Speakers

	John Gage — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	Jonathan Schwartz — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	Jeff Jackson — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	Graham Hamilton — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	Bill Shannon — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	Alan Brenner — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	Thomas Kurian — Oracle
	Bill Roth — BEA Systems, Inc.
	Patrick Linskey — BEA Systems, Inc.
	Erich Gamma — IBM Corporation
	John Wiegand — IBM Corporation
	Rob Shaddock — Motorola, Inc.
	Christy Wyatt — Motorola, Inc.
	Scott McNealy — Sun Microsystems, Inc.
	James Gosling — Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Speaker Biographies

John Gage
Chief Researcher and Vice President, Science Office
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

John Gage is chief researcher and vice president of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems. He was one of the founders of Sun, in 1982, when a group of students and professors from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, joined to create open systems in hardware and software.

He has served on the boards of trustees of the United States National Library of Medicine, FermiLabs, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, NetDay, Schools OnLine, United States National Research Council, the Internet Society (ISOC), and other scientific and educational groups.

He serves on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security, the Board of Advisors of the United States Institute of Peace, the National Academy of Sciences, and the International Advisory Board of the Malaysian Multimedia Corridor.

Jonathan Schwartz
President and CEO
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jonathan Schwartz is president and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems. He became Sun's CEO in 2006, succeeding the Company's co-founder and current chairman of the board of directors, Scott McNealy.

Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer in 2004 and managed all operational functions at Sun - from product development and worldwide marketing, to global sales and manufacturing. An inveterate blogger, Schwartz has led Sun's drive toward transparency and openness in everything the organization stands for.

A leader behind many of Sun's open source and standard setting initiatives, from the open sourcing of Sun's flagship Solaris operating system and UltraSPARC microprocessor, to the Liberty Alliance, a cross industry effort to drive royalty free standards for secure network identity, Jonathan's been an outspoken advocate for the network as a utility with more than just value for the computing industry - but as a tool for economic, social and political progress.

From 2002 to 2004, Schwartz served as Sun's executive vice president for software and revolutionized the Company's software strategy with the introduction of Java Enterprise System and launch of the Java Desktop System. Prior to that he directed the company's long-range planning and corporate development activities, including mergers and acquisitions and Sun's venture capital portfolio, as the senior vice president of corporate strategy and planning.

Other positions Schwartz held at Sun include vice president, venture fund; vice president, developer products; vice president, enterprise software; and director, product marketing, Javasoft. He joined sun in 1996 after the Company acquired Lighthouse Design, where he was CEO and co-founder. Prior to that, Schwartz was with McKinsey & Co. in New York City.

Schwartz received degrees in economics and mathematics from Wesleyan University.

Jeff Jackson
Senior Vice President, Java Enterprise Platforms and Developer Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jeff Jackson is Sun's Vice President of engineering, managing the Java Standard Edition and Java Enterprise Edition platforms and technology.  He also manages the Developer programs and Tools groups within Sun.  Jeff has worked at Sun for ten years on enterprise products and Java.   In addition to Java Technology, Jeff also manages the core products in the Sun Java Enterprise System stack. Jeff has a unique perspective on the Java Platform, having been one of the originators of J2EE project at Sun.  He lead that effort from its inception through delivery.  Jeff also served a dual role for J2EE in engineering and marketing.  A significant part of the Java EE project is its Java Blueprints program and Java Web Services pack, along with the java.sun.com web properties. Jeff is a keen supporter of developers, developer education and collaboration.

Graham Hamilton
Vice President and Sun Fellow
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Graham Hamilton is a VP and fellow on the Java^TM platform team at Sun Microsystems. His main interest is the use of the Java platform for large-scale enterprise and web development. He is also strongly focused on attracting new developers to the Java platform.

Hamilton joined the Java technology team in 1995 and has contributed to a wide variety of Java technology initiatives, including technologies such as the JDBC^TM APIs, the JavaBeans^TM component model, the Java Plug-in software, RMI-IIOP, Java APIs for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC), and others. He was the lead architect for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE^TM) releases 1.3, 1.4, and 5.0. Hamilton has helped encourage community participation in Java API development, and he was one of the designers of the Java Community Process^SM program.

Hamilton's current activities include acting as a Sun representative on the JCP Executive Committee, helping develop plans for the future releases of J2SE, leading an Ease-of-Development initiative within the Java platform team, and encouraging more community involvement in J2SE development.

Bill Shannon
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Bill Shannon is a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he is one of the architects of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE^TM). He has been with Sun since 1982 and previously worked on the JavaMail^TM API, the HotJava Views^TM software product, the Common Desktop Environment, the Solaris^TM Operating System, and all versions of SunOS software. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University with an M.S. in computer engineering.

Alan Brenner
Vice President, Client Systems Group (CSG)
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Alan Brenner is the Vice President of the Client Systems Group (CSG) at Sun Microsystems. Alan is responsible for all consumer device and mobile wireless client software development at Sun including J2ME, Java TV, Java Card and Java Embedded Server. Alan has played a leading role in the inception, standardization and development of J2ME and Java Card. Alan joined Sun in 1997 from Integrity Arts, a Silicon Valley start up company that developed the core technologies underlying Java Card.

Thomas Kurian
Senior Vice President
Oracle Server Technologies Development
Oracle

Thomas Kurian is senior vice president of development for Oracle middleware platform products, including Oracle Application Server and development tools. He is responsible for shaping all technological aspects of the products' development, release process, management, and business development.

