The EAKon Advisory Board works behind the scenes to architect the EAKon program. Highly skilled architects, consultants and community insiders are part of the Advisory Board. The program has been conceived to represent an interesting mix of topics that are on the one hand useful for the architects' day-to-day work and on the other hand show into the future and point out the latest trends. Project management topics and the integral view on the entire software lifecycle are an important part of the program and crucial to complex enterprise projects.

Sebastian Meyen | Program Chair

   Software & Support Verlag

Sebastian Meyen has been the editor-in-chief of the Java Magazin since its foundation in 1998. Besides, he is the editor-in-chief of the Eclipse Magazin which has been launched in 2004. In this way he has been accompanying the Java Community as a journalist almost from its beginning. Prior to his work at Software & Support Verlag he studied philosophy in Frankfurt. He has also been responsible for the program of the JAX, W-JAX and the Enterprise Architecture conference as well as the Eclipse forum right from the beginning.

Adam Bien

      adam-bien.com

Adam Bien is a self-employed consultant and lecturer in the Enterprise Java sector. His practical knowledge results from his participation in many Java and Java EE projects where he works as an architect and software developer. He is the author of numerous books and reference articles on distributed Java programming. Adam Bien is BEA Technical Director and Expert Group member of the Java Community Process (JCP). Currently he is dealing with Model Driven Architecture (MDA), EAI component architectures for Java EE and .NET as well as some projects for books. Contact and further information: www.adam-bien.com.

Dierk König

      Canoo Engineering AG

Dierk König is software developer and coach at Canoo Engineering AG in Basel. He is responsible for the Open Source project Canoo WebTest and committer in the Groovy project. He has published on several themes, among them Extreme Programming, Testing and Rich Internet Applications. He is also the author of the book "Groovy in Action"."

Martin Jäkle

      Oracle

Martin Jäkle is an expert for middleware for more than 10 years. He knows the software development from the viewpoint of a producer: marketing, implementation and partly the development of the products, especially persistence frameworks. However, he also tracks the practical realization on project management level or during the review phase. Being a Solution Architect for Oracle Deutschland GmbH, he designs SOA-driven, standard-based solutions for large companies.

Guido Laures

      Software AG

Guido Laures is product manager and responsible for the Crossvision Application Composer at Software AG. Before that he worked for several years as a consultant and chief consultant in the industry and as an architect and technical project leader in important research projects. He regularly publishes on enterprise architecture in specialized magazines.

Johannes Link

      johanneslink.net

After three years in academic as well as industrial IT research Johannes Link has been working as software developer, project leader and agile coach for developing and strongly stood up for quality since 1999. He is the author of two books on test-driven software development, the head of the "Jenseits des Tellerands" series in the Java Magazin and always dealing with a lot of things besides that also.

Peter Roßbach

      www.objektpark.de

Peter Roßbach is a self-employed system architect and coach of a number of Java EE Applications. His special interest is on the development of complex information systems, including the structuring and realisation of test driven software processes. He is Committer of the Tomcat project of the Apache Software Foundation and of the Centaurus Platform projects (centaurus.sf.net). Contact: tomcat.objektpark.org.

Dirk M. Sohn

      Orientation in Objects GmbH

Orientation in Objects GmbH Dirk M. Sohn is co-founder of the Orientation in Objects GmbH, a competence centre for software development on the basis of Java and Open Source. As a technology scout, an expert in continuing education and a mentor for the use of Open Source he accompanied the Java community since 1998. His special interest lies in process and management advice in OO projects. He also gives talks and lectures on these topics.

Moderator Agile Day

Jutta Eckstein

      IT communication

Jutta Eckstein has over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She is an experienced XP, and agile process coach and trainer. She has worked with teams of different sizes mainly in the finance industry to help them using agile processes successfully. Besides engineering software she has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. She completed a course of teacher training and led many 'train the trainer' programs in industry. Her focus is also on techniques that help to teach object technology. She is a member of the board of the AgileAlliance, a supporter of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and a member of several Interest Groups.

Moderator BPM Day

Marc Gille

      Carnot AG – Bereich von SunGard EXP

During the last ten years Marc Gille was involved in numerous software projects in Germany, Europe and the US, either as manager and/or architect. He is a well-known member of the European software community and has written articles for a number of magazines and conferences. As a member of the Object Database Management Group he has designed and specified parts of the ODMG standard. Before the foundation of the CARNOT AG, Dr Gille was managing director in engineering of the MICRAM AG, one of the leading vendors of complex Web solutions and distributor for ODBMS Objectivity/DB in Germany. Marc Gille obtained his doctoral degree in engineering from the faculty of electrical engineering at Ruhr University in Bochum.

Moderator SOA Management Day

Nicolai Josuttis

      IT communication

Nicolai Josuttis worked as an independent technical project leader, consultant and author on international level for many years. A number of medium-size and big commercial software systems have been successfully realized in the sectors of financial system, telecommunication, traffic, automobile industry and mechanical engineering during the time of his technical management. He is the author of several books on practical software development that have been published all over the world.

josuttis@it-communication.com