Speakers

Jonas Helming
Jonas Helming, Principal Architect, EclipseSource

Jonas Helming

Dr. Jonas Helming is CEO and Principal Software Architect at EclipseSource and a leading expert in AI-powered developer tools and IDEs. He drives innovation around open and extensible AI tooling, including Eclipse Theia and Theia AI. A two-time Eclipse Top Newcomer Evangelist award winner, Jonas speaks at conferences worldwide and teaches systematic approaches to AI coding.

Emmanuel Grandin
Emmanuel Grandin, STM32 Ecosystem Tools Lead Architect, STMicroelectronics

Emmanuel Grandin

Multi-decade SW enthusiast, from register-level embedded SW to full-stack web-based applications, anywhere SW architecture is facing real-life product challenges.

Stefan Dirix
Stefan Dirix, Lead Software Architect, EclipseSource

Stefan Dirix

Stefan Dirix is a Lead Software Architect at EclipseSource, specializing in the development of modern web-based applications. His work focuses on building domain-specific solutions, with a particular emphasis on the design and integration of AI in real-world software systems and open-source platforms such as Eclipse Theia.

Stefan is an active contributor to several Eclipse projects, including Eclipse Theia, Theia Cloud, Eclipse Enclave, EMF Cloud, and Eclipse GLSP. He regularly shares his experience at conferences and community events such as OCX and TheiaCon.

Soulaymen Chouri
Soulaymen Chouri, Senior Software Engineer, TypeFox

Soulaymen Chouri

Software Engineer, specalized in Full stack development, Tooling & Language Engineering

Yolian Ignatov
Yolian Ignatov, President, Deltopia Inc.

Yolian Ignatov

Martin Fleck
Martin Fleck, Lead Software Architect, EclipseSource

Martin Fleck

Martin is a Lead Software Architect at EclipseSource, specializing in developing custom IDEs, domain-specific tools, and model environments. He is an active committer on Eclipse Theia and a project lead of Eclipse GLSP. Currently he is focusing on the integration of AI tooling in several projects.

Michael Scharf
Michael Scharf, CTO, Operaide.ai

Michael Scharf

Michael Scharf is CTO of Operaide and has been working on IDEs since 1994. He was the architect of SNiFF+, an early multi-language IDE, and a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council.

Ferris Kleier
Ferris Kleier, AI Engineer, Operaide.ai

Ferris Kleier

Ferris Kleier is an AI engineer at Operaide and the creator of operaide-code, the coding agent that writes the applications. He wrote his bachelor's thesis on using LLMs to detect software configuration errors, and he tries new models and tools as soon as they appear, to find out what they can do in practice.

Jarrett Webb
Jarrett Webb, Senior Product Manager, Samsung Austin Research Center (SARC) and Advanced Computing Lab

Jarrett Webb

Jarrett Webb is an experienced technologist skilled at developing ambiguous ideas and concepts into digital products and experiences -- throughout his career he has shipped over two dozen. He is a speaker and author. He is the product manager of Samsung Sokatoa product, which is a graphics and compute profiling and debugging tool for Android.

Philip Langer
Philip Langer, CEO | Principal Software Architect, EclipseSource

Philip Langer

Philip Langer is CEO of EclipseSource, helping companies design and build custom IDEs, domain-specific tools, modeling environments, and tailored AI agents. His current focus is on domain-specific AI agents in tools and IDEs, as well as graphical modeling. Philip leads several widely adopted open-source projects, including Eclipse GLSP, Eclipse Enclave, EMF Cloud, and CDT Cloud, and is an active committer on Eclipse Theia and its AI platform, and more. He is a regular speaker at conferences, serves on the program committee of OCX, and has been recognized with the 2022 Eclipse Top Newcomer Evangelist Award.

Jonah Graham
Jonah Graham, Open Source Advocate, Kichwa Coders Canada, Inc.

Jonah Graham

Jonah is an Eclipse committer and a co-project lead on Eclipse CDT Cloud, one of the enabling projects for C/C++ Development in Theia. In addition he is a committer or lead for many other Eclipse projects related to the wider Eclipse ecosystem. He was honoured with the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award for his long-standing contributions to Eclipse projects.

Simon Graband
Simon Graband, Senior Software Engineer, EclipseSource

Simon Graband

Simon Graband is a software engineer at EclipseSource. His focus is on web-based tools and IDEs, as well as on AI tooling. Simon is an active member of the Eclipse community and regularly contributes to Eclipse projects such as Eclipse Theia and Eclipse Enclave. Recently, he has started working on the AI registry, hosted at the Eclipse Foundation.

Matthew Khouzam
Matthew Khouzam, AI Lead Developer, Ericsson Software Technology

Matthew Khouzam

Thomas Mäder
Thomas Mäder, Founder, Castle Ridge Software GmbH

Thomas Mäder

I’m the founder of Castle Ridge Software and a project lead on Eclipse Theia. I’ve been building developer tools for decades — from the original Eclipse Java IDE at IBM to contributions on OpenJ9, JDT, Che, and today’s cloud-native IDE platforms.

Miro Spönemann
Miro Spönemann, CEO, TypeFox

Miro Spönemann

Miro is co-CEO of TypeFox, a company specialized in engineering tools, domain-specific languages and open-source technology. He has been leading the company since 2021, steering it from its language engineering roots into the agentic AI era. In open source, Miro has kickstarted and led projects such as Langium and Open VSX, and he continues to shape communities through architectural guidance and governance work. In 2026, the Eclipse Foundation honored his contributions with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Innovation, strategy and community work remain at the heart of what he does, and he regularly shares his perspective on these topics at conferences.