JavaOne Keynotes

Angela Caicedo has been a Java evangelist for 11 years, first at Sun Microsystems, and now at Oracle. Her areas of expertise include Java ME, Java SE, and Java EE. Caicedo loves spending time working in new and cool technologies like game development, 3D, bluetooth, smartdust (Sun SPOTs), and others. She has presented on these topics at developer conferences around the world. Caicedo graduated from the Universidad EAFIT of Medellin, Colombia with a BS in computer science. Previous to that, she was a visiting student at the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. Before joining Sun, Caicedo worked for three years as a software developer and researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and participated in several European IT projects. She has also done research on intelligent agents, one of her specialties.

Stephen Chin is a Java evangelist at Oracle specializing in UI technology, and is co-author of Pro JavaFX Platform 2, which is the leading technical reference for JavaFX. He has been featured at Java conferences around the world including Devoxx, CodeMash, OSCON, J-Fall, GeeCON, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he twice received a Java Rock Star award. As the JavaOne Content Chair Chin directs and manages the content evaluation and selection for JavaOne. In his evenings and on weekends, Chin is an open-source hacker, working on projects including ScalaFX, a DSL for JavaFX in the Scala language; Visage, a UI-oriented JVM language; JFXtras, a JavaFX component and extension library; and Apropos, an Agile Project Portfolio scheduling tool written in JavaFX. Chin can be followed on Twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog steveonjava.com.

Arun Gupta is a Java evangelist working at Oracle. Gupta has over 15 years of experience in the software industry working on the Java Platform and several Web-related technologies. In his current role, he works to create and foster the community around Java EE, GlassFish, and WebLogic. Gupta has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all releases. He has extensive worldwide speaking experience on a myriad of topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups everywhere to spread the goodness of Java.

Gupta is a prolific blogger at http://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta, with over 1,300 blog entries. His blog gets frequent visitors and comments from around the globe. Gupta is a passionate runner and always up for running in any part of the world.

You can catch him on Twitter at @arungupta.

Simon Ritter is a Java technology evangelist at Oracle. Ritter has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a BS in physics from Brunel University in the U.K.

Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Ritter moved to Sun in 1996. At this time he started working with Java technology and has spent time working both in Java technology development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition, he now focuses on the core Java platform and Java for client applications. Ritter also continues to develop demonstrations that push the boundaries of Java for applications like gestural interfaces.

Follow him on Twitter at @speakjava, and on his blog at blogs.oracle.com/speakjava.

James L. (Jim) Weaver is a Java and JavaFX developer, author, and speaker with a passion for helping rich-client Java and JavaFX become preferred technologies for new application development. Weaver has authored or coauthored several books, including Inside Java (New Riders Pub), Beginning J2EE (Wrox Press), and Pro JavaFX 2 (Apress). His professional background includes 15 years as a systems architect at EDS, and the same number of years as an independent developer. As a Java Evangelist at Oracle, Weaver speaks internationally at software technology conferences. He blogs at javafxpert.com, tweets @javafxpert, and may be reached via e-mail at james.weaver@oracle.com.