Track Overview
Evolving Java & the JVM
6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java and the JVM is evolving.
From this track
Otherworldly Java: Gateway to the Moon and Beyond
The international space community is entering a new age of space exploration beyond Earth orbit. Human spaceflight plans a return to the Moon while robotic flights explore the outer planets and their moons in a search for signs of life. Complicated mission scenarios involve significant...
Diane Davis
Astrodynamicist and Principal Systems Engineer @NASA and USAF aerospace industry leader a.i. solutions
Life Beyond Java 8
Wasn’t Java 8 a fantastic update to the language? Lambdas and streams were a huge change and have helped to improve Java developers’ productivity and introduce some functional ideas to the language. Then came Java 9… and although the module system is really interesting for certain types of...
Trisha Gee
Java Champion, Engineer and Evangelist
OpenJ9 - Compelling Java for Cloud Workloads
Java's suitability for Enterprise computing is well known, but past success has created a new set of 'legacy' applications when the industry inflects, and the economics of computing drive towards new deployment models. Java's VM has demonstrably provided the flexibility and means for Java...
Stephen Hellberg
Runtime Support/Change Team Architect (Java, Node.js, Apache Spark) at @IBM
Graal: Not Just a New JIT for the JVM
Graal is a new JIT compiler for the JVM and a possible replacement for Hotspot's C2. However, this isn't the whole story and the design of Graal enables it to do more than to be a great JIT. In this talk we'll take a look at the differences between C2 and Graal, what this can mean for the...
Duncan MacGregor
Working on TruffleRuby and Project Loom with Graal
Orchestrating Robot Swarms with Java
Delivering a profitable online grocery sales operation has, until now, been an almost unsolvable challenge. With huge product ranges, diverse shelf lives and temperature requirements, coupled with customer demands for accuracy and reliable delivery slots, grocery far surpasses the complexity of...
Matthew Cornford
Technology Lead and Evangelist @OcadoTechnology
Panel: Java Is Still Free?
Java 11 (LTS) changes the timeline for what $free and free (as in use) Java that the industry is used to. There are $free and free (as in use) ways you can get OpenJDK/Java from Oracle and also production ready OpenJDK builds by other OpenJDK/Java providers such as AdoptOpenjDK, Amazon, Azul,...
Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
Stephen Hellberg
Runtime Support/Change Team Architect (Java, Node.js, Apache Spark) at @IBM
Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Donald Smith
Senior Director of Product Management @Oracle
Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer @RedHat
Speakers from this track
Diane Davis
Astrodynamicist and Principal Systems Engineer @NASA and USAF aerospace industry leader a.i. solutions
Dr. Diane Davis is an astrodynamicist and principal systems engineer with NASA and USAF aerospace industry leader a.i. solutions. She designs spacecraft orbits with the Gateway trajectory team at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, and previously navigated spacecraft to Mars and comets at the...
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Trisha Gee
Java Champion, Engineer and Evangelist
Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, software and non-profit, for companies of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, and dabbles with Open Source...
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Stephen Hellberg
Runtime Support/Change Team Architect (Java, Node.js, Apache Spark) at @IBM
Stephen Hellberg is tenured in IBM Support caring for runtimes : Java and Node.js primarily, although that has included Apache Spark (an analytics toolbox). Stephen has been supporting IBM Java SDKs/JVMs since version 1.2.2, or around 18 years; currently, his role is concerned with future...
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Duncan MacGregor
Working on TruffleRuby and Project Loom with Graal
Duncan has a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University and has worked on language implementation for several years including porting GE's Smallworld GIS system to work on the Java virtual machine. He currently works for Oracle Labs on the TruffleRuby project.
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Matthew Cornford
Technology Lead and Evangelist @OcadoTechnology
Matthew is a Technology Lead and Evangelist at Ocado Technology, helping develop the pioneering software underpinning Ocado’s highly automated warehouses - the most evolved of their kind in the world. With 10 years previous experience as a Java software developer and software engineering...
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Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
Martijn is the Principal Software Engineering Group Manager for the Java Engineering Group at Microsoft. Prior to being acquired by Microsoft, he was the CEO of jClarity, a Performance Diagnostic tooling company that used ML and statistical techniques to automate root cause analysis of...
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Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working...
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Donald Smith
Senior Director of Product Management @Oracle
Donald Smith, MBA, MSc, is Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle. He brings global enterprise software experience, ranging from startups through Fortune 500 companies. Donald has decades of experience speaking about Java, open source, community development, business models, business...
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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer @RedHat
Andrew Haley is the Java Platform Lead Engineer at Red Hat, responsible for all things Java- and OpenJDK-platform related, especially the Java VM, leading a team of twenty-odd people. He is a community representative on the OpenJDK Governing Board and represents Red Hat in the Java SE Expert...
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Track Host
Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
Martijn is the Principal Software Engineering Group Manager for the Java Engineering Group at Microsoft. Prior to being acquired by Microsoft, he was the CEO of jClarity, a Performance Diagnostic tooling company that used ML and statistical techniques to automate root cause analysis of...
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