To ensure the high quality of the Topconf conference program in the long term, all presentations will be tested scientifically and thematically. The evaluation is done by our independent conference program committee with members from various ICT companies.

Members of the Program Committee for Topconf Duesseldorf 2017 are:

• Stefan Tilkov

  Co-founder & principal consultant
  innoQ

  Stefan Tilkov is CEO, co-founder and principal it innoQ, where he spends his time advising clients on how to make the most of both mature and new approaches to architecting large-scale systems. He is author of numerous articles, co-author of two books and a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.
• Anna Löw

  Head of People Operations
  Giant Swarm GmbH

  Anna is working as Head of People Operations at Giant Swarm. Previously she was working as HR Manager and Consultant in several companies. Her fields of working are agile HR, HR in StartUps, organizational development, conflict management and systemic coaching.
• Uwe Friedrichsen

  CTO
  codecentric AG

  Uwe Friedrichsen travels the IT world for many years. As CTO of codecentric AG he is always in search of innovative ideas and concepts. His current focus areas are resilience, scalability and the IT of (the day after) tomorrow. Often, you can find him on conferences sharing his ideas, or as author of articles, blog posts, tweets and more.
• Gerrit Grunwald

  Senior Software Engineer
  Canoo Engineering AG

  Gerrit Grunwald is a software engineer with more than ten years of experience in software development. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like JFXtras.org as well as his own projects (Medusa, Enzo, SteelSeries Swing, SteelSeries Canvas).  Gerrit blogs regularly at http://harmonic-code.org, he is an active member of the Java community, where he founded and leads the Java User Group Münster (Germany), is a JavaOne rockstar and Java Champion. He is a speaker at conferences and user groups internationally and writes for several magazines.
• Angelika Langer

  Instructor, Author, Coach
  Angeliks Langer Training/Consulting

  Angelika Langer works as a trainer and consultant with a course curriculum of Java and C++ seminars. She enjoys speaking at conferences, among them JavaOne, JAX, jDays, JFokus, JavaZone and many more (see lanyrd.com/profile/angelikalanger/). She is author of the online “Java Generics FAQs” and a “Lambda Tutorial & Reference” at www.AngelikaLanger.com.
• Sven Peters

  Technology Evangelist
  Atlassian

  Sven is a software geek working as an Evangelist for Atlassian. He started with Java development in 1998 and has been programming for longer that he\\\'d like to admit. Besides coding his passion is getting the right tools into the hands of those who need it to help build fast moving, agile, autonomous teams and getting them to kick-ass. Sven has extensive speaking experience in 25+ countries on myriad topics.
• Christoph Engelbert

  Manager Developer Relations
  Hazelcast, Inc.

  Christoph Engelbert is Manager of Developer Relations at Hazelcast. He is a passionated Java developer with a deep commitment for Open Source software. He mostly is interested in Performance Optimizations and understanding the internals of the JVM and the Garbage Collector. He loves to bring software to it\'s limits by looking into profilers and finding problems inside of the codebase.
• Sibylle Ohm

  General Manager
  anderScore GmbH

  Founder & owner of anderScore GmbH since 2006. Being passionate about creating something useful, as a software-developer I struggled through badly organized projects. So I ended up as a project manager for any size of application-development projects, nowadays primarily Java-based: health-care, NASA/ DLR, consulting, telcos, DWH, eBusiness, logistics, retail, banks & insurance. SW should be reliable, stable, performant, maintainable, secure and useful- and we should enjoy to construct it.
• Frank Mathy

  Department Head
  Commerzbank AG

  Frank Mathy is working at Commerzbank where he currently leads a team in the Investment Banking IT and works in IT development projects. He is also responsible for the Java community at Commerzbank where he organizes internal events and conferences. He is a passionate developer with a focus on Java and author of numerous articles and three books.
• Mark Smalley

  The IT Paradigmologist
  ASL BiSL Foundation

  Mark Smalley is an IT Management Consultant at Smalley. IT and is specialized in application management and business information management. He is affiliated with the non-profit ASL BiSL Foundation, APMG International, GamingWorks and Pink Elephant. Mark is an inaugural member of the industry initiatives SM Congress and Taking Service Forward. Mark has spoken to thousands of IT professionals at more than 100 events on 4 continents. He was born in London but has lived in the Netherlands for 40 years, currently on the southern outskirts of Amsterdam. Mark is married, with 3½ children. Regular speaker at international events. Keynotes at smaller events, regular presentations, workshops. My smallest audience was 5 (including the moderator!) and the largest about 500, but typically 50-150. Recordings of some conferences and most webinars at https://sites.google.com/a/smalley.nl/smalley-it-on-demand/. I work for several companies but would speak on behalf of the non-profit ASL BiSL Foundation. We own two IT frameworks and share knowledge with our members and with other IT communities. My role is to reach out to these communities, for instance by speaking at conferences.