Who are the Java Champions?

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The Java Champions are an exclusive group of passionate Java technology and community leaders who are community-nominated and selected under a project sponsored by Oracle. Java Champions get the opportunity to provide feedback, ideas, and direction that will help Oracle grow the Java Platform. This interchange may be in the form of technical discussions and/or community-building activities with Oracle's Java Development and Developer Program teams. Members come from a broad cross-section of the Java community:

• Java luminaries, senior developers, architects, and consultants
• Academics
• Authors of Java-related content (online & print) and industry conference speakers
• Java User Group (JUG) leaders and the managers of Java-related portals

Java Champion Spotlight

Fabiane Bizinella Nardon is a computer scientist who is passionate about creating software that will positively change the world we live in. She was the architect of the Brazilian Healthcare Information System, considered at the time the largest JavaEE application in the world and winner of the 2005 Duke's Choice Award. She has lead several communities, including the JavaTools Community at java.net, where 800+ open source projects were born. She is also a co-founder of SouJava, one of the largest Java User Groups in the world, with more than 40 thousand members.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences in Brazil and abroad, including JavaOne, OSCON, Jfokus, JustJava and more. She is author of many technical articles and member of the program committee of several conferences as JavaOne, OSCON, TDC. She was chosen a Java Champion in 2006 as a recognition of her contribution to the Java ecosystem.
Currently, she works as a tools expert at ToolsCloud and in companies she co-founded, where she is helping to shape new disruptive Internet based services. Fabiane can be followed on twitter @fabianenardon.