Speakers
Adam Bien
Java Champion Adam Bien (http://blog.adam-bien.com) is a self-employed consultant, lecturer, software architect, developer, and author in the enterprise Java sector who implements Java technology on a large scale.
He is also the author of several books and articles on Java and Java EE technology, as well as distributed Java programming.
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Adrian Kosmaczewski
Adrian Kosmaczewski has been writing software for the past 20 years.
He started working professionally in 1996, riding the first and second
waves of the web, right from the inside.
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Agneta Jacobson
Agneta co-founded and was the CEO of Jaczone from April 2000 to May 2007 when Jaczone was acquired by Ivar Jacobson International.
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Alan Brown
Alan Brown is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Rational in Europe. He is responsible for advising on product strategy for IBM Rational's design and construction tools.
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Alan Smith
Alan has been involved with the latest developments in Microsoft “Connected Systems” technologies for a number of years. He has held the BizTalk Server MVP award for four years before switching tracks to the Connected Systems Developer (CSD) track.
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Allan Knudsen
Allan Knudsen is a Platform Strategy Advisor within the Developer & Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft.
His everyday job is to explain the business value of the Microsoft platform and products to customers and partners.
He is currently working with several customers in helping them move to the Windows Azure platform.
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Anders Bratland
Anders Bratland är en av grundarna till expertkonsultföretaget Devrex där han arbetar som konsult och utbildare med fokus på .Net.
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Andrea Provaglio
I'm an independent professional with almost twenty years of experience in
the field of Information Technology.
I assist clients from many different domains, which can range from large
organizations such as the European Commission in Brussels, or large
multinational banks, to small and dynamic IT companies.
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Andrew Lombardi
Andrew Lombardi is one of a new breed of businessmen: the enlightened entrepreneur. He has been writing code since he was a 5-year old, sitting at his dad’s knee at their Apple II computer.
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Andy Wilkinson
Andy Wilkinson is a Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource where is
leads the dm Server project.
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Angelika Langer
Angelika Langer works as an independent trainer with a course curriculum of challenging Java and C++
workshops.
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Anna Herting
Anna Herting är teknisk projektledare och konsult på Agero. Hon har drygt 10 års erfarenhet av utvecklingsprojekt hos ett antal större kunder inom till synes väl åtskilda verksamhetsområden som bank, retail och läkemedel.
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Annika Kortell
Annika has worked in software testing for over 10 years specialising in the area of test management and methodologies. During the first years in her testing career she defined test strategies for safety-critical medical systems and was responsible for the global test process.. After a few years she moved on to other sectors as a test consultant.
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Arne Åhlander
Arne Åhlander is a Senior Consultant using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve product development and management for small and large software organizations.
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Ben Hale
Ben Hale is a senior software engineer with Springsource and a core developer on the SpringSource dm Server project. Ben specializes in middleware development with using technologies such as OSGi and Aspect Oriented Programming as well as directing the build and release processes for all products in the Spring and SpringSource portfolios.
His interests include middle-tier architecture and effective build and release management strategies.
Prior to joining SpringSource, Ben spent several years leading teams in architecture and development of large-scale enterprise management applications for the telecommunications industry.
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Bill Wake
Bill Wake is a senior coach with Industrial Logic, Inc. Before that, he managed software development at Gene Codes Forensics and had been an independent consultant. He has been teaching, writing about, and coaching XP and agile methods since 2000 and has worked with teams in a variety of domains, including biotechnology, financial systems, Web sales, and more. Bill is the (co-)author of several books, including Design Patterns in Java and most recently Refactoring in Ruby. His personal Web site is at xp123.com; Industrial Logic’s is at industriallogic.com.
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Bjarte Bogsnes
Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is currently heading up Statoil's Beyond Budgeting project. Statoil is Scandinavia's largest company, with operations in 40 countries and a turnover of 70 bn USD.
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Brian Marick
Brian Marick was one of the authors of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”, is an Agile consultant,
and wrote Everyday Scripting with Ruby and Programming Cocoa with Ruby. He speaks frequently.
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Chris Hedgate
With his values and principles grounded in agile software development,
Chris Hedgate guides organizations, teams and individuals towards
better ways of developing high quality software.
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Christofer Löf
Christofer Löf is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services, located in Stockholm. As a consultant his everyday job is to help customers and partners to build real-world solutions with the Microsoft App platform. He's been working with the Windows Azure Platform since its advent.
