Speakers at JAOO Aarhus 2009

Barry Boehm,
Balancing agility and discipline in software development since 1955

Cameron Purdy,
JavaOne RockStar, CEO of Tangosol

Urs Hölzle,
One of Google's first ten employees, Senior Vice President of Operations, Google

Alex Cone,
Founder, CodeFab LLC. Head trainer, iPhone Boot Camp

Anne Thomas-Manes,
Author of "SOA Obituary"

Billy Newport,
Distinguished Engineer at IBM and creator of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale

Brian Goetz,
Author of "Java Concurrency in Practice"

Brian McBride,
Original developer of Jena, the Java semantic web library

Don Syme,
Designer and co-implementer of the F# language

Eric Gordon Prud'hommeaux,
Sanitation engineer at W3C

Gerard Meszaros,
Author of xUnit Test Patterns - Refactoring Test Code

Gus Power,
Co-founder of EnergizedWork

Jonas Jacobi,
Co-founder of Kaazing

Linda Northrop,
Originator of SEI Framework for Software Product Line Practice

Martin Lippert,
Co-founder of it-agile and OSGi expert

Mary Poppendieck,
Thought leader in the software industry

Philippe Kruchten,
Professor of software engineering, Developer of RUP

Rachel Reinitz,
IBM Distinguished Engineer in WebSphere Services and Support

Raven Zachary,
iPhone Entrepreneur and Founder of iPhoneDevCamps

Rich Hickey,
Creator of Clojure

Scott Ambler,
Founder of the Agile Modeling methodology

Simon Peyton-Jones,
Co-creator of Haskell

Sumit Rai,
founder of Kulu Valley

Retrospectives Facilitator Aino Vonge Corry,
Trifork A/S

Lead Consultant Andreas Toenne,
Cincom

Andrew Patterson,
ElectricCloud

Arjen Poutsma,
Track Host, Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services

Beat Schwegler,
Head in the Cloud, Feet on the Ground

Christian Hvitved,
Software Pilot at Trifork

Dalibor Topic,
Sun's free and open source Java go-to guy

Dan North,
Agile troublemaker, developer, originator of BDD

Dave Thomas,
Father of OTI, CEO of Bedarra Corporation

David Geary,
Track Host, Currently defining the next version of JSF

Eberhard Wolff,
Track Host, Regional Director, SpringSource GmbH

Emil Eifrém,
Founder of Neo4j

Eoin Woods,
Author of "Software Systems Architecture"

Ernest Micklei,
PhilemonWorks

Francesco Cesarini,
Founder Erlang Training and Consulting, author of "Erlang Programming"

Frank Buschmann,
Track Host, Principal Architect at Siemens Corporate Technology

Gertrud Bjørnvig,
Driven by Agile Patterns and Anthropological studies of Software Development

Gitte Ottosen,
Passionate about agile development and test within a mature process framework

Graeme Rocher,
Co-Founder & Head of Grails Development at SpringSource

Gregor Hohpe,
Track Host, Google Architect

Hardy Ferentschik,
RedHat

Henrik Kniberg,
Author of "Scrum and XP from the Trenches"

Ian Robinson,
RESTful enterprise development specialist

Jakob Aarøe Dam,
Newly educated computer scientist

Jan Reher,
Passionate about effective, habitable and well-defined software development processes

Jason Davies,
Independent Consultant

Jeff Sutherland,
Scrums grand old mann - Co Founder of Scrum

Jens Østergaard,
Co founder of Scrum Training Institute

Jes Rude Dragsted,
Head of IT Architecture and Design at ATP

Jim Webber,
ThoughtWorks

Jim O. Coplien,
Creator of C++ idioms, founder of organizational patterns, and leading spokesperson for Agile Architecture

John Field,
Programming Language and Software Tools Researcher, IBM

Kai Gilb,
Passionate about teaching the Agile community how to deliver Value to Stakeholders

Keith Braithwaite,
Agile Skeptic

Kevlin Henney,
Industry Expert on Software Architecture, Patterns, Processes and Languages

Kirk Pepperdine,
Sun Java Champion

Kresten Krab Thorup,
Track Host, Trifork Software Pilot

Kris Lander,
Technical lead and agile coach on web applications

Linda Rising,
Trackhost, Queen of patterns

Mads Torgersen,
Track Host, C# 4 Wiz, Microsoft

Magnus Christerson,
VP Intentional Software, Co-author: OO Software Engineering

Solution Engineer Marc Allavena,
Progress DataDirect

Martin Fowler,
Chief Scientist, Loud-mouth on Object Design

Martin Nally,
IBM Rational CTO

Mats Helander,
One of the developers behind Puzzle.NET

Michael Feathers,
Track Host, Author of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

Michael Hunger,
Passionate about software development

Michael T. Nygard,
Track Host, Author of "Release It"

Michele Lanza,
Software visualization authority

Mike Amundsen,
Focused on pragmatic implementations of REST principles over HTTP

Neal Ford,
Developer, Speaker, Author, and Meme Wrangler

Niels Hartvig,
Founder of the Umbraco CMS project

Ola Bini,
Core developer for JRuby since 2006 and is the author of the APress book Practical JRuby on Rails

Oren Eini,
Wizard of Open Source .Net

Patrick Linskey,
Track Host, Java Persistence Expert

Peter Lubbers,
Author of the upcoming book "Pro HTML 5 Programming"

Philipp von dem Bussche,
Solutions Architect, Quest Software

Rebecca Parsons,
ThoughtWorks

Richard Durnall,
Principal Consultant, Agile and Lean methods

Robin Bater,
IBM

Rod Johnson,
Creator of Spring

Roman Pichler,
Author and Product Owner Expert

Roman Strobl,
Technology Evangelist, JetBrains

Ronnie Saurenmann,
Enterprise Web Whizz and Microsoft Certified Architect

Sam Aaron,
Technical reviewer and essayist for Rails books

Scott Davis,
Author of "JBoss at Work"

Stefan Tilkov,
Track Host, SOA and REST authority, innoQ founder

Subbu Allamaraju,
Web and REST pragmatist

Thomas Juul,
Senior Consultant, TENTEO

Thomas Martinsen,
Founder and CEO, TENTEO

Toby Young,
CTO at City Index

Udi Dahan,
Software Simplist and Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP

Ulf Wiger,
CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting

Vivek Prahlad,
ThoughtWorks