Opening Keynote
Wednesday, October 29
8:30 am - 9:15 am
“Eclipse, The Eclipse Foundation, and You”
By Mike Milinkovich

Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. In the past, he has held key management positions with Oracle, WebGain, The Object People, and Object Technology International Inc. (which subsequently became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM), assuming responsibility for development, product management, marketing, strategic planning, finance and business development.

Afternoon Keynote
Wednesday, October 29
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
“Be Smart!”
By Ivar Jacobson

One of the most popular buzzwords in software development is agile. Today everyone wants to be agile. That is good! However, being agile is not enough. For several years Dr. Ivar Jacobson has expressed that the most important character you need to have to be a great software developer is to be smart. What does that mean? Most people know intuitively what “being smart” means in everyday language, but what does it mean for software. In this session, Dr. Ivar Jacobson will describe what it means to be smart when it comes to developing software from requirements through to deployment.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, aspect-oriented software development, the Unified Modelling Language and the Rational Unified Process. Lately he has focused his work on practice-based software development, now increasing in popularity around the world.

He is the principal author of six influential and best-selling books.

Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, China, Singapore, Australia and Sweden.