Moving Java Forward Together by Sharat Chander

Welcome to "Moving Java Forward Together," a vJUG session dedicated to the future of Java. Java's influence on modern application development is unparalleled, but the real driving force is you, the community. In this session, we’ll explore how your contributions are vital to Java's continued success and leadership. Join us in forging the future of Java, together.

Location: YouTube
Date: 21st August 2024
Timing:

• 10:00 AM (PT) | 6:00 PM (BST): Live stream kicks off
• 10:10 AM (PT) | 6:10 PM (BST): Session by Sharat Chander
• 11:00 AM (PT) | 7:00 PM (BST): That’s a wrap, live stream ends!

Moving Java Forward Together
Modern application development is unrecognisable without Java. Rather than resting on our laurels, Oracle’s leadership continues to drive Java innovation forward. Equally important is Oracle's continuing stewardship of the Java ecosystem because without you, the community, Java doesn't move forward. The role you play is critical in ensuring Java's future for today as well as tomorrow and for the next decades ahead of us. In this session, you'll learn about the many ways YOU can help ensure Java remains the leading choice to build the future.

Speaker
Sharat Chander, Senior Director, Product Management & Developer Engagement at Oracle
Sharat has worked in the IT industry for 25 years for firms including Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. His background and technical specialty is in Java development tools, graphics design, and product/community management. Sharat has been actively involved in the Java community for 25+ years, helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy. As Oracle’s senior director of Java developer engagement, Sharat served as the JavaOne conference content chairperson for 10 years, drives the technical content strategy and Java community programs in multiple outreach channels, and continues to steward Java community loyalty programs for Oracle. He is a frequent keynote speaker and participant in developer programs worldwide. Sharat holds a BS in corporate finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA in international business from Loyola College, Maryland. You can often find Sharat at global developer events and Java community meet-ups. When not growing visibility for Java, he follows his passion for baseball, actively Little League teams and fanatically following his hometown Baltimore Orioles.

Host
Baruch Sadogursky, Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle
Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. After a tenure of eleven years in JFrog DevRel, Baruch is the Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle.
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