GOTO is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 90 top speaker and 1300 attendees. The conference cover topics such as .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes

Presentation: "Career Owner at Career.me - The Most Important Role of Your Career"

Track: Career / Time: Wednesday 11:30 - 12:20 / Location: Kammermusiksalen, Musikhuset

Careers are emergent and may be proactively shaped by you the career product owner. Successful career owners seldom look for opportunities because the opportunities find them. In this talk we describe several career development best practices most of which have been used by leading software professionals one or more times during their career. We begin with the career retrospective of experience and future aspirations from which one can build a backlog of career deliverables. We then discuss technical, people, organizational and professional kata which one uses to keep career fit. We examine what is the necessary technical breath and depth to maintain as one grows older.  Throughout we will do some testing and career debugging.  Attendees will leave with one or more practical practices that they can use assess and improve their career.

Dave Thomas, Father of OTI, CEO of Bedarra Corp. Member of Program Advisory Board

Dave Thomas

Biography: Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas has a wide spectrum of experience in the software industry as an engineer, professor, consultant, architect, executive and investor. Dave is founder and CEO of Bedarra Corporation; which provides virtual CTO and CEO, business mentoring and seed investment to emerging companies. Recently formed Bedarra Research Labs undertakes speculative research on applications of emerging software technologies.

Dave is best known as the founder and past CEO and president ofObject Technology International Inc. (formerly OTI, now IBM OTI Labs)and led the commercial introduction of object and component technology.The company is often cited as the ideal model of a software technologycompany.

He was also the principal visionary and architect for IBM VisualAgeSmalltalk and Java tools and virtual machines including the initialwork on popular multi-language Eclipse.org IDE. OTI pioneered the useof virtual machines in embedded systems with Tektronix shipping thefirst commercial products in 1988. He was instrumental in theestablishment of IBM's Pervasive computing efforts and in particularthe Java tooling.

Dave is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, and the University Of Queensland and is widely published in the software engineering literature. He is a popular humorous albeit opinionated keynote speaker. Dave remains active in various roles within the technical community including ECOOP, AOSD, Evolve, and Agile Development Conference, Agile/XP Universe and OOPSLA Onward. He is a founding director of the Agile Alliance and most recently a founder of Open Augment Consortium. Dave writes expert columns in Otland Online in Germany, and the Journal Of Object Technology in Switzerland where he also serves on the editorial board.

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