Qt Technical Track - Speaker Bios
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Alex Blasche
Alex Blasche is a Senior Software Engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Brisbane, Australia. He joined Qt Development in 2004. These days he spends most of his time as technical project lead for the Qt Mobility Project and, when time permits, likes to develop on Mobility specific components such as the Build system, Service Framework, Connectivity and Location.
Alexis Menard, INdT
Alexis is an engineer at INdT, the Nokia Institute in Brazil. He holds a M.Sc. in computer science from Toulouse 3 University (France). Before joining the team of INdT, he worked as a Qt developer in Oslo, where he was involved in various areas, like widgets, QGraphicsView and QtWebKit. He now spends most of his time leading the QtWebKit team in INdT to make the Qt port of WebKit even better.
Andreas Jakl
Andreas is a Senior Technical Consultant in the Nokia Developer Experience team. Based on his background of teaching mobile software development at an University, developing mobile games for his own company called Mopius and creating Augmented Reality apps for Siemens Mobile, he is now putting his passion into spreading the word about Qt and supporting developers with their efforts to bring their inventions to all Nokia users worldwide.
Bea Lam
Bea is a software engineer with Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Brisbane, Australia. She is part of the QML core team working to develop the essential components of QtQuick/QML. Previously she was involved in the development of Bluetooth and Location frameworks as part of the Qtopia project.
Daniel Pope
Danny first began using Qt while working on training simulators for the Australian Air Force. Impressed by its ease of use and comprehensice capabilities, he continued advocating the use of Qt as a way of improving portability and reducing development timelines. He moved to Brisbane in 2009 to join the Qt team at Nokia, and has been working og Qt3D ever since.
Donald Carr
Donald is a Professional Services Engineer with Qt Development Frameworks and has been putzing with Qt in an embedded context since shortly after he joined the company in 2006. He had the dubious honor of being roughly half the Greenphone support team, and despite shifting continents/living arrangements, has managed to keep a thumb firmly rooted in the Qt embedded pie throughout his voyages. The last 3 years have seen him exposed to countless Qt related embedded projects around the world and getting thoroughly intoxicated over the very real prospect of Qt everywhere.
Espen Riskedal, Cutehacks
Espen is the co-founder of Cutehacks.com and does everything from coding apps to making coffee. Prior to founding Cutehacks together with Marius B Monsen, Espen worked at Trolltech and Nokia for eight years where he was the teamlead for the Symbian as well as the Windows Mobile port. Espen likes burgers and beer, and plays a bit of Minecraft.
Gareth Stockwell, Accenture
Gareth is a Software Engineer working at Accenture, based in London, UK. He has been working in embedded software development since 2005, focussing on multimedia and graphics. For the last two years, he has been part of the team working on the Symbian port of Qt.
Girish Ramakrishnan
Girish is a software developer at ForwardBias Technologies, a company he co-founded in 2007. He is a former Trolltech Senior Software Engineer and Qt Release manager. His current interest is to make QML run well on embedded and mobile systems. He is a contributor to many open source projects including Qt, WebKit, QtMediaHub and Calligra.
Gordon Thornton
Gordon is a Publisher Support Manager who focuses on helping Key Partners and Publishers prepare and submit their content to Nokia Store. He has extensive experience in Product Management, focusing on designing, planning and managing the software development cycle. He currently utilizes this experience to help our Key Partners and Publishers to plan and prepare their application submissions to NokiaStore. Gordon has successfully released products to a variety of mobile platforms that exhibit unique convergence of entertainment and mobility features.
Ian Dean, Freelance / Qt iOS Port Maintainer
Ian is a self-employed freelance Software Engineer. He's been developing software using Qt on desktop and embedded platforms since 2008, and has ported Qt to several mobile/embedded platforms including Embedded Linux and Apple® iOS. He holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Jamey Hicks
Jamey is a Distinguished Research Team Leader for Nokia's Research organization. He is a tech lead on the data layer for Qt Quick, allowing rapid creation of applications mixing data from a variety of sources. In the past, he led a research cooperation between Nokia and MIT CSAIL, and before that was one of the founders of handhelds.org, porting the Linux kernel to the Compaq IPAQ and working on the Familiar distribution.
