Keynote Speakers

Bio:
Janel Garvin is the CEO of Evans Data Corp, and a Research Director focused on several disciplines. She founded the company in 1998 in order to fill a need for in-depth research into software development trends and adoption patterns amongst developers that was entirely lacking in the industry before Evans Data Corp, and which Evans Data Corp to this day exclusively supplies. Janel is currently actively involved with Evans Data's international initiatives and is also heading up and directing Evans Data studies on multi-core processing and parallel programming, as well as all development tools and application servers, and cloud computing. She also directs private competitive intelligence studies for clients and advises on tactical marketing to developers.

Bio:
James Reinders is the Director of Marketing and Sales for Intel Software Development Products. James has played an instrumental role in the rise of Intel to a recognized leader in software development products. James is also the author of some popular technical books including the Threading Building Blocks Nutshell book from O'Reilly Press. James has decades of experience with parallel systems including having worked on groundbreaking compilers, innovative architectures such as the systolic arrays WARP and iWarp, and the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red).

Bio:
Kathy Mandelstein currently oversees worldwide marketing programs, web and events in IBM Software Group for the Lotus portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. It includes email, calendar, instant messaging, electronic forms, web conferencing, portals, team spaces, business dashboards, document management, and enterprise social software. Previously Kathy led the IBM Rational marketing team focused on the business value of effective software delivery.

Kathy has been a pioneer in launching successful web and social media marketing efforts, as well as developing dedicated web communities. For six years, Kathy led ibm.com/developerWorks and ibm.com/alphaWorks, in addition to marketing programs to developers for all of IBM. Her past history includes leading various Web development and marketing teams in IBM Software Group. She focused on software development teams and Business Partners for eleven years and began at IBM by leading IBM Java and e-business programs for these audiences. Before joining IBM in 1997, Kathy managed one of the earliest successful retail Web sites, www.jcpenney.com. Kathy has over 20 years of professional experience in the areas of management, marketing, sales, web development, advertising and corporate communications.

Mrs. Mandelstein holds a B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and a Global MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Past speaking engagements include Web 2.0 Expo, Evans Data Conferences, Marketing Sherpa Conference, SD Best Practices, Java One and numerous IBM conferences, events, webcasts, podcasts and IBM TV segments. Quoted in the press including InternetNews, Information Week, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, B2B Magazine, PCWorld, SD Times, CNet, Dr Dobbs Development Journal, and Integration Developer News. Featured in Laura LeMay's book "Creating Web Sites that Sizzle" and Sandy Carter's book "The New Language of Marketing 2.0: How to Use ANGELS to Energize Your Market."

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Patrick Chanezon has been an API Evangelist at Google since 2005. These, days his main interests are the OpenSocial API and social software, Google APIs, REST and Ajax, Ruby, Javascript, Java, PHP, and Python. Previously he had been working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He's the co-founder of the ROME - Atom and RSS utilities in java open source project. More information can be found on his blog at http://wordpress.chanezon.com. Patrick is French, so he takes long vacations in the summer and likes to drink red wine with baguette and stinky cheese while wearing a beret. Apart from programming and reading books his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.

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Srikanth Raju is the Director of Product Marketing in Nokia's developer organization - Forum Nokia. In this role, Srikanth's team is responsible for driving preference for Nokia's technologies and platforms amongst a global developer audience producing compelling 3rd party services and software resulting in unparalleled consumer experience across Nokia devices. Prior to this role, Srikanth was managing Forum Nokia's regional technical services operations leading technical services teams in Americas, APAC, China and EMEA.

Prior to joining Nokia, Srikanth worked as Java and Wireless Technology evangelist at Sun's developer evangelism and market development organization, where he played a key role in developer strategy and market development in the emerging wireless developer space to drive developer adoption of the wireless java platforms. Prior to joining Sun, Srikanth was at Oracle and Borland in various management, engineering and product management roles.