LJC Virtual Panel: Moving to Java 11

Barry on behalf of the London Java Community

Recent research published by New Relic (<A CLASS="c-link" HREF="https://blog.newrelic.com/technology/state-of-java/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://blog.newrelic.com/technology/state-of-java/</A>) demonstrated that only 11.11% of JVMs analysed are using Java 11, with the majority of the community remaining on Java 8. 
We invite you to join our panel of Java Champions and Java Experts as we discuss the challenges that have been faced in moving to Java 11. 
We will be joined by Alex Blewitt from Santander, Ben Evans from New Relic, Elspeth Minty from Morgan Stanley and Martijn Verburg from Microsoft. Jim Gough will be fielding an initial set of questions and we will take Q&A from the audience over Zoom. 
Who should attend this event?
Anyone who is not running Java 11 :) - but also those that are to share their own experiences with the migration. If you run or own Java in production this will be a useful session
What will people learn?
Attendees will learn how to get around some of the challenges of moving to Java 11 and learn the experiences of developers that have already gone through the migration.
This is an online event starting at 12.30pm BST. Attendees will be sent a link on or before the day of the event.
About our panelists
Ben Evans is Principal Engineer and Architect for JVM technologies at New Relic. Prior to joining New Relic, Ben co-founded jClarity (acquired by Microsoft) and was Chief Architect (Listed Derivatives) at Deutsche Bank.
Ben is the author of 5 books - "The Well-Grounded Java Developer", "Java: The Legend", "Optimizing Java" and the recent editions of "Java in a Nutshell". He is the track lead for Java / JVM at infoq.com, writes regularly for industry publications and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide. Ben has been active in Free and Open Source Software for over 20 years, co-founded the AdoptOpenJDK initiative (with Martijn Verburg), and served on the JCP Executive Committee for 6 years.
Elspeth Minty is an Executive Director in Enterprise Application Infrastructure team in Morgan Stanley.  She joined Morgan Stanley in 2001 and has worked in a number of different languages and technologies. Elspeth holds a PhD from University of Edinburgh.
Alex Blewitt has been working with Java since its first release, and has worked on JVM projects at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, where he was the JCP representative until 2016. He co-founded the Docklands.LJC and has spoken about Java and performance at several conferences, and writes for InfoQ about Java and JVM topics.
Before moving to Santander in 2020 he worked at Apple on Swift, and has authored books in Swift and Eclipse plugin development. Alex lives and works in Milton Keynes, and if the weather's nice, goes flying from nearby Sywell.
Martijn Verburg is the Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) at Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity, a Machine Learning for Java/JVM performance analysis company. He is the co-leader of the London Java User Group (LJC), sits on the Java Standards Body (JCP) Executive Committee and leads the global Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK efforts to enable the community to contribute to Java standards and OpenJDK.
Martijn is the co-author of "The Well-Grounded Java Developer" on Java 7, Polyglot Programming on the JVM and modern software development techniques and is named as a Java Champion for his contribution to the Java ecosystem. He's a popular speaker at major conferences (JavaOne, JFokus, OSCON, Devoxx etc) where he is known for challenging the industry status quo as "the Diabolical Developer".
About our host
James (Jim) Gough is an executive director and developer at Morgan Stanley, where he’s focused on building customer-facing technology. A Java developer and author, Jim first became interested in Java during his degree program at the University of Warwick; after graduating, he became a member of the London Java Community. Community has remained central to Jim’s contributions, which include working on the design and testing of JSR-310 and serving on the Java Community Process Executive Committee for several years. Jim’s a regular conference speaker and spent four years teaching Java and C++ around the world.
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