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Speakers For Conference 07 |
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| Amit
Bhayani |
| Amit is working on JBoss technologies
since past 5 years and has contributed to Hibernate, JBoss AS and IzPack. He
is currently working on Mobicents project as core developer. Amit has been
a speaker at conferences like JBoss Users Groups and RedHat Symposium. |
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| Chris Schalk |
| Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate for Google and helps promote Google Ajax technologies around the world. He is also one of the original members of the OpenAjax Alliance. Prior to Google, Schalk was a Principal Product Manager and Java Evangelist for Oracle's application server and development tools division. While at Oracle, he worked to define the overall Web development experience for Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Faces (Trinidad). He is also the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference published through McGraw-Hill Osborne (ISBN: 0072262400) |
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| Debu Panda
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| Debu has more than 14 years of
experience in the IT industry and has published articles in several
magazines and has presented at many conferences. He is a Senior Principal
Product Manager of the Oracle Application Server development team. He is co
-author of EJB 3.0 In Action. |
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| Harshad Oak |
| Harshad is the founder of
Rightrix Solutions and Editor-in-chief of the sites IndicThreads.com,
QThreads.com and PythonThreads.com. He is the author of the books Pro
Jakarta Commons, Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Empowering J2EE Development and co-
author of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible. |
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| Ivelin
Ivanov |
Ivelin is a member of the
JBoss core team and serves as Director of Product Development. His
responsibilities include overseeing the development process, resources and
unified product roadmap. Ivelin is community leader for Java.net
Communications. He is also member of the JSR 240 Expert Group – JAIN SLEE
1.1 and founder of the open source implementation Mobicents.
Ivelin participates in the Eclipse initiative as member of the
WTP Requirements Committee. In the open source community Ivelin has
contributed to JBoss, Apache Cocoon, jXPath, GNU QEXO, XMLForm and
FreeBuilder IDE. Ivelin graduated with Master's of Computer Science at the
university of Sofia. He is originally from Dobrich, Bulgaria. Ivelin has
presented in number of Conferences like JavPolis, JavaOne etc to name few.
http://ivelinivanov.blogspot.com/ |
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| Jags
Ramnarayan |
| With more than 17 years of
development and management experience, Jags Ramnarayan is responsible for
the direction of high-performance distributed data management software at
GemStone. Mr. Ramnarayan was previously the Web Services architect at BEA
and has been a representative for several technology standards, including
W3C, SOAP, and JAXM. He has also been involved in J2EE platform
specifications and EJB expert groups. He has presented in technical
conferences such as Grid conferences, JUG, ObjectExpo, JavaOne, and W3C
workshops, and has been active in the field of distributed high-performance
computing for the past 10 years. |
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| Janakiram MSV |
Janakiram MSV is a Product Manager with Microsoft India. He started his career with FoxPro development and subsequently moved to Visual Basic and the .NET platforms. He has been a trainer, project leader and consultant. He joined Microsoft India as a Technical Specialist where he worked with the corporate and enterprise customers. In his current capacity, he works closely with the developer and designer communities in India, evangelizing and sharing the vision on next generation technologies from Microsoft.
Janakiram is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) Charter Member on the .NET platform. He is passionate about User Experience, XML Web Services and Mobile Computing. In his free time, he enjoys making wide range of technologies interoperate with each other. He blogs at http://www.janakiramm.net/blog/ |
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| Karthik Gurumurthy |
| Karthik has been associated
with the IT industry for more than seven years now and has employed several
open-source libraries to address business problems. He is the author of the
book 'Pro Wicket' ( Apress publications). Karthik’s involvement with open
source also includes contribution to popular open-source projects |
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| Paulo
Caroli |
| I, Paulo Caroli, am an
application architect for ThoughtWorks, US. I have a Master's Degree in
Software Engineering, and am a Sun Certified Architect for Java Technology
with more than 13 years experience in Software Development. Moreover, I am
currently a trainer for ThoughtWorks on Agile Techniques, such as XP, TDD
and Object Oriented development practices. Throughout my career, I have had
the opportunity to speak at several technical conferences, and provide
training on a multitude of technical topics. I have also authored several
articles and publications which can be found on my website at
www.caroli.org |
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| Peter
Thomas |
A keen Open Source
enthusiast, Peter is the initiator and maintainer of two successful
SourceForge projects. One of them is "JTrac" - an open-source issue
management web-application completely built on Wicket, Spring and
Hibernate.
JTrac has
been very well received within the Java community and reached a ranking of
#13 on SourceForge as soon as version 2.0 final was released in December
2006.
