J-Fall 2017 Speaker Steve Poole – Java in the 21st Century: are you thinking far enough ahead?
It is all change in the Java arena. Java 9 ships with the long awaited modularity support. Oracle plans to contribute Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation and to top it all, IBM announces both Open Liberty (based on its flagship application server ) and OpenJ9 it’s enterprise proven Java Virtual Machine.
In this talk you’ll certainly learn about these exciting changes that are happening to the Java ecosystem but you also learn much more about the real future of Java. See how new hardware technologies, new software approaches and new ideas are powering Java towards a life far removed from that envisioned at its inception. It’s time to look up and see how you will need to change how you think: Whether it’s driven by AI or Quantum Computers the problems of tomorrow demand new approaches and new thinking. Are you ready?
Bio Steve Poole:
Steve Poole is an eclectic mix of DevOps practitioner, a long time IBM Java developer, leader and evangelist. (Not to mention a JavaOne Rockstar) He’s been working on IBM Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than one year old. He’s also had time to work on other things including representing IBM on various JSRs, being a committer on various open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse and OpenJDK. He’s also member of the Adopt OpenJDK group championing community involvement in OpenJDK. Steve is a seasoned speaker and regular presenter at JavaOne, JAX, Devoxx and other conferences on technical and software engineering topics.
