Speakers
Peter Steiner
Software Architect at Worldline Switzerland at Worldline | SIX Payment Services, Switzerland
Peter has been writing software for thirty years, twelve of them for the Card Payments Platform (Frontoffice) of Worldline Switzerland, first in C++ and now in Java, always striving for programs that are readable not only for the computer but also for humans. He tries to learn something new every day and is still passionate about coding.
Kevin Sutter
Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Architect at IBM, United States
Kevin is the co-lead for the Eclipse MicroProfile project (http://microprofile.io). He is also a member of the Eclipse EE4J PMC (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j) and Jakarta EE Steering and Specification Committees, which are guiding the efforts of moving Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation.
Patrick Van Enkhuijzen
Agile Tester at De Agile Testers, Belgium
I'm an experienced tester and want to get things done and getting it done together! Getting things done together and doing it while having fun, because without fun my day would feel a little bit lost... Continuous improvement and customer interaction are very important to me. Agile is in my blood and I try to convey that in my life.
Tim Ward
Chief Technology Officer at Kentyou, United Kingdom
Tim Ward is CTO at Kentyou, a co-author of Enterprise OSGi in Action, and has been actively working with OSGi for over a decade. Tim has been a regular participant in the OSGi Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups, co-chair of the OSGi IoT Expert Group, and is now the committer representative for the Eclipse OSGi working group. Tim has led development of several specifications within OSGi. Tim is also an active Open Source committer, he contributes regularly to the Bndtools project, is a PMC member in the Apache Aries project, and a committer for Eclipse sensiNact.
Greg Watson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Greg Watson is a Senior Research Scientist at ORNL and project leader for the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform Project. His research interests focus on tools for parallel computers, program debugging, distributed computing, and operating systems, which has led him to work in some strange places, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition to Eclipse, he has also contributed to other open source projects, such as the award winning Clustermatic Linux-based cluster management system and the CoreBoot project that aims to replace your proprietary BIOS with an open source alternative.
Ivo Woltring
Codesmith / Software Architect at Ordina JTech, Netherlands
Ivo Woltring has been a coding addict for more than 20 years. He has an absolute
passion for programming in Java and Python. Other focus areas are IoT, Docker and everything else.
He blogs (https://www.ivonet.nl) on all these topics and tweets on @ivonet. He is also a lecturer at Dutch
academies and universities and is frequently found speaking for Dutch Meetups, companies and conferences.
He is editor of the Dutch Java Magazine (NLJUG) and he often writes articles on trending topics.
Sebastian Zarnekow
Language Engineer and Consultant at Self-employed, Germany
Sebastian is an independent consultant from Berlin. Actively contributing to Eclipse for more than 10 years now, he has specialised in model driven development and domain specific languages. As one of the architects behind the Xtext framework and the Xtend programming language, his strong focus is on efficient developer tooling and productivity. Being a framework developer, Sebastian is especially keen on clean abstractions, encapsulation and separation of concerns. He is a regular speaker on conferences.
Carsten Ziegeler
Adobe, Germany
Carsten Ziegeler is working at Adobe Research Switzerland and spends most of his time on architectural and infrastructure topics. Working for over 25 years in open source projects, Carsten is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and heavily participates in several Apache communities including Sling and Felix. He is a frequent speaker on technology and open source conferences. Carsten participates in the OSGi Core Platform and Enterprise expert groups and is on the Board of Directors of the OSGi Alliance.
