Speaker

Gojko Adzic Neuri Ltd

Gojko Adzic got bitten by the specification-by-example bug five years ago. Since then, he has helped numerous teams implement these practices, written two books on the subject (Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse and Bridging the Communication Gap) and contributed to several opensource projects for specification by example. At the moment, Gojko is working on his third book, titled Specification by Example. Gojko runs Neuri Ltd, a UK based consultancy that helps ambitious teams from web startups to large financial institutions implement specification by example and agile testing practices. Gojko Adzic teaches Agile testing and domain driven design at Skills Matter.

 

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.

 

Mica Block Actuate

Mica Block has over 19 years of experience in the software industry in various roles including product management and technical sales. Mica joined Actuate in January 1996 prior to release 1.0 and has been responsible for helping build and guide the technical sales force. Prior to Actuate Mica worked for other major software companies such as Sybase and Information Builders. Mica Block has been involved in the BIRT project from the beginning in assisting and guiding the project team from a report developers point of view. Currently Mica Block is the Director of the ACES (Actuate Corporate Engineers). This is a team of engineers that provides the Actuate sales force with high-level technical support. This support includes Proof of Concepts, System Architecture Design, Scalability Tests, and various other high level meetings as needed by the Actuate sales force.

 

Andre Bottaro Orange Labs

Andre Bottaro, PhD, M2M Research Program Manager, Orange Labs Andre has been working on OSGi- based projects on the Home, Building and City environments for the Orange labs since 2003. He is presently in charge of the Machine-to-Machine Research Program of the Group, which shows great challenges in the integration of communication and processing capabilities in constrained machines. André presented the requirements for OSGi ME at Eclipse Summit in October 2009. The OSGi RFP 126 named "OSGi ME" has been published at this date. His work before is visible through publications, patents and actions in standardization organizations, e.g., UPnP Forum, ISO/IEC, OSGi Alliance. He holds a PhD from Grenoble University in 2006 where he worked under the direction of Richard S. Hall and Philippe Lalanda, an MSc from Telecom Paris, France and an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. laboratory, Paris VI),

 

Premek Brada University of West Bohemia

Premek Brada works as senior lecturer in software engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. His research interests include software component substitutability verification which he and his research group colleagues pursue as part of several national and informal international projects, using OSGi as validation platform. Through this work he is also actively involved in the components track of the Euromicro SEAA conference. He holds MSc. from Sheffield, UK, and Ph.D. from Charles University, Prague. His other professional interests include software structure modeling, agile development methods, and knowledge management.

 

Keith Braithwaite Zuhlke Engineering

Keith Braithwaite is a Principle Consultant with Zuhlke Engineering, and leads their Center for Agile Practice in London. He provides Agile training, consultancy and mentoring to development teams in the wholesale finance and mobile telecoms industries. Previously he was Head of Technology Solutions for the ASIA-PAC region of WDS Global, and co-authored the first published descriptions of successful distributed Agile based on his experience there. He is a frequent speaker at Agile conferences around the world.

 

Christopher Brind Freelancer

I am a Freelance software developer with over 13 years experience across finance, utilities and government verticals mainly specialising in Java solutions, but focussing almost entirely on OSGi for the last 3 years. More information can be found here: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisbrind

 

Graham Charters IBM

Graham is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM's Hursley development laboratory in the UK. He is currently working on the WebSphere Application Server product, defining how OSGi is surfaced to WebSphere customers. He is the IBM Application and Integration Middleware division's technical lead in the OSGi Alliance Expert Groups and a member of the OASIS SCA Assembly Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Apache Aries incubator project management committee and a committer.

 

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.

 

Erik Dörnenburg ThoughtWorks

Erik Dörnenburg is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks where he is helping clients with the design and implementation of enterprise software. With experience in Java, .NET, and other environments Erik is continually exploring new technology. Frequent exposure to overly complex software has made him interested in simple architectures and software visualisation as means to help people better understand architecture. Erik’s career in enterprise software began in the early nineties on the NeXTSTEP platform, and throughout his career he has been an advocate of agile values and Open Source software. He holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at University College Dublin.

 

Bernhard Dorninger Software Competence Center Hagenberg

After finishing my studies of Software Engineering at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria in 2000, I have been working as a software engineer and group manager of the "Software Architectures and Technologies for Industrial Applications" group at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg. During this time, my group has successfully completed numerous OSGi based projects in the fields of industry.

 

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. Ellen Gottesdiener teaches Agile requirements and facilitation skills at Skills Matter.

 

Arun Gupta Oracle

Arun Gupta is a Java EE & GlassFish Evangelist working at Oracle. Arun has over 14 years of experience in software industry working in various distributed computing technologies, Java(TM) platform, and several web-related technologies. In his current role, he works very closely to create and foster the community around Java EE, GlassFish, and related technologies. He has participated in several standard bodies and worked amicably with members from other companies. He has been with the Java EE team since it's inception and since then he has contributed to all Java EE releases. He is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta. This blog has over 1000 blog entries with frequent vistors from all over the world reaching upto 25,000 hits/day. He has extensive world-wide speaking experience on multiple technologies.

