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Speakers

Michael Coté - Industry Analyst, RedMonk
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Michael Coté, Industry Analyst, RedMonk

Coté is an analyst at RedMonk covering primarily enterprise software, specializing in open source, IT management, software development, collaborative, the web, and social/collaborative software. He is RedMonk’s IT Management Lead. His blog is available at PeopleOverProcess.com and he produces the RedMonk podcast as well as the video podcast RedMonkTV.

Before joining RedMonk, Coté worked at BMC developing the BMC Performance Manager family of enterprise systems management products. Prior to BMC, Coté worked at a wide variety of tech companies and startups such as The Cobalt Group, Coral Technologies, and one of the first, and still thriving, online banking companies, FundsXpress. He also produces the popular code monkey podcast, DrunkAndRetired.

Bob Martin - Founder & President, Object Mentor
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Bob Martin, Founder & President, Object Mentor

Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a software professional since 1970 and is founder and president of Object Mentor Inc., in Gurnee, Illinois. Object Mentor, Inc., is an international firm of highly experienced software developers and managers who specialize in helping companies get their projects done. Object Mentor offers process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting, training, and skill development services to major corporations worldwide.

Mr. Martin has published dozens of articles in various trade journals, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows. Mr. Martin has authored and edited many books.

A leader in the industry of software development, Mr. Martin served three years as the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report, and he served as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance.

Dan Allen - Seam Project Team at JBoss, Red Hat
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Dan Allen, Seam Project Team at JBoss, Red Hat

Dan is a member of the Seam project team at JBoss by Red Hat, author of Seam in Action and a speaker at major industry conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, ETE, Jazoon and JSF Summit. His presentation at JavaOne 2009 earned him the JavaOne Rock Star award. But he’s best known by colleagues for his passionate work using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, JSF, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Selenium), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and many others.

Dan is a dedicated open source and Linux advocate and blogs about his experiences regularly. You can keep up with his discoveries by subscribing to his blog at Mojave Linux or following him on twitter.

Bonnie Aumann - Agile Project Manager, Algorithmics
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Bonnie Aumann, Agile Project Manager, Algorithmics

Bonnie is an enthusiastic and effective Agile project manager, committed to facilitating self-directed, empowered teams and the creation “flow” in the workplace. As the project manager for Algorithmics’ electronic messaging initiative, she advocates for brilliant customer experiences through continuous improvement of both the software and the processes that produce it. www.bonniea.com

Jeff Barr - Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Jeff Barr, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

Jeff Barr is focused on furthering awareness of web services and inspiring developers to create innovative applications using Amazon Web Services. Barr meets regularly with developers throughout the U.S. and abroad to introduce Amazon Web Services’ expanding platform and showcase businesses that currently utilize the program’s services. He is the author of Host Your Web Site in the Cloud published in November of 2009 by SitePoint.

Barr joined Amazon in August 2002 as a Senior Software Developer on the Associates team and has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at Microsoft, KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, was a co-founder of Visix Software, and holds a degree in Computer Science from the American University in Washington, DC. Jeff is also the principal voice behind the AWS Blog.

Lincoln Baxter, III - Seam Project Team at JBoss, Red Hat
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Lincoln Baxter, III, Seam Project Team at JBoss, Red Hat

Creator of PrettyFaces – URL Rewriting and SEO extensions for JSF, PrettyTime – Social-style date & time formatting for Java, member of the JBoss Seam Team, and a member of the JSF2 Expert Group; his latest project is ScrumShark, an open-source agile project management tool.

When he is not swimming, running, or playing Ultimate Frisbee, Lincoln is focused on improving the openness of Java, the Java Community Process(JCP), and bringing the J2EE platform to small businesses and freelancers. You can stay current on his latest open-source developments by subscribing to his blog at ocpsoft.com, or follow him on twitter.

David A. Black - Senior Developer, Cyrus Innovation
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - David A. Black, Senior Developer, Cyrus Innovation

David A. Black is a Senior Developer at Cyrus Innovation, Inc., and a well-known and highly-regarded Ruby and Rails programmer, author, and trainer. Active in the Ruby world since 2000, David has more than a decade of full-time teaching experience, and is the author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist (Manning Publications, 2009). He has been interviewed for InfoQ and the Rails Podcast; has co-organized numerous Ruby/Rails conferences; and has spoken at conferences and Ruby/Rails users groups in the United States, Canada, and Europe. David is also a founding director of Ruby Central, Inc., the parent organization of RubyConf and RailsConf.

Adam Blum - CEO, Rhomobile
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Adam Blum, CEO, Rhomobile

Rhomobile CEO, Adam Blum, came from Good Technology where he was the Senior Director of Engineering. While spending millions of dollars at Good on enterprise mobile application development Adam realized there was a need for a framework where companies could build mobile applications easily and empower their workforce without spending millions upon millions of dollars on application development, training their programmers to learn different programming languages and then building apps from scratch. Rhomobile’s Rhodes enables companies to build their apps and execute them across all the major devices. Adam is a longtime CTO/VP of Engineering for startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio).

David Brussin - Founder & CEO, Monetate
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - David Brussin, Founder & CEO, Monetate

David Brussin is Founder & CEO of Monetate, Inc. Monetate powers Intelligent Personal Promotions™ for online retailers. David is a serial entrepreneur recognized as a leading information security and technology expert, and was honored by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the world’s 100 top young innovators.

