<<< Previous speaker Next speaker >>>

Matt Thompson, Sun Microsystems

Matt Thompson As Director of Technology Outreach and Sun's Open Source Programs Office, Matt Thompson leads Sun's technology evangelism efforts worldwide. His team focuses on educating and enabling the worldwide developer community to easily adopt Sun's emerging technologies like the core Java platform, the Sun Java Enterprise System, and Sun's secure mobility platform, as well as driving Sun's open source strategy for developers. Matt's 16 years of experience includes the software engineering of development environments, productivity tools, and object-oriented frameworks. Today, Matt spends most of his time focusing on delivering Sun's technology strategy to Sun's developers, partners and customers worldwide. Matt first started at Sun in 1988 and after several years "outside" at Taligent and General Magic he returned to Sun in 1997.

Presentation: "Sun Keynote"

Time: Tuesday 18:05 - 18:50

Location: To be announced

Abstract:

Matt will deliver a keynote addressing illuminating key issues impacting the software industry. He will provide the vision and strategy for developers to collaborate by leveraging communities, technologies, and products in the current fast paced environment of software innovation, while highlighting key Sun technologies that facilitate this process.

The session will start with a three-dimension representation of a virtual workplace that allows remote interaction and collaboration. The second demo will use Java ME and Sun SPOTS demonstrating the ability of robots communicating and interaction in an environment.
Then a visually compelling demo will incorporate several key Sun technologies that create an environment that enable various devices reacting to sensors and external stimuli.

The demos will be delivered in such a manner as to show how Sun's technologies can easily be deployed using comprehensive wireless, desktop, bleeding edge and enterprise applications. The goal and objective being to show in easy rapid succession the use of Sun's technologies in innovative and progressively more challenging applied solutions.