Jani Vaarala
Jani is working as a Senior Technology Manager for Nokia in Vancouver. Previously, he has been standardizing OpenGL 1.x and 2.x APIs in Khronos and is also a co-author of a book "Mobile 3D Graphics with OpenGL ES and M3G". In his current role, he helps game developers getting their content running on Nokia devices.
Janne Antilla, Digia
Janne is Senior Software Engineer at Digia Plc, and the principal architect at Qt Commercial R&D. With long history of developing Qt framework, creating Qt ports to new platforms, and developing Qt based solutions Janne truly knows Qt inside and out.
Jens Bache-Wiig
Jens is a Software Engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks. He holds a M.Sc. in computer science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a pixel perfectionist and likes to focus on styling, platform integration and Qt Quick.
Joe Fabbre, Green Hills Software
Joe is Director of Platform Solutions at Green Hills Software. He has worked in the embedded industry for over 18 years and holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Johannes Zellner
Johannes is part of Nokia for more than two years, working as a Customer Services Engineer in the Qt office in Munich. His recent projects were heavily Qt Quick based UIs, targeting automotive and home-media industries.
Jonas Rabbe
Jonas joined Nokia in 2005 and worked as software engineer on both Series 40 and Symbian before moving to Australia to join Qt in late 2010. He is now a part of the multimedia team in Brisbane, and spends his days fixing bugs, recording silly sound effects, reading and writing too much email, and occasionally getting to write new code.
Justin Noel, ICS
Justin is a senior consulting engineer and Qt Certified Trainer at Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS). He has taught Qt and Qt Quick material for both public and on-site courses and has written and conducted seminars on Object-Oriented GUI Design techniques. Justin has also become the star of ICS's podcast series, This Week in QT, where he regularly comments on current Qt news and events. Justin has a degree in Computer Engineering Technology from Northeastern University and enjoys gadget tinkering, fixing cars, and playing hockey in his spare time.
Jürgen Bocklage-Ryannel
Jürgen is the Qt Training Manager at Nokia. He joined Trolltech in 2006 as a Professional Service Engineer. Jürgen spends most of his time thinking about how others can effectively learn Qt. Besides providing learning material to others he goes out from time to time and teaches himself.
Kevin Chan
Kevin is a Technical Support Manager in the Developer Business Operations organization at Nokia. He is responsible for supporting Nokia Store developers in resolving technical issues that arise during the publishing process and helping improve the publishing experience for developers.
Kim Kalland
Kim is a software engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Oslo, where he is part of the graphics team. He holds a M.Sc. in applied mathematics from the University of Oslo. He is a demoscener and interested in real-time 3D computer graphics.
Lars Knoll
Lars is the Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project. He previously worked as the Chief Architect for ASF and lead the Qt R&D organization with teams in Oslo, Berlin and Brisbane in Nokia. Lars had had different roles in former Trolltechs's engineering organization, working his way up from software engineer to leading the engineering team in Oslo as Director before taking over the role as Director of Global R&D. Lars has been an active member of the KDE community and the architect behind KDE's html rendering for their browser Safari and WebKit open source project. Lars holds a PhD in physics from the University of Heidelberg. A German national, he lives with his family in Oslo.
Marius Bugge Monsen, Cutehacks
Marius is a Qt veteran of 8 years. He was the main developer of the Qt itemviews framework and was leading the Qt Widgets team in Nokia Qt Development Frameworks. He went on to found Cutehacks (cutehacks.com) together with another Qt veteran, Espen Riskedal. Cutehacks is doing professional Qt consultancy and mobile app development. Marius has extensive speaker experience from conferences such as Qt Developer Days, MeeGo Conference and KDE Academy.
