Speaker

Gojko Adzic neuri

Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies, programming and writing. He is the author of several books and online guides on acceptance testing, including Bridging the Communication Gap, Test Driven .NET Development with Fitnesse, and Getting Fit with .NET, and more than 200 articles about programming, operating systems, the Internet and new technologies published in various online and print magazines.

 

Jamie Allsop NYSE-Euronext

I've been part of a distributed agile teams in different companies for the past 5 years and in that time learned a lot about agile development and distributed teams in general. Much of that experience went into developing agile-trac a free and open-source extension to the popular trac project management software. My recent interests have been in bringing agile development to the companies I work in. I’ve been fortunate to do this for reasonable project periods (up to 3 years in one case) and in truly distributed settings. This has been a good way to understand the effects of the changes and more importantly learn from them - what’s really important and what’s not. (Currently I'm the development manager for exchange platforms at NYSE-Euronext.)

 

Chris Aniszczyk Red Hat

Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley) book. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation\\\'s Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are modularity, blogging, tooling and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss opensource or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.

 

Doug Clarke Oracle

Doug Clarke is a Director of Product Management for Oracle Application Server's Java Persistence solutions and the co-lead of the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink). Doug has extensive enterprise development, consulting, and educational field experience in the areas of object-relational persistence, data access, and systems integration. He brings together concrete experiences from projects of various sizes and industries with a practical approach to design, testing, and performance tuning. Session and Keynote Speaking experience includes: * Java One and Sun Tech Days * Oracle Open World and Oracle Developer Days * The Server Side: Symposium and Java In Action * JAOO * Java Forum, Stuttgart * JAX * SpringOne * Colorado Software Summit * EclipseWorld

 

Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper has over 18 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group. http://www.dnug.org.uk

 

Holly Cummins IBM

Holly is a software engineer at IBM\'s Hursley labs. She is a popular speaker and has spoken at a variety of industry events including Devoxx, JavaZone, The ServerSide Java Symposium, The Great Indian Developer Summit, and WebSphere User Groups. She has also authored several developerWorks articles. She contributes to the Apache Aries project and to WebSphere feature packs. Holly has been with IBM for nine years. Before joining IBM, she completed a doctorate in quantum computation at the University of Oxford.

 

Rachel Davies Agile Experience Ltd

Rachel has a wealth of experience through her work coaching agile teams. Her new book "Agile Coaching" shares many practical tips that can help you take your teams to the next level. Rachel supports the agile community as a long-serving director of the Agile Alliance and as an organizer of many Agile conferences.

 

Neal Ford ThoughtWorks

Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books "Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques", "JBuilder 3 Unleashed", and "Art of Java Web Development". Neal has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences.

 

Steve Freeman

Steve Freeman is an independent software consultant, based in London. A pioneer of Agile software development in the UK, Steve has built applications for banks, ISPs, financial data providers, and specialist software companies. He has trained and coached developers in Europe, America, and Asia. Previously, he worked in research labs, software houses, earned a PhD, and wrote shrink-wrap software for IBM. Steve has also taught at University College London. He is a presenter and organizer at international industry conferences, and was conference chair for the first London XpDay.

 

Thilo Frotscher Freelancer

Thilo Frotscher is an independent Software Architect and Trainer specializing in Java and Web services. He assists a wide range of clients in their software projects and frequently facilitates training courses or workshops. Thilo is an internationally acknowledged expert for Web service technology and has been invited to present at numerous conferences around the world. He has trained hundreds of developers, written many articles for trade magazines and (co-)authored three books about Java, Web Services and SOA. His clients include organisations from many different industries, including financial services, tourism, research, the public sector and some of the largest IT companies worldwide.

 

Paul Goddard

Paul Goddard is an agile coach with experience of working with several scrum teams and projects, and is a keen practitioner and trainer of Scrum and Agile Delivery. Starting as one of the first practicing ScrumMasters within BT (formerly British Telecom), he now acts as coach for teams new to Scrum and agile techniques. His coaching skills have been used on large scale agile transformation projects, including geographically dispersed teams using an offshore model. He is also very experienced in how teams work effectively together how to maximise their delivery potential, therefore transforming organisations to an agile way of working. Paul has spent the last 12 months as a practising ScrumMaster at Nokia where he was involved with both applying, teaching and coaching Scrum and agile development techniques, and he has trained and coached several other companies and individuals in the UK and Europe.

 

Ellen Gottesdiener EBG Consulting Inc.

Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant and Founder of EBG Consulting, Inc., is a requirements expert who works with both traditional and agile teams to help them deliver the right product at the right time. Her first book, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002) describes how to use multiple models to elicit requirements in collaborative. Her second book, The Software Requirements Memory Jogger (GOAL/QPC, 2005) is the "go to" industry guide for requirements good practices. Ellen is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and has extensive experience as a professional workshop facilitator, focusing on helping projects start smart through facilitated workshops. Ellen is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), an agile coach, and agile trainer with a passion about agile requirements. She works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals. She is an expert reviewer for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®), a member of the IIBA® Endorsed Education Provider committee, and advisor for several industry conferences.

 

Allan Kelly

Allan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world: system admin, tester, developer, product manager and development manager. Today he provides training and coaching to teams and companies in the use of Agile and Lean techniques to develop better software with better processes. He is the author of "Changing Software Development: Learning to become Agile", numerous journal articles and is currently working on a book of Business Strategy Patterns. More about Allan can be found at his website, http://www.allankelly.net.

 

Dierk König Canoo Engineering AG

Dierk is Fellow at Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, where he manages the open-source project Canoo WebTest. He is a committer to the Groovy and Grails projects and the GPars project and writes and speaks about modern software development at international conferences. He is lead author of the "Groovy in Action" book. Twitter: @mittie

 

Pete Muir JBoss

Pete leads the Seam, Weld and CDI TCK projects, is an adviser to the RichFaces project, and is a founder of the Arquillian project. He has worked on a number of specifications including JSF 2.0, AtInject and CDI. He is a regular speaker at JUGs and conferences such as Devoxx (Javapolis), JAX, JavaBlend, JSFDays and JBoss World. Pete is currently employed by Red Hat Inc. working on JBoss open source projects. Before working for Red Hat, he used and contributed to Seam whilst working at a UK based staffing agency as IT Development Manager.

 

Ted Neward Neward & Associates

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

 

Roman Pichler Pichler Consulting Ltd

Roman Pichler is a leading Scrum and agile product management consultant. THe is the author of the bestselling Scrum book in Germany called Scrum—Agiles Projektmanagement erfolgreich einsetzen ("Scrum—Applying Agile Project Management Successfully"). His new book Agile Product Management with Scrum is the product owner's guide to developing successful products with Scrum. It is also the first book solely devoted to agile product management. Product ownership and agile product management form a focal point of Roman's work. Roman has nearly ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and he has guided Scrum roll-outs in several companies. Roman has more than five years experience in teaching and coaching Scrum product owners and ScrumMasters.

 

Arjen Poutsma SpringSource

Arjen Poutsma is a principal software engineer with twenty years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET. Ten years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations. Arjen is the founder and the project lead for the Spring Web Services. This Spring project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Recently, Arjen worked on the REST support in Spring 3.0. Arjen has also contributed to various other open source projects, including XFire, NEO and others. Since early 2005, Arjen has been a consultant for SpringSource in The Netherlands.

 

Simon Ritter Oracle Corporation

Simon Ritter is a Java Technology Evangelist at Oracle Corporation. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K. Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon moved to Sun in 1996. At this time he started working with Java technology and has spent time working both in Java technology development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition he now specialises in looking at emerging technologies including cloud computing, wireless sensor networks, and gestural interfaces.

 

Karl Scotland EMC Consulting

Karl Scotland is a versatile software practitioner with over 15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. For the last 10 years he has been successfully applying Agile methods, and most recently has been a pioneer and advocate of using Kanban Systems for software development. Currently a Lean and Agile Coach with EMC Consulting, Karl is a founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society, and has previously championed Agile and Lean Thinking with the BBC and Yahoo! Karl writes about his latest ideas on his blog at http://availagility.co.uk/

 

Shaun Smith Oracle

Shaun Smith is a product manager for Oracle TopLink and an active member of the Eclipse community. He's Ecosystem Development Lead for the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipeLink), a committer on the Eclipse EMFT Teneo, and co-lead of the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence Tools. Prior to joining the TopLink team at Oracle, Shaun was a consultant specializing in application architecture and an agile software development coach with a particular focus on developing enterprise applications using test-driven design. He’s a frequent conference presenter on the topic of object persistence.

 

Geoff Watts

Gaeoff Watts is the longest active Certified Scrum Trainer in the UK as well as being the UK's first, and only, Certified Scrum Coach. He was the first ScrumMaster in British Telecom and then helped lead the largest agile transformation in the world there before helping transform organisations in various industries to use Scrum. He is a regular author of articles and blogs on using Scrum and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, at universities and user groups.

 

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