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2016 JavaOne Keynote Lineup
This year's keynotes focus on strategy and roadmaps, technical insights, and innovations by the global Java community.
Moscone North, Hall D—Sunday, September 18, 1:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m
Java Keynote
Having celebrated its 20-year anniversary last year, Java continues to innovate the application world around us. Through continued modernization Java offers developers an innovative language and platform to create the next generation of rich, scalable, and secure enterprise applications. In this keynote, recognized Oracle executive and engineering experts highlight ongoing Java enhancements, especially on the highly anticipated Java 9 release, and showcase how developers can improve and accelerate application innovation spanning a variety of development environments and devices all the way to the cloud.
Intel Keynote—Enabling a Smart and Connected World with Java
Michael Greene, vice president and general manager of System Technologies and Optimization in Intel’s Software and Services Group, will discuss how optimized Java is a key ingredient in solutions connecting billions of smart connected devices to the datacenter. He will share examples and uses of various technology building blocks and how they come together to transform industries and enrich people’s lives.
Visionary Keynote—Engineering the Red Planet
Mars is the next destination for humans to explore and colonize in our journey through the solar system and beyond. For the past thirty years, the space programs of many nations have been sending landed platforms of increasing complexity, increasing our understanding of the Red Planet’s ancient past.
On August 5, 2012, NASA landed its most capable robotic geologist, the Curiosity Rover, on the surface of Mars. As small as a car, the Curiosity has been searching for organic compounds, characterizing the climate and geology, and making critical measurements that will one day facilitate the survival of human life on the surface of Mars.
One of the most challenging aspects of all missions to Mars is the safe landing on the surface, from an initial entry speed of 30,000 miles per hour to a soft touchdown. Entry descent and landing use a heat shield to accommodate Curiosity’s hypersonic entry conditions, followed by a supersonic parachute, and retro-rockets for the powered descent phase.
This talk will discuss the motivation for Mars exploration and how engineering challenges are tackled with computational modeling, cutting-edge experimental techniques, and out-of-the-box thinking. Engineering the Red Planet is the key to our future and to understanding our past.
Moscone West, Room 3008—Thursday, September 22, 9:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m
Java Community Keynote
Darth Coder and the Duke Troopers are stealing modules from developers across the galaxy, and only the Java Community can stop them. Attend the Java Community keynote and help save the Java 9 release from the evil clutches of the Imperial Army. Along the way discover how Java enables technology in drones, embroidery, robots, retro games, and the cloud, and how you can be part of the OpenJDK alliance.
IBM Keynote—Accelerating Innovation with Java: The Future Is Today
After 20-plus years, Java is still vibrant and driving a majority of applications across industries and around the world. As a Java developer leveraging the cloud, microservices, containers, and polyglot, you can build better apps with more functionality, and faster than ever before. In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate how Java-based apps for use cases, from IoT to mobile and analytics, can take advantage of new technologies such as machine learning and cognitive, as well as innovative open source technologies such as blockchain and serverless, to deliver functionality.
Dr. Anita Sengupta
Dr. Anita Sengupta is a rocket scientist and engineer who for the past fifteen years has been developing spacecraft technologies that enable the exploration of Mars, Venus, and deep space. She started her career working on the Delta IV launch vehicle and communications satellites. Her doctoral research focused on improving the efficiency and lifetime of the ion thrusters that powered the Dawn spacecraft to reach Vesta and Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Following that, Sengupta was responsible for the supersonic parachute system that was integral to the entry, descent, and landing of the Curiosity Rover. She is currently leading the development of a laser-cooling based atomic physics facility to be launched to the International Space Station in 2017.
Sengupta received her MS and PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California, where she is also a research associate professor in the astronautics department, teaching spacecraft design and giving space exploration-themed educational lectures.
John Duimovich
John Duimovich, Java CTO and IBM Distinguished Engineer, has been the lead designer and implementer for IBM virtual machine technology for more than 25 years. He has designed virtual machines for a wide range of platforms, from small embedded and real-time systems to large server and IBM mainframe systems. Duimovich played a key role in the development of the IBM J9 Virtual Machine, widely used across IBM in hundreds of products. His current focus is on evolving runtime implementations for improved hardware exploitation, acceleration, and offload capabilities to address cloud, analytics, big data, and IoT workloads. Duimovich’s interests include expanding use cases for optimized runtime technology in polyglot scenarios to drive better integration, performance, and usability in new multilanguage cloud-based applications.