In January 2004, David co-founded TurnTide, Inc. around the anti-spam router technology he had invented. As Chief Technology Officer, David also managed engineering and technical operations. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec (SYMC) six months later.

Previously, David co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer for ePrivacy Group, Inc., which created the Trusted Sender program and Trusted Email Open Standard to protect and grow the email marketing channel. David created products to help email marketers increase response and conversion by protecting their trusted relationship with consumers.

Ed Burns - Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Ed Burns, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces, a topic on which Ed recently co-authored a book for McGraw Hill. Ed is an experienced international conference speaker, with consistently high attendence numbers and ratings at JavaOne, JAOO, W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and Java and Linux User Groups.

Kyle Burton - Software Engineer, Algorithmics
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Kyle Burton, Software Engineer, Algorithmics

Kyle is a principal software engineer at Algorithmics Inc. developing messaging based applications in the financial industry using Clojure, Rails and RabbitMQ. Kyle has worked in domains ranging from web harvesting to large scale data integration. He has a very understanding wife who puts up with his technical vagaries and two adorable daughters (both named after cities). He cooks a mean souffle.

Rob Cardwell - VP of Middleware Technology, Red Hat
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Rob Cardwell, VP of Middleware Technology, Red Hat

Rob Cardwell, VP of Middleware Technology at Red Hat, has over 20 years of software development and information management experience, primarily in the healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. He joined Red Hat through the acquisition of MetaMatrix in May 2007, where Rob was CTO from 2002-2007. Prior to MetaMatrix, he was the CIO of Solucient (now part of the Healthcare division of Thomson Reuters). He began his career in development and management positions at Accenture and IBM. Rob graduated from Johns Hopkins University and serves as an Advisory Board member to the Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department and Engineering for Professionals program.

Trotter Cashion - Senior Developer, Hoopla Software
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Trotter Cashion, Senior Developer, Hoopla Software

Trotter Cashion spends his days as an developer at Hoopla Software, where he’s using Rails, Chef, and EC2 to transform the sales metrics industry. At night, he can usually be found hacking on various open source projects, writing books (he’s a contributor to The Rails Way), or drinking a beer and talking about ideas. In the past, he’s worked on streamlining financial communications with Algorithmics, streaming personal videos over the internet for Motionbox, developing a CMS for the New York Jets, and writing an open source OpenID server for VeriSign.

Chris Cera - Co-founder and CTO, Vuzit
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Chris Cera, Co-founder and CTO, Vuzit

Chris co-founded Vuzit where he is the CTO. Vuzit is a software company that provides an online document sharing, control, and analytics platform. Prior to Vuzit, Chris managed all R&D, customer relationships, and IT operations at another startup, Drakontas. While at Traffic.com Chris co-developed the first real-time 3D traffic reporting system used by FOX, ABC, CBS, and NBC at over 70 TV stations in the top 25 US markets. Chris has held development positions at GlaxoSmithKline, submitted 6 patent applications, and published over 15 peer-reviewed publications. Chris holds a B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Drexel.

Shaun Connolly - VP Product Management, Springsource Division of VMware
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Shaun Connolly, VP Product Management, Springsource Division of VMware

Shaun Connolly is Vice President Product Management for the SpringSource division of VMware. Shaun is responsible for overall product strategy, definition and promotion of SpringSource products and ensuring they deliver real customer value by simplifying the development, deployment, and support of enterprise Java and Web applications. Shaun has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, with a track record of building early stage and midsize software companies into successful market leaders.

Shaun was previously VP of Product Management responsible for the JBoss Enterprise Middleware line of products at Red Hat and JBoss. Prior to JBoss/Red Hat, Shaun served in Vice President and Director level Product Management and Product Development positions at Princeton Softech, HP Middleware, Bluestone Software, and Primavera Systems. Shaun holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.

Joe Conway - Instructor, Big Nerd Ranch
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Joe Conway, Instructor, Big Nerd Ranch

iPhone Instructor Joe Conway has been writing software on the Mac platform since he was a teenager. Originally wanting to become a game developer, Joe learned a wide variety of programming skills and cultural histories. Ironically, on the way back from his interview with the Big Nerd Ranch, two game developers sat behind him on the plane, griping about how little fun the game industry was. This solidified his decision to join the Big Nerd Ranch.

Joe quickly moved to Atlanta to begin consulting work for the Big Nerd Ranch after graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 2007, where he also competed as a long jumper for the track team. After being in Atlanta for a total of eleven hours, Joe had his first meeting and secured his first consulting project.

Joe still enjoys an occasional run, but most of the time you will find him at his computer with a pair of headphones on, trying to perfect whatever project he is currently infatuated with. Look for Joe’s upcoming book co-authored with Aaron Hillegass, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass

Adam Coomes - President, Infegy
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Adam Coomes, President, Infegy

Adam Coomes, President, Infegy, is an entrepreneur with a passion for technology and a drive for innovation. Adam has spent much of his life studying web development and building social websites. In his current role as President of Infegy, Adam oversees many aspects of the company, including product development, public relations, and sales. As a co-founder of the company, Adam has helped Infegy achieve startup success without help from outside investors.

Prior to Infegy, Adam worked as the vice president of business development for CDG Commerce, an online e-commerce company. During his tenure, he worked to nearly double the company’s revenue through new business and a variety of campaigns. Adam also gained valuable experience over the years working with several other startups companies in many different developer and management positions. Adam understands and identifies with the worlds of development, sales, marketing and social media, and offers a unique perspective that has helped him create a great work environment and an all-star team.

