely used
in the area of mission critical enterprise systems.
He has a lot of experience to optimize the performance and reliability of
the huge size enterprise applications,
specifically in the field of mobile communications and financial services.
He is also a member of Jakarta EE steering committee, and contributes to EE4J projects.
Matthew Khouzam
Software developer at Ericsson AB, Canada
User since Callisto. I am the product manager for Eclipse Theia, OpenVSX, Eclipse Trace Compass within Ericsson and co-lead for the Eclipse Trace Compass Incubator and the CDT.cloud project.
I am a husband and a father. I am a technology enthusiast, especially in performance engineering. I enjoy cooking, biking, video game design, and woodworking.
I worked in academia and industry, coordinating between large and small companies as well as university research labs.
Finally, I am a great big nerd. A subject is great when engaged with enthusiasm.
I am not related to Marc, he is great.
