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To celebrate Java turning 25 we're hosting a panel of Java champions & experts. They'll be sharing their memories of Java over the years & taking questions from the audience.

We'll be joined by Trisha Gee of JetBrains, Alex Blewitt of Santander, Ben Evans of New Relic, Richard Warburton of Opsian & Martijn Verburg of Microsoft. Jim Gough will be fielding an initial set of questions & we will take Q&A from the audience.

About our panellists

Trisha Gee has developed Java applications for a range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, software & non-profit, for companies of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, & dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group & a Java Champion, she believes healthy communities & sharing ideas help us to learn from mistakes and build on successes. As a Developer Advocate for JetBrains, she gets to share all the interesting things she’s constantly discovering.

Ben Evans is Principal Engineer & Architect for JVM technologies at New Relic. Prior to joining New Relic, Ben co-founded jClarity (acquired by Microsoft) & was Chief Architect (Listed Derivatives) at Deutsche Bank. Ben is the author of 5 books - "The Well-Grounded Java Developer", "Java: The Legend", "Optimizing Java" & the recent editions of "Java in a Nutshell". He is the track lead for Java / JVM at infoq.com, writes regularly for industry publications & is a frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide.

Alex Blewitt has been working with Java since its first release & has worked on JVM projects at Goldman Sachs & Credit Suisse, where he was the JCP representative until 2016. He co-founded the Docklands.LJC & has spoken about Java and performance at several conferences & writes for InfoQ about Java & JVM topics. Before moving to Santander in 2020 he worked at Apple on Swift & has authored books in Swift & Eclipse plugin development.

Martijn Verburg is the Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) at Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity, a Machine Learning for Java/JVM performance analysis company. He is the co-leader of the London Java User Group (LJC), sits on the Java Standards Body (JCP) Executive Committee & leads the global Adopt a JSR & Adopt OpenJDK efforts to enable the community to contribute to Java standards and OpenJDK.

Richard Warburton is the co-founder of Opsian.com and maintainer of the Artio FIX Engine. He has written the book “Java 8 Lambdas” for O’Reilly & helps developers learn via iteratrlearning.com and www.pluralsight.com. Richard is an experienced conference speaker, having spoken at dozens of events & sat on conference committees for some of the biggest conferences in Europe and the USA.

About our host

James (Jim) Gough is an executive director & developer at Morgan Stanley, where he’s focused on building customer-facing technology. A Java developer & author, Jim first became interested in Java during his degree program at the University of Warwick; after graduating, he became a member of the London Java Community. Community has remained central to Jim’s contributions, which include working on the design & testing of JSR-310 and serving on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for several years.

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