PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A
Java & JVM Panel
The new release cadence of Java brings exciting new features at a more consistent pace, what are the next exciting features? What have been the strongest points of Java? What are we missing?
Speaker

Simone Bordet
Lead Software Architect at Webtide LLC
Simone Bordet is one of the Eclipse Jetty Project Leaders, theCometD project leader and a Java Champion.Simone works as Lead Architect at Webtide, the company that providessupport and services for Jetty and CometD.Active open source developer, he founded and contributed to variousopen source...
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Cay Horstmann
University Professor at PFH Private University of Applied Sciences
Cay grew up in Northern Germany but scholarships lured him to earn an M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He taught computer science at San Jose State University for almost thirty years and held visiting appointments at...
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