Congratulations to the new Java Champion: Lukas Eder!
Lukas is the CEO of Data Geekery, a service offering open source products and APIs based on Java Object Oriented Querying (jOOQ). He has been the main contributor of the open source jOOQ project for many years. Lukas is also a consultant and a trainer on SQL and Java 8. He writes about topics related to jOOQ, SQL and Java on the blog http://blog.jooq.org
Lukas is a member of the board of the Java User Group Switzerland (JUG.ch), where he brings popular speakers to conferences in Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, and Basel. He is involved with the program committee of Voxxed Zurich and other Java conferences. Lukas has been a speaker at many Java conferences such as Geekout, Geecon, and Devoxx for many years. Follow him at @lukaseder
Yolande Poirier
Yolande Poirier manages the online experience for the world's biggest IT community. She empowers developers to successfully grow their projects, businesses, and careers. Telling the story of how people use technology, she curates technical content, interviews IT professionals around the world, and write blogs about Java technologies and projects. She is a speaker at international conferences and JavaOne Rock Star, this year's track lead of the developer community day and a long time member of @jduchess, a network of women in Java. She manages @Java, a network of over 350,000 developer enthusiasts.