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 Topconf Linz 2016 are:

• Elisabeth Rosemann

  Making sense of unstructured content at scale
  Partner
  scintillation e.U.

  Elisabeth is a full-stack web developer. Her main working area is Java EE development including search technologies like Apache Solr/Lucene and her interests range from dealing with unstructured content to statistical analysis. She has experience in building enterprise applications with Java, is an open-source contributor, considers Python a helpful tool and enjoys travelling around Europe for work.
• Juergen Hoeller

  Spring Framework project lead
  Principal Engineer
  Pivotal

  Juergen Hoeller is co-founder of the Spring Framework open source project and has been serving as the project lead and release manager for the core framework since 2003. Juergen is an experienced software architect and consultant with outstanding expertise in code organization, transaction management and enterprise messaging.
• Christian Wirth

  Coder. Researcher. Scout.
  Software Development Manager
  Oracle Labs Austria

  PhD in computer science (Johannes Kepler University Linz, 2013). Researcher with Oracle Labs Austria. Implementing high-performance language engines on top of the JVM.
• Stefan Baumgartner

  Internet Batman
  Web Developer
  Ruxit

  Stefan created his first website back in 1997, and has since been working on different projects for clients like Nintendo, Square Enix, Swarovski and adidas. Currently he works at Ruxit, making the web a faster place. His passions are the web, web standards and process automation. He writes for Manning, hosts the workingdraft.de podcast, teaches in Hagenberg and contributes to several Open Source projects.
• Manuela Schrenk

  passionate iOS geekness, who loves to put awesome software under people's thumbs
  iOS Lead
  Kupferwerk

  Started as a java coder for big data and knowledge generation systems (Europäisches Patentamt, Voest Alpine, Finanzministerium). After 5 years changed to mobile development and now loves what she's doing: guiding the iOS team @kupferwerk and create awesome mobile software.
• Stefan Bräu

  Work hard, play hard
  Technical Project Manager
  Netural GmbH

  Studied Informatics & Organisation at HTL Leonding (finished in 2000) Started with web-development just after school for private projects at first. 2003: started at Screenteam as programmer. In the end of 2011 I was project manager and programmer. 2011: started at Netural as Project Manager for technical projects.
• David Tanzer

  Helps his clients to become better at developing software as a consultant and coach
  Independent Consultant
  Independent Consultant

  David is an independent software consultant since 2006. He helps his clients with implementing agile software development and improving software quality by providing coaching and training or by working as a developer on the team. He is working with teams that do Java and .NET development on the server, client and mobile devices. In his "spare time", he likes to experiment with Clojure, ClojureScript and JavaScript.
• Thomas Einwaller

  Software from Passion
  CEO
  troii Software GmbH

  Thomas developed his first program when he was 9 and went online with 28.8Kbps in 1995. In 2008 he founded troii Software where he and his colleagues do high quality mobile and web development. He also hosts the Austrian development podcast Donau Tech Radio (www.dtr.fm).
• Martin Ahrer

  Quality is not a feature, it's an attitude!
  Owner
  Martin Ahrer

  Martin is a software engineer who is passionate about software quality, education, and community-building. He has founded the Enterprise Java User Group Austria in 2008, co-founded zero2hero.at - an initiative offering low-budget but high quality trainings around Java Enterprise technologies. After more than 10 years of offering Java Enterprise development services as independent engineer and almost 20 years of hacking Java code he is now partner of recently founded Software Craftsmen GmbH & Co KG.
• Mathias Frey

  Manage complexity, add value
  CEO
  c99 Business Services

  Probably wrote 2 MLOC, Excel-hater and Python-Lover, project manager.
• Andreas Hutter

  Look beyond the horizon
  Head of Web & Mobile Solutions
  Best Gaming Technology

  Andreas has been working in the gaming and sportsbetting industry for ten years now and has been doing various software projects in all different kinds of technology. He holds a Master's degree in IT Security and Information Management. Currently he is leading the online sportsbook development at Best Gaming Technology.