Ted Coyle - Systems Performance Architect, Portico Systems
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Ted Coyle, Systems Performance Architect, Portico Systems

Ted Coyle is an Agile Database, Systems Performance, Big Data, Synaptic-SemWeb technologist, who, like others straddling the object-relational chasm before him, believes that “data doesn’t have to be a four letter word”. Focusing on Oracle, MySQL, triple-stores, cloud and Open Source technologies, Ted is as comfortable working on high-stress production teams as he is in Scrum coding and working on evolutionary data ontologies. He is currently a Systems Performance Architect at Portico Systems, the leader in Integrated Provider Management solutions for health plans.

Scott Davis - Founder of ThirstyHead.com
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Scott Davis, Founder of ThirstyHead.com Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.

Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.

Scott teaches public and private classes on Groovy and Grails for start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-founder of the Groovy/Grails Experience conference and is a regular presenter on the international technical conference circuit (including No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaOne, OSCON, TheServerSide, and QCON). In 2008, Scott was voted the top Rock Star at JavaOne for his talk “Groovy, the Red Pill: How to blow the mind of a buttoned-down Java developer”.

Toby DiPasquale - Founder & Chief Architect, Relay Networks
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Toby DiPasquale, Founder & Chief Architect, Relay Networks

Toby is a programmer of computers. He’s worked at a bunch of startups, most recently CubeTree, TurnTide, ClickEquations and Invite Media. He is now taking on new challenges at Relay.

Toby’s specialties are distributed and scalable systems, kernel internals, networking and coffee consumption.

Gordon Dickens - Consultant & Trainer, Chariot Solutions
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Gordon Dickens, Consultant & Trainer, Chariot Solutions

Gordon Dickens has worked in the IT consulting realm for over 15 years. Gordon’s recent background includes speaking at the recent Groovy and Grails seminar, experience designing and developing a Groovy on Grails application for a chemical company in addition to OSGi, Spring and Hibernate development. Gordon has over 20 years as an experienced technical instructor in various technology paradigms.

Gordon has applied various technologies including the design, development and testing of applications, object and database modeling within many sectors including Financial, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and more. Gordon enjoys learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others. Gordon is actively participating in several technical book reviews.

Mike Dirolf - Software Engineer, 10gen
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Mike Dirolf, Software Engineer, 10gen

Mike Dirolf is a Software Engineer at 10gen, where he works on the MongoDB project. He mainly works on client drivers for Python and Ruby, but also takes time out to talk about MongoDB – he has presented at EuroPython, Strange Loop Conf, RuPy and RubyConf as well as at meetup groups in New York City, London, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. Mike received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. Born in Albany NY, Mike currently resides in New York City.

Nicole Engard - Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Nicole Engard, Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions

Nicole C. Engard is the Director of Open Source Education at ByWater Solutions. In addition to her daily responsibilities, Nicole has been published in several library journals and keeps the library community up to date on web technologies via her website “What I Learned Today…”. In 2007, Nicole was named one of Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers and in 2009 she was the editor of “Library Mashups,” a book published by Information Today, Inc. Her experience in open source software started with the Koha integrated library system, for which she is now the Documentation Manager and trainer at ByWater. In 2010 she will publish a book on open source software for libraries.

Lee Faus - Director of Solution Engineering, Alfresco Software

Lee Faus has 16 years of programming experience. Starting with teaching high school students Turbo Pascal, C++ and Java, Lee then went on to become a contract trainer for Microsoft, Novell, Sun and Cisco. He taught both networking and programming classes. During that time, Lee got a lot of exposure to distributed computing, especially in web programming. Lee worked with Sun on the J2EE specification and taught the IBM Websphere team J2EE before the specification was ratified. Lee ended up writing curriculum for Microsoft Visual Studio, Exchange, and MS SQL Server. Lee was also involved in the creation of the Sun SL-290 Java Programming curriculum. Lee left the training area and started work as a mentor with his first startup at TogetherSoft where he mentored teams on process alongside his colleagues Dave Astels, Jon Kern, Peter Coad, and Randy ‘Granville’ Miller. Lee focused on teaching distributed teams how to build web based applications using Java/J2EE. When TogetherSoft was sold to Borland, Lee left to go work for Compuware doing project recovery of J2EE applications using Compuware’s OptimalJ and Testing software. About this time Lee became very interested in open source software, not just the technology, but also the business model. Lee left Compuware to become an Enterprise Architect for Railinc where he focused his time on distributed computing using Java/Mobile applications built on top of Eclipse RCP for the transportation industry as well as evolving the messaging infrastructure between the railroads from EDI to XML using open source technologies. Because of his experience in open source, Red Hat offered Lee the chief architect position for their Red Hat Exchange program. Here Lee was introduced to the Matt Asay at Alfresco and Lee left Red Hat to become the Director of Strategic Accounts to work with enterprise accounts on understanding open source and how Alfresco can be leveraged as a strategic solution for their ECM needs.

Aaron Feng - Principal Software Engineer, Algorithmics
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Aaron Feng, Principal Software Engineer, Algorithmics

Aaron Feng is a Principal Software Engineer at financial risk management software company, Algorithmics. He developed an initial financial messaging prototype and is currently involved in architecting and developing it into a full blown financial messaging system. He has chosen the technology stack which includes Clojure, JRuby, and RabbitMQ.

