Nigel is a Master Technology Architect and leads the Advanced Technology and Architecture (ATA) platform in EALA and is Accenture's Lead Technology Architect. He grew up in West Cornwall, studied Electronics at the University of York and joined Accenture in 1991 having previously worked for BT. He has spent most of his career on large System Integration delivery engagements for many clients.
Nigel is the co-author of a book on eCommerce and the series editor for "50 things about Technology Architecture". He is married with two daughters and own a very small part of a very large steam locomotive.

Presentations:
Digital Architecture

Mark serves as the vice president of middleware engineering at Red Hat. Prior to taking over this role in 2008, Mark served as the SOA technical development manager and director of standards. Additionally, Mark was a distinguished engineer and chief architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s with a PhD in fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication, and transactions. Mark and his family reside in Newcastle, UK, where Mark is also a professor at Newcastle University.

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Open Source Trends

Peter is interested and active in many things Open - Open Source and Open Data having prominent attention. He is currently working as Team and Tech Lead in EEA s.r.o., independent Slovak software house and is member of OpenData.sk and SOIT.sk.
Peter is married with two children and is very fond of hiking in mountains, tasty food and beautiful music of various genres.

Presentations:
Opening up Governments

Shubhabrata is a data science enthusiast. He is currently working in Realeyes with some interesting problems in the advertising domain. Prior to this he worked in the French national institute for Computer Science (Inria) and got his PhD from ENS Lyon, France.

Presentations:
Do emotions propel success of an advertisement

Andrej is a proud PhD student @ FIIT. He is also an acomplished network architect with an unique mix of experiences ranging from working as a core network designer to being a successful freelance engineer/consultant in multiple cutting-edge technological fields such as Network Visualization, elastic Content Delivery Networks and the Cloud in all its forms. In contrast with his profile he always values creativity above theory, often encouraging his peers to try and think as much "out of the box" as posssible.

Presentations:
Programmable Networks: NFV and SDN Technology Overview

Jan graduated from the Comenius University in Library and Information Science. He currently works on Open Data project COMSODE at the Interior Ministry of the Slovak Republic.

Presentations:
Opening up Governments

Karoly is a Senior Solution Architect specializing in JBoss Middleware Technologies. His role within Red Hat is to provide specialist technical support to the Sales Organization in JBoss Middleware opportunities, covering all EMEA. Karoly brings over 10 years of experience in the middleware industry most recently with specialization in SOA, BPM, ERP integration technologies from his current role and previously from Oracle.

Presentations:
The next wave in BPM from Red Hat

Giuseppe is a Senior Solution Architect in JBoss Middleware Technologies. His role within Red Hat is to provide specialist technical support to the Sales Organization in JBoss Middleware opportunities, covering all EMEA, with a focus in Global System Integrators. He has over 12 years of experience in the middleware/enterprise integration industry with specialization in EAI, SOA, Web Architectures from his current role and previously from Accenture.

Presentations:
The future of middleware: Java, enterprise engineering and Fuse

Lukas is Systems Analyst from Accenture Bratislava. He has been working in Accenture for 9 years and during this time he has been working on variety of projects in multiple industries: financial services, telecommunications and government. In recent years, he has mostly focused on front-end development and portals.

Presentations:
Language recognition using Antlr

Jack is a newly appointed Global Technology Delivery Lead for Accenture Digital and is joining a very exciting Business at a very important time. Accenture has 20,000 people driving huge change for our clients in the areas of social, mobility, intelligent machines, machine2machine, analytics, big data, web commerce and embedded software - and all other areas of the Digital economy.
During his 21 years with Accenture he has worked in many sectors including Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, Defense, Government, Automotive and Transportation and Travel. He has spent most of his career working across Products clients, including 10 years at Deutsche Bahn, the German State Railroad delivering large engagements around complex problems/solutions and leading large teams of people to a common aim. He has held a number of management roles, where his previous parallel roles has been Technology Lead for ASG (Austia, Switzerland and Germany) region and Emerging Technology Delivery Lead for EALA.
On a more personal level, Jack grew up in Scotland and hold a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Heriot Watt University and a Master of Science in Information Technology from Glasgow University.
He lives near Frankfurt, Germany with his wife Sonia and our four children, Katie (16), Anna (14) and twin boys Bobby and Sam (11). Jack is very keen racing driver and enjoy hiking, mountain biking, squash, keep fit, live music (especially Rock) and travel. And of course the German Oktoberfest!