 

Gerd Kachel kachel GmbH

Gerd Kachel is the CEO and CTO of the kachel GmbH He achieved his doctor’s degree in computer science in 1992. He worked in the fields of database, enterprise application integration, and process management for many years. Current work is on event driven architectures based on OSGi.

 

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. Allan delivers training in association with Skills Matter and Develop Mentor (http://www.develop.com/contact). More about Allan can be found at his website, http://www.allankelly.net. Allan Kelly teaches agile methods for business analysts at Skills Matter

 

Mik Kersten Tasktop Technologies

Mik Kersten is the President and CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of Mylyn and member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and Board of Directors. While on the AspectJ team at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tool support. He then created Mylyn and the Task-Focused Interface during his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Mik likes building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Read Mik's blog at http://tasktop.com/blog

 

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.

 

Andy Piper Oracle Corp

Dr Andy Piper has worked in Information Technology for over 20 years, from application development to consultancy. He holds a degree in engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cambridge University, England and an MBA from Warwick Business School. His background in distributed systems made for a natural gravitation towards BEA Systems Inc. where he held various roles in WebLogic Server engineering including RMI-IIOP architect and overall core server architect. Subsequent to this Andy served as architect in the WebLogic Server open source group looking at technologies from Spring to OSGi to Tomcat. Currently Andy is a technical director in Oracle\'s Complex Event Processing development group where he is involved with the development of event-driven technologies leveraging Spring, Spring-DM, Clustering and OSGi. Andy is an Apache and Spring-DM committer. Andy has represented BEA and Oracle in many standards groups and has presented at several international conferences including Object Expo, Object Technology, JavaOne, SpringOne and various BEAWorld conferences. His new book \"Spring DM in Action\" will be out in April.

 

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.

 

Ian Robinson IBM

Ian is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's WebSphere development organization. He works at the IBM Hursley software lab in the UK and is responsible for the strategy and development of OSGi technologies in WebSphere and the transaction processing capabilities of the WebSphere platform. As a member of the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) Ian is co-author of the OSGi Transaction Service specification.

 

Walter Rudametkin

Walter Rudametkin is currently a PhD student at the University of Grenoble with a CIFRE scholarship funded by Bull SAS. He received his M.Sc. from the Groupe Grenoble INP and the UJF Grenoble, and his B.Sc. from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in his home town of Ensenada, Mexico. His research interests include service oriented computing, dynamic service platforms and adaptable middleware.

 

David Savage Paremus Ltd

David Savage is a software engineer working for Paremus as a lead architect on the Service Fabric product suite. The Paremus Service Fabric is an OSGi based distributed runtime with self healing, scaling and monitoring capabilities. He also contributes to open source as a committer on Apache Felix where he works primarily on the Sigil development tooling sub-project. Sigil is a set of development tools that provide a common IDE and headless build environment for OSGi applications. Recently he became a joint author on the book OSGi In Action from Manning Publications.

 

Karl Scotland Rally Software

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 an Agile Coach with Rally Software in the UK, 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, Yahoo! and EMC Consulting. 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.

 

Katya Todorova SAP

Katya is a software developer, loaded with pragmatism and striving for simplicity and standardization. She works for SAP with her expertise mainly in the areas of Componentization, Modularization and Class Loading. Currently, Katya is focused on OSGi technologies and Equinox in particular. For the last few years, she has been working on adopting OSGi in Enterprise solutions where she has significant experience and success stories. Katya is an active member of Eclipse Open Source Community, mainly focused and contributing to the Equinox P2 Project

 

Dimitar Valtchev ProSyst Software

Dr. Dimitar Valtchev is Chief Technology Officer of ProSyst Software which has been deeply involved in the OSGi development since 1999. His main interests are in the fields of embedded systems, device management, and distributed computing. Currently Dimitar, who is leading a team of 120+ OSGi developers at ProSyst, is involved in numerous projects using the OSGi technology.

 

Tim Ward IBM

Tim Ward is a software engineer at IBM’s Hursley lab. He is actively engaged in agile projects and is the JPA lead for the IBM WebSphere Application Server OSGi Applications Feature Pack. Tim is a committer for the Apache Aries project, and a member of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. Tim holds a MSci from the University of Cambridge, England, where he studied Theoretical Physics.

 

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.

 

David Whitmarsh Independent

David Whitmarsh is an independent contractor/consultant with thirty years experience in software development and architecture, the last fourteen years in development and architecture in investment banks.

 

Matt Wynne Freelance Programmer

Matt works as a freelance programmer and coach with teams who want to build amazing software. He uses tools like Ruby, Cucumber, XP, Kanban and Theory of Constraints to build teams that build products to the best of their abilities. He's a core developer on Cucumber, a tool for writing automated acceptance tests that read like documentation. Matt is passionate about quality and integrity in software, and can be found in the corridors of conferences all over the world learning how these can be better achieved.

 

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