Aaron is also the organizer for Philly Lambda and Philly Startup Hackathons. When he not working or organizing events he enjoys exploring new technology and studying functional programming languages.

Mark Fisher - Engineer, SpringSource
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Mark Fisher, Engineer, SpringSource

Mark Fisher is an engineer within the SpringSource division of VMware and lead of the Spring Integration project. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework and the Spring BlazeDS Integration project. In addition to his role as an engineer, Mark spends a significant amount of time working with customers as a consultant and trainer. The focus of such engagements is primarily in the realm of enterprise integration, messaging, and event-driven applications. Mark is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe, and along with other Spring Integration committers, he is an author of the forthcoming book, “Spring Integration in Action”, to be published in 2010 by Manning.

Brian Gentile - President and CEO, Jaspersoft
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Brian Gentile, President and CEO, Jaspersoft

Brian Gentile brings a successful 24-year track record to Jaspersoft, helping it to become the open source business intelligence market leader, measured by product downloads, production deployments of its software, number of registered community members, and of course commercial customers. Prior to Jaspersoft, Mr. Gentile was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Informatica Corporation, the industry-leading data integration software company, where he helped the company grow consistently and substantially. Previously, Mr. Gentile served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Brio Software, a leading business intelligence software provider, where he was responsible for the company’s global market position and strategy, product marketing, corporate marketing and strategic partner relationships. Prior to Brio, as a Vice President at Sun Microsystems, Brian created Sun’s first-ever worldwide Developer Relations team and helped build the Sun and Java Developer Connection Programs, which reached over 2 million active members during his tenure. And prior to Sun, Brian led Apple’s Evangelism and Developer Relations team, enabling 10,000 independent software vendors to work closely and successfully with Apple’s products and technologies.

Brian’s professional affiliations include nearly seven years as a Public Governor on the board of the Pacific Stock & Options Exchange (now owned by the New York Stock Exchange) and two years as a public member of the NYSE’s Ethics and Business Conduct Committee. Additionally, Mr. Gentile has provided founding Board member assistance for several Silicon Valley start-up ventures and currently serves as a Supervisory Board member for WCC, a Netherlands-based searching and matching technology company. Brian has earned a master of business administration degree from Arizona State University and a bachelor of science in business administration degree from the University of Arizona.

Joe Gregorio - Developer Advocate, Google App Engine and Google Wave, Google
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Joe Gregorio, Developer Advocate, Google App Engine and Google Wave, Google

Joe Gregorio works for Google as a Developer Advocate for Google App Engine and Google Wave.

He is a software engineer, a member of the AtomPub Workgroup and editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol. He has a deep interest in web technologies, writing “The RESTFul Web” column for the online O’Reilly publication XML, writing the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and publishing various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services, such as httplib2. bitworking.org

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Jeremy Grelle - Software Engineer, SpringSource
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Jeremy Grelle, Software Engineer, SpringSource

Jeremy Grelle is an open source software engineer with SpringSource, a division of VMware, who specializes in bringing the cutting-edge techniques of web application development to the Java and Spring ecosystems. He is the technical lead of the Spring JavaScript, Spring Faces, and Spring BlazeDS Integration projects, and he represents SpringSource on the JSR-314 Expert Group for JSF 2.0. He is a software artisan with extensive experience in combining server-side Java with the latest web browser technologies to deliver a rich and usable experience for the end user on the web. Jeremy is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as JavaOne, The Spring Experience, SpringOne, JSFOne, TheServerSide Java Symposium, and Java and Flex user group events, and always enjoys getting out and showing his fellow developers how to bend web browsers to their will and the possibilities of what can be created with Spring and its wealth of complimentary web technologies.

Kevin Griffin - Architect, Chariot Solutions
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Kevin Griffin, Architect, Chariot Solutions

Kevin is currently an Architect at Chariot Solutions. In his first year at Chariot he has worked on a variety of challenges including: Spring/Hibernate and Rails/Flex applications. Much of his time is spent tinkering and evaluating the latest developments in mobile technology. He is currently working on both native and framework-based solutions, as well as developing strategies to introduce mobile technologies into existing systems. Kevin also believes tea should always be served with milk and sugar.

Robert Hanson - Lead Developer & Architect, Quality Technology Services, Author
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Robert Hanson, Lead Developer & Architect, Quality Technology Services, Author

Robert Hanson is the Manager of Applications Development at Quality Technology Services, where he plays a dual role of lead developer and architect. Robert is a veteran programmer, cutting his teeth on Perl and ASP in the mid 90’s before embracing Java. Robert has spent over a dozen years developing high-performance web applications, sometimes reaching hundreds of thousands to millions of visitors every day.

In 2007 Robert co-authored GWT in Action with Adam Tacy in 2007, and is currently working on the second edition. You can follow his work and ramblings on his blog at roberthanson.blogspot.com or visit his home page on the web at roberthanson.org.

Erik Harbison - Senior Director of Interactive Marketing, TrueAction
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Erik Harbison, Senior Director of Interactive Marketing, TrueAction

Erik currently manages the strategic direction of all digital marketing initiatives for several partners within GSI Commerce’s interactive agency division, TrueAction. His group of partners represents major brands within the sports and leagues vertical. His team is responsible for executions across all digital customer touchpoints, including earned, social and mobile media platforms. Prior to his current role, he was Director of Performance Marketing at Refinery (now G2). Erik and his team were responsible for growing the digital marketing practice and success for several companies within the Travel, Financial and Pharmaceutical sectors. Erik came to Refinery via an acquisition of his search engine marketing company, directMASS, in 2005.