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Dag König
Dag har sedan 1986 arbetat med systemutveckling. Under hela den tiden har hans teknikfokusområde varit Microsoft. Dag arbetar sedan tre år tillbaka på Microsoft som Utvecklarevangelist med inrikting på Visual Studio och ALM. Dag är också ansvarig Microsofts podcast MSDN Radio. Dag är en mycket uppskattad talare, enligt hans mor, och gillar mysiga hobbyprojekt på CodePlex.
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David Harvey
David has over twenty years experience in software – as a developer, manager, technical architect, CTO, coach, trainer and consultant. In the 1990s he helped numerous organizations adopt best practices in object-oriented design and implementation: in investment banks in the 2000s he was responsible for defining, designing and implementing large-scale infrastructure for complex and changing businesses.
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Diana Larsen
Diana Larsen sparks the creation of workplaces where productive teams display resilience in times of change and focus on frequent delivery of high value software customers want and use.
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Don Syme
Don Syme is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and the lead architect on the F# programming language. He specializes in making aspects of computer science research work "for real" in more industrial settings, particularly with regard to programming techniques, and doing the research and development needed to make that happen.
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Emily Bache
Emily Bache is an experienced software developer and programming coach at Iptor Konsult AB. Her focus is on the technical challenges associated with agility; promoting automated testing practices, refactoring and good object oriented design.
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Engin Yorgancioglu
Engin Yorgancıoğlu is a software testing consultant with 10 years of development background on J2EE and .NET platforms. He has worked for a range of companies in the fields of software testing, internet technologies, sea transportation and is currently working for a leading food company in Turkey.
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Erik Lundh
ERIK LUNDH has more than 25 years experience in software development. Erik has worked with mature innovation firms and start-ups, from small to large organizations such as Ericsson and ABB.
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Eugene Ciurana
Eugene Ciurana is an open-source evangelist who specializes in the design and implementation of mission-critical, high-availability large scale systems.
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Fredrik Normén
Fredrik Normén har varit Microsoft MVP i över 5 år och är även medlem i ASPInsiders som är ett bollplank åt ASP.NET Teamet i Redmond. Fredrik har under 13 års tid arbetat med webutveckling, arkitektur och design. Han arbetar nu som mentor, coach och konsult på företaget Iptor i Göteborg.
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Geoff Bache
Geoff Bache is an experienced software developer and works for
Jeppesen Systems (part of the Boeing Group) in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Geoff has a particular interest in agile methodologies, and has
pioneered the use of automated system acceptance tests in his
organization.
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George Farr
George Farr has been a tester, developer, team leader, technical planner, and development manager for AS/400 compilers, such as RPG and VisualAge for RPG, since the inception of AS/400. In the mid 1990's he moved to become the development manager of all the RPG compilers and the next-generation iSeries integrated development environment (IDE), on which the Remote System Explorer is based. In 2005 George took over the management of the total Application Development solution which included client as well as all compilers on System i.
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Hans Brattberg
Hans Brattberg, Crisp, is an Agile Coach and a passionate TDD
programmer with a focus on programming as a social activity.
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Henrik Andersson
Henrik Andersson is consultant and founder of House of Test, consultancy and outsourcing based in Sweden and China.
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Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg is an agile & lean coach at Crisp in Stockholm. He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development and is passionate about building excellent software and excellent teams. Henrik is author of the popular books "Scrum and XP from the Trenches" as well as "Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both"
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Humayun Rashid
Looking for capability and capacity building opportunity in an emerging nation - either short-term or long-term.
Innovative practitioner-scholar with extensive experience in education, research and IT-enabled global business transformations in private and public sector.
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Jean-Yves Rigolet
Jean-Yves Rigolet is a software engineer in the IBM Software Group, working in the Rational Division. With nearly 20 years of application and development tools shipping experience in a variety of programming environments and platforms.
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Jevgeni Kabanov
Jevgeni Kabanov is the founder and lead of ZeroTurnaround, a development tools company that focuses on productivity.
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Jimmy Nilsson
Jimmy Nilsson is co-founder and CEO of factor10. He has written two books (Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns (ADDDP) and .NET Enterprise Design (NED)). He has also been training and speaking at conferences (like OOPSLA, JAOO, QCon, VSLive, Öredev), but above everything else, he is a developer and architect with over twenty years of experience.
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Joakim Sundén
Joakim is an agile and lean coach with Avega Group. He helps clients improve through coaching and mentoring of individuals, teams and organisations. This is often accomplished using agile and lean software development methodologies such as Scrum, XP and Kanban.
