195 submissions received, Program expected latest end of February
Inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend. ACM fellow, co-designer of Java generics, and original author of the current javac reference Compiler.
Daniela Sfregola is a Software Engineer. She is an active contributor to the Scala Community, as well as the maintainer of open-source projects and an organizer of the London Scala User Group meetup.
Executive director of the Scala Center at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Author of Scala.js. Singer.
Rebecca is a senior software engineer located in the Pacific Northwest. She is an organizer in the ScalaBridge community, and a long-time proponent and facilitator of the local Seattle Scala meetup.
Scala Team Lead @Lightbend, with a decade of scalac contribution experience.
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the School of Computer Science, primarily affiliated with the Institute for Software Research. Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL, where she was also a research scientist.
Konrad is an avid distributed systems fan and part of the Akka core team for almost 5 years, during which he worked on various pieces of the project (core, http, streams, typed) and wider ecosystem (sbt-jmh, spray-json, and others). He also briefly participated in the SLIP process and has helped with the Reactive Streams initiative where he worked on the TCK.
Holden is a transgender Canadian open source developer with a focus on Apache Spark, Airflow, and related “big data” tools. She is the co-author of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, and another Spark book that's a bit more out of date. She is a committer and PMC on Apache Spark and committer on SystemML & Mahout projects. She was tricked into the world of big data while trying to improve search and recommendation systems and has long since forgotten her original goal. Her introduction to functional programming happened with PLT Scheme and she hasn't been the same since.
Communication and Community Manager at the Scala Center; third time Scala Days Program Manager; the Scala Days 2019 conference coordinator, always focused on creating a positive change.
