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

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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.

Gil has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years and has been building Java technology based products since 1995. He co-founded Azul Systems in 2002 with the goal of eliminating common Java responsiveness, performance, scale, and overall deployment barriers. Gil guides Azul Systems architectural vision and product design to align with business and market opportunity strategies.

At Azul, Gil pioneered Pauseless Garbage Collection, Java Virtualization, and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that combine to deliver the industry's most scalable and robust Java platform.

Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Gil was Director of Technology at Nortel Networks, Shasta Networks and at Check Point Software Technologies, where he delivered several industry-leading traffic management solutions including the industry's first Firewall-1 based security appliance, and the industry's first subscriber edge Broadband Service Node.

Gil architected operating systems for Stratus Computer, clustering solutions at Qualix/Legato, and served as an officer in the Israeli Navy Computer R&D unit. He holds a BSEE from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and has been awarded 19 patents in computer related technologies.

As Chief Technologist for Pervasive DataRush, Jim Falgout is responsible for setting innovative design principles that guide Pervasive engineering teams as they develop new releases and products for partners and customers. Jim is responsible for the architectural design of Pervasive DataRushTM, a 100% Java dataflow platform that allows developers to quickly build highly parallel, data-intensive applications that take full advantage of multicore, SMP platforms (see www.pervasivedatarush.com).

Jim has nearly 20 years of large-scale software development experience in roles including development manager, software architect, and principal engineer. His areas of expertise include requirements analysis, architecture development, object and data modeling, performance analysis and planning, and algorithm and processing development with particular depth in Java languages and frameworks.

Prior to joining Pervasive, Jim was Software Development Manager for NexQL, a company focused on hardware acceleration for database systems. Jim also served as Director of Software Architecture for Voyence, which created a product for managing IP networks; as Software Development Principal for Net Perceptions/KD1, which designed software to analyze point-of-sale data for large retailers; and as Senior Software Engineer for Convex Computer. Jim also held senior technical positions with Sequel Systems and E-Systems.

Jim holds a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Nicholls State University. Jim is an experienced public speaker, including presentations to user groups, client conferences and IEEE working groups. Jim is active in the Java development community, he presented “Unleashing the Power of Multi- Core Processors: Scalable Data Processing in Java Technology” at JavaOne and has authored articles including “Let the Data Flow” in the July 2007 issue of Java Developers Journal (co-authored with Matt Walker) and “Prince of the Pipeline: Multicore Testing Techniques can Elevate a Test Team from Citizens to App Performance Royalty” in the October 2007 issue of Software Test and Performance.

Mike Allen is the Head of Product Management at Terracotta, where he is responsible for Terracotta's product strategy and execution. Prior to joining Terracotta, Mike has held multiple senior product line management roles and has more than a decade of experience in the software industry. Most recently he was responsible for CA Wily's market leading Introscope Application Performance Management product line. He has extensive expertise working on high scale performance critical web solutions, having been responsible for the delivery of systems ranging from real-time trading systems in the financial industry to in-flight internet service in the aerospace industry. He has a BSc in Computer Science from University College London.