Peter Thomas works as a Principal Consultant for Satyam Computer
Services Ltd, based out of Bangalore, India. He has been a guest speaker on
Java technologies at events such as the first Indicthreads.com Conference on Java
Technology, 2006. |
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| Prayank
Swaroop |
Prayank Swaroop is an evangelist for Adobe, where he supports user
communities, spreads awareness about the latest web technologies. With
a deep interest in rich internet applications (RIAs), web 2.0 and
other web technologies. He is also part of the organizing team for
Bangalore Barcamp. He has been invited as a speaker to various
conferences like BEA Dev2Dev, SAP India Summit, Adobe MAX Las Vegas,
etc. He has helped setup various usergroups in India and is
responsible for the weekly Asia Pacific seminars focusing on Web 2.0
and Adobe technologies, that begun towards the end of May 2007.
Prayank had spent last couple of years as a member of the ColdFusion
engineering team at Adobe – where he was in-charge of charting,
imaging and multi-server monitoring features. |
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| Ramesh
Loganathan |
Ramesh has 16 years of
Systems engineering and R&D management experience in technology intensive
product development organizations including Sonic Software (Technical
Director- India Dev Center), Pramati Technologies (VP, Engineering) and
Informix (Principal Engineer). Ramesh has full life-cycle experience setting
up and managing product development organizations and motivating high-
caliber engineering teams. He has strong insight into Systems software,
Middleware-technology, Database internals, Internet Architectures and
frameworks.
Ramesh has led engineering efforts building software
infrastructure products at Pramati and Sonic Software. After a brif
engagement with Sonic/Progress, Ramesh is now VP-Middleware Technologies at
Pramati, driving the product direction and setting up a new Technology
Consulting business around Middleware Systems.
Ramesh has worked with several organizations in India and in US
including IBM, Lever, Compaq, TCS, Informix and Integra. Ramesh is an
accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and
seminars. He is active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations. Member of
several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.4 and is a founding member
of ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org. Ramesh is actively engaged with
academia and researchers and is an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-H teaching two
courses on Middleware systems. |
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| Samisa Abeysinghe |
| Since May 2004, Samisa has been a committer of Apache Web services
project and initiated the Apache Axis2/C effort in September 2005. He is an active developer of the Apache Axis2/C project. Samisa was elected an
Apache Software Foundation member in June 2006.Samisa is a Software Architect at WSO2 Inc.currently, and leads the WSO2 WSF/C and WSO2 WSF/PHP projects.
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| Sunu Engineer |
| Sunu is the CTO of Embedded Computing Machines Pvt. Ltd. Earlier he was a senior scientist with the instrumentation lab at the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). During his tenure at IUCAA spanning over 10 years, Sunu was involved with a wide variety of projects involving all facets of Electronic and Software system design. Sunu is also an avid teacher and instructs students in graduate and post graduate courses at various universities around the world. Sunu holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Pune |
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| Swarraj Kulkarni |
Swarraj has over 15 years of
experience in software field and his technology experience varies from
Assembly Language programming to Java/J2EE based development.
At Cognizant, he is a Principal Architect with the Java Center
of Excellence (JCoE). Currently Swarraj is focusing on Web 2.0 and actively
involved in evaluating different technologies and products under Web 2.0
technology stack. He is also leading efforts on several PoCs being developed
on AJAX and Mashup technologies and toolsets. |
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| Vadiraja Bhatt |
Vadiraja Bhatt is an Architect in Database Performance Engineering and
Development group in Sybase. He has spent more than 12+ in Database back end technology with primary focus on performance engineering. He was the architect of integration of Java in the Database for which heholds a US patent. He has also co-authored many articles and presented in several conferences. |
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| Vineet Gupta |
Vineet Gupta is an Evangelist with Microsoft India and his charter is to drive adoption, readiness and awareness on Microsoft’s Enterprise Applications Platform. His responsibilities also include building communities and helping the SIs and ISVs in India incubate solutions on these technologies.
He's been at Microsoft for over six years, first as a technology specialist focusing on BizTalk Server and since last three years in his present role. Prior to joining Microsoft he worked with an Internet startup as a middleware expert + dev-process owner, and before that as an instructor and technical writer teaching COM, C++ and UML.
When he is not working, he enjoys playing chess, listening to music and sleeping. His interests include reading sci-fi & fantasy, algorithm design, gaming (AOE, Quake3, Rome Total War, Morrowind), 70s Rock, theology, playing flute and checking out new eating joints!
He blogs at http://vineetgupta.spaces.live.com/ |
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| * Speakers and sessions are listed on
the site only after they are confirmed. However please note that due to
unforeseen circumstances the sessions, speakers and schedules could
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