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Speaker: Tim Ellison
Senior Technical Staff Member @IBM
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.