JavaOne Keynotes

Nandini Ramani is vice president of Development at Oracle in the Fusion Middleware group. She is responsible for the Java Client Platform and has a long history of creating innovation and future strategies at Sun Microsystems. Nandini has been actively involved in JavaFX since its inception in May 2007, and launched the JavaFX Platform and tools. Prior to joining the client group, Nandini was in the Software CTO Office driving incubation projects for the emerging technologies group. She has a background in both hardware and software, having worked in hardware architecture and on the simulation team in the Accelerated Graphics group and the graphics and media team in the JavaME group. She was involved in the development of XML standards as cochair of the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics working group and as a member of the W3C Compound Document Formats working group. She was also a member of several graphics and UI-related expert groups in the Java Community Process. You can follow Nandini on Twitter at: @eyeseewaters

Georges Saab is the vice president of Development for the Java Platform group at Oracle. His responsibilities include the Java language, core libraries, and the Java Virtual Machine. Georges is a 20-plus-year veteran of programming language and platform development. His work with the Java platform began when he was a developer of Java Standard Edition at Sun Microsystems, where he was a founder of the Swing group and Java Webstart, and continued as he ran development of the JRockit JVM for many years at BEA Systems. Georges currently sits on the governing board of the OpenJDK as an observer. You can follow Georges on Twitter at: @g_saab

Sharat Chander is the JavaOne Program Committee chairperson and directs the conference’s content strategy and technical tracks, as well as oversees and manages the entire call for papers review and selection process. He is very active in the Java community, having participated in many global Java-related events and activities. Sharat has more than 16 years of industry experience in high technology, working at firms such as Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and now Oracle. Sharat is passionate about and focused on developer growth efforts specific to community outreach and university relations. Follow Sharat on Twitter: @sharat_chander

Roger Brinkley is host of the weekly Java Spotlight Podcast (http://javaspotlight.org) and a Java Developer Advocate. He is part of the Evangelism team in the Java Platform Group at Oracle, was a member of Sun's Open Source Group, and serves as a Track Lead for the JavaOne Program Committee. He has more than 30 years of industry experience with over 16 years at Sun and Oracle serving as a developer and community leader for Java core, desktop and mobile environments. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences around the world.

Simon Ritter is a Java technology evangelist at Oracle. He has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree 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, Simon moved to Sun Microsystems in 1996. At that 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 specializes in looking at emerging technologies including cloud computing, wireless sensor networks, and gestural interfaces.

Arun Gupta is a Java evangelist at Oracle. Arun has more than 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 and GlassFish. He has been with the Java EE team since its inception and contributed to all releases. Arun has extensive worldwide speaking experience on myriad topics and loves to engage with the community, customers, partners, and Java User Groups everywhere to spread the goodness of Java.
Arun is a prolific blogger at blogs.oracle.com/arungupta, with more than 1,200 blog entries and frequent visitors from around the world with cumulative page visits of 1.2 million and counting. He is a passionate runner and is always up for running in any part of the world. You can catch him at: @arungupta

Terrence Barr is a senior technologist for Mobile and Embedded Technologies at Oracle.
Over the last 15 years, Terrence has worked on various technical aspects of embedded systems and Java platforms, including industrial control systems, multiprocessor architectures, implementation and optimization of virtual machines, byte code hardware acceleration, advanced client-side and mobile applications, scalable client-server architectures, and more.
Terrence currently participates in industry organizations and standards bodies such as JCP, VITA, EEMBC, OMA, and AMI-C, has authored or coauthored a number of U.S. and European patents, and speaks frequently at conferences around the world including JavaOne, Jazoon, OREDEV, OSiM, and others.
His blog can be found at: terrencebarr.wordpress.com