Presentation: "HTML 5, Web Sockets and Comet"

Time: Wednesday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: Fleet Room

Abstract: Dionysios Synodinos interviewing Jonas Jacobi and Ric Smith

Jonas Jacobi, Kaazing

 Jonas  Jacobi

As co-founder and chief executive officer of Kaazing Corporation, Jonas Jacobi sets the company's business strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software.

Before co-founding Kaazing Jonas Jacobi worked as VP of Product Management responsible for the product management and marketing strategy for Brane Corporation, a startup company in Silicon Valley. A native of Sweden, Mr. Jacobi has worked in the software industry for more than sixteen years. Prior to his appointment as vice president for Brane, he worked 8 years for Oracle as a Java EE and open source Evangelist, and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team.

Mr. Jacobi is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has written numerous articles for leading IT magazines such as Java Developer's Journal, JavaPro, AjaxWorld, and Oracle Magazine. Jonas is co-author of the recently published book Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components, (Apress).

Director of Product Strategy Ric Smith, Kaazing

Director of Product Strategy Ric  Smith

Ric is responsible for Kaazing's product strategy. Prior to joining Kaazing, Ric was Principal Product Manager for Oracle Application Development Tools. In his role as Principal Product Manager he was responsible for the evangelism and product direction of Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client as well as Oracle's AJAX and Java EE Web Tier offerings.

Prior to joining the application server team, Ric worked for Oracle's consulting business as a Principal Consultant, specializing in Java EE and AJAX development. In addition, Ric is a frequent speaker at International events and has written articles featured in industry publications such as Java Developer's Journal and AJAX World Magazine. Ric is a representative to the OpenAjax Alliance and a graduate of the University of Arizona.