Speakers
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.
Evelyn Gurschler
Software Engineer at BMW Group, Germany
Evelyn is a software engineer at BMW. She is committer on the Eclipse Tractus-X project and works on the development of the Catena-X data space. As technical lead and DevOps specialist she facilitates the development, release and deployment process. She is an open source enthusiast and enjoys the community exchange.
Kouki Hama
Toshiba Corporation, Japan
He is a researcher in software engineering, specializing in OSS compliance and OSS management tools.
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.
Sébastien Heurtematte
Release Engineer at eclipse foundation, France
As a member of the release engineer team, his leitmotif is to help the community by providing expertise/advice/support and thus unlocking their full potential. In his spare time, he likes to push the knobs on his guitar amps, metal concerts, music festivals, and enjoys sports like running.
Robert Hilbrich
Department Manager at Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany
Kai Hudalla
Chief Expert Open Source at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
I have been working at Bosch on solutions for the Internet of Things in application domains like smart home, energy management, e-mobility, and automotive long before the term reached its recent popularity and ubiquity. I am an active member of the Eclipse community and serve as lead of two Eclipse IoT projects while contributing to others. When speaking at conferences, my focus is on scalable device connectivity and general software architecture. Recently, I have joined the Software Defined Vehicle space and started discovering the automotive way of doing things (differently).
Jean-François James
Senior Software Architect at Worldline, France
My 36 years of experience in IT do not prevent me from remaining passionate about subjects related to software development and architecture. I have a particular attraction for the Java ecosystem whose evolutions I have been following since its origins. Having worked on both sides of the "wall of confusion", I am also a strong supporter of DevOps values. I am a software architect at Worldline with a strong experience in transactional payment systems.
Apart from that, I am passionate about Japanese martial arts which I have been practicing for a long time.
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
Senior Software Developer, CDI Lead at IBM
Emily Jiang is CDI Lead for WebSphere Application Server and works for IBM. Based at IBM's Hursley laboratory in the UK, she has worked on WebSphere Application Server since 2006 and contributed both on OSGi application support and CDI integration of WebSphere Application Server releases. She is an active member of OSGi Enterprise Expert Group and currently is working on standardizing CDI Integration Specification. Emily also participates in open source projects. She is a PMC member of the Apache Aries project.
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).
Markus Kett
CEO at Micro Stream Software GmbH, Germany
Markus and his team have been working on IDE tools for Java and database development for almost 20 years. He is the product owner of the RapidClipse IDE project, which is a free Eclipse distribution and visual Java IDE. Markus is co-founder and CEO at MicroStream - the company behind the Eclipse Serializer project, a contributor to project Helidon, editor-in-chief for the free JAVAPRO magazine in Germany, and co-organizer of the Java conference JCON. He is an independent editor for various developer magazines, and a speaker at numerous conferences, and user groups.
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.