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Johan Jonasson
Johan Jonasson is a senior test specialist at House of Test, a testing services company based in southern Sweden.
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Johan Sanneblad
Johan has a background as a Java certified engineer, designing middleware solutions for companies such as Volvo, SAAB, Bilia and Ericsson in the late 90's. In 1999 he switched focus to mobile applications, and has since then founded two companies that have sold mobile development platforms used in hundreds of applications by companies such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Sony Online Entertainment and Skype.
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Jonas Bonér
Jonas Bonér is a programmer, teacher, mentor, speaker and author who spends most of his time consulting, hacking on open source as well as lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world–wide.
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Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen is a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.
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Keith Brown
Keith is a co-founder of Pluralsight where
he oversees the developer security curriculum, which has an impact across all
of Pluralsight's course offerings. Keith spends most of his time researching
security techniques and technologies, and has spent a decade teaching and
developing course material for professional software developers.
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Kent Beck
Kent Beck is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming.
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Kristofer Liljeblad
Kristofer Liljeblad is working for Microsoft in Stockholm, Sweden, as a Development Premier Field Engineer. As a Dev-PFE, Kristofer works with all kind of questions regarding software development and often acts as an advisor or trainer. Working in Premier Field Engineering gives Kristofer the opportunity to work with several of Sweden’s biggest companies and help them get the most value from their investments in Microsoft technologies.
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Magnus Härlin
With a burning interest for agile practices and team dynamics Magnus Härlin from Iptor Konsult works with agile development. He focuses on automated testing that’s one of many vital parts to develop high quality software.
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Marcus Ahnve
Marcus Ahnve is a Senior Consultant at Valtech, a global IT consultancy. He is
a agile coach and developer helping software development organizations.
Marcus experience in agile software development dates back to 1996 and his
first project which was done in Smalltalk. In 2001 he started doing XP
development and has since then explored new ways of making development more effective, economical and fun. Marcus is one of the founders of the community conference on agile methods Agila Sverige held yearly in Stockholm.
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Marcus Widerberg
Marcus has several years experience training and lecturing both locally and abroad. He is one of the founders of the expert software consulting firm Blueplane. He likes to share experiences and learn from others at community gatherings.
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Marko Gargenta-Marakana
Marko founded Marakana back in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.
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Martin Gunnarsson
Great programmers are usually lousy designers,
and vice versa, but Martin is one of those crossbreeds
who can handle both.
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Mathias Olausson
Mathias Olausson works as an ALM consultant at Callista Knowledgebase with focus on software architecture and improving the quality in software development. Mathias has been in the software business for 15 years and has experience from many different types of projects.
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Mats Lidström
Jag heter Mats Lidström, är 45 år och har jobbat med systemutveckling i drygt 22 år. Jag har jobbat i flera internationella projekt, både med programmering och konstruktionsledning.
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Matthew McCullough
Matthew McCullough is an energetic 13 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy.
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Maurice Naftalin
Maurice Naftalin has three decades' experience in software development. He has worked in industry as a programmer, designer and team leader, in university life as a teacher and researcher, and has trained programmers for Learning Tree and Sun.
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Michael Feathers
Michael Feathers works with Object Mentor. He balances his time between
working with, training and coaching various teams around the world.
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Mike Cain
Mike Cain is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member with over 25 years of IT
experience, and leads the DB2 for i Center of Excellence in Rochester,
Minnesota USA.
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Morgan Persson
Morgan Persson, Enea, är konsult, utvecklare och arkitekt med passions för mjukvaruutveckling.
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Nathaniel Schutta
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups.
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Neal Ford
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 5 books spanning a variety of technologies.
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Nick Oostvogels
Nick Oostvogels has been a developer, team leader, product owner and project leader at several in different industries.
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Niclas Nilsson
Niclas is a software developer consultant, educator and writer with a deep passion for the software development craft.
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Niels Peter Sørensen
Niels Peter Sørensen has been with Websydian since 2000. He is the product manager and head architect of the Websydian product suite.
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Ola Ellnestam
Ola Ellnestam likes to combine technology, people and business. This is why he finds software development so interesting. After stumbling upon eXtreme Programming back in early 2000 he realized that software development can be rewarding for both business and developers. He also realized that developing software doesn't necessarily mean big and seemingly endless projects. There are more flexible and easier ways to develop software.
