TDC CONNECTIONS
Building Software in the Connected World

Gerald Venzl is a Developer Evangelist and Distinguished Product Manager for Oracle. During his career, Gerald has worked as a Developer, DBA, Performance Tuner, Software Architect, Consultant and Enterprise Architect prior to his current role, while still being active as a developer in his free time and on open source projects. This allowed Gerald to live several different lives in the IT sector, providing him with a solid understanding of the concerns in these individual areas while gaining a holistic view overall. Gerald focuses on advocating how to build systems that provide flexibility yet still meet the needs of the users.

Mónica is Product Manager on the Oracle APEX Team. She is based in Cali, Colombia and joined the team in 2019. Mónica also manages the Meetup Oracle APEX LATAM: https://www.meetup.com/es/Meetup-de-Oracle-APEX-LATAM/ and Women in APEX: https://www.womeninapex.com/

Empowering staff-plus engineers to deliver highly scalable software on the cloud, so they can become influential in their companies and in the market, and move their technical careers to the next level.

Otavio is a passionate architect and software engineer focused on cloud and Java technologies. He has deep expertise in polyglot persistence, and high-performance applications in the areas of finance, social media, and e-commerce.

As an open-source contributor, Otavio is directly involved in the Java world as an expert leader in several specifications both at the Java Community Process (JCP) and at the Eclipse Foundation. His work on the Apache and Eclipse Foundations helps projects such as MicroProfile and Jakarta EE to flourish.

Java Champions, JCP EC member, Director of Data Engineering, and Leader of NYJavaSIG, the largest JUG in North America and the first one to be created.

Rolando Carrasco is a Developer Champion and Oracle ACE specialized in API Management, SOA, Digital Transformation and Microservices. He has over 15 years of experience and has worked for companies like HP and Oracle. Currently is the CTO of a Mexican consulting firm by the name S&P Solutions which a very solid partner for the latinamerican market. Rolando has been a constant OOW speaker and a constant contributor within the community with blogs, videos, webinars, podcasts, presentations and event coordinations. Rolando's specialization is around Serverless, Microservices, Service Orientation, DevOps, Chatbots and APIs. He is co-author of the book Oracle API Management 12c Implementation, published by PACKT on 2015.

Csilla Szántó is a professional Java Full-Stack Software Engineer, focusing on developing web applications including data visualizations. She has been working in the industry and for consulting companies in different European countries before joining the field of research and public service.

Fabiane Nardon é Cientista da Computação com doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica. Atualmente é Chief Data Scientist da Tail, empresa pioneira em Data Science no Brasil, cujo trabalho inovador foi premiado com o Duke's Choice Award do JavaOne San Francisco em em 2015. Foi arquiteta chefe do Sistema de Saúde de São Paulo, considerado a maior aplicação Java EE do mundo e vencedora do Duke's Choice Award de 2005. Em Foi líder de várias comunidades, incluindo a JavaTools, onde nasceram mais de 800 projectos open source. É palestrante frequente em conferências no Brasil e no exterior, incluindo JavaOne, CodeOnde, OSCON, JFokus, DockerCon, QCon, TDC e outras. É também autora de várias artigos técnicos e membro do comitê de programa de várias conferências. Foi escolhida Java Champion em reconhecimento à sua contribuição para o ecosistema Java.

I am a Computer Science researcher and Master in Artificial Intelligence focused on practical applications of ML in the industry. Interested in keeping both academic and industry connections, with experience in both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

Dr. Frank Munz is a Developer Advocate at Databricks. He authored three computer science books, built up technical evangelism for Amazon Web Services in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and once upon a time worked as data scientist with a group that won a Nobel prize.

Frank is a returning TDC presenter after getting hooked at TDC in 2019 in Floripa. He realized his dream to speak at top-notch conferences on every continent (except antarctica, because it is too cold there). He presented at conferences such as Devoxx, Kubecon, and Java One. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from TU Munich.

Graeme Rocher is the creator of several popular Open Source projects including Grails (https://grails.org) and Micronaut (https://Micronaut.io) and co-author of "The Definitive Guide to Grails" (Apress - http://apress.com/book/view/1590599950). Graeme currently works as an Architect at Oracle. Graeme is a member of the Java Champions (https://twitter.com/java_champions) and 2018 was awarded the Groundbreaker award by Oracle (https://developer.oracle.com/groundbreakers/) for his work on Open Source.

Heli Helskyaho is the CEO for Miracle Finland Oy. Heli holds a Master's degree (Computer Science) at the University of Helsinki and she is specialized on databases. At the moment she is working on her doctoral studies, researching and teaching at the University of Helsinki. Heli is an Oracle ACE Director, an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, and a frequent speaker in many conferences. She is the author of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler for Database Design Mastery (Oracle Press 2015) and a co-author of Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts (Oracle Press 2016). Heli was listed as one of the TOP 100 influences on IT sector in Finland every year in 2015-2020.

Designer e pesquisador, hoje sou Lead UX Designer e coordeno o setor de Experiência do Usuário na PUC Minas Virtual. Sou professor de pós-graduação na disciplina UX Design do curso Desenvolvimento Full Stack (PUC Minas). Atuei como Agente Local de Inovação (Sebrae), com o acompanhamento em negócios e inovação de empresas em BH. Sou mestre em Design Inovação e Sustentabilidade (UEMG), graduado em Design Gráfico (UEMG) e em Artes Visuais (UFMG). Estudei Master 1 na França e trabalhei com direção de arte e produção multimídia na multinacional Zorba productions, em Paris. Ainda, sou um dos gestores e criadores do canal mimimidias (+100 mil inscritos), onde abordo temas de mídia e contemporaneidade sob uma ótica acadêmica com foco em design.

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

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Walter é Product Designer na Dell, onde tem ajudado equipes de desenvolvimento a identificar e resolver os reais problemas de seus usuários através de uma mentalidade data driven. É Doutor em Ciência da Computação, com ênfase em Bioinformática.