Talare

David Chappell, Chappell & Associates

Key Note Speaker

"A David Copperfield of words... an artist of presentations" /PC Magazine

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps IT professionals around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about enterprise software. David has been the keynote speaker for dozens of conferences and events in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America. His popular seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of developers, architects, and decision makers in forty countries. He has also spoken at many universities, including the National University of Singapore, Moscow State University, and Sweden’s Uppsala University. David’s books have been published in ten languages and used regularly in courses at MIT, ETH Zurich, and other educational institutions.

• Böcker skrivna av David Chappell

Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks

Building for the Enterprise (Arkitektur)

Dr. Jim Webber is the Global Architecture Lead for ThoughtWorks where he works with clients on delivering dependable service-oriented systems. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution.

Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide" in addition to being a contributing author to other books and articles. Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• His blog is located here
• See an interview with Jim made by Objectware during the event

Christian Weyer, Thinktecture

Building for the Enterprise (Arkitektur), Data - Lagring & Åtkomst

Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions architectures. He has been modelling and implementing distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects in the past few years, with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) being the two main technologies applied recently.

Christian's views on architecture and distributed solutions are considered both mature and innovating. A number of customers have put confidence into his experience when it comes to apply WCF and WF to real problems. The national and international developer and architect community knows Christian from his weblog, webcasts, forums activities, usergroup talks and conference performances. He was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs for Solution Architecture and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director.  

Dan North, Thoughtworks

People Matters Too!

Dan is a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he writes software and coaches teams in agile and lean methods. He believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software. He believes that most problems that teams face are about communication, and all the others are too. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about behaviour-driven development, communication and how people learn. He has been working in the IT industry since he graduated in 1991, and he occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net.

Tess Ferrandez, Microsoft

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Tess is an escalation engineer in the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. She started debugging .NET issues when .NET was in the alpha stage and has been troubleshooting ASP.NET and other .NET issues ever since for Microsofts external customers as well as internal product teams.

Tess Blogg: http://blogs.msdn.com/Tess 

Julie Lerman, MVP, The Data Farm

Data - Lagring och åtkomst

Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for more than 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and writes articles for many well-known technical publications. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board. You can read Julie's blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog.

Dierk Koenig, Canoo Engineering AG

Dynamiska/alternativa språk

Dierk Koenig works as a senior software developer, mentor, and coach for Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is committer to Groovy and Grails, and project manager of Canoo WebTest. Dierk speaks at international conferences and publishes in leading software magazines. He is lead author of "Groovy in Action" and technical reviewer of "The Definitive Guide to Grails".

Benjamin Ling, Director of Platform Product Marketing, Facebook

Webb

Benjamin is the Director of Platform Product Marketing at Facebook, where he
oversees product, marketing, developer operations and partner solutions for
Facebook Platform. Prior to Facebook, Benjamin was the General Manager of
eCommerce at Google, where he founded and led Google Checkout and
oversaw Google Product Search. At Google, he managed a cross functional
team that included product, engineering, sales, marketing, operations, finance
and legal. Benjamin holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree in computer science
from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of
California at Berkeley.

Rickard Öberg, Jayway

Building for the Enterprise

Rickard has worked on several OpenSource projects that involve J2EE development, such as JBoss, XDoclet and WebWork. He has also been the principal architect of the SiteVision CMS/portal platform, where he used AOP as the foundation. Now he works for Jayway, and is interested in how to develop domain-oriented software that is well adapted for the new wave of Internet-centered applications.

Joe Armstrong

Dynamiska/alternativa språk

Joe Armstrong designed and implemented the first version of Erlang in 1986. He has written several Erlang books including the best selling "Programming Erlang" published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Joe held the first ever Erlang course and has taught Erlang to hundreds of programmers and held many lectures and keynotes describing the technology.

Joe has a PhD in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) , Sweden and is an expert in the construction of fault tolerant systems. Joe was the chief software architect of the project which produced the Erlang OTP system. He has worked as an entrepreneur in the first Swedish Erlang startup (Bluetail) and has worked for 30 years in industry and research.

