Dave Thomas
Founding Member
Co-Chair Conferences Program & Technical Advisory Board
YOW!
Dave Thomas has a wide spectrum of experience in the software industry as an executive, investor, board member, consultant, architect, and engineer. He is Chairman of Bedarra Corp, which provides consulting on technology and business strategy for emerging technology, products and services. Bedarra provides virtual CTOs, as well as directors, advisors and mentors to support new initiatives.
Dave served as Chief Scientist/CSO of Kx Systems, First Derivatives Plc. He co-founded Bedarra Research Labs, creators of the Ivy visual analytics workbench. Dave is the founder of YOW! Conferences and Workshops. He was Managing Director of Object Mentor - a company specializing in the training and deployment of Agile and Object-Oriented Software Development methodologies.
Dave has repeatedly demonstrated how to deliver quality software on time and on budget. He is best known as the founder and past CEO of Object Technology International Inc. (formerly OTI, now IBM OTI Labs) where he led the commercial introduction of object and component technology. The company is often cited as the ideal model of a software technology company and was a pioneer in Agile Product Development with a process called Just-In-Time Software. Throughout his career, he has worked with major global corporations as well as startups on business and technical strategy, development organization and process, as well as competitive analysis and strategy.
Dave has a unique ability to translate research breakthroughs into competitive products. He has been a pioneer in the development of embedded systems, object-oriented technology and functional programming. He was the principal visionary and architect for IBM VisualAge Smalltalk and Java tools and virtual machines including the popular open-source, multi-language Eclipse.org IDE. OTI pioneered the use of virtual machines in embedded systems with Tektronix shipping the first commercial products in 1988. He was instrumental in establishing IBM’s Pervasive Computing efforts.
He is a popular, humorous, albeit opinionated keynote speaker with a unique breadth of business experience and technical depth. He is widely published in software engineering literature. Dave remains active in various roles within the technical community including YOW, ECOOP, AOSD, JAOO, Agile Development Conference, OOPSLA Onward, ENASE and Dynamic Language Symposium. He is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University and the Queensland University of Technology as well as a founding director of the Agile Alliance, an ACM Distinguished Engineer, past President of AITO and IEEE Software Advisory board.
Talks I've Given
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90 Minutes: Product vs Platform
Featuring Dave Thomas
Dave discusses the challenges & tradeoffs faced by product & engineering management as they seek to deliver best platform for their business
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History and Trends of Programming Languages with Erik Meijer & Mads Torgersen
Featuring Dave Thomas , Mads Torgersen and Erik Meijer
Epic double-length YOW! Tube with YOW! chairman and founder Dave Thomas chatting with Erik and Mads about the history and trends of programming languages. Bonus insights into their personal libraries with a show-and-tell of treasured books.
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Fast Big Data – Enabling Financial Oversight
Featuring Dave Thomas
For the last decade, there has been increased concern about the integrity of capital markets. The crash of 2008-2009 and follow legal actions and press have created an image of a world of high-frequency traders who can leverage their computer power to manipulate markets. Technical talks on...
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Fast Big Data – Enabling Financial Oversight
Featuring Dave Thomas
For the last decade, there has been increased concern about the integrity of capital markets. The crash of 2008-2009 and follow legal actions and press have created an image of a world of high-frequency traders who can leverage their computer power to manipulate markets. Technical talks on...
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Keynote: Fast Big Data - Enabling Financial Oversight
Featuring Dave Thomas
For the last decade, there has been increased concern about the integrity of capital markets. The crash of 2009, the coverage of flash trading, and weekly announcements of cyber attacks have justifiably shaken the public's confidence. However, fast big data also enables the good guys! In this...
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Fast Big Data – Enabling Financial Oversight
Featuring Dave Thomas
For the last decade, there has been increased concern about the integrity of capital markets. The crash of 2008-2009 and follow legal actions and press have created an image of a world of high-frequency traders who can leverage their computer power to manipulate markets. Technical talks on...
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Fast Data: Tools and Peopleware
Featuring Dave Thomas
For decades, many have argued for and against Dearden’s “Myth of real-time management information” HBR 1966. At best most organizations have had only partial data, and insufficient storage and processing, limiting their ability to be a real-time enterprise. Thanks to massive...
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Productive Device Programming – IoT Device Programming Models and Runtimes
Featuring Dave Thomas
IoT devices vary from extremely limited 8/16/32 processors to Linux capable machines. In order to quickly develop products/applications, one needs higher level tool chain for productivity. In this talk, we describe the essential features and constraints of programming models for different device...
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Living in Big Data with Vector Functional Programming
Featuring Dave Thomas
This talk explores big data using vector functional programming. These languages enable rapid interactive development of concise and efficient applications. Vectors are a natural low impedance abstraction for dealing with high performance relational and NoSQL column stores. We use the k language...
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