Speakers
- Matt Stine
- Brian Sletten
- Ken Sipe
- Nathaniel Schutta
- Pratik Patel
- Matthew McCullough
- Neal Ford
- Tim Berglund
- Peter Bell
- Craig Walls
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Kris Zyp
- Nicholas C. Zakas
- Andrew Wirick
- Chris Wilson
- James Williams
- Greg Wilkins
- Meghan Wilker
- Mike Wilcox
- Dustin Whittle
- Estelle Weyl
- Johnny Wey
- Eric Wendelin
- Rich Waters
- James Ward
- David Verba
- Tom Valletta
- Johannes Ullrich
- Tenni Theurer
- Etienne Studer
- Steve Souders
- Deryk Sinotte
- John Simone
- Scott Shattuck
- Bill Scott
- Matt Schmidt
- Dylan Schiemann
- Christian Schalk
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Terry Ryan
- Alex Russell
- Rob Rusher
- Rick Ross
- Tom Robinson
- Torrey Rice
- Aza Raskin
- Nandini Ramani
- Matt Raible
- Jason Porter
- Vic Patterson
- Andy Painter
- Noah Paci
- Aaron Newton
- Mark Murphy
- Rebecca Murphey
- William Morris
- Eric Miraglia
- Eric Miller
- Steffen Meschkat
- Dustin Machi
- Nancy Lyons
- Kevin Lynch
- Andrew Lombardi
- Howard Lewis Ship
- Brian Leroux
- Brent Laster
- Seth Ladd
- Nik Krimm
- Kenneth Kousen
- Sean Kane
- Tim Kadlec
- Christopher Judd
- Bruce Johnson
- Denise Jacobs
- Bob Ippolito
- Kevin Hoyt
- Molly Holzschlag
- Josh Holmes
- Mike Heath
- Les Hazlewood
- Erik Hatcher
- James Harmon
- Patrick Haney
- Stuart Halloway
- Clint Hall
- Wesley Hales
- Kevin Hakman
- Aaron Gustafson
- Arun Gupta
- Nate Grover
- Mike Girouard
- Jesse James Garrett
- Raju Gandhi
- Thomas Fuchs
- Aaron Frost
- Judson Flamm
- Connie Finkelman
- Jon Ferraiolo
- Szczepan Faber
- Cal Evans
- Ben Ellingson
- Nicholas Eddy
- Scott Dietzen
- Gabriel Dayley
- Luke Daley
- Adrian Cole
- Roy Clarkson
- Patrick Chanezon
- David Chandler
- Ludovic Champenois
- Max Carlson
- Pete Campbell
- Bob Byron
- Thomas Burleson
- Michal Budzynski
- John Brinnand
- Ryan Breen
- Simone Bordet
- David Boloker
- David Bock
- Rey Bango
- Tom Ball
- Dan Allen
- Brad Abrams
Tom Ball
Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tom Ball is a distinguished engineer with the Developer Products Platform at Sun Microsystems, Inc., working on JavaFX tools. He has presented advanced technical talks at several JavaOne conferences, including the first JavaOne in San Francisco.
Previously, Tom spent two years as part of the NetBeans team, integrating Java modeling technology researched while at Sun Laboratories. He also served as the Tools Architect for Sun's iPlanet division, and spent seven years as a key member of JavaSoft's core, AWT and Swing teams. He designed the first Java debugger API, rewrote the Windows AWT for JDK 1.1, and helped design Swing and the 1.1 AWT event model.
-Nandini
Tom has over twenty-five years industry experience; eighteen years experience with object-oriented languages and tools, the last twelve focused primarily on Java (starting when it was still called Oak).