Marius Storm Olsen
Marius is the Head of Qt OSS at Nokia, a global team which supports the Qt Open Source community from within Nokia. He joined Trolltech and Qt development in early 2002, where he worked as the team lead for Qt Core and the build system. He holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Buskerud University College, a Bachelor in Computer Science from Washington State University, and he is finalizing his Master of Management degree at BI Norwegian Business School.
Markus Goetz, Woboq
Markus is a software engineer, who moved to Oslo to become a Troll. His favorite topic is everything related to networks, so working on QNetworkAccessManager, HTTP & Co inside Nokia was the natural thing to do for him. Currently Markus is working for woboq in Berlin with Qt and other things.
Masaki Gondo, eSOL
Masaki is the Software CTO at eSOL, the company that provides ITRON/T-Kernel/POSIX RTOS, as well as various engineering services. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of OS architecture and related technologies for use in wide range of embedded system applications including car-infotainment. He has authored/co-authored multiple popular Japanese books and international articles on OS and embedded systems. He has given technical talks at conferences in Japan and US.
Michael Samarin, Futurice
Michael has been developing software professionally since 1994 and holding Ph.D in Computer Science since 1997. His portfolio includes projects in areas ranging from military forensic investigations, neural networks and video surveillance to interactive media showrooms, projection systems and mobile applications. Michael is currently leading multiplatform mobile development team in software and project house Futurice Ltd., fastest growing Finnish technology company of 2008 and Second Best Place to Work in Finland 2011. Michael is frequent speaker on a variety of mobile technology related topics on such conferences as JavaOne, Qt Developer Days, Nokia World, Nokia Developer Days at MWC, MeeGo Summit, iPhone Development Conferences, Oredev.
Mika Pesonen
Mika is working as a Senior Technical Evangelist for Nokia in Silicon Valley. He has worked in various computer graphics related roles at Nokia for over a decade. His current role includes helping game developers and evangelizing Nokia platforms for game developers.
No'am Rosenthal
No'am is a senior software architect for Nokia's CTO organization. He works on the accelerated compositing feature in QtWebKit, allowing fast CSS animations. In the past, he has worked with leading companies using Qt on TVs and embedded devices, helping them find the right way to use Qt for their particular needs.
Olivier Goffart, Woboq
Olivier started working with Qt 10 years ago with his involvement in KDE. He was then hired by Trolltech to work on Qt in 2007. He has been working on various areas of Qt including the itemviews framework, the widget stylesheets, QtScript, the QObject internals, and QML debugger for Creator. He is now the co-founder of Woboq, a company in Berlin focussing on Qt.
Peter Hartmann
Peter is a Software Engineer at Nokia, Qt Developer Frameworks in Oslo. He is working on the Qt networking stack and on XML, and is interested mostly in HTTP and SSL.
Pierre Rossi
Pierre is a Software Engineer at Qt Development Frameworks in Oslo. He joined the support team in 2009 with an aeronautical degree from ISAE (Toulouse, France), before moving to the WebKit team in 2011. Passionate about open-source, he tries to find some spare time to contribute to Rekonq, a webkit-based browser for KDE.
Riku Salminen
Riku is working as a Senior Technical Consultant in the Global Consultancy team in developer.nokia.com. Earlier he has worked in both Microsoft and Nokia as a localization/internationalization engineer and translator. In his current role, he's been helping developers' ideas come to life as great mobile applications on Nokia platforms. Internationalization and new technology are his passion as much as sailing whenever there's time.
Riku Valtasola, Futurice
Riku is leading a mobile development site of 20 persons at Futurice. His team develops applications and services for a wide range of platforms, Qt being maybe the top interest & competence area of his team. Riku's team has developed for example the Qt Developer Days app. Despite his current position as Business Director and Futurice's Tampere site head, Riku has strong developer background and MSc in software engineering, specializing in mobile and distributed systems.
Rolland Dudemaine, Green Hills Software
Rolland has over 9 years of experience in software industry, including embedded and real-time systems, device driver development and many safety-critical and non-safety-critical customer designs. At Green Hills Software, Rolland is the EMEA region technical lead for industry partnerships. Rolland holds a Master's Degree in real-time systems and networking from UTBM, France.
