Vincent Mayers
Senior Manager Developer Community Programs
Expat Brit, Artist, athlete, traveller, technology community junkie, and experienced sales leader. Vincent is an Oracle Java Champion, has been a board member of the Atlanta Java Users Group since 2008 and runs some of the SouthEast's premier technology conferences, www.devnexus.com, www.connect.tech www.jazzcon.tech, www.datascicon.tech, and www.vueconf.us
With over 20 years technology services experience, Vincent has led cross-functional teams and has strong program and project management abilities. He has also led sales training, web branding, and marketing efforts and has a deep understanding of technology.
Vincent has a Degree in 3D Design from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom and; in another life was a full-time athlete competing at World Championship level in whitewater kayaking.
Recent Blogs
30 New Java Champions Confirmed in 2018
Java Champions have had an incredibly busy 2018. They have supported their communities by giving over 1400 talks at conferences and user group meetings in over 60 countries. The efforts of these community experts sharing their knowledge around the would influence countless others, professional engin...
2018 starts strong for new Java Champions
It’s been a great start to the year for the Java Champion program having added new members from all over the world, New Zealand, Japan, Turkey, Europe, Canada and the USA. This group of talented individuals continue to push the language and platform forward, contributing to JSRs, working on open sou...
New Java Champions in 2017
2017 has been a great year for new Java Champions. It has been a year of awesome activity with over 40 new Java Champions accepted into the program. Java Champions have been busy recording video interviews, Reddit AMAs, Blog posts, speaking at JavaOne, speaking at Code events worldwide, speaking at ...