Erik started his career as a Media Buyer and Planner at Harmelin Media before moving to Atlanta, GA for a six-year stint. While in Atlanta, Erik worked in strategic planning roles for a few agencies and startups before joining pioneer search engine marketing company 360i.com. Erik has moderated and participated on panels at industry conferences, including imedia summit and etail, and contributed articles to several online industry publications such as mediapost, btobonline, and imediaconnection.

Rich Hickey - Author, Software Designer
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Rich Hickey, Author, Software Designer

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening. Visit clojure.blogspot for more.

Molly Holzschlag - Web Standards Advocate, Evangelist, and Developer Relations Team Member, Opera Software
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Molly Holzschlag, Web Standards Advocate, Evangelist, and Developer Relations Team Member, Opera Software

Having achieved a modicum of balance after her midlife crisis, Molly decided to finally get a job. She is now a Web Evangelist focusing on developer relations for the upstart Norwegian browser company, Opera Software.

Earlier in life, Molly avoided a regular job including those silly start-up ventures and chose instead to write a lot of books and articles and stuff on Web standards, and talk a lot about them, too. She now avoids the former, while the latter is an ongoing inevitability.

To learn more about Molly and her work, you can check out her blog at molly.com or interact with her on Twitter @mollydotcom. Better yet, come have a chat F2F in Philly!

Yehuda Katz - Developer, Engine Yard
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Yehuda Katz, Developer, Engine Yard

Yehuda Katz is currently employed by Engine Yard, and works full time as a Core Team Member on the Rails and Merb projects. He is the co-author of jQuery in Action and the upcoming Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice.

He spends most of his time hacking on Rails and Merb, but also on other Ruby community projects, like Rubinius and Datamapper. And when the solution doesn’t yet exist, he’ll try his hand at creating one – as such, he’s also created projects like Thor and DO.rb .

Jon Kern - Software Architect, Agile Mentor, and Author
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Jon Kern, Software Architect, Agile Mentor, and Author

Jon enjoys working with teams on challenging development projects. Jon routinely has significant impact on the projects, from setting product direction, to modeling and architecting, to coaching the teams in agile practice, and all points in between. Jon is equally at home working with the client’s team, or with a team of experts from his colleagues at immuexa.com and cretesoft.com. Projects usually see high quality solutions in less time, and leave the client team in a better place: mentored on OO and agile, and excited. Jon is an author of The Agile Manifesto, Java Design (with Peter Coad), and others books. After 5 years with jet engine R&D; 9 years DoD consulting, doing real-time man-in-the-loop flight simulation; and 5 years running his own successful software company, he joined Peter Coad as one of the original execs who started TogetherSoft in 1999. While there, he built the mentoring team (services) and helped drive product design and development prior to its sale to Borland in 2003. After a few years with Compuware’s OptimalJ team, Jon left the corporate world in 2006. Jon travels extensively with his wife and 3 kids, loves mountain and rock climbing, loves to ski, and wishes there were more days in the year to enjoy flavorful beers and wines. More here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonkern

Brian Mackay - Software Engineer, MEDecison
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Brian Mackay, Software Engineer, MEDecison

Brian Mackay is a Semantic Web technologist with extensive experience working on high performance applications and blending open source technologies such as RDF, OWL, Hadoop, Hbase, and triple stores in new and original ways. Having spent many years in the financial services industry, Brian now spends his days working in health care technology designing new products and leading R&D initiatives focused on large scale analytics, model driven development, and SOA based solutions.

Geir Magnusson Jr. - VP, Platform and Architecture, Gilt Groupe
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Geir Magnusson Jr., VP, Platform and Architecture, Gilt Groupe

Geir Magnusson Jr, VP, Platform and Architecture, Gilt Groupe – Geir brings to Gilt his interest in scalable systems, software engineering and craftsmanship, and open source software. He’s served as a technical executive and leader for companies such as 10gen, Joost, Adeptra, Bloomberg and Intel, and has built systems and solutions for industries as ranging across financial markets to fraud contact to digital audio. He also has broad experience in open source, having founded several significant open source projects, such as Apache Geronimo, Apache Harmony and Apache Velocity. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he’s represented the Foundation as a member of the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and is a past and current member of the Board of Directors. He’s also an international speaker on open source and software technology.

Brian Marick - Agile Consultant, Author
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Brian Marick, Agile Consultant, Author

Brian Marick was a programmer, tester, and team lead in the 80’s, a testing consultant in the 90’s, and is an Agile consultant this decade. He was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and is the author of three books The Craft of Software Testing, Everyday Scripting with Ruby, and Programming Cocoa With Ruby, and a bunch of articles.

Brian McCallister - Principal Architect, Ning
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Brian McCallister, Principal Architect, Ning

Brian McCallister is a programmery kind of person who loves that folks are willing to pay him to write code. He works as a Principal Architect at Ning, which lets you create and join new social networks for your interests and passions. Brian has worked variously as a programmer, engineering manager, technical writer, and systems administrator on projects ranging from internet platforms to loom control drivers. He is proud to be a Member and Director of the Apache Software Foundation. Check out his blog at skife.org.

