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Georgios works for IBM as a Senior Principal Software Engineer and is currently one of the most active contributors to Quarkus, where he works in all sorts of areas, including but not limited to LangChain4j, RESTEasy Reactive, Spring compatibility, Kubernetes support, testing, Kotlin, and more.

He is also an enthusiastic promoter of Quarkus, who never misses a chance to spread the Quarkus love!

Kevin Dubois is a software architect and platform engineer with a career spanning over 20 years. He is often featured as a keynote speaker at conferences around the world where he shares his experience and knowledge about cloud native & AI software development, developer experience, open source and Java. Kevin is also an author and Java Champion. He currently works as a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at IBM, and is also Technical Lead for the CNCF Developer Experience Technical Advisory Group.

Mario is a senior principal software engineer at IBM working as Drools project lead. Among his interests there are also high performance systems and generative AI, being an active contributor of widely adopted projects like Quarkus and LangChain4j. He is also a Java Champion, the JUG Milano coordinator, a frequent speaker and the co-author of "Modern Java in Action" published by Manning.

Dimitris has 25 years of experience in IT and he is currently Sr. Director of Engineering (Red Hat) at IBM in charge of the Cloud Native Runtimes group that includes the Quarkus, Vert.x, SpringBoot, and Node.js teams. He also served as the JBoss AS project lead and he has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early start-up days. He worked previously at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.

Dimitris is also a passionate advocate of Open source technologies and has presented at a variety of events and conferences around the world. He has been an invited speaker at various Java/Linux community events and user groups, and he has delivered inspirational talks on technology and Open Source in universities and educational institutes. In his spare time he has also helped with the organization of technology enablement events for children, like Scratch Days, Devoxx4Kids and JCrete4Kids.

Holly Cummins is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the IBM Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Over her career, Holly has been a full-stack javascript developer, a build architect, a client-facing consultant, a JVM performance engineer, and an innovation leader. Holly has led projects to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). She gets worked up about sustainability, technical empathy, extreme programming, the importance of proper testing, and automating all the things. You can find her at http://hollycummins.com, or follow her on socials at @holly_cummins.