The JavaOne Conference Team would like to give special thanks to the entire Latin America Program Committee for all their time in helping to create a comprehensive content program. Their input was invaluable in ensuring that this year's conference will have one of the deepest curriculum programs yet.
Daniel de Oliveira is an IT Community Leader in Brasilia, capital of Brazil. He founded and has been the Leader for more than thirteen years of the Brasilia Java Users Group (www.dfjug.org), one of the top JUG in the world, with more than 30.000 developer members. He is a Java Champion, a book writer and writes articles about Java environment in several magazines. Working as a Consultant for more then 10 years has been attending client banks, such as Banco de Brasilia, Caixa Economica, Banco do Brasil, Ministry of Planning and the Brazilian Space Agency.
With more than 37 years of experience in the computer market, he is a Java instructor for the blind and deaf people and creator of the Rybena Project (java.net/projects/rybena), a mobile Java community system that allows the deaf to use cellphones using Sign Language. With an MS degree in the field of Communities of Practice - CoP, or, in other words, the dynamics of Java Users Groups, he is a researcher interested in the process of the community that learns by itself, and doing now his PhD research in the Architecture of Information field.
For more than thirteen years he has been writing a newsletter for the Java community and, since the beginning, started, a free service for job recruitment. Offered by different organizations around the country, this job service is today a big success with hundreds of developers recruited in Brazil. This volunteer/social work gave him an exclusive overall vision of the necessities of employment opportunities in that part of the world. He is responsible for JEDI - Java Educational & Development Initiative in the seven portuguese spoken countries in the world (jedi.wv.com.br), a complete free Java Systems Engineer program attended for more than 15.700 students.
Bruno Ghisi is a Java enthusiast that has experience in web, mobile and dtv. He has been supporting GUJavaSC (local JUG), Mobile & Embedded Community and open source at java.net. He is a Java Champion and holds a MSc in computer science. Currently he is co-founder of Resultados Digitais, a company that does marketing automation in Brazil. You can follow Bruno on Twitter @brunogh
Mauricio "Maltron" Leal works as Systems Architect for RBS Media Group (largest media group in Southern Brazil) and is best known for his talks about Mobile technologies towards JavaME and Android in Latin America. Over the course of his career, he acted as Developer Relations Manager for Sun Microsystems (later acquired by Oracle) and Telefonica, designing a common Architecture for all carriers in Latin America. As a member of SouJava, he is always looking ways to growth the community around Java technologies.
Fabiane is a computer scientist who is passionate about creating software that will positively change the world we live in. She was the architect of the Brazilian Healthcare Information System, considered the largest Java EE application in the world and winner of the 2005 Duke's Choice Award. She leads several communities, including the Java Tools Community at java.net, where 800+ open source projects have been thus far born. She is a frequent speaker at conferences in Brazil and abroad, author of several technical articles and member of the program committee of several conferences such as JavaOne, OSCON, and TDC. She was selected to be a Java Champion by Sun Microsystems as recognition of her contributions to the Java ecosystem. Currently, she works as a tools expert at ToolsCloud and as chief architect at RBS, where she is helping to shape new disruptive Internet based services.
Vinicius is working with software development the last 20 years and have founded Globalcode, a Brazilian software development training center. Vinicius is helping to promote Java, open-source software and hardware giving talks, writing materials and offering free trainings. He is also the creator of jHome, JAva EE 6 API for Home Automation that won Dukes Choice Award 2011.
Yara Senger is co-founder and director of Globalcode, the biggest Brazilian training company, based in 13 different cities. She graduated from the University of Sao Paulo.
Nowadays she is one of the leads of SouJava and has also contributed to Glassfish project developing the reference application Scrum Toys.
Passioned by community and conferences she is the main organizer of 11 editions of The Developer's Conference and several other conferences. As speaker she presented at JavaOne, Devoxx, and several other conferences. Yara published more than 20 articles at Brazilian Java Magazine and now is editor at InfoQ Brasil. This year she won the Duke's Choice Award 2011 with Jhome project with her partner and husband Vinicius Senger. You can follow her on twitter @yarasenger or her posts on http://blog.globalcode.com.br/search/label/Yara.
Technical leader of Caelum, majoring in applied mathematics at USP (University of São Paulo), delivered several lectures related to web development. Along with Paul Silveira, created VRaptor in 2003. He currently focuses on implementation of systems integration via rest APIs and its positive impact on the business plan and Caelum's customers and commits to projects like Restfulie, XStream, paranamer and waffle with emphasis on Java and Ruby. It is also responsible for the technical content of the courses.
Bruno Souza is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (Sociedade de Usuários da Tecnologia Java; Java Technology Users Society) and leader of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community at Java.net, Bruno helped in the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide.
A Java Developer since the earliest days of the technology, Bruno took part in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil. Bruno is a Principal Consultant at Summa Technologies, and has extensive experience in large projects in the Government, finance and service industries. A Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud, he promotes and develops cloud-based systems using Java. Nurturing developer communities is a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java open source communities and projects.
Fabio Velloso is Systems Architecture Manager at Telefonica/VIVO in Brazil. Working with Java since 1996, he has developed projects for telecommunication and financial institutions using Java technology for Java EE-based application development, legacy systems integration, security and PKI. Founder and director of SouJava, Fabio has extensive experience as a speaker at Brazilian conferences such as JustJava, Café Brasil, Abaporu and university and other JUG events. He is also a professor at Federal University of São Carlos, adopting open source tools such as NetBeans, Glassfish and Jersey to teach SOA, Web Services and REST.
Edson Yanaga is the Chief Architect of Ínsula Tecnologia, a growing software development company that embraces Java and its ecosystem in everything it does. He is also a graduate and post-graduate professor since 2001, teaching Computer Networks and Java-related courses. Java has been Edson's passion since 1997, but he also shares his interests with open-source software and UNIX platforms, mainly Linux, Solaris and HP-UX. Edson holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UEM, a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from UTFPR, and several but mostly Java certifications. He's been leading the Redfoot JUG in Maringá/PR since 2004.