Michael Foord, Resolver Systems

Dynamiska/alternativa språk

Michael Foord has been a Python developer for five years, and for the last eighteen months has been working with a London Startup developing a programmable spreadsheet with IronPython. He has written many articles on Python, including a HOWTO that has become part of the Python documentation.
Michael is currently writing a book for Manning called "IronPython in Action". He has also spoken at conferences in the US, Poland and the UK on IronPython.

• Blog: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/index.shtml
• Book: http://www.manning.com/foord

Claudio Perrone, InnerWorkings

People matters too!

Claudio Perrone is Chief Technology Officer at InnerWorkings, a company providing advanced learning and analysis tools for software developers.
As a fervent agile advocate, Claudio builds passionate teams who share his appreciation for crafting software that meets real customer needs, with creativity, simplicity and elegance.

In his career, he has participated in the design and development of several large-scale solutions for global companies in the fields of e-learning, e-commerce, manufacturing and automation.

Dr. Werner Dondl, Alladin

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Werner Dondl studied physics at the technical university in Munich. He finalized his PhD in 1996 at the Walter Schottky Institute.
After his PhD, he joined Aladdin Knowledge Systems as software developer, designing cryptographic libraries for the ASE smartcard environment and Hardlock/HASP software copy protection.

Since 2002, Werner Dondl is leading the R&D Team for Application/Tools in the HASP DRM Business Unit.

Andrés Taylor, Blueplane

People matters too!

Andrés has spent the last three years coaching teams in agile development.
Working as part of the team, he teaches agile techniques like simple design, unit testing and effective team communication. After working as a consultant for ThoughtWorks in London, Andrés moved back to Sweden in 2007 and together with Chris Hedgate and Marcus Widerberg he started Blueplane.

Chris Hedgate, Blueplane

People matters too!

Chris is one of three founders of Blueplane, a small consultancy focusing on helping companies deliver better software in a consistent manner. There he works as a coach and trainer, helping development teams produce quality software. Throughout his career he has been very passionate about databases and object-oriented design, but these days he focuses most of his attention on the non-technical dimensions of software development such as team dynamics and communication.

Nikhil Kothari, Microsoft

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Nikhil Kothari is a software architect in the .NET Developer Platform group within Developer Division at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Nikhil has focused on the Web platform, and has contributed to the design and development of .NET and ASP.NET since their inception, as well as various features in IIS7 and Visual Studio products. He is responsible for the server control framework in ASP.NET, initiated and led the development of ASP.NET AJAX, and now plays a key role in the programming model aspects of the Silverlight platform. He is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components", and is also responsible for starting and working on a number of innovative projects such as Web Matrix, Script#, Web Development Helper, and most recently Facebook.NET. He has presented at various Microsoft and industry conferences. Beyond a deep passion for developer tools and frameworks, Nikhil is enthusiastic and interested in digital photography. His blog is at http://www.nikhilk.net.

Niels Berglund

Data - Lagring och åtkomst

Niels Berglund is a member of DevelopMentor's technical research, curriculum development and teaching staff. He specializes in the .NET system software and database areas, and is author of DevelopMentors database courses. Niels speaks regularly at various industry conferences. He writes technical articles for the trade press and is co-author of the first book released for SQL Server 2005; "A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers". Before joining DevelopMentor Niels worked as a consultant, specializing in design and development of distributed applications to mainly the financial industry.

Ola Bini, Thoughtworks

Dynamiska/alternativa språk

Ola Bini is a Swedish developer currently working for ThoughtWorks Studios in London. He has been one of the core developers for JRuby since 2006 and is the author of APress book Practical JRuby on Rails. He has much experience with Java, Ruby and LISP. He has been involved with several other open source projects but JRuby and related projects takes most of his time.

He has been known to like implementing languages, writing regular expression engines, YAML parsers and other things that exists at the borders of computer science.

