Lukas Hasik is Java enthusiast that likes to break the limits. However, he will always remember that real life happens out of the wires and chips.
Lukas works for SUN Microsystems from fall 2000. He used to be part of the NetBeans team, where he led a Quality Assurance team for NetBeans Mobility and NetBeans Core & Platform. Lukas has moved to the Compute Cloud group in 2009 and leads the QA team. He spoke at several conferences on topics about Java, Tools, and Testing.
Valentin Crettaz holds a master degree in Information and Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). After he finished studying in 2000, Valentin worked as a software engineer with SRI International (Menlo Park, USA) and as a principal engineer in the Software Engineering Laboratory at EPFL. In 2002, as a good patriot, he came back to Switzerland to co-found a start-up called Condris Technologies, a company that provides IT development and consulting services and specializes in the creation of innovative next-generation software architecture solutions as well as secure wireless telecommunication infrastructures.
From 2004 to 2008, Valentin served as a senior IT consultant in one of the largest private banks in Switzerland, where he worked on next generation e-banking platforms.
Starting in 2008, Valentin joined Goomzee Corporation as Chief Software Guru. Goomzee is a Montana-based company that provides solutions for connecting buyers and sellers in any market vertical through mobile interactions.
Valentin also owns a small consultancy business called Consulthys, a new venture that strongly focuses on leveraging Web 2.0 technologies in order to reduce the cultural gap between IT and business people.