Romain Pokrzywka, KDAB
Senior Software Enginer at KDAB, Romain has actively developed with Qt since 2004. He works in San Francisco's KDAB office as a consultant and a trainer. His experience with Qt spans the desktop, mobile and embedded platforms, with a focus on advanced user interfaces using the full potential of the hardware. He has taught many 'Qt for Desktop' and 'Qt for Embedded' trainings in the United States and the rest of the world, including big players like Nokia and Intel. He's also an early adopter of Qt Quick 2 and Lighthouse.
Ruben Rincon
Ruben works as Senior Technology Expert for Nokia in Silicon Valley. He has over 7 year's experience working and programming on mobile platforms. His main role in Nokia has been supporting important projects in different regions across the world and also evangelizing developers on Nokia platforms on more than 40 international events. He has been a key promoter of Qt technologies in Latin America and currently he is spending important time of his time working on User Experience concepts from a programming perspective.
Sarah Smith
Sarah started Qt development in 2004 working for Trolltech in the days of Qtopia. Later during the Greenphone project she led teams working on content management and security. Since January 2009, she has worked on Qt3D and now leads that team. She is based in Brisbane, Australia.
Tapani Puhakka, Teleca
Tapani is Senior Software Engineer at Teleca Finland. He lives in Oulu, a Hi-tech city in North of Finland. He holds M.Sc. in Information Processing Science majoring Software Production from University of Oulu. Tapani's main focus has been mobile development for Symbian and Meego platform since 2004. During this time, he has worked in multiple exciting roles and projects.
Tapani is very eager to see how mobile software can change the way people "work and play". When Tapani was first introduced to Qt, he immediately saw it having a huge potential to change how the software is made.
Tero Äijälä
Tero is a Product Manager for Qt focussing on Qt Mobility APIs, including Qt Bearer. Tero joined the Qt team in December 2010, taking over some of the API PM responsibilities from the Brisbane team. Currently, Tero is busy thinking how the Qt Mobility APIs should evolve to Qt5 modules, what additional features developers would need, and in general how to make the Qt developer experience even better.
Thiago Maceiera
Thiago holds a double degree in Engineering and an MBA. He's been involved in several Open Source projects for over 15 years and is still an active participant in the KDE, Qt and MeeGo communities. For the past 7 years, he's dedicated his days to working with Qt, previously as software engineer, product manager and now as software architect for Intel. These days, Thiago lives in Oslo, Norway and when he's not working on Qt, he tries (with limited success) to improve his skills at StarCraft 2.
Thomas Hartmann
Thomas is a software engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Berlin. He joined Trolltech in 2006 and holds a M.Sc. in computer science from the RWTH Aachen. He was involved in porting Qt to the Windows CE platform and is currently leading the Qt Quick Designer project.
Thomas Senyk
Thomas is a Customer Services Engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Munich. He is working on device creation projects with key account customers in the home-media, automotive and mobile industries.
Tobias Hunger
Tobias is a software engineer at Nokia, working in Berlin. Since joining Nokia, Tobias works in the Qt Creator team. He holds a degree in Technoinformatik from the TU Kaiserslautern in Germany. Before joining Nokia, Tobias worked as a consultant and helped companies using Qt technologies in desktop based products as well as embedded devices.
Volker Krause, KDAB
Senior Software Engineer at KDAB, Volker has been developing with Qt for ten years now. He works in Berlin's KDAB office as a consultant and a trainer. His experience with Qt spans desktop and mobile platforms, with a focus on software architecture and tooling. He has taught many 'Programming with Qt' trainings throughout Europe and is a longterm contributor to the KDE project.
Yoann Lopes
Yoann is a Software Engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Oslo since 2009. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Tolouse 3 (France). He has been previously working on the Qt GraphicsView framework and now contributes to the QML SceneGraph project. He is passionate about graphics (obviously), game development and making mobile applications. When he is not coding, you can find him skiing on the hills nearby Oslo.
