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Orchestrating Robot Swarms with Java

Tell us a bit about the work that you do.

I've been in the software industry for just over 10 years now, working primarily as a software developer and team lead. I have worked mostly in Java across several industries, telecommunications, finance, investment, banking, pensions, and now in automation. I've seen lots of different business, and all the software problems tend to be the same. I benefited from that, from my experience of different pressures either writing code for your business, writing code for users, B2B, B2C. I've been seeing a broad range of the software development industry. Recently I actually have moved into a more strategic role a bit away from day-to-day coding in the last maybe five or so months, getting into a bit more about a high level strategy at the company, having an input into the strategic decisions about what products we're building and what software we're developing and a bit less focused on how we are developing it.

Your talk is "Orchestrating robot swarms with Java." The robot swarm is totally run by Java?

In large part yes. We use the analogy of air traffic control, the control system which is telling all the robots where to go, what to do, making the most efficient use of them. That is run in Java.