Speakers

We are happy to present you a varied selection of experienced speakers on Java, JavaScript / web dev, and ops. Check out our lineup so far. We'll be announcing more speakers soon — stay tuned.

Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

Talk: The Art of Simplicity

Holly Cummins

Innovation Leader at IBM, Java Champion, IBM Q Ambassador, JavaOne Rock Star, and regular keynote speaker

Talk: Tradeoffs, Bad Science, and Polar Bears - The World of Java Optimisation

Panel: The Present and Future of Java (17)

Falk Sippach

Softwarearchitekt, Berater und Trainer - stets auf der Suche nach dem Funken Leidenschaft, den er bei anderen entfachen kann

Talk: Java 17 - Was erwartet uns in der neuesten LTS-Version? [GER]

Panel: The Present and Future of Java (17)

Rachel Andrew

Developer, author, speaker, and a member of the CSS Working Group. Also, cat lover, avid runner, and aspiring pilot.

Talk: How to understand CSS

Gunnar Morling

Software engineer, Debezium project lead, Java Champion, open-source enthusiast by heart, and avid blogger

Talk: To the Moon and Beyond With Java 17 APIs!

Panel: The Present and Future of Java (17)

Emily Jiang

Java Champion, Liberty cloud native architect and advocate, MicroProfile guru, and international conference speaker

Talk: Cloud-Native Application Development with MicroProfile

Peter Kröner

Frontend specialist, long-time teacher, veteran of dry specifications and buggy browsers, Erklärbär

Talk: Advanced JavaScript Scheduling and Interleaving with Generator Functions

Christian Schwörer

Supporter of digital transformations towards distributed, cloud-based (microservice) architectures

Talk: Supersonic Subatomic Mocking: How to test your Quarkus app with Kotlin, JUnit and MockK

Halil-Cem Gürsoy

Software architect who focuses on large distributed Java Enterprise applications and their challenges

Talk: Die JVM in Kubernetes - Von Mythen und Killern [GER]

Kenzie Woodbridge

Systems analyst, web developer, docs wrangler, and community manager - wrote their thesis on prosocial community within Minecraft multiplayer servers

Talk: Long-term Documentation Maintenance: Critically Necessary, Deeply Underappreciated

Nicolas Frankel

Hazelcast developer advocate, experienced consultant, teacher, trainer and author focused on testing, CI/CD, and DevOps

Talk: A Change-Data-Capture Use Case: Designing an Evergreen Cache

Panel: Distributed Programming in the Age of Microservices and Polyglot Containers

Shai Almog

Developer advocate at Lightrun, co-founder of Codename One, Java Rockstar, speaker, author, blogger, open source hacker

Talk: Getting Back to Sleep as Soon as Possible for the On-call Developer

Panel: Distributed Programming in the Age of Microservices and Polyglot Containers

Rob Richardson

Software craftsman, Microsoft MVP, published author, speaker, and diligent teacher and student of high quality software development

Talk: JavaScript Tests in Node, the Browser, and CI