Alex Miller - Senior Engineer, Revelytix
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Alex Miller, Senior Engineer, Revelytix

Alex Miller is a Senior Engineer with Revelytix, building federated semantic web query technology. Prior to Revelytix, Alex was technical lead at Terracotta, an engineer at BEA Systems, and Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, languages, and software design. Alex enjoys tweeting as @puredanger and blogging at tech.puredanger.com. In St. Louis, Alex is the founder of the Lambda Lounge group for the study of functional and dynamic languages and the Strange Loop developer conference.

Aaron Mulder - Chief Technical Officer, Chariot Solutions
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Aaron Mulder, Chief Technical Officer, Chariot Solutions

Aaron Mulder is the chief technical officer of Chariot Solutions, where he helps companies with their Java, Java EE, Rails, and Open Source architecture challenges. When not consulting, you can usually find him presenting at conferences and user groups, wrangling with JCP spec committees, working on his latest book, or hacking away at Apache Geronimo, ActiveMQ, OpenEJB, and many more. Along the way, he has contributed to many other projects including, JBoss and PostgreSQL.

Andrew Oswald - Java Architect, Chariot Solutions
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Andrew Oswald, Java Architect, Chariot Solutions

Andy likes fast cars, fast code, and fast phones. That’s why the guys back at Chariot call him “The Cruiser”. Actually, they don’t, but he currently is focused on languages like Scala, Clojure, and Erlang, the emerging nosql space, and the highly performant and scalable solutions such technologies enable. As a consultant, he’s delivered solutions to clients in a wide range of industries including logistics, finance, and e-commerce. He’s currently a Java Architect at Chariot Solutions enjoying the particularly challenging projects that Chariot attracts and the fact that Chariot has given him the opportunity to author the Android ETE mobile app.

When not focused on work related activities, Andy enjoys playing the guitar and pondering the architectural genius of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Alex Payne - Platform Lead, Twitter
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Alex Payne, Platform Lead, Twitter

Alex Payne is an engineer at Twitter, where he works on software infrastructure to power the popular social messaging service. He has previously built web applications for political campaigns, non-profits, and early-stage startups, and supported information security efforts for military and intelligence customers. In his free time, Alex studies, speaks, and writes about the history, present use, and evolution of programming languages. Alex is the co-author of O’Reilly’s Programming Scala.

Mary Poppendieck - Author
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Mary Poppendieck, Author

Mary Poppendieck started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant, and then ended up in product development, where she was both a product champion and department manager.

Mary considered retirement 1998, but instead found herself managing a government software project where she first encountered the word “waterfall.” When Mary compared her experience in successful software and product development to the prevailing opinions about how to manage software projects, she decided the time had come for a new paradigm. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development.

Over the past six years, Mary has found retirement elusive as she lectures and teaches classes with her husband Tom. Based on their on-going learning, they wrote Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point in 2009.

John Quillen - VP, Software Engineering, Jacquette Consulting
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - John Quillen, VP, Software Engineering, Jacquette Consulting

John Quillen wears a rack full of hats at Jacquette Consulting. He is an avid networker and divides his time between developing new business, leading a group and designing and developing software. It’s all about helping clients solve their business problems in creative ways, mostly using software. Before joining Jacquette, while CTO of YouChoose.net, John co-invented and implemented distributed social networking. Prior to YouChoose.net, he was Director of Software Technology Development at GlaxoSmithKline where he led a team delivering leading edge Informatics and Knowledge Management solutions and was an evangelist for usability and agile methods, sponsoring training for and indoctrinating hundreds globally. John has been relying on open source since before it had a name or was a movement.

John utilizes his 17 years of relevant experience as a member of the Life Sciences program committee for the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group (GPSEG). He’s an employee representative on Jacquette’s Board, a 10 year member of the Board of Trustees at his church and has recently co-founded a neighborhood outreach called Neighbors in Need. John holds a degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Delaware.

Rick Rasansky - Founder and CEO, Yorn
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Rick Rasansky, Founder and CEO, Yorn

Since founding one of the earliest SaaS companies which grew to over one million users in less than six months in 1999, to building mobile payment systems, Rick is considered an expert in viral marketing techniques. In addition to focusing on mobile and Internet technologies, his expertise spans payments, user authentication, and privacy, most specifically in the highly regulated financial services sector.

Rick is currently redefining market research at Yorn by using crowd-sourcing and social media to aggregate web and mobile users as panelists for any business, political cause, organization, or individual who has a need to obtain relevant feedback, trends, votes or opinions in near real-time and at low cost. Past activities include founding Network Acquisition Company LLC (NAC) to acquire the former EarthLink Philadelphia Wi-Fi network; founder and CEO of Sapphire Mobile Systems, a patent pending mobile payment infrastructure; Chief Marketing Officer of TRM Corp, an operator of an international network of over 22,000 ATM terminals; and CEO of eCal Corp, which he founded in 1997.
A graduate of the Wharton School and an active patent holding inventor, Rick also studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Moore School of Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the boards of several start-ups, charitable, and industry organizations, including co-founding the Mid-Atlantic chapter of MobileMonday, in addition to being actively involved in mentoring young entrepreneurs through his work as an advisor to Philly Start-up Leaders.