Ola has presented at numerous conferences including The Server Side Java Symposium - Europe, RailsConf Europe, and JavaPolis.

Fredrik Normén, Cornerstone

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Fredrik är MVP inom ASP.NET, webbutvecklingsområdet inom Microsoft. Han är idag en stor profil inom sitt område han driver bland annat en egen blogg. Microsoft känner Fredrik väldigt väl och han håller just nu på med en serie MSDN TV inslag om AJAX. Än så länge finns det sju avsnitt i serien www.microsoft.com/sverige/msdn/msdntv/?category=Ajax Några utav Fredriks starkaste kompetensområden är ASP.NET och AJAX, han har också arbetet mycket med olika typer av dokumenthanteringssystem.

Fredrik är en av medlemmarna i den exklusiva gruppen ASP Insiders, som Microsofts utvecklingsavdelning ofta använder som bollplank. 

Jimmy Nilsson, factor10

Ordförande: Building for the Enterprise (Arkitektur)

Jimmy Nilsson is co-founder of the consulting company factor10. He has written numerous technical articles and two books (“.NET Enterprise Design” and “Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns”). He has also been training and speaking at conferences, but above everything else, he is a developer with almost 20 years of experience.

Patrik Löwendahl, Cornerstone

Ordförande: Data - Lagring och åtkomst

Patrik har arbetat med .NET plattformen sen första och ickepublika betan hösten 2000. Patrik arbetar idag som .NET instruktör på Cornerstone. Sedan tre år tillbaka håller Patrik titeln MVP (Most Valuable Professional) inom C# för sitt engagemang i C# communityn genom sin blogg www.lowendahl.net och många andra forum. Patrik är en populär talare och instruktör och har hörts tala på både Developer Summit och Ördev bland annat.

Niclas Nilsson, factor10

Ordförande: Dynamiska/alternativa språk

Niclas is a software developement coach, consultant, educator and writer with a deep passion for the software development craft. He started working as a developer in 1992 and drawn from experience, he knows that some choices makes significant difference in software development, like languages, tools, communication and processes. This is the reason behind his affection for dynamic languages, test-driven development, code generation and agile processes. Blog at http://niclasnilsson.se.

Andreas Brink, factor10

Building for the Enterprise

Andreas Brink is a programming architect, working as a consultant at factor10. Equally comfortable with Java, .NET, or dynamic languages, his focus is on the general aspects of software development: design, architecture, and methodology. As a trainer and coach, he provides individuals and teams with simple and practical tools to boost software productivity and quality. One of his specialties is test automation, both as a design tool, and for taking control of legacy code.

Blog: http://blog.andreasbrink.se

Tom Raftery

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Tom is a Blogger, podcaster, speaker and consultant based in Cork, Ireland. Tom fell in love with computers and set up a software company while studying for a PhD in Plant Science in 1991. Tom has build up a deep and thorough understanding of the IT-industry while working for a number of companies at Group IT Manager/CTO level in the last 15 years. Today, Tom’s focus is on Social Software. 

Joakim Sundén, Avega

Building for the Enterprise (Arkitektur)

Joakim arbetar som konsult med fokus på .NET-utveckling, mentorskap och metodstöd. Han har erfarenhet av olika roller såsom utvecklare, teknisk projektledare och arkitekt från en rad olika projekt på Microsoft-plattformen. Utöver det vardagliga arbetet med systemutveckling förkovrar sig Joakim gärna i allehanda facklitteratur, engagerar sig i Stockholms .NET-användargrupp (SweNUG) och bloggar på http://blogg.joakimsunden.se/.

Jonas Persson - Director DPE, Microsoft

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Jonas Persson började på Microsoft 1997 och är nu Direktör för Teknologi- och Utvecklingsstrategi på Microsoft. Jonas är ansvarig för dagens och framtidens utvecklingsteknologier inom Microsoft Sverige och hanterar relationerna med utvecklare hos olika företag, universitet och partners runt om i landet. Tidigare har han varit chef för Mobilitet på Microsoft EMEA.. Jonas har även en Ph D. från Uppsala Universitet i Kemi. Viktigt att nämna är även att Jonas är Halo Champion inom Microsoft!

