Speakers
Dirk Fauth
Research Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Dirk Fauth is a Research Engineer for Development Tooling working for the ETAS GmbH which is a 100% susidiary of the Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart and a lecturer in Java basics for the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW). He is active in developing, teaching and talking about Eclipse RCP applications and Eclipse related technologies. He is project lead of the Nebula NatTable project, Eclipse Platform committer and also a committer and contributor to several other Eclipse projects.
Paul Fraser
Developer at QNENet Pty. Ltd., Australia
The statement "Once data is entered on the internet it should not need to be typed in again" is an area in which Paul hopes to make a difference. He is currently developing a secure P2P network designed to take a lot of complexity and frustration out of using the net especially for the young and the aged.
Because of his long history of hands on business management and processes he likes to use tools that reduce development friction and enable things to actually get done.
Eclipse, OSGi, Bndtools and Vaadin are the tools he has settled on for his software development work.
Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser
Senior Expert Open Source Program Office at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Lars is working in the central department for IoT and Digitalization at Bosch. He participates in the Open Source Program Office as supporter for Open Source projects throughout Bosch. In previous roles he acted as senior consultant and contributor for Open Source topics and on eclipse-based products for automotive software development. He got his PhD from the university of Kaiserslautern.
Kai Hackbarth
Evangelist at Bosch Software Innovations GmbH, Germany
Kai Hackbarth is an Evangelist at Bosch Software Innovations. He has been deeply involved in the technical standardization activities of the OSGi Alliance for more than 15 years. Kai is a member of the OSGi Alliance Board of Directors and has been co-chair of the OSGi Residential Expert Group since 2008. Kai is coordinating several research project activities in various IoT domains. His key focus areas are smart homes, automotive, and the Internet of Things in general, where he actively supports the current developments and strategic positioning of the product portfolio.
Udo Hafermann
Principal Architect at Software AG, Germany
Dr. Udo Hafermann obtained a diploma in Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig and a doctorate in Computer Science. He then joined Software AG’s research facilities in Darmstadt where he successively held positions as project lead, team lead and architect of XML solutions. Currently, Dr. Hafermann acts as project lead, product owner and principal architect in the design-time tools and web user experience area. He represents Software AG at Eclipse organizations and events and serves on the Board of Directors of the OSGi Alliance.
BJ Hargrave
STSM at IBM, United States
I'm a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM Global Ecosystems. I am the project lead for the OSGi Specification Project and Eclipse Transformer and also a committer on Eclipse Equinox and Bndtools.
Jonas Helming
CEO / Principal Software Architect at EclipseSource, Germany
Dr. Jonas Helming is CEO of EclipseSource as well as consultant, trainer and software engineer. His focus is on Tools, IDEs, Modeling and web-based Tools. Jonas is an active member of the Eclipse community. He has the lead of three Eclipse projects, including Eclipse Theia and is involved in many others. Jonas is the chair of the marketing committee in the Eclipse Cloud Development working group. In 2013 and 2021, he won the Eclipse Top-Newcomer Evangelist award. He regularly publishes articles and speaks at conferences such as Jax, OOP, WJax and EclipseCon.
Jochen Hiller
Developer Evangelist at Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany
Jochen Hiller is working for QIVICON department of Deutsche Telekom, which offers a commercial platform for the Smart Home. He is responsible for the OSGi based software stack running on the QIVICON hardware integrating devices of the Smart Home. He and his team are major contributors to Eclipse SmartHome project. He is also committer of Eclipse Concierge OSGi framework as part of the Eclipse IoT projects. He is a longtime Smalltalk, Java and OSGi developer having fun doing OpenSource and other cool stuff.
Akos Horvath
Managing Director at IncQuery Labs Research and Development Ltd, Hungary
Akos Horvath received his PhD in Software engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is an accomplished researcher with strong background on the application of model-driven technologies for the design and optimization of complex systems with more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and several IEEE/Springer best paper awards under his belt.
He has served IncQuery Labs as one of its Managing Directors since its founding and has contributed significantly to putting the company on the right track for growth.