Michael Greene
Michael Greene is Intel Vice President and General Manager of the System Technologies & Optimization of Intel’s Software and Services Group. Greene leads a worldwide organization responsible for a broad range of development, enabling, architecture analysis and optimization efforts including system firmware, virtual platforms, modeling and simulation solutions, power analysis, client/server and big data software stack optimizations for a “Best in Class” user experience. Greene joined Intel in 1990, after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has managed several new product developments, research efforts, and engineering groups. He has served as Intel’s initiative owner for power efficiency, pre silicon software development, and has driven new technology benchmarking throughout his career. Michael is also the Marketing Vice President on the National GEM Consortium’s (GEM) Executive Committee. GEM is a national non-profit providing programming and full fellowships to support the number of under-represented individuals who pursue a master’s or doctorate degree in science or engineering.
Stephen Chin
Stephen Chin is the lead Java community manager at Oracle, author of Raspberry Pi with Java, coauthor of Pro JavaFX Platform, and JavaOne content chairperson. He has keynoted numerous Java conferences around the world including JavaOne, where he is a four- time Java Rock Star Award recipient. Chin is an avid motorcyclist who has done several Pan-European evangelism tours, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat, and posting the videos on nighthacking.com. When he is not traveling, Chin enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his 11 year-old daughter.
You can follow him on Twitter at: @steveonjava
Fabiane Nardon
Fabiane Bizinella Nardon is a computer scientist who is passionate about creating software that will positively change the world we live in. Currently she works as chief scientist at TailTarget, where she is helping to shape new disruptive data science-based services. Previously Nardon was chief architect of the São Paulo Healthcare Information System, considered the largest Java EE application in the world, and winner of a 2005 Duke's Choice Award. She leads several communities, including the JavaTools Community at java.net, where more than 800 open-source projects were born.
Nardon is a frequent speaker at conferences in Brazil and abroad, including JavaOne, OSCON, Jfokus, JustJava, QCon, and more. She is also the author of a number of technical articles and a program committee member of several conferences including JavaOne, OSCON, TDC, and QCon. Nardon was chosen a Java Champion by Sun Microsystems in recognition of her contributions to the Java ecosystem. Currently, Nardon works as Chief Scientist at TailTarget, where she is helping to shape new disruptive internet-based services.
Mirja Wellmann
Mirja Wellmann was born in Berlin, Germany and studied graphic design at Blocherer School in Munich, Germany as well as sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Germany. She has been given numerous awards, prizes, and grants, and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Her website is mirja-wellmann.de.
Mark Reinhold
Mark Reinhold is chief architect of the Java Platform group at Oracle. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. Reinhold was the lead engineer for the JDK 1.2 and 5.0 releases, the JCP specification lead for Java SE 6, and both the project and specification lead for JDK 7 (Java SE 7) and JDK 8 (Java SE 8). He currently leads the JDK 9 and Jigsaw projects in the OpenJDK Community, where he also serves on the governing board. Reinhold holds a PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
You can follow him on Twitter at: @mreinhold
Sharat Chander
Sharat Chander has worked in the IT industry for 20 years, for firms such as Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. His background and technical specialty is in Java development tools, graphics design, and product/community management. Chander has been actively involved in the Java Community for 15 years, helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy. At Oracle, as the director of Java developer relations, Chander serves as the JavaOne conference content chairperson, a role he's filled for 7 years, where he drives the technical content strategy and Java community involvement in the conference. He is a frequent keynote speaker and participant in developer programs worldwide. Chander holds a BS in corporate finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA in international business from Loyola College, Maryland. You can find Chander at multiple global developer events and Java community engagements. When not growing visibility for Java, he follows his other passion for baseball, actively coaching his 10-year-old son's Little League team and fanatically following his hometown Baltimore Orioles.
You can follow him on Twitter at: @Sharat_Chander
Anil Gaur
Anil Gaur is the group vice president of engineering for the Cloud Application Foundation organization at Oracle. He is leading the development of the WebLogic Server, GlassFish Server, and Java Cloud Service. Gaur regularly participates in the creation of industry standards and currently leads the development of microservices and Java EE. He has more than 23 years experience in the computer industry with a broad background in engineering and business development, primarily focused on enterprise software development. Prior to joining Oracle, Gaur worked as a director of engineering at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the delivery of the Java EE platform and the GlassFish Server.
Georges Saab
Georges Saab is the vice president of development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle. His group is responsible for Java Standard Edition including the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. Georges is a veteran of programming language and platform development, with more than 25 years in this field. His work with the Java platform began as a developer of Java Standard Edition at JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart, and continued as he ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges is the Chairperson of the OpenJDK governing board.
You can follow him on Twitter at: @gsaab