Let’s Break New Ground, Together

Mert Caliskan works as an Opsgenie Champion at Atlassian. He is the coauthor of PrimeFaces Cookbook by Packt Publishing and Beginning Spring by Wiley Publications. He is the founder of AnkaraJUG, which is the most active Java user group in Turkey. He is a part-time lecturer at Hacettepe University about enterprise web application architecture and web services, and an Oracle Java Champion.

Emily Jiang is an Oracle Java Champion. She is senior microprofile lead and has been working on microprofile since 2016; she leads the specifications of microprofile config, fault tolerance, and service mesh. She is config JSR cospec lead and a CDI Expert Group member. She works for IBM as liberty architect for microprofile and CDI. Based at IBM’s Hursley laboratory in the UK, she has worked on the WebSphere application server since 2006 and is heavily involved in Java EE implementation in Liberty releases. She regularly speaks at conferences, such as Oracle Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx US, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, EclipseCon, etc. Follow her on Twitter @emilyfhjiang.

David Justice is a senior engineer in Microsoft’s Azure open source developer experience group. He leads code and documentation generation at scale using OpenAPI for Azure. David has led the transformation of Microsoft’s APIs from proprietary descriptions to public, open source OpenAPI specifications. Prior to his time at Microsoft, David founded cisimple, a cloud-based continuous integration/ continuous delivery platform for iOS and Android. In his spare time, you will likely find him working on Golang libraries on GitHub via https://github.com/devigned.

Dr. Kirk Borne is the Principal Data Scientist and an Executive Advisor at global technology and consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. In those roles, he focuses on applications of data science, data management, machine learning, A.I., and modeling across a wide variety of disciplines. He also provides training and mentoring to executives and data scientists in the use of large data repositories and machine learning for discovery, decision support, and innovation. Previously, he was Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science at George Mason University for 12 years where he did research, taught, and advised students in data science. Prior to that, Kirk spent nearly 20 years supporting data systems activities on NASA space science programs, which included a period as NASA's Data Archive Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, plus 10 years in management positions within NASA's Space Science Data Operations Office. Dr. Borne has a B.S. degree in Physics from LSU, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Caltech. In 2016 he was elected Fellow of the International Astrostatistics Association for his lifelong contributions to big data research in astronomy. As a global speaker, he has given hundreds of invited talks worldwide, including conference keynote presentations at many dozens of data science, A.I. and big data analytics events globally. He is an active contributor on social media, where he has been named consistently among the top worldwide influencers in big data and data science since 2013. He was recently identified as the #1 digital influencer worldwide for 2019.