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Paul Rayner
Paul Rayner is a Denver-based independent consultant with more than twenty years of software development and consulting experience. His company, Virtual Genius LLC, helps organizations implement well-crafted enterprise software solutions using agile development principles and practices.
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Peter Eeles
Peter Eeles is an Executive IT Architect working within the IBM Software Group Rational brand, where he helps organizations improve their software development capability, often in conjunction with an architecture-centric initiative such as SOA or strategic reuse.
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Pär Sikö
Pär is a passionate developer whoʼs been working
with client side Java for more than ten years and
that is hoping for another ten years filled with
challenges and new technology.
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Rickard Eriksson
Rickard har mångårig erfarenhet som projektledare inom IT-projekt, metodarbete inom mjukvaruutveckling samt personal- och företagsledningsarbete.
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Rik Arends
Rik Arends is co-founder of Javeline, the organization behind Ajax.org and pushing the limits for online application development.
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Rikard Thulin
Rikard Thulin är en erfaren sytemutvecklare och java evangelist med 12 års erfarenhet av Java. Idag arbetar Rikard som system arkitekt i ett projekt vars mål är att utveckla en applikation på en Rich Client Platform.
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Robert Folkesson
Robert Folkesson har arbetat med Internet-relaterad utveckling i över 12 år. Han arbetade länge som konsult med starkt fokus på Microsoft-relaterade tekniker och plattformar. Sedan tre år tillbaka har Robert rollen som teknisk evangelist på Microsoft med inriktning på nya gränssnittstekniker och webbaserade plattformar
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Robin Bater
Robin Bater, has some 25+ years of software development, and is the Requirements Definition & Management Community of Practice (CoP) Architect, for the IBM Rational Software Product Delivery Team.
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Roy Osherove
I run TDD and team leadership classes for software developers.
If you’ve ever been to one of my classes, I’d love it if you left me a testimonial!
The chief architect at Typemock, Roy Osherove is one of the original ALT.NET organizers. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development. He frequently speaks at international conferences such as TechEd and JAOO.
Roy is the author of the book The Art of Unit Testing, and writes about subjects such as unit testing, TDD Team Leadership and agile development on his blog is at ISerializable.com.
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Scott Allen
Scott is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems and Web development. Scott has worked on everything from 8-bit embedded devices to large scale web sites during his 15+ years in commercial software development. Since 2001, Scott has focused on server-side and web technologies, like ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Workflow, Silverlight, and LINQ. Scott is also a speaker at national conferences like VSLive!, as well as code camps and user groups near his hometown of Hagerstown, MD.
Scott has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2005, and has written or co-authored several books on Microsoft technologies. Scott founded the site OdeToCode.com in 2004, and joined Pluralsight in 2007.
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Steven List
Steven “Doc” List (generally known as Doc) is currently a principal consultant
with ThoughtWorks, a highly respected international technology consulting
company. Docʼs focus is on organizational transformation and agile adoption,
including coaching, assessment, and training.
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Thomas Lundström
Thomas Lundström, MSc, is a consultant in Agile software
development with Softhouse in Malmö, Sweden. As a
generalist leaning towards the .NET space, he has worked
in tech lead roles in a number of Agile projects in the south
of Sweden.
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Thomas Nilsson
Thomas Nilsson currently works mostly as a coach to large and small development organisations, including multiple Ericsson sites. This has involved starting new agile teams, teaching TDD to developers, Product Backlog prioritisation to Product Owners, re-inventing planning of
large-scale projects with Project Leads as well as coaching Scrum Masters, teams and managers.
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Tiberiu Covaci
Tiberiu started his developer career in 1991, but wasn't until 1994 that he got introduced into the Microsoft world of technologies. He moved from Romania to Sweden 1996, to work as a programmer.
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Tim Berglund
Tim Berglund runs a software consulting firm called the August Technology Group, which provides training and development services to customers building web applications with open-source tools, especially with the Grails framework.
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Tom Stenström
Tom has a long experience of the IT industry working as a consultant, software developer, teacher, product-specialist, support technician and in various other roles.
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Udi Dahan
Udi Dahan is The Software Simplist, an internationally renowned expert on software architecture and design.
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Yves Hanoulle
Yves Hanoulle started working in IT in 1994.
He worked as software support, developer, team lead, trainer, agile coach. Yves believes that IT is mainly about working with people. A skill that can never be learned enough. Yves is a Certified Core Coach by McCarthy Technologies. Yves spends 20% of his revenue on training and books.
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