Martijn Verburg
Martijn Verburg is a Dutch Born Kiwi who is also a permanent resident
of a few other nations, he likes to call it being a “citizen of the
world”. Martijn co-leads the London (UK) Java User Group (JUG) and
also is heavily involved in the London graduate/undergraduate
developer, CTOs and software craftsmanship communities. JavaRanch.com
kindly invited him to be a bartender in 2008 and he’s been humbled by
the awesomeness of the community ever since.
He’s currently working on somewhat complex JCA Connectors and an associated open source middleware platform (Ikasan) and also spends a
good deal of time herding monkeys on another open source project that
deals with creating characters for d20 based role playing games
(PCGen).
Joonas Lehtinen
Joonas Lehtinen has a PhD in computer science and is one of the core developers of Vaadin, a Java-based framework for building business-oriented Rich Internet Applications. Joonas has been developing applications for the web since 1995 with a strong focus on Ajax and Java. He is the founder and CEO of the company behind the Vaadin framework.
Alex Snaps
Alex Snaps is a software engineer at Terracota Inc, with significant experience in web application development and highly concurrent systems. Before working on the Terracotta platform and product line, he participated in medium to large projects as coach, development lead and architect. He speaks regularly about Java development at events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, Devoxx, JavaZone, Jazoon or XP Days as well as JUGs around the globe. He is currently working on Ehcache, the Quartz enterprise scheduler and the Terracotta Toolkit.
John Davies
John has been working in leading edge technology, mostly in investment banking and payments for well over 25 years. Working in 3 continents, moving from programmer to head of trading systems and head of technology at BNP Paribas to Global Head or Technical Architecture at JP Morgan. In 2000 John co-founded C24, the main product “Integration Objects” (IO), a code-generator solved integration issues for investment banks, covering SWIFT, ISO-20022, FpML & FIX. C24 was sold to Nasdaq’s Iona Technologies in 2007 which was then sold to Progress Software a year later, John became the Technical Director in both cases.
In early 2008 John co-founded Incept5, initially an incubator but now a medium-sized consulting company specialising in agile scaling of enterprise solutions, specifically investment banking and payments. Early clients included Revolution Money recently sold to Amex (now “Serve.com”) and Verifi. More recently Incept5 has been working with Visa Inc. on a number of exciting projects.
In 2010 Incept5 broke off a division into mobile iPhone and iPad apps, achieving first place in both categories and has now spun off “i9” providing iPad solutions in the insurance industry.
In April 2011 after working for some time with Progress, Incept5 reacquired C24 together with the blue-chip client base. C24 Integration Objects is now closely tied into Spring Integration as an enterprise integration solution.
Between running a consultancy and two product companies John enjoys photography and travelling with his wife and 3 young boys.
Peter Neubauer
Peter Neubauer, COO NeoTechnology, Peter has been deeply involved in programming for 10 years and is co-founder of a number of Open Source projects like Neo4j, Tinkerpop, OPS4J and Qi4j. Peter loves connecting things, writing crappy prototypes and throwing together new ideas and projects around graphs and society-scale innovation. If you wantbrainstorming – feed him a Latte and you are in business.
Jevgeni Kabanov
Jevgeni Kabanov is the founder and CTO of ZeroTurnaround, a development tools company that focuses on productivity. Before that he worked as the R&D director of Webmedia, Ltd., the largest custom software development company in the Baltics. As part of the effort to reduce development time tunraround, he wrote the prototype of the ZeroTurnaround flagship product, JRebel, a class reloading JVM plugin.
Jevgeni has been speaking at international conferences for over 5 years, including TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaPolis/Devoxx, JavaZone, JAOO, QCon, JFokus and others. He also has an active research interest in programming languages, types and virtual machines, publishing several papers on topics ranging from category theoretical notions to typesafe Java DSLs. Jevgeni is a co-founder of two open-source projects – Aranea and Squill.