Eclipse Summit Europe 2009
Abstract
When the European Eclipse community meets this year at the “Eclipse Summit Europe,” then itemis AG will be there again as a sponsor. From the 27th until the 29 th of October in Ludwigsburg, all Eclipse-users, - members and interested parties are offered the opportunity to exchange experiences and information as well as to get to know new solutions. The annual Europe summit is the smaller European counterpart of the Californian Eclipse-Community-Conference, EclipseCon.
Interesting keynotes as well as useful sessions – both technical and practical – show the possible applications of the Open-Source-Platform Eclipse. The primary focus is the subjects of Embedded, Modeling, Eclipse Runtime and IDE- development.
In several events, visitors of the three-day “Eclipse Summit Europe” can get information about the latest developments by itemis AG:
“Combining Graphics and Text in Modeling Tools”
27th October 2009, 08:00 with Jan Köhnlein and Jos Warmer
“Advanced Programming Techniques with EMF and CDO”
27th October 2009, 09:00 with Ed Merks, Eike Stepper and Tom Schindl
“Domain-Specific Languages mit Eclipse Modeling”
27th October 2009, 09:00 with Jan Köhnlein, Karsten Thoms, Sebastian Zarnekow and Markus Völter
“The B3 build platform - The PDE-Build successor”
27th October 2009, 14:00 with Ed Merks, Henrik Lindberg, Oisin Hurley and Thomas Hallgren
“Eclipse Modeling Symposium”
27th October 2009, 14:00 with Ed Merks and Bernd Kolb
“Xtext - From Galileo to Helios”
28th October 2009, 13:30 with Sven Efftinge and Sebastian Zarnekow
“Lightweight Model-Driven Development for Embedded Systems”
28th October 2009, 14:20 with Markus Völter and Andreas Graf
“Get lean with OSEE”
28th October 2009, 17:10 with Nirmal Sasidharan
Contact
Dr. Jan Köhnlein, Software Architect and Coach
Dr. Jan Köhnlein works as a software architect and coach for itemis in Kiel. He is an expert for model-based software development and holds workshops and lectures on the topics of Eclipse, EMF, GMF and modeling tools.
Dr. Jan Köhnlein leads the open-source projects EMF Index and GMFTools. Furthermore he is also a committer in the Eclipse projects Xtext, Xpand and MWE as well as for openArchitectureWare.
After completing his studies in mathematics at the University of Hamburg, Dr. Jan Köhnlein went on to do a doctorate at the TU Hamburg-Harburg in computer science. Before he reinforced the itemis team, he worked at Gentleware AG among other things as a consultant and coach in the field of modeling.
Sven Efftinge, Branch Manager itemis Kiel
Sven Efftinge manages the itemis branch in Kiel and engages himself there with domain specific languages, generator development and eclipse technologies. He is an eclipse committer and is responsible for the Xtext-framework and architect of the Xpand-language family (also known as openArchitectureWare).
Sven Efftinge regularly speaks at software conferences, writes professional articles and is co-author of the book “Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung”, (Model-Driven Software Development) (published at dpunkt-Verlag).
Karsten Thoms, Software Architect and Coach
Karsten Thoms has been employed by itemis AG for over 6 years as a software architect and coach. His main focus is in the development of individual enterprise systems. Especially in the field of model driven software development, he has made a name for himself as an expert.
He has been active in the openArchitectureWare project for several years now, he is project manager of the Fornax platform, an Eclipse committer and founder of the Fit4oaw project. He regularly passes on his experiences in customer projects, at conferences and as a trainer.
Sebastian Zarnekow, Software Architect
Sebastian Zarnekow is a software architect at itemis. He develops frameworks and tools for model-driven software development to improve and increase the productivity and the fun in development. Sebastian is a committer in the Eclipse Modeling Project.
Markus Völter, Software Architect and Coach
Markus Völter works as an independent researcher and coach for itemis in Stuttgart, Germany. His focus is on software architecture, model-driven software development and domain specific languages as well as on product line engineering.
Markus also regularly writes (articles, patterns, books) and speaks (trainings, conferences) on those subjects.
Ed Merks, Development manager for Eclipse Modeling
Merks comes from IBM, where he last worked in the IBM Rational Toronto Lab. He leads the Eclipse Modeling Project and the Eclipse Modeling Framework and will work for itemis AG from Canada. Merks graduated from Simon Fraser University and holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science.
Andreas Graf, Project Manager and Business Analyst
Andreas Graf has been employed with itemis as project manager and business analyst since February 2009. Based in Pforzheim, he takes care of customers and projects in the southern region in the areas of MDSD, oAW, embedded systems and automotive.
Andreas Graf began his professional career as a developer and assistant project leader at DEC on customer projects in the telecommunications field. There followed a prolonged period as a pre-sales / consultant in the areas of UML, MDA, MDSD and code generation at Aonix Deutschland.
Before his job at itemis, he had been employed as a development engineer and project leader with BMW in the themes of AUTOSAR (processes and tool chains), functions development and software logistics.
Nirmal Sasidharan, Software Developer
Nirmal Sasidharan is a software developer at itemis. His interests are in Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) based on Eclipse platform. Before joining itemis, Nirmal Sasidharan has worked 7 years at Bosch, architecting and developing tools for automotive domain.
He earned a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Cochin University of Science and Technology.