Magnus Mårtensson, Dotway

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Magnus har en brinnande passion för teknik och för att förmedla sitt kunnande till andra. Som konsult hos Dotway arbetar Magnus som arkitekt, coach och tekniskt sakkunnig. Några av hans fokusområden är webbteknologi, webbservices och distribuerade applikationer. Magnus vill vara en konsult i ordets klassiska bemärkelse. Han går alltid in i ett uppdrag med ambitionen att hjälpa uppdragsgivaren att lyfta sin organisation både tekniskt och metodmässigt.

Magnus är medlem i nybildade Microsoft Extended Experts Team och hans blog Techie.notepad http://blog.noop.se/ handlar om projektprocesser, mjukvaruarkitektur, designprinciper och kodning. 

Peter Tallungs, Objectware

Workshop, dag 3

Peter är evangelist och senior arkitekt på Objectware och ansvarig för att bygga upp Enterprise Architecture-gruppen på Objectware i Sverige. Peter är systemutvecklare i botten och har många års erfarenhet som konsult inom versamhetsanalys och Enterprise Architecture. Peter vill skapa en ny generation Enterprise Architects, med fötterna i det dagliga systemutvecklingsarbetet.

Herbjörn Wilhelmsen, Objectware

Workshop, dag 3

Herbjörn är systemarkitekt och senior konsult på Objectware. Herbjörn har många års erfarenhet av praktiskt arkitekturarbete i olika sammanhang. Herbjörn brinner för att systemutveckling skall förstås som en del av affärsutvecklingen.

Sara Manding, Valtech

People matters too!

Sara Manding är senior konsult inom projektledning och användbarhet med mångårig erfarenhet av användningscentrerade och agila metoder. Sara har erfarenhet av såväl roller inom ett utvecklingsteam, stöd till beställare OCH som ScrumMaster – ofta med fokus på kravhantering.

Johan Lind, Valtech

People matters too!

Johan är senior konsult på Valtech i Stockholm. Med sitt brinnande intresse för agil systemutveckling verkar han ofta i roller som både utvecklare och mentor. Johan har arbetat med systemutveckling sedan 1998 och med agila metoder sedan 2001. Att utveckla sig själv och sin omgivning är ett av hans stora intresseområden, framförallt vad gäller arbetssätt och teknikval. Johan är även en av organisatörerna bakom SHRUG, Stockholm Ruby User Group.

Richard Hallgren, Sogeti

Data - Lagring och åtkomst

Richard har arbetat med .NET-baserad utveckling sedan 2001. Sedan två år tillbaka arbetar Richard uteslutande med BizTalk centrerad utveckling. Richard jobbar på Karlstadskontoret inom Sogeti Sverige AB - ett konsultbolag med ca 900 konsulter vid 19 kontor i Sverige. Karlstad ingår i en speciell satsning på integration och BizTalk inom Sogeti och kontoret är företagets ”BizTalk Competence Center”. Han ansvarar för utvecklingen av centret i Karlstad och är intern BizTalk evangelist. Richards blogg hittar du på http://www.richardhallgren.com

Josefin Andersson, Cornerstone

Ordförande: People matters too!

Josefin har inte skrivit en rad kod i hela sitt liv. Däremot har hon skakat hand med Martin Fowler, pratat World of Worcraft med Erik Doernenburg, ätit middag med Dan North, pratat om meningen med livet med Stefano Mazzocchi, tittat på Edward Jezierskis semesterbilder ifrån Kina och tagit en öl med Beat Schwegler och hoppas att i år få se en glimt av web 3.0 på konferensen, se Andreas Brink på scen igen och få veta det senaste om vad Richard Öberg har för sig.