Subho Halder is the Co-Founder and CTO at Appknox, a mobile security company that helps developers and companies to build secure mobile application. He looks after the security technologies and the product development to ensure we are always ahead in our game. Subho has previously developed AFE (Android Framework for Exploitation) and has done in-depth research and analysis on mobile platforms. He has been also listed multiple number of times in various Hall Of Fame for finding out critical security vulnerabilities in Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and many more. He has presented many talks and conducted workshops at conferences like Black Hat, Defcon, ToorCon, SysCan, ClubHack, NullCon, OWASP AppSec, RSA Conference.

Aaron is a security consultant and an instructor and contributing author for the DEV544 Secure Coding in .NET course. After ten years in the U.S. Army as a Russian Linguist and a Satellite Repair Technician he worked as a database administrator and programmer on the Iridium project, with subsequent positions as a telecommunications consultant, senior programmer, and security consultant.

At Puma Security, Aaron focuses on developing security rules, as well as leading research efforts for data flow and taint analysis.

Aaron holds the GIAC GSSP-.NET, GWAPT, GPEN, GMOB, and CISSP certifications and is located in Arvada, CO. Outside the office Aaron enjoys boating, travel, and playing hockey.

Patrick Curran is Chair of the Java Community Process organization. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP’s Program Management Office including evolving the process and the organization, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, chairing Executive Committee meetings, and managing the JCP.org web site.

Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years, and at Sun and then Oracle for 20 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and before joining the JCP he led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun’s Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun’s Conformance Council, which was responsible for defining Sun’s policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility.

Patrick has participated actively in several consortia and communities including the W3C (as a member of the Quality Assurance Working Group and co-chair of the Quality Assurance Interest Group), and OASIS (as co-chair of the Test Assertions Guidelines Technical Committee).

David Delabassee is a software evangelist working for Oracle; his primary focus is Java on the server side, i.e. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. Prior to Oracle, Delabassee spent a decade at Sun Microsystems focusing on Java end-to-end (from the smart card to the high-end server) and related technologies and developer tools. In his various roles, Delabassee has been involved in numerous Java projects since the early days of this technology. Delabassee lives in Belgium. In his spare time, he enjoys playing video games and LEGO with his daughter. He also enjoys tinkering with technologies such as Java, home automation, electronics, pinballs, etc.

As part of the engineering team at Pivotal Software Inc., Christoph Strobl maintains and contributes mainly to the Spring Data modules around Redis, MongoDB, KeyValue and Solr. He is keen about all data access and has a passion about design and testing.

Geertjan Wielenga is a NetBeans product manager working at Oracle, focused on Java development and HTML5 development with NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform. Geertjan is a Java technology enthusiast, primarily interested in Java desktop technologies, in particular, application development on the NetBeans Platform.

Iskren maintains backend infrastructure for millions of users for a messaging company, writing asynchronous code before it was cool. He’s also a maintainer of moment.js.

Dmitry Kober is a team leader of one of the development teams of a massive highly-distributed BigData project at Luxoft.

He earned a mathematician and a system programmer degree at the Saint Petersburg State University in Russia, where as a postgraduate student he was teaching a discreet analysis and a system modelling courses. Dmitry started his career as a regular back-end Java developer at 2009 in a middle-sized outsoursing company which actively applied latest software development technics for a day-to-day work. This is where he first started forming an idea of combining the Agile and Waterfall worlds together. Since that, Dmitry changed several companies acting as an analyst, developer, architect and team leader, participating in out-tasking, outsourcing and scientific projects. His current research interest include analytical scenario-based requirement gathering, analysis and modelling, enterprise architecture practices and risk management technics.

Atanas Kiryakov is founder and CEO of Ontotext – leading vendor of semantic graph databases and text-analytics. Kiryakov is member of the boards of Sirma Group Holding and the Linked Data Benchmarking Council – association of the graph database vendors, including ORACLE, IBM, Neo Technology, Ontotext and others.
Atanas Kiryakov is a leading expert in semantic databases, author of multiple signature industry publications, including chapters from the widely acclaimed “Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies”. Kiryakov obtained his M.Sc. degree in CS from the Sofia University, Bulgaria, in 1995 with a thesis in AI. Atanas is author of more than 20 scientific publications with more than 3000 citations in reasoning, semantic databases, search, text-mining and linked data management.
Atanas started his career as software engineer in 1989, when he was last grade in the Sofia High School of Mathematics. Kiryakov joined Sirma (the biggest Bulgarian software house) as a software engineer in 1993 and later on became partner. In 2000 he found Ontotext as semantic technology R&D lab in Sirma Group. In 2008 Kiryakov finalized an investment deal for Ontotext with VC fund NEVEQ.