Stephan Janssen, Parleys.com and Javapolis Founder

Stephan Janssen is a serial entrepreneur that has founded several successful organizations such as the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) in 1996, JCS Int. in 1998, JavaPolis in 2002 and now Parleys.com in 2006.

He has been using Java since its early releases in 1995 with experience of developing and implementing real world Java solutions in the finance and manufacturing industries. Today Stephan is the CTO of the Java Competence Center at RealDolmen.

He was selected by BEA Systems as the first European (independent) BEA Technical Director.

He has also been recognized by the Server Side as one of the 54 Who is Who in Enterprise Java 2004.

Sun has recognized in 2005 his efforts for the Java Community and has engaged me in the Java Champion project.

He has spoken at numerous Java and JUG conferences around the world.