Speaker

Neil Bartlett Weigle Wilczek UK

Neil is a developer, consultant, trainer and author on the subjects of OSGi and Eclipse, and he has assisted a number of large companies in the UK and elsewhere to adopt OSGi and RCP. He has presented previously at numerous OSGi DevCons, EclipseCons and Community Events, as well as at local JUGs in London and Tokyo. This specific presentation was delivered at the Eclipse DemoCamp in London on 17th June 2010, but it has been significantly expanded and developed since then.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Jim Colson IBM

Jim Colson, IBM Fellow, has championed a decades-long quest for an open, end-to-end middleware platform that spans servers to cell phones. Jim spent the first few years of his career building computer vision guided robot systems, used to manufacture IBM products, commercial jumbo jets, personalized magazines, and even used to help remediate radioactive material in nuclear dumps. Jim's childhood interest in cars was rekindled at IBM during a stint in the mid-1990s when he helped create the first in-cabin infotainment systems with a small consortium of key automotive companies. Working on automotive telematics led to Jim being one of the founding members of the IBM pervasive computing initiative. Jim, and the IBM pervasive computing initiative, subsequently became a driving force behind the creation and promotion of the OSGi Alliance as a key part of the overall open, end-to-end middleware objective. Some of the key results include the adoption of OSGi as the underpinning runtime for the overall Eclipse community, and the more recent success associated with the emerging OSGi penetration into the Enterprise server communities.

 

Peter Cooper Ellis VMware

Peter Cooper-Ellis is Vice President of R&D for the SpringSource Division of VMware. Peter has more than 25 years of experience managing both open-source and proprietary enterprise software product development teams. Prior to VMware, Peter served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product Management for SpringSource and as Executive Vice President and General Manager for the WebLogic Server product line at BEA Systems, Inc. (acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2008). While at BEA, he was recognized for growing the WebLogic Server Unit business from its inception to the creation of BEA’s flagship product, BEA WebLogic Server, the world’s leading Java application server.

 

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.

 

Anthony Gelibert Adele (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble)

Anthony Gelibert (anthony.gelibert@me.com) obtained a Master at « Master of Science in Informatics at Univ. Grenoble » (MoSIG) and an engineer degree at ENSIMAG, in 2010.He worked during a research project of several months on the utilization of OSGi and Terracotta to replicate the internal state of clustered services as well as the study of the update at runtime of replicated services. He is interested in the system aspects of the component-based software engineering.

 

James Governor RedMonk

James Governor is co-founder of RedMonk, the open source analyst firm, which specialises in developer advocacy. He advises enterprises, startups and major companies such as IBM and Microsoft on developer-led innovation, community and technology strategy. James is co-author of the O’Reilly book Web 2.0 Design Patterns: what architects and entrepreneurs need to know. RedMonk makes extensive of social media tools in its business operations - James, aka @monkchips, has more than 9k followers on twitter. He is also listed in the top 5 analysts worldwide by the Institute of Analyst Relations. Chairman of SAP's external panel for stakeholder assurance in Sustainability Strategy and Reporting for 2009 he led the creation of the Greenmonk sustainability advisory service, a RedMonk subsidiary.

 

Jeremy Hughes IBM

Jeremy Hughes is the architect for the runtime of the OSGi Applications feature of IBM's WebSphere Application Server. Based at IBM's Hursley development laboratory in the UK he has developed speech recognition telephony based products, has worked on product specific services engagements, and as program manager set up and ran the European arm of IBM's Extreme Blue student internship program. He has worked in the WebSphere Application Server development team since 2001 leading the development of web services technologies and more recently the runtime for the OSGi Applications feature which was released as a Feature Pack mid 2010. He has been involved as committer on Apache projects since 2001, most recently in Apache Aries.

 

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.

 

Peter Kriens OSGi Alliance

Peter Kriens is the OSGi Director of Technology and CEO of aQute. He has worked as consultant for a large number of international companies introducing OO techniques. In 94 he moved to Sweden to work for Ericsson, where he worked on a number of commercial and research projects. In 2001, he was hired part-time by the OSGi to act as its technical director, in which capacity he was the editor of the specifications. He currently also acts as the OSGi Evangelist.

 

Eric Newcomer Credit Suisse

Eric joined Credit Suisse in August, 2009 and took the role of Chief Architect for the Investment Banking Division in April, 2010, reporting to the CIO of the Investment Bank and dotted line to the corporate Chief Architect. His main responsibilities are improving the designs of applications in the Investment Bank and helping to establish common standards and architecture across divisions of Credit Suisse. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Eric was CTO of IONA Technologies through the acquisition of IONA by Progress Software and a TP Architect at Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of HP).

 

Glyn Normington SpringSource

Glyn Normington leads the Virgo project, serves on the OSGi Alliance's Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups, and works for SpringSource, a division of VMware, in Southampton England.

 

Alasdair Nottingham IBM

Alasdair Nottingham is a developer and architect for WebSphere Application Server, his current focus is on improving the developer experience. During his ten years of experience as a developer of WebSphere Application Server he works on many aspects of the server, from samples to programming models. He led the development of the OSGi applications feature, helped bring OSGi to the server in version 6.1, and worked on various aspects of the messaging capabilities in WebSphere Application Server, and more recently led the development of the new WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Alpha Liberty Profile. Alasdair is also an active participant in the OSGi Alliance standards body and an active contributor to the Apache Aries project. Alasdair is hairier than his photo would suggest.

 

Marcel Offermans Luminis Technologies

Marcel is a fellow at Luminis and leads the competence center for OSGi at Luminis Technologies. As a software architect he has a broad experience in different operating systems, languages and applications, ranging from enterprise applications to mobile, embedded and distributed systems. He has been involved in lots of commercial OSGi projects for over eight years and is responsible for the architecture, development and support of an OSGi based software provisioning product. He is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation and involved as a committer and PMC member in the Apache Felix and Apache ACE projects. Marcel regularly speaks at conferences, including ApacheCon, EclipseCon, OSGi DevCon, Devoxx, NLJUG and various local demo camps and user forums and has given several hands-on trainings on OSGi related subjects.

 

Andy Piper Oracle Corp.

Dr Andy Piper has worked in Information Technology for over 20 years, from application development to consultancy. 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, Eclipse 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 2010.

 

Ian Robinson IBM

Ian Robinson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's WebSphere development organization, based at the IBM Hursley Software Lab in the UK. Ian has 20 years experience working in enterprise middleware and software standards. He is a senior architect for the WebSphere platform, responsible for the strategy and development of OSGi technologies in WebSphere and the transaction processing capabilities of the WebSphere platform. He is the chair of the OASIS Web Service Transactions technical committee and co-author of the OSGi Transaction Service specification. Ian’s current focus is on how technologies like OSGi can reduce complexity in enterprise environments. He is a member of the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group, he helped initiate the open source Apache Aries incubator project to build a developer community around enterprise OSGi and leads the integration of these technologies into the WebSphere platform to provide application developers with the tools and runtime they need to develop and deploy modular applications.

 

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 focused on building scalable, modular, dynamic networked software. He works for Paremus Ltd. as a principal developer on their Service Fabric and Nimble products and is specification lead on the Marshalling and Bundle Repository RFCs for the OSGi Alliance. He is also co author of "OSGi In Action" published by Manning Publications Ltd. He has contributed to various open source projects, most recently Apache Felix. Davids blog can be found at http://chronological-thought.blogspot.com/ and when twittering he is known as @davemssavage.

 

Daniel Schellhoss ProSyst Software GmbH

Daniel Schellhoss (37) founded ProSyst in 1997 and has been pivotal in driving its progress in the field of embedded Java and OSGi-compliant middleware. He was instrumental in transforming the company from a promising start-up with innovative technology to a full-fledged market leader with a global roster of clients and partners. Prior to ProSyst, Daniel Schellhoss founded and acted as Managing Director of a Cologne, Germany-based marketing firm. Daniel Schellhoss studied Marketing at the WAK Academy in Cologne.

 

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

Dimitar Valtchev is Chief Technology Officer of ProSyst Software which offers several OSGi and Eclipse based products. His main interests are in the fields of embedded systems, device management, and distributed computing. Currently Dimitar is involved in numerous residential, automotive and mobile projects using the OSGi technology

 

Timothy Ward IBM

Tim Ward is a design and development lead for IBM’s OSGi Applications Feature Pack for WebSphere. He is active in the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group (EEG), which specifies how enterprise technologies work in an OSGi framework. Tim co-authored the RFC and draft specification for the OSGi JPA Service and is currently leading several RFCs. Tim is a committer in the Apache Aries project, which provides OSGi application container components. Aside from his extensive work with OSGi technologies Tim is a recognised JPA advocate and one of IBM's key Spring Framework experts. Tim has previous experience speaking about JPA at Jazoon 2010, EclipseCon 2010, and in an interactive tutorial at JAX London.

 

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.

 

Takefumi Yamazaki NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories

He received B.E degree in physical engineering from University of Tokyo, Japan in 1986. He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in 1986. Since he joined NTT he had engaged in developing intelligent system, natural language processing system, visual softphone system and home network service system. Since 2007 he has been as the Primary Alternate for Board of Director of OSGi Alliance for NTT, working together with Dr. Kawamura, one of board members. Since 2008 he has been a secretariat of OSGi User Forum Japan (# of members: 140)

 

 
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