He founded BellSoft to provide a high-quality Java SE Runtime relevant for all use cases. Aleksei is an Open Source Evangelist and OpenJDK contributor. He presents at various Java developer conferences and contributes articles to the Java Magazine.

She co-leads Delhi's Java User Group. A strong supporter of Women in Technology, she drives initiatives of the Women Who Code Delhi chapter to augment the participation of women in tech. She is also the co-founder of KaagZevar.com - a platform for nurturing creativity as an essential life skill.

Over the years Mark has been heavily involved in standards. This includes activities in the OMG, where he was a collaborator on the Object Transaction Service (OTS) specifications since 1991 and chair of the Additional Structuring Mechanisms for the OTS standard. Mark has been involved with OASIS since 2000, where he was HPbs representative on the Business Transactions Technical Committee. He's also been involved with various other OASIS committees, such as WS-CAF, WS-TX, WS-RX, SOA-RM and WS-RF, working closely with colleagues from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, BEA, and other companies. Mark was been involved with the W3C WS-Addressing working group since it started and is also on the WS-Policy and WS-CDL committees. He is active in the Java Community Process, as Red Hat's primary representative on the JCP and has worked on several JSRs.

Mark has been the lead developer and manager on a number of important products for companies including Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat. These include the first fully compliant OTS implementation as well as the world's first pure Java transaction service. He has extensive experience in the areas of fault tolerance, reliability, transactions, Web Services and SOA.

Mark has published extensively over the past 20 years at workshops, conferences, trade magazines etc. He is a co-author of four books, covering topics from distributed transactions to enterprise SOA. He has over 50 publications to his name and has presented at over 40 events. He is co-author on several Web Services specifications before they entered a standards body, including WS-Context, WS-MessageDelivery, WS-Coordination and WS-TX. He has also worked on papers and articles with colleagues/friends from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, IONA Technologies and others. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's and has a PhD on Fault Tolerance, Transactions and Replication. He is also a professor at Newcastle University.

Prior to his current position he was part of the original Eclipse development team, and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation Harmony Project. He is an expert member on numerous JSRs, including the Java modularity system and Java SE platform specifications.

Tim holds a BSc in Computer Science, an MSc in Computer System Design, and post graduate research in image analysis. He has contributed to the implementation of Smalltalk, IBM VisualAge, Eclipse, and the Java SDK for over twenty years. He has a broad knowledge of high performance runtimes, open source methodologies, and applying new language technology to difficult problems.

Martijn is the co-author of "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" and "The Well-Grounded Java Developer 2". He was made a Java Champion in recognition for his contribution to the Java ecosystem.

Martijn can also be found at major conferences (JavaOne, JFokus, OSCON, Devoxx etc) where he is known for challenging the industry status quo as "the Diabolical Developer".

He currently serves as a vp in the corporate architecture group at Oracle reporting to one of Larry Ellison's EVPs. Before coming to Oracle, he worked for various startups in technical, design, and business roles, as well as for Netscape's Server and E commerce divisions. He holds several patents and professional certifications, serves as an ISO representative for US through ANSI and lectures frequently at conferences and universities. His educational background includes advanced degrees from UTA, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. He is currently teaching a blockchain challenge lab at UC Berkeley's Engineering School on Mondays and pursuing a distance learning PhD at University of Leicester in his free time.

Götz studied at University Kiel and University of Massachusetts, Amherst and holds a master and PhD degree of the University of Karlsruhe (KIT).

He's actively engaged in the OpenJDK community and currently serves as co-maintainer for the OpenJDK 11 LTS version.

Christoph is an alumni of the University of Cooperative Education (DHBW) in Stuttgart.

Martin holds a Master of Computer Science equivalent degree from the University of Karlsruhe (KIT). He has professional experience in microprocessor development and compiler construction.