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Adoption of enterprise to changing world

Milen is senior consultant at Liferay helping some of the biggest European companies adopt and/or migrate to Liferay Portal - the leader in the open source horizontal portals market. Before joining Liferay in 2012 he spent over 10 years designing and developing Java EE solutions for leading Polish companies (mostly in the finance and telecommunications industry). His main areas of competence are corporate portals, e-commerce, enterprise application integration, web applications for mobile devices and content adaptation.

Presentations:
What is Portal?

Dominik is a Technical Architect at Accenture based in Vienna with a focus on modern data platforms. Apart from having collected his experience through a variety of industries ranging from public service, communications, logistics to banking he loves to try out new concepts and languages whenever time allows.

Presentations:
Improving Mainframe performance with Hadoop

Ezio Armando is the Global Managing Director of Accenture's Architecture Excellence practice. He has over 23 years of IT experience as Enterprise, Technology and Solutions Architect, 16 of which for Accenture, specialising in IT strategy and in shaping, planning, designing and delivery of high-availability, high-security, high-volume systems for some of the largest Accenture clients.

Presentations:
If every business is a Digital Business, should all Architectures be Digital Architectures?

Dr. Matthias Ziegler leads the Emerging Technology Innovation team in Austria, Switzerland and Germany at Accenture. With his team, Dr. Ziegler scouts and evaluates emerging technologies with a focus on the business value they can bring for Accenture's clients. He is looking for e.g. Big Data and Analytics based on Hadoop, Neo4j or other NoSQL databases, 3D printing, wearable technologies, or enabling the digital enterprise with API Management. His role ranges from creating awareness in internal and external presentations, inspiring in innovation workshops and delivering lighthouse projects.

Presentations:
Digital Physical Blur & Wearable Technologies

Alastair heads Accenture's Unique Identity technology group, tasked with supplying specialist biometrics skills to Accenture's client projects globally. Prior, he was Accenture Technology Labs' Identity & Biometrics R&D Lead. Alastair holds a BSc in Astrophysics from University College London, is an IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional and Accenture Certified Solution Architect and Delivery Lead, and has five patents pending in the fields of Biometrics and Smart Energy Analytics. Away from the office, he loves racing cheap cars, and enjoys fixing other people's technology.

Presentations:
Biometrics - more than a password replacement...

Vladimir is Java Developer and Architect from Accenture Bratislava. He has worked with all kinds of Java technologies, ranging from HTML5 web applications to backend business service and integration development. He is also very interested in Model Driven Architecture and code generation technologies. He is now leading a small development team in implementation of HTML5 frontend for large banking client.

Presentations:
Language recognition using Antlr

Matt is a manager in Accenture's Emerging Technologies Innovation practice supporting the Lightweight Architectures initiative, where he serves as a SME on Web architecture, dynamic languages, Responsive Web Design, and fresh-from-the-startup-space emerging Web technologies and platforms. Matt has recently been at Disney, where he led development and architecture work on major Web properties, and AT&T, where he designed an event-based system to capture and enrich API call metadata. His experience prior to Accenture includes serving as CTO/Lead Developer at two software startups (one focused on Web platforms for marketing, the other commodities trading platforms), building and delivering Web-enabled learning management platforms for major universities, and other technology consulting roles.

Presentations:
Performance Optimization Automation for Client-Side Applications

Birgitta is a Lead Developer with ThoughtWorks. She has been building software for more than 13 years now, always appreciating the fact that it never gets old. Most of her career, she has been working on large custom software delivery projects, in several parts of the lifecycle.

Presentations:
OnConnectionLost: Challenges of an offline web application

Oscar is a Manager and certified Technology Architect in Accenture where he has been working since 2007. He is a member of a team providing support and expertise on Scala, Play Framework and dynamic languages in general. He is currently delivering a large-scale technical architecture implementation for Financial Services client in Finland. Besides that Oscar is an author of several public projects including lifestreaming application Parklife and open source LifeType Project aiming to develop a high performance blogging tool focused on big communities, currently with around 200 000 users.

