Speaker: Tim Ellison

Tim is a senior member of IBM's Runtimes Technology Centre with responsibility for open source engineering projects. Prior to his current position he was part of the original Eclipse development team, and a Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation Harmony Project. He is a member of the expert group designing the next Java SE platform. He has spoken at conferences worldwide on a variety of topics. Tim has contributed to the commercial implementation of Smalltalk, IBM VisualAge, Eclipse, and the Java SDK over a long period. He has a broad knowledge of high performance runtimes, open source methodologies, and applying new language technology to difficult problems.