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Presentation: "Introduction and Overview of Thursday's Tracks"Time: Thursday 09:00 - 09:20 Location: Metropolitan Ballroom
Abstract: Floyd Marinescu and Thursday Track Hosts will present the program and provide
a short introduction of the Tracks scheduled for Wednesday.
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Alexandru Popescu, Co-founder: TestNG, InfoQ
Alexandru Popescu is Chief-Architect of InfoQ.com. Alexandru is involved in many open source initiatives and bleeding-edge technologies (AOP, testing, web, etc.), being co-founder of the TestNG Framework and a committer on the WebWork and Magnolia projects. Alexandru formerly was one of three committers on the AspectWerkz project before it merged with AspectJ. Alexandru also publishes a blog on tech topics at themindstorms.blogspot.com Dan North, Agile troublemaker, developer, originator of BDD
Dan writes software and coaches teams in agile and lean methods. He believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software. He believes that most problems that teams face are about communication, and all the others are too. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about behaviour-driven development, communication and how people learn. He has been working in the IT industry since he graduated in 1991, and he occasionally blogs at dannorth.net.
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting
A specialist in the human side of software development, Diana Larsen expands teams' capabilities to interact, self-organize, and improve project performance. She co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Pragmatic Programmers, 2006) with Esther Derby. Clients come to Diana because of her experience and expertise; they stick with her because of her candor, compassion and courage. She leads group processes for collaborative thinking and planning, as well as guiding teams through project retrospectives. She presents workshops, speaks and writes on self-organizing team development and team leadership, project leadership, innovation development, leading retrospectives and influencing organizational change. A former board member of the Agile Alliance, Diana works with a wide network of colleagues. She co-founded the International Retrospective Facilitators Gathering and the Agile Open Northwest 2007 conference. Contact Diana at http://www.futureworksconsulting.com Floyd Marinescu, Father of InfoQ
Floyd Marinescu is online community guru, co-founder & Chief Editor of InfoQ.com, and the QCon conferences. http://www.infoq.com/about.jspInfoQ.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. Marc Stiegler, Research scientist at HP Labs
Marc Stiegler is a research scientist at HP Labs. He was the main designer of CapDesk and Polaris, two desktop systems that are robust in the face of cyberattack, and the DarpaBrowser, a secure web browser that introduced concepts now incorporated in Google Chrome.
His book "Programming Languages for the IBM PC" was listed as 20 key books on the PC by Byte Magazine, and his DecideRight decision analysis system was selected as Best New Business Software by the Software Publisher's Association in 1996.
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