Presentation: "QCon Opening"

Time: Wednesday 09:00 - 09:10

Location: To be announced

Abstract: Official opening and practicalities

Floyd Marinescu, Father of InfoQ

 Floyd  Marinescu

Floyd Marinescu is online community guru, co-founder & Chief Editor of InfoQ.com, and the QCon conferences.

http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp

InfoQ.com currently recently reached over 370,000 unique visitors/month, and is the 650th most influential site on the internet, according to technorati.

Previously, Floyd Marinescu authored the book “EJB Design Patterns” in 2002 and “Domain-Driven Design Quickly” in 2005. Floyd also created TheServerSide.com, TheServerSide.Net, and TheServerSide Java Symposium conferences.

Floyd managed TheServerSide.com between 2000-2005 in which time the site became the largest Java community in the world.

Kresten Krab Thorup, Hacker, CTO of Trifork

 Kresten Krab  Thorup Dr. Kresten Krab Thorup is Chief Architext and Co-founder of EOS Trifork, a vendor of J2EE compatible application servers. Thorup received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Aarhus; he has served on the expert group for JSR-14 (Adding Generics to Java), and is currently serving on JSR 244 (Java EE 5.0). Before joining Trifork and the EOS-group, Thorup spend three years at NeXT in San Francisco.