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JAX Innovation Award Jury
Our top-class jury will determine the award winners among the proposals handed in. The decisive criteria are innovation, creativity, elegance, and practical relevance.
Jean Bézivin Professor, Université de Nantes
Jean Bézivin is professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes, France. He has been very active in Europe in the object-oriented community, starting the ECOOP, TOOLS and MODELS series of conferences. His present research interests include model driven engineering, Domain Specific Languages and reverse engineering. He is a member of the ATLAS group, a new INRIA team created at the University of Nantes. He is involved in several EU projects (ModelWare, ModelPlex, etc.), co-chair of the ECOOP'2006 conference and program chair of the TOOLS'2007 conference.
Matthew Langham General Manager, Indiginox
Matthew has been working in the software industry for over 15 years and focused much of that time on adapting new technologies for enterprise use.
He has been evangelizing Open Source to European corporations since 2000, the year he established an Open Source group inside a commercial German software company.
Matthew is the author of several books and many articles on Open Source and emerging technologies for various offline and online publications. He also speaks regularly at national and international conferences
Sebastian MeyenEditor-in-Chief, Software & Support Verlag
Sebastian Meyen is editor-in-chief of the Java Magazin since its foundation in 1998 and of the Eclipse Magazin which was launched in 2004. He thus has accompanied the Java Community with journalistic activities almost from its beginnings. Before joining Software & Support Media he studied philosophy in Frankfurt. He was from the outset responsible for the conference programs of JAX, W-JAX, Enterprise Architektur Konferenz, and the Eclipse Forum Europe.
Bola Rotibi Senior Analyst, Ovum
Bola Rotibi specialises in analysing the latest software development technologies and market trends, with a particular interest in e-business applications, wireless application development and middleware. She heads up the Application Lifecycle practice covering the full range of development activities including requirements specification, design, programming, testing and configuration management. A respected industry expert, Bola has an in-depth understanding of the companies that operate in these markets. Bola also uses this expertise on consulting assignments for clients. She is regularly sought after to provide advice on emerging technologies such as web services, .NET, MDA and hosted development services, and is often quoted in the trade press. Bola is a Chartered Engineer and has industry experience spanning the full software development lifecycle across a variety of industry sectors, encompassing network computing and application development.Prior to joining Ovum, Bola worked for a number of years as a software developer for Reuters, focusing on implementing a new architecture strategy.
Ivo Totev Vice President, Product Marketing crossvision, Software AG
Ivo Totev, born in 1967, is responsible for the global implementation of the crossvision unit product strategy. He is also responsible for the crossvision product marketing and marketing communication. Ivo Totev has more than 12 years experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Software AG, he was responsible for Product Marketing for the NetWeaver Developer Platform at SAP, where he was also the SAP Technology Evangelist. After studying Electrical Engineering, Ivo Totev joined Progress Software GmbH in Cologne. From there he moved to Forté Software and then to Sun Microsystems where he held the position of Java and XML Technology Evangelist.