Michael Redlich - Past President, Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Michael Redlich, Past President, Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey

Michael Redlich is a currently a Senior Research Technician at a petrochemical research organization in Clinton, New Jersey with extensive experience in developing custom web and scientific laboratory applications. Mike also has experience as a Technical Support Engineer for Ai-Logix, Inc. where he provided technical support and developed telephony applications for customers. He has been a member of the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey (ACGNJ) since 1996, and currently serves on the ACGNJ Board of Directors as Past-President. Mike has also been facilitating the monthly ACGNJ Java Users Group since 2001. His technical experience includes object-oriented design and analysis, relational database design and development, computer security, C/C++, Java, and other programming/scripting languages. Mike has co-authored a number of articles with Barry Burd for Java Boutique. He has also conducted seminars at Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise since 2008, Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) since 1998, TCF Professional Conference since 2006, and other venues including Princeton Java Users Group, Capital District Java Developers Network, and New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) Java Users Group. Mike serves as a Coordinator of the company’s Science Ambassador program where he has conducted numerous science demonstrations and served as a science fair judge for various elementary schools in central New Jersey. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rutgers University.

Chris Richardson - Head of Cloud Computing, SpringSource
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Chris Richardson, Head of Cloud Computing, SpringSource

Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and the Head of Cloud Computing at SpringSource, a division of VMware. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.

Ken Rimple - Director of Education, Chariot Solutions
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Ken Rimple, Director of Education, Chariot Solutions

Ken Rimple is the Director of Education for Chariot Solutions. His team delivers training and mentoring in a wide variety of subjects including Spring, Maven, OSGi, Groovy/Grails, Rails and Flex. He has worked in Java since version 1.0.2 in the 1990s. His background in databases is even longer than his Java experience, as the first relational database he worked with was Oracle back in 1991 (remember when ER/Win fit on two floppy discs)? Ken has co-chaired several Chariot conferences, including ETE 2009 and 2010, Cloud-Con East in 2008, and the Philly Grails Conference in 2009. He is also the host and creator of the Chariot TechCast podcast series, which aims to deliver information about projects and developers in the open source community both here in Philadelphia and internationally as well. Ken has a wife, four children, two dogs and a dull headache.

Linda Rising - Global Presenter & Author
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Linda Rising, Global Presenter & Author

Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the area of object-based design metrics. Her background includes university teaching as well as work in industry in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems. She is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, and the change process. Linda is the author of numerous articles and has published four books: Design Patterns in Communications, The Pattern Almanac 2000, and A Patterns Handbook. Her latest book, written with Mary Lynn Manns, is titled Fearless Change: Patterns for introducing new ideas. Her web site is: www.lindarising.org.

Chip Rodgers - VP and COO, SAP
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Chip Rodgers, VP and COO, SAP

Chip Rodgers is VP and COO for SAP’s network of Web 2.0 communities oriented around the company’s platform, products, and technologies. These include the SAP Developer Network (SDN), the Business Process Expert (BPX), and the Business Objects (BOC) communities, totalling more than 1,900,000 individual members interacting around the clock and around the world in 200+ countries and territories.

Roy Rosin - Vice President, Intuit
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Roy Rosin, Vice President, Intuit

Roy Rosin holds the position of Vice President, Product Management & Innovation at Intuit Inc., a leading software company known for its Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax products. In this role, Roy is responsible for managing Intuit’s iLab focused on new product innovation as well as advising and guiding investments in new products and services – with focus on web and mobile platforms – across the company. In working with Intuit’s business leaders and innovators, he has helped change how the company manages new business creation, allowing small teams pursuing new areas of opportunity to get to market and experiment rapidly. Roy also introduced innovation programs – from competitions through collaborative idea management – that dramatically increased entrepreneurial activity, projects in the pipeline and the number of high impact new product launches. Prior to his current position, Roy was General Manager for Intuit’s personal finance division where he was responsible for growing a $115 million portfolio of businesses, including Quicken software, Quicken.com and services such as Quicken Bill Pay. He led a team of 120 people to achieve record profitability and product leadership that captured every major software industry award, while growing an active user base of 15 million consumers. Roy was also part of the management team that rapidly grew Intuit’s consumer web businesses starting in 1998. Roy began his career at Intuitleading the Quicken product teams as Product Manager and later as Director of Product Management. Before Intuit, Roy received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He graduated with honors from Harvard University with a concentration in Economics.

Skip Shuda - CEO, Team and a Dream
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Skip Shuda, CEO, Team and a Dream

Skip Shuda is CEO of Team and a Dream, a Social Media Marketing Strategy company that helps Small and Mid-sized businesses achieve visibility to profitability using Social Media channels. As a serial entrepreneur, Skip has been building software and Internet technology companies for over 25 years. Skip is an active participant and speaker in the Philadelphia entrepreneurial community. His work includes teaching at the Wharton Small Business Development Center, speaking at Arcadia University (as part of The Breakthrough Consortium) and consultation with the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA. He runs the Integral Philly Meetup community. Skip has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science respectively from the University of Delaware and Villanova University. He has Certificate level training in Integral Theory, Holacracy, Role-based Assessment, SEO and Web Analytics.

Scott Snyder - Senior Partner, Decision Strategies International and Senior Fellow, Wharton School
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Scott Snyder, Senior Partner, Decision Strategies International and Senior Fellow, Wharton School

Dr. Scott Snyder brings a unique mix of thought leadership in next generation wireless systems and adaptive business strategy. He is currently the CEO of Decision Strategies International, a leading management consulting firm focused on scenario-based strategic planning and decision-making. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he has lectured extensively on Emerging Fourth Generation Wireless Networks and Business Models, Telecommunications and IT Strategy, and Product Development. He has recently written a book, The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution, released on Wharton School Publishing in July 2009. He holds a patent for on-line decision aids and has been quoted as a thought leader in numerous publications including the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Phone +, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal. Dr. Snyder earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania and has an executive degree from USC in Telecommunications Management.

