Jeff Genender - Apache

Jeff has a distinguised pedigree of software development. Originally from Chicago, he is now CEO of Savoir Technologies in Colorado, which specialises in Java, Oracle and .NET.

Manik Surtani - JBoss

Manik has a background in artificial intelligence and neural networks, a field he joined the commercial world. He is now the lead on JBoss Cache.

Mark Proctor - JBoss

Mark joined JBoss in October 2005 as the JBoss Rules project lead where he is productising the popular Drools Rule Engine.

Sam Brannen - Springsource

A Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource, Sam is also a member of the core development team for the Spring Framework.

Kevin Noonan - Calbane

Kevin is a system & server software developer with over a decade of commercial experience with NASDAQ-quoted technology companies & Irish financial institutions.

Werner Keil - Creative Arts and Technologies

Werner has 18 years software experience and is currently a Java EE Architect and WebSphere Consultant for German Automotive Leader Mercedes Benz.

Guillaume Laforge - G2One

Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. 

Chris Davey - Accenture

Chris has been the technical architect of a number of national scale systems. Chris has been with Accenture in Dublin for seven years, within the Technical Architecture group. 

Gary Tully - Progress Software

With over 12 year experience as a software developer (mostly with Java) there's nothing more than Gary loves to do than to get to the root cause of a complex problem. 

Charles Oliver Nutter - SUN

Recognised as one of the world's greatest authorities on the JRuby language, Charlie has been working with Java since 1997 and co-leading the JRuby project at Sun Microsystems since 2004.

Jean-Frederic Mesnil - JBoss

Jeff, as Jean-Frederic is known, has more than 7 years experience designing and developing middleware apps for dynamic companies and labs including JBoss Red Hat, Continuent and INRIA.

Guillaume Nodet - Progress Software

Currently a software architect at Progress, Guillaume is a highly regarded Committer for projects including Apache ServiceMix, Active MQ, Geronimo, Ode and CXF.

Tony Jewtushenko - Product Innovator

Tony Jewtushenko is a director with Product Innovator Ltd, an Irish Consultancy providing software commercialisation and process improvement training and services.

Jasper Potts - SUN Microsystems

Jasper is an engineer at Sun Microsystems working on the JavaFX & Swing Teams with Richard Bair who presented at the Irish Java Technologies Conference in November 2007. Jasper's current projects include JavaFX UIControls and Graphics APIs and he is often creating Java & JavaFX Demos for keynotes , talks and javafx.com.

Antony Reynolds - Oracle

Antony Reynolds is the Middleware Solutions Director at Oracle UK where he focuses on translating business requirements into technology solutions and shaping those requirements in a middleware stack. 

Claudio Perrone - InnerWorkings

Claudio Perrone is Chief Technology Officer at InnerWorkings, a company providing advanced learning and analysis tools for software developers.