Keynotes speakers


Keynote 1

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Chief Designer, Ruby Programming Language. Schedule : Schedule : April 1st, 10:30 - 11:30 Speaker biography : Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto is a programmer, an Japanese open-source evangelist, and the creator of recently popular Ruby language. He started development of Ruby in 1993, so it's actually as old as Java. Now he works for Network Applied Communication Laboratory Inc. (NaCl, also know as netlab.jp) which has sponsored Ruby development since 1997.He also serves as a chairman at Ruby Association, non-profit organization for supporting Ruby. Since his real name is too long to remember and is difficult for non-Japanese speakers to pronounce right, he uses the nickname Matz on the Net.

Keynote 2

Roberto Chinnici, Sun Microsystems, Specification lead for the JAX-RPC 1.1 and JAX-WS 2.0. Schedule : Schedule : April 1st, 11:30 - 12:30 Speaker biography :  Roberto Chinnici is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. where he works on the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition, with particular focus on Web Services and Ease of Development. He is the specification lead for the JAX-RPC 1.1 and JAX-WS 2.0 technologies and an active participant in W3C and WS-I working groups.