I have extensive experience leading teams, building products, building software, and building startup companies. I have worked as a developer, lead architect, and CTO in my career. I've published several books on Java technology & software development. I am also a Java Champion: a select group of Java technologists recognized for their technical and community contributions to the Java ecosystem. I'm also a speaker at technology conferences delivering the knowledge I've learned over the years to tomorrow's technologists; having presented on Java, Web, and other technologies at over 200 conferences over the past 12 years. I'm currently working on a new book in the Java space, as well as live training with O'Reilly. I also have extensive experience with Web and Cloud technologies, and have built production apps on ML (Python), Rails, mobile. On top of this, I am a heavily in the Java and general tech community. I'm organizing the Java User Groups (JUG) Leader Summit in 2020 as part of my work with the Atlanta JUG (a non-profit), where I am the current president. I am the conference chairperson for Devnexus, the largest Java conference in North America, run by AJUG. I also run two other meetups in my local Atlanta community: North Atlanta JavaScript & Web Dev, and Tech On the Beltline. As part of my big involvement in the Java community, I am well known in the Java space as a recognized leader.

Burk Hufnagel has been creating positive User Experiences since 1978 and currently works as an Application Architect for Daugherty Business Solutions. Burk spends much of his time designing and crafting software, and has made a habit of creating practical solutions for difficult problems.

Burk has presented at JavaOne three times and was awarded Rock Star status for his talk on UX Anti-Patterns titled “No More Loser Experiences.” Other achievements include contributing to the books “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” and “97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know,” and presenting at AJUG meetings, DevNexus, and the IT Architect Regional Conference in Atlanta, GA.

Expat Brit, Artist, athlete, traveler, technology community junkie, and experienced sales leader Vincent is an Oracle Java Champion, has been a board member of the Atlanta Java Users Group since 2008 and runs some of the USA's premier community technology conferences: http://devnexus.com http://connect.tech http://vueconf.us http://uiarchconf.com http://jazzcon.tech http://datascicon.tech http://blockchainconf.tech Vincent has a Degree in 3D Design from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom and; in another life was a full-time athlete competing at World Championship level in whitewater kayaking.

As a Pivotal engineer, Glenn Renfro is a core committer for Spring Cloud Task, Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Data Flow. He has 18 years experience in designing, building and delivering enterprise level applications in Java and 25 years total of software development experience.

Laura has been designing, coding, testing, and troubleshooting Java for enterprise applications since 2001. Currently she's employed by Carrier - Climate, Controls & Security and adding experience with IoT to her resume. In her spare time, she maintains this website.

Roy is a member of the Spring team at Pivotal Software, Inc. and currently developing Spring Cloud Services for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Roy leads the Spring Mobile and Spring for Android projects. His prior experience includes years of iOS, Android, and web application development. In his spare time, Roy organizes the Atlanta Spring User Group, and the Atlanta Cloud Foundry Meetup.

FullStack Software Engineer with 6+yrs of experience. I graduated from Colorado State Global Campus with a Technology Degree. I am a 2 time speaker at Devnexus and an extroverted mother of 4. I am the President of Black Consultants at Daugherty Business Solutions. I am a champion for D&I and effective communication.

Ari Waller serves full-time on the Developer Relations Team as the Meetup Event Manager for JFrog. Ari has utilized this knowledge and expertise in multiple leadership capacities while always remaining hands-on, as his passion is learning and engaging with the Technology Community Globally. Over the past few years, Ari sought to transform his platform to be authentically transparent and become an “open source” confidant for those who wanted IT career guidance. He brings his expertise and job market insight to technical professionals at meetups, boot camps, conferences, and panels in this effort.