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 Tallinn 2015 are:
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In the middle of the challenge there is always an opportunity
Development Manager
Swedbank AS
Sofia works as Development manager at Swedbank.She joined the Bank back in 2004 and has been working since in various roles for the company.Her responsibility includes to be in charge for project portfolio delivery within the area, fulfilling department targets, full staff responsibility, managing team of 24 specialists, maintaining relationship with customers and cooperation with other IT areas.
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Stops bad things from happening and protecting the world
Product and Marketing
Thycotic
Joseph has more than 20 years’ experience in customer service, information technology, enterprise technical support, infrastructure and enterprise management solutions and product management. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO). A very hands on product manager who likes to see the product in the eyes of the user, understand how the products helps the user do their job, focus on the high level business problems and solving them. Joseph serves as Product and Marketing at Thycotic and COO Cyber Security at ESC Global Security, previously Joseph held Senior roles where he spent more than 10 years at Symantec and HP in ASIA.
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From idea to implementation!
Development Manager
Telia Estonia
Helin is working as a development manager in one of the leading telecom compnies in Estonia, Telia. She has been working for Telia (formerly Elion) since 2006 and has had various roles in the company. As a development manager she is responsible for leading product development projects and managing the scope of the development of a new product.
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Optimizing and automating the world through awesome software
Head of Engineering
Nortal
Most of his career Priit has been in software developer role in various sized projects and teams. Most recent years he is setting the Java development compass for Nortal, helping teams to build seamless society. Always searching for innovative ideas and new technologies to research. He is also frequent guest lecturer in University of Tartu.
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a machine for turning coffee into code
Lead Software Architect
SIA Tieto Latvia
Aivars Kalvans holds the position of Lead Software Architect at Tieto Latvia and is working on Card Suite payment card system. During his more than 12-year career Aivars has been involved in a number of projects related to credit card issuing, acquiring and utility payments through mobile phones, ATMs and POS-terminals. He enjoys solving both design and technical problems and likes to work on personal and Open Source projects using C++ and Python in his free time.
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Founder of eazyBI
Founder
EazyOne SIA
Raimonds Simanovskis is a software developer with a strong “enterprise software development” history and Oracle technologies background but during recent years he has been a passionate Ruby and JavaScript developer. He is a regular open source contributor and has created an Oracle database adapter for Ruby on Rails, a PL/SQL unit testing library with Ruby, and a JRuby library for Mondrian OLAP engine.Raimonds is also an active participant in Latvian Agile software development and Open Data communities. He is a regular speaker in Latvian and international Ruby, Oracle and Agile conferences.Raimonds is the founder and the core developer of the business intelligence web application eazyBI (https://eazybi.com).
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Plumbing your JVM
Master Developer
Plumbr
Co-founder of Plumbr, the Java Performance Monitoring solution, where he now contributes as core developer. Besides his daily technical tasks he is an active blogger, JavaOne RockStar and frequent conference speaker (Devoxx, JavaOne SF/Russia, GeeCon, 33rd Degree, TopConf, JavaDay, GeekOut, Joker, Jazoon, JPoint etc).Prior to founding Plumbr, Nikita was a Java EE developer and performance consultant in the Baltics, and has worked with tens of different Java EE applications over the years. In the last four years he specialized in troubleshooting and performance optimization.
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Anett Linno is helping to organize to Project Management track with Helin Toom.
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Juggling technologies
Senior Developer
GrabCAD
Matti is a programming language geek always on the lookout for the most suitable paradigm for the current problem at hand. He has more than a decade of experience in the software business working as a consultant mainly in the telecommunications and public finance sectors. Currently he enjoys the madness of the startup world, helping to improve the life of all mechanical engineers. In his spare time he hacks Clojure and struggles with juggling.