Dr. Snyder has over 20 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning, decision support systems, and technology management for both Fortune 500 companies and start-up ventures. Dr. Snyder has held executive positions with several Fortune 500 companies including GE, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin. He has also started business ventures in software including OmniChoice, a CRM/Analytics software applications provider, where he served as CTO and CEO, and was selected as a candidate for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Philadelphia Region. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients on business and technology strategy including GE, CVS, AT&T, Sprint, Cingular, Accenture, NCR, Verizon, Echostar, Exelon, Microsoft, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, ConocoPhillips, National Grid, and Siemens, and Scholastic as well as government organizations such as the FAA, DoD, DARPA, DLA, NASA, NSA, and INTELSAT. He also continues to be very active in the venture community as an Advisor to Safeguard Scientifics and several small start-ups in the Wireless Sector.

Mark Spence - General Mangager & Co-Founder, Transmogrify, LLC
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Mark Spence, General Mangager & Co-Founder, Transmogrify, LLC

Mark is the General Manager and co-founder of Transmogrify LLC, a technology consulting company specializing in web and mobile applications. Transmogrify was founded in 2006 to produce awesome products for start-ups and companies that want to innovate like start-ups. Mark has built a team of extremely talented individuals with experience in product management, design, and development that have produced highly acclaimed software products for small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to starting Transmogrify, Mark worked in the technology field for over 15 years specializing in database design, system design, application development, and product management for companies such as GMAC, Susquehanna Investment Group, Merck, ADP, and GE. Mark received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Venkat Subramaniam, Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc. has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He helps his clients succeed with Agile Development and various software technologies. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences and a regular at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference series. He’s author of .NET Gotchas (O’Reilly), co-author of the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer, and author of Programming Groovy and Programming Scala (all from Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Audrey Troutt - Software Engineer, The Math Forum @ Drexel
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Audrey Troutt, Software Engineer, The Math Forum @ Drexel

Audrey Troutt is a software engineer at the Math Forum @ Drexel University (mathforum.org). She also teaches client-side programming at Goodwin College of Professional Studies at Drexel (drexel.edu/goodwin). These days she works mostly in Java using Spring to build and maintain the Math Forum web apps that make up the largest resource for math learning and teaching on the web. Her study of positive influence on an organizational level began back at Ternary Software in Exton, PA where team members challenged each other to practice good scrum and XP techniques and to cultivate an understanding of personality type interactions, systems thinking and other agile practices to improve the way we worked together as developers and as an organization. When she isn’t swimming, running, or biking, Audrey is dedicated to learning the craft of software development and helping people learn to exercise influence to have a positive impact on their communities. Audrey has a B.A from New College of Florida in Music and Physics and a Masters in Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

James Ward - Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - James Ward, Technical Evangelist for Flex, Adobe

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java based back ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Oleg Zhurakousky - Senior Consultant and Commiter, SpringSource
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Oleg Zhurakousky, Senior Consultant and Commiter, SpringSource

Oleg is an IT professional with 14+ years of experience in software engineering across multiple disciplines including software architecture and design, consulting, business analysis and application development. He currently focuses on delivering simple but powerful Spring based solutions and training to the North American market.

After starting his career in the world of COBOL & CICS, Oleg has been focusing on professional Java and Java EE development since 1999. Since 2004 he has been heavily involved in using several open source technologies and platforms with Spring Framework at the forefront, while working on a number of projects around the world and spanning industries such as Telecommunication, Banking, Law Enforcement, US DOD and others.

Oleg’s current passions include Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Grid Computing, Test Driven development and Aspect Oriented Programming while his Spring passions are aligned with Spring DM, Spring Integration and Spring Web Services, a combination which he believes will evolve in simple, light weight and yet powerful SOA platform.

You can regularly spot Oleg on the Spring Forums contributing to a number of topics.

A resident of the Philadelphia area, Oleg enjoys windsurfing, scuba diving, snowboarding, hockey and traveling when he can find some spare time.   olegz.wordpress

Ezra Zygmuntowicz - Founder, Lead Architect, Engine Yard
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Founder, Lead Architect, Engine Yard

Ezra has been working with rails since July 2004 when it was first publicly released and has been working with ruby for 6 years now. He is the author of Deploying Rails Applications book for the pragmatic programmers. Ezra is a founder and lead architect at Engine Yard, a fully managed rails hosting solution that prides itself on reliability, scalabilty and redundancy. Ezra speaks at a wide range of techinical conferences and has a number of popular open source projects including: Merb, Nanite, Redis-rb and many more.

Jason van Zyl - Founder & CTO, Sonatype
Emerging Technology Conference Speaker - Jason van Zyl, Founder & CTO, Sonatype

Jason van Zyl is the Founder and CTO of Sonatype, the leader in Java development infrastructure whose customers include Intuit, Cisco, Qualcomm, Vanguard and E*Trade. Jason has over 10 years of experience in open source and proprietary enterprise software development. An open source enthusiast, Jason is the founder of the Apache Maven project, and the original benefactor of the Nexus and M2Eclipse projects. Jason currently serves as Chair of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech, and ApacheCon.