Speakers
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.
Dinakar Guniguntala
IBM India Pvt Ltd, India
Dinakar Guniguntala is the Java Cloud Optimization Architect at IBM. He has been at IBM for over 21 years and in his current role, has twin responsibilities of making Java run more efficiently in the cloud and helping customers modernize their Java applications. He is the community maintainer of the AdoptOpenJDK Java Docker Images for both Hotspot and Eclipse OpenJ9.
He is a former Linux Kernel and glibc Hacker. He has several publications including in IEEE computer and has spoken at conferences such as JavaOne San Francisco, FOSS.in, Bangalore and is a prolific speaker at Meetups.
Kai Hackbarth
Evangelist at Bosch Software Innovations GmbH, Germany
Kai Hackbarth is an Evangelist at Bosch Software Innovations. He has been deeply involved in the technical standardization activities of the OSGi Alliance for more than 15 years. Kai is a member of the OSGi Alliance Board of Directors and has been co-chair of the OSGi Residential Expert Group since 2008. Kai is coordinating several research project activities in various IoT domains. His key focus areas are smart homes, automotive, and the Internet of Things in general, where he actively supports the current developments and strategic positioning of the product portfolio.
Udo Hafermann
Principal Architect at Software AG, Germany
Dr. Udo Hafermann obtained a diploma in Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig and a doctorate in Computer Science. He then joined Software AG’s research facilities in Darmstadt where he successively held positions as project lead, team lead and architect of XML solutions. Currently, Dr. Hafermann acts as project lead, product owner and principal architect in the design-time tools and web user experience area. He represents Software AG at Eclipse organizations and events and serves on the Board of Directors of the OSGi Alliance.
BJ Hargrave
STSM at IBM, United States
I'm a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM Global Ecosystems. I am the project lead for the OSGi Specification Project and Eclipse Transformer and also a committer on Eclipse Equinox and Bndtools.
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.
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).
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).
Etienne Juliot
Vice President at OBEO, France
Etienne Juliot is co-founder and vice president of Obeo, a software editor focus on Model Driven solutions. He is a senior software architect with a strong experience on IT and embedded systems architecture. He is a member of the board of directors of the Eclipse Foundation and is involved in several Eclipse projects (Sirius, Acceleo, EMF Compare, UML Generators, Mylyn, ...) and seats on the steering committee for PolarSys.
Finally, he manages international and strategic collaborations with large companies on system engineering and enterprise architecture needs.
Mamatha Jv
Software Developer at IBM, India
Mamatha is a QA Lead Engineer with Runtimes team at IBM Software Labs with 11 years of experience in test automation, system and performance testing for IBM Java. Her interest lies in debugging and analyzing problems and giving long-term solutions. She has submitted abstracts on testing practices and techniques in different forums and won credit for same. She loves to read personal development and biography books in her free time.
Markus Karg
Head Crashing Informatics, Germany
JSR 339/370 Expert Group (JAX-RS), Eclipse Committer Member, Apache Contributor, Conference Speaker, Magazine Author, Open Source Lobbyist, iJUG, JUG PF Founder
Maximilian Koegel
CEO at EclipseSource, Germany
Dr. Maximilian Koegel is deeply involved with the Eclipse community. He is project lead and committer on several open-source projects including EMF Cloud and Theia Cloud.
Maximilian is principle software architect at and CEO of EclipseSource (http://eclipsesource.com), where he is focused on
building (modeling) tools - web-based and desktop-based.
