Dr Heinz M Kabutz

Dr Heinz Kabutz is best known for his creation of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, read in 120 countries by 50000 Java experts. In his newsletter, he examines advanced aspects of Java that have helped Java developers around the world to produce better code. As someone remarked on the Sun website: "Heinz Kabutz is a hero in the Java Developer Community. His newsletters have saved companies millions by helping burgeoning and experienced programmers deliver high quality products. In order to fund the newsletter, Heinz writes Java code on contract and runs seminars. "
His latest creation, the Java Specialist Master Course, examines ten areas of advanced Java. It is one of the only courses specifically aimed at the seasoned Java professional. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, Jfokus and Server Side conferences in USA and Europe.

Peter Lubbers

This course is designed and led by Peter Lubbers, the Director of Documentation and Training at Kaazing. Peter is a HTML5 and WebSocket enthusiast and a frequent speaker at international events and teaches HTML5 training courses worldwide. Prior to joining Kaazing, Peter worked for almost 10 years as an information architect at Oracle, where he wrote award-winning books and developed patent-pending software solutions.

Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers, author of the Presentation Patterns & Anti-Patterns book, multi-year speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, presenter at dozens of international conferences, author of three of the 10 most popular DZone RefCardz (including Git) and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group.

Git has been a primary tool in Matthew's teaching and consulting practice for several years. Matthew's helped small shops to 5,000 person companies convert from proprietary version control systems over to Git, helping them maximize the benefits and minimize efforts. The resulting productivity and collaboration boosts from development teams have been nothing short of amazing.

Kirk Pepperdine, Kodewerk

Led by Kirk Pepperdine - a recognized expert in Java Performance Tuning, Java Champion, international speaker and trainer, and co-contributor to the successful Java Performance Tuning Newsletter - you'll learn in four days what would otherwise take years of self-study. Kirk has fixed numerous critical performance issues and has saved millions in lost revenue and downtime for his clients. Full of insight and packed with experience, this course can help you do the same.

Martin Odersky

Led by Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the creator and principal designer of the Scala programming language. Prior to that, he made several contributions to the development of Java. He created the Pizza and GJ languages, designed the original version of generics for Java, and wrote the javac reference compiler. He is interested in programing languages and methods, in particular how object-oriented and functional programming can be made to work seamlessly together. Martin Odersky received his doctorate from ETH Zürich, in 1989.

Iulian Dragos

Iulian Dragos is a key member of Martin Odersky:s EPFL's Scala team. For the last six years he has been the main contributor for many critical Scala components including the compiler backend, its optimizer and the Eclipse build manager.

Iulian has been responsible for many of the innovations that give Scala such an impressive run time performance. His most recent contribution, seen in Scala 2.8, is the ability to apply specialization to generic libraries to give a major performance improvement for primitive types.
As well as his development work, Iulian has spent several years teaching Scala, both at introductory and advanced levels. Not only can he provide an in-depth understanding of Scala the language but can also supply experienced practitioner advice on design, architecture, development, debugging and performance optimisation too.