- name: Venkat Subramaniam

email: venkats@agiledeveloper.com

photo_url: https://itkonekt.com/media/2019/12/Venkat.png

github: venkats

twitter: venkat_s

website: https://agiledeveloper.com/

description: |

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has mentored tens of thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.<br /><br />

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Programming Kotlin: Create Elegant, Expressive, and Performant JVM and Android Applications. Venkat is a well-recognized person in the software communities. He was once a recipient of the MicroSoft MVP award. He has received JavaOne RockStar award three years in a row and was inducted into the Java Champions program in 2013 for his efforts in motivating and inspiring software developers around the world.

- name: Jeanne Boyarsky

email: nyjeanne@gmail.com

photo_url: https://www.selikoff.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/jeanne-headshot.jpg

github: boyarsky

twitter: jeanneboyarsky

website: https://jeanneboyarsky.com

description: |

Jeanne is a Java developer and Java champion in NYC. She works as a developer for a bank in New York City and serves as a

moderator on CodeRanch which is the best java discussion forum on the web. She has moderated on topics including

JDBC, Testing, IDEs, Process and Performance. She is one of the leaders of javasig.com and mentors a high school

robotics team in her free time.

- name: Cay Horstmann

email: cay@horstmann.com

photo_url: https://horstmann.com/cay-pfh.jpg

github: cayhorstmann

twitter: cayhorstmann

website: https://horstmann.com

description: |

I grew up in Northern Germany and attended the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, a harbor town at the Baltic sea.

I received a M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of

Michigan in Ann Arbor. I taught computer science at San Jose State University for almost thirty years and held

visiting appointments at universities in Germany, Switzerland, Vietnam, and Macau. I was a “serial entrepreneur”

before that was a thing, including a stint as VP and CTO of a dot com startup that went from three people in a

tiny office to a public company. In my copious spare time I write books and develop online courses for beginning

and professional programmers.

- name: Dr Heinz M. Kabutz

email: heinz@javaspecialists.eu

photo_url: https://javaspecialists.eu/pics/gb/heinz2-300x300.jpg

github: kabutz

twitter: heinzkabutz

website: https://www.javaspecialists.eu

description: |

Heinz is the author of <a href="https://www.javaspecialists.eu">The Java Specialists' Newsletter</a>,

a monthly newsletter that has been in publication since the end of 2000. In it, he explores

many useful tips and tricks that have enthralled tens of thousands of enthusiastic fans for

over two decades. He was one of the first <a href="https://www.javachampions.org">Java Champions</a>.

- name: Paul Anderson

photo_url: https://asgteach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PaulAnderson-300x291.png

twitter: Paul_ASGTeach

website: https://asgteach.com/

description: |

Paul is a Java Champion and a member of the Oracle ACE Program. He is an experienced speaker,

making the technical aspects of software engineering fun and understandable.

He has conducted Technical Sessions and Tutorials at JavaOne, Devoxx, and NetBeans Day conferences

in San Francisco, Europe, and Latin America. Paul is also the author of LiveLesson videos on JavaFX

Programming and Java Reflection for Pearson Education. He has contributed articles to InformIT

and is the co-author of eight textbooks on software programming.

- name: Gail C. Anderson

photo_url: https://asgteach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/GailAnderson.png

twitter: gail_asgteach

website: https://asgteach.com/

description: |

Gail is a Java Champion and a member of the Oracle ACE Program. She is Director of Research

and founding member of the Anderson Software Group, a leading provider of training courses

in Java, JavaFX, Python, Go, Modern C++, and other programming languages.

Gail enjoys researching and writing about leading-edge Java technologies. Her current passion

includes JavaFX with GraalVM for cross-platform mobile applications. She is the co-author of

nine textbooks on software programming. Most recently, she is a contributing author to

The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX 17. Gail has presented at various

Java conferences and JUGS including Devoxx, DevNexus, JCrete, and Oracle Code/JavaOne worldwide.

- name: Daniel Schmid

github: danthe1st

twitter: dan_the_1st

photo_url: https://danthe1st.github.io/img/Daniel.jpg

website: https://danthe1st.github.io/

description: |

Daniel is a Java Developer from Austria who is also managing the <a href="https://discordjug.net/">Discord Java Community</a>.

- name: Marit van Dijk

email: mlvandijk@gmail.com

photo_url: https://maritvandijk.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-marit-van-dijk-1.jpeg

github: mlvandijk

twitter: MaritvanDijk77

website: https://maritvandijk.com

description: |

Marit is a Software Developer, a Java Champion and works as a Developer Advocate at JetBrains.

She speaks at international conferences (including JavaZone, Devoxx, Voxxed Days, JSpring, JFall, JFokus and GOTO), local JUGs, podcasts and webinars,

and has contributed to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).