Presentations:
Next-generation JavaScript
Docker

Emil Nahlik is Accenture Certified Technology Architect with over 10 years of SW development experience within international teams.He is primarily focused on front-end and back-end Java technologies. As an enthusiast of modern technologies in general, he keeps his eyes on latest trends in SW development.

Presentations:
Embedded Web Applications - making human interaction with Salesforce.com more productive

Martin Kocan is Accenture Certified Senior Technology Architect. He is working at Accenture for 8,5 years. Starting in Accenture Consulting workforce he worked for number of Telecommunication clients in Central Europe. His main focus is in the Integration Architecture. When moving to Bratislava Delivery Center, he joined our Salesforce.com practice to leverage his Integration skills. Most recently, he is working with the Biometrics practice which is considered as strategic in Bratislava Delivery Center.

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Embedded Web Applications - making human interaction with Salesforce.com more productive

Peter is Product Manager and Web Analyst at ui42. He is also Google Certified Trainer. Interested in using data as tool which allows us to better understand customer journeys and business results. The power in data lies in the actions it drives and decisions it empowers. For clients he is looking for solutions, how to make web analytics part of their decision making process instead of mere reporting tool.

Presentations:
Google Analytics in 2014 - How to push the boundaries of understanding your business through data

Presentations:
Adoption of enterprise to changing world

Markus is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat and focuses on JBoss Middleware. He is working with Java EE servers from different vendors since more than 14 years and talks about his favorite topics around Java EE on conferences all over the world. He is an active member of the German DOAG e.V. and it's representative on the iJUG e.V. As a Java Champion and former ACE Director he is well known in the community.

Presentations:
50 Best Features of Java EE 7

Daniel is technology architect in Accenture Slovakia with long term experience building various types of information systems. Currently focusing technologies such as NoSQL, BigData and their usage in building applications.

Presentations:
Digital in Space and Time - Caching Patterns and Strategies

Phil Fehre is writing both software and word as sideshowcoder, and keeps talking about TDD, NoSQL and the software development process in general. Over the last few years he had the chance to work with and grow systems on the latest and greatest technologies. He saw them succeed, fail, and the tech being the "wrong tool", the "right tool" or the "most fun tool" for the job. He now works at Couchbase where he explores the ins and outs of NoSQL as a Developer Advocate.

Presentations:
Data modeling in Key/Value and Document Stores

Ilkka is a Senior Technology Architect working at Accenture leading the Emerging Technology Innovation in Nordics. He has over 16 years of experience working in the IT industry mainly in large client projects in a multitude of roles ranging from development through project management to hands-on technology architecture work.

Presentations:
Opinionated PAAS on Docker

Andrey is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different lifecycle phases of software creation. Andrey's love is JVM ecosystem. In recent years, he tries to apply JVM goodness to DevOps initiatives his company is implementing for several clients. He is one of the authors of Groovy 2 Cookbook as well as frequent speaker at local communities and conferences.

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Groovy DevOps in the Cloud

Wojciech Furmankiewicz is working at Red Hat as Solution Architect responsible for supporting sales process on infrastructure technologies such as cloud, virutalization and storage. Over 16 years in IT market, he has gained practical experience on various cloud technologies, networking and mass storage solutions. Involved mainly in support and development of mission critical systems. Passionate about music and motorcycles.

Presentations:
Introduction to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Marek is Ruby enthusiast, contributes to open source projects and organises local Ruby User Group in Brno. When he is not traveling and meeting interesting people, he teaches Java and Ruby at Masaryk University.

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Bring DevOps to the Enterprise with PaaS

Antons is a certified Technology Architect in Accenture. He has more than 10 years of experience in software custom development with an ultimate focus on Java Technology. Besides his Java expertise, Antons has been passionate about DevOps and Agile Infrastructure area. In addition, he has rich experience in multi-side, international projects as well as with both Formal and Agile development methodology (Certified Scrum Master). He is currently bringing Accenture Foundation Platform for Java applications into the Cloud.

Presentations:
CloudFoundry

Tomi is software architect in Accenture with 25 years of experience. Unconventional angle of view and creative solutions enable him to reveal patterns, idioms and structure in complex systems and technologies, and to understand trends in ecosystem of immature and fast evolving emerging technologies. Tomi is author of open source wsdl-viewer and co-author of expert system for grapevine protection

Presentations:
Digital in Space and Time - Caching Patterns and Strategies