Speakers
- Clifford Berg
- David Bock
- Scott Davis
- Rick DeNatale
- Esther Derby
- Robert Fischer
- Neal Ford
- Chad Fowler
- Andrew Glover
- Stuart Halloway
- David Hussman
- Yehuda Katz
- Rich Kilmer
- Carl Lerche
- Matthew McCullough
- Joe O'Brien
- Andrea O. K. Wright
- Russ Olsen
- Bob Payne
- Christopher Redinger
- Johanna Rothman
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Ken Sipe
- Brian Sletten
- Kevin Smith
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Nathaniel Talbott
- Laurie Williams
Billy Newport
Distinguished Engineer at IBM
Billy is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been at IBM since 2001. Billy was the lead on the WorkManager/ Scheduler APIs which were later standardized by IBM and BEA and are now the subject of JSR 236 and JSR 237. Billy lead the design of the WebSphere 6.0 non blocking IO framework (channel framework) and the WebSphere 6.0 high availability/clustering (HAManager). Billy currently works on WebSphere XD and ObjectGrid. He's also the lead persistence architect and runtime availability/scaling architect for the base application server.
Before IBM, Billy worked as an independant consultant at investment banks, telcos, publishing companies and travel reservation companies. He wrote video games in C and assembler on the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga as a teenager. He started programming on an Apple IIe when he was eleven, his first programming language was 6502 assembler.
Billys current interests are lightweight non invasive middleware, complex event processing systems and grid based OLTP frameworks.
Before IBM, Billy worked as an independant consultant at investment banks, telcos, publishing companies and travel reservation companies. He wrote video games in C and assembler on the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga as a teenager. He started programming on an Apple IIe when he was eleven, his first programming language was 6502 assembler.
Billys current interests are lightweight non invasive middleware, complex event processing systems and grid based OLTP frameworks.