JavaOne Keynotes

Anil Gaur is the vice president of software development in the Cloud Application Foundation organization at Oracle. He is leading the development of the Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle GlassFish Server, and Oracle Java Cloud Service. He regularly participates in the creation of industry standards, and currently leads the development of Java EE 7 in the JCP.

Gaur has more than 20 years experience in the computer industry, with a broad background in engineering and business development primarily focused on enterprise software development. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked as a director of engineering at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the delivery of the Java EE platform and the GlassFish Server. Gaur played an instrumental role in open-sourcing the Java EE platform through the GlassFish community.

Nandini Ramani is vice president of engineering, Java client, and mobile platforms at Oracle. Her current focus includes driving JavaFX and the client platform and tools for Java, JavaME, and Java Card.

Ramani has a long history of creating innovation and futures at Sun Microsystems. She has been actively involved in JavaFX since its inception in 2007, and launched the platform and tools.

Prior to joining the client group, Ramani worked in the Office of the Software CTO, driving the emerging technologies group for incubation projects. Having worked in the hardware architecture and simulation team in the Accelerated Graphics group as well as the graphics and media team for JavaME, her background includes both hardware and software. Ramani was involved in the development of XML standards as co-chair 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 her on Twitter at: @eyeseewaters

With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Grisha Labzovsky is the leader of Oracle’s Research and Development Center in St. Petersburg, Russia. More than 300 software engineers work there, most of them on Java platform development and testing. Prior to assuming his current role, he was responsible for a number of projects related to Java SE and Java EE tools, as well as infrastructure development. Since the founding of the St. Petersburg R&D Center in 2004, Labzovsky has been actively involved in building relationships with the developer community and leading Russian universities to promote Oracle technologies and products. As a result, a number of major events, including JavaOne Russia, have been organized across Russia and attract thousands of attendees. Labzovsky also serves as the AmCham IT Committee chairperson in St. Petersburg. The committee leverages R&D companies' activities in their relations with both the Russian and St. Petersburg governments.