Kurian has been with Oracle since 1996, holding various product management and development positions in Oracle's Server Technologies Division. He played a key role in bringing Oracle9i Application Server to market. He also served as Oracle's vice president of e-business, driving several company-wide initiatives focused on transforming Oracle into an e-business.

Prior to joining Oracle, Kurian worked in London, Brussels, and San Francisco as a consultant with McKinsey and Company, an international management consulting firm, serving clients in the software, telecommunications, and financial services industries.

Kurian holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, graduating from Princeton University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He serves as an advisory member on the boards of several international venture funds and software companies.

Bill Roth
Vice President, BEA Workshop Business Unit
BEA Systems, Inc.

Bill Roth is vice president of the BEA Workshop Business Unit at BEA Systems. He is responsible for delivering the BEA Workshop For Java product line to market. An 18-year industry veteran, Roth most recently worked at CRM software provider, Epiphany, as chief technology evangelist. Prior to Epiphany, Roth held several key marketing positions at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for product marketing and product management for J2EE and for SunONE developer marketing. Roth was also instrumental in the launch and community building for OpenOffice.org.

Patrick Linskey
Architect for BEA WebLogic Server — EJB & JDO
BEA Systems, Inc.

Patrick Linskey has been working with O/R mapping for over six years. He is an active member of both the JDO 2.0 and EJB 3.0 expert groups, and is on the JAOO Conference Program Committee. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drove the technical direction of the company. Now at BEA, he leads the EJB team in designing and implementation of the WebLogic Server EJB solution. He has been the face of standards-based persistence, having evangelized JDO and EJB Persistence in hundreds of talks throughout the world. Under Patrick's leadership, Kodo has become the market leading JDO implementation with over 350 customers throughout the world spanning all industries, and is now the basis for the WebLogic Server EJB persistence provider.

Erich Gamma
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Rational Software
IBM Corporation

Erich Gamma leads the Eclipse Java^TM Development tools project and is a member of the Eclipse and the Eclipse Tools project management committees. He is also a member of the Gang of Four, which is known for its book, Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Gamma has collaborated with Kent Beck on developing JUnit, a popular testing tool for Java software, and on writing the book Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-ins. Before joining OTI, Gamma worked at Taligent on a never shipped C++ development environment. He started with object-oriented programming more than 20 years ago as a coauthor of ET++, one of the first large-scale C++ application frameworks.

John Wiegand
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Rational Software
IBM Corporation

John Wiegand is the principal architect of the Eclipse platform infrastructure and played a central role in the development of IBM Rational Development Tools, IBM Visual Age for Java^TM, and IBM Visual Age Micro Edition. His interests are in the areas of performance, scalability, compilers, and just about anything that's hard. Wiegand is also serving as leader of the Eclipse Platform subproject and PDE subproject and is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC.

Rob Shaddock
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Mobile Devices Business
Motorola, Inc.

Rob Shaddock is Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola’s Mobile Devices business, based in Libertyville, Illinois. Rob and his team are responsible for leading the development of new and advanced technology enablers for mobile devices, conducting technology trials to develop new intellectual property and maintaining Motorola representation on standards boards and councils.

Previously, Rob held the position of Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s GSM/TDMA Products. In this role, he was responsible for managing a unified product line and driving the creation and delivery of mobile products and solutions. His team launched a complete new range of products and platforms over 2 years including the RAZR and other successful products that helped improve the financial performance of the mobile devices business.  

Rob holds a BA in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford.

Christy Wyatt
Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development
Mobile Devices Business
Motorola, Inc.

As Vice President, Ecosystem and Market Development for Motorola's Mobile Devices business, Christy Wyatt is responsible for building a healthy software economy around Motorola's handset platforms. She leads the carrier market development and software alliance teams as well as Motorola's developer program, working with carriers and developers alike to deliver key mobile experiences and revenue-generating solutions worldwide. Prior to joining Motorola, Christy served as Worldwide Developer Relations Director at Apple Computer where she was responsible for partners, global alliances and evangelism and as Senior Director at Palmsource Inc. responsible for their licensing and developer relations teams.  Christy has also held key technical, sales and business development roles at Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft and ESRI.

Scott McNealy
Chairman of the Board
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems—a company Scott McNealy cofounded—is the quintessential Silicon Valley success story. Since its inception in 1982, the company has grown to become the leading global supplier of network computing solutions. Since taking the reins as CEO, in 1984, McNealy has steered Sun to constant growth and innovation. His vision and business acumen have made him one of the most influential and widely quoted leaders in the complex, fluid, and fast-moving IT industry. Throughout his career, McNealy has trained his focus on maintaining and growing Sun's reputation as a constant innovator and strong competitor.

McNealy's ideas about computing often predate industry trends. For more than a decade, he has been advancing Sun's slogan, The Network Is The Computer—a succinct statement of the company's vision of seamless connectivity.

McNealy, an amateur ice hockey player, shies away from controversial issues in the computer world about as much as he avoids a defenseman's check in the rink. His tenacity and willingness to address tough issues head-on have earned him both respect and admiration. Whether he's testifying before Congress or speaking out in favor of the U.S. government's antitrust lawsuits, McNealy can be found fighting for choice. As he often says, "Without choice, there is no competition. Without competition, there is no innovation. And without innovation, you are left with very little."

James Gosling
Vice President and Sun Fellow
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

James Gosling received a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of UNIX®, several compilers, mail systems, and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor, and a text editor called Emacs, for UNIX systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. He has recently been a contributor to the Real-Time Specification for Java. He is currently a researcher at Sun Labs, where his primary interest is software development tools.