PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A
Sustaining and Growing an Active Community in a Mature Platform
Java is no longer the new kid on the block. However, one of its great strengths is the quality of the community it has built up over the last 25 years?
How can we help that community continue to grow, thrive, and attract new members - especially from younger developers who have recently joined the profession?
Join our panel of experienced educators and community leaders as we celebrate the strength of our community and look forward to the next 25 years of Java.
Speaker

Mala Gupta
Developer Advocate @JetBrains
Mala Gupta works as a Developer Advocate with JetBrains. A Java Champion, she has authored six books with Manning, Packt, and O’Reilly Publications. She is an international keynote speaker at industry conferences and has over 19 years of experience in the software industry. She has been...
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Venkat Subramaniam
Founder of Agile Developer, Inc., Creator of agilelearner.com & Professor at the University of Houston
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, co-founder of the devdotnext software conference, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US,...
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James Gough
Lead Architect @MorganStanley
Jim is an engineer at heart and often tinkers and explores the Java ecosystem. Jim enjoys working with the Java Community and has represented the London Java Community on the JCP Executive Committee. Jim is a published author of Optimizing Java and was recently awarded the Java Champion title....
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