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Organizer

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Ken Fogel

Java Champion, Author, Conference Speaker, Research Scholar in Residence at Dawson College

Ken retired from the classroom after 31 years teaching software development at Dawson College, 25 of those years as the chair and program coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program. He is currently a Research Scholar in Residence at the college. His first book, Transitioning to Java, was recently published by Packt. He has spoken and continues to speak at numerous conferences around the world.

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CFP Committee

The CFP committee is comprised of a small group of Java Champions.


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Jonathan Vila Lopez

Java Champion since 2020, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG since 2012 and cofounder of JBCNConf since 2015 and DevBcn conferences in Barcelona.

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Rustam Mehmandarov

https://mehmandarov.com/

Rustam is a Java Champion and Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud. He lives and works in Oslo, Norway, working as a chief engineer and consultant specializing in Java platform, and a competency network coordinator at work. Previously, he has been leading JavaZone and the Norwegian JUG – javaBin. Rustam is passionate about open source and sharing his knowledge with others. He is a frequent speaker at both national and international conferences and events.

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Eric Deandrea

Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He is a contributor to various OSS projects, including Quarkus, Spring, LangChain4j, WireMock, and Microcks, as well as a speaker at many public events and user groups around the world. Eric recently put his Quarkus and Spring knowledge to use by publishing his first book, “Quarkus for Spring Developers (https://red.ht/quarkus-spring-devs).” Outside of work, Eric enjoys boating on the lakes of New Hampshire, ice hockey, and martial arts, in which he holds a black belt in Kempo Karate.

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Kevin Dubois

Kevin is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where his deep passion for open source, Java, and cloud-native development shines through. As a recognized Java Champion, accomplished software engineer, author, and keynote speaker, Kevin is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern software development. His role at Red Hat allows him to immerse himself in cutting-edge open source projects while enhancing the developer experience across the globe. Kevin contributes when he can to projects like Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop). He’s also an organizing member of the Belgian CNCF and the Belgian Java User Group. Multilingual and multicultural, Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French, and Italian fluently. Currently based in Belgium, he has also lived in Italy and the USA. When he’s not coding or speaking at conferences, you’ll likely find Kevin exploring the great outdoors—whether he's hiking rugged trails, gravel biking through scenic routes, snowboarding down mountain slopes, or packrafting on untamed waters.

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Andrzej Grzesik

Small data and high latency software, on the JVM

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Simon Martinelli

Simon Martinelli is a Java Champion, a Vaadin Champion, and an Oracle ACE Pro. He regularly shares his knowledge in articles, speaks at international conferences, and writes his blog: https://martinelli.ch. He owns Martinelli LLC and has worked as a software architect, developer, consultant, and trainer for three decades, especially in the Java Enterprise environment. In addition to his work, he is a lecturer at two universities in Switzerland.

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A N M Bazlur Rahman

Java Champion | Empowering Developers through Speaking, Writing, Mentoring & Community Building | Published Author | Editor @InfoQ, @foojayio

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Loiane Groner

Software Engineer. Published author (PacktPub). Tech articles (loiane.com) and free video courses (loiane.training).

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Josh Juneau

Josh Juneau is an Application Developer, Database Administrator, and System Analyst in his day job. His primary focus is on Java EE, Jakarta EE, and web/enterprise systems, as he has been developing distributed database application systems since the early 2000s. Josh also enjoys working with JavaFX as well as other JVM languages. Member of the JCP, an Apache NetBeans developer, Java Champion. He has written a number of books for Apress and technical articles for publications such as Java Magazine. Josh is a usual suspect on the OffHeap and Stackd podcasts.

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CFP Organizer

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A N M Bazlur Rahman

Java Champion | Empowering Developers through Speaking, Writing, Mentoring & Community Building | Published Author | Editor @InfoQ, @foojayio

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Website

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Josh Juneau

Josh Juneau is an Application Developer, Database Administrator, and System Analyst in his day job. His primary focus is on Java EE, Jakarta EE, and web/enterprise systems, as he has been developing distributed database application systems since the early 2000s. Josh also enjoys working with JavaFX as well as other JVM languages. Member of the JCP, an Apache NetBeans developer, Java Champion. He has written a number of books for Apress and technical articles for publications such as Java Magazine. Josh is a usual suspect on the OffHeap and Stackd podcasts.

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Scheduling

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Eric Deandrea

Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He is a contributor to various OSS projects, including Quarkus, Spring, LangChain4j, WireMock, and Microcks, as well as a speaker at many public events and user groups around the world. Eric recently put his Quarkus and Spring knowledge to use by publishing his first book, “Quarkus for Spring Developers (https://red.ht/quarkus-spring-devs).” Outside of work, Eric enjoys boating on the lakes of New Hampshire, ice hockey, and martial arts, in which he holds a black belt in Kempo Karate.

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Barry Burd

Author of Java For Dummies, Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, and other books.

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Ticket Sales

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Ken Fogel

Java Champion, Author, Conference Speaker, Research Scholar in Residence at Dawson College

Ken retired from the classroom after 31 years teaching software development at Dawson College, 25 of those years as the chair and program coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program. He is currently a Research Scholar in Residence at the college. His first book, Transitioning to Java, was recently published by Packt. He has spoken and continues to speak at numerous conferences around the world.

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Publicity

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Jonathan Vila Lopez

Java Champion since 2020, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG since 2012 and cofounder of JBCNConf since 2015 and DevBcn conferences in Barcelona.

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Eric Deandrea

Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He is a contributor to various OSS projects, including Quarkus, Spring, LangChain4j, WireMock, and Microcks, as well as a speaker at many public events and user groups around the world. Eric recently put his Quarkus and Spring knowledge to use by publishing his first book, “Quarkus for Spring Developers (https://red.ht/quarkus-spring-devs).” Outside of work, Eric enjoys boating on the lakes of New Hampshire, ice hockey, and martial arts, in which he holds a black belt in Kempo Karate.

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Loiane Groner

Software Engineer. Published author (PacktPub). Tech articles (loiane.com) and free video courses (loiane.training).

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Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, a well-known public speaker, open source contributor, published author, and developer advocate. Daniel has more than 20 years of first-hand experience in solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using cloud-native technologies such as Quarkus, Spring Boot, Node.js, and Kubernetes.

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Conference Runners

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Jonathan Vila Lopez

Java Champion since 2020, Organiser at BarcelonaJUG since 2012 and cofounder of JBCNConf since 2015 and DevBcn conferences in Barcelona.

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Ken Fogel

Java Champion, Author, Conference Speaker, Research Scholar in Residence at Dawson College

Ken retired from the classroom after 31 years teaching software development at Dawson College, 25 of those years as the chair and program coordinator of the Computer Science Technology Program. He is currently a Research Scholar in Residence at the college. His first book, Transitioning to Java, was recently published by Packt. He has spoken and continues to speak at numerous conferences around the world.

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Conference Card Design

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Marcus Eisele

Markus is a Java Champion, former Java EE Expert Group member, founder of JavaLand, reputed speaker at Java conferences around the world, and a very well known figure in the Enterprise